Rebel

At this time, the third family and the fourth family looked at each other, and they all came up to the stage, and said to Gu Ao: "Whatever you say, when will you get married?" Well, now it's too late to go to Tian's house to ask parents for instructions, so he said to the third and fourth heads of the family: "If you two are willing, you can officiate the marriage for me tonight."

At this time, the young master Mei Zhao also rushed over, first glanced at his sister worriedly, and said, "Sister...you..."

Mei Jun made up her mind and said: "I'll marry him, I don't need to say more." Mei Zhao sighed, and said to Gu Ao: "I'm just this elder sister, a hero, you can't afford to marry her. her."

Gu Ao agreed, "Naturally."

Mei Zhao gritted her teeth: "Okay, then I'll ask someone to prepare some things for the worship...Third Uncle, Fourth Uncle, come with me."

"Wait a minute," said the four masters, "let's first talk about how to grant the post of chief and deputy commander of the [-]-strong army."

Gu Ao said: "It is indeed necessary to talk about it, but it's getting late today, why not hold the wedding first, then you and I are of the same mind, and it's not too late to talk about it tomorrow."

Mei Jun was listening to the conversations of the men, and at the same time, her own thoughts turned... What she was most worried about at the moment was that the 'third uncle' and 'fourth uncle' had a quarrel with their younger brother Mei Zhao because of the appointment, and they were like 'second uncle'. 'Generally, they turned against each other, and the situation that had been temporarily eased by Gu Ao's sudden appearance just now, might be about to become tense again.

... Fortunately, Gu Ao came out halfway today as a reinforcement, otherwise I don't know what will happen to my siblings.Thinking of this, she also wanted to get married as soon as possible, thinking that it was a plan to slow down the war and use tonight as an opportunity to discuss countermeasures with her younger brother and Gu Ao...

After thinking about it, her tone changed, and she stretched out her hand to take the initiative to hold Gu Ao, and leaned her body on his shoulder without any hesitation, and said softly: "Uncles, the beauty of a beautiful day does not wait for others, don't delay my good time , what can't you talk about tomorrow morning? Do you have to take advantage of tonight?"

The third master was stunned by the intimate scene in front of him, and said a little embarrassedly: "Fourth, why don't we talk tomorrow?"

The fourth master thought about it, and felt that the talk tonight might be hasty. After all, it happened so suddenly, and he didn't think about what to talk about and how to talk about it; this time, it's better to arrange the arrangement tonight, so that we can negotiate tomorrow, so we can do it He replied: "Since Mrs. Juan has said so, then the uncles will go and arrange the dowry for you."

"Thank you third uncle, thank you fourth uncle."

Gu Ao felt the softness and warmth of his shoulders, and couldn't help but cast a sideways glance at the beautiful woman nestled in his arms, but saw that her enchanting and charming expression suddenly dimmed at the moment when the third family and the fourth family left with Mei Zhao, Liaoluo became a gloomy tiredness.She gently pushed Gu Ao's embrace away, sighed, and said, "Come with me."

Gu Ao glanced around for a week, and saw that all the bandits were taken away by a few people in charge, and scattered away... Then he followed Mei Jun off the high platform.She led Gu Ao to a resting place, and said to Gu Ao: "Young Lord, I have some injuries on my body, I will take care of it first, and then I will accompany you."

Gu Ao said with some distress: "Go quickly."

She nodded, turned and left, Gu Ao looked at her back and didn't return to his senses for a while.After a while, the Yu Family Buqu and Dian Bushi entered the house through the curtain, and offered Gu Ao a cup of hot tea. Sighing... Gu Ao thought for a while and said, "Help me get the pen."

"Yes."

Gu Ao edited three letters and gave them to his parents, Lu Mouzhong and Yu Junfan respectively.Gu Ao wrote in a letter to his parents that although the matchmaker's words have been spoken since ancient times, today's situation is urgent and he can't explain it. He also hopes that his loving father and loving mother will forgive his son's unfilial piety. From now on, he will definitely bring his wife to worship his parents.

