marriage contract

The trees are shaded, the breeze is blowing, and the birds on the trees are chirping non-stop.

The morning light sprinkled on the ground, and also revealed a figure.

This is a small road in the imperial city. When you walk to the end, you will see a small building. The emperor was worried that Daoist He Gui was outside the palace, so he tidied up this small building.

That day when he heard Chu Junyi say that the Chu family was going to let him wear a wedding dress, Gu Chengzhi handed the sign to the palace after returning home.

It was the second day to see the emperor, and after talking about the events of that day, the emperor said that he would give the bridegroom a dress on the day of rewarding things, so that the Chu and Gu families would not have to worry about it.By the way, Gu Chengzhi said that he wanted to meet Taoist Hegui, but the emperor agreed after a moment of silence, and helped arrange the time.

When entering the palace this morning, there was a young eunuch waiting at the gate of the palace, saying that the emperor sent him to lead Gu Chengzhi, and after seeing the priest Hegui, he would go to Qianqing Palace to meet the emperor.

After walking for a while, the little eunuch stopped and said that he could see the small building at the end of the path, and he would wait here.

Gu Chengzhi felt a little funny, this should be the emperor's order, probably because he thought he wanted to clean up Taoist He Gui, and he was afraid that he would not be able to let go of the people around him, so he let him go by himself.I thought about this at the beginning, but now I don't feel that way, but it feels really good that someone cares about it.

Walking on this small road, Gu Chengzhi felt a little relaxed. The matter of the wedding dress was just a word from the emperor, and he never thought of asking Taoist Hegui to help.

And today I came to see Taoist Master Hegui just want to die to understand, some things have to be clarified before I can feel at ease.

This path is not long, and Gu Chengzhi saw the small building after walking for a while.

There are no courtyard walls or fences, only surrounded by trees, and the well-regulated two-story building looks very ordinary.If Gu Chengzhi hadn't known that this place must be in the imperial city, he might have thought it was a small mountain house somewhere.

The door of the small building was open, but it didn't look like there was anyone inside. Gu Chengzhi stood in front of the building and waited for a while, then suddenly raised his foot and walked towards the back of the building.Walking around the small building, you can see a bamboo forest. There is an open space in the forest. There are stone tables and stone benches on the open space. There are teapots and teacups on the table, and there is a person sitting on the stone bench next to it.

It was a middle-aged man in his 40s, ordinary in appearance, but with a unique temperament. He was reading with relish with a book in one hand, and a teacup on the table with the other hand.

Gu Chengzhi stood aside and watched for a while, and suddenly felt that this person was more suitable here than in other places in the imperial city.

In fact, the emperor let him live here because he wanted to express his dissatisfaction. It was not easy to find such a place in the imperial city, but judging by the appearance of this man, he should be living a good life.

Seeing that this person still didn't notice him, Gu Chengzhi didn't intend to waste any time, so he immediately walked over and sat on the stone bench opposite.

After Gu Chengzhi sat down, the man raised his head and said with a smile, "Mr. Gu."

Gu Chengzhi also looked at him, and said with a sneer, "The crane returns to Taoist priest."

"Pindao knows what Gu Sanye came here to ask, if Gu Sanye wants to ask, then just ask." Daoist He Gui didn't care about Gu Chengzhi's attitude, just closed the book in his hand, and put it on the table by the way.

"If you know what I want to ask, then you don't have to go around the bush. The Taoist priest can just say it directly." Gu Chengzhi had no intention of going around in circles with him at first, so it would be great if he could explain it simply and clearly.

Priest Hegui pondered for a moment before saying: "Two months ago, the poor Taoist watched the sky at night, but found that the stars moved abnormally. The result of the divination at that time was that there would be a natural disaster."

Seeing that Gu Chengzhi's expression was not moving, he smiled helplessly, "About a month ago, two more stars moved and showed a tendency to rival the previous ones, but the single star is weaker after all. , but if the two stars are connected, the previously changed star can be suppressed."

"So you let me marry Chu Junyi?!" Gu Chengzhi sneered again and again.

Daoist He Gui sighed, "Pindao did sixteen hexagrams in a row before he found out where the two stars are. At that time, Pindao didn't know whose horoscope it was."

"When the emperor sent people to travel south to the mountains, there were indeed people who came to look for the poor Taoist, but..." He shook his head and said: "The poor Taoist never harms people, let alone kill others for this matter. Those people left without further entanglement after learning the hexagram that Pindao had predicted, but they never expected such a result."

"The Daoist wants me to thank you?!" Gu Chengzhi looked at him sarcastically.

Priest Hegui shook his head and said: "Pindao knows that Gu Sanye is angry, but your fate with Chu Liuye is indeed destined by heaven, not just nonsense."

"Third Master Gu has a very good fate. He is a natural guardian of the Emperor Dragon, and Sixth Master Chu..." Taoist Hegui's expression was a bit complicated, but he still said: "If we can meet a few years earlier, the poor Taoist will probably bring me a lot of love. Let him go back to the southbound mountains."

Gu Chengzhi sneered and said: "Chu Junyi is the son of the Hou family, why should I go back to the south of the mountain with you?!"

"Chu Liuye's Taoism is deep, so he is doomed to have few relatives. This kind of people don't practice Taoism. If you accept him as an apprentice, then my Nanxing Mountain can be regarded as a successor."

