Chapter 522 It's Really Him
Just like Uncle Jin said, almost no one dries seafood in shells, after all, it will go bad if left in the sun for too long.
Unlike fish, it can be easily preserved by pickling and drying.
The village is close to the sea and the end can be seen at a glance. After the two entered the village, they saw a group of children squatting together playing. Ran Qingxuan reached into his cloth bag and took out some fruit candy, then walked up to them and asked with a smile.
"Little friend, where does Yang Shuo from your village live?"
The young child stood up and answered with innocence in his eyes: "Big sister, do you have something to do with him?"
Ran Qingxuan looked at the group of children and smiled like an auntie, then reached out and handed them candy.
"I heard that he can build houses, so I want to ask him to come back and build a house for us."
The children living along the coast had never seen colorful candies before, so even though they wanted to eat them, they still had to be polite.
Seeing that they were staring at him without even trying to grab something, Ran Qingxuan distributed the food to them one by one.
"Don't worry, I'm not a bad person. But if you eat my candy, you have to take me to find Yang Shuo, so that my house can be built."
The children took the candies and enthusiastically led the way for her, with a few younger ones following behind, skipping and jumping all the way.
"Sister, the Yang Shuo you found is very famous in our village."
"Really?" Ran Qingxuan was delighted after hearing this. Since he was famous, he must have still retained his previous craftsmanship.
In this way, there should be no quality issues in the future when the house is rebuilt.
Just as she was thinking about how to ask him to go back and build the house, the children's laughter suddenly rang out.
"He damaged someone's house last time, and they came to him to pay for it. The news spread throughout our village."
"He's a very strange person. He doesn't respond to anyone who talks to him. Even when someone offered him a lot of money to build a house, he still refused to go."
"My father sometimes said that he would starve himself to death sooner or later."
Ran Qingxuan was stunned. His first reaction was whether this man had the same name as Yang Shuo, whom they were looking for, but he also knew how to repair houses.
But reality hits you in the face so quickly...
When the children led them to the most dilapidated house in Bai Village, Gu Yanchen instantly recognized Yang Shuo, who was squatting in the yard hooping a wooden barrel.
After giving some candy to the children who were leading the way, Ran Qingxuan turned to look at Gu Yanchen.
Although the yard in front is also made of wood, it is much more dilapidated than other fishermen's houses.
Knowing that when kids talk about being smart they are actually speaking in a sarcastic way, Ran Qingxuan was a little worried that if the house he lived in was like this, how could he build a solid house?
The gate to the courtyard was open. Gu Yanchen stood at the gate and asked, "Excuse me, is this Yang Shuo, Lord Yang?"
The person squatting in the yard raised his head and looked up and down at the two people standing at the gate with a pair of calm eyes.
Ran Qingxuan saw that he had an untidy beard and was dressed shabbily, and subconsciously thought that he might not be the Yang Shuo that Zhenbei Hou mentioned.
Who knew that the next second, Yang Shuo lowered his head and said casually: "What do you want from me?"
"Master Yang, it's me!"
Yang Shuo stopped what he was doing, looked up and carefully examined Gu Yanchen who was speaking.
"Sixth Master Gu?"
When Yang Shuo was exiled, the Gu family was at its peak, and everyone who met the children of the Gu family would address them according to their seniority.
Gu Yanchen smiled and walked forward: "Master Yang, I haven't seen you for many years. I hope you are well."
Yang Shuo lost his casual attitude when facing Gu Yanchen. He stood up and said embarrassedly, "Sixth Young Master, please stop making fun of me. I am just a person who eats and waits for death. I am no longer an adult."
Yang Shuo’s current state seems to be that he has accepted his fate. When he first learned that he was exiled, he also had the idea of giving up.
It was just that he had Ran Qingxuan by his side at the time, and his family was always there to encourage each other, so he was able to recover in a short time.
Logically, Yang Shuo has been in exile for so many years, how come he is exactly the same as he was back then...
But what Yang Shuo said was right. We are all civilians now, and calling him "sir" would be humiliating.
Gu Yanchen clasped his fists towards him and said with a smile, "Now that we have the same status, how about my wife and I call you Brother Yang from now on?"
"Your wife?"
It had been several years since Yang Shuo was exiled, and since he was unwilling to communicate with the villagers, he knew almost nothing about what had happened to the Gu family.
"Yes, I had just married my wife before the Gu family was exiled..."
Gu Yanchen gave a brief account of how he was framed by Emperor Mingde. After he finished speaking, Yang Shuo could immediately understand his feelings.
Afterwards, his attitude towards Gu Yanchen became even warmer.
"You've been standing here for so long, come in and have a glass of water to warm yourself up."
Perhaps he knew that the house was too shabby, so Yang Shuo moved a table out of the house, but there were only two stools. He chuckled and motioned for them to sit down, and he randomly found a wooden barrel and sat on it.
Any firewood could be burned by piling up water in the yard. While the water was boiling, Gu Yanchen stated his purpose.
"You mean, you are living in Yongfeng Village now, and you want me to go over and build a house for you?"
"Yes..." When Yongfeng Village was mentioned, the two could clearly feel that he was somewhat resistant.
Gu Yanchen glanced at Ran Qingxuan and asked, "Brother Yang, do you have any concerns?"
Yang Shuo was silent for a long time before he spoke slowly, just suppressing the emotions in his heart.
“I was born in a poor family. In order to give my family a better life, I passed the selection process and joined the Ministry of Industry. It took me many years to finally make it.
When my mother learned that she was going to be exiled, she couldn't bear the blow and fell ill. She died on the road when she was halfway through the journey. ”
Having said this, Yang Shuo couldn't help but turn his face away.
"Later, I took my father, my wife, and our two children to Zixi with great difficulty. My father wanted to reduce the burden on the family, so he went fishing with others. However, they encountered a storm at sea, and they didn't even find their bodies."
Gu Yanchen and Ran Qingxuan sighed when they heard this. Ran Qingxuan couldn't help but ask, "What about your wife and children? Why didn't you see them?"
When mentioning his wife, Gu Yanchen keenly noticed that Yang Shuo was trying hard to control his emotions.
"We just arrived here five years ago. We had no money and offended the county magistrate, so we couldn't make a living by our cooking skills."
The two of them had a deep understanding of this. Because they had offended the county magistrate and the county magistrate, they couldn't even find building materials and construction workers...
No wonder his father had to go out to sea to fish to supplement the family income, but who would have thought that he would encounter such a thing later.
Yang Shuo's clenched fists loosened and tightened again, and after a long while he continued, "The county magistrate did make things difficult for us at first, but later, in order to have food to eat for my children, I agreed to expand the houses for those rich people."
"But later on, for some reason, a house I built collapsed. Although no one was killed, I still had to pay a large sum of money for compensation."
"The owner of the house came to me many times. I thought I could pay the money back if I worked hard, but he said he didn't need to pay the money but wanted to use other things to offset the debt."
"What is it?" The two thought about the character of the county magistrate. A rich man who could get to know him must not be a good person.
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