Long Wind Crossing

    Never enter Yangzhou.

    Liu Yuru and Gu Jiusi listened quietly, their hearts filled with doubts, while Luo Zishang listened to all this, he took a sip of wine and said slowly: "Why don't you enter Yangzhou?"

    "There are people she loves too much, and there are people she hates too much, too much love or too much hate, enough to let a person leave."

    Luo Zishang did not speak, he held the wine glass, and after a long time, he slowly let go. He turned his head, looked at Luo Yishui's grave, and said in a low voice, "Forget it, it's all over. The past is meaningless, Uncle," he turned his head and smiled at Qin Nan with difficulty, "You and I are both Gotta move forward."

    "I can't look forward."

    Qin Nan shook his head, he stood up and walked to Luo Yishui's tomb, his voice was calm: "I will always remember her well. Zishang, I tell you this, I hope you do not forget."

    "You don't know how much your mother paid for you." He brushed Luo Yishui's name with his fingers, and his voice was a little regretful, "She really loves you."

    "I don't believe it."

    Luo Zishang said coldly, Qin Nan paused, Luo Zishang stood up slowly, he clenched his fists, and his voice was cold: "If she really loves me," He stared at the tombstone, "You shouldn't have brought me into this world and ignored me! You shouldn't have given birth to me for your own sake, as if I didn't exist."

    Qin Nan turned his back to him, he opened his mouth: "Zi..."

    "Master Qin," Luo Zishang interrupted him, "I understand why you asked me to come here. I also know what you want to tell me. But I also have to tell Master Qin."

    Luo Zishang said seriously: "I haven't been here in the first 20 years, so now I don't need to tell me anything else. I live very well."

    "I am Luo Zishang," Luo Zishang squeezed the folding fan in his hand, stared at the words on the tombstone, and said word by word from between his lips and teeth, "A person can live very well. it is good."

    Qin Nan did not speak. In terms of words, although he was the prefect, he showed a strange clumsiness. Luo Zishang regained his composure, he respectfully saluted, and then left.

    Qin Nan stood alone in front of the tombstone. He stood for a long time, sighed, and said slowly: "I can't convince him, and I don't want to say more."

    "Yi Shui," he chuckled, "I still have selfishness after all. Thinking that he recognizes you, you will be happy. But I finally hope that he or that person will never appear again. already."

    "We lived very well in Xingyang." Qin Nan sat on the ground, leaning lightly on the tombstone, and said gently, "The past can't be traced, it's over, don't worry about it, okay? "

    "Look at this kid, he lives much better than I imagined. He doesn't want to, so don't be fettered."

    As Qin Nan said, he leaned on the tombstone and did not move.

    He seemed to have fallen asleep, Liu Yuru and Gu Jiusi were lying on the ground together, Liu Yuru held the sapling and whispered, "Did he fall asleep?"

    Gu Jiu thought about it and threw a small stone from the side.

    Qin Nan ignored it, Gu Jiusi gave Liu Yuru a wink, and the two retreated to the distance, then jumped up and ran away.

    The two ran away, brushing the dirt and leaves on each other's bodies.

    When the dusting was finished, Liu Yuru brushed the dirt off Gu Jiusi's body and whispered, "You said that Qin Nan was speaking strangely today, what do you mean?"

    "Obviously." Gu Jiusi raised his hand and wiped Liu Yuru's face with his sleeve, Liu Yuru hurriedly said, "Light it up."

    Gu Jiusi calmed down and continued, "Qin Nan sees that Luo Zishang is fake."

    "Is it obvious now?" Liu Yuru was stunned, "Then he didn't ask?"

    " Not only did he see that Luo Zishang was not the real Luozishang, but he also knew that Luozishang was born of Luoyishui. With his friendship for Luoyishui, how could he treat Luozishang? doing what?"

    After saying this, Liu Yuru understood, she frowned: "How did Qin Nan know this?"

    "The old goblin who has lived for a long time always has a magic weapon that we don't know."

    Gu Jiusi finished photographing the soil on his body, dragged Liu Yuru and said, "Let's go, I will accompany you to see the soil."