The second letter, Gu Ao wrote to Lv Mouzhong, saying that he has been deeply involved in the bandits, although he has gone through hardships and dangers, there should be no serious problem in recruiting security, but he needs Xing Ye, a student from Chen Village, to help.

The third letter, Gu Ao, was written to Yu Junfan, telling him that he was about to get married, and he regretted not being able to invite him to a banquet in a hurry.And thanked him for sending Dian Bushi out of Longshan. In addition, Gu Ao also asked Yu Junfan for help in the letter for the first time, hoping to borrow hundreds of elite trilogy.

After Gu Ao finished these, Mei Jun happened to also bandage the wound, changed into clean clothes and came to Gu Ao's resting room.She thought to herself that a woman in the mountains has always loved knives and guns since she was a child, and she didn't care about the etiquette of men and women. When she entered the house, she sat openly opposite Gu Ao, but the Yu family trilogy and Dian didn't know her After that, he exited the room as if avoiding, leaving time for her and Gu Ao.

Mei Jun cut to the chase and said, "My younger brother has gone to decorate our new house. Now I want to ask you a few things."

Gu Ao nodded: "Excuse me."

Mei Jun asked: "Young Lord, what is your position in Hanzhong County?"

Gu Ao said: "I am Lu Taishou's envoy."

"Then how many troops do you have under your command?"

Gu Ao said: "Just then you saw that general under my command, besides him, I have more than [-] subordinates, all of whom are talented in governance."

Mei Jun said worriedly: "You don't have soldiers and horses. If your second and third uncles force you to be a high position and commander in chief tomorrow, what will you do?"

Gu Ao said: "How many soldiers and horses does the young master have?"

Mei Jun thought for a while, and said: "Third and Fourth Uncles have many soldiers and horses, each of them has more than [-], while Brother and I..." Before finishing speaking, footsteps sounded outside, and someone hurriedly came to report: " Little lady, the place for worship has been prepared, and the master is calling you to go."

Hearing this, Mei Jun glanced at Gu Ao, Gu Ao nodded slightly: "You go, I'll be back soon. If you have anything to say, let's talk slowly at night."

Mei Jun nodded and followed that person.Unaware of Gu Ao Dian, he called in and asked, "Have you sent the letter yet?"

Dian Bushi nodded and said: "The Yu family has already gone, saying that the post station is not far away, if there is no accident, he will be back before [-]:[-] tomorrow."

Gu Ao felt relieved, asked Dian Bushi to sit down, and analyzed today's situation to Dian Bushi.Dian Bushi smiled and said: "Brother is getting married soon, luckily I am here, if I don't come, I will miss it!"

Gu Ao also sighed: "This is fate, if you don't come, I'm afraid I won't be able to marry Miss Mei."

"...So, I'm pretty useful to big brother?" Dian Bushi chuckled, Gu Ao took a look at Dian Bushi, and said slowly: "It's not only useful, we are brothers... I still remember, when I first went to Chencun, those things that happened seemed to be vivid in my mind. At that time, you were always reckless, and I always talked about you. How could I have imagined it in the past, but now in a blink of an eye, I actually want to married..."

Dian Bushi nodded and said: "Yeah, time flies so fast. Didn't the book also say that a white horse flies through the gap, and the sun and the moon shuttle."

"It's rare to see you so elegant." Gu Ao slightly hooked his lips.

"I've also studied!" Dian Bushi patted his chest.

Gu Ao laughed, in such a dangerous night with unknown enemies and friends, he once again felt the brotherly warmth that permeated around him when he and Dian Bushi were together day and night in Chencun.

