I dare not

The author has something to say: Although Gu Qiao and the third child are temporarily separated in two places, the two have been linked together in a dream.This point is so good!Talented Gu spends his dowry very happily, hahahaha

Gu Qiao waited for the third child to come back and lie down before he fell asleep.

I have been dreaming all night, in the forest of Luoxian Mountain for a while, and in the dim Buddhist hall of Shaocheng Temple for a while, the bits and pieces I met before seemed to be relived in a dream.

When he woke up in the morning, the third child was already fighting Chang Feng in the yard, and all the servants and maidservants of the Wei family were watching, bursting into applause from time to time.

The two beat stones and sand with their wooden swords. Fortunately, the servants cleared away everything around them in advance. Only the big tree in the courtyard endured everything silently.

The third child has already recovered the aura of piercing the snake's head with a twig, looking like a master, but at this time, it is difficult for Chang Feng to parry.

Chang Feng's speed is astonishingly fast, almost only afterimages are seen, and the third child is faster than him!

Chang Feng is best at making surprise attacks from the air. He has a strange figure. Everyone watched him disappear suddenly and thought they were dazzled.

It turned out to be on top!

careful!Seeing Chang Feng attacking from directly above the third child with the help of the tree trunk next to him, Gu Qiao secretly sweated.

The third child seemed to have eyes on the top of his head, and he saw through Chang Feng's moves in an instant.He lowered his waist backwards, resisted with the wooden sword, and withstood all the opponent's attacks with the strength of his waist, his feet remained motionless.

Chang Feng didn't expect that the blow with all his strength failed to succeed, he lost his balance, was overturned by the third child, and slid on the ground for a certain distance before stopping.

"What a strong waist!" Gu Qiao was startled, and her eyes couldn't help looking at the waist of the third child.

The third child was also looking at him at this moment, but Gu Qiao's eyes turned red when she looked at the indescribable place.

The sister-in-law of the Wei family asked the people to prepare breakfast, and when she saw Gu Qiao coming out, she greeted enthusiastically, "Morning, Gu Sima! Let's go after breakfast at home!"

Gu Qiao stammered as if her tail had been stepped on, "That...no... no need, I'll go to the county government to eat!"

After speaking, he turned and ran.

Chang Feng put a hand on the third child's shoulder, "Hey, why is he running away without even drinking a glass of wine?"

The third child looked at the direction Gu Qiao left and did not answer.

He hadn't had time to tell Gu Qiao that he was leaving today.

What I wanted to say last night...

He wants to say that I will leave for a while, and you wait for me to come back to find you.

However, once he returns to Beijing, he will have to face the battle to win the heir.Who wrote the trapped Lianzhou, he already has the answer in his heart.Going back this time, it is bound to be life and death, so how can you bear to involve Gu Qiao in it?

Seeing his lonely expression, Chang Feng squeezed his shoulder, "Forget it, let's go to a bar."

"Aren't you a monk? Can monks drink alcohol?"

"Amitabha," Chang Feng clasped his hands together, "Master said, if you have Bodhi in your heart, you can purify your altar. Wine is water, and water is wine. There is no difference between drinking wine and drinking water."

So the two drank from morning to noon, and in the end Fazhang couldn't stand it anymore, so he took the wine jar away before finishing the calculation.

The sister-in-law of the Wei family also asked someone to prepare a big bag of food for him to eat on the road.

Several people have been sending the third child outside the county gate.

And Wei Changshi, who was in Ningcheng's government office, also heaved a sigh of relief. Early this morning, he suddenly received a notice that the Imperial Army had found what His Highness the Third Highness had lost, and he set off for Beijing today.

Gu Qiao didn't know the news that the third child had left until he got off the Yamen.Everyone thought he knew and laughed at him for being mean, so they didn't go to see him off together.

Gu Qiao felt bitter, the third child told everyone that he was going to leave, but kept it from herself.

When the man was stupid, he felt that the time was too long, and he didn't know when this torture would end; when he recovered, it was too sudden, and he didn't even have time to prepare to say goodbye.

What he had been worried about before was that the third child would forget himself when he woke up, but now it seems that he remembers it very clearly...

