Clam Pearl

Gu Maofeng's funeral was a big one, and his death was an accident, so many yamen were affected. I don't know how many people from Nanduwei's side and the Ministry of Punishment have been punished these days. The pressure over there is fairly light.

Of course, for Gu Fu's attitude, the real class thinks that he is just a mere bastard.

Since Gu Zhao had an accident, he lived in his brother's house the next day and rested in his old yard.

After the family stopped for seven days, there were various ceremonies for three consecutive months. Although the person who died was a junior, it was a huge event for Gu Maofeng's wife and heirs. It's up to them to do it.

A funeral takes the whole spring from beginning to end.This morning, all kinds of music carts pulled by young mules appeared on the streets of Shangjing.

There were hundreds of Le cars, and they lined up from Qiandingsi to the four city gates in the southeast, north, and west. I don’t know where the team came from since midnight last night. How did it appear? In short, I went to Beijing early this morning. The old and young people in the city saw this unprecedented grand occasion, so the people in the city stopped their business and business, and all blocked their homes to watch the excitement.

Hey, how fresh, look, this is all painted with black paint, clear oil flat top caravan, the people pulling the car are all wearing blue cloth shorts, wearing Chennadi thick cloth shoes of the same color on the feet, and there is a beautiful cloth on the back of the clothes The round totem of the totem, and the word "乐" was written in the middle of the totem.

Their dress is simple, but hundreds of people wearing the same clothes, it is quite spectacular.

Who are these people?What are you going to do dressed like this?Where are they going?People are talking about it.

The sky is getting brighter and brighter, and finally the wind is moving, the morning bells and evening drums are raised one after another, the four gates of Shangjing are slowly pushing the message, and it falls with a bang, and it is unknown who got the message, those drivers suddenly slipped from their hands. Two bamboo boards were shown, and they began to ring in an orderly manner.

Chi-chi, chi-chi, chi-chi, those voices merged into one piece, countless startled birds flew up, and the onlookers felt as if their minds had been beaten, their blood was surging, they felt solemn and majestic, and their hearts were fascinated.

Those cars were slowly pulled away one by one, and left Shangjing one by one, and went in all directions when they got out of the city gate...

Gu Zhao and Jin Shanzhu stood on the high slope outside the east city and watched from afar.Gu Zhaojue thought that he was looking at the seeds, and these storytellers were the seeds, the seeds he carefully cultivated for this country to promote the national policy and gather the hearts of the people.

But he didn't know that the Jinshan master beside him saw ambition. The ancients did things to cultivate themselves for fame. They built bridges and paved roads in the village, donated incense in the temple, and donated clothes to the state in a disaster year...

Such a powerful force may not be seen by others, but the master of Jinshan has seen it. For many years, Jinshan has exhausted his efforts to achieve today's achievements, but Gu Zhao simply spent a few years of effort to achieve it. Such a rudimentary form, at this point, no one of the same age in the world can match.

There is only one point, but the master of Jinshan can't figure it out. Others control the way of speaking, the directory is all articles of reason, whether it is writing a book or biography, or doing good deeds, it is controlled in the circle of the bourgeoisie. Gu Zhao's move However, he took the opposite path from the people of the world, but why?

These common people, slaves, and tenants, in the eyes of Jin Shanzhu, have no value in wooing them. Although the hearts of the people are useful, the people are naturally tools in their hands. They don't need wisdom, they just need you to help them arrange for them to leave The road is just the laws to be followed.

The tools are available, and with such painstaking efforts to curry favor, even these musicians can now recognize hundreds of characters, and can even write some simple articles. In addition to propaganda, they also teach the rural people the opportunity to read and write.This is too much.

After watching those teams disappear, Lord Jin Shan finally couldn't bear to ask: "My friend's move is intriguing, but this old man feels that it is too much effort to do the opposite. To arrange for those people like this... But this old man thinks..."

Master Jinshan only said half of what he said.

Gu Zhao smiled, feeling really disapproving in his heart, he understood what this old thief thought.This old guy is only half of the scholars in this world, and they all regard ordinary people as commanding and walking, brainless wood.To put it bluntly, they look down on illiteracy. Since the world has its own culture, it has been controlled by literati.