After about half an hour, someone came to invite Gu Ao to go over.With his ignorance, Gu Ao followed the visitors to the main hall of the village that was originally prepared for the banquet tonight.I saw that new torches had been lit in neat rows inside, and the mess just now was swept away. The delicacies on the table were not delicious, but they were rare delicacies in the village now.The big bosses and the little bosses in the village were all sitting in the hall, and when they heard the sound of the door, they all looked at Gu Ao.

——Diaoqiu Jinyi, handsome and handsome, with extraordinary appearance.They had never seen such a person with such a brilliant temperament. The torch was shining brightly on the high platform just now, which made them dazzled, making them unable to see the person's appearance clearly, but now the hall is bright and open, causing many people to look up.

At this time, Gu Ao's eyes fell on the red dress in the middle of the stage... Her face was covered by a somewhat worn-out red cloth hijab, and her red dress could be seen as a temporary patchwork. The only traces of her beauty are the snow-white wrists and neck, and the luxurious gold jewelry she wears shines brightly under the candlelight, so that her bridal attire will not be too shabby.

The preparations for this wedding were hasty, and it started rashly...but under the greed of the person in charge who is eager for profit, under the urgency of the bride's siblings to survive, under the eager impetus of Gu Ao's worry about changes over time... , All of these disrespectful and unruly things... were chosen to be forgotten by people without a trace, and they ignored the past.

Tonight is destined to be no longer peaceful.

Amid the uproar, drinking and laughing, Gu Ao and Mei Jun, under the eyes of the gangsters, worshiped and got married.The third family and the fourth family presided over the feast as elders. In their eyes, it was not just a wedding ceremony, but also a possibility and a promise in exchange for Miss Mei...Mei Zhao held the His father's tablet accepted the newcomer's kneeling, and he knew that the temporary peace in the village was brought about by his sister's loud response today.Tomorrow...whether it will be a mutual compromise, or whether it will be bloody, is unknown...

Its occurrence seems to have found a point of balance among the crowd. It gathers everyone's hopes. This temporary compromise is too fragile to withstand a single blow.

...Gu Ao took Mei Jun's hand into the bridal chamber, helped her sit on the bed, Gu Ao carefully lifted her hijab, and watched her so carefully and quietly for the first time.

She blinked her eyes, the eyes that once shone brightly into Gu Ao's heart like stars, are now covered with a layer of light dust, no longer radiant... She stretched out her slender hands that were not slender because of martial arts, and squeezed them tightly Holding Gu Ao's palm tightly, she asked worriedly: "Husband, what should we do?"

Gu Ao, who was called "Husband", was slightly taken aback when he heard the words. This was the first time he was called so... A warm and tingling feeling in his heart permeated his limbs and bones. Gu Ao said softly: "Brother-in-law Call in and discuss together."

Mei Jun nodded and sighed softly: "Okay."

"By the way," Gu Ao untied the dagger inlaid with gemstones on his waist, and handed it to Mei Jun, "I'm in a hurry tonight. I don't have anything special, so I don't have anything good to give you; This gift was once obtained by his family's ancestors who beheaded the Rong people Youxian King when they conquered the land, and it is second to none in the world."

Mei Jun's eyes moved slightly, she bit her lip: "Thank you husband, I accept it."

"Then let's go out."

"Ah."

The two of them left the bedroom together and came to the small hall to wait for each other. In the middle of the night, the gangsters who had drunk the wedding wine outside were sleeping soundly. They could walk...In the silence of the night, after a long time, Mei Zhao and Dian didn't know this just came.

The four of them closed the door and discussed in secret, "What should we do tomorrow?" It was Mei Zhao, the young master who said this, and Dian Buzhi said: "I will listen to my elder brother."

It turned out that when Mei Cai was drinking with him just now, Mei Zhao went up to thank Dian Bushi in person, and only then did Dian Bushi know that the reckless behavior that caused him to be punished heavily rescued him from the Longshan Village by mistake. the little boss.The words of the two were speculative, and they hit it off right away, they had toasted each other three times outside just now, when they entered the room together, they also spoke together.