    "In such a hurry?"

    Liu Yuru was a little strange, Gu Jiusi raised her eyebrows and said, "The sun is still there, there is still some time."

    Gu Jiusi insisted on seeing the place, but Liu Yuru did not shirk any more, got on the carriage, and led Gu Jiusi to the places she was going to see.

    The two sat on the carriage, and Liu Yuru pondered: "So what do you think, what happened to Luo Zishang?"

    Liu Yuru analyzed it and said slowly: "According to Qin Nan's statement, Miss Luo was famous in Yangzhou back then, and he was just an admirer of Miss Luo's childhood sweetheart, then later Miss Luo met someone , The unwed gave birth to Luo Zishang, and then followed Qin Nan to Xingyang, breaking with the family completely. In addition to the news we inquired, it means that 21 years ago, Miss Luo family met someone, She fell in love with the other party at first sight and became pregnant before marriage. It turned out that the other party had a family in the house. Luo Yishui was unwilling to be a concubine, so she gave birth to the child and handed it over to the family to kill. But the servant couldn't bear to kill a child, so he threw the child in Near the City God Temple, he was adopted by a beggar, and then Luo Yishui married Qin Nan and left Xingyang, is that so?"

    Gu Jiusi did not speak, he looked at the crowd outside the window, Liu Yuru continued: "Qin Nan said that Luo Yishui loves his child very much, so that child should have been forcibly abandoned by Luo Yishui's father. Because of this, Luo Yishui broke with her family, so she decided not to return to Yangzhou in her life. So who was that man back then?"

    Liu Yuru frowned. Seeing that Gu Jiusi had been silent, she couldn't help but ask, "Jusi?"

    "Huh?"

    Gu Jiusi turned around and saw that Liu Yuru was waiting for him to answer, he smiled: "Don't think about that, think about your business."

    "Jiusi," Liu Yuru stared at him, but said, "Do you know who Luo Zishang's father is?"

    "This matter," Gu Jiusi said calmly, "I'll tell you when I figure it out."

    When Liu Yuru heard this, she knew that there might be other things involved in this matter. She stopped asking questions.

      Don't speak, just listen to her talking with people and bargaining.

    The sun was setting when they came, and it was only at night that Liu Yuru and Gu Jiusi went back together. They went back together hand in hand. When they were walking on the road, the shadows of the two people overlapped. Gu Jiusi took her and gestured with her hands to make a shadow and sing. Liu Yuru couldn't stop laughing when she saw him babbling and singing.

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    "Fu Baoyuan, you old thief, I'll fight too!"

    "And you, Li San! Where to run!"

    Liu Yuru saw that he was making more and more gestures, and seeing that he was going home, she had to remind her in a low voice: "Be quiet, don't let people hear you."

    "I hear it." Gu Jiusi shrugged, "I want to hit them anyway, who doesn't know?"

    As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Fu Baoyuan's voice: "Yeah, Master Gu!"

    Gu Jiusi: "…"

    In an instant, Gu Jiusi held her head high, turned into a dignified appearance, and cupped her hands towards Fu Baoyuan: "Ah, Mr. Fu! Why are you here at the door and don't go in and sit?"

    "In the middle of the night," Gu Jiusi had lingering fears, "what else are you here to discuss?"

    Liu Yuru took his hand from the side and said with a smile, "You know what's behind the scenes, right?"

    Gu Jiusi stopped talking this time, he snorted softly, and entered the room with Liu Yuru.

    After entering the room, after Liu Yuru fell asleep, he thought about it, took out the paper, and wrote a letter to Jiang He.

    He first explained the situation of Xingyang, and at the end, he finally added:

    I met Luo Yishui's husband Qin Nan, who is from Yangzhou.

    Gu Jiusi sent the letter at night. He watched the messenger leave and couldn't help sighing.

    On the second day after the letter was sent, Gu Jiusi got up and went out, intending to go to the embankment to have a look.

    Liu Yuru looked at his coarse clothes and couldn't help laughing: "What are you dressed like? Can't you go to the construction site yourself?"