He, Gu Zhao, came from a commoner and changed his shell in this life, but he is still just a dick in his bones.

Gu Zhao stretched his waist, stretched his body comfortably and sighed: "Old man, Gu is just a small official in the Qianding Division. Gu's actions follow His Majesty's arrangements. My lord has the world in mind. What does he think? Is it my fault?" I can see it. Let's take our salary and eat your Majesty's rice grains, and do things in a down-to-earth manner!"

Let's talk, he patted Jin Shanzhu on the shoulder and went down the hillside.Master Jinshan who followed behind him pursed his lips and said in his heart, this kid blows the pillow wind every day, but now he is shamelessly pretending to be a loyal minister, his face is really thicker than the city wall.

The music car went away, and the crowd in Beijing disappeared. At first, people talked about it every day, and after a long time, they had new fun. The opinions of the common people, popular support, and downward policies are all firmly in their own hands.Don't you see that for thousands of years, peasants are revolting, but you have never heard of scholar-officials revolting.

When Gu Zhao came to the later generations, he saw it and understood it. He just explained it lightly, and Ah Run understood it. This is the so-called emperor's perspective.Therefore, Gu Zhao was unwilling to explain to Lord Jinshan, explaining that the old guy might not take it seriously, and even he would object, and he would even use extraordinary means to suppress this matter.Because the privileges in Jin Shanzhu's hands come from the flattery of the scholar-official class, he is not from the same country as Gu Zhao at all.

On the second day after the Jingzhong music car left, Gu Yunwei and Gu Maoming returned to Pingzhou with Gu Maofeng's coffin. Gu Yan and Gu Guogong finally went to court, but this time, he really couldn't do without the crutch bestowed by the emperor. .

As for Gu Zhao and A Run, for some reason, these two people have entered the first period of indifference since they fell in love, and they can't tell who is right and who is wrong. After all, it is class opposition, ideological collision, and some things cannot be communicated. , so I can only talk about it coldly.When Gu Zhao returned home, although his life was still the same, his words were much less, and he could no longer do such hypocritical things as the old clapper pretending to be delicate and cute.

But let's get cold first...

However, on this day, Zhuang Chengxiu went directly to the yamen to deal with minor matters, and heard that Mr. Yue Shuang Qingshuijing, a master of law today, opened a law class at Guozi School. He was very happy, so he made an appointment with Yun Liang, Xu Dongxing, Yan Dou and others went to listen together.

The Dehui Yue family represented by Mr. Shui Jing is the leader of legal studies. His family has a history of 500 years of studying legal studies. Therefore, once this gentleman gives a lecture, there will be more or less great Confucian scholars from the Ministry of Punishment and even various schools of thought to listen to it.

Today Guozi Xueben vacated a large lecture hall, but more and more people came, even some noble officials of the six ministers, famous scholars and scholars gathered here, so the doctor of Guozixue hurriedly ordered people to move the classroom to In the largest middle hall courtyard, I borrowed a lot of short mats with legs, which are different from the kneeling mats directly laid on the ground.

Zhuang Chengxiu came late, so there were people with short legs, so the doctor who received him was a little embarrassed.Fortunately, Zhuang Chengxiu is considered a junior in a subject. Although he has been a top scholar in liberal arts, he has not yet made a statement in a certain subject, so his posture is very modest. As long as he has a kneeling seat, he and Yun Liang will kneel behind the crowd. He took out the small inkstone that he carried with him, bound the fine-leaf paper, and carefully recorded it with a small brush.

Yunliang was not in good health, so he confessed in vain, and asked for a cushion to sit cross-legged and listen. He was not very interested in the law, so he looked around, and accidentally saw a very unexpected person. It was Gu Zhao who took his lackey Fu Ji and sat in the seat before the exam with three chubby children.How dare this guy with an empty belly and a mere dandy sit alongside all the great Confucians while sitting on a short guy with legs?

Yun Liang suddenly contradicted, he was straightforward, so he didn't hide it, and directly moved Zhuang Chengxiu with his elbow and said: "Chengxiu, you said that Gu Zhao is really thick-skinned."

Zhuang Chengxiu looked at it after hearing the words, then smiled quietly and said in a low voice: "You don't know, Mr. Shui Jing and that guy are close nephews and uncles."

