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Gongshucha also looked at the ashes urn, was silent for a while, and finally said: "When I was young, I felt that he was going around too much, and he was not clear in what he said and did. It was really annoying, but I didn't expect him to come Death is still like this..."

The desk in the ancestral hall was surrounded by green smoke, intertwined with each other, like a smiling face, as if Gong Shuren was still lingering in the ancestral hall at this moment, looking helplessly at his brother who was straightforward and somewhat arrogant.

Shaking his head silently, Gongshucha raised his head and said, "Over the years, you have been far stronger than I imagined, and now you have the courage to face everything. Do you know...why do I fight for the power of the head?"

"I know." Gongshu Yinxue nodded, "Fourth Uncle is not fighting for this seat, but just doesn't want someone you don't like to take this seat."

Gongshucha's eyes lit up, but he never thought that Gongshu Yinxue would guess what he was thinking: "You are..."

Gongshu Yinxue smiled calmly: "I only figured it out after my uncle passed away. Now that I think about it, my uncle has seen through it early on. That's why he has been lukewarm to fourth uncle and rarely entrusted him with it. Because he knows that you don't care about this seat at all. , even if I let you be the Patriarch, I wouldn't care too much about it."

"That's right. I don't care." Gongshucha took two steps towards the desk, and looked at the tall shelf full of ancestral tablets with his hands behind his back. "The only thing I care about in my life is martial arts, but After all, I am the fourth son of the public loser, and I still cannot take off some responsibilities. If the third child is allowed to sit on the position of the head of the family, my public loser will not be far from the dead family. At that time, how can I Concentrate on cultivating. As for you... the former you were really not in my eyes, but now it seems that you are worthy of the position of Patriarch."

"Thank you, Fourth Uncle, for your praise." Gongshu Yinxue smiled gratefully. Since Gongshucha said that, it naturally represented his approval, and this was the best result she expected.

"But I have an ugly thing to say first." Gong Shucha's voice suddenly turned cold.

Gongshu Yinxue looked at Gongshucha in a daze, and said, "Fourth Uncle, tell me."

"I agree with you, not Yinyu. In my opinion, that child is far from convincing me. If you just want to be a family member for a few years, wait for Yinyu to be of the right age, and then give him the seat. Don't blame me for refusing to be under him." Gongshucha said unquestionably: "As long as you are here for a day, I will not object, and even if you need it, I will help you. But I don't like too many corners. Wannao, don't come to me for those trivial matters at home, I'm better at leading soldiers and killing people."

Gongshucha stared straight at the blue and white porcelain altar, "It's... too gloomy here, so I hated this place since I was a child. I used to have the idea to take a big stone and put these All the cards were smashed to pieces by him..."

After speaking, he turned and left, his back looked so crisp and neat.

Chapter 427 The New Mountain

After Gongshucha left, Gongshu Yinxue was still staring blankly at the solemn and silent tablets. She didn't expect that her usual carefree fourth uncle would say the same thing as her uncle. Perhaps it was a kind of brotherhood. Induction?In other words, both Gongshuren and Gongshucha saw her original intention for this position.

From the very beginning, Gongshu Yinxue never considered that she would sit in this position for a long time. After all, the Gongshu family has been passed down for hundreds of years, but there has never been a generation where the head of the family is a woman. She has set this precedent now, but in her heart There was always a sense of uneasiness in the depths that could not be vaguely passed.

What's more, she didn't fight for this position to seize power. To be honest, it was just because of her unwillingness and fear.

Losing their parents when they were young, she and her younger brother finally let go of their grief. After that, they lived peacefully in the yard together. Although a little lonely, they could love each other and live a fulfilling and happy life.But as she got older, she began to gradually feel the sharpness in the eyes of some elders. It was a kind of... like the eyes of a young tiger.

Afterwards, she witnessed an accident in broad daylight. Her younger brother was almost crushed to death by the speeding wheels.

From that day on, all her peaceful years turned into a wave of worry, a wave of fear.

She gradually became sensible and grew up through all kinds of observations and observations. She began to demand herself according to the concept of "good boy" in the eyes of her elders, such as studying hard, working hard, being cautious in her words and deeds... Sometimes she was hurt by martial arts. He never cried or yelled, and never made any rude requests to his elders, even if he just wanted to ask for a few taels of pocket money during the holidays...

But at the age of ten, she has already regarded herself as an adult.

If she could, she would also like to be as carefree and innocent as her younger brother, and even when Yincheng of the third uncle's family often did wrong things, she would have a little envy, envious that he could, under the blessing of the third uncle, do things again and again. Challenging the family rules, going wild again and again... But she knew that she couldn't.

