Chapter 2533 Some death is the end and some death is the beginning
The first winter rain in the sixth year of Taixing finally came down.
Maybe it’s not the first one?
No one particularly cares about this matter.
The rain in winter is extremely cold.
The space between heaven and earth was gray, as if immersed in gray water, with the smell of decay and the smell of blood. The cold wind passed through an abandoned village, whistling and hovering under the remaining walls for a while, and then whistling again
Go away.
Guo You touched the darkness and applied the medicine to his shoulder. He felt pain. He gritted his teeth and tried hard not to make any sound.
An unsheathed, blood-stained ring-headed knife was leaning against his leg.
The wound was covered with medicine, the bandage was pulled up, and the clothes were tied. His fingers and teeth were trembling in the darkness.
The sound of soft footsteps came, and Guo You screamed and tightened his grip on the handle of the knife.
"It's me..." A low voice came from the other side of the broken wall, "Sister-in-law and the children are settled..."
Guo You relaxed and let go of the handle of the knife, "Where is the third child? How is the third child?"
"..." The visitor seemed to pause for a moment, then silently found a place on the other side of the broken wall that was not exposed to the rain, and sat down. A voice that seemed to be choking came, "The third child is dead."
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Guo You leaned against the wall and didn't speak for a while.
In the dark night, the only sound was the patter of rain.
When the Yingchuan Guo family first started, they relied on legal studies. The Guo family specialized in criminal laws and regulations, and later became a prominent family in charge of the judicial power of the court. It has been nearly two hundred years.
But now, the Guo family collapsed and collapsed. The reason turned out to be a series of changes caused by corruption among one of the Guo family members...
Guo Feng is dead.
If he simply died, it wouldn't matter, but from his side, Guo Xi was involved. Guo Xi was older. Although he had served as a servant and a lieutenant back then, it is well known that there were many three princes during the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty.
Many of them were scapegoats, and Guo Xi was no exception. He served as Taiwei for less than a year before he was dismissed again.
A deposed Taiwei is also a Taiwei or a former Taiwei.
The Guo family held a series of official positions such as prefect, Sili Xiaowei, Tingwei and so on. The Guo family was prosperous and prosperous in the land of Yingchuan. For a time, the scenery was unparalleled, even more magnificent than the Xun family.
After all, at the time of the Xun clan, Xun Shuang was not an official, and Xun Yu had not yet emerged.
Later, when Guo Jia was still in a state of intoxication in the eyes of others, Guo Tu had already come under Yuan Shao and made a bet.
The result failed.
Not only could they not get their money back, but the dining table was overturned.
Guo Tu moved to Guanzhong, but it was not as smooth as he imagined. He was hungry, but there was no way to support the Guo family in Yingchuan.
what to do?
Corruption is wrong, everyone knows this. But to support the expenses of a large family, to maintain the Yingchuan Guo family's dignity, to welcome guests and send them off, to have banquets and outings, how can you not spend money? That's all it depends on.
How can you afford a mobile phone with a salary of more than 10,000 yuan, uh, that's wrong, it's a sachet, a banquet with a salary of more than 100,000 yuan, and a car with a salary of 1,000,000 yuan?
If you don't make money yourself, why don't you wait for Cao Cao to give you money?
Therefore, the Guo family, who were born in the judiciary and had law as their family tradition, began to think of ways to make money.
Making money, not being shabby, right?
Everyone needs to have a good meal, and it’s not shabby, right?
Therefore, when the Guo family, like Guo Feng, the county magistrate and the county magistrate, the belly is getting bigger and bigger, and the fat is on the heads and faces of the people, the family traditions of the judicial family, etc.
It was forgotten.
Does Guo Xi know about this problem? Yes.
Do Guo You, Guo Hong and others under Guo Xi know about such shortcomings? Yes.
But they all pretended not to know.
After all, as long as they are peripheral characters who do bad things, they are all offshoots of the clan, and they are all superior, then the Guo family is still clean and they are still good people. Just like the lotus flower, they can emerge from the mud without being stained and can take care of themselves.
