Section 5: Yun Ye’s first engineer

He asked three times, but no one answered.

Li Gang’s eyes were about to pop out, and his anger had long surpassed the point of being furious. It was just that the old man had very few hairs on his head, and the scholar’s hat he was wearing was heavy, so he was just glaring with rage.

Yun Ye ordered Huo Zhu to take good care of the old man, as the academy still needed him. He walked up to the villagers and asked, “If none of them will admit it, can you identify him? Don’t worry, I promise there will be no reprisals.”

The villagers looked at each other and shook their heads. A burly man stepped forward and said, “Everyone in this area is a native, and everyone knows Sun Gou’er’s donkey. Who in the village would do such a despicable thing? Only you are outsiders with money. If it wasn’t you, who else could it be?”

The people of Guanzhong have a hot temper. You have no evidence to accuse a group of officials’ children of killing your donkey. Not to mention whether the donkey was killed by them or not, even if they did kill it, would you have a good end if you accused the officials? If you don’t sue, you are guilty first! If you falsely accuse, a three-thousand-mile exile is still light. A group of idiots who don’t think before they act.

“Guards, arrest this bastard for slander!” Yun Ye shouted, and immediately the guards came forward and quickly tied the strong man to the ground.

The guy was still howling on the ground: “I didn’t slander, I didn’t slander!” The villagers were enraged and wanted to come to the rescue of the strong man.

Li Gang spoke up: “Shut up, all of you! Yun Hou, if you don’t give me an explanation for what happened today, I’ll file a complaint against you.”

The rich and idle people were laughing and joking, while the poor people around them all looked painful.

Yun Ye ignored them and went to the big man who was still shouting that he had not slandered. He patted him on the face and said, “According to what you just said, the students in my academy are rich, so they must do silly things like killing a donkey to get its hooves, right?”

The man said firmly, “That’s right. No one else would do it. Even if you cut me down today, I’ll haunt you as a ghost. Don’t ruin my reputation.”

“According to your argument, we continue to calculate. Since you have money, you will kill a donkey. You have a sex toy on your body, so I think you plan to rape women. What’s wrong with that?”

As soon as the words came out, the academy immediately burst into laughter. Li Gang was a square person, and when he heard this, he couldn’t help but smile. He understood that Yun Ye wouldn’t do anything to the villagers, he just wanted to persuade them.

Dahan was dumbfounded and silent. Yes, if you have money, you will kill a donkey? What kind of reasoning is this? If he has a dick, doesn’t that mean he will rape at any time? He couldn’t understand how things had turned out like this.

A thin, thirty-something man in Chinese dress came out and knelt on the ground, saying to Yun Ye, “I will never do it again. The donkey was not killed by the students of the academy. It was a mistake on my part. You are a magnanimous man. Don’t be like us commoners. Please let my brother go. I am willing to be beaten and punished. I only beg you to be merciful.”

Yun Ye told the man to let go of the strong man and said to him, “I never intended to do anything to you. It’s just that your reasoning is absurd. In order to teach you a lesson, you should think twice before you act in the future. This academy is full of important people with status. How can you slander them so recklessly? Don’t you know what happens when a commoner accuses a government official?

“My lord, you don’t know. Now that spring plowing is just over, it’s the time when the crops are not yet ripe. Sun Gou’er is weak and sickly, and the whole family depends on this black donkey to do odd jobs for people to survive. If the donkey is gone, how can you let the whole family of six live? So I got anxious and thought it was the students of the academy who did it, so I ran to the door and made a fuss. I now understand and will never dare to do it again.” After saying this, he knelt on the ground and bowed twice before leaving.

“Wait! You haven’t finished talking. Why are you running away? Since his family’s donkey is gone and they can’t survive, I have a solution. Do you see the empty lot in front of the academy?

Yun Ye pointed to the wasteland covered with dead grass and wild trees. The academy must find a place for this group of young and vigorous guys to vent their energy. Undoubtedly, rugby or football is the best. Polo is too expensive. Just using oil to water the field would be a death sentence. It is still feasible to build a grass field now. After all, labor is cheap. Just plant some vigorous wild grass and hire a few people who often use scissors to mow the lawn. Isn’t it a perfect sports field? Lao Niu always complains that there is no suitable place to train these kids, but now they have it all.