Gu Qiao touched the scar on her left palm, this man is really annoying, after all, Yeye hugged him and slept for so long, can't he even say goodbye? !

Why don't you play with me and leave without saying goodbye!

He chatted with Fazhang and the others for a while as if nothing had happened, and then said that he was too tired from business today and wanted to rest early, so he went to sleep.

The room was still the same as it was when she left this morning. Gu Qiao was so blocked, the first thing she saw when she entered the door was to see if there was a letter for him on the table.

No.

There was still a cup of water from the third child on it, and the coat worn by the third child was still on the bed, and the quilt was folded up properly.

That man didn't look serious, but he folded the quilt neatly.

Gu Qiao searched around but couldn't find the letter for him, and felt even more blocked.

This fool is too much!Next time I see him, I must... Gu Qiao doesn't know what to do with himself, is there a next time?After all, he didn't even know the third child's name.

Thinking of this, it feels like feeding the dog with all the blood.

Sit in the room until dark before lying down.

Usually at this time, the little fool was in severe pain and was held in his arms.

Depressedly shaking off the quilt, a piece of paper fell out of it.

The handwriting is neat and strong: "Wait for me to come back."

There are only these four words on it.

The inscription is "the third".

Gu Qiao turned the paper over and looked at it, and there were indeed only these few words.

Await your return?He thought viciously, I would have forgotten you long ago when you came back!

The days that followed passed quickly, and Gu Qiao single-mindedly took on the responsibility of governing Lianzhou.

Soon after the two censors Liu and Zhang returned to Beijing, three government orders came from the capital: first, the imperial court paid to buy back the landlord’s land at the original price, and the landlord must not disobey; Receive relief funds of [-] copper coins; third, the entire Lianzhou tax reduction and exemption for three years, and the people are not allowed to impose additional labor on the grounds of the Chen Jinshan gold mine.The above expenses are all paid by the gold mine.

The stingy emperor didn't know which minister persuaded him to open his own small treasury to help the victims.With the decree of the central court, the implementation of various measures will be much smoother.

Gu Qiao spent more than three months traveling all over 20 counties in Lianzhou, and finally solved the land problem.With land and relief funds, farmers are naturally willing to return to their hometowns and continue farming.

Gu Qiao and Wei Wushuang's previous plan to introduce foreign grain merchants also achieved the expected effect. After a short-term increase in grain prices, as more and more grain merchants poured into Lianzhou, the market gradually exceeded demand. Food prices have also stabilized.

As winter came, Gu Sima's trip was finally over.

When he returned to the small courtyard in the south of Ningcheng, only Fa Zhang, Chang Feng and Chang Ling followed him back.

Chang Huan worked for Miss Yin as a long-term worker for three months. He worked hard, worked hard and studied hard, and finally got the approval of this stern female doctor, and kept him by his side as an apprentice.

On this day, Gu Qiao Muxiu went to Luoxian Mountain with Fazhang, his master and his disciples.

The state government issued an announcement, regardless of whether they ran to the mountains as bandits or tax evaders, as long as they returned to their hometowns to work in agriculture, they would forget the past, and they would be given relief money and tax exemption for three years.

For those real bandit leaders who returned to their hometowns among the good people, the government also turned a blind eye and closed their eyes. They didn't say to forgive your crimes, or to settle accounts after the fall, just hang on like this.Those people were terrified, but they farmed honestly and dared not make mistakes. Not only did there not go wrong with the resettlement this time, but it was more orderly than before.

Luoxian Mountain is no longer a place that one dared not enter on horseback.

After a light rain, several people rode horses up the mountain along the official road, leaving a string of horseshoe marks on the muddy mountain road.

The first time Gu Qiao went to Shaocheng Temple, he was carried over fainted. At that time, he didn't know what kind of purgatory this small temple in the mountains would become.

The higher authorities sent a special person to investigate the case of burning Shaocheng Temple. Since the officers and soldiers had completed the procedures, it was a normal fire attack on bandit strongholds. Governor Huang was dead anyway, and he was responsible for all the blame.The governor of Yizhou was eager for quick success and quick profits. In order to show his achievements in controlling banditry, he even disguised the lives of hundreds of innocent people as political achievements, and reported it to the imperial court in a grandiose manner.