If she can be a rich young lady in her boudoir with peace of mind, or become that kind of rebellious and self-willed "heroine", she is afraid that when the next crisis comes, when her younger brother is pushed into the abyss of death again , all her carefully maintained image will be dusted off.

So she had to fight for the position of Patriarch, so that she could control everything and have enough strength to protect herself and that young brother.

Now, she finally achieved her original goal, but her heart began to feel empty.Gong Shuren has gone, Gong Shujiu has been imprisoned by her, and Gong Shucha is no longer her enemy. The mountain that weighed on her heart dissipated, but a bigger mountain came down.

The name of this mountain is Gongshu.

"It's so heavy." Gongshu Yinxue looked at the tablets enshrined in the ancestral hall, thought of Gongshuren's relaxed expression before he died, and inexplicably felt that she was already tired, and now she just wanted to find a place where no one was there. place, curl up well, and have a good night's sleep, even if the sky falls outside, she doesn't want to care about it anymore.

Qin Ke looked at Gongshu Yinxue, he stood not far away, and with his good hearing, he naturally heard the conversation between Gongshu Yinxue and Gongshucha.

These days, he has witnessed with his own eyes that Gongshu Yinxue is like a wind-up machine, she is constantly running, without a moment's rest.She has just taken over the public loser, and she has to do everything by herself. Compared with it, managing the porridge shop or checking the granary before is a trivial matter.

"Do you want to go to rest for a while?" Qin Ke approached her and said, "You only slept for two hours every night for many days, even if you have blood and blood, you can't stand it..."

As soon as the words fell, Qin Ke suddenly felt a soft body bump into his arms. Gongshu Yinxue had a sweet smell on her body. She was not as petite as Cai Yan, and her long hair was cold in strands. The land scattered on his shoulders, and she gently rested her head on his chest.

"Let me lean on for a while, it will be fine in a while."

Listening to her murmur, Qin Ke stood up stiffly, not knowing where to put his hands.

If this was performed according to the script of a gifted man and beautiful woman, he should have stretched out his hands to embrace the beauty in his arms, stroked her long hair and comforted her softly.

But obviously, he couldn't get into his role, and he always absurdly abided by his duty as a trader.

But after getting along for a long time, he has already regarded Gongshu Yinxue as an old friend who shares weal and woe. If a friend wants a shoulder to rest on when he is tired... Well, it's just a leaning.

He stood quietly, like a tall and straight cedar tree, and the silhouettes of the two were gradually captured by the sunlight outside the house, dispelling the darkness and awe in the ancestral hall.

The battle for the head of the family has finally come to an end, and the public loser has returned to peace. Sometimes Qin Ke doubts whether this stately mansion has some kind of magical power, and even the falling meteors may not be able to smash it.

What is also indestructible is the reverence of the public losers for this surname. For this awe, they can forget all the pain, crush through all the chaos, and finally surround themselves with the name "Gongshuo". "Under the banner of ", strive to live out what you should have.

He thought about it, maybe this is the normal state of people?

Not only public losers, but even the uncles and aunts in Daoxiang Village have witnessed the scene of thousands of miles of starvation and dead bodies everywhere.

But after they escaped famine and settled in the mountains of Daoxiang Village, they still lived a peaceful and peaceful life with their hardworking hands and optimistic attitude, as if what they experienced before had never happened.

Even in my mind, the serious, loving, or delicate faces of my father, mother, and sister have begun to blur.

Master once told him that this is a good thing, people are forgetting, because forgetting makes people no longer indulge in the past, and they don't have to be caught between the reality and the past, and they don't have to be in a hurry...

Because forget the past, to have the future.

Will I gradually forget Master?Like forgetting the gradually blurred faces of parents?

Thinking of this, Qin Ke felt a slight pain in his forehead, raised his hand to hold the small ball that hit his head, and took a closer look, it was a walnut.

He raised his head, and Cai Yan, who was dressed in plain clothes, smiled brightly. She smiled and said, "Hey! You have been in a daze for almost half an hour, what are you thinking?"

Qin Ke held the walnut in his hand and turned it around slightly. Before he could answer, Gao Yishui, who was sitting beside him, laughed frivolously: "What else can he think about? He must be thinking about the 'Madam' at home. Why, Seeing you every day is not enough, why are you still so worried when you come out?"

"Bah, I know nothing but nonsense, what do I think she is doing?" Qin Ke subconsciously glanced at the expression on Cai Yan's face, and at the same time vigorously threw the walnut in his hand towards Gao Yishui's face.

