A lucky wife born again from a farm family

"He was beaten." Gu Jinan was startled, and his voice was full of understanding that he had already guessed.

Dou Shaodong's family nodded: "Well, I was whipped twenty times by the Yulin Army, and my whole back was beaten to pieces."

Back then, he bought the rank of holding a halberd in the Yulin Army. Now when he returns to Beijing, he will invite several Yulin Army to drink. He has a good relationship with them. If he wants to buy some news from the palace, he can still do it, so he knows Got to be more.

"My back was smashed!" Gu Jinan was completely shocked. How could this happen? Isn't Mr. Qi a favorite of the emperor? The emperor can't even listen to his favorite minister's words?

He was very worried: "The injury must be serious. I wonder if there will be any internal injuries."

Dou Shaodong's family: "Probably not. The Yulin military commander who carried out the execution knew that Mr. Qi was the emperor's favorite, so if he spared his hand, he should not have hurt his internal organs."

But his back was smashed, and his internal organs must have been slightly injured.

"Don't worry, Mr. Qi is in his prime, just take care of him." Dou Shaodong's family still wanted Gu Jin'an to help him with the work. He didn't want him to feel uneasy because of Mr. Qi's affairs, so he said a few perfunctory words.

Gu Jinan heard the perfunctory tone in his words, frowned and asked, "Does the Dou Shaodong family feel that Master Qi is seeking death and has no benefit whatsoever?"

Gu Jinan was angry. Mr. Qi was his family's benefactor and a good minister who asked for orders for the people. He was a good official with a kind heart. If Mr. Qi's actions could not be praised by most people, he would Chilling.

Dou Shaodong's heart skipped a beat, hey, he had been guessed.

"Brother Gu misunderstood, I didn't mean that. Mr. Qi is a good official who speaks for the people. I admire him very much."

Don't doubt it, I really admire him, but I still feel that Mr. Qi shouldn't get into trouble when the emperor was angry. How stupid he was. He failed to persuade him, and he was beaten and his life was almost lost.

It’s okay to be a good official, but at least you have to save your life first.

If you continue to persist, the longer you persist, the more you can do for the people.

Gu Jinan stared at Dou Shaodong's house, his hand holding the pen tightened tighter and tighter, and with a click, the brush broke in his hand.

"Hey, you are excited. The money is worthless, but the hands of your little Sanyuanlang are still very valuable." Dou Shaodong stepped back several steps, fearing that Gu Jinan would punch him.

However, Gu Jinan withdrew his gaze, turned around, put one hand on the table, and said in a low voice: "Master Qi is a good man... He should be rewarded."

Dou Shaodong's family laughed and said very rudely: "You have escaped famine and seen great evil, but you still believe that good people are rewarded with good things? Should I, my young master, praise you for your pure kindness, or should I call you stupid? ?”

Crazy, do you think you are living in some fairy cave? Do you still believe in retribution?

Gu Jinan knew that he was a little excited at this moment, but Mr. Qi was the first person to help his family, and he was also a civil servant. When he looked at Mr. Qi, he seemed to see himself in the future.

So he hoped that Mr. Qi would be rewarded well, instead of all his passion and talent going to waste.

He raised his hand and touched the dagger hidden in his sleeve. This dagger was given to Xiaoyu by Mr. Qi for self-defense in order to thank Xiaoyu for saving his wife and children. Later, when Xiaoyu got a better knife, So he gave him the dagger.

Xiaoyu said at the time: "Originally I wanted to give it to my eldest sister, but seeing that my eldest brother and Uncle Qi are quite similar, I decided to give it to my eldest brother. Even if I don't use it for self-defense, I can still take it out and look at it to encourage myself and strive to become Uncle Qi as soon as possible." People like that.”

But now, does he still want to be like Mr. Qi?

No, his goal has always been clear. It is impossible for him to risk his own life and the life and death of his family just to assist a tyrant.

"Brother Dou's family is in the capital, and he has great skills. Can you send these two bottles of medicine to Mr. Qi?" Gu Jin'an took two bottles of medicine for treating trauma and handed them to Dou Shaodong's family: "Both bottles of medicine are collected in the mountains and wild fields." Although the medicinal materials are not as expensive as those in the capital, they are better because they grow freely and are good medicine."

The corners of Dou Shaodong's mouth twitched when he heard this, and he said, "If you want Mr. Qi to leave the capital, just say so. Why do you have to say such roundabout words? This Shaodong's family has a headache."

Gu Jinan stuffed the medicine into his arms and said in a cold voice: "I can make it clear, but I'm afraid you will lose your head."

The emperor will definitely send someone to keep an eye on Mr. Qi, and it is the Dou Shaodong family who will send the message. If the emperor's people hear this, I am afraid that the Dou Shaodong family will be destroyed.

Dou Shaodong's family choked, and the matter of letting Mr. Qi leave the capital cannot be said too straightforwardly.

Dou Shaodong's family accepted the two bottles of medicine and gave him a message: "Sure, this Shaodong's family will send someone to Qi's family, but I can't guarantee whether Mr. Qi will listen or leave."

I heard that Mr. Qi was very loyal to the emperor. Even if the emperor let him go, I guess he might stay and try to correct the emperor.

When Gu Jinan saw that Dou Shaodong's family had agreed, he put away his anger and worry and asked about things in other places: "What's going on in Zhongzhou? Didn't they increase taxes?"

Ha, Dou Shaodong's family sneered: "It's because they didn't increase taxes in Zhongzhou, but Zhongzhou has never been truly stable since the disaster victims' rebellion began. Yuchang Mansion and Tongshan Mansion, which are close to Northwest Chi Road, have long been unable to hold on. Ordinary taxes cannot be collected, and the bandits entrenched in Yuchang Mansion and Tongshan Mansion took advantage of the time when the people were worried about summer taxes, and went down to the mountains to rob again, making the lives of the people of Zhongzhou even more difficult."

"Officials in various prefectures in Zhongzhou still ignored the life and death of soldiers and used brutal methods to collect taxes from the soldiers' families. The adults in the command and envoy department in Zhongzhou did not have extra money to pay the soldiers to relieve their families from the summer tax. It caused The soldiers were angry, and many soldiers took their families to hide in the mountains. Later, it developed to the point where the general banner directly took the soldiers and family members under his banner and ran away, occupying the mountains as kings. Anyway, they knew very well that with the capital of Zhongzhou With the current strength of the Commander, it is impossible to destroy them."

"People will do what they see others do. As long as one soldier runs away with his family, other soldiers will follow suit. I heard that there are no more soldiers in the garrison camps of Yuchang Mansion and Tongshan Mansion. Whoever was left was almost all gone."

"What? Are you telling the truth about Dou Shaodong's family? Are you lying? How is this possible?!" He Jinsheng was shocked when he heard this, and his whole body was shaking. He had never escaped from famine, and he had never been hungry since he was a child. The southern boys in Shunam simply cannot understand the suffering in the northwest.

"Besides, they are soldiers and receive military pay from the imperial court. As long as they stay in the military camp, they can get their military pay. Why would they defect and go to the mountains to become bandits?"

He Jinsheng was very puzzled. He felt that it was only a fool who would defect to the mountains and become a gangster instead of doing a decent business.

After hearing this, Dou Shaodong's family laughed and asked He Jinsheng, "What if the court doesn't give them military pay?"