The first winter rain in the sixth year of Taixing finally floated down.

Maybe it's not the first one?

No one cares about this matter in particular.

The rain in winter is particularly cold.

The world was covered with gray, as if it was immersed in dark water, with a decay and a smell of blood. The cold wind passed through an abandoned farmhouse, whistling under the broken wall for a while, then roared away again.

Guo You touched Hei and applied the wound medicine to his shoulders. The pain came. He gritted his teeth and tried hard to prevent himself from making any noise.

A ring-headed knife, stained with blood, leaned obliquely on his leg.

The wound medicine was applied, the bandage was pulled up, and his clothes were tied. His fingers and teeth were trembling in the dark.

The sound of tiny footsteps came, and Guo Youhu grabbed the hilt of the knife.

"It's me..." A low voice came from the other side of the broken wall, "My sister-in-law and the children have settled down..."

Guo You relaxed and released the hilt of the knife, "Where is the third brother? How is the third brother?"

『…』The visitor seemed to be stuck, and then he silently found a position on the other side of the broken wall that was not rained, and sat down. He seemed to have a choked sound, "The third brother is dead."

Guo You leaned against the wall and didn't say anything for a long time.

In the dark night, there is only the sound of rain.

When the Guo family of Yingchuan started, they depended on the legal line. The Guo family specialized in criminal law and decrees, and later became a prominent family that held the important judicial power of the court. It has been nearly two hundred years since then.

Now, the Guo family fell down and collapsed and scattered. The reason was that a tribe member of the Guo family caused a series of changes caused by corruption...

Guo Feng is dead.

If he simply died, it wouldn't matter, but from him, Guo Xi was involved. Guo Xi was old. Although he had been a grand servant and served as the Grand Marshal, it is well known that many of the three dukes during the reign of Emperor Ling of Han were all scapegoats, and Guo Xi was no exception. After less than a year of sitting in the Grand Marshal, he was dismissed again.

The dismissed Taiwei is also the Taiwei and the former Taiwei.

Before the Guo family was on board, he served as a series of official positions such as the prefect, the Sili School, the Tingwei, etc. The Guo family was prosperous and prosperous in Yingchuan. It was once very glorious and more grand than the Xun family. After all, Xun Shuang did not take office at that time, and Xun Yu had not yet emerged.

Afterwards, Guo Jia was still drunk and dreaming, and Guo Tu had already been betting under Yuan Shao.

The result failed.

Not only did I fail to get back my capital, but I even had the dining table lifted up.

Guo Tu went to Guanzhong, but it was not as smooth as expected. He could not die of starvation, but he could not support the Guo family in Yingchuan.

what to do?

Corruption is wrong, everyone knows this. But to support the expenses of the huge family, to maintain the unyielding airs of the Guo family in Yingchuan, to welcome and send off, and to go on banquets and outings, how can you not spend money? With that little salary, how can you afford a mobile phone worth more than 10,000 yuan? Well, it’s a sachet, you can afford a banquet worth more than 100,000 yuan, and a vehicle worth one hundred thousand yuan?

If you don’t make money, are you waiting for Cao Cao to send money?

Therefore, Guo, who came from the judicial system and had the law as his family, began to try his best to make money.

Is it not shabby to make money, right?

Do people always want to have a meal? It’s not shabby, right?

Therefore, when the Guo family, like Guo Feng, had a big belly, and was fat on the heads and faces of the people, the family traditions of the Judicial House were thrown behind.

Does Guo Xi know about this problem? I know.

Guo You, Guo Hong and others under Guo Xi know whether they know such problems? They also know.

But they all pretended not to know.

After all, as long as you do bad things, they are all peripheral figures, all the branches of the clan, and those who are the ones, then the Guo family is still clean and they are still good people. They are like lotus flowers that can come out of the mud without being stained, and bloom on the water surface on their own, regardless of how dirty the rhizomes in the sludge under the water are stained.

Metaphysical? Or schizophrenia?

There are probably some of them.

At first, Guo Feng was caught and his head was chopped off. Guo Xi and Guo You and others felt a little unlucky, just like wearing gorgeous clothes and then slamming a horse squad, which was a bit embarrassing. However, the clothes on the outside were dirty, and the subject was still fine. At worst, he could apologize publicly and issue a statement saying that after Guo discovered the relevant situation, Guo communicated with the victims, apologized sincerely, and obtained the forgiveness of the victims, and at the same time expressed deep condolences to the deceased who died unfortunately in the process!

Bow and apologize.

Guo will learn from the lessons deeply, make serious rectifications, hold people accountable, and do a good job in the aftermath...

Things should end here, right?

The noble gentry all lowered their heads and bent down to apologize. What else do you want?

Don't be ungrateful!