Gu Ao took out the letter of appointment and spread it out on the table, and said to Mei Zhao: "Little brother-in-law, we are a family now, and I don't want to talk to you about each other. My brother-in-law would like to ask you, is it true that you agreed to recruit me?" In order to truly become the head of the village? Or for the people in the village to go down the mountain and become good citizens?"

Mei Zhao was slightly taken aback: "Of course I hope to become the real head of the family, and I also hope that the people in the village will go down the mountain and become good citizens."

Gu Ao said: "If you want to close the old department and become the real leader, brother-in-law can help you. This position of commander must belong to you. Do you think the third leader or the fourth leader is suitable to be the deputy commander?"

At this moment Mei Jun asked cautiously: "Husband, can't you stay and help brother?"

Gu Ao said: "If my brother-in-law becomes the commander-in-chief, I will naturally have to become an official in Hanzhong County; otherwise, you are not the defenders of Hanzhong. If someone invades, who will stop you? If someone deducts your rations, who will ask you to come? In the mountains Everyone has been a bandit for a long time, and after going down the mountain, they will inevitably commit some unruly things, who will intercede for you?"

Mei Zhao asked, "Then what if I accept recruitment so that the people in the village can become good citizens?"

Gu Ao said: "Then I will be the commander-in-chief, and you will be the deputy commander-in-chief, and submit a form, requesting that the wasteland under the mountain be divided into fields and allocated to each household. With the fields, why worry about not being a good citizen? At the same time, let people train the army in the mountain , to camp here as a defender and build a pass. Leaving Longshan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it can also be used as a barrier for Hanzhong to resist soldiers and horses from other counties. You can choose what you want, young master.”

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In the early morning of the next day, there was loud gongs and drums at the foot of the mountain. After asking, it turned out that in a county not far away, a young man heard that his friend got married yesterday, so he sent a grain of thousands of stones as a congratulatory gift.The grain of thousand stones was guarded by two hundred private servants, and amidst the cheers and thunder, they entered the village unimpeded... Even the third and fourth masters couldn't help cheering up when they heard the letter—it was just dropped yesterday. Note, I saw the harvest today!

And Gu Ao was even more amazed, he wrote to Yu Junfan for help, because he knew that there were no soldiers, and there were not many soldiers, as long as he could control the two inferior leaders... So he was going Delayed for a few days with a generous salary, waiting for reinforcements... But I didn't expect that the elite members of the Yu family traveled all over the world, and one of them was stationed in Linjun, so they rushed here at night.

The third family and the fourth family were just happy, and rushed to the place of discussion, but just stepped into the door with their front heels, they yelled 'no' in their hearts, and were already shocked by the scene in front of them.

I saw Gu Ao sitting in the middle of the inner hall, with Mei Zhao and Mei Jun sitting on the left and right respectively, the strong man who beheaded the 'Second Master' yesterday was standing behind Gu Ao with a leopard head and tiger eyes, that's all... The most eye-catching thing was that they suddenly realized that the whole house had been surrounded by two hundred songs that had come to deliver food. At this moment, Mei Zhao suddenly got up and shouted: "Yesterday! , the second brother plotted against me and wanted to kill me, why did you stand idly by?"

The third master and the fourth master looked at each other, knowing that something was wrong, but when they looked back, the door had already been closed, and there was no way out. In desperation, the two could only shout loudly: "Master! You have won the prize!" An outsider's plan to sow discord!"

Mei Jun sneered: "Why, could it be said that the sword wounds on my body yesterday were also my husband's plan to provoke?"

Gu Ao said: "Take them down!"

All the members of the Yu family acted according to their words. They had already received the order from Mr. Yu: "Go out of Longshan, and seeing Mr. Gu is like seeing me." All the members of the Yu family pressed down on the ground, and murmured in their mouths: "Master! You have been caught in a trick to provoke!" ! You dishonest villain!"

