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"Could it be possible, Wu Zhu..." Gong Shujiu was in a state of confusion at the moment, and naturally couldn't help but connect the bad things together.

Just at this time, the servant who was scolded by Gongshu Yincheng just now walked in with his head down: "Master, someone sent a letter saying it was from Mr. Gao."

Gongshu Jiu raised his head suddenly: "Mr. Gao? Bring it up."

He took the bamboo tube, and inside the bamboo tube were a few bamboo slips with a few words written on it, but the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, and he kept muttering: "It's so... it's so... "

The servant didn't understand why Gongshu was so frightened, and in fear, he asked in a low voice, "Master, why is this so?"

Gongshu raised his head and looked at the servant.

Of course he would not open his mouth to tell the servants that the bamboo slips read:

"Wuzhu secretly met with Ma Liu last night, and Ma Liu was the one who lost Yinxue. Wuzhu's actions inevitably made him feel that the seller was seeking glory, and the matter of the granary was very important. Once Yinxue took advantage of this, it was inevitable It will threaten the third master, and now there is a way to smooth this matter, I hope the third master will make a decision soon..."

After Gongshujiu waved the servants down, he walked around the hall three or four times in a row, and finally couldn't hold back the emotions in his heart, and cursed at the sky: "Wu Zhu! You ungrateful thing! It's in vain for me to trust you, but you actually Go to that little bastard!"

His wife, Mrs. Lin, was startled by the noise in the hall. When she walked into the hall, she saw Gong Shujiu panting violently, her eyes turned white.

"Master, what's wrong with you? Why are you so angry?"

Gongshu lay down on the chair, took a sip of water before recovering: "Look for yourself!"

Lin took the bamboo slips, and the more she looked at them, the more frightened she became. When she finished, she let out an ouch and said, "Master, what should I do? Didn't you say that Yinxue didn't dare to reveal this matter?"

"I also thought she wouldn't dare." Gongshujiu gasped, "but it's obvious, they have to drive me to a dead end. Why did she set up a line with Wu Zhu? Was it just to collect all the witnesses and evidences?" Now, when the time comes, we can open the ancestral hall and sue me directly in front of the clan elders? I finally understand that this Gongshu Yinxue is a wolf!"

His eyes were full of sword light: "Since you are unkind, then don't blame me for being unrighteous. I originally wanted to save your life in this matter, but now... I can only do it according to Mr. Gao's wishes... "

Chapter 381

three days later.

Jinzhou in the late autumn and early winter is a bit poetic, and the leaves on the mountain are still red, like clusters of flames in the early morning sunlight.

The haze of the past few days made many people in Jinzhou think that winter had already entered, and began to prepare vegetables and food for the winter. However, after waiting for two days, they did not see the expected first snow. Instead, they were looking forward to a good day.

The children from poor families were very active. They went to the mountains to pick up the red leaves. After washing, they strung them into strings and sold them on the street. Along with them, there were bundles of unknown but beautiful wild flowers and weeds.

The news that Gongshu Yinxue, the eldest daughter of the second householder of the public loser, got married has already spread in Jinzhou, and they also jumped with joy in their hearts, but it was not because of their deep feelings for the public loser, but because they felt that they had worked so hard to collect The flowers, plants and leaves will definitely be able to sell more.

In Jinzhou City, some people have seen Gongshu Yinxue, the future uncle, but some people have not even caught a glimpse. In the past few days, those people in the teahouse and restaurant have already outlined various versions of it with their rich imagination. Some people said he was tall and mighty, some said he was elegant and peaceful, some said he had a peachy face and a bit of a woman's look. Every time you said something to me, the tavern was filled with a happy atmosphere for a while.

But what they don't know is that the mysterious uncle they mentioned is sitting in a chair like a fool in the August Tingchan Pavilion in the mansion of the public loser, with a frowning expression on his face.

Because at the moment, there are several old mothers of the public loser who are painting on his face with various makeup powders, and at the same time, they are arguing whether the gouache from Lanxiangfang or the rouge from Guili Shop is more suitable. Qin Ke's complexion.

Before getting married, Qin Ke never thought that he would have to endure such suffering.

According to the mothers, dressing up is a kind of "ceremony". After all, Mohism, whether it is Confucianism, Legalism or even Mohism, still upholds the etiquette laws of the previous dynasty, and even many great Confucianists even proposed "returning to the ancestors. "Pure", although the Mohists did not agree to it in the end, there was a wave of admiration among the wealthy families, and many red tapes that were already full of dust were cleaned up and placed in the sun again.

