Rebel

After Gu Ao received Lu Mouzhong's letter of appointment, he waited in the other hall for news about the students of Chen Village, and was also familiar with various things in Hanzhong County on weekdays.

If you want to talk about why Gu Ao decided to stay in Hanzhong when he traveled the world, there are two reasons: first, Hanzhong County conducts imperial examinations, and there is no distinction between scholars and concubines. .Second, the prefect of Hanzhong County is from a poor family. If the world changes in the future, Hanzhong County will be a dangerous place, and the time of crisis is the time to employ people.

Soon, Gu Ao waited until Chen Jiang led 23 youths from Chen Village, and rushed to Hanzhong County to join him.

That day Gu Ao had just returned to the other hall from outside, but he saw a crowd of horses and carriages at the door, and a group of young people surrounded the door with a lot of chatter.

Gu Ao walked over with a smile: "...Chen Jiang?"

"Mr. Gu!" Chen Jiang was at a loss as he was standing at the door of the annex, wearing clean civilian clothes, carrying a big package, and leading an old horse, when he heard someone calling him, and turned his head. Come, unexpectedly found that the person who came was Gu Ao.

All the students also saw Gu Ao at this time, they all swept away the daze of looking around just now, and shouted happily: "Mr. Gu!"

Gu Ao said happily: "Come on! Everyone come in! I'll have someone prepare meals for you!"

Gu Ao quickened his pace, led the students from Chencun into the annex, and ordered the servants to prepare lunch.

"Mr. Gu, we all miss you!"

"Mr. Gu, on our way, we crossed the river from the river to Qianzhong, and arrived in Hanzhong. We only rode for a month on horseback. Why did Mr. Gu walk for a whole year?"

Gu Ao laughed and said, "I have also made a detour around the other counties, which is no closer than the straight road you take."

Greeting the students of Chencun to eat Chinese food, Gu Ao and them had a heart-to-heart chat during the banquet, drinking and chatting freely, it was very enjoyable.

During the dinner, someone asked: "Mr. Gu, we have entered Shanyun Academy, and now we have also learned how to manage the world. Will we be able to be officials in the future?"

Gu Ao said with a smile: "It's not possible to be an official anywhere. In Hanzhong County, poor families are the prefects. Only those from poor families have a good chance to become an official. If you want to be an official, you must first pass the imperial examination here. .”

"Mr. Gu, we haven't seen you for a long time, let us all toast you."

"Come, let's drink together."

"Mr. Gu, I don't know Dian, why haven't I seen him?" It was Chen Jiang who asked this question.

Gu Ao smiled slightly: "We can see each other at night."

After the banquet was over, Gu Ao found the Yu Family Buqu who had been serving him all the time: "Get Dian Bushi out of the prison, do as I ordered before, and make sure to catch up with tonight's banquet."

"Yes."

Instructing the students of Chen Village to take a nap after dinner, Gu Ao took them to settle in the residence in the afternoon, and got acquainted with the county town of Hanzhong County.

The dinner party had been set up in the other hall, Gu Ao invited all the youths from Chen village to sit down... The sun was setting and the darkness filled the air. Candles were lit everywhere in the hall. For a moment, the entire space could only feel the candlelight flickering brilliantly.

The table was filled with all kinds of delicacies, and behind them were lined up soldiers with halberds and guards. This scene was really unusual, and it made all the young people of Chen Village quiet down.

Gu Ao stood up, glanced at the crowd, and said slowly: "The table of wine at noon today is to welcome you."

"Thank you, Mr. Gu." Chen Jiang took the lead in replying.

Gu Ao smiled slightly: "Do you know the reason for the meal tonight?"

All the youths in Chen Village looked at each other and shook their heads. Chen Jiang said, "Please give me your advice, Mister Gu."

Gu Ao said: "In the past, I called you my schoolmates; you also regarded me as your teacher. Before at the foot of Yunshan Mountain, you always treated me as a teacher, didn't you?"

"Yes." Everyone replied one after another.

