Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

None of the three acted rashly.

Gu Yue looked around the yard and suddenly realized something.

He knew something was wrong!

There is no granary in this village?

Do people keep food indoors? But this place is near the lake, and there is a phenomenon similar to the return of the south wind in spring. Although the degree is not serious, it is still very humid. Won't the food get moldy if it is kept indoors?

Gu Yue didn’t understand how a village next to a lake survived, but this Tongshan Village was not big but not small either. Could they get enough food just by fishing?

There were no large fields seen nearby.

Live off the land?

After thinking about it for a while, the old man came out holding a scroll.

It was a scroll as big as two palms, unfolded from top to bottom. The old man looked at it carefully, then looked at Gu Xu.

Gu Yue was curious and went over to take a look.

The person in the painting... is Gu Xu? !

The painter's painting skills are very exquisite. Gu Xu in the painting is only about six or seven years old, with a cheerful and relaxed expression, sitting obediently in an armchair. He looks about 70% similar to Gu Xu now, but more lovely, and there is no such gloomy temperament between his eyebrows.

Gu Xu also came over.

"Did you scream..." the old man asked tremblingly.

Gu Xu looked at the painting and his brows suddenly frowned.

Gu Yue also saw the small words on the signature. "Shen, the seventeenth year of Fengqian"

慎？

who is it?

This kind of painting is usually signed with the name of the artist. Unfortunately, there are only chairs and figures in the painting, without a background, so it is unclear where it was painted.

"Is that you in this painting?" Gu Yue asked.

...No one answered the old man's question.

"Maybe." Gu Xu answered ambiguously.

"So cute, did you really look like this when you were a kid?" Gu Yue liked this painting very much. The mounting was very delicate, the painting was good, the ink was thick and thin, and the expression was vivid. "Do you still remember it? Judging from this, you are not that old."

"I have some vague memories." Gu Xu felt complicated.

It turns out... there is still such a painting.

"You guys..." The old man was ignored for a long time and became anxious, "Are you Gu Xu? Your father is..."

Gu Yue was also anxious. This old man spoke so slowly!

"Who is it?" he asked quickly.

But the old man didn't say anything.

"I'm Gu Xu." Gu Xu said.

The old man looked at Gu Yue and Shi San warily. He seemed to distrust anyone except Gu Xu.

"Tell me." Gu Xu said, "Did someone leave anything behind?"

“Yes, yes.” The old man’s eyes filled with tears. “I didn’t expect you to be alive…May the Buddha bless you, may the Buddha bless you.”

Stop talking nonsense! Gu Yue was so anxious: "You just said, Xiao Xu's father? Who is he? What is his identity?"

"Who are you?" The old man stared at him warily, "Can you call me Xiao Xu?"

Gu Xu said: "You tell me, they can be trusted. I encountered some things and forgot a lot of things in the past."

Why can't I scream? Gu Yue was angry.

"What?!" The old man looked at Gu Xu, tears welling up in his eyes again, "You've suffered..."

It’s so annoying! Gu Yue was annoyed, but he couldn’t hit him.

"Don't you remember? Your father is Prince Shen, Gu Shen... You grew up in Prince Shen's mansion in Yunxi until the eighteenth year of Fengqian. What a pity, what a pity! You suffered..."

It turned out to be Prince Shen! Gu Yue was shocked.

Um, King Shen, who is that?

Apart from the relics left by King Shen, the original text did not mention this person named Gu Shen at all.

And they went to Tongshan to get the treasures left by King Shen. But now...

It turns out that this pile of treasure is inherited?

Gu Yue's mind was in a mess.

King Shen left behind King Shen's treasures, and in the original text, these treasures were obtained by Gu Xu, but there was no mention of the relationship between Gu Xu and King Shen.

In this already disrupted world line, Gu Xu still came to Tongshan to look for King Shen's relics, but accidentally learned about his own life experience. Now, it is reasonable and legal for Gu Xu to take away those treasures.

But wait, what is the Su family?

Gu Xu’s mother’s family?

"Grandpa, do you know the Su family?" Gu Yue asked.

"The Su family is Master Gu Shen's in-laws." The old man showed an angry look on his face, "But when the Prince Shen's Mansion was in trouble, there was no trace of them. How hateful, how hateful! They say that there is a deep father-daughter relationship, but they are just using their daughter as a tool for fame and fortune..."

"What exactly happened back then?" Gu Xu asked.

Gu Yue saw a hint of anxiety on his face.

He helped the old man sit on a bamboo chair in the yard and took the scroll.

The old man looked at Gu Xu in surprise: "Why, you don't know about Prince Shen's rebellion?"

"We have never heard of this person." Gu Yue said, hoping that the old man would give more clues.

Gu Xu seems to care about this matter?

"I don't know the details of what happened back then, but it's impossible for Master Gu Shen to be involved in a rebellion!" The old man coughed excitedly, "There really was no sign... I just went home to visit my relatives and stayed in the village for a while, but the Prince Shen's Mansion was burned down..."

The old man grabbed Gu Xu's hand and said, "Young Master, Master Gu Shen left you some things in Tongshan, waiting for you to see the letter he left and come to get them. It's been almost ten years..."

"Don't you know what happened back then?" Gu Xu didn't seem to care much about the "things left by my biological father" and asked about what happened back then.

"No, the master wanted me to go back to Tongshan Village...but I never went back." The old man wiped his tears.

"Then who told you that he left something for me?" Gu Xu asked.

"He is the master's close bodyguard, named Zhou Qiong. After the incident in Prince Shen's Mansion, he came to me with this painting and a token, and told me to wait in Tongshan Village until Young Master Gu Xu comes to pick these things up." The old man took out a cloth bag from his clothes and handed it to Gu Xu.

Gu Xu held the cloth bag but did not open it immediately. Gu Yue looked at him, somewhat puzzled.

Why not open?

"Where is that Zhou Qiong?" Gu Xu asked.

"Every six months, he sends some silver, enough for the villagers' expenses, and everyone is willing to help look after it," said the old man.

"Doesn't that mean that the whole village knows that Gu Shen left something for Xiao Xu?" Gu Yue said.

"No, I'm the only one who knows. It's just that most of the people in Tongshan Village are from my family, so they're easier to talk to." said the old man.

It seems that the things left behind are the treasures of King Shen. And this old man is also the key to guiding Gu Xu to find those relics.

Why didn’t the original text say this?

Although he didn't quite remember the specific process of Gu Xu finding the treasure, Gu Yue was sure that he had never met the village chief of Tongshan Village, otherwise his life experience would have been mentioned naturally and would not have been obliterated into an insignificant background in the original text.

Of course, Gu Xu didn't need the help of his family's power.

"Hurry up and see what's inside?" Gu Yue urged Gu Xu who was still in deep thought.

Gu Xu came back to his senses, lowered his head, and opened the cloth bag with exquisite embroidery.