Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 8
Then Chen Liu came in with the servants of Cao's family. He only heard that it was called by an official surnamed Cao, but he didn't know how big an official he was.The common people are afraid of officials, so they knelt down and answered tremblingly.

Cao Yin called Chen Liuqi: "I heard that you sold the carriage to Gu San, um, please tell me the details at that time."

Chen Liu stammered, and told about Gu San looking for him last night, already regretting it in his heart.Seeing Gu Na standing next to the official, he remembered the rumors in the neighborhood that the Gu family had an affair with the Cao family in Zhizhi Mansion, and he knew that it was wrong with the document for selling his wife, so he quickly took out the document from his arms, knelt down and offered it to him. , saying that he would never dare again.

Seeing Chen Liu's simple and honest character, Cao Yin didn't want to scare him, so he asked someone to help him up, and gave him 20 taels of silver as compensation for his carriage. to guna.

Seeing that Chen Liu was about to leave, Gu Na called to stop him: "Uncle Chen, please stay!"

Chen Liu trembled in fright, turned around, and just bowed: "Master Gu, little one, little one..."

Gu Na supported Chen Liu's arm and pointed to the Zhou family who was not far away: "Uncle Chen, that is my mother. If you have no objection, I will make the decision and promise my mother to you as my wife!"

Chen Liu didn't think there would be such a happy event. Just as he was about to crack a smile, Cao Yin snorted coldly: "Marrying a mother with a son, nonsense!"

The Zhou family next to him also cried, and Gu Na walked over, holding up the contract of selling his wife in his hand: "Mother, marry a man, marry a man, dress and eat. But what do you gain by following that person? What is the difference from being a widow? The house is full of darning, embroidery and threading, and the man snatched all the money for gambling. Now that he has sold you, he is righteous, what is he going to do with this house?"

Zhou cried and shook her head: "Mother doesn't marry, she just wants to watch over you and live a good life."

Gu Na looked at Cao Yin, then at Chen Liu, and then said to his mother: "My son is going to be a companion at my aunt's house, and the only one who can't worry about it is the mother. If the mother really loves her son, she should obey her! Uncle Chen is a responsible person, if you follow him, your son will be able to study with peace of mind!"

Zhou said in tears, "Can't mother go with you?"

Gu Na shook his head: "It's not that you don't know what's wrong with that person. If you know that our mother and son have gone to the aunt's house, you will think that you have a reliance and act recklessly. I will go quietly this time. For ten or eight years, you will not leave the palace, and you will not go to see your mother until you can get fame."

Zhou's family is just a woman. Hearing what his son said, he really thought that as a mother, he was delaying his son, and his heart was confused.

Gu Na took out the handkerchief and wiped away tears for his mother: "Mother will live a good life with Uncle Chen, and one day she will wait for good news from her son."

Seeing that Gu Na placed his mother in such a way, Cao Yin knew that he was afraid that something would happen to him and his mother would have nothing to rely on, so he felt a little more pity in his heart, but he was really able to vent his anger on the child, but he didn't make much excuses, and thought for a while , opened the mouth and said: "Since it is Gu Na's opinion, Zhou, you can follow it, don't worry about Gu San's side. I have a cousin who works in Xuzhou, and I will send you to him to make a living. "

Although Zhou was reluctant to part with her son, she also knew that she could not support him to study all the time by herself, so she had to accept it with tears in her eyes.Although she was 27, a few years older than Chen Liunian, but looking young, the two were a good match.Cao Yin gave her another 40 taels of silver as a dowry, and asked someone to call two suitable women from the mansion to help with the simple arrangement of the marriage.

After Gu Na arranged for his mother, he followed Cao Yin into the weaving mansion.Zhuang Chang loved talent for Gu Na, so he told Cao Yin to take him by his side.No matter how calm his personality is, he is only a ten-year-old child. Although he has nothing to do during the day, he is often awakened by nightmares at night. Within a few days, Gu Na lost a lot of weight.

Cao Yin knew about Gu San's purchase of the carriage, so he sent his guards to follow along the official roads on all sides, but after chasing for thousands of miles, he still found nothing.

Let's not talk about the panic of the Cao family in Jiangning, but say that after Cao Yong was taken away by Gu San's coma, it was already the next day when he woke up again.He found his body swaying back and forth, and looked carefully where he was, only to find that he was in a cabin.The man lying next to him looked familiar, and he remembered that it was Gu San who he saw at the door of his house a few days ago.