Yun Liang was startled, didn't he expect that guy to have such a good background?After hearing this, he felt a little sour. He looked at Zhuang Chengxiu. Zhuang Chengxiu also had an ambiguous face and slightly hooked his lips. Yes, yes, such a ignorant person was born in the Gu family in Pingzhou, and had a nurse Di Xing's ancestors, not to mention Di Zhi'er, a young man named Marquis, iron volume alchemy book, this bastard also has an uncle's family who has produced countless great Confucians, does this make others die?

Yunliang sighed slightly, and didn't know whether to despise or be jealous. If he came from modern times, there is a word that fits his mind at the moment, that is, he is really envious and jealous.

In class, Mr. Shui Jing gave a lecture today, and he talked about the old-fashioned legal dogma of criminal law. Criminal law is not old-fashioned at all, especially in ancient criminal law. Although law is often called a double-edged sword in various theories, it is Jurisprudence is double-edged and hurts others.However, Mr. Shui Jing's law study started with "Xing Jie" only.

Mr. Shui Jing said that although the legal system is strict, it does not advocate random tolerance, but the degree of punishment should be closely related to the people, and there should be a compassionate mind. The common way of the world is that even saints have no choice but to adopt punishment, but it is possible to write punishment. If it is properly relaxed, the so-called criminal officials "good" use the criminal law, and this kindness has a lot of emphasis.

Mr. Shui Jing said: torture is the result of punishment, and punishment is beating. In his opinion, the word "beating" has a lot of meaning, such as: the elderly should not be beaten, the young should not be beaten, and the sick should not be beaten. , Those who have no food and clothing should not be beaten, and I will not be beaten when others are beaten.It is also said that it is easy: the clan is not easily beaten, officials are not easily beaten, students are not easily beaten, those sent by the boss to run errands are not easily beaten, and women are not easily beaten.He also said five: don’t hit in a hurry: when you are in a hurry, don’t hit immediately, and when you are angry, don’t hit immediately... (Lv Xinwu’s Punishment Precepts)

Mr. Shui Jing explained the essence of punishment. This is simply a book of punishment for officials. So after class, the students realized something and recorded it endlessly, for fear that they would miss a paragraph.

In the past, Gu Zhao had a lot of opinions on the punishment of the ancients. Today, his uncle started a class, and he had to come if he didn’t come. He listened to it. He has been brainwashed by modern criminal laws, but he has also heard that the law is flexible. Later, there was the theory of harmony. I am afraid it has the same meaning as this, but the ancients were really wise.These ancient people still had blood relationship with him, so he felt even more subtle.

After Mr. Shui Jing finished his lecture, everyone, regardless of age or class, greeted him with arms folded.The old man was very pleased with himself but he didn't show it. He flung his sleeves away so gracefully that the typhoon could hardly be cured.

After Mr. Shui Jing went down, Gu Zhao waited for most of the people to disperse, then patted Zhu Guaner beside him and said, "Does Yun Tan understand?"

Zhu Guan'er nodded proudly and said: "Uncle and grandpa, I understand, my nephew is a young grandma, daddy can't hit me, I can only hit when I grow up!"

"Hey..." Gua Guan'er sneered, expressing disdain.

Gu Zhao smiled helplessly, and patted his head. This guy's head is not filled with brains, but stuffed buns.

The few of them were talking lively, but they didn't want someone calling Gu Zhao over there, but when they turned around, it was Gu Zhao's cousin, Mr. Shui Jing's eldest son, Yue Duzhi.

His father gave lectures, and Yue Duzhi established a network of contacts below. Whether he was a disciple of the Great Confucianism, he had to express his gratitude on behalf of his father, and the so-called second generation of Wen was not easy to do.

"Cousin? Why didn't I see you just now?" Gu Zhao greeted with a smile, and briefly introduced Fu Ji and the juniors in the family. After the two parties greeted each other, Fu Ji took them to confess and leave.

Yue Duzhi met a lot of people he admired and wanted to make friends with today, so there was inevitably a trace of restraint on his face, from excitement, and even the blush of vanity in his bones.

He pretended to be plain and said: "Father is tired from lectures, so I will send off gentlemen on behalf of Father."

