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"You all believe in Guan Ba ​​with all your heart, but I, Wan Zhenquan, not only don't believe it, but I want to spit on him in person! Spit on him like a beast!" He rolled up his sleeves angrily, put one leg on the stilt and shouted: "I'm a straight-talking person, and I'm not afraid to offend anyone in person, unless your ears are plugged with donkey hair and you haven't heard the rumors in the streets... At the beginning, Master Zhen personally proposed the matchmaker to promise Aunt Hanying to him, but now he But in Wanjialou, he hooked up with that dead ghost's widow in Wanliang!"

Wan Zhenquan yelled like this, causing many astonished faces to turn to Guan Baye. Guan Baye's thick eyebrows were slightly frowned, and his face was heavy and majestic. He seemed to be thinking hard about something, but also seemed to be thinking He tried his best to endure it, maintaining his usual calm and calm demeanor. Even so, his anger at this kind of slander can be seen from his temples with bulging veins. "Wan Zhenquan, I have to tell you!" Gu Ye glanced at Guan Ba ​​Ye, and said solemnly: "Although you are the deacon of this clan, you have the right to discuss clan affairs, but such words are not casual Yes, Ba Ye is a well-known nobleman in the Northland, you must not follow rumors to slander his reputation... Even though Wan Xiaoniang was a busy woman at the beginning, after Wan Liang's death, she was also in the ancestral hall. She made a blood oath and jumped over the fire pit in front of the grave. This matter is not only related to her chastity, but also her life and death... You know the family rules of Yiwanjialou. Execute her!"

"Grandpa Gu and brothers from other families are all present here," Wan Zhenquan clenched his fists and said, leaning sideways: "If there is no basis for this statement, I, Wan Zhenquan, would be too bold to dare Put it on the main hall of the ancestral hall and say, I said this, of course there is evidence." "Okay." Gu Ye nodded, turned to Guan Ba ​​Ye with a light smile and said: "Ba Ye, please understand my difficulties, I didn't expect someone in the clan to accuse you of such dirty things, what do you have to say? Can you guide me?" "Since the matter is on my head," Guan Baye said loudly, "Even if I have something to say, it's inconvenient to say it first. You'd better let him get the proof first."

After Guan Ba ​​Ye finished speaking, Gu Ye left his seat again, stood up and said, "Wan Zhenquan, it's rare that Ba Ye is magnanimous and didn't care about you at that time. If you can't come up with real evidence, I advise you to talk to me as soon as possible. The eighth master kowtowed to apologize, then went to the widow's door to hang red firecrackers, and then hung you with a hundred leather whips. If you insist on not turning back and slandering to the end, no one in the clan will be able to protect you! Think clearly first, Go back to what I said." "I have evidence." Wan Zhenquan said with a thick neck: "I have thought about it a long time ago. If I intentionally slander him, I am willing to be punished. Then again, what if Guan Ba ​​really has something to do?!"

Gu Ye didn't answer, and looked at Guan Ba ​​Ye again. "I would like to lead to death." Guan Baye was full of anger, and said these four words decisively. In the past many years in the rivers and lakes, I have never experienced such an unbearable and strange thing. Guan Baye held his crutches tightly in his hands and thought about it, but he couldn't think of a reason?Before this, I always held the idea that human nature is inherently good. Who knew that in Wanjialou, in this ancient and solemn ancestral hall, I discovered that people's hearts are like ghosts, and they are so dangerous? ! ... All these grievances and slanders are like a messy and entangled nightmare. I don't know why it started?If it is said that some men in Wanjialou who grew up in a corner of the barren sky are selfish and short-sighted, afraid of death and greedy for life?I asked for help for Yanshi and didn't force anyone to pull a gun to fight Beiyang. They didn't want to frame themselves for no reason.If it is because of any enmity in the past?That is also impossible!Ask yourself, I have done everything for many years without sacrificing myself for others, especially in Wanjialou. Apart from laying down my life for them to beat Judge Zhu Si at night, I have nothing to do with it. The most painful thing is not that he planted She framed and slandered herself, but instead attracted Aigu, an innocent and weak girl with a miserable life experience.This is by no means a mere whim, there must be a deep and unfathomable conspiracy hidden in it...

"What evidence do you have? You might as well tell the truth in front of Guan Baye!" Gu Ye's cold voice interrupted Guan Baye's thoughts. "Please Master Gu send Da Banya for questioning," Wan Zhenquan protested, "He should be a living witness, he said he saw it with his own eyes." "Send Big Banya for questioning!" Master Gu shouted out of the corridor. At noon, because the sunlight outside the corridor was too dazzling, the main hall looked dark instead; the deacons of the house clan who were covering Baye Guan, when they first heard Wan Zhenquan speak, they all secretly laughed at the green skins of the second house They were playing their usual tricks of blackmailing people again, trying to use this to drive away the guests and drive Ba Ye away from the Wanjialou. When Ba Ye made an oath, Wan Zhenquan was still willing to stand up and give evidence. Only then did everyone realize the seriousness of the situation. He held his breath, and waited for the big die to appear in the dead silence.

After waiting for a while, there was no sign of Dabanya, a man gasped outside the corridor and said, "Follow Master Gu, Dabanya rode a donkey out of the north gate this morning before the sun was bright, and brought a parcel with him." Luggage, it is said that I was sent by you, Master Gu, to go to the Northland to handle errands...!" "He... ran away...?!" Master Gu said to himself. "What?! You said...he...he...he... ran away?!" Wan Zhenquan's face suddenly turned yellow: "He...he... how can he just run away?!" "He has two legs, why can't he run?" Master Gu said bravely, "Come on, first put Wan Zhenquan under custody and take care of it, and we can discuss it after we find Big Ban Ya... As for his slanderous words Where there is insult to Master Ba, I, who is in charge of the family affairs, will apologize to Master Ba in public... The old Qifang blamed me for not sending someone to inform Lord Zhen in advance when ringing the bell to call people to discuss clan affairs. It’s a mess!——I’ve sent Wanshu to Shahekou on a horse and starry night, but I still haven’t seen him back. I don’t want to, since there are different opinions on whether Wanjialou should respond to Ba Ye’s request and pull a gun to help Yanshi. Take this burden alone, Yifa waits for Master Zhen to come and talk about it later!"