    Gu Jiusi laughed when he heard it: "Didn't Fu Baoyuan say that I am a nerd? Then I will go and see for myself, how much money, how to make it, how much materials, if I know better than him, he will not Just say you can't beat me?"

    Speaking, Gu Jiusi glanced at the sky outside: "Qin Tianjian said that there will be floods in August and September this year, and we must fix the embankment before August."

    Liu Yuru answered and said calmly, "I understand."

    "You go busy," Liu Yuru raised her head and smiled, "I'm busy too."

    What Liu Yuru said was not comforting.

    Gu Jiusi went to the construction site to repair the river on the second day, Liu Yuru finalized a piece of land and began to build a warehouse.

    The rice in Youzhou matures in October, so before October, their warehouses and fleets will be able to handle large shipments. Before that, Shenxianxiang also needed to supply, not only rice, but also other grain products, which were transported from Youzhou and Yangzhou respectively. The earlier the warehouse was, the better.

    So Liu Yuru worked overtime, first recruited people, then drew warehouse drawings, and contacted people from several other locations to build the warehouse together at the same time.

    Liu Yuru was too busy to touch the ground, Gu Jiusi rushed to Pinghuai first. Ping Huai was the supervisor of Shen Ming, and few officials knew him. After Gu Jiusi arrived in Ping Huai, he did not inform others, so he went to Shen Ming and said directly: "You and I will pretend to be ordinary people and go to work on the riverbank. ."

    Shen Ming looked at it, and was so frightened that he quickly said to Gu Jiusi: "Ninth brother, you have thin skin and tender meat, you can't do such rough work."

    These words angered Gu Jiusi, he threw Shen Ming over his shoulder and smashed it on the spot, and then said, "Your brother's thin skin and tender meat?"

    "No, no," Shen Ming got up and said quickly, "River repairing is different from fighting, you just need to see your supervisor, why do you have to do it yourself?"

    Gu Jiusi glared at Shen Ming: "Don't talk nonsense, either I go by myself, or you go with me."

    How dare Shen Ming let Gu Jiusi go to work alone, so he and Gu Jiusi changed into coarse clothes early in the morning, followed Gu Jiusi to blacken his face, and went to the river bank to find work together.

      Shen Ming and Gu Jiusi didn't dare to fight back, afraid of being seen by others, so they could only apologize repeatedly, and finally got the chance to go to work.

    On the first day of work, Gu Jiusi and Shen Ming carried a hundred sandbags, which was the least.

    When Gu Jiusi and Shen Ming were walking under the scorching sun with sandbags on their backs, they saw many men, all with gray hair, hunched over, carrying heavy sandbags, almost all of them He was about to be crushed, but he still stepped forward.

     Their feet were in the mud, their bodies were exposed to the scorching sun, and the sweat fell down.

    In the evening, a group of river workers huddled together to warm and eat.

    The river workers’ meals are provided by the government. One person has two steamed buns. Gu Jiusi and Shen Ming huddled with them to eat steamed buns. Although these river workers were hard, they were very happy. At night everyone was thinking about a month. They can repair their houses, buy new clothes for their children, and buy some meat for their families…

    "Married."

    "Not yet."

    After the two honest people answered, the old man started to sell his daughter to Shen Ming. He described his daughter as the same for a while, Shen Ming couldn't help but say: "Master, your daughter is fat and thin for a while, is she fat or thin?"

    "This," the old man hesitated for a moment, then said a little embarrassedly, "I don't know either. Sometimes when I go home, she is fat, and sometimes when I go home, she is thin. She should be fifteen years old, maybe she should have lost weight."

    Gu Jiusi and Shen Ming looked at each other, Shen Ming hesitated: "Master, how often do you go home?"

    The old man laughed and thought about it seriously: "Have you not been back for two years?"

    Speaking, the old man seemed to be a little sad: "When I left, my youngest son was just born, if he can call me father when I go back. I'm not afraid of everyone's jokes, my daughter, when she is eighth It was only when she found out that I was her father."

    "Why don't you go back?" Gu Jiusi frowned, the old man smiled wryly, "No money."

    "The land at home is thin," the old man said with a blank expression as he ate the steamed buns, "If you plant anything you want, you may be flooded. It's better to stay outside and do some handymen. Life."