Gao Yishui had expected it a long time ago, and caught it as soon as he stretched out his hand, then put it on the table and said lazily to Abu, "Abu!"

Abu glanced at him helplessly, then raised his broad hand and slapped it down suddenly, and then the walnut was broken, revealing the edible pulp inside.

But Gao Yishui was obviously not very satisfied, holding the broken walnut in the palm of his hand, picking up the scattered shells, and said: "This time the shot was too heavy, and the next shot is lighter. The key is to make a big enough walnut." The cracks of the walnuts, but the whole walnut is not broken, so that the walnut meat inside will not be too broken..."

Abu has been annoyed by him for a long time, and rarely retorted: "You don't have the strength, can't you knock it yourself, ask the shopkeeper for a small hammer."

Gao Yishui shook his head and said, "That's so boring, isn't eating walnuts just like smashing walnuts?"

"You didn't smash it yourself..." Abu said with a bitter face: "Why don't you do this interesting process yourself? I'm listening. This part is about a Wei Meiren back then..."

"Wei Meiren was jealous of another favorite concubine and plotted against her. Later, she had her nose cut off and died in the palace." Before Abu could finish speaking, Cai Yan interjected. She was eating nuts and sitting on a chair. Shaking his legs restlessly, his eyes showed a bit of boredom.

"Don't!" Although Abu stopped at the fastest speed, his speed was still not as fast as the articulate Cai Yan. When he shouted after being shocked, Cai Yan had already told Wei Meiren's ending It's all said and done.

He was in so much pain, he held his head and said, "Miss Cai, can you stop telling the ending every time? Once you say that, I don't have any suspense in my heart. What else can I do with listening to the book?" mean?"

Cai Yan rummaged around on the plate for a while, but couldn't find what she wanted to eat after all, then called the waiter and asked for another plate of candied fruit.

Afterwards, she looked at Abu with a grin and said, "But it was true that Meiren Wei died after her nose was cut off, and I didn't lie. I've heard this story many times in those teahouses in Ding'an City. What this gentleman said is bad, and it doesn’t make any sense at all.”

Regarding Abu's doormat appearance, Qin Ke also suppressed a smile, and helped him say: "This is Jinzhou after all, how can it compare with those teahouses in Ding'an City, it's good to say that, at least there are many teahouses in Jianye City Mr. Storyteller is not as good as him."

He didn't lie, after all, this gentleman is the most famous storyteller in Jinzhou, even if compared to the prosperous Ding'an City, this gentleman can only be regarded as the tail of a phoenix, but here he can be regarded as a chicken's head.

If it weren't for this, they wouldn't have made a special trip here to listen to the book.

The affairs of Gongshu's family came to an end, and Gongshu Yinxue also regained his energy, and was so busy that he left early and returned late, and there was no one there.

Although there is a common saying in the folks that "the man dominates the outside and the woman dominates the inside", Qin Ke, the "fake uncle", let alone the outsider, even if he is the inside, I am afraid that he can't do anything well.

Wuxing Sinan is still smelting in the blast furnace. It is said that even the decades-old craftsmen of the public loser are shocked. You must know that the heat in the blast furnace is so high that it can melt pig iron, and the magic weapon can't last for a long time .

Not only did the Piansheng Wuxing Sinan hold on, even today, it only showed some dark red, and it was still far away from the real fusion.

That being the case, Qin Ke had no choice but to stay in Jinzhou and wait.

Of course, there are many kinds of waiting. Being a prisoner is one kind, and traveling around the mountains and rivers is another kind.

These days, they listened to music and ate, climbed high and looked far away, and they visited all the places in Jinzhou that could be visited.

Cai Yan has long been tired of looking at the scenery of Jinzhou, and shouted: "It's boring, it's boring, it's really boring!" She began to feel bored, sitting on the chair, playing with the nuts in her hand, moving restlessly.

She looked at Qin Ke: "Ah Ke, why don't we go to your house to stay for ten days and a half months...it's much more interesting than Jinzhou."

Qin Ke smiled wryly: "Where do you want to go to my house, you want to wander around while you are traveling."

"You talk a lot." Cai Yan grinned.

"Let's forget it." Qin Ke shook his head and said, "Didn't you hear what they said, there is going to be a war, this time Tang Guo and Cang Hai are serious..."

Chapter 428 Teahouse Listening to Books

"You said it as if you weren't serious before." Cai Yan rested her chin and fiddled with the walnut shells on the table, "Why don't we wait until we get here, maybe it's because of the war...you don't eat Don't sleep anymore?"

