Gu Yuqi and her party didn't wait long on the side of the road when Chun Xing and Xia He came back first.
Chun Xing and Xia He told Liang Huaiyu and Gu Yuqi what they saw in detail.
Both Gu Yuqi and Zhao Wu were right. They were indeed villagers in the nearby mountain village. Although their village was in the mountain, there was a large open space in front of the mountain. It was originally a good fertile land, but since the new Jiangxia City Sheriff took office, their vacant land has been seized by the government in the name of raising military horses, and each family has been given a subsidy of one tael of silver. Let them move to Jiangxia City to live, what is enough for one tael of silver in Jiangxia City? But where did the government tell the truth, their fertile land was destroyed. Many people were forced to leave their hometowns to go to Jiangxia City to seek a living. There were only a dozen families left in the village, and they were unwilling to leave because there were elderly people in the family.
Without the fields, these people wanted to eat, so the boss among them took the risk and robbed once for the people in the village to eat for a few days. When everyone saw it, this kind of relationship is good, the government is stupid, why not learn some opera As I said, go up the mountain and become a bandit.
It was relatively smooth in the beginning, but when Ding Wang Yunqing was sent to Jiangbei camp to practice. Then he started to attack the bandits in the surrounding area. Those who had a bad reputation and were wiped out by Yunqing, these few are still the most famous among the bandits. The method is to take advantage of the natural danger here and hide it.
Liang Huaiyu knew that Gu Yuqi wanted to subdue them, but she was always worried that even though these people were farmers, they had been bandits. Wildness is hard to train, Gu Yuqi is a good lady of everyone, if she gets involved with these people, her future reputation... Alas, thinking of this, Liang Huaiyu sighed a long time, Gu Yuqi was expelled from the Marquis Mansion, her reputation or something, sooner or later... It's gone... Now that they have already left the capital, it's better to look forward. Gu Yuqi persuaded her like this, and she kept convincing herself like this.
This daughter has been completely different since she fell into the water in the capital with her. She can't guess her daughter's mind. But seeing the look on her daughter's face, she also felt that maybe she could live a lifetime, get rid of the rules that restrained herself, and be free to do whatever she wanted once.
Seeing Liang Huaiyu's worry, Gu Yuqi explained, "Mother, don't worry, they won't cause trouble." She analyzed it for Liang Huaiyu. These people were forced to fall into the weeds. If the fields were not occupied, they would not be able to survive. Now they are still honest farmers. Secondly, when they were arrested, they didn't think about themselves first, but told their boss to go first, which proved that they were loyal people and they were regarded as warm-hearted. Thirdly, they had every condition to leave that mountain village to seek a living elsewhere, but they still gritted their teeth and insisted on staying in this remote place for the sake of the elderly at home, which proved that they had filial piety in their hearts.
Although he is a bandit, he has both loyalty and trustworthiness, so he can take it for his own use.
After Gu Yuqi explained this, Liang Huaiyu felt relieved, and couldn't help but look at her daughter more. If her father is still alive, seeing such a granddaughter, I'm afraid I don't know how much I would like it in my heart.
It's a pity that he has experienced hundreds of battles, the enemy has nothing to do with him, even giving him the title of God of War, but it's not worth the lingering illness.
Liang Huaiyu and the others waited on the side of the road for another incense stick, when they saw ten men approaching in twos and threes at the end of the road. (.) They have changed all the old clothes. Although they are all old clothes, they are very clean, and the damaged parts have been carefully patched. Everyone has a look of anxiety on their faces. Many old people, women and children followed behind them, and they followed from a distance. When they saw Gu Yuqi and her party, those old people, women and children stopped in their tracks, and only dared to stand in the distance and look at this side.
The boss walked in the front, and when he came in front of Gu Yuqi, he cupped his hands towards Gu Yuqi, "Miss, I brought all my brothers, and three of them have old people who are sick at home, so they really can't leave, so they chose to stay." down."