Cao Yong remembered what happened before he fainted. It seemed that he was kidnapped, but he didn't know where Gu San was going to take him.He lowered his head and looked at himself. His clothes had been changed from inside to outside, and he was wearing a slightly fat cloth jacket.

Gu San was thinking about his dream of getting rich, when he saw Cao Yong woke up, he stretched out his hand and pinched his face, and said with a smile: "My dear son, just pray that I will be lucky, or I will sell you to the elephant house! The friendship between the two ancestors, the master is really unwilling to act like that!"

Cao Yong wanted to ask what was going on, but he couldn't make a sound when he opened his mouth. With all his strength, he made a "uh uh" sound.He stretched out his hand, trying to pinch his throat, but his whole body was so weak that he couldn't exert much strength.

Na Gu San looked grim: "Mute son, be good, I will naturally let you live for a few days, if you dare to be disobedient, I will throw you into the river to feed the fish."

Cao Yong was angry in his heart, but now he is small and single, and it seems that he was given medicine by Gu San again, so he had to calm down and wait for the opportunity to escape.

After another two days on the boat, Gu San finally arrived at his destination, but he arrived in Suzhou, which is [-] miles away from Jiangning.

Gu San has always been a lazy eater, so when he got off the boat, he spent a few copper coins to call a carriage to go to the city.Sitting in the carriage, he couldn't help humming a little song triumphantly. Even if the people of the Cao family suspected him, they would definitely send people to track him down. Who would have thought of him taking a boat.

Suzhou was called Wu in ancient times, and it was named Suzhou in the Sui Dynasty. It was named after Gusu Mountain in the southwest of the city.It is also known as "heaven on earth" because of its abundant resources, heavenly treasures and outstanding people.

Gu San kidnapped Cao Yong, but not to blackmail Cao's family, relying on his own strength to challenge Zhizao Mansion, that is courting death.He thought it was the collar and jade pendant on Cao Yong's body, and the brocade clothes all over his body were also stripped clean from the inside to the outside.The valuable items on Cao Yong's body include a gold necklace with more than ten weights, a Guanyin jade pendant carved from Hetian jade, an agate the size of a pigeon egg buckled from his belt, and an equipment with two small gold ingots and two small silver ingots. Ingot purse.

When he arrived at the inn, Gu San asked for a room and asked Xiao Er to deliver a table of wine and food. After eating a lot, he fed Cao Yong a few spoonfuls. In order to prevent Cao Yong from escaping, he forced him to drink half a bowl of rice noodles. medicine, and then rolled up the belongings and went out to pawn.

In order not to attract attention, Gu San went to several pawnshops before pawning off Cao Yong's accessories.He had a total of three hundred taels of silver in his hands, the other two hundred were exchanged for silver notes, and the rest were exchanged for silver ingots of various sizes, he wrapped them in a cloth bag randomly, and went into a casino.

It's strange to say that although Gu San likes to gamble, his luck has always been bad. He always gambles and loses, loses and gambles a lot, but today in Suzhou he changed his luck. I won more than 100 taels of capital.

Gu Sanmei was delighted, thinking that since it was so easy, he would go back and have a good sleep, and come back tomorrow, if he could win a few days in a row and save thousands of taels of property, he would redeem those items and send Cao Yong back.He is not a vicious person, and he has been terrified these days.After figuring this out, he felt much lighter, packed up his money, and left the casino, not wanting to be watched by someone already.On the way back to the inn, someone cut the back of his head with a hammer. When he fell to the ground, red, white and white blood flowed out. He was already dead, and his body was pulled into a carriage.

The perpetrators were two hooligans who were dawdling in the casino. They saw that Gu San had a foreign accent and had won money, so they followed behind.Several people searched Gu San's belongings and tied his body to a rock overnight.

After Cao Yong was forced to drink the drug, he remained in a coma and did not wake up until the afternoon of the second day.The innkeeper and Xiao Er were already waiting with sullen faces. It was unlucky that the adults in this room would not come back, and only a sick child was left who was still dumb.Cao Yong thought it was a good chance to escape, so he wrote on the edge of the bed with his fingers to ask for help, but only the accountant in the inn could read, and both the boss and the waiter were blind.

