Zeng Lingmei said: "Dad! Mr. Gu has agreed to join our escort agency again!"

Zeng Pao's mouth showed a satisfied smile and said, "Thank you, sir."

"No, I should thank you." Gu Yezhou said, "You formed a bond with the bandits because of me. I should help the escort agency to resist the mountain gods and the others. Our interests are consistent in this regard."

Zeng Pao nodded, looking a little sad: "The mountain god killed my son! I am incompatible with them. This time, either they die or we die! This hatred is irreconcilable!"

"Yes, the first two times I waited for them to attack, and the initiative was in their hands. We were very passive. Therefore, since we wanted to deal with bandits, we must take the initiative to attack, join forces with the officers and soldiers to wipe them out in one fell swoop!"

"Okay, the bandits have a great power and fight head-on. If there are no officers and soldiers, we will be defeated. So we can only attack. I will arrange people to investigate the whereabouts of the mountain god and the others. Looking for opportunities."

Gu Yezhou remembered the news about Scarface that was most important to him and asked, "Is there any news on Scarface?"

"It was just last night that I got the news and I didn't have time to report to you. I don't know what happened to this Scarface, but I defected to the army of the rebel Huang Chao. I heard that it was responsible for raising military rations in our area. It was said that Huang Chao's army had an abnormal lack of food and grass. I tried my best to buy food everywhere. This Scarface was one of them."

Gu Yezhou's heart sank. He didn't expect that Scarface had already defected to the Huang Chao uprising. In this way, it would be even more difficult to find him and ask the whereabouts of the police car. Gu Yezhou said: "Isn't Huang Chao's army on the front line of Chang'an? It's so far from us. Come to us to buy food and transport it to them. I don't know how many times the price will increase. It's not cost-effective."

"I heard that all the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty had surrounded Chang'an. They defeated Huang Chao's army outside Chang'an City. Huang Chao retreated to Chang'an, but he probably couldn't defend the capital. Huang Chao's army was very short of food. I heard that it had reached the point of killing people to eat, so they urgently needed food."

Gu Yezhou nodded. He also knew about the murder and eating of Huang Chao during the uprising. He said that because his army had no military rations, he pounded the killed people into stone mortars and made them into human meat cakes for the soldiers to eat. However, he didn't know if these records were true.

Zeng Paota continued, "I heard that Huang Chao's habit is to go everywhere, kill everywhere, and go wherever he goes. Before he captured Chang'an, he was like this, and sent people to buy food. Once he bought a large amount of grain, he would lead the army to kill. After they rebelled, they plundered a large amount of gold and silver. Some of the money to buy food was. It was easier to buy food in advance. If the army was killed, those people would transfer the food away. This was his habit. When his army set out from Guizhou, he took a raft and headed north along the Xiangjiang River to conquer Tanzhou, and entered the capital, he had fought to us along the way, so they were very familiar with this area."

"This Huang Chao is really cunning." Gu Yezhou returned to the topic he was most concerned about, "Where is this scar face now? Is there any news?"

"Not yet, he is uncertain and doesn't know where he is now."

Gu Yezhou said: "The head of the escort is at ease to recover from his injuries. Now the riots of the victims in the city have been quelled, and the city is searching for bandits. Therefore, the opportunity that bandits can take advantage of has been lost, and they should not make a comeback in a short period of time."

"Well, please help the little girl with the matter in the escort agency. Is it OK?"

"Okay, I'll follow the instructions of the head of the chief."

Gu Yezhou didn't dare to disturb him for too long, so he said goodbye and returned to his residence.

Ning Sanmei was worried about how her parents were doing, so Gu Yezhou said he would go and see it himself. At this time, he was worried about one thing, that is, his food, and I don’t know if it was stolen by the bandits.

After he went out alone, he first came to the house of Hu Wanghai and Qiu Fuzu, and both of them were indeed attacked by bandits. Fortunately, this was the second time that bandits raided the county town. Both rice merchants had already prepared in advance. On the one hand, they expanded their staff to protect the hospital and hired a lot of heroes from the martial arts world to help, and at the same time they also paid a lot of money to manage the Tang army stationed in the county town. Therefore, when the bandits plundered their two families, they encountered tenacious resistance. At the same time, the officers and soldiers rushed to reinforce, and the bandits could not succeed.

After Gu Yezhou knew about food security, he breathed a sigh of relief. He came to the City God Temple to find Ning's father, who was sitting on the ground and crying.

It turned out that after Ning's father saw his son being shot to death by the officers and soldiers guarding the silver treasury, he escaped and finally hid in the snow. When the shouts and killings around stopped, the officers and soldiers had already controlled the county town, he crawled out, but the ice over the past few hours had almost frozen him. He trembled and went to the yamen to find his son.