Qin Ke was born in a common people's family. Although he has seen several marriage scenes, after all, the ordinary people's family is far from the rich and powerful family like the public loser, so there is no reference. The tone that girls like, he is a man, not to mention as burly as Abu, but it is hard for him to accept that this schoolgirl puts powder on his face.

It's just that in the end, he couldn't hold back these old nuns who had been in the public loser for many years, so he could only let them dictate.

Inside the black dress, there were three layers of inner linings with different names. Jade pendants and flower spikes dangled on his body, and even jingled in the collision, which made Qin Ke suspect that he was It's not that it has broken away from the human category, and has completely turned into a large mobile wind chime.

It took another half an hour before Qin Ke put on the clothes one by one amidst the babbling voices of the nuns. Even though it was already winter, Qin Ke's forehead was still covered with sweat. Xiaodie beside him hurriedly held a towel to help him wipe off his sweat, and at the same time asked the nuns to put on some more clothes.

Qin Ke looked at Xiaodie, thinking that you did it on purpose, didn't you see that I'm in such an embarrassment now?Want to add another layer?

Seeing Qin Ke's resentment, Xiaodie pursed her lips and said with a light smile: "Young master, you have to be patient. There are still many things to do today. I know you usually don't stick to small things, but today is a big wedding day, and there are many things to do." trouble."

The old mother on the side was dissatisfied: "What is trouble? This is the face of our public losers. If my uncle loses his manners, it will be our public losers who have lost their manners."

But, is that why you pulled me up before dawn?Qin Ke thought so in his heart, but in the end he didn't say much, so as not to provoke the mothers who said these words as if they were opening a flood gate to "group and attack" him.

Qin Ke looked at Xiaodie and asked in a low voice, "Where is Yinxue now?"

Xiao Die looked at Qin Ke, squinted her eyes and smiled and said, "Master misses Miss? It's only been a night. Miss is probably in the old house to be served and dressed at the moment. When a girl gets married, it will be better than my uncle's." It’s still troublesome, my aunt, you’re pretty easy.”

"Oh..." Of course, Qin Ke didn't want to lose Yinxue, he just asked casually, but when Xiaodie said this, he still felt a little sympathetic, is it more troublesome than himself?I'm afraid it can be described as "life is worse than death".

However, he still caught some information, and asked in doubt: "You said the old house..."

Xiaodie nodded lightly: "Yes. The old house. The earliest property of the ancestors of the public loser in Jinzhou. Later, the public loser was granted the title of marquis and worshiped the prime minister and went to Jishang. No one lives in this old house, usually only at the end of the year. I just came back to pay respects to the ancestral hall. This is a new house, which was purchased after the Gongshu family returned to Jinzhou. It was only a few years after the construction, and the ancestral hall moved here."

"But." Xiaodie looked at Qin Ke's already braided hair, and tried to compare the color of the jade crown on his head, "If there is a marriage, the daughter of the public loser will live in the old house. Last night, welcome them out from the old house again. This rule seems to have been set by the grandpa at the beginning. It requires those who are public losers not to forget their roots and remember where their roots are. Remember, the public losers are their backers, if life is not going well in the husband's house, it doesn't matter, you can go back to the old house, and the family of the public losers will stand up for them."

"Hmm." Qin Ke nodded, thinking that the deceased public loser was a caring person. He heard the stories about gifted scholars and beautiful ladies told by Mr. Shu. Among them, there were some women who had a difficult life in their husband's house and washed their faces with tears every day. For example, the behavior of the public loser is thoughtful for his own daughter, and he appears to be full of rigidity.

"In a while, uncle, you have to ride a horse to pick up Miss." Xiaodie asked deliberately with a smile: "Young master can ride a horse, right?"

Want to ride a horse?Qin Ke suddenly felt a headache, although he did not dislike riding a horse, and even felt that riding a horse was a very enjoyable thing. The feeling of galloping a horse and blowing the strong wind, the sky is high and the bottom is wide, it seems that there is no restriction on going anywhere. A sense of joy arises spontaneously.

But today is different, today's me is like a rice dumpling with three layers inside and three layers outside. How can this be a horse riding attire?

I'm afraid that when he got on the horse, he would make a clanging sound when bumping on it.He covered his face, and suddenly thought that his face was still powdered, making him even more desperate. With this state, going out to meet people and wandering on the street on horseback, wouldn't it be the same as a prisoner crossing the street?

