Long Wind Crossing - Chapter 131

    How? Not so.

    Fu Baoyuan was frightened by this request on the spot.

    Take three thousand city defense troops to repair the river, and let Shen Ming lead it. Although Xingyang has few soldiers, and a city has only 4,000 troops, after all, Xingyang and Wangdu are different border cities that fight all year round. 4,000 is already the place with the most troops in Yongzhou.

    In this way, the problem is indeed solved, but from Wang Siyuan’s hands, how could Wang Siyuan really let him go?

    Fu Baoyuan reluctantly showed a smile: “Master Gu, why did you suddenly remember this? Didn’t you say that there is no deadline?”

      Because we didn’t fix the embankment and caused the flood in the Yellow River, I’m afraid that you and I will not be able to protect the black gauze hat, no matter what, no one has to find a way to fix the embankment before August.”

    “Master Gu’s idea is excellent.”

    Fu Baoyuan coughed lightly, and then said: “But it’s a bit too radical. Just bring soldiers to repair the river, I’m afraid the army will not agree.”

    “I will play your majesty.”

    “Then wait for His Majesty’s decree.” Fu Baoyuan immediately said, “How can you disturb the military and defense matters before Your Majesty’s decree comes? Master Gu, you are here to repair the Yellow River, It’s not like building the Yellow River, it’s more than Zhizhou’s management, right?”

    “I am repairing the Yellow River,” Gu Jiusi looked up at Fu Baoyuan, and said coldly, “But I also came to repair the Yellow River with the Sword of the Son of Heaven.”

    “Master Gu, don’t scare the lower officials,” Fu Baoyuan sat on the side, holding up the tea ceremony, “With the sword of the emperor, you can’t be careless, right? Everything has to be reasonable.”

    “Okay,” Gu Jiusi nodded, “Then I’ll justify it. Shame on your face, right?”

    Gu Jiusi sat down and said directly: “This time, the dam repair cost a total of 700,000 silver, of which the labor cost totaled 400,000, and the material cost was nearly 300,000. The river workers recruited a total of 100,000 people. Each person will give you two taels of silver and fifty cents, including room and board, three meals a day, at least two steamed buns plus one meat, one vegetable, and one soup. This is the money given to you by the Ministry of Industry. You told me that it was not enough, then you should tell I, Xingyang Pinghuai, only get one tael of silver per month for labor, and you give them twenty or fifty wen, why is it not enough?!”

    After saying this, Fu Baoyuan’s face changed a little, and he immediately said: “Master Gu is listening to some nonsense that doesn’t have long eyes, and it affects a tael of silver, where can you recruit laborers?”

    “I have to ask you this.”

    Gu Jiusi sneered and laughed, he took out the contract given to him by the overseer on the river bank: “This is the contract you gave to others, and the money on it will not make me a rogue, right? “

    Fu Baoyuan looked at the numbers above, his face was blue and white for a while, Gu Jiusi looked at him, and continued: “You still don’t give up? Then I continue to ask, according to the regulations, you all cover room and board, and take care of meals. , but whether it is Pinghuai or Xingyang, the best thing is to sleep in the bridge hole and give two steamed buns. Xingyang doesn’t even have steamed buns, so let the river workers drink some porridge. Do you want me to check, where did the money go? Not enough money, not enough money, but money has to be spent, right? The Emperor Sword can’t kill innocent people indiscriminately,” Gu Jiusi approached Fu Baoyuan and said coldly, “But guilty people, this sword is used to stun the ruler and kill the traitor. “

    “Master Gu…” Fu Baoyuan held the tea, looked up at Gu Jiusi, and said helplessly, “Do you have to do this?”

    “I didn’t want to do this.”

    Gu Jiusi said flatly: “I was also forced to be helpless. Mr. Fu,” Gu Jiusi sat down and softened his attitude, “I am responsible for this matter, I can’t let the Yellow River go wrong under my hands, do you understand? ?”

    Supervisor Qin Tian clearly stated that there would be a flood, and took 10 million taels of silver. If he didn’t save the people and solve the flood at the beginning, Gu Jiusi’s official career would come to an end.

    Fu Baoyuan was silent, after a long time, he finally said: “Why does Master Gu have to do everything well? Tell Your Majesty in advance that the time is too short, and evacuate the people first, and then It’s time to subsidize and appease it and continue to build the Yellow River, isn’t that bad?”

    “First make money for repairing the Yellow River, and then make money for settlement?”

    Gu Jiusi couldn’t help sneering: “Are you a fool to be your majesty?”

    “If you think so,” Fu Baoyuan smiled and said indifferently, “Then why don’t you change someone else to take care of this, you can’t take care of this.”

