Suzhou City, Gu Mansion.

Shaving your hair and changing clothes is not a small matter. Han people pay attention to their body and hair and receive it from their parents. Shaving your hair means giving up the pride of being a Han person in your heart and bend your knees to be a slave of a foreign race. In such a thing, you naturally have to worship your ancestors, otherwise you will meet your ancestors a hundred years later. What should you do if your ancestors cannot recognize them if you have a rat-tail braid on your head?

At the fourth day of the morning, the servants who had been busy all night could finally take a rest. Xiao Hei leaned on the pillars of the courtyard and glanced at the inner courtyard with envy. The masters inside had not yet gotten up.

The inner courtyard is where the women of the Gu family live. If these traitors in the outer courtyard dare to step in, they will often be beaten to death without asking the reason. Xiao Hei took a breath and whispered: "Such a fragrant girl can smell her standing here. When can I hold someone to sleep?"

He didn't sleep all night, exhausted, and didn't notice a person coming by.

"Who do you want to sleep with?"

When Xiao Hei heard this sound, half of his body became cold, and his two rows of teeth trembled continuously. "Jiu...Jiu Master, Xiao...Little nonsense, I deserve to die of guilt, please spare my life."

Gu Jiu is the main housekeeper of the Gu family, and he enjoys half of the treatment of a master on weekdays. He was the lowest traitor in the outer court, and he gradually won the favor of his master and became a major manager. However, the servants of the Gu family wanted him to die early. This Gu Jiumei bullies the subordinates and violates the servants in Gu family, and they will be half-dead even if they don’t die.

"Don't, you have such a great ambition. Could it be that you want to marry our lady and be a son-in-law? If so, will I still have to call you "Black Sister-in-law"? Just call me Xiaojiu?"

Xiao Hei's legs became weak. Before he knew that the butler was harming others, he liked to play tricks. He touched the ground with his forehead and knocked on the white marble stone steps.

"Master Jiu, the little man has a sore tongue. I'm damn bad. Please give me a lot of money, please spare me." Xiao Hei no longer cared about the pain on his forehead. He had seen Gu Jiu's way of dealing with his servants with his own eyes, and was sure that he couldn't stand it.

Gu Jiu sneered and cursed: "If it weren't for the fact that I hadn't known the quality of things, if it weren't for the fact that I had been doing so recently, I'd peeled off your skin and pulled your tongue, and why wouldn't I go out to work quickly. When I finish my ancestor worship, I'm going to settle the score with you."

Gu Jiu turned around and left, leaving Xiao Hei in the night, trembling.

This young man from the countryside who is a servant in the Gu family has finally made up his mind. Forget it, I will take your life first when you settle the score later!

He endured the pain on his forehead and returned to his hut. Brother Dazhuang was still sleeping soundly. He had not had a good sleep since he entered the city and had been spreading rumors among the crowd. Now it is rumored that the Qing soldiers were going to attack the wealthy families in Suzhou, so they would first attack the Gu family.

It turns out that Suzhou people like Dazhuang have long been sent to the city to make trouble and create rumors with Qian Xuanyan's funds.

"Brother Dazhuang, Brother Dazhuang, wake up." Xiao Hei shouted while shaking. Dazhuang woke up in a daze, wiped his eyes and asked, "What's wrong?"

"You said, I've done it with you!"

"How can a good man be a slave for the rest of his life?"

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Suzhou Prefecture, Tu Guobao regards this place as his temporary residence. He is the governor of Jiangning and will not stay in Suzhou for a long time.

Now the Qing court has no time to look south, and its focus is still on the north to fight against Li Zicheng's remaining troops. He is going to stay here for the time being and wait for Hong Chengchou to come and control the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River.

Before dawn, a servant came to knock on the door. The treasure of the country had been fighting for half his life, and was a general who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong. When he heard the knock on the door, he immediately knew that something was important and there was no trouble at all at this stall.

He got up and shouted before he could even put on his clothes: "Come in."

His personal soldiers did not dare to look on the bed, and his newly robbed concubine was lying on it, without any clothes covering her body.

"Sir, a servant from the Gu family came to report the matter. The Gu family did not hide the order of shaving, and made a ill-gotten plot, and wanted to offer the city to the rioters in Taihu Lake."

When Tu Guobao heard it, he was completely sleepy and sweated.

The Gu family is a gentry in Suzhou, with a big family and a large business, and the relationship between the city is complicated. If the Gu family makes trouble, Wu Shengzhao will be sent out by him again, and it will be difficult for him to resist.

"You dare, thief! No wonder Wu Yi, Taihu, attacked Wujiang County vigorously. Before he could beat him, he released the wind to kill the entire Wujiang County Magistrate's family. It turned out that it was a plan to lure the tiger out of the mountain. Where was that servant? I would bring him in person."

Putting on a robe, Tu Guobao came to the outer hall, and Xiao Hei was waiting in the hall. As soon as he saw him arrive, he immediately knelt on the ground. "I have seen Master Qingtian."

The personal soldier said angrily: "Master Qingtian? That's the ninth-rank magistrate. My master is a fourth-rank magistrate. If you don't know, don't scream!"

When Tu Guobao saw his appearance, he felt even more confident. Such a servant dared to come to his place to spread rumors after he was brave enough to eat the courage of his bear heart and leopard.

"Tell me everything you know. If you dare to say a word, I will tell you that life is worse than death."

Xiao Hei came here to complain with his blood and resentment towards Gu Jiu. Who knew that life might be worse than death, and he suddenly became panicked. He only remembered to tell Dazhuang to him, and said it out like a bamboo tube pouring beans.

"This morning, the Gu family's masters gathered in the ancestral hall. The young man was serving outside, but accidentally heard that they said that they would offer the city without shaving their heads. I'm sorry to my ancestors. When the young man heard that they were going to make the rebellion of the great master. How might the Manchus are so powerful? They overestimated their abilities and only asked the adults to pay the lives of the villain to pay for the small news."

The Tu Guobao faced him as deep as water and asked coldly: "What else have you heard?"

"The young man also heard that Mr. Gu said that two lanterns were hung on the high building in the back garden of his home. When the time was right, he would change it to one to report the thieves outside the city, and cooperate with the inside and outside."

Tu Guobao stood up and walked to the courtyard with his personal soldiers to look towards Gu's mansion. Sure enough, there were two lanterns.

In fact, this is the tradition of the Gu family. On the eve of worshiping ancestors, they light a lamp to attract the ancestors. The treasure of the land comes from Liaodong. But I don’t know what happened to this, and I was deceived by a servant.

"Call up people and order the generals, and follow me to kill!"

The personal soldier showed hesitation and lay down to Tu Guobao's ears and said, "Sir, just by the words of a servant, I will attack the Gu family. Do you want to be humble and investigate again?"

Tu Guobao grinned and said, "No need, what if it's fake?"

"What do you mean by sir?"

"The Gu family is rich, and we came late, and Yangzhou didn't catch up. Those bastards were full of energy, but our brothers wanted to stay in Suzhou to drink cold water?"
Chapter completed!