Gu Ao said coldly: "My promise is for you to be in charge, not for you. Pull it down, cut it off!"

As soon as the third and fourth masters were killed here, the 200 members of the Yu family were divided into two teams. One team followed Mei Jun and the other followed Mei Zhao. In the middle, they announced their crimes of murdering the head of the family yesterday, subdued several big bosses who were still hangover after the banquet last night, and called all the big and small bosses into the hall again, amnesty for everyone's previous crime of being blind and blind, and announced People in the village, now that there is food in the village, there is no need for everyone to panic, the head of the family will accept the court's proposal to recruit security, from now on, Gu Ao will be the commander of the new army, and Mei Zhao will be the deputy commander.

Lu Mouzhong's envoy arrived shortly thereafter, and gave the bandits the utmost forgiveness and gave Gu Ao the greatest privilege: "For wasteland and unclaimed land, it is easy to negotiate with the local county magistrate."

Not long after, Gu Ao found the county magistrate where Chulongshan was located, showed him Lu Mouzhong's letter, and set aside [-] mu of barren land and barren hills below 'Chulongshan' for distribution.

Three days later, all the students from Chen Village arrived at Longshan.

Gu Ao broke up all the people in the village, all the factions under his command, mixed them and formed a formation, according to the old military rule of the world, set up a leader of ten, a hundred, a thousand, and after counting the wounded, the dead, the old, and [-] elite soldiers Every [-] people set up a small commander and chief of staff.

The small commander has the power of combat command, the chief of staff has the right to deploy troops, the small commander is the former big boss, and the chief of staff is all Chencun students, and they supervise each other;

Gu Ao also divided the family members of the bandits into barren fields according to their population and status, and moved them all to the foot of the mountain. Five students from Chen Village were appointed as Lizheng and village school teachers. The younger ones went to school and the elders worked; The tent was trained as a personal guard from the elite soldiers of the former small master's army, and Dian Bushi served as the head of the guard to protect the safety of the commander and deputy commander.

Without the blockade, Gu Aoqing confiscated the rare treasures that the second, third, and fourth families had hoarded over the years, sold them wantonly, and used the money from the sale to buy food on a large scale. ... The whole army was governed, the fields were farmed, and Gu Ao had been busy on the mountain for nearly a whole year.During this period, Lu Mouzhong sent special envoys to visit three times, one of them was Ye Xiongguan, who gave Gu Ao many suggestions on how to manage the army and farmland in his early years in the army.

During this year, the only time Gu Ao went out of the mountain was to go to Qianzhong County with the borrowed two hundred to attend Yu Junfan's wedding. Congratulations at the scene.It was also at that time that Gu Ao met Yu Junfan's uncle and cousin for the first time. It is said that this cousin has already been engaged to the daughter of the Chu family in Gaomen in the capital, and will soon become Yongchi's brother-in-law.On the faces of everyone in Qianzhong County, there was a sense of joy.

After the ceremony was over, Gu Ao went to the Yu Mansion to visit Yu Junfan on the second day, thanked him for his kindness in borrowing soldiers, and returned the soldiers in his army.

Yu Junfan's face was filled with festive colors, which made his whole body look warm and tender, and he smiled slightly: "I haven't congratulated Brother Gu yet, but I also wish Brother Gu a happy marriage for a hundred years, and you two grow old together. "

Gu Ao laughed and said, "You are the greatest congratulations to me for lending my soldiers and giving me food."

Yu Junfan hooked his lips: "In this way, Prefect Lu has added strength."

"Everyone is from a poor family." Gu Ao smiled slightly, knowing that Lu Mouzhong's greatest strength in employing people is that he is magnanimous and unscrupulous in accepting people on their merits: "By the way, at this time next year, I may invite you to drink full moon wine."