    “I am the official third-rank household minister, and I took the sword of the emperor to Xingyang, and I can’t even handle this?!”

    Gu Jiusi shouted angrily: “Fu Baoyuan, I know the affairs of local officials are complicated, but don’t deceive people too much!”

    Fu Baoyuan held the cup, he did not speak, after a long time, he smiled and said: “Okay, if Master Gu wants to repair, then repair it. After the repair in mid-August, then in mid-August It’s finished. There’s no need to call in the army of the city defense camp. According to the calculation of taking care of adults, 700,000 taels should be enough to fix the embankment.”

    Speaking, he stood up and said respectfully: “Everything obeys Master Gu.”

    Fu Baoyuan no longer stopped him. The next day, Gu Jiusi went to the dam in person and watched the overseer recruit people. Two taels of silver per person, two steamed buns, one meat and one vegetarian meal for each meal. .

    Gu Jiusi was afraid of swallowing money among them, so he could only go to the dam every day to stand guard. He and the river workers ate together, did things together, and counted people every day.

    He not only wanted to stare at Xingyang, but also in many places, so he sent a few cronies to stare at him.

    He didn’t dare to send Shen Ming out again. If he did things forcibly like this, he would be dissatisfied, and he would continue to assassinate him.

    Staying so hard at the progress of the project, the river repairing has an unprecedented speed.

    However, when he did this, the local officials complained and went to Wang Siyuan to complain.

    Wang Houchun said directly to Wang Siyuan: “Uncle, this Gu Jiusi is really ignorant. Who used to repair the Yellow River in the past, who would be reckless like him?

    Wang Siyuan drank tea and said indifferently: “Young people are ignorant, it’s normal. You will understand if you suffer a little more.”

    “Uncle,” Wang Houchun turned his head and lowered his voice, “Look, isn’t it…”

    He raised his hand and made a “wipe neck” motion on his neck. Wang Houchun smiled lowly: “He is the official third-rank household minister.”

    “Frighten him,” Wang Houchun sneered, “I see how capable a hairy child is.”

    “Don’t be rough.”

    Wang Siyuan said slowly: “Find him more things to do, and naturally he will collapse.”

    Wang Houchun thought about it and understood what Wang Siyuan meant. He smiled and said respectfully, “Understood.”

    So Gu Jiusi found that there were more things.

    On the embankment, as long as he leaves for a while, something will happen. Either some officers and soldiers whipped the river workers, or there was a problem with the food.

    According to the regulations, when such a thing happens, you can only punish those people according to the law. But those people didn’t seem to be afraid of punishment at all. Gu Jiusi only punished one person. As long as he is not there, it will happen a second time.

    He had no choice but to spend it on the river bank. He would get up before dawn in the morning, and would not come back until late at night.

    He lost weight quickly. While Liu Yuru was supervising the establishment of the warehouse, he was concerned about Gu Jiusi’s side. But she could hardly see Gu Jiusi. When she went there several times, she saw Gu Jiusi on the river bank. He just wore a long tunic, a bamboo hat, and even went barefoot, with a bamboo pole in his hand, and talked with the supervisor on the river bank.

    Occasionally, he would even go to help, carrying hundreds of pounds of sandbags on his body, inspiring everyone to work together.

    Every time he went to work, everyone would be very excited and worked hard, so at first people on the riverbank called Gu Jiusi “Master Gu” and “Gu Shangshu”, and later some The young man dared to call him “Gu Jiuge”.

    Everyone who sees him will always be energetic, like the rising sun rising in the sky, always gorgeous.

    However, Liu Yuru knew very well that when he came home every night, sometimes he just waited for her to wash her face, and then fell asleep on the bed. He took a shower every night, and was confused. When he got on the bed, he fell on the bed and fell asleep.

    She would look at his eyebrows at night, and she thought it was very strange.

    Gu Jiusi’s brows became stiffer, less delicate, and more tough as a knife, but she felt that no matter how he looked at him, he was very handsome.

    She lay on his chest, listening to his heartbeat, she felt that the world was very stable.

    She felt that she was like a sparrow, he was like a big tree, he propped up a world for her and let her sleep peacefully.

    This is a sense of security that the young Gu Jiusi cannot give. In the sound of her heartbeat, she feels that this man is truly calm as a man.

    She was lying on her stomach so quietly, Gu Jiusi woke up in a daze. He raised his hand on her back and whispered, “Yuru, I’m sorry.”

    “Huh?”

    Liu Yuru didn’t understand why he said sorry, and then she listened to him: “I don’t have time to accompany you, so you are worried.”