After all, Cai Yan understands the truth and knows that it is a bit of a joke to go out to play in the city at this time, so she can only continue to watch the famous actors on the stage dance with a blank face, while the storyteller hides behind the screen, stroking the ruler The sound is crisp.

"How is the public loser now?" Cai Yan laid his head on the table, trying to find something to say, "A few days ago I saw Gongshucha on the street, riding a black horse with a majestic appearance, The expression on his face smells worse than the stones in the latrine."

Gao Yishui shrugged his shoulders: "It seems that it is impossible to count on you to show some morals in this life. He is now in charge of the entire Jinzhou army. However, you look at him majesticly, but in reality the Tang army There are nearly 20 people... I heard that there is also the Shenwu Tianjun, known as the elite of the Tang Dynasty, which is a formation that even ordinary heavy cavalry can hardly break through. If so, can your expression get better? But when it comes to leading troops, there is no one in Jinzhou who can match Gongshucha. A few days ago, your little apprentice came to me and clamored for me to help him. Want to join the army... Speaking of which, why didn't he go to you?"

"Cough...he is not my apprentice, how many times have I told you that." Qin Ke showed helplessness on his face, waved his hands and said, "I probably pushed him into a corner with a sword a few days ago to scare him. "

After returning from the underground palace, Qin Ke's attitude towards Chu Gou became a little bit better. After all, he knew about Gong Shu's use of Chu Gou as a test subject, and that silly boy was still kept in the dark, thinking that he had bumped into a big boy. Fortunately, I met some rumored strange hermit.Not only Qin Ke, but even Gongshu Yinxue felt a little sad when he heard about it.

Qin Ke sometimes sees Chu Gou's shadow of himself when he was a child, a look of kicking his nose and face with the love of his master.

When he was a child, he jumped up and down in Daoxiang Village all day long, causing trouble.And his master, Zhuge Wolong, always stood by the firewood gate of their hut with a smile on his face, like a loving old father waiting for his children to come home for dinner...

After so long, he also gradually understood why Zhuge Wolong used "fake death" to get rid of the golden cicada's shell. He agreed with Cai Yan's statement, and he believed that the master must have had a last resort to choose to let go of his hand at that point.

But he still has some doubts, such as: Master's serious illness, sometimes he vomited blood and sometimes became confused... It didn't look like he was acting; there was also Master's gradual loss of breath, and finally his body that became cold and stiff. That body was in a daze, from day to night, and from night to the second day...

The figure that had been waiting for him to go home by the chai gate for many years was replaced by white morning glories wantonly climbing the fence, blooming lonely every evening when the sun slanted west.

Seeing that Qin Ke was in a daze again, Cai Yan poked his head over and interjected, "It's such a mess outside, and we're still here listening to books, watching movies and eating melon seeds, isn't it a bit annoying?"

Gao Yishui raised his eyebrows: "I want to leave Jinzhou, but that thing is in the blast furnace, and I have to go to see it once a day. What can I do?"

There was a bit of resentment in the words, but Gao Yishui quickly returned to his usual idle expression, stretched his waist, and said with a smile: "At least Gongshucha's ability to lead troops is not bad. Such a famous general in the world is still far behind, but if Jinzhou's defense is handed over to Gongshujiu's idiot hands, I am afraid that Jinzhou itself will collapse before the Tang army arrives. Gongshuren is also deliberate, To leave such a good support for Gongshu Yinxue is really well-intentioned."

"Speaking of it, I'm still a little confused about this." Qin Ke came back to his senses, and couldn't help but said: "I understand that you pretended to be assassins to assassinate Wuzhu, making him mistakenly think that Gongshu was the one who killed the police, and turned to Gongshu. , and then you quietly found out a plan for Gongshu to 'assassinate Yinxue and me, and blame Gongshucha', but why did Wu Zhu go to Gongshuren in the end?"

Gao Yishui raised the corners of his mouth slantingly, squinted his eyes and said, "Run over? No, no, I sent Wu Zhu there, okay? Of course...it's not the kind of delivery in the open, otherwise Gong Shuren will know about it I was behind everything. I am afraid that I have already died in the hands of those priests of his public loser. Therefore, I turned a corner secretly and gave some news to the steward in the courtyard of the public transport cha. The grievances of Qing Gong Shucha, he will naturally send Wu Zhu to Gong Shuren."