"You can also accept him as an apprentice now, I think he will be willing." Gu Chengzhi looked at him, and a strange feeling flashed in his heart.

Daoist Hegui was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "It's too late. When the poor Taoist figured out the horoscope, he knew that the Sixth Master Chu and Nanxing Mountain were no longer destined. Now the poor Taoist only hopes that the third master Gu can be with the sixth Chu Master get along well, it's good for you, it's good for Chu Liu Ye, and it's good for the world."

Looking at Taoist He Gui's calm and gentle eyes, Gu Chengzhi pursed his lips, he finally knew where the strangeness came from.

Just now, Taoist Hegui gave him the same feeling as Chu Junyi gave him, and it didn't mean that they were alike, even though they talked for a long time, he didn't think about it.But there is always a moment that makes him feel that they are very similar, that kind of feeling, an indescribable feeling.

Gu Chengzhi thought about it for a while, but he didn't plan to stay here. He got up and said goodbye to Priest He Gui, and then returned along the same way.

Daoist He Gui watched his leaving back, sighed slightly, then picked up the book on the table and began to flip through it.

When he left the small building and walked over, he saw the little eunuch waiting outside. After going to Qianqing Palace to meet the emperor, Gu Chengzhi went out of the palace and returned to Gu's house.

What Gu Chengzhi has to do now is to prepare his own dowry... He smiled wryly, thinking it was really stupid.

The Gu family didn't have a separate family, and it was impossible for him to take the Gu family's property to the Chu family, so all he sorted out was the second room's stuff.

Mrs. Gu's dowry must be taken away, and the things that Mr. Gu has accumulated over the years are mostly orphan calligraphy and paintings, while the land deeds and the contracts of the shops outside have all been made up to Mrs. Gu. on the dowry list.

Standing in Master Gu's study room, looking at the books on the shelves and the antique calligraphy and paintings beside him, Gu Chengzhi packed them all into boxes with a big wave of his hand.Then I went around the small warehouse in the second room, except for some big furniture and some cheap things that can be seen everywhere, other objects were also carried out.

Yang Yun and Wang Hui worked together in a division of labor. One sorted out calligraphy, painting, ancient books and the Four Treasures of the Study, and the other sorted out antiques, accessories, and imperial gifts, and then made a list of everything.

Even Mrs. Gu wanted to stop them, but they used various reasons to block her back. For example, these things are the dowry of the second wife of Gu. /The things that a certain adult gave to Master Gu are naturally meant to be kept for his son, they are no longer on the official register, or else these are rewards from the emperor to Master Gu, is Mrs. Gu sure to keep them?

In the end, Mrs. Gu had no choice but to return in a rage. She would not have dared to withhold the rewards from the emperor even though she had eight hundred guts. Now the emperor is worried that he has no excuse to clean up the Gu family.

And Gu Chengzhi was packing things in his room at this time, he didn't want others to touch these things, because these were his most precious memories.

When he was a child, his father drew his own pictures and wrote him as a copybook, the purse and clothes made by his mother stitch by stitch; the swords of different sizes that his father asked someone to make for him, and the various hair crowns that his mother prepared for him Hairpins and jade pendants; the letters his father wrote to him over the years;

In the middle of tidying up, Gu Chengzhi suddenly knelt down on the ground. He raised his hands to cover his eyes, gritted his teeth and refused to make a sound.

It has been two days since the dowry list was listed, and the three elders of the Gu family looked at the thick stack of lists with unhappy faces, but they really didn't dare to withhold the things.The emperor sent people to visit Gu's house every now and then, but if there was even a little bit of news, he really didn't know how the emperor would deal with them.

Moreover, the former emperor gave some things to the Gu family to add to the dowry list by name, and asked Gu Chengzhi to study hard during the filial period, and to go to the scientific examination after the filial period.

The faces of the Gu family were numb, and so were the faces of the courtiers.

An official posted a note saying that Gu Chengzhi could not take a scientific examination, but the emperor directly slapped the note back on the face of the official on the top note, and asked them to go home and look up the law. Copy it twenty times, and don't come back to the court until you finish copying it. The emperor dare not ask for officials who can memorize the law wrongly. Up to now, those officials who have passed the law are still copying the law at home.

The dowry list can add up to almost 5 taels, and the things bestowed by the emperor do not lie in the price but in the significance, but the things produced by the palace must also be high-quality goods.In the end, the Gu family also took 5000 taels of silver from the public to press the bottom of the box, but compared with the previous dowry, it was not enough.

When this list was passed to the Chu family, the person who saw the list was frightened, and he hurried to inform the few people in the Chu family who could make the decision.Looking at the rows of imperial gifts on the dowry list, everyone present was sweating a little.

In the end, it was decided by Mrs. Chu that he would be hired with [-] silver.

Mrs. Chu gritted her teeth and agreed. In the Chu family, usually only the eldest daughter-in-law would give thirty thousand silver as a dowry, even when Uncle Chu got married, he only gave thirty thousand silver as a dowry.

But this time is different, just by looking at the list, you can see how much the emperor attaches importance to Gu Chengzhi, if the emperor can't be satisfied... the sky hasn't changed yet, they still have to eat the food given by the emperor.

At the beginning of June, the Chu family issued an appointment with [-] silver. On the day of the appointment, the sky was very cloudy, and it began to rain in the evening.