    “It’s fine.” Liu Yuru laughed, but after thinking about it, she still said, “However, you can’t keep going like this, you have to let it go.”

    “Can’t put it.”

    Gu Jiusi sighed and said: “The other day, an old man told me that thanks to my presence, they had a few good days. As soon as I left, they turned their backs to me and didn’t know what to do. .”

    “It’s not always a problem,” Liu Yuru said in a low voice, “There’s still a year left to repair the Yellow River. You won’t be able to endure it for two months.”

    However, after speaking, Gu Jiusi did not respond, Liu Yuru looked up to see that she had fallen asleep.

    Liu Yuru was a little helpless, she sighed, and until the next day, Gu Jiusi went to the construction site as usual. It rained that day, Gu Jiusi and everyone crowded in the shed to avoid the rain. A young man came over and said to Gu Jiusi, “Master Gu…”

    Gu Jiusi turned his head, and at that moment, the knife light stabbed violently!

    Gu Jiusi reacted quickly, grabbed the boy’s hand, Shen Ming held the boy at the same time, and kicked him to the ground, that is, at this moment, more than a dozen killers from the crowd Gu Jiusi immediately called out, but the surrounding guards didn’t know where they went, and only a few shadow guards were left to follow him. However, there are people around, Yingwei and Gu Jiusi are separated by the crowd, Gu Jiusi’s people are afraid of hurting ordinary people, so it is difficult to get close to Gu Jiusi. In the panic, only Shen Minghu was beside Gu Jiusi.

    Liu Yuru was sitting in the carriage when she saw the heavy rain and was about to pick up Gu Jiusi. She was still on the road when she saw the crowd on the river bank chaotic from a distance, she could see clearly from above, Gu Jiusi and Shen Ming were entangled with a dozen people in the crowd, Liu Yuru was shocked and immediately said: “Go save people. !”

      Sitting in the carriage, gritted teeth, watching the chaotic crowd.

    A group of people are constantly preventing the shadow guard from approaching Gu Jiusi. There are many of them, and they seem to be ordinary people. The shadow guard does not dare to do anything to them. difficult. Liu Yuru squeezed the curtain of the carriage, suddenly feeling a little sad in her heart.

    Gu Jiusi and Shen Ming are highly skilled in martial arts. The other party obviously did not expect Gu Jiusi to have such skills. After delaying for so long, when Liu Yuru’s guards arrived, Gu Jiusi took the initiative to catch those assassins.

    Those assassins are not professional, they fled everywhere, Gu Jiusi and Shen Ming led people to catch them around, Liu Yuru saw that the situation was over, she got off the carriage, at this time, she I just saw Luo Zishang’s carriage beside him.

    He didn’t know how long he watched, the surrounding guards were lined up neatly, Liu Yuru’s face was cold, her eyes were a little red, she walked to Luo Zishang and whispered: “Lord Luo.”

    Luo Zishang was sitting in the carriage with the curtains open. He was looking at things on the river bank from the window, but when he heard Liu Yuru’s words, he turned his head and saw Liu Yuru standing in front of him.

    It was raining lightly, the girl was wearing a cape outside, and she stood in front of him with a calm expression, although she seemed calm, her eyes were a little red, Luo Zishang was silent for a moment, and then said: “Boss Liu .”

    “Can I borrow a few people?”

    Liu Yuru spoke calmly. Luo Zishang nodded: “Yes.”

    Liu Yuru said, “Thank you.” Then she turned around and greeted Luo Zishang’s people to follow her down. Seeing her going down, Luo Zishang said, “Boss Liu.”

    Liu Yuru turned around, Luo Zishang hesitated for a moment, and finally said: “People are also selfish, so there is no need to be sad about it.”

    Liu Yuru laughed after hearing this for a while.

    “Thank you.”

    Thank you very much this time, she said it very sincerely.

    After she finished speaking, she led Luo Zishang’s people all the way down the river bank, Gu Jiusi had already restrained the assassin, and the soldiers who were not there before came back, and they surrounded the river bank , do not let people leave.

    Liu Yuru entered the crowd, Gu Jiusi turned her head, saw Liu Yuru, and said uneasy: “Yuru, why are you here? It’s dirty…”

    “This, this, this…”

    Liu Yuru started to order people quickly. She ordered dozens of people in a row, and in a daze for everyone, she said directly: “Arrest them all.”

    With this order, the guards immediately started to arrest people.

    The people she ordered were a group of people, and those people immediately wailed and hurriedly said: “Injustice, injustice, don’t care about our business…”

    “It’s none of your business?” Liu Yuru sneered, “It’s none of your business, why did you stop our guards to save Master Gu?”