It blooms on the water surface, regardless of how dirty the roots in the underwater mud are.
Metaphysical? Or schizophrenic?
There are probably a few like this.
At first, Guo Feng was caught and then beheaded. Guo Xi, Guo You and others just felt a little unlucky. It was as if they were wearing gorgeous clothes and then fell off the horse. It was a bit embarrassing, but it was just the appearance of the clothes.
Although it is dirty, the subject is still fine. The worst thing is to publicly apologize and issue a statement, saying that after Guo discovered the relevant situation, Guo communicated with the victims, apologized sincerely, and obtained the understanding of the victims. At the same time, he also expressed his gratitude to the victims during this process.
I express my deepest condolences to those who unfortunately died among them!
Bow and apologize.
Guo will learn lessons deeply, make serious rectifications, seriously hold accountable, and do a good job in the aftermath...
Things should end here, right?
The noble nobles lowered their heads, bent down and apologized. What else did they want?
Don’t be ignorant!
But Cao Cao still wants to cause trouble! He won’t give up!
So Guo became angry, didn't you Cao Cao make any mistakes? Could it be said that the Cao family and the Xiahou family didn't make any mistakes? What's the point of staring at Guo? Didn't you already apologize? What else do you want?
What more?!
Since Cao Cao wants to cause trouble, let's do it!
Aging makes people lose hope, anger makes people lose reason, and fear makes people lose self-cultivation. The old Guo Xi is aging, angry, and fearful at the same time. Naturally, he no longer has the so-called transparency and stability, and he claims to be two things.
A hundred years of judicial inheritance, and there are many outside marriages. Some can wave the flag and shout, some can secretly plot, some can collude, and some can instigate dissension. What can a mere Cao Aha do? What can he use to fight?
They claimed to have found Cao Cao's weakness, the Qingzhou soldiers.
They forged a knife and found a man holding the knife.
They poked out...
They encountered iron armor.
If they had calculated mentally and unintentionally, they might still be able to fight, but what Guo Xi and others did not expect was that they fell into the trap from the beginning.
Kong Qian's subsequent defection became a huge breakthrough.
Kong Qian is a famous person, but not all famous people are as stubborn as Ni Heng.
Well, he doesn't have a strong ass either.
What are the specific standards of celebrities? It may be difficult to define, but basically they all have several similar characteristics, such as being able to speak, being flattering, being specious, or confusing right and wrong, and then having a solid foundation.
Shameless, if I say something wrong, I will immediately pretend as if nothing happened and it was an innocent mistake...
Such a famous person can often be unfavorable when it comes to theory. When reasoning, he talks about emotions, and when talking about emotions, he is reasonable. Anyway, he can win no matter what, but it is a pity that he met Cao Cao, who is neither reasonable nor emotional.
His clothes were pulled off and he was beaten randomly. It was only when the blood was dripping that he realized how powerful he was. When his skin and flesh were in pain, he could do anything.
As a result, the Yingchuan Guo Family collapsed overnight!
It also implicated many other people...
Throughout Yingchuan, countless people were dismissed from their posts, arrested, imprisoned, and beheaded!
The cold rain, the cold knife, the cold night, only by being in it can you feel the turbulent waves behind the night, and the countless undercurrents surging and accumulating.
Guo Xi was old and his movements were inevitably slow. The cavalry captured by Cao Jun came quickly, so Guo Xi and others had to stop halfway and took shelter in the manor of the other surname of the Guo family.
However, just like Kong Qian betrayed the Guo family and scattered the trees, the other surnames also betrayed the Guo family and became the leader!
In a panic, Guo Xi and others blocked the front, while Guo You and others ran away.
The elderly face death head-on, because the elderly have seen death long ago and know that death will be their end, but Guo You and others are not. They are still young and have children, so they should still have a future.
Grief, fear, struggle to survive.
Guo You and others finally tasted the bitter fruit they had borne.
Like a dog with a broken leg, it staggered away.
During the escape, Guo You and others found some people, but some people also died. The losses far exceeded the replacements...