Gu Zhao smiled lightly and nodded: "Ah, that's it."

Yue Duzhi only thought that his cousin was young, and he didn't understand the truth of it. Out of selfishness, he didn't want to tell Gu Zhao. He even felt that Gu Zhao didn't understand, so he said the usual way: Brother, it just so happens that we are making Dehui vegetable rolls at home, you must have never eaten..."

As soon as he finished speaking, he stretched out one hand and pulled Gu Zhao forcefully. He didn't listen to his resistance and dragged him to his light car outside. He kept nagging all the way: "My cousin used to be haunted by ghosts. How many times did you ask you to come back?" No, I went back to my hometown last year, and my grandmother kept asking you how you looked, but I knew there was a grandmother... I heard that you never went home, so I blamed my mother! How wronged, my mother kept telling me to look for you Yes, it's just that your family's threshold is high... Forget it, how to put it, you are also my younger brother, no matter what, even if you are tied up today, you have to go home once, the threshold of Uncle Maimai's house." After all...he was a little Proudly looking at the flow of vehicles and people outside the Guozi Academy that has not yet dispersed, he whispered rather arrogantly: "No one else can ask for it, and you still don't want to!"

Gu Zhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he waved his hands to the people behind him secretly, and struggled repeatedly. His uncle and cousin didn't have any utilitarianism, he was a real scholar, and he acted a bit like a childish child. it's OK.

"Cousin, you just dragged me away like this. My hands are empty. I'm being rude when I go. Let me go back and prepare..."

Yue Duzhi was furious, and said disapprovingly: "It's not someone else's house, there are so many details there, hurry up..." After finishing speaking, he stepped on the pedal hard, and the car started to shake.

The car wobbled for a long time, and finally came to Guangxingli.Guangxingli is about the intersection of the fourth and fifth rings for Shangjing. It is not good or bad, and it is much cheaper than houses in the city.Although the Yue family has quite a status among literati, his family was born as a rent-collecting landlord, so he couldn't buy a house in the first and second ring roads when he came to Shangjing. The old house, around the third ring road, is an early property purchased by the house of latecomers. The newcomers probably live in this circle of Guangxing now. They are all new houses, but only new bricks and tiles in the past 20 to [-] years.

Gu Zhao felt extremely uncomfortable being dragged out of the car by his cousin, and looked at the simple gate of his uncle's house with some struggles in his heart.

There is no one in the Yue family now, so they only built a three-step literati gate. His house is not big, and the length of the wall is at most three. If you are lucky, there may be a small yard without a pool. Listen to it in summer. cicadas sing.

Just when he stood firm, an old family member ran out of the door and smiled lovingly at Yue Duzhi and said, "Master A Lu asked about Fan Xiang?"

Yue Duzhi's face turned red immediately. His baby name is A Lu, and he loves to eat. This old family member who came out has served his family for more than 50 years. Although he is an old servant to him, he is an elder at heart. Call him Faber.

"Fu Bo is talking nonsense again, look who this is?" Yue Duzhi changed the topic, and pushed Gu Zhao forward very proudly.

Uncle Fu looked at Gu Zhao, changed his expression a few times, and then his eyes lit up, and suddenly his expression became more subtle, and the old creases on his face forcefully forced a smile, "Could it be... Miss A Xia's family?"

Yue Duzhi clapped his hands and smiled triumphantly: "Sure enough, I can't hide it from you, but it's not, he is my aunt's biological son, our cousin..."

Yue Duzhi was about to proudly introduce him, but he didn't expect that Uncle Fu's expression became more and more unbearable, and he began to laugh forcefully, but finally began to cry. After crying a few times, he suddenly trembled with resentment all over his face.

"How... how... how to have the face... how to have the face..."

Gu Zhao listened to the old man suppressing his indignation, mournful and resentful.He rolled his eyes and sighed inwardly, he knew it.Maybe you can forgive your uncle, and you can forgive your grandmother. These forgivenesses come from blood, but for the offspring of the Yue family, the former emperor killed too much. Who can tell clearly what happened during the war? Hey, to put it bluntly, there are still lumps Well, I am nothing more than a product of violence in the war. For the Yue family, my mother Axia will always be a wound.