Young Master Gu is a quick-witted person, even if he heard that Da Banya was unwilling to give false testimony and slipped away, he could manage to get around and arrest Wan Zhenquan in front of the deacons of the various clans, and take the responsibility for Zhenye's failure to show up. Pushing it on Wan Shu; knowing that no one has informed, Master Zhen will not rush back to Wanjialou in time, but quietly delays the matter of pulling a gun to help; by doing this, not only does he not arouse the suspicion of the other families, but feels that Master Gu Handled it properly; even Guan Ba ​​Ye couldn't help admiring Gu Ye for his fairness in judging the matter!

The meeting of the ancestral hall ended at noon. However, Guan Baye was waiting day and night to pull a gun to help Yanshi, but there was still no clue.This kind of unresolved matter troubled him, and the difficult situation in Yanshi made him unwilling to procrastinate for a moment, but Wanjialou did not categorically refuse to pull the gun. When you are arrogant.In addition, what troubled him even more was the slander Wan Zhenquan inflicted on him in public, and because of this slander, Ai Gu was involved. Ai Gu is now a widow in the Wan family. No matter how difficult her situation is, no matter how difficult it is, It's not his turn to lend a helping hand, of course, Wan Zhenquan's slander in public is based on some absurd rumors, but he believes that there is some kind of reason hidden in all the rumors? !He believed that someone was secretly instigating, intending to frame himself.

He wants to find out the truth in the limited time before he recovers from the injury. On the day when the Wanjialou bell rang for a meeting, there was an earth-shattering change on the south bank of the surging Yangtze River.Few people in the wilderness of the northern country know that the army that swore to the Northern Expedition in Guangzhou in June of the previous year had captured Hunan, pacified Hubei, conquered Jiangxi, recovered Fujian and Zhejiang in a series of victories. At the end of spring, the city of Nanjing was restored.The gentle spring breeze in the wilderness cannot immediately spread this exciting news to every barren land. People can only guess, judge, and imagine what happened in distant places from the various actual signs of the Beiyang Army. Mishap occurred.

Those news were only told by people as dreamlike stories. Those who told them were not confident, and those who listened were even more skeptical.The fact is also the same; it has been sixteen or seventeen years since the Yellow Dragon Banner fell in the former Qing Dynasty, and people don't feel that there is any better change in the days before them. In 1967, floods, droughts, and swordsmen were tormented by each other, and it had long been so dim that it almost disappeared. People even felt that living under the crotches of the handsome generals of the Beiyang lineage was worse and darker than it was back then. , the repeated grievances and grievances between the Anfu department, no one can count Zhang Zuolin, Cao Kun, Zhang Xun, Feng Guozhang, Feng Yuxiang, Qi Xieyuan, Sun Chuanfang, Lu Yongxiang... the names of those magic stars, you come today, he will go tomorrow up!Soldiers come today, horses go tomorrow!They drank wine, ate feasts, and took away gold, silver, treasures, and everything they wanted, but left famine, plague, and nameless refugees on the wasteland at the same time, letting another battle, and other blood and blood. Fire and Hunger howled to write their own stories. They live in that kind of single looping tragic story, the sun shines on the deserted graves and bones all over the field, and the long wind sends thousands of miles of mourning, making this dark chapter of Chinese history buried for five thousand years The long-lasting desolation is fused with the blood and tears of those previous dynasties.When the living were suffering, when they were enduring hunger and cold, under the shadow of the bloody snake-like whip, and in the tragic and desperate parting of life and death, the living people never called out people's names. They just looked up at the sky and mourned silently. Pray to the sky; hope that God will open his eyes to rescue them, but the sky in the tearful eyes is higher and farther away, even if they prayed thousands of times and still remain indifferent, they just died unwillingly! ...Or it can be said that they are a primitive and ignorant group, because they lack intelligence at all, do not know the world beyond the circular dome, and do not know what the Northern Expedition in the south will bring them?They only know that life on the ground in Beiyang is not the life of human beings, and they are eager for a new change. Among the news that spread to the north, they were no strangers to the fact that the Northern Expeditionary Army captured Nanjing City.Every villager and peasant woman knows Nanjing City, and they have heard too many stories about that city from ancient legends, talking about the Qinhuai River, Yanziji and Yuhuatai, and the forty-mile city wall of Jinling. They can experience it as if they had personally experienced it. Describe it repeatedly, describe how high the city tower is, how wide the city gate is, and even boast that they know how many stones were used in the construction of the city wall?How many bricks? ...From Ming Taizu to the defeat of the Tartars, from Qing soldiers breaking Yangzhou, crossing the river and occupying Nanjing to kill King Fu, to Changmao's rebellion and entering Nanjing... They cared about that city, because that city seemed to be tied to the world. rise and fall.The capture of Nanjing by the Northern Expedition opened an eye of hope in the hearts of the suffering people, making the news believed to be true and no longer a dream. Corresponding to the legend is that after the battle of Longtan, tens of thousands of remnant soldiers under Sun Chuanfang retreated to the north bank of the Yangtze River, rushing northward like an overturned mountain. Within a few days, the vanguard of the defeated soldiers had already moved into In the county seat opposite Yanshi, the follow-up team is still on the way.