Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

Gu Yue left the martial arts hall, and Wu Feng followed him as usual.

Gu Yue went straight to the place where he hired a car without stopping. After some bargaining, around noon, Gu Yue successfully got on the oxcart to Sushui County.

This ox cart is spacious and clean. The old ox has a big frame and walks steadily. It is a cart specially used by the car dealership to transport people.

It was not the busy farming season, so ox carts were common and much cheaper than horse carts. There were five or six people sitting in this cart, crowded together. There were a few women carrying baskets and chatting together, gossiping non-stop, and Gu Yue listened with great interest.

At first, the topics were nothing more than which relative got married, which neighbor got divorced, which family had someone make money, etc. Later, when they talked about Sushui County, an older man said mysteriously: "I went to the county a few days ago and heard about a shocking event!"

"What's the earth-shattering event?"

"Hey, sister, stop keeping me in suspense!"

The older woman smiled smugly, "The crown prince knows, right?"

"How could I not know this?"

"Hurry up and tell me what's going on!"

Gu Yue pricked up his ears at once.

"I heard that the prince was murdered and ended up in Sushui County!"

"what!"

"Is it true? How do we ordinary people know about this?"

"Isn't it made up?"

The man traveling with us also became interested and joined the group chat.

"How can this be made up! Who dares to make up stories about the current crown prince!" The older woman said, "This is a classmate of my neighbor's aunt's second uncle's little cousin. His father is a constable in the government office. He was on a business trip to Xiaoluo Mountain a few days ago to look for someone. The imperial guards were dispatched, and they led the way."

Where is Xiaoluoshan? Wasn't the prince still in Gujia Village the night before yesterday?

"There is such a thing! Who dares to harm the prince? Isn't that the future emperor?"

"Humph, it's probably done by the Third Prince's gang." A middle-aged man immediately began to explain national affairs: "The Third Prince is the son of the Imperial Concubine. The Imperial Concubine's family holds important power and has always wanted to fight for that position. It's not surprising that he would make a move."

"I think it's the work of the Mu family. What kind of means did they use to make the prince disappear? The Mu family still has some military power in their hands, so of course they would do this!" said another young man, "The third prince was punished for the snowstorm a few months ago, how dare he run around now!"

"You can do it just by holding the military power? Why don't you say it was the work of the Jing family!" This person seems to be a supporter of the Mu family.

"The Jing family is a century-old clan, a loyal royalist. Who doesn't know that?"

"The fifth prince is still young, why would the Mu family take action now? Wouldn't it be nice to watch them fight from afar? I think the King of Yin is more likely."

"Prince Yin is just an idle prince, how can he be..."

"What do you know? My cousin's brother's mentor was one of the former imperial tutors. At that time, the late emperor hesitated for a while between the current emperor and King Yin. It is said that there were two imperial edicts..."

Gu Yue was stunned by what he heard.

Wait, where is this place?

He should be on a slow ox cart on a country road, right?

Why do I hear so much outrageous news about current affairs!

The people in this car have dark and rough skin, and their trouser legs are covered with mud. They look like ordinary farmers!!!

"Everyone, aren't you afraid of being beheaded for talking about the nobles of the capital like this?" Gu Yue asked weakly.

"Who are you from? How come you don't even know these?" The middle-aged man looked at him disdainfully.

"Hangdou Bookstore publishes some anecdotes about noble people in every issue!" The young man glanced at him.

"We were just chatting casually. The government doesn't need to arrest anyone and behead them for this. Otherwise, the owner of Hangdou would have been beheaded five hundred times!"

Gu Yue: ...Okay.

Listening carefully, the situation they discussed was quite correct and pertinent.

According to the original story, almost all the princes except the crown prince are the hero's enemies, especially the seemingly carefree King Yin, who is a huge stumbling block on the hero's path to becoming a regent. At that time, the crown prince was seriously injured and became a vegetable, leaving a mess for the hero. The hero and the King Yin schemed against each other for a thousand times, and finally wiped out the remnants of the King Yin's party. The crown prince happened to wake up by a medical miracle, and the hero returned to power, with a happy ending.

But there is no need to pay much attention to these at the moment, Gu Yue thought.

I'm just in the Novice Village, so let's think about how to earn gold coins first.

So the journey was spent in the sound of a group of men and women discussing the situation.

About two hours later, the ox cart arrived at Sushui County.

Sushui County is not a small town like Liuli Town with only two streets running vertically and horizontally. It is much larger, about twice the size of a modern town, with four groups of streets running vertically and horizontally, an outer city wall, and a pass is required to enter.

A road permit is an ancient ID card, a small booklet with a stamp that records a person's origin and life story. It is easy to forge. Not everyone has one, not even farmers who stay at home. Only local government offices keep population registers. Once a war or disaster strikes, people can easily become refugees without an identity card.

Gu Dashi shouldn't have had a pass in the first place, he had one because...

Gu Yue limped into the city and asked a random villager where the old Chenghou Mansion was.

The Old Cheng Marquis Mansion was a marquisate conferred by the previous emperor. The first old marquis was one of the young generals who helped win the throne before the previous emperor ascended the throne. He was granted the title of marquis without a fiefdom and settled in Sushui County, the old marquis’ hometown. The family lived on several fertile farms and was considered a wealthy family.

But after all, that was a thing of the previous dynasty. Although he has no worries about food and clothing now, he has lost his power after all. Maybe he still has some connections, but not many.

His descendants all studied, but they did not achieve anything remarkable. Most of them worked as minor yamen runners, legal advisors, or teachers.

The old marquis passed away a few years ago, leaving the old lady as the housekeeper. The old lady's surname is Gu, and she is the biological sister of Grandpa Gu Dashi. The two have a very good relationship. But after all, the old lady is a married woman, and even if her husband is later conferred a title, she can't do much to help the family.

This is not much, of course, relative to the powerful families. Even if it is "not much", the help that slipped through the fingers has made the Gu family rich farmers, and there is also capital for Gu's brother and sister-in-law to go out and do business. The relationship between the two families has become distant by Gu Dashi's generation, but the relationship is closer.

There was a plan to settle down in Sushui County, and they even found the youngest daughter of the old marquis for Gu Dashi. But a man-made disaster turned the world upside down, all the Gu family members died, and the huge amount of money earned from the business trip could not be given to the marquis's mansion. It was all robbed, and Gu Dashi became an orphan.

However, the estrangement in relations over the years was not due to the Marquis's house being snobbish, but was all due to Gu Dashi.

After learning the bad news, the old lady of the Marquis's Mansion sent people to help Gu Dashi with the funeral. She also left some money for support and made it clear that Gu Dashi did not have to pay back the money owed to Gu's brother and sister-in-law.

And Gu Dashi...