Yu Junfan blinked and said with a smile: "Really? How many months? Do you want to bring some skilled doctors from me up the mountain to take care of mother and child?"

Gu Ao smiled a little embarrassedly: "It's been three months, please trouble brother Yu to lend me two."

"What's so difficult about this?"

After bidding farewell to Yu Junfan, Gu Ao returned to Chulong Mountain again. These days, the biggest obstacle to reform he encountered was not lack of food or money, but the disposition of many former bandits.Now that a tea garden has been opened up on the mountain, everyone in the army has to work and practice on time every day... Gu Ao was originally told by Chen Jiang to take care of the farm, but many people have long been accustomed to idleness, so how can they do farming?

Old habits are hard to change, so we can only lead the army to supervise without knowing the long code of personal guards, and it is advisable to let the students of Chencun slowly inculcate "propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame".But it's one thing, one thing, Dian Bushi has a very high prestige in the army, rough people are convinced by him, but in the end, Gu Ao's decree is gradually spread.

As for the family members who were given the land at the foot of the mountain, everything about the innovation went very smoothly.Chen Village students are divided into small groups, and they take turns going to the village school every day to teach the four books and five classics, and tell them that they can go to the county to become an official after studying the books and taking the imperial examination. Everyone is motivated.

This day Gu Ao was busy with government affairs, but suddenly received an order from Lu Mouzhong to summon him, so he packed his luggage and left Longshan for the second time in a year.

Starry night and traveling all the way to the county city, paying homage to the county mansion, Gu Ao handed over the post, he couldn't help but feel a little strange, the prefect's orders were communicated by correspondence before, whenever Gu Ao reported something, Lu Mouzhong also read it immediately and responded immediately. But this time, for some reason, Gu Ao was urgently summoned to the county mansion.

Gu Ao was ushered into the reception hall, but he found that other than himself, all the officials in the county were waiting in the hall. It seemed that they had been waiting for a long time. Sitting down, waiting for three hours...

In the evening, Lu Dequan came over and said, "Everyone, my father has been locked up in the study for a whole day and has never left the house. Everyone, go back first. If there is something to do tomorrow, I will report it later."

Gu Ao was slightly taken aback, he didn't expect to see Lu Mouzhong today, after everyone left, Gu Ao couldn't help but catch up to Lu Dequan, and asked worriedly: "The prefect is still in good health?"

Lu Dequan stopped in his tracks, nodded and replied: "It's been fine... I don't know why, but I just received a letter from the capital, and I haven't come out."

Gu Ao nodded thoughtfully: "Thank you Mr. Lu, my subordinates will leave first."

It was late at night, Gu Ao was staying in the other building, and when he was about to go to bed, someone came from the county mansion, saying that the prefect had summoned him.Gu Ao hurriedly adjusted his clothes and went to the county mansion to pay his respects.

He was invited all the way to Lu Mouzhong's room, and under the flickering candlelight at night, Lu Mouzhong was sitting on the couch with his hair draped over his head, reading a book. He seemed to be reading very seriously, and he never moved his eyes.Gu Ao looked away calmly, and saw that his originally gray and black hair was now completely gray, and his originally handsome and vigorous face was now much older... The deep contours of his cheeks shrouded in the dim light of the night seemed to be With a hint of disappointment, he silently listened to Gu Ao's report on the situation of leaving Longshan, nodded a little stiffly, and only replied: "Okay, okay. You just let go and do it..."

"Yes."

Just when Gu Ao was suspicious and bowed out according to Li, Lu Mouzhong called Gu Ao, "Gu family boy..." His voice was slightly hoarse: "There is news from the capital. In a few days, maybe You will know...the emperor is dead..."

"..." Gu Ao paused, his eyes widened for a moment.

Lu Mouzhong's eyes did not leave the scroll, but his voice was extremely low: "You go back and prepare your army for war. If the world changes, I, Hanzhong County, can't stand by and watch."

"Subordinates obey."