Gu Ao's face, against the background of a gorgeous candlelight, seemed a little dark and dark: "Before you left the village, the older generation in the village entrusted me with earnestness, saying, 'These children will follow you' , since I have been entrusted by others to carry your future on my back, from now on, I am no longer just a teacher to you."

"...What will Mr. Gu be to us in the future?" Chen Jiang continued.

Gu Ao said: "Since you have come to Hanzhong County, you and I, from now on, we will be prosperous together, and we will be lost together if we are together."

Chen Jiang looked around, and everyone said: "We must all follow Mr. Gu. At home, the elders have given instructions."

"Okay!" Gu Ao clapped his hands, and at this moment, each of the soldiers standing behind took a step forward, and presented a dagger to each Chencun student on the plate with both hands.

Chen Jiang picked up the dagger, thought for a while, and immediately said to Gu Ao: "Mr. Gu, what do you need us for?"

Gu Ao glanced at everyone, and at the same time picked up the dagger on the plate beside him, cut the blood from his fingertips, and dripped it into the wine bowl. Seeing this, Chen Jiang quickly cut his finger away , dripped the blood into the bowl, even though everyone in Zhuchen Village didn't know it, they did the same...

Gu Ao picked up the wine bowl and said in a loud voice: "Today, I would like to become brothers with you. I am the eldest brother, and Chen Jiang is the second brother. Afterwards, they will be ranked in order of seniority. As long as you drink this bowl of wine, from now on , I lead you to make great achievements and protect you from danger; you not only want to serve me with the teacher's etiquette of the teacher, but also serve me with the brother's etiquette of the rivers and lakes. Don't violate my words, don't go against my will, you can do it Is it?"

Chen Jiang looked at the people around him, and everyone said, "We can do it."

"Okay," Gu Ao said, "Then serve the wine!"

All the students from Chen Village stood up at this moment, holding the bloody wine from that night in their hands, Gu Ao then ordered: "Bet on your ignorance!"

Everyone was slightly startled, and after a while, they saw a few soldiers escorting Dian Bushi, who was bound by five flowers, to the banquet.

"Bring him a bowl!" Gu Ao frowned.

Dian Bushi glared at everyone, under the power, all the students in Chen Village couldn't help avoiding Dian Bushi's gaze.

Gu Ao personally picked up the dagger, walked up to Dian Bushi, untied him, picked up the dagger again, and drew a bloodstain on his arm, and the guard standing beside him immediately held up a bowl The wine caught the bright red that flowed down.The blood melted little by little in the wine... Gu Ao handed the wine bowl in front of Dian Bushi, and Dian Bushi caught it without knowing it. Gu Ao asked Dian Bushi, "Birthday sun and moon geometry?"

Dian Bushi frowned, and reported the number according to the words, Gu Ao said: "Then you are the third child, after Chen Jiang."

"Brother...is this?" Dian asked incredulously.

Gu Ao picked up the wine and said loudly: "The wine is in hand, the ambition is in the heart, follow me to read!"

"Yes!"

"The 26 of us have become brothers, and we should work together to save the poor and help the people; to report to the sky, and to bring peace to the people; brothers' righteousness, life and death, among brothers, who dares to go against the elder brother, everyone will attack; , learn from this heart, betray righteousness and ungratefulness, and heaven and man will kill together."

The crowd read it again: "The 26 of us have become brothers, and we should work together to save the poor; report to the heavens, and go down to the people; brotherly righteousness, life and death, among brothers, those who dare to go against their elders, everyone will do it." Hit it; Emperor Heaven and Empress Dowager, learn from this heart, betray righteousness and forget gratitude, and heaven and man will kill together."

"drink wine!"

All the young people in Chen Village and Dian Bushi raised their heads and drank wine. Gu Ao wiped the corners of his mouth and said in a deep voice: "Not long ago, Dian Bushi refused to listen to my orders and raped and killed a village in Julu County. The family’s house was burned, and all the old and young people in the village were implicated by it. If you don’t know the scriptures, do you know what’s wrong?”