But Cao Cao still has to do something! He still refuses to give up!

So Guo became angry. Are you Cao Cao not wrong? Are you from the Xiahou people in Cao’s family? What’s the point of being staring at Guo? Haven’t you already apologized? What else do you want?

What else?!

Since Cao Cao is going to cause trouble, let’s start!

Aging makes people lose hope, anger makes people lose their minds, and fear makes people lose their cultivation. The old Guo Xi is aging, angry, and fear, and naturally there is no so-called transparency and stability. She claims to be a judicial inheritance of two hundred years, and there are many external lines of marriages, some can shake flags and shout, some can secretly go to Chen Cang, some can connect with each other, and some can instigate and disagree. What can one Cao Aman do? What can he fight?

They claimed that they had found Cao Cao's weakness and the Qingzhou soldiers.

They built a knife and found a knife-holder.

They poked it out...

They encountered iron armor.

If they had the intention to make up their minds and had no intentions, they might be able to fight, but what Guo Xi and others did not expect was that they had fallen into the trap from the beginning.

Kong Qian's turnaround then became a huge breakthrough.

Kong Qian is a famous scholar, but not all famous scholars are as strong as Ni Heng.

Well, his butt is not iron either.

What are the specific standards for famous scholars? It may be difficult to define, but they basically have several similar characteristics, such as being able to speak, or flatter, or being similar rather than being similar, or being self-consistent with the black and white, and then being shameless. If you say it wrong, you will immediately pretend to be nothing but unintentional mistakes...

Such famous scholars can often go all the best when they are theory. When they are reasoning, they talk about feelings, and when they are talking about feelings, they can win anyway. Unfortunately, they meet Cao Cao, who is unreasonable and unfeeling, and he takes off his clothes and beats him up. Only after he is bleeding can he realize that he is powerful, but in pain, he will get everything.

So, the Guo family in Yingchuan collapsed overnight!

It also implicated many other people...

In the entire Yingchuan ground, I don’t know how many people were dismissed, arrested, imprisoned, and beheaded for a while!

The cold rain, the cold knife, the cold night, only when you are in it can you feel the surging waves and countless dark tides behind the night.

Guo Xi was old and his movements were inevitably slow. The cavalry captured by Cao's army came quickly, so Guo Xi and others had to stay halfway and hide in the manor of the side surname of the Guo family.

However, just like Kong Qian betrayed the Guo family, the money fell and the money scattered, and the other surnames also betrayed the Guo family and made their heads!

In a panic, Guo Xi and his men blocked the front, while Guo You and others ran away.

The elderly face death directly because the elderly have long seen death and know that death will be their end, but Guo You and the others are not. They are still young and have children, and they should still have a future.

Grief, fear, struggle to survive.

Guo You and others finally tasted the bitter fruit they had produced themselves.

It was like a dog with broken legs, staggering and running away.

During the escape, Guo You and others found some people, but some people died, and the losses far exceeded the supplementary ones...

That night they went to find a Ranger leader named Zhang under Guo's previous command, but was betrayed and ambushed again.

Then the third brother died.

Guo You didn't have any tears. I don't know if it was because Guo You had a wound on his body that made him no longer have the energy to be sad, or his tears had already dried up when Guo Xi covered them up for escape last time.

The family is broken and the wife is separated.

These things they thought would only happen to those ignorant and incompetent untouchables, but now they have tasted...

But they did not have any regrets or guilt, only endless anger and resentment were left.

Cao Thief!

The hatred of killing your father is irreconcilable!

Well, that's right, they are unreasonable and emotional now.

No matter what, the three brothers who finally escaped at the moment lost one of them halfway, and now only Guo You and Guo Hong are left.

Guo You was still injured. After a while of silence, he said, "You said... how many people are standing on our side?"

『…』 In the darkness, Guo Hong seemed to sniffle and said hoarsely, "I don't know... I'm afraid of Cao thief now, there are probably not many people...』

The night is dark, and in the cold, people cannot see the way forward.

Guo You held the knife, the handle was cold, "Then... can only go to one place..."

"Guanzhong?" Guo Hong said. After all, there is still a Guo Tu in Guanzhong, so you can provide assistance and arrangements.

Guo You sighed, "It is naturally the best to be able to go to Guanzhong, but... Cao Zhe is most likely to be on guard..."

Halfway through the dark night, there was a slight movement. The sound from far to near, with the faint sound of metal and iron friction and collision, the two of them suddenly changed their expressions, and they all turned over and lay on the edge of the broken wall, peeking out.

Amid the chaotic sounds, there seemed to be a group of soldiers coming from a distance, and then did not come to the abandoned village, but continued along the road, as if they were heading to the direction of Yangcheng.
To be continued...