"Can I sit in a sedan chair..." Qin Ke said with a bitter face, "I just want to find a place to hide now. It's best not to see anyone..."

The nanny in the room suddenly let out an ugly laugh, and Xiaodie also covered her mouth and laughed in a low voice.

Putting on all the clothes, Qin Ke took a picture in front of the bronze mirror, and finally went out with the urging voice of the mothers, with the feeling of going to the grave. Chu Gou outside the door had been waiting for a long time, and when he saw Qin Ke When he came out, he just wanted to talk to him, but he covered his mouth first.

"Puff ha ha ha..." Chu Gou's laughter still leaked out from between his fingers, until later he began to put his hands down and covered his stomach, like a twitching monkey, "Master, you are in this body, Like a pig that's tied up and ready to be slaughtered..."

Qin Ke kicked him angrily, just right under his crotch, and Chu Gou's voice suddenly changed into a rooster crowing "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh".

"You're a tied pig! Go away!" Qin Ke said with his eyes wide open.

It wasn't until a while later that Chu Gou endured the pain and a smile, and walked up to Qin Ke with trembling steps. His eyes were wary, for fear that Qin Ke would kick him again: "Master, are you planning to ride a horse like this?"

Qin Ke glanced at the jingling ornaments on his body, covered his forehead: "Don't talk to me, I want to be quiet..."

"Shouldn't you be missing Master..."

"Do you want to be kicked by me again, huh?"

"..."

After fighting and making trouble, Qin Ke finally walked out of Gongshu's house surrounded by a group of domestic slaves. Standing at the door were some elders of Gongshu's family with gratified smiles on their faces, while Gongshucha stood at the door. Among them, Qin Ke looked up and down, and then sneered: "It's too late to regret it now. With your martial arts aptitude, you shouldn't waste yourself like this."

I really regretted it, but it wasn't because of such ridiculous reasons as not being able to practice boy kung fu.Qin Ke rolled his eyes, grabbed the reins, got on his horse, and then looked at Chu Gou: "My sword..."

"Don't worry, I'll take it with me." Chu Gou couldn't help touching the hilt of the Bodhisattva sword, which made Qin Ke's eyes jump. It was always unpleasant for someone to play with his own sword.

He rolled Chu Gou's eyes, and then an elder shouted: "Play music!"

A whole team of welcoming relatives set off in a mighty way, heading for the old house of Gongshu's family.

Along the way, both sides of the road were full of curious pedestrians who came to watch the ceremony, and the advocacy band worked even harder, as if they wanted to blow a hole through the day before giving up.

The gongs and drums made Qin Ke's heart pound. He raised his head and looked at the people on both sides, but somehow he felt a little lonely in his heart.

This is a fake marriage, Gongshu Yinxue and he knew each other very well, and when he really rode to Gongshu's old house and picked her up in the sedan chair, Gongshu Yinxue would nominally be his wife in the future.

And what about himself?Qin Ke didn't know what kind of mood he should face this grand farce.

"Cai Yan..." Qin Ke suddenly saw a figure flash twice in the crowd, he almost blurted out, but soon, that figure disappeared in the crowd, as if it had never appeared from the beginning.

The old house of the public loser.

"Yinxue, how is your makeup?" Gongshuren's voice came from outside the door. Gongshu Yinxue was sitting in front of the dressing table. The jewelry hairpins in the box are plugged in and out, and you have to choose the most suitable one.

"Uncle... come in, it's almost done." Gongshu Yinxue said softly.

Gong Shuren, who was supported by Mrs. Zhao, shook his head outside the door, and said softly: "I won't go in. I'm a man, so it's not convenient. Let your aunt look at it later. The wedding party has already arrived at the door, hurry up Get ready."

what to prepare?Naturally, she was ready to accept her lifelong event, to accept everything she had already decided.Gongshu Yinxue lowered his eyes, his eyelashes trembling slightly.

The corners of her eyes were covered with rouge, which made her look extraordinarily charming, but when she looked at herself in the bronze mirror, she didn't know whether she should be happy or sad.To say that he has already chosen all of these, marrying Qin Ke, branding himself as a public loser forever, seizing power, and fighting for everything she wants.

But in the final analysis, she is still a girl, which girl would not value her life's major events?

When she steps out of the door of the old house, she must stick to the three obediences and four virtues, guarding the public loser until she grows old and her younger brother grows up and can really take over the burden on her. In order to "retire after success".

However, isn't it a bit too much to pay such a price for that seat?