When he arrived at the yamen, the officers and soldiers had already taken the corpses from the inside and were thrown into the dam in front of the yamen. These were all victims who broke into the county government and robbed grain and money and were killed.

Ning's father quickly went to identify and found the body of his second son in the pile of dead people. Moreover, his clothes had already spread out and seemed to have been thoroughly searched. He couldn't help but feel nervous because half of their Tianqi was stored on his son. He quickly searched it carefully again, but he did not find a Tianqi, which made him stomp his feet and cry.

After crying, he didn't carry his son's body back, because even if he carried it back, there would be no burial in the cemetery. With such heavy snow, no one could bury him, so he could only stay here.

He returned to the City God Temple sadly, and sat there and cried again. He was sad that his son and half of the land deeds were searched. Those who took the land deeds would definitely not farm them by themselves, and would sell them to others. They had sold them several times like this. When they could be cultivated, the real land deeds were probably no longer the people who stole the land deeds, but bought them with money, so he could not let them return them. In other words, this half of the land was probably just a waste of money.

He was crying sadly, when Gu Yezhou came and asked about the situation, he did not dare to say that when they rushed into the yamen to prepare to steal the silver treasury, his second son was shot to death by arrows, only saying that he was killed by bandits and his body was placed at the yamen.

Gu Yezhou felt sad and said that he could handle Ning Laoer's funeral. Ning's father was very grateful, so Gu Yezhou returned to the escort agency.

Gu Yezhou told Ning Sanmei that her second brother was shot to death by a bandit. Ning Sanmei burst into tears and wanted to visit her. Gu Yezhou took some money and accompanied her back to the City God Temple. He met Ning's father. On the way, Gu Yezhou had already hired the coffin shop staff, brought the coffin, and went to the yamen together, found Ning Laoer's body, and put it into the coffin.

Because it is cold and the snow is deep, it is really difficult to bury it. So, like Ning's mother and Ning's eldest son, they were buried in the Qingxin Temple, the Buddhist temple in the city.

He was busy until late at night before he settled down. Gu Yezhou originally proposed to let Ning's father live in the escort agency with him and Ning Sanmei, but Ning's father was unwilling to do so. He said that he could not live on his son-in-law, so he would be ridiculed by others. Anyway, he still had half of the land and could farm and support him in the future. If he really had no food, he would ask them for help.

After hearing what he said, Gu Yezhou couldn't force him. So he used the money to rent a house for him to live in, so he no longer had to stay on the streets.

That night, Ning Sanmei curled up in Gu Yezhou's arms and cried all night, and fell asleep in a drowsy way the next day was almost dawn.

Ning Sanmei's second brother had just died, and Zeng's escort boss's family was also holding a funeral. Gu Yezhou and Ning Sanmei were not good at having sex. They could get married before the New Year, or they would have to be mourned for three years. There was only a few days before the New Year, so they could not delay any longer. So after discussing, they decided to simply get married.

After discussing with Zeng Daishou and his wife, Zeng Daishou immediately stated that his son's funeral would be delayed for one day and he would first hold the marriage between Gu Ye Zhou and Ning Sanmei.

In this way, Gu Yezhou and the others quickly asked matchmaker Liu to help handle it. The matchmaker Liu took Gu Yezhou's money and was very good at doing things. It took only half a day to arrange everything, because Ning Sanmei's home had been destroyed by the bandits, and he now lives with Gu Yezhou, so there is no problem of bride reception. It was just that Gu Yezhou and his family were decorated with lights and decorations in the escort agency, invited several banquets, and invited relatives and friends.

Because of Gu Yezhou's rescue, County Magistrate Tan survived the disaster riot. His wives and concubines were ravaged to death by the rioters, and a son was beaten to death. He was also very grateful to Gu Yezhou for saving his life. Therefore, when he learned that Gu Yezhou was doing the marriage, he came uninvited and came to congratulate him in person, gave him a generous gift, and wrote a scroll of congratulations to Gu Yezhou.

Although this county magistrate Tan was a corrupt official who was insatiable, the handwriting was well written, but Gu Yezhou was not grateful. As soon as he left, Gu Yezhou threw the scroll into the stove.

Because the county magistrate of the head of the seal personally participated, many bureaucrats and gentry in the city also came to support the event. Originally, there were only a few tables of banquets, but they had to increase them to more than a dozen tables, and a lot of gifts were collected. Fortunately, the escort agency had a large kitchen, so it would not be a problem to add a banquet temporarily.

After the auspicious time came, the host led the two to worship the heaven and earth and sent the bride into the bridal chamber.

But Gu Yezhou left to toast to his relatives and friends.
Chapter completed!