Midsummer in July.

At noon, the scorching sun was shining brightly, roasting the earth until it was brown, and even the last trace of water vapor was steamed away.

Sun Qiaoyun stared at the dry gray soil in the medicine garden and the rows of yellow medicine seedlings that had shrunk into a ball. After a long while, he sighed.

"Sister, sister, it's not good! Butler Ge came to the house again, and he brought several servants with weapons with him!"

A shout came over, but it was my sister's voice.

Sun Qiaoyun's younger sister, Sun Xiaoyun, is a little girl who is only fifteen years old. She is running towards the medicine garden from the dirt road carrying an empty wooden bucket, shouting and looking very panicked.

Sun Qiaoyun did not show any panic. She waited until her sister ran in front of her and then asked, "Didn't I ask you to fetch water from the well at the bottom of the mountain? Why did you run home again?"

Sun Xiaoyun supported his thighs with both hands, bent over, and panted as he said: "All the wells at the foot of the mountain are dry, and I ran for more than ten miles without finding a drop of water! When I came back, I was so tired that I wanted to go home and rest for a while.

, who would have known that just after entering the house, Ge Peipi brought many people here, and they are still sitting in the living room waiting for my sister! "

Sun Qiaoyun said: "What did they say they were here for?"

Sun Xiaoyun said: "Why did Ge Peipei come here? He didn't come here to ask for a debt! He told me to come back to my sister as soon as possible, otherwise he would smash the things in the house and demolish our house!"

Sun Qiaoyun said: "Okay, let's go back right now."

She bent down and packed up the medicine hoe, dustpan and other items, held them in her hand, and then pulled her sister along the dirt road towards the Sun family's old house.

Sun Qiaoyun is eighteen years old, with a slim figure and a very pretty appearance. She is wearing a light green shirt and a gauze skirt, which makes her look even more delicate and charming.

The Sun family was once a large family, even the richest family outside the west gate of Changsha Prefecture, and it was so famous that even the prefect of Changsha and the commander-in-chief of the army often came to the Sun family's old house with their entourage and gifts during the holidays.

visit.

This is all because the owner of the Sun family's old house in the western suburbs is Sun Duhe.

Sun Duhe was an eunuch and he had no children. Sun Qiaoyun and Sun Xiaoyun were both adopted daughters by him.

Sun Duhe was known as the "Iron-faced Yama". He was worshiped as a third-rank official and was canonized as "General Zhaowu" by the Emperor of Heaven. He was once considered the number one master among the Jinyi Guards of Dongchang.

In terms of official rank and real power, he was much higher than the prefect of Changsha. Therefore, even when the prefect and the general came, they were extremely respectful and polite to the people of the Sun family.

Sun Qiaoyun was deeply loved by Sun Duhe. She was very smart and well-behaved since she was a child. Not only did she know the books and respond to etiquette, but she was also very good at needlework. If it hadn't happened later, she would still be a rich lady living in a deep house. She would never go there.

Do the menial work of growing herbs.

However, something unexpected happened. Five years ago, Sun Duhe died suddenly. He died in the line of duty during a battle to annihilate the underworld force Qinglong Village in the Lu Kingdom. The person who killed him was one of the general deacons of the "Tianxia Alliance".

"Cold-faced Zhuge" Zhu Zhenyan.

The master died unexpectedly, the family was in ruins, and the life of Sun Qiaoyun and her sisters also plummeted.

Originally, the Sun family was quite wealthy. Even if Sun Duhe died, the livelihood of their sisters would not be so embarrassing. However, although the Sun family master had no heirs, he had eight brothers. Sun Duhe’s funeral had not yet been completed, and his hundreds of thousands

The property and hundreds of acres of land deeds have been divided up by these eight people, and not even a tael of silver has been left to Sister Sun Qiaoyun.

Of course, the uncles would not take away everything. At least they left their niece the ancestral house where the thirteenth family of the Sun family entered the courtyard, as well as the five acres of medicinal fields on the mountain.

The ancestral house cannot be taken away, and the medicine field is too small and located halfway up the mountain, so the uncles do not like it.

As soon as the master died, the land was divided up, and the Sun family naturally lost their income. Soon all the servants, servants, maids, and servants of the Sun family were gone. When Thirteen entered the courtyard, the only ones left were the two Sun sisters.

Fortunately, Sun Qiaoyun was smart and knew a thing or two about growing medicinal herbs, so he managed to make a living on the five-acre medicinal garden and survived with his sister for two years.

But misfortunes never come singly, and God is not open to his eyes. Hunan has encountered a severe drought for three consecutive years, and water has become scarcer than oil! The Sun family’s medicine garden is on a mountain, with higher terrain, and the nearby water sources quickly dried up.

The Sun sisters had to go to a well several miles down the mountain to fetch water to water the garden. Not to mention the hard work, with the physical strength of two delicate girls, they could not carry more than a few loads of water in a whole day, and there were not many plants in the medicine garden.

The few herbs gradually withered and died.

There were fewer and fewer medicines grown in the medicine garden, and with the loss of seedlings dying, there was basically no income from the five acres of medicine garden. Sun Qiaoyun had no choice but to pawn the furniture and utensils at home to maintain basic living expenses. And then...

At the beginning of this spring, all the valuable things in the house were sold out. In order to raise money to buy medicine seedlings, Sun Qiaoyun had to beg the wealthy households nearby and borrow some silver on credit.

However, no one expected that this year, Hunan would experience a severe drought for the fourth consecutive year, and it would be more severe than in previous years. Even the wells at the foot of the mountain have lost their water sources, and you have to walk more than ten miles to carry water.