Gu Qiao wrote several times to explain the actions of Du Yuwen and Huang Qi, pointedly pointing out that the two of them are absolutely inseparable from the death of hundreds of people in Shaocheng Temple, but the higher-ups have never commented on this matter, and have not even sent anyone to re-examine , the case ended with the exile of Huang Zhengxian's family.

Now the gate of the temple is closed, the red wall is peeling off and mottled, and the scorched marks on it still remind people of the tragedy that happened here.

"Amitabha."

Fazhang walked to the gate of the temple stepping on thick fallen leaves. When the gate was pushed open, everyone seemed to be able to hear the miserable screams in the raging fire.

The small yard has been overgrown with weeds, and the withered grass roots have spread a layer of dark yellow on the black ground.

The Buddha Hall where Gu Qiao was closed is still there, but the door has been burned down to the door frame, the Buddha statue with severed fingers fell to the ground and fell to pieces, and the entrance to the secret passage leading to the little fool's meditation room was also broken. The beam is blocked.

The meditation rooms in the backyard are all made of wood, and now there are only a pile of ruins left.

At that time, Chang Feng went to the capital to deliver a letter for Gu Qiao, but he didn't see how Shaocheng Temple burned down.At this time, looking at the devastation, the elder brother who usually doesn't chant Buddha very much also recited a few words "Amitabha".

Chang Ling had tears in her eyes for a long time, and the scene of saving hundreds of people with her master is probably fresh in her memory for the rest of her life.

Fazhang looked back and forth, then clasped his hands together and bowed to Gu Qiao, "Gu Sima."

He called Gu Qiao by that when he had serious business recently, and Gu Qiao immediately understood what he was going to say, "Master Fazhang, you don't need to say more, Wei Changshi and I have already discussed it, and first allocated 500 yuan from the state treasury. Ten thousand taels of silver will be used to rebuild Shaocheng Temple, and Master Sue will be asked to preside over the rebuilding."

"Amitabha, rebuilding Shaocheng Temple is a great merit. The poor monk should do his best to comfort the souls of innocent people who were buried in the sea of ​​fire."

"This year's food shortage relief, the state government's finances are tight, and I can't allocate more money for a while. I will apply to Wei Changshi for more money when the appropriation arrives in the spring."

Fazhang shook his head, "Amitabha, the monks have no desires, and the rebuilding of the temple is also for the people of Lianzhou. Now that there is a lot of waste to be done, everything should focus on the people. The rebuilding of the temple can be done slowly, as long as the state government intends to support this matter It’s okay for the poor monk to raise money with his apprentices.”

"Don't worry!" Gu Qiao said, "Two months ago, Beijing gave an extra sum of money, which was specified to be used for the reconstruction of Shaocheng Temple! At that time, we were in a hurry, and we took more than half of it to buy food. Now that the price of food is stable, the remaining silver should be used in its place anyway.”

"Jingli specially gave money to rebuild Shaocheng Temple?" Chang Feng was a little surprised when he heard this. Shaocheng Temple was just a small local temple, and the incense was not very prosperous. When the food was scarce, the three monks in the temple had already run away.Even if the assassination case was involved, it would be too grand to pay for the reconstruction.

Gu Qiao said mysteriously: "It is said that this is the money paid by His Royal Highness the Third Prince. It is said that he stayed at Shaocheng Temple when he inspected Lianzhou, and he felt that he was very close. Later, the temple burned down, and His Highness was very sad. The money is all out!"

"How much?" Chang Feng was curious about how much it would cost to accept a prince and concubine.

Gu Qiao raised her hand and made a gesture of three, "This is the number."

"300?"

Gu Qiao shook his head.

"3000 million?! Such a big deal? Is it going to be built more grandly than the Da Ci'en Temple?"

Gu Qiao smiled without saying a word.

Chang Ling was still counting with his fingers, "When the third prince came to Lianzhou? Wasn't that not long after the flood? We all lived in the temple at that time. We haven't seen any third prince!"

Fazhang was not interested in money, he just clasped his hands together and said: "Amitabha, the third prince has a predestined relationship with my Buddha, my Buddha is merciful, and will protect him for life."