"Okay." Gu Yuqi nodded with a smile, it's not bad to have ten here. "In this case, you should sign all the contracts." Gu Yuqi gave Runying a look, and Runying immediately took out the contract of sale she had written while waiting for someone.
The bandits obviously didn't expect that Gu Yuqi would do this again, and they all looked at each other in blank dismay, they didn't know a single character, what was written on the stack of papers brought by the little maid, they all looked at the boss in the end.
The boss gritted his teeth and took the deed of sale, read it a bit, he was considered literate in the village, this deed of sale was written in what Gu Yuqi said before, one of them was not bad, he was heartbroken, "Sign it, sign it Now, I hope the young lady keeps her word." Actually, he was also betting that Gu Yuqi would let them go after catching them, which meant that although the young lady in front of him was young, she had a big heart.
Gu Yuqi's ten taels of Anjia silver seemed to give him hope, and he didn't want to be a bandit for the rest of his life, but the brothers who followed him in the mountains and their families wanted to eat. Now that Gu Yuqi gave him a chance to make money as a good citizen, how could he give up so easily. Three years is three years, and there is still a reward of one tael of silver every year. After three years, if they do a good job and Gu Yuqi wants them to stay, they will be given fifty taels of silver! Where to find such good things, it's like pie in the sky. Anyway, they have already reached the point where they are going to become bandits, so what risk are they not willing to take!
The boss was the first to write down his own name, Gu Yuqi glanced at it, and the name was actually quite elegant, called Zhang Lan, which really didn't match his bearded image!
The others breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Zhang Lan had signed. They were used to following Zhang Lan's lead, so whatever Zhang Lan did, they would follow without hesitation, and they didn't even care about what was written in the contract. Ask one more question, Gu Yuqi feels very satisfied. What she wants is this kind of absolute loyalty. Although these men have never seen the world, they have done a good job in this regard.
The others were illiterate, but Runying also prepared ink pads. This little girl is used to managing accounts. As long as it is related to the account books, it is her treasure, and she always keeps it with her. So her revenge has all the four treasures of the study.
Seeing that everyone signed the deed of sale, Gu Yuqi smiled in satisfaction, "Okay, let's go, we have to hurry today and try to reach Jiangxia City in the evening, let's go to the city today to spend a fortune and stay in a hotel !"
Gu Yuqi said it proudly, but it made the casual people very happy. The bandits who came in from their new homes naturally had never lived in a place like an inn. They didn't even dare to enter the city. Now they have a different identity and can live in an inn. Naturally very happy. And other people have been on the road for several days, sleeping in the open air, avoiding towns on the road, and sleeping in the wild. Suddenly Gu Yuqi said to stay in an inn, and everyone thought that there would be a hot bath to take a bath! Everyone is used to living in the General's Mansion and the Hou's Mansion. It's easy to say, but we can only use cold water to wipe our bodies on the way, but it has ruined everyone.
So when Gu Yuqi said this, everyone cheered. The old people, women and children in the village looked at this side from a distance. Although they didn't know what Gu Yuqi and the others were talking about, they saw that their relatives had joined the nobles' team Inside, there was no panic on their faces, but they laughed happily. They all relaxed and waved goodbye to Gu Yuqi and the others.
Gu Yuqi asked Chun Xing and Zhao Wu to rush forward, and went to Jiangxia City to check first, to see if there were any announcements about her.
Gu Yuqi counted the time. It has been ten days since she left the capital. The spring floods should have started in the south of the Yangtze River. This spring flood, the two big rivers running through Daqi, the Hengjiang and the Hunjiang, will all flood at the same time. After the water is over, the plague will come, Da Qi will enter into troubled times, and Yun Ke has also begun to embark on his road of seizing the heir.
The south of the Yangtze River is the root of the Liang family, so Gu Yuqi discussed it with the Liang family, and the Liang family had already sent a letter back to the Liang family's old house, first to find out what the patriarch said.