    “Injustice,” those people shouted, “We don’t have it, we are just running for our lives, no one is stopped!”

     “Take it away and send it to the government office, and Lord Shen will personally interrogate it.”

    Liu Yuru said with a cold face: “Find out who asked them to do it.”

    “Yuru…”

    “Shut up!”

    Gu Jiusi just opened her mouth, and Liu Yuru shouted: “Look at what kind of people you are protecting! Can’t do anything for money? Don’t think about asking for mercy, starting tomorrow, you There is no need to take half a step back to the river bank, there are river supervisors and Xingyang’s government office here, what’s the matter with you, a minister of household, hanging around here every day?!”

    Gu Jiusi didn’t dare to speak any more, the guard next to him started to walk out, Liu Yuru turned her head and walked forward.

    Gu Jiusi stood on the spot, he didn’t dare to move, Liu Yuru took two steps, she turned around and saw that Gu Jiusi was still standing there, she stretched out her hand and said coldly, “Don’t leave yet. ?”

    Gu Jiusi looked up and saw Liu Yuru’s outstretched hand, he was happy and hurried forward. He walked up to Liu Yuru and said a little embarrassedly, “My hands are dirty…”

    Before he finished speaking, Liu Yuru reached out and held him.

    His hands were still covered in mud and blood, and hers were clean and soft. He felt a little embarrassed, but she held him firmly, as if afraid that he would run away.

    Gu Jiusi was a little embarrassed, he lowered his head and whispered, “It all got your hands dirty.”

    Liu Yuru didn’t speak, Gu Jiusi climbed the **** with her and walked onto the road. Her shoes were stained with mud, Gu Jiusi squatted down and wiped her with his sleeve.

    He’s been rolling in the dirt all day and doesn’t care. Liu Yuru watched Gu Jiusi squatting on the ground and polished her shoes earnestly. She didn’t know why, but tears fell.

    Tears dripped onto Gu Jiusi’s sleeves, Gu Jiusi looked at the tears that fell, he was stunned for a while, and then said: “Why are you crying? Give you a shoe, and you are so moved. ?”

    “Gu Jiusi,” Liu Yuru said in a hoarse voice, “those people, they must have hired them with money and deliberately used it to separate you from the guards today. I can see clearly from above, they are on purpose.”

    “Oh,” Gu Jiusi lowered his head, picked up bamboo pieces from the side, and scraped the soil for her, “I know, I see it.”

    “You shouldn’t have come to the embankment.”

    Gu Jiusi didn’t say anything, Liu Yuru continued: “Whether they don’t get enough to eat, don’t live well, or don’t get money, it’s all a matter of the Xingyang government, as long as they don’t make trouble, After the embankment is repaired, it has nothing to do with you. You are here, putting yourself in danger, what are you planning?”

    Gu Jiusi lowered his head and said happily, “Okay, it’s all cleaned up.”

    Speaking, he squatted down, raised his head, smiled at Liu Yuru, and said happily: “There are only a few bad people, most of them are still very good. These are small things, I don’t Take it to heart.”

    He smiled brightly, in this dark world, as bright as dawn.

    He looked at Liu Yuru: “Everyone has their own difficulties, they stop me, and they have their reasons. I am an official, let the people live well, and let the rules I set be implemented. It’s also my duty, it’s normal, I can think about it. Don’t be sad, your shoes are dirty, I’ll accompany you to buy a new pair? Don’t cry, eh?”

    Liu Yuru didn’t speak, she looked at the young man who looked up at her with tears in her eyes.

    She loves this person’s smile so much, because she loves so much, so at this moment, she is extremely distressed.

    “I’m not sad,” she said in a low voice, “I’m wronged for you, Gu Jiusi, do you know?”

      But only when she met this person, even if she saw a little grievance at this person, she felt pain when she encountered half injustice.

    Because this person is placed on the apex of the heart and touched a little, that is, the arrow pierces the heart.

    Gu Jiusi stared blankly at Liu Yuru, Liu Yuru squatted down and hugged him tightly while crying.

    “Gu Jiusi,” she choked out, “Can you be a little better to yourself?”

    Gu Jiusi was speechless, Liu Yuru cried, “You are heartless, but I am wronged for you.”

    How much love you give to the world, I want the world to give you as much love.

    No injustice, no grievance. All the tenderness in this world should be given to such a beautiful you.

    Gu Jiusi heard Liu Yuru cry, he sighed and hugged Liu Yuru helplessly.

    “You girl,” Gu Jiusi sighed, “Why don’t you understand?”

    “God gave you to me, which is the greatest injustice in the world. I don’t need other justice in my life.”