Gu Rin's farming life

Flower Town was not called Flower Town in the past, but Qing Town.

The great Confucian master of the former dynasty lived in Qingzhen after he became an official. Because he preferred peach blossoms and pear blossoms, he planted peach blossoms and pear trees in Huazhen.

Mr. Wen Taishi has a great literary name, and his disciples are all over the world. In March, when the peach blossoms were in full bloom, he used flowers as a matchmaker and invited his disciples to hold a grand party. imitate.

Even those who love wine brew peach blossom wine on the spot, and the pear blossoms are buried under the tree, so that they can reunite next year.

There are not only noble scholars in Qingzhen, but also ordinary people who are struggling to survive. Seeing that peach blossoms and pear blossoms are so highly praised by celebrities and poets, they see business opportunities and plant peach and pear trees in every household. After time, Qingzhen can be said to be "continuous flowers in four seasons, good fruit fragrance in eight seasons".

Literati and poets gather in Qingzhen every year, and the Flower Fair in Qingzhen is gradually becoming famous all over the world. The name of Flower Town has spread farther and farther along with the spread of the Flower Fair. , Most people don't know that Huazhen used to be called Qingzhen.

Now Gu Lin is standing in front of the town gate of Huazhen.

As a well-known town, Huazhen should have developed very well in recent years. After all, it is not easy for a small town to have walls, gates, and guarding soldiers just like a county town.

After entering the town, I realized that Huazhen is really well developed, with all kinds of shops lined up with all kinds of goods. Most of the people who come and go have relaxed expressions, and they don't have the kind of oppressive life oppression.

Uncle Cat sat on Gu Lin's shoulder and kept pointing at the things Gu Lin wanted to buy later, which seemed to be pointing the country.

"Erlang, take these copper coins first, go eat something, I'll go find you, Uncle Jiang, and wait for you at Huairen Hall later." Old man Gu took out a few copper coins from his pocket and stuffed them to Gu Lin, Carrying the wrapped fungus and shiitake mushrooms, he walked towards the back door of a restaurant, without giving Gu Lin a chance to refuse.

Gu Lin squeezed the copper plate in his hand, looked at the slightly hunched back of the old man Gu, and couldn't help showing a faint smile on his face.

He used to be considered a child of a poor family. His father was a vegetable farmer in the countryside. When he was young, he followed his father to the city to sell vegetables. His father also gave him some change to eat and sold vegetables by himself.

When he was ignorant when he was a child, his father gave him change for meals, and he would go to eat a bowl of chaotic dumplings or a few steamed buns by himself, never thinking of bringing one to his father.

Until one time his father gave him a few extra dollars, he bought too many steamed buns and couldn’t finish them, so he brought them back to his father to eat. His father thought he bought them on a special trip, and laughed like a flower, bragging about his The child is sensible and knows how to bring breakfast to his father.

At that moment, he really felt ashamed.

Later, he remembered to bring breakfast to his father every time. Although he never had the opportunity to go out to sell vegetables with his father after he went to study abroad, this also became a warm and beautiful memory between him and his father. Can't help smiling.

Most of the parents in the world are similar, Gu Lin thought.

He took a look at Zhiweixuan, but he couldn't see the old man Gu, so he took the cat and walked towards the silver building in the town.

Gu Lin doesn't understand the value of jadeite in this era, and if he goes to a pawn shop without knowing the market price, he will definitely be cheated. So he plans to learn about the jadeite market first, and Yinlou is a good choice.

"Get rich, get rich." After Gu Lin left the three silver houses, he couldn't help but excitedly kissed His Majesty Mao several times.

The aristocrats in Dashao have always preferred jade ornaments, so the price of jade has remained high for a long time. Jade and agate are not very popular. However, the imperial concubine Ruimin liked jade most. In order to cater to her preferences, girls also became popular to wear jadeite jewelry, which drove up the price of jadeite. Now, the price of jadeite with better quality will not be low.

"Idiot!" The cat broke free in disgust and jumped onto Gu Lin's shoulder, licked its paws and tidied up its appearance, "You ignorant bumpkin!"

Gu Lin heard the strong dislike of the cat, but he didn't care. He thought that the price of jadeite was higher than he expected. In this case, he was more at ease. He didn't need to rush to make money, but he could think about it carefully. Planning to plan future arrangements.

"Let's go, go change money, and buy fish for you later." Gu Lin took the cat and walked to the pawnshop.

After a while, he walked out of the pawnshop dejectedly.

He found a house with two stone lions in front of it, put the cat on the lion's head, squatted down and looked directly into the cat's eyes, "Your Majesty, let's discuss it, we're wrong, how about selling the jade directly?"

"Why?" The cat found himself sitting on the head of the king of beasts, gave Gu Lin a sensible look, and then a little reserved and corrected his sitting posture, with a noble and self-respecting look, as if he was a king.

"There is less money to be pawned." Gu Lin found that no matter whether it was life or death, the money given by the pawnshop was more than half of what the bank could give.

"For the sake of your good service, I will reward you with jade." The cat tried hard to look mighty and domineering, and stepped on the lion's head with its paws, but it was a pity that the little cat was on the lion's head. The way you step on it is so cute no matter how you look at it.

"Thank you, Lord Long En." Gu Lin picked up the meat from the back of the cat's neck and lifted it up, then walked towards the silver building.

"Presumptuous! How dare you offend me!" The cat was enjoying the arrogance and glory of its king on the lion's head, when it was suddenly brought up, and it was brought up in such a weak and indecent posture, it instantly became upset, "I I won't reward you anymore, give me back my emerald!"