The two saw the little mute gesticulating, looking like he was insane, and finally lay on the bed motionless with his eyes blank, both worried that he would die in the inn, and that he would go through a lawsuit and get involved, so they hugged him quietly. He was thrown from the back door onto the road.

Cao Yong was startled and angry, and couldn't help scolding God in his heart, for some reason, he didn't talk about time travel, and his life was still unrestrained.According to various stories, other people's time travels have either achieved dominance, or they are also appointed as princes and prime ministers, but their own lives are always hanging in the balance like this.

Cao Yong's clothes are shabby, and the passers-by who come and go will be treated as little beggars, and those who are kind will throw two big coins.It's a pity that Cao Yong can only lie down, and he doesn't even have the strength to get up to buy a steamed bun. He is so hungry that his eyes are dim, and he just feels that the scenery in front of him is turning and turning.He was lamenting whether he was the first time traveler to die of starvation, when someone stuffed half a piece of cornmeal into his hand.

Cao Yong didn't have time to think about it, the movement of his hands had brought the cornbread to his mouth, and swallowed it into his stomach in two mouthfuls.

"Haha! Eat as much as you want, as long as you can eat, it seems that you are just hungry, and there is nothing wrong with it!" A middle-aged beggar stood aside and said, it was he who stuffed the cornbread into Cao Yong's hand just now.He bent down, picked up a few copper coins around Cao Yong, blew them around his mouth, stuffed them into his arms, and then picked up Cao Yong again, muttering in his mouth: "Although he is a little dumb, he looks so handsome." , It's so pitiful to look at!"

Cao Yong saw that middle-aged man was five big and three thick, with complete arms and legs but willing to be a beggar, and knew in his heart that he was not a good man, but his small body was too weak to resist, so he had to let the man hold him.The man said again: "Good or bad anesthetics, about ten big coins a pack!"

Cao Yong thought that the beggar was going to accept him as a little beggar, and he had to do daily tasks or something, but he didn't expect things to develop unexpectedly.The next day, the beggar dug out a coarse cloth from somewhere and changed into it. Although it looked old, it was clean, and went to the street to spend a few copper coins to have his head shaved again.It looks like ordinary people, and there is no trace of a beggar.

After the middle-aged beggar packed up, he carried Cao Yong to the pier, and took a cargo ship to Hangzhou for five hundred yuan.During the period, a guy also came up to talk to him. The man only said that his son was sick and he was going to Hangzhou Lingyin Temple to pray for blessings.

Cao Yong's strength recovered little by little, but his voice was still not good.There was no way to escape on the boat, so he had to endure it, thinking about going to Hangzhou to find a way.

Two days later, the cargo ship arrived at Hangzhou Wharf.The middle-aged beggar got off the boat with Cao Yong in his arms, called a carriage and went straight to Lingyin Temple.The coachman only regarded them as ordinary pilgrims, and talked about a lot of things about Lingyin Temple. In a few days, it will be the birthday of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and there will be a big ceremony in the temple. There are many foreign guests in these two days They all went to Lingyin Temple.

When they arrived near Lingyin Temple, the middle-aged beggar sent the coachman away, instead of going to the temple, he carried him to a family not far away.There were a dozen or so people inside, except for a few strong men, there were also a few disabled children with broken arms and legs, and they all looked miserable.

Cao Yong is not a fool, knowing that he has fallen into a wolf's den at this time, his eyes are full of panic.

This beggar seemed to be familiar with those men, and was called "Second Brother" by them, and he seemed to have some status among the crowd.Seeing Cao Yong's trembling look, he nuzzled at a strong man named "Old Seven".

The old seven stepped forward with a "hey hey", squatted down, grabbed Cao Yong's calf, folded it upwards, and heard a sound of "stuck", the bone had already been broken violently.

Before Cao Yong struggled, he fainted from the pain.The old seven seemed to be enjoying it, he blew on his hand, enjoyed it very much, grabbed Cao Yong's other leg, and did the same.Cao Yong was woken up by the pain, and the children lying on the ground were so frightened that they cried "woooo".The old seven gritted his teeth at them, and they were so frightened that they immediately stopped talking.

The second brother bit half of a cucumber in his mouth, and gave Lao Qi a thumbs up: "Brother, I really admire you, breaking a bone does not hurt a tendon, which is also a good skill. When these few grow up, if they are not disabled If you are good-looking, you can sell it to the Elephant House, and almost sell it as a servant, and it can still be worth two dollars!"

(End of this chapter)