Chapter 382 Iron Ball

However, Gongshu Yinxue is not the kind of person who likes to secretly hurt herself, she smiled at herself in the bronze mirror who had finished dressing, and murmured in a low voice: "What are you thinking, the path I chose, I can't afford to regret it... ..."

The old nanny at the side couldn't hear what she said, so she asked strangely, "Miss, what did you say?"

"It's nothing." She raised her head and looked at the old mother with a little joy in her eyes, "I'm just saying, if you continue to choose like this, I'm afraid I won't be able to go out in the dark."

At this time, the eldest aunt Zhao opened the door and came in, she pursed her lips and smiled when she heard her words, and said: "Oh, our girl can't help but want to see Lang Jun?"

Gongshu Yinxue pouted: "Auntie, don't talk nonsense, I just feel... I'm a little bored after staying in this room for a long time."

Mrs. Zhao took the comb from the maid beside her, and gently combed Gongshu Yinxue's hair. Looking at the young and beautiful Gongshu Yinxue in the bronze mirror, she was filled with emotion, "Your hair always turned yellow when you were young. , the family was still worried about some kind of illness, so they visited the doctor several times... You said, in a blink of an eye, you have grown so big, and your hair is black and shiny..."

"At first, I was reluctant to let you marry, but now my son-in-law's marriage saves me from worrying. It's better to stay at home. I have everything, and I don't need anything. Although Qin Ke's child is a little tender, he is a nice person and spends time with him." I will definitely know how to pity you when I grow up."

Gongshu Yinxue's eyes were moist, but he still smiled and said: "Auntie loves Yinxue, Yinxue has always remembered it in her heart."

Mrs. Zhao nodded lightly: "Actually, it's not just me, your uncle also loves you. You know his body, this time he came to the old house in a carriage to give you a wedding..." Mrs. Zhao's voice was inexplicable Choked up, "Your uncle...I'm afraid he won't last long, you have more time to go over and talk to him, okay?"

"En." Gongshu Yinxue nodded and said, "I understand."

In fact, Mrs. Zhao is not a rambling person on weekdays, perhaps because she has no children, and has raised Yinxue and Yinyu as her own children all these years, so she couldn't help talking a lot.

When everything was ready, Gongshu Yinxue finally stood up, the maids took her by the skirt, completed all the red tape, and finally walked into the hall. Qin Ke had already been waiting in the hall for a long time. After serving tea, the two looked at each other. With a glance, he finally walked out of the old house.

When he was about to leave the door, Qin Ke suddenly asked her in a low voice: "Have you really made up your mind?"

Gongshu Yinxue didn't speak, but just walked forward with a determined expression, leaving only his back in red and happy clothes.

The welcoming procession set off again, the musical instruments were played again, the streets were bustling with excitement, and there were waves of people watching, some of them were jealous, and some of them were envious. A little fell into Qin Ke's ears.

Someone looked at Qin Ke from a distance, and said with a sneer, "This is the husband of Miss Yinxue, a public loser? He is so young, and I heard that he is still a son-in-law. Hmph, a good man, he would rather bow his knees to enter a wealthy family and become a man for others." Zuo son-in-law is really omnipotent. However, this public loser Yinxue is also blind, so many high-school children look down on him, but he chose such a poor man."

The person standing beside him smiled and said: "Oh, you are sour. I heard that he is a practitioner of the three realms, and it is just around the corner to achieve the realm of the little master in the future, no more than those aristocratic families who only know how to drink and have fun all day long." Younger sons are stronger? I think this is the vicious vision of the public losers. Anyway, with their family's power in Jinzhou, they don't need to curry favor with anyone. Why not recruit a young and promising son-in-law? If he achieves something in the future , it’s all for the public loser. You, you just said that because you didn’t have a chance to sit on that horse.”

Maybe it was exposed in his heart, the first person who spoke was a little annoyed: "Hey, I still don't care about the position of a son-in-law? This loser, the child from the family will have to be named Gongshu, if the ancestors know Now, I have to yell at him for being unfilial! What's more, at his age, how powerful a master of cultivation can be? Is he still a junior master? When he becomes a junior master, he will probably be 50 or [-] years old. With so many offerings from public losers, how could he be missing? Can't one?"

The second person shook his head: "I heard that this new son-in-law is a powerful person, even the fourth master, who is a public loser, can't tell the difference between the winners and losers! Think about who the fourth master is, Wu Chi! As early as two A few years ago, he achieved the realm of a small master, and he is not easy to beat someone, can he be a thing in the pool?"