"Your Majesty, there is no joke~" Gu Lin ignored its protest, "Jade, I just accept it with a smile."

"I want to kill your nine clans!". . . .

When Gu Lin came out of the silver building again, he already had 190 taels of silver notes and ten taels of silver in his arms.

With money in your pocket, don't panic.

With money in his pocket, Gu Lin walked slowly towards Huairen Hall.

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Old man Gu took the prescription and asked the drug boy to help fetch the medicine.

The drug boy quickly prepared the medicine according to the prescription, "There are ten prescriptions in total, please keep them."

Old man Gu carried the medicine and handed the medicine bill to Huairentang accountant for payment. ,

The accountant was crackling with his abacus, and after a while he calculated the price, "A total of 12 taels and 59 copper coins."

"Why, why is it so expensive?" Old man Gu was shocked. The most expensive one of the ten prescriptions before cost four taels of silver. He didn't expect it to be so expensive this time.

"Because half a root of ginseng about 20 years old was used in this medicine as a primer." The accountant was not angry when he was questioned, and he explained to the old man with a good temper, "Young master is weak and cannot be supplemented. Otherwise, the effect will be better after 50 years, and it will be more expensive.”

"Oh yes, the doctor said to use ginseng." Old man Gu thought for a while, the doctor said to use ginseng as a medicine primer, it is normal for ginseng medicine to be so expensive.

Old man Gu was a little embarrassed. He only had 73 copper coins in total, and with the 24 from the sale of fungus and shiitake mushrooms just now, the total was only 97 copper coins. He should have gone to become emeralds before grabbing medicine.

Gu Lin handed over ten taels of silver and five taels of silver to old man Gu, "This is for you."

Seeing the money handed to him, Old Man Gu's eyes couldn't help but brighten up. Erlang came too timely.

Handing the money to the accountant, the accountant was very surprised. The Gu family often fetched medicine in Huairen Hall. He knew that the Gu family was not in a good situation, and fetching medicine was expensive. He had just prepared for the old man to pay on credit. , he was still thinking about how to politely refuse later, after all, he is just the accountant of the pharmacy, not the owner of the pharmacy.

Unexpectedly, the young man would solve it as soon as he came, and he couldn't help but glance at Gu Lin.

This tall and thin young man should be old man Gu's youngest son, but isn't it said that old man Gu's youngest son is a fool?This doesn't look like it, as expected, the rumors are not credible.

The accountant shook his head and handed the changed money to Old Man Gu.

"Let's go." Old man Gu collected the money, took the medicine, and walked out of the pharmacy first.

Walking out of the pharmacy, Gu Lin saw that the old man had no intention of going to have breakfast at all. He reached out and grabbed the hem of the old man's clothes.

"What's the matter?" Old man Gu was puzzled.

"Eat." Gu Lin pointed to a nearby wonton stand.

"Did Erlang not eat just now?"

"Yeah." Gu Lin pulled the old man to the wonton stand. It might be late, and the wonton stand didn't have many customers. They found a clean table and sat down, "Boss, two bowls of wonton."

"Okay." The owner of the wonton stall is an elderly couple. Although they look old, their movements are very quick.

"Erlang, why do you want two bowls?" Old man Gu looked at Gu Lin disapprovingly, "I just want one, and I want a bowl of soup, so dad just eat a steamed bun with the soup."

"Don't eat it, it's hard." Gu Lin looked at the old man who didn't know where to take out the corn bread, and frowned, wondering where he hid the corn bread.

"It doesn't matter if it's hard, just soak in the soup."

"It's better not to eat it." Gu Lin felt that looking at the hard coarse-grained corned buns made him lose his appetite. Thinking about it, the old man certainly didn't like to eat this corned buns, and he probably was afraid of spending money, so he added another sentence, "No Worrying about money."

When it came to money, old man Gu was silent. He wanted to ask clearly how much Gu Lin’s jade was sold for, but he looked around. Although there were not many people, they were all sitting very close together. It was really not the time to talk about this. So he remained silent.

The boss quickly delivered the wontons.

A few scallions are sprinkled on the exquisite small wontons, which makes people appetite. Gu Lin picked up a spoon and scooped up a wonton and put it in his mouth. It was fresh and fragrant, so delicious that it was unbearable I can't help but want to swallow my tongue.

"You bold slave, I haven't tasted it yet, you actually ate it first!" Seeing that Gu Lin was eating happily, the cat couldn't help it, and stood up with its front legs on the edge of the table.

"Come on, good cat, eat this." Old man Gu saw the cat standing up, and remembered the money he had just grabbed for the medicine flowers, and he was even more convinced that the cat was the lucky cat of the Gu family, so now he saw how comfortable the cat looked, and he He scooped up a wonton with a spoon and handed it to the cat's mouth.

"Look, this is the one with the wink, learn from it." The cat licked the wonton reservedly, making sure it wasn't too hot, and then ate it in one bite.

"Has Your Majesty forgotten about being molested by him yesterday?" Gu Lin reminded.

"Erlang, who are you talking to?" Old man Gu couldn't help asking when Gu Lin started talking to himself.

"No."

"Really?" Old man Gu was a little suspicious, remembering that Gu Lin's head was not bright before, and fools generally prefer to talk to themselves, is it a problem left over from that time?This is not possible, old man Gu was a little anxious, "Erlang, don't talk to yourself in front of others in the future, you will be regarded as a fool."

Gu Lin: . . . . .

The two fell into a bewildered silence.

"Hahaha." The cat couldn't help laughing at Gu Lin.

Gu Lin winks at the cat, isn't it because of you?

"you deserve it!"