That night they went to find a ranger leader named Zhang who had previously served under the Guo family, but they were betrayed and ambushed again.
Then the third child died.
Guo You didn't have any tears. He didn't know whether it was because Guo You was injured and he no longer had the energy to grieve, or maybe his tears had dried up the last time Guo Xi protected their escape.
The family is broken up, the wife is separated, and the family is separated.
These things that they originally thought would only happen to those ignorant and incompetent untouchables, now they have tasted it...
But they didn't have any regret or guilt, only endless anger and resentment.
Cao thief!
The hatred for killing my father is irreconcilable!
Well, that's right, now they don't talk about reason, they talk about emotions.
In any case, the three brothers of the Guo family who finally escaped lost one of them on the way, and now only Guo You and Guo Hong are left.
Guo You was still injured. After being silent for a while, he said, "How many people do you think...are there still on our side?"
"..." In the darkness, Guo Hong seemed to have slapped his nose, and said hoarsely, "I don't know... I'm afraid there are not many people who are afraid of Cao thieves nowadays..."
The night was pitch dark, and in the coldness one could not see the way forward.
Guo You held the knife, the handle was cold, "Then... we can only go to one place..."
"Guanzhong?" Guo Hong said. After all, there is a Guo Tu in Guanzhong, and he can provide some assistance and arrangements.
Guo You sighed, "It would be best to go to Guanzhong, but... the Cao thieves are probably on guard..."
Halfway through the words, there was a burst of movement in the dark night. The sound came from far to near, with the faint sound of gold and iron rubbing and colliding. The two people suddenly changed their expressions, and they turned over and lay down beside the remaining wall at the same time. Peeping outside.
Among the chaotic noises, it seemed that a group of soldiers came from a distance, and then they did not come towards the abandoned Zhuangzi, but continued along the road, seemingly heading in the direction of Yangcheng.
And Yangcheng was blocking them in front.
"I'll go take a look..." Guo You stood up and prepared to go check it out.
"I'd better go, you're injured..."
Guo Hong grabbed Guo You, then turned over and went out, found a slightly higher place, looked around in the rain and fog, and made sure that only that group of Cao's soldiers were running over, and there were no others, before he put down Heart comes.
There were other people arrested in Yingchuan, not just the Guo family.
This group of soldiers probably wasn't coming for them, but it also meant that the surrounding area was no longer safe, and soldiers might come to hunt them down at any time.
"We have to go...we will leave at dawn..."
"Where to go?"
"..." Guo You was silent for a long time, and finally said, "We can only go to Jiangdong now..."
……/(ㄒoㄒ)/~~……
The night is deep.
After the light, there is darkness, and those in the darkness are looking forward to the next light.
Some people die, and death represents the end of one thing, but the death of some people brings the beginning of something else.
The night in Jiangdong is not heavy, it has been like this for thousands of years, but the people in Jiangdong make the night more heavy and even overwhelming.
Since Sun Lang's uprising in Wu County, Jiangdong, countless pairs of eyes have been staring at him.
These things, both openly and secretly, finally exposed some of the secrets that Sun Quan had tried to hide...
The fast horses running back and forth on the official road conveyed the news to every corner. These fast horses would not become a force on the battlefield of Jiangdong, but they became the help of the descendants of Jiangdong's gentry. They were not used to convey the message of life and death on the battlefield, but they Used to convey the little ninety-nine under the bellies of Jiangdong people.
Sun Hao received the latest news in the middle of the night.
He put on a robe and hurried to the meeting hall.
"Wu Commandery has stopped fighting... Mr. Lang committed suicide... Old madam, eh? Old madam!"
Sun Hao's hand shook.
The cold wind outside the door blew in, lifting his robes, making him tremble all over and suddenly he felt the urge to urinate.
Forget it, now is not the time to change clothes.
Sun Hao checked with the men who delivered the message again, then waved his men to leave, and then wrapped his robe tightly, his hands and feet were trembling slightly. He didn't know whether it was because of the cold, excitement, or some other reason.