"That's right, maybe he can become a top expert!" Someone with good intentions echoed beside him.

"Tch, how top-notch can it be?" The first person continued to sneer.

The second person thought for a while, probably felt that ordinary Jianghu masters were not famous enough, so he said hesitantly: "I heard that he cultivates Qi and blood, so he must be like the two generals Dianwei and Xiahou of Canghai." Great, isn't it? It's a pity that he is not a spiritual practitioner, otherwise it might be possible to catch up with our General Wang Xuanwei in the future!"

"You just pull it down." The first person sneered when he heard this, "Can he compare with General Wang? Who is General Wang? That is the top master of our Mo family after Juzi. Famous, if we really fight, I'm afraid that Gao Changgong of Jing Wu will give him three points. No matter how talented this young boy is, he can practice like a general king? He doesn't even draft a joke..."

"You..." The second person was a little unconvinced by the rebuttal. After thinking for a long time, he tried his best to hold back a sentence and said back: "I think that the public loser was also a famous family under the foot of the emperor of Jicheng. There were three emperor masters in his ancestors. The old ancestor of the old school was still the head teacher of mechanism art in Jishang Academy in the early years. With the background of public losers, why can't they raise a top master?"

"The past was the past, the present is the present..."

Listening to these chattering words, Qin Ke also showed a somewhat helpless smile on his face.He knew very well why there was such an argument. Originally, the discussion between Gongshucha and him was just a private matter between the two of them, but in order to give him some prestige in the hearts of Jinzhou people, Gongshuren deliberately passed on the discussion between him and Gongshucha. out.

A rising star who can compete equally with Gongshucha, even if he is just a martial artist, at least he is worthy of the status of Gongshu Erfang's eldest lady.

But the gossip of these troublemakers is getting more and more outrageous, to compare themselves with Wang Xuanwei?He had seen Wang Xuanwei's cultivation with his own eyes. Those little Xuanwei sons seemed inconspicuous, but once they flew all over the sky, they could flexibly change into various forms in an instant. Wherever they went, even gold and stone would become their sustenance.

In fact, his luck was a little bit bad. Before he was deeply involved in the world, he met Gao Changgong with extremely unreasonable force value and Zhuge Wanling with deep calculations in his heart. When these two joined forces, I really don’t know who in the world can rival it.

Sitting left and right on the horse is also boring. On the one hand, it is also to calm himself under the gaze of everyone. He looked at Chu Gou and whispered: "Hey, show me your toy."

"Toy?" Chu Gou was stunned for a moment, but he immediately reacted. He quietly took out a dark iron ball from his arms and handed it over. Qin Ke looked at the iron ball with curiosity in his eyes.

He has seen it several times in the past few days, but he still can't figure out what it is and what kind of mechanism it has. From the outside, it's just an ordinary iron ball, but under the sun, it looks like a ball. There are faintly some golden lines flashing on it, like a wandering snake.

The reason why Chu Gou was able to step into the first level of cultivation in such a short period of time was precisely because of this iron ball. According to him, the iron ball disintegrated as soon as it touched his body, turning into a Countless tentacles crawled on his body, and every time they swam, they pulled the blood in his body, making his whole body tremble.

But with the help of these tentacles, he finally grasped the law of the movement of qi and blood, found the trick, and finally successfully condensed the qi and blood in the dantian and sent it to the whole body for 36 big cycles, laying the foundation for practice.

And he said that the person who gave him the iron ball was a skinny old man who was no more than five feet tall and hunched over. Except that years of wind and frost had made his eyes look brighter and sharper than ordinary people, there was nothing else. All bland.

There are such strange people and such magical objects in the world?

Chapter 383 Crossbow arrows!Swordsman!

It was also the first time Qin Ke had heard of it, but Chu Gou had no reason to lie to him, so he chose to believe it.It’s just that Chu Gou said that after using this iron ball, there has been no other peculiarities, and it seems to have returned to the ordinary, so he can’t see more from this iron ball, he can only give birth to some points in his heart. Pity.

Chu Gou had a big heart, hehe smiled: "Master, do you think I have received a gift from God? Maybe God wants to give me a mission to save the world..."

"And save the common people in the world... As far as your current three-legged cat's skill is, I can beat you with one finger."

Although the current Chu Gou can be regarded as a true cultivator, but with his first level of qi and blood cultivation, he is not as good as him in Daoxiang Village back then. Really stingy.