Chapter 7: Wandering

That Chen Liu followed the subordinates of the Cao family in, but he only heard that there was an official surnamed Cao who was called, and he didn't know how big an official position it was. The common people were afraid of officials, so they knelt down tremblingly and replied.

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

Chen Liu stumbled and told Gu San about finding him last night, and he already regretted it in his heart. When he saw Gu Na standing beside the official, he remembered the rumors in the neighborhood that the Gu family was related to the Cao family of the weaving mansion, and knew that it was bad for the wife selling paperwork, so he hurriedly took out the document from his arms, knelt down and offered it, and said that he would never dare to do it again.

Cao Yin saw that Chen Liu's surname was honest and honest, and he didn't want to scare him, so he asked someone to help him up, took twenty taels of silver and gave him twenty taels of silver, which was regarded as compensation for his carriage, and ordered someone to send him out, and at the same time took the document of selling his wife and handed it to Gu Na.

Gu Na saw that Chen Liu was leaving, so he opened his mouth and shouted to him: "Uncle Chen, please stay!" ”

Chen Liu was frightened, turned around, and just said, "Young Master Gu, small, small..."

Gu Na held Chen Liu's arm and pointed to the Zhou family not far away: "Uncle Chen, that's my mother, if you have no opinion, I will make the decision to give your mother to you as a wife!" ”

Chen Liu didn't think that there would be such a happy event, and just as he was about to laugh, he heard Cao Yin snort coldly: "Marrying a mother with a son, nonsense!" ”

Zhou Shi next to him also cried, Gu Na walked over and held up the contract of selling his wife in his hand: "Mother, marry a man and marry a man, dress and eat." But what did you get with that man? What is the difference between being a widow and a widow, the whole day is weaving clothes, embroidering needles and threads, and changing some money for the man to gamble. Now that he has sold you, he is righteous, what are you going to do in this house? ”

Zhou cried and shook his head: "My mother doesn't marry, my mother just wants to guard you and have a good time." ”

Gu Na looked at Cao Yin, then at Chen Liu, and said to his mother: "My son wants to go to my aunt's house to be a companion, and only my mother can rest assured, if my mother really loves her son, I will follow my son!" 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 my mother go with you?" ”

Gu Na shook his head: "That person's problem, you don't know it, if you know that our mother and son went to my aunt's house, you have to think that you have a dependence, and you will act nonsense." I will go this time, but I will also go quietly, I will not leave the house for ten years and eight years, and I will not go to see my mother until I can seek fame. ”

Zhou's family is just a woman's family, and when she heard her son say this, she really thought that her mother, who had delayed her son, would be in turmoil.

Gu Na took out a handkerchief and wiped her mother's tears: "My mother followed Uncle Chen to have a good time, and there will always be good news for her son." ”

Cao Yin saw Gu Na placing his mother like this, knowing that he was afraid that he would have an accident and that his mother had nothing to rely on, so he felt a little more pity in his heart, but he was really able to make a fool of himself, but he didn't make much excuses, thought for a moment, and said: "Since it is Gu Na's opinion, you can rely on the Zhou family, don't worry about Gu San's side." I have a cousin in Xuzhou, and I will send someone to send you to his side to make a living. ”

Although Zhou was reluctant to have a son, he also knew that he couldn't provide for him to study all the time, so he had to respond with tears. Although she is twenty-seven, a few years older than Chen Liu, she looks young, and the two are a good match. Cao Yin gave her another forty taels of silver as a dowry, and asked someone to call two proper mothers-in-law from the house to help her simply handle family affairs.

Gu Na settled his mother and followed Cao Yin into the weaving mansion. Zhuang Chang had a love for Gu Na, so he said to Cao Yin and took him with him. No matter how calm the surname is, he is only a ten-year-old child, although he has nothing to do during the day, he is awakened by nightmares every time, and within a few days, Gu Na has lost a lot of weight.

Cao Yin knew about Gu San's purchase of a carriage, so he sent his family to follow the official roads on all sides, and chased him for thousands of miles, but he still found nothing.

Let's not talk about the panic of the Cao family in Jiangning, but it is said that after Cao Yan was taken away by Gu San's stun, it was already the second time he woke up. He found himself swaying around, and when he looked closely, he realized that he was in a cabin. The man lying next to him looked a little familiar, and remembered that it was Gu San who he saw at the door of his house a few days ago.

