After hearing the whole story, Gu Kaizhen took a deep breath and slowly vomited it out. The people in Xuejia Village and Wangjiazhuang are both tenants under his name. The two villages paid him tenant rent every year. Now something happened, he could not

Ignore it.

After ordering someone to help Wang Er's aunt up, Gu Kaizhen said gently: "Mrs. My wife is gone. It is useless to cry. It is better to handle the funeral soon. You two villages live next door, and there are many marriages and dealings.

It's not easy to make a mess too ugly."

"Let's do this. As long as you withdraw the lawsuit, I will pay ten taels of silver for funeral expenses and fifty taels of silver for pensions. Your family has no strong men now. I will hire someone to plant the land that was originally rented, but within ten years

The harvest, except for the tenant rent, still belongs to your home. What do you think?"

Even if the farmer family had a bumper harvest, the surplus of only three or four taels of silver was only three or four taels of silver. Gu Kaizhen gave him sixty taels of silver, and even allowed their family to enjoy the ten-year harvest without farming. He was already quite kind.

Upon hearing this, Aunt Wang quickly wiped away her tears, knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly: "Thank you Mr. Gu! Thank you Mr. Gu! I'll listen to you! I won't sue!"

He nodded with satisfaction and said to the pale-faced Shui Yangzi: "There is water... Shui Yangzi, there is Wang Mancang's blood on your hoe, which cannot be escaped. No matter whether you killed someone or not, you

Everyone has to go to the county government. Don't worry, the people will not prosecute the officials, and as long as the victim does not continue to sue, you will not be allowed to pay your life. Even if you want to be in prison, I will take care of your family's livelihood. How about it

?”

After saying that, Gu Kaizhen turned around and looked at the sweaty Xuejia Village, and said coldly: "It's just such a river, you are so good at building dams and blocking water. What a great skill! People come to argue that you still don't see you.

, From now on, no water will be allowed to be blocked again! As a private leader, he does not restrict the villagers, which leads to the villagers fighting and killing people. I think you, the private leader, can't continue to do it anymore, so follow me to the county government office and wait

The county magistrate will punish you!”

Xue Quanfu's legs became weak and he collapsed to the ground. Before he could speak, the villagers of Xuejia Village said anxiously: "Master Gu clearly! If he didn't block the water, the crops would have died of thirst, and this year they would definitely have no harvest.

!”

"There are people who died in Wangjiazhuang, but if the harvest is confiscated, no one or two people will starve to death by then!"

"We are not allowed to block the water. There are no villages downstream from Wangjiazhuang. They will definitely build the dam high. Mr. Gu does this, wouldn't it be that the people in Wangjiazhuang have enough food and make our Xuejia Village starve to death?

Is it! "

"Why don't you use well water?" At this time, Gu Yunji, who was watching silently all the way next to him, suddenly spoke.

"I saw on the way here. There is a well in your Xuejia Village, right at the east end of the village. The well water is muddy and heavy, and there are many leaves floating on it. It seems that it has not been used for many years. Although the water is muddy, it is used

It is no problem to come for irrigation. When you use too much, the groundwater will flow and the well water will naturally be cleared. Even people can drink it. Why don’t you use the water from this well?”

The crowd calmed down for a while, and for a while, an old man hesitated and said, "Young Master doesn't know that the well is unlucky."

"Unfortunate?" Gu Yunji sneered disapprovingly, "Didn't you say that the fields are dry and unharvested, and you can starve to death. At this time, do you still care whether it's auspicious or not?"

The old man looked dodging, as if he was afraid of something, and hesitated: "Ten years ago, there was a family next to the well. Later, the family felt that it was inconvenient to go to the river to get water, so he dug a well in the yard.

"

"Who knew that from then on, strange things happened. First, the male owner had no idea what disease he had. No doctor could find out the cause of the disease, so he died of illness. Then his mother suddenly became crazy and ran to the riverside and fell down and drowned.

The hostess couldn't stay there, so she took the child back to her parents' home, and the whole family just broke up."

"After that, every night, there were always sobs and crying in the well, which scared people very much. Later, the village hired a Feng Shui master to come and said that the well was drilled in the wrong place and was pressing down.

The mountain god's feet were in the heart. He couldn't sleep well, so he naturally didn't give the family good fruits. The Feng Shui master did several rituals and offered a sign to the mountain god to stand in the ancestral hall. Then he calmed down, but he didn't

People dare to use the water from that well again."

"Hahahahahaha... I pressed against the foot of the mountain god. This statement is too outrageous. You can believe it." Gu Yunji couldn't help it for a moment and laughed out loud.

"Let's not talk about the truth or falsehood of this matter, it will cause the death of a person and his wife to separate his children. What kind of mountain god is obviously an evil spirit! You should break the offering card and burn it as firewood! You actually offer it. If there are really gods, they will be borne by the world day and night

Incense, why are there so many people displaced? Sitting high on the pedestal but ignoring the sufferings of the world. According to me, it is a false god!"

The old man was so scared by his ignorant words that he almost pouted over and waved his hands repeatedly, "Young Master! Be careful with your words! Be careful with your words! The old saying goes, if you have a god three feet tall, you must respect it!"

Gu Yunji was too lazy to argue with them and said, "Hmph, I think you haven't reached that level of drought yet. If it's time to eat tree bark and grass roots, you won't care about any mountain gods or mountain gods. Forget it, this is also six.

The moon is coming, and the rainy season is coming, where will the drought go? If you don’t want to use well water, don’t use it. Anyway, you have to follow what my father said, and you are not allowed to build a dam!"

At this time, the county yamen runners came. After hearing the Gu family's father and son talked about the situation, they also knew that this matter was just a ball of threads, and it was hard to explain it clearly. Moreover, there were many people involved, so they could not lock up all the fighters. Seeing Gu Kaizhen

He had almost comforted him, so he pretended to be mixed and took away the Zheng and Shui Yangzi from Xuejia Village. The matter was settled.

On the way home, Gu Kaizhen asked: "I see today's situation, you seem to be very worried about ghosts and gods, why?"

Gu Yunji could not say that he was a firm materialist, so he had to pull Confucius' banner and answer: "Confucius said, respect ghosts and gods and stay away from them. His son thought that the so-called ghosts and gods were nothing but things that people could not change when they met, but

I don’t want to wait for this to come, and thus the little hope that comes from nothingness is just a little hope that comes from nothingness.”

"It doesn't rain, the land is dry, people cannot let it rain, but they don't want to sit and watch the crops die of drought, so they pray for the Dragon King to rain; their family members are seriously ill, and they have no medicine for the medicine and stones, so they cannot get rid of the pain, but they don't want to see their family members leave, so they pray for the gods.

Blessing. In this way, the reason why people seek God and worship Buddha is to encounter powerless things and hopes placed on other things."

"But blindly believing in some nothingness of gods and ghosts cannot improve the status quo. People cannot place their hopes on the gods, but on themselves. In life, focus on the present. To prevent drought, they should practice early.

Canals store more water. If you don’t want to get sick, you should exercise more frequently and eat well. Although manpower is small, you can move mountains and fill seas, build lakes and build rivers. As the saying goes, ghosts and gods are useless, and things are done by man.”

"Ghosts and gods are useless, things are caused by humans..." Gu Kaizhen murmured, feeling a little lost for a moment.

After a while, he came to his senses, looked at Gu Yunji running in front of him, and said to himself: "What a ghost and god, it's useless, and it's really enlightening. My son, I don't know how many you have.
Chapter completed!