    "Then you should go home often." Gu Jiusi continued to persuade, the old man glanced at him, and his eyes were rather strange: "I don't want money when I go home?"

    These words choked Gu Jiusi.

    In the night, the old man squatted by the fire and held a small wooden doll. This little doll is what he is going to give to his youngest son. He takes two steamed buns from the government every day, eats one steamed bun, and sells the other to other people who don’t have enough to eat. With the money he saved, he bought many things for his children. Just wait for the completion of the Yellow River repair, and then go home.

    Gu Jiusi and Shen Ming turned their backs to the old man and fell asleep while watching the fire. Shen Ming looked at Gu Jiusi with his eyes open, leaned over and said, "Brother, what are you looking at?"

    Gu Jiusi didn't answer him, Shen Ming sighed and said, "Brother, do you miss sister-in-law?"

    "En." Gu Jiusi replied in a low voice, Shen Ming opened his eyes, and said a little embarrassedly, "Oh, you said you don't laugh at me, I miss Ye Yun."

    "She has a bad temper and always scolds me," Shen Ming said, and took a stone from the side. Putting it in his arms, he continued, "But I suddenly felt that it would be fine if she scolds a few words at this time. Maybe I won't feel so uncomfortable in my heart."

    "Are you uncomfortable too?" Gu Jiusi laughed, Shen Ming glared at him, "Looking at the uncle, isn't it uncomfortable for me? I'll think too," Shen Ming looked at the fire , was a little stunned, "If my father was still alive and not starved to death, it should be the same."

    Gu Jiusi choked for a while, he looked at Shen Ming, and after a long time, he patted Shen Ming on the shoulder, but did not speak.

    Gu Jiusi and Shen Ming worked for three days before leaving Pinghuai.

    Before leaving, Gu Jiusi gave the old man 10 taels of silver and said to the old man, "Let your son go to study, if he can get a name, let him go to Dongdu to find Gu Jiusi."

    Although the old man did not know who Gu Jiusi was, he also knew that he was a person with a head and face, and thanked Gu Jiusi again and again.

    Gu Jiusi led Shen Ming back to Xingyang. After they came back, they didn't say anything, they just pretended to be ordinary people and mixed in in Xingyang for several days.

      There are also various deductions for these two silver coins.

    According to the specification, the meal should be two large steamed buns, but in fact it is some porridge with clear soup and little water, and it is not enough to eat a few bowls.

    Gu Jiusi stayed here for two days and finally returned home. When she got home, the family was full of people. Liu Yuru took the craftsman and pointed at the blueprints for the construction of the warehouse. When she heard that Gu Jiusi had returned, she was still a little surprised.

    She almost didn't recognize him. She only went there for less than ten days, and the whole person turned black. But compared to the past, it is always to look leaner. He looks thin, with haggard eyes, obviously suffering these few days.

    Liu Yuru was so distressed when she saw his appearance, Gu Jiusi hurriedly said, "It's all right, it's just a little dark. I'll take a shower and I'll be leaving."

    After Gu Jiusi finished speaking, he entered the house. Liu Yuru asked someone to prepare water for him to take a bath. After taking a bath, Gu Jiusi put on his official uniform and walked out the door. He went to the government office and took Fu Baoyuan overnight. After finding it, Fu Baoyuan yawned, a little unhappy, and went to the front hall, yawning and saying to Gu Jiusi, "Master Gu, it's so late, why don't you rest?"

    "Master Fu, I came here to discuss with you about fixing the dike," Gu Jiusi said, spreading out the river map, and said to Fu Baoyuan, "I reconsider the previous plan. , there is indeed something inappropriate, the previous number of silver taels remains the same, and the time for repairing the embankment is changed to before mid-August, but in this way, the manpower is indeed insufficient."

    Gu Jiusi said, looking up at Fu Baoyuan: "This officer has thought about it, and dispatched 3,000 people from the city defense camp, led by Shen Ming, to help fix the embankment. An extra 3,000 people. Man, it is guaranteed to be completed before the third day of August, what do you think?"