There is no reply yet, which makes Liang Huaiyu feel very uneasy and uncomfortable. Is it because she reconciled with Gu Huaizhong, gave up her status as a first-rank imperial order, and Gu Yuqi was expelled from the Marquis Mansion, so Liang is not prepared to accept their mother? Is it a girl? Then this prescription is to give or not to give. Although Liang Huaiyu couldn't tell whether the plague that Gu Yuqi said would really come, but seeing her daughter's words were so decisive, she naturally chose to believe her daughter, and she always stood by her daughter anyway. So if there is a plague, the recipe in her hand can not only save the entire Liang family, but also save thousands of people in the south of the Yangtze River, because the plague broke out from the banks of the Hengjiang River and the Hunjiang River , and then spread across the country. Jiangnan is south of the Hunjiang River, but Gu Yuqi's current location is Jiangxia City on the banks of the Hengjiang River.
Liang Huaiyu wanted to use this prescription to restore his relationship with his family members. When General Liang was alive, their branch was very important in the entire Jiangnan Liang family, and their words were very important. But since General Liang passed away, her mother also died of illness, leaving only Liang Huaiyu in their branch. Liang Huaiyu was still a woman, and after she got married, her name might be removed from the family tree.
She reconciled with Gu Huaizhong, although she was not abandoned, but a century-old family like Liang's has been entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River for many years, so naturally it cannot tolerate a family woman with a damaged reputation. She didn't ask herself to return to the Liang family, but she wanted to give Gu Yuqi an identity. If Gu Yuqi can change her surname to Liang and be accepted by the Liang family, her status in the future should not be underestimated. At least a hundred times stronger than now. It's just that when she thinks about her situation in the clan back then, she feels a pain in her brain. She has already followed the rules, but after practicing martial arts, she likes to travel around, and she has been criticized by the elders and patriarchs of the clan all the time. It's just that they Seeing that his father is the God of War of the Great Qi, he didn't point it out in front of Liang Huaiyu, but he still let the seven aunts and eight aunts in the clan come to her mother from time to time and let her restrain him.
Fortunately, her mother also cherished her, and on the surface she agreed, but in fact she was very indulgent, so Liang Huaiyu would have a completely different life from other aristocratic daughters, otherwise she would have been detained in high school when she was a young girl. In the big mansion, the reason why Liang Huaiyu was able to accept Gu Yuqi to leave the Hou Mansion and go to the world together is also inseparable from these. For a mother who was born as a daughter of an aristocratic family, who would let her daughter be expelled from the Hou by her father? The government is so exaggerated.
A rebellious daughter must have a mother who is somewhat unreliable in her bones. Gu Yuqi and Liang Huaiyu are such a pair of mother and daughter who are very unreliable in the eyes of people in this era.
In the evening, Gu Yuqi and her party had already arrived at Jiangxia City.
Gu Yuqi had been here in the previous life, but in this life she was still shocked by the towering city wall standing in the twilight.
Jiangxia City, the gateway between the north and the south, has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. Since the previous dynasty, the city wall has been built very strong and magnificent. In the Daqi Dynasty, the Jiangbei Camp was stationed near Jiangxia City, and the Hengjiang River was behind Jiangxia City, dividing Daqi into north and south halves. The largest ferry on the Hengjiang River is just outside Jiangxia City. It is like a port for trade between the north and the south.
Gu Yuqi's decision to go to Jiangxia City to rest was not random. She calculated the time, and the spring floods should have already begun. If she remembered correctly, in two days, there will be floods on the Hengjiang River from the east of Jiangxia. Jiangxia City and Jiangbei University The river embankment in this section of the camp is extremely strong, but the river embankment heading east is really not flattering. I'm afraid that in the past few days, the water of the Hengjiang River has surged and the flow rate is very fast. They can't cross the river now. Once there is a flood, a large number of refugees will pour into Jiangxia City. If they are still outside the city Camping would be dangerous, so the safest place is inside Jiangxia City.