Although it was still dark, Sun Hao felt as if dawn was coming.
"Father..." Sun Gong's voice rang outside the hall, "Have you heard the news about Wu Jun?"
Sun Hao nodded, and then asked him to come in and sit down.
After pondering for a while, Sun Hao handed the information in his hand to Sun Gong, "See for yourself."
Sun Gong looked at the light, and suddenly his hand shook, "This! Madam..."
For a moment, there seemed to be an indescribable atmosphere flowing in the hall.
Sun Hao pinched his beard, "Speaking of it, it was really a fight... it was tragic... It's just a pity, it's a pity that it was just that little bit worse, it's a pity..."
"With Governor Zhou here, of course we won't be able to fight anymore," Sun Gong said.
Sun Hao nodded, and then continued for a while, "Jiang Dong doesn't like to fight, at least he doesn't like to fight all the time... Remember, this is very important... Look at this Governor Zhou, isn't he just here?"
Sun Hao also tried to take action directly before, but later, he was stopped by Yu Fan.
This incident left a deep impression on Sun Hao, and now Sun Hao felt that the time had finally come.
Mrs. Wu is dead! Although Sun Quan is desperately trying to cover up, trying to delay, and even some time ago he was constantly clearing out all the informants in the Sun family, but in Jiangdong, under the current situation, what else is there? Can Sun Quan hide it or seal it off?
The news was revealed brazenly...
Hahaha, this old woman is finally dead!
If it is an ordinary person, death is death, but Mrs. Wu is like the Queen Mother of Jiangdong, and now this "Queen Mother", hey, is dead!
It seems that something lying in front of me has now been eliminated!
Sun Hao suddenly seemed to see the dawn in the dark night!
Since Sun Ce can have a brother-in-law relationship after his death, why can't Sun Jian's brother Sun Jing do it? Or is Sun Hao himself not qualified to do it?
"Haha... what a good death..." Sun Hao couldn't help laughing when he thought of this. After laughing twice, he suddenly felt that it was not very appropriate, so he grunted and suppressed the sarcastic sentence that followed. He went back and coughed twice, "No, what I mean is...well... Jiangdong is in chaos now, and I feel very uneasy..."
"My father's intention is..." Sun Gong asked, "Take this opportunity..."
Sun Hao shook his head, "Don't you understand? You can't force yourself... It was like this before, and it will definitely be like this in the future. Jiangdong, this group of people is like this... Once we send troops, we are the ones who are at fault... So we can’t move...yes, we can’t move...』
"Can't move?" Sun Gong's eyes widened in surprise, "Isn't that...a missed opportunity?"
Sun Hao finally couldn't help it and laughed loudly, "How could it be? This is just the beginning!"
When the parents are still alive, they still have the same place of origin. When the parents are gone, they have different ways of returning.
When Mrs. Wu was alive, she could be said to be the hub that supported the entire Sun family, protecting Sun Quan, a fool who jumped up and down, from harm. But now that Sun Lang is dead, Mrs. Wu also died of a serious illness. To put it nicely, it is called Everyone has his destiny, and the time limit has come, and human power cannot save it. But to put it more harshly, this is Sun Quan's rebellion! He killed his brother and his mother!
As the lord of Jiangdong, there are many things that are destined to be magnified and viewed by other people. Sun Quan, who was unable to realize this problem, ended up in a big mess.
There are some things that ordinary people do, and if something goes wrong, it won't involve much, it will only involve a few families at most. But the Lord of Jiangdong is different. If the idiot fools around, the entire Jiangdong will be affected!
"We can't move now... we can't move..." Sun Hao thought again, and then said slowly, "We moved first, it's our fault, but if we say... haha..."
From tomorrow, no, from now on, I will let your Sun Quan's story of "killing his brother and killing his mother" spread throughout Jiangdong!
Sun Hao smiled, smiled, and finally stopped smiling, and then opened his triangular eyes, "When the time comes, I want to see if this "Lord of Jiangdong" has the dignity to continue to stay in that position. !』