Dian Bushi gritted his teeth and bowed his head, "Brother, I...know my mistake."

Gu Ao looked at the young man of Chen Village and said, "Then what should you do?"

Everyone looked at Chen Jiang, Chen Jiang swallowed, and said: "By the oath of the talent, we should punish the ignorance of the code."

Gu Ao nodded and said: "Okay." Then he greeted Zhou Li Bingjia, and with a flick of his sleeve, he didn't know the code: "Tie him to the yard!"

"Yes!"

With his head down and dark face, Dian Bushi was tied to a wooden stake in the courtyard by the armored soldiers. Gu Ao led Chen Village's students out in a file, and ordered them to bring a steel whip for taming horses, and to attack Chen Village. All the students said: "This time, the third child did not listen to my orders and killed people because of recklessness. Today, we have become brothers, and we are determined to report to the heavens and go down to the peace and prosperity. We will definitely not allow this to happen. I have advised you more than once. But he made mistakes again and again, and each of you punished him with ten lashes, as a warning to others."

As he said that, Gu Ao handed the whip to Chen Jiang: "From young to young, start with you."

Chen Jiang took the whip and walked up to Dian Bushi, he couldn't help but take a deep breath... Dian Bushi in front of him was the person that the children of Chen Village had been afraid of since they were young, but now he is new to Hanzhong County All black, unexpectedly the first difficult thing he faced was to whip Dian Bushi with his own hands, Chen Jiang looked at his hand, then at the whip, gritted his teeth, and swung it over.

Just listen to the sound of "pop", crisp and loud.

One whip after another, the pain hit Dian Bushi's body, but it rang in the hearts of every Chencun student.

Dian Bushi bit his lip tightly, but didn't make a sound.

"Snapped!"

"Snapped!"

"Snapped!"

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Chen Jiang whipped ten whips in a row without saying a word, then let out a sigh of relief, and handed the blood-stained whip to "Fourth". Chen Ji closed his eyes, clenched the steel whip like a fist, and gritted his teeth. Standing in front of Dian Bushi, he raised his hand and whipped ten whips vigorously, gasping for breath, he took a step back and handed the whip to the 'Old Five'...

If it is from the old to the young, one by one...

Gu Ao watched quietly on the side, and when the last one finished whipping ten whips, Dian Bushi had already blurred into a bloody man on the tree, and every boy in Chen Village had steel stains on his hands. blood in the whip.

Gu Ao walked over to take the whip, looked at everyone in front of him, Gu Ao knew very well that he had experienced a lot before he finally understood that reading and doing things are not the same, the difference between the two will always make all ideals Those who perish will always make all good expectations crushed by reality, but among those people, I am not included.

He tried his best to get closer to his ideal, and he didn't even care about the means.

For this day, Gu Ao had been planning for a long time. After thinking about it, he decided that the only soft spot in Dian Bushi's heart was his younger siblings, and his younger siblings had been entrusted to foster care in Chencun.Chencun is the only 'hometown' that can contain his violent heart.

And these Chencun students, what they fear most since childhood is ignorance of classics.

As long as you don't know how to guard with a knife by your side, why don't you worry about Chen Village's students not bowing their heads and obeying their ears.

These young people from Chen Village had just arrived in Hanzhong, and they were given a ceremony of coming of age by Gu Ao.

While thinking so slowly in his heart, Gu Ao took out strong wine to wash his whip, and said to everyone: "I don't know the code and don't obey my order, and violently invade the people. Today, you have punished me. People have the same heart, the same heart Reason. Let’s all go back to bed and think about what happened today.”

"Yes..." Everyone replied one after another.

Gu Ao nodded and watched the Chencun students leave one by one. At this time, Gu Ao himself did not realize that in order to realize the ambition in his heart, in order to develop his ambition and stand proudly in the world, he had quietly Something shifted silently...

'No one but me' and 'I am the only one' are like two sides separated by a line... He has set foot on this road, and there is no possibility of turning back.