"It's just that I was a little surprised that Gong Shuren was not in a hurry to overturn Gong Shucha's case after he got Wu's help. At first, I thought that he would rather make mistakes than hand over the position to Gongshu for the sake of stability in the government. But through his Looking at what he did in [-], I felt that he must have other plans in his mind. It turned out that my idea was correct. You also know that the people in the world who died in the heavy snow were more or less related to Gongshu. Gongshuren has always been Forbearance, step by step cleared up the hidden forces of Gongshujiu for the camp, and at the same time acquiesced to those forces that were originally biased towards Gongshucha to fall to Gongshu Yinxue. After getting the seat, and then selling this favor to Gongshucha... Tsk tsk, it's really scheming."

Gao Yishui talked eloquently, Qin Ke scratched his head, and Cai Yan also explained to him. Only then did he sort out the context one by one, and at the same time, he admired Gong Shuren's forbearance and calculation.

"When I look back now, I also feel that I was a little reckless. I didn't expect that there was such a force hidden behind Gongshu. This is why I didn't expect that among the people who assassinated you, there would be people who even you would find difficult to defeat." The master... almost put you in danger. Thinking about it, if Gong Shuren hadn't wiped out this group of people in advance, I'm afraid even if Gong Shu Yinxue became the head of the family and imprisoned Gong Shujiu, it would be difficult for me to secure this position."

After all, Gao Yishui is just an outsider, and his grasp of the overall situation of Gongshuo is still not as good as that of Gongshuren.

However, Gao Yishui's ability to arrange it so seamlessly is enough to prove his strength.

But Gao Yishui was obviously dissatisfied with himself, and sighed: "After all, I am not Zhuge Wanling. In the case of destroying dikes and flooding fields in Jingwu, I cut off the heads of many famous noble families. It seems rough, but in fact it is meticulous. If it is lighter, it will not be enough. As a result, the entire Jingwu court might be overturned overnight. He just dared to let Gao Changgong leave Jianye City to negotiate with Sun Lao, the leader of the gentry, and put his own safety in the hands of Sun Lao. On top of the paper agreement, this is dancing on the tip of a knife, but he walks every step with incomparable calmness, which cannot be done without great wisdom and courage."

"Sir is a good man, he is not that kind of person who is good at calculating..." Abu still insists on his point of view, believing that it is impossible for Zhuge Wanling to arrange so many things.

"Yes, yes. Your husband has always been a good person." Gao Yishui rolled his eyes, "But under the turbulent situation, the good people are the ones who die the fastest."

For the quarrel between the two, Qin Ke is impartial, because he can not only understand Abu's unconditional trust in Zhuge Wanling, but also feel the deep heart hidden under Zhuge Wanling's calm appearance. His personal opinion I still prefer Gao Yishui's analysis.

"Anyway, don't go too far in the future." Qin Ke frowned.

Gao Yishui secretly looked at his expression: "What? I feel sorry for Gongshu Yinxue's injury?"

"Speak well and you won't die." Qin Ke said with a dark face.

Looking at Qin Ke's appearance, Gao Yishui found it even more interesting, and teased, "You, at first glance, you are a novice in the field of flowers. You have to learn from me. An old hand like me in the field of flowers is all about living among thousands of flowers. Not sticking to the body, it seems that the affection is serious, but in fact there is no..."

"You heartless bastard with a heartless heart!" Just at this moment, a crisp voice interrupted Gao Yishui's words.

In an instant, Gao Yishui's complexion changed wildly, and he hurriedly said to Qin Ke in a low voice: "No, my stomach hurts, I have to go to the latrine."

Then he hunched his body like an old monkey, clutched his stomach, and hurried to the backyard, and then Qin Ke saw a woman in green clothes chasing after him.

The woman has a pretty face, charming eyebrows and eyes, and her hair is fluttering like a cloud.

Quite a few listeners in the teahouse clicked their tongues and whispered to each other to guess which part of this scene was sung. Compared with the stories told by Mr. Wenshu according to the book, things in real life aroused their interest more.

The storyteller on the stage looked at the situation, and naturally couldn't continue with the book, so he coughed and went backstage to drink a cup of tea to clear his throat.

Qin Ke looked at the situation in front of him stupidly, a little at a loss.

Cai Yan giggled, poked Qin Ke with his elbow, and said, "Is this the first time you've met? That's Sister Nanyan."

Of course, Qin Ke had never heard of this name, but Cai Yan quickly began to explain: "Sister Nanyan is originally the king of flowers in Jinzhou. That day, Lao Gao took me and Abu to visit Qing..."

When he said this, Abu's face was already flushed, and Cai Yan's eyes were full of excitement.

After listening to Cai Yan's next narration, he realized that their expenses were all covered by the public before, so Gao Yishui adhered to the principle of not spending nothing, and was obsessed with his life to the extreme.