Cao Yan remembered what happened before he fainted, it seemed that he had been 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 the inside out, and he was wearing a slightly fat cloth coat.

Gu San was pondering the dream of making a fortune, and when he saw Cao Yan waking up, he reached out and pinched his face, and said with a smile: "Good son, you just pray that Lao Tzu is lucky, or sell you to the Xianggu Pavilion!" For the sake of the friendship between the two ancestors, the master really doesn't want to do that! ”

Cao Yan wanted to ask what was going on, but he couldn't make a sound when he opened his mouth, and he exerted all his strength, but he made a "uh-uh" sound. He stretched out his hand and tried to pinch his throat, but his whole body was so sore that he couldn't use any strength.

Na Gu San's face was hideous: "Dumb son, you are obedient, Lao Tzu will naturally leave you to live for a few days, if you dare to be disobedient, you will be thrown into the river to feed the fish." ”

Cao Yan was angry in his heart, but now that he was small, it seemed that he had been fed medicine by Gu San, so he had to calm down and wait for the opportunity to get out again.

After two more days on the boat, Gu San arrived at his destination, but he arrived in Suzhou, which was 400 miles away from Jiangning.

Gu San has always been lazy and used to eating, so when he got off the boat, he spent a few copper plates to call a carriage into the city. Sitting in the carriage, he couldn't help humming a little song proudly, even if the people of the Cao family suspected him, they would definitely send people to track him, who would have thought that he would take a boat.

Suzhou was called Wu in ancient times, named Suzhou at the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, named after Gusu Mountain in the southwest of the city, and is called Gusu, Wudu, Wuzhong, Dongwu, Wumen and Pingjiang along the name until now. It is also known as "Heaven on Earth".

Gu San kidnapped Cao Yan, but not to blackmail the Cao family, with his own strength, to challenge the Weaving Mansion, that is, to find death. He thought that it was the collar and jade pendant on Cao Yan's body, and the brocade clothes were also cleaned from the inside out. The valuable items on Cao Yan's body include a gold collar of more than ten taels, a Guanyin jade pendant carved by Hetian jade, an agate the size of a pigeon's egg buckled from the belt, and a purse equipped with two small gold ingots and two small silver ingots.

When he arrived at the inn, Gu San asked for a room, asked Xiao Er to send a table of wine and food, ate a meal by himself, and fed Cao Yan a few spoons, in order to prevent Cao Yan from escaping, he forced him to drink half a bowl of drugs, and then went out to pawn with his belongings.

For fear of being eye-catching, Gu San went to several pawnshops before pawning Cao Yan's ornaments clean. He had a total of three hundred taels of silver in his hand, the other two hundred were exchanged for silver tickets, and the rest were exchanged for silver ingots of different sizes, wrapped in a cloth bag, and entered a casino.

It is strange to say, although Gu San loves to gamble, but his luck has always been bad, he has always gambled and often lost, often lost and often gambled, but this is said to have changed his luck in Suzhou, and it was only half a day's work, he won more than 400 taels with more than 100 taels.

Gu Sanmei was shriveled, thinking that since it was so convenient, she would go back and sleep well, and come back tomorrow, if she could win a few days in a row and save thousands of taels of belongings, she would redeem those items and send Cao Yan back. He is not a vicious person, and he is also frightened these days. After thinking about this, he felt that his body was much lighter, packed up the silver ticket and silver taels, and left the casino, not wanting to be targeted by others. On the way back to the inn, he was shaved the back of his head with a hammer, and when he fell to the ground, red and white flowed out, and the person was no longer dead, and the body was pulled into a carriage.

The two ruffians who committed the crime were in the casino, and when they saw that Gu San had a foreign accent and won money, they followed behind. Several people searched Gu San's belongings, and tied his body to a stone and sank it in the pond overnight.

After Cao Yan was forced to drink the drug, he was groggy until the afternoon of the second day. The innkeeper and Xiao Er were already waiting with dark faces, and the adults in this room did not come back, leaving only a sick child or mute, and they all felt unlucky. Cao Yan only felt that this was a good opportunity to get out of danger, so he used his fingers to write on the edge of the bed for help, but only the account room in the inn was literate, and the boss and Xiao Er were blind.