Chun Xing and Zhao Wu met Gu Yuqi and the others outside the city gate. The city is still calm at present, but the ferry at the ferry has stopped, because the river is rising too fast, so the ferry at night will no longer cross the river. Gu Yuqi led everyone into the city, and the defenders of Jiangxia City have now been replaced by people from the Jiangbei Camp.
Strange to say, as soon as Gu Yuqi and the others entered the city, the sky immediately darkened, with spring thunder billowing in the sky, and lightning flashing among the dark clouds.
Before they settled down, the big raindrops fell in a crackling, dense and urgent way, and it was painful to hit people. Gu Yuqi knew that once the heavy rain came, it would not stop for half a month. She Originally, she wanted to cross the Hengjiang River before the heavy rain came, but she didn't calculate the time correctly, she was delayed on the road, and it was still too late to arrive in Jiangxia. Gu Yuqi couldn't help but sighed, what a pity! Now they are estimated to be trapped here for a long time. Even if the heavy rain stops, the plague will follow one after another. They don't know how long they will be here.
Delaying for a few days is not a problem, the problem is that Yun Ke is probably coming soon! This made Gu Yuqi very heartbroken!
She remembered clearly that Yun Ke in the previous life was sent to Jiangxia City, because the plague spread from the banks of Hengjiang and Hunjiang. So in a few days, this place will become an epidemic area! Ahh, it would be best if the ferry opens tomorrow! However, the probability of this is very small, and Gu Yuqi also understands that with such a heavy rain and the river's water soaring, the ferry will be closed tomorrow, and no one will take their own life to make fun of it, even if someone is willing to send them across the river for money , but Gu Yuqi didn't dare to let her mother take risks.
Gu Yuqi's heart felt like a hundred thousand mud horses roaring past, the sourness was beyond words.
She finally got out of the capital, left that poor place, and stayed away from Yunke, but God gave Yunke enough face and wanted to use the pouring rain to keep her in Jiangxia City to wait for Yunke! What the hell is going on!
In the previous life, after she found Fangzi, she desperately wanted to come to Jiangxia to give it to Yunke herself. However, because of the plague, the gates of the capital were closed. Yun Ke left, but was stopped in Jiangxia by a heavy rain, it was really speechless.
She has a prescription in her hand, and so does Yun Ke, damn it, Gu Yuqi cursed secretly in her heart, even if she could find something to threaten him, she would not be able to coerce him!
When the cheating girl met the cheating guy, Gu Yuqi felt that she was born to be restrained by Yunke! This is bad luck! The pool rests.
Zhao Wu braved the heavy rain to find an inn. Gu Yuqi and the others were drenched in water after they moved in. She immediately arranged for people to boil water and so on. It didn't matter to her, she was most worried about Liang Huaiyu. Liang Huaiyu has passed away in the previous life, but she is still alive in this life, so Gu Yuqi is very worried, and feels that she is cheating under God's nose all the time, for fear that Liang Huaiyu will suffer some accident and leave her.
So as long as it is about Liang Huaiyu, she is extra cautious. Take Dujiang as an example. If she is alone and knows that Yunke is coming, then she will try her best to cross the Hengjiang tomorrow, because of time. The longer the delay, the more dangerous it is, but now with Liang Huaiyu, Gu Yuqi doesn't have the guts to take risks.
After taking a hot bath, Gu Yuqi was worried and invited a doctor to show Liang Huaiyu, who made Liang Huaiyu wonder when she became a person made of tofu in her daughter's heart.
After everything was settled, Gu Yuqi started a new plan.
She knew that the rain would never stop from the very beginning, and they would definitely be trapped in Jiangxia City. So I might as well rent a yard to live in tomorrow, first to save money, and second, renting a house is much more secretive than living in an inn. Yun Ke is coming, but he doesn't necessarily know that she is in Jiangxia... Although the probability of this is very small... because Gu Yuqi knew that the hidden guards around Yun Ke were powerful, if he had the heart to look for her, he would be found wherever he hid. However, renting a house is better than staying in a hotel. Even if there is any movement, everyone will know about it.