“Find me all the idle people on your farm, level the field for me, and then plant some good soft grass. Isn’t Sun Gouer out of a job? From now on, he will be responsible for mowing the lawns for the academy. You can negotiate the wages with the housekeeper. I don’t care.”

This time, a group of people fell to the ground, and Yun Ye didn’t care. He helped Li Gang into the academy.

“Kid, this is a big deal. The more I see this kid, the more I like him.” The two old gentlemen, Yushan and Yuanzhang, were standing in the doorway talking. They had obviously seen the scene just now, and they agreed with Yun Ye’s way of handling things.

“There is no clue to the killer of the donkey, so there is nothing to boast about.” Li Gang still had some doubts about whether there were such scum among his disciples.

“Old Li! You are just a worrywart. Look at this kid, he looks like he has it all figured out. He is probably already aware of the situation. When you get older, you should cultivate your character and mind. Don’t worry about things that don’t matter. By the way, the wine jar in my room is empty. Remember to have your housekeeper fill it up. I feel a little off without a drink today. Your family’s wine is strong. One sip warms your whole body and makes you feel comfortable. It’s much better than Sanlejiang or Yudongchun. Remember that!

“Kid, do you know who killed the donkey?” Li Gang was a little surprised.

“I have some ideas, but I’m not sure. I’ll know tonight. Sir, I plan to find a capable villain for the academy. What do you think?”

“Then it depends on how bad he is.”

“The kind with sores on his head and pus on his feet.”

“How good is he?”

“He can dig walls and drill holes as if he were walking on flat ground, he can tell the terrain by looking at the mountains, and he can tell the waves by looking at the water.”

“Such a talent can be used.”

“But he’s very bad.”

“It doesn’t matter. Use his talent, not his person.”

“The kid is setting it up right now. If nothing goes wrong, you’ll see him tonight.”

Under the cold moonlight, in the sparse woods, a lonely tombstone stands in the middle of nowhere. This is the tomb of a former nobleman of the Sui Dynasty. From the leaning stone men and stone beasts, one can vaguely infer the prominent status of the owner in his lifetime.

Time is the fastest killing knife in the world. No matter if you are a great general or a peerless beauty, in the end you cannot escape the fate of this knife. Who remembers whether you were ugly or beautiful when you were alive?

In the end, someone will remember. He doesn’t care about your beauty, your reputation as a loyal or a treacherous person. He only cares about how much treasure you put in your coffin before you died.

To satisfy this curiosity, he doesn’t mind digging you up and studying you carefully.

They are also a group of extremely pure people, with beliefs and principles, wearing black donkey hooves and carrying white glutinous rice, not touching gold when the rooster crows and the candle goes out.

Since Cao Cao appointed Xu Faqiu as the commander of the tomb raiders, all the tombs in Guanzhong were plundered. There is a saying in Shaanxi: the talented people of Henan, the generals of Hebei, and the emperor can only be buried in Guanzhong. So the yellow earth has buried countless kings and nobles, and also provided the possibility for Cao Cao to make use of waste. This was Cao Cao’s temporary strategy, but he never expected it to cause harm for thousands of years. In order to avoid retribution, it is said that Cao Cao had 72 tombs built for himself, and the real tomb was not discovered until a thousand years later.

The weasel is having a good day today. He managed to get two beads from the coffin, which glow a miserable green in the dark tomb. If Yun Ye saw them, he would immediately turn around and run 30 miles away. Damn it, taking radioactive ore as a treasure, you’re sick of living. The Japanese nuclear power plant leaked, and I ate high-priced salt for half a month. I’m still not at ease. I bought new salt to eat myself, and bought it for my wife and children in the past, for fear of getting a little radiation. You fucking licked it with your tongue?

The gold crown on the corpse’s head weighs a catty. I dare not take the jade. If someone sees through it and realizes it is a burial object, it is questionable whether I can live.

Enough, satisfied, today’s harvest is good, the candle is still burning in the southeast corner, it seems that the owner of the tomb has no objection to taking away the treasure, the ancestors of the eight generations are in this line of work, and they have long been more familiar with the dead than the living. Carefully dress the corpse and burn a stick of incense, slowly withdraw from the tomb.

When he stuck his head out of the tomb to take a breath, he saw a pair of sparkling eyes looking at him curiously.

“Ha, you are my first engineer. I have finally found you.”