When the two of them saw that the little mute was dating, he looked like he was crazy, and finally he lay motionless on the bed with his eyes blank, and they were worried that he would die in the inn, and that he would have to go through a lawsuit and cause trouble, so they quietly hugged him and threw him from the back door to the road.

Cao Yan was shocked and angry, and couldn't help but scold God in his heart, but he was so inexplicable that he didn't say anything about it, and he didn't let people stop. Looking at various stories, others have either achieved a hegemony through the crossing, or they are also feudal marquis, but their own lives are always hanging like this.

Cao Yan's clothes were shabby, and the passers-by treated them as little beggars, and kindly threw two big bucks. It's just that poor Cao Yan can only lie down, and he doesn't even have the strength to get up to buy a steamed bun, and his eyes are dizzy with hunger, and he only feels that the scenery in front of him is turning and turning. He was lamenting whether he was the first to starve to death when someone shoved a half-stick noodle into his hand.

Cao Yan didn't have time to think about it, and the movements of his hands had already brought the nest head to his mouth, and he swallowed it in two bites.

"Haha! You can eat happily, you can eat, it seems that you are just hungry, there is nothing wrong with it! A middle-aged beggar stood aside and said, just now he stuffed the nest head into Cao Yan's hand. He bent down, picked up a few copper coins beside Cao Yan, blew them on the side of his mouth, stuffed them into his arms, and then picked Cao Yan up again, muttering in his mouth: "Although he is a little mute, he looks so beautiful that he looks strange and pitiful!" ”

Cao Yan saw that the middle-aged man was five big and three thick, and all his hands and feet were willing to be a beggar, and he knew in his heart that he was not a good person, but his small body was so weak that he was unable to resist, so he had to let the man hug him. Hearing this, the man said again: "Good and bad anesthetic, about ten big dollars a pack!" ”

Cao Yan thought that the beggar wanted to accept himself as a little beggar, and every time he asked for a task or something, he didn't expect things to develop unexpectedly. The beggar said out of nowhere that he took out a coarse cloth robe and put it on, although it looked old, but it was clean, and went to the street to spend a few copper coins to cut off his head. It looks like an ordinary person, where there is still a little beggar.

After the middle-aged beggar packed up, he carried Cao Yan to the dock and took a cargo ship to Hangzhou for five hundred yuan. During this period, some guys came forward to talk, and the man only said that his son was sick and wanted to go to Hangzhou Lingyin Temple to pray for blessings.

The strength on Cao Yan's body recovered little by little, but his throat was still not good. There was no way to escape on the ship, so he had to endure it and think about finding a way to Hangzhou.

Two days later, the cargo ship arrived at the Hangzhou terminal. The middle-aged beggar got off the boat with Cao Yan in his arms, called a carriage and went straight to Lingyin Temple. The coachman only thought that they were ordinary pilgrims, and talked about a lot of things about the Lingyin Temple, and then a few days later it was the birthday of the Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth, and the temple was going to hold a ** meeting, and many foreign guests were going to the Lingyin Temple.

When he arrived near Lingyin Temple, the middle-aged beggar sent the coachman away, and instead of going to the temple, he took him to a house not far away. There were more than a dozen people inside, except for a few sturdy men, a few disabled children, with broken arms and legs, all of whom looked miserable.

Cao Yan was not a fool, he knew that he had fallen into the wolf's den at this time, and his eyes were full of panic.

This beggar seems to be familiar with those men, and is called "second brother" by those people, and it seems that he still has a bit of status among the people. He saw Cao Yan's trembling appearance, and mouthed at a strong man named "Lao Qi".

The old seven stepped forward "hehe", squatted down, grabbed Cao Yan's calf, and folded it upward, just listening to the sound of "card bar", the bones had been broken alive.

Cao Yan didn't wait for a struggle, and fainted in pain. The old seven seemed to be enjoying it, blowing his hand, enjoying it very much, grabbing Cao Yan's other leg and concocting it in the same way. Cao Yan was woken up in pain, and the children lying on the ground were bluffed and cried. The old seven squeaked their teeth at them, and they were so frightened that they immediately stopped.

The second brother bit half a cucumber in his mouth, and gave Lao Qi a thumbs up: "Brother, brother really admires you, broken bones don't hurt tendons, this is also a good skill." When these few are older, if they are not crippled, they will be sold to the Xianggu Pavilion with good looks, and they will almost be sold as small servants, and they will be worth two dollars! ”