Besides, once the plague breaks out, the inn will not be as crowded as having an independent yard.
The plague will last for a long time, that is to say, they will live in Jiangxia for a long time, and rice and food will be a problem. After the plague, bandits will be rampant, all because there is no food to eat.
So early the next morning, Gu Yuqi sent everyone out to inquire about those who rented houses, bought food, bought vegetables, bought chickens, ducks and geese, and Gu Yuqi even asked Runying to buy even rapeseed. She also made a grocery list and handed it to Li Lan, asking him to take his brothers out to do the shopping as well.
Gu Yuqi looked at her rapidly dropping purse, she was speechless, she was really good at home, but everything was difficult when going out, and she needed money for every step. Fortunately, she had prepared for many years and accumulated a lot of money in her hand, otherwise there would be a A feeling of wanting to sit and eat.
She had already asked shops in the capital to stockpile food and herbs, so Gu Yuqi knew that as long as the plague was over, she would be a rich woman out and out! Now Huayinhua's heart is hurting, after the plague, she is afraid that she will count the money until she is soft.
Liang Huaiyu also felt frightened when she saw Gu Yuqi spending so much money. She quietly asked Qiuyue, and the information she got made her tongue-tied. She knew that Gu Yuqi had invested in the shop in the capital, but she never asked. It was opened to spread money, so I had to ask, and only after I asked, I realized that my daughter is really strong... Those messy things sold in those shops are actually so profitable...
Liang Huaiyu is not an ignorant person. Seeing Gu Yuqi's profligate purchases and seeing the heavy rain outside, her heart moved. The plague that Gu Yuqi said was about to start.
Gu Yuqi herself also ran to the ferry, and braved the heavy rain to survey the situation of the Hengjiang River on the spot. As expected, just like in her previous life, the river water is no longer blue-green. It is rolling from the upper reaches, the water level is already very high, and the water flow is also fast. scary. The heavy rain here in Jiangxia City has just begun, and the river has already swelled to such a degree. One can imagine what kind of momentum the river will have in two days. The ferry must not be opened, and the square near the ferry is full of goods that are ready to cross the river but cannot pass.
Gu Yuqi looked at the goods covered with oilcloth, her thoughts moved slightly, and a thought popped up from the bottom of her heart.
It's easy to do things with money. Although Zhao Wu is the head of the guards and eats with his fists, his brain is also very good. Otherwise, he would not have been selected by General Liang to protect his precious only daughter. It only took him one morning to find a large yard with three entrances and three exits in the western suburbs of Jiangxia City. This yard originally belonged to a wealthy businessman in the city. It was low, Zhao Wu went to see it, and was very satisfied. It was not as gorgeous and exquisite as the Hou Mansion and Liang Mansion, but it was also a rare good house in this kind of place. But the owner of the house only sold but not rented, so Zhao Wu had to come back to ask for instructions.
This time it was not Gu Yuqi who made the decision, but Liang Huaiyu who bought the house, because when Zhao Wu came back to ask for instructions, Gu Yuqi was still squatting on the ferry for inspection.
Liang Huaiyu felt that she had been taken care of by her daughter all the way, and she was a little bit sorry for what she had. She could see that her daughter was very worried about the heavy rain, and Gu Yuqi also said that the heavy rain would not stop for half a month. No way, the heavy rain will cause floods, and the floods will be accompanied by plagues, which will take several months to eliminate, which means that they have to live here for at least three to four months.
No matter how much money she had on her daughter, she would run out of money, so she simply used her private money to buy the house. Zhao Wu said yes, she believed in Zhao Wu's vision. So when Gu Yuqi came back from the pier, Liang Huaiyu had already handed the deed to Gu Yuqi with a smile, which really gave Gu Yuqi a jump!