Going to the banks of the Xiangjiang River outside, the water the two sisters carried for a whole day was not enough to irrigate an acre of medicinal fields. Soon, more than half of the medicinal seedlings bought with borrowed money died, and the Sun family's life became even tighter.

If it were just poverty, it would be manageable. What's even worse is that Sun Qiaoyun has provoked a big evil star, Ge Baixiong, the fourth master of Gejiabao.

Inside and outside the west city of Changsha Prefecture, within a radius of two hundred miles, there is no one who does not know Gejiabao.

Thirty years ago, the Ge family was a wealthy family in Changsha with some wealth. It was not until Mr. Ge's generation that they became truly prosperous. Mr. Ge's name was Ge Gangyu, and he was known as the "Pig Iron Buddha" in the world. Of course he was not

The real Buddha is not even a monk, he is just a lay disciple of Shaolin Temple.

Ge Gangyu returned home from Shaolin Temple at the age of 30 and began to establish the foundation of Gejiabao. Now Mr. Ge is over sixty years old. Gejiabao has become the largest wealthy manor in the west of Changsha City, with countless wealth and fertile fields.

Thousand acres. In the west area of ​​the city, no one dares to provoke them, because not only are they rich and powerful, but they are also in the world and have strong martial arts skills. Even the government can't do anything to them.

Mr. Ge's "Dragon Elephant Prajna Kung Fu" is extremely powerful, and his "Shaolin Luohan Fist" is even more extraordinary. He has never been defeated in thirty years. His four sons, Ge Canglong, Ge Chihu, Ge Qingbao and Ge Baixiong, have also inherited the powerful Shaolin skills.

In Kung Fu, ordinary warriors are no match for them. And the most important thing is that Mrs. Ge's daughter, Ge Muyun, the eldest daughter of Gejiabao, is married to Bailiyin, the great elder of the "Hengshan Sect".

The "Hengshan Sect" is the largest sect in the Hunan martial arts world. Even if it is not as good as the "Seven sects of the Central Plains", it is not much different. As the elder of the "Hengshan Sect", Bailiyin has superb martial arts and a unique inheritance.

He is even more proficient in "Shilin Sword Art" and is one of the top masters in the sect. Bailiyin is not young anymore. He is sixty-eight years old this year, several years older than Mr. Ge. However, Miss Ge was only two years old when she married.

I was in my early teens, and now I have just turned thirty.

Although they are an old husband and a young wife, Bailiyin and Ge Muyun are quite affectionate. If anyone dares to have trouble with his father-in-law's "Gejiabao" family, Bailiyin will never let him go!

As a weak woman, Sun Qiaoyun naturally did not dare to get into trouble with "Ge Family Fort". What she got into trouble with was Mr. Ge's fourth son, Ge Baixiong. It was just a chance. Sun Qiaoyun was watering the medicine garden, but she happened to be hit by Ge Baixiong who was passing by.

The fourth master saw it.

Ge Baixiong is not a person who has never seen the world. He has played with countless women. In addition to the main wife, there are eight concubines in the family. But maybe he saw Sun Qiaoyun, a young lady with a delicate appearance, but she was doing it.

Ge Baixiong suddenly felt sympathy for the menial work of an ordinary farmer, and wanted to take Sun Qiaoyun back to be his ninth concubine, enjoying all the glory and wealth.

Although the Sun family was poor, it was once a famous family. Sun Qiaoyun's vision was extremely high. How could he be willing to work for others? Using a broom to drive the matchmaker out of the house, Sun Qiaoyun would have offended the fourth master Xiong.

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Mr. Ge Si is very kind-hearted, and seeing how pitiful you are, he is giving you alms so that you can live a prosperous life. How dare you not appreciate it!

The Ge family also had its own way of rectifying a woman from a poor family. The big housekeeper Ge Wanjin quickly found out the current situation of the Sun family, found the wealthy families who lent Sun Qiaoyun silver, and obtained it from them.

Bought Sun Qiaoyun's IOU. In this way, the Ge family became Sun Qiaoyun's big creditor.

In fact, the money Sun Qiaoyun borrowed was not much, only more than 300 taels of silver, and including interest, it was only 400 taels. Although the Sun family had no cash, the thirteen items in the Sun family's old house were worth thousands of taels in the courtyard.

Although the five acres of medicinal fields are not very good, if they were to be sold, they would have a market price of at least several hundred taels.

Housekeeper Ge Da came to collect debts. Sun Qiaoyun knew that if she didn't pay off the money, she would be in big trouble, so she took the house deed and land deed to a merchant in the city to pledge and sell them on consignment. However, although the price she bid was much lower than

The market price has been listed in the market for more than a month, and no one is willing to buy it from the house or the medicine field.

This is naturally the fault of the Ge family. The chief steward Ge Wanjin is smart and capable. How can he live up to the nickname "Ge Peipi" if he doesn't have some skills? He has already said that who dares to buy the Sun family's house and medicine?

Tian, ​​if you can't get along with "Gejiabao", there will be no good end!

Who within hundreds of miles would dare to offend the Ge family? Besides, although the medicine field in the courtyard is cheap, it can only get a few hundred taels of silver. It is not cost-effective to provoke a gangster for such a small amount of money.

In this way, the Sun family was forced into a desperate situation. The two former rich ladies were left with no way to go to heaven and no way to go to earth due to a debt of only 400 taels of silver.

Ge Wanjin is sitting in the living room of the Sun family. He is in his forties, has a square face, and holds an iron pleated fan in his hand. Although he is not tall, he is somewhat imposing. Standing behind Ge Wanjin
Chapter completed!