Clam Pearl

In November, it snowed heavily in Shangjing for three consecutive days. It stopped on the seventh day of the month, and there was a thick fog again.

Recently, Gu Zhao doesn't like to go out. One is because he is afraid of the cold, and the other is that he is afraid of his fourth sister-in-law. My fourth sister-in-law is really a rare person in the world. Although I have never seen her before, anyone in her family who is panting has a relationship with the fourth brother. The blood-related population, Gu Zhao, who was crying so hard, had to send someone to make up the gift, and he didn't dare to lack her, wouldn't he?That sister-in-law should die, she can't bear to cry every day as soon as she opens the door of the house.

Since returning home from Sima City that day, Suyun Courtyard has a new resident.That Mr. Yu Geng found Mr. Gu's room that night, crying with two pairs of shoes in his hands, and he had the drive to die for his confidant.

He made Mr. Gu very depressed. He built a house for him and bought an acre of land. Why did Xiao Qi buy him off with just two pairs of shoes?Fortunately, there are dozens of his disciples, and he doesn't care about an insignificant Mr. Yu Geng. At most, he can find another one for Xiao Si'er.Mr. Gu waved his hand. Since then, Mr. Yu Geng has become a guest of Mr. Gu Qiye, a country boy, from Gu Mr. Gu.

It is difficult for the entire Gu family to understand Mr. Yu Geng's behavior. You must know that the imperial examination will be held soon. Mr. Yu Geng's son is taking the imperial examination. I want it, after all, he is Gu Zhao's clientele, Gu Qiye is a good person, but unfortunately, Gu Qiye's brand in Shangjing is not good, Gu Qiye is too busy to take care of himself and is relying on his elder brother.

Gu Zhao looked worried at Mr. Yu Geng, who was carrying the bedding on his back, still holding two pairs of shoes in his arms, with a beaming smile on his face, hey, how good this is, he would be so moved if he was not careful!Hey, he thought too much.He is a spy in all seriousness, and he came here to be an undercover agent.

In Gu Zhao's view, leaving Mr. Yu Geng was just a matter of extra chopsticks, but things were far from as simple as he thought.

Gu Zhao's days of misery began from the day her husband arrived.

Standing must have a standing posture, sitting must have a sitting image, eating must have eating etiquette, sleeping must have a good sleeping style, education for children, nine skills and six arts, Mr. Yu Geng will give Gu Zhao as much as he can.

Learning knowledge is a good thing. Gu Zhao liked it at first, but the first class Mr. Yu Geng gave him gave Gu Zhao a raw diarrhea.

This first hall is called: Jianbang can kill turtles, why?

I don’t want to explain it in general, it’s quite wordy, but the small meaning is fortune-telling, take a broken tortoise shell, plop, plop, plop, every time the hexagram is different, there is still an explanation, isn’t the explanation the same?Wrong, it depends on who you explain to!Facing your boss, your monarch, and your subordinates, the explanations are different. Therefore, fate is the first skill of the big fool, and you must learn it.

Flipping the table... like Mao, Gu Zhao flashed away after learning it for a while, and he didn't want to please anyone.

Oppressing Gu Zhao to learn etiquette is just a part of Mr. Yu Geng's life. The most hateful thing is that this guy also requires him to read books, books about saints, books about moral cultivation, and his acerbic and domineering temperament is even worse. Dulang" This is just the most basic requirement for a nobleman.

Mr. Yu Geng is full of passion and vows to train Gu Qiye into a model of nobles for a generation.

However, even the most basic, Gu Zhao can't do it. You have to know that as a qualified nobleman, at least you have to write something recognizable to others, right?Gu Zhao's brush calligraphy is not much better than chicken chops, a bitter baby without parents, who will supervise him!

No, now that I wake up in the morning, I don’t need to listen to any wild books. I write big characters for an hour first, and choose a noble Fu style.

Gu Zhao didn't want to write it either, but...every time he resisted, someone would cry silently, with tears rolling down his face.

The most feared thing in the world is not the unknown and death, but watching a 40-year-old man cry, not only crying, but also silently crying to the moon, which makes me very sad.

Gu Zhao finally resigned to his fate and finished his homework on time every day. At least he was a teacher, let alone an hour, he could do it in two hours, hey!Although you can sit down, can you not cry... Shall I write or not?

Under the double torment of helplessness in life and study, Gu Zhao survived the early days of the cold winter, and finally ushered in the first heavy snowfall in Beijing.

Since the first snowfall, Mr. Yu Geng has been playing cats with his master, and his life is very beautiful now.If you want to eat and drink, if you are in a bad mood, you can beat the master in the name of righteousness to cheat food and drink.

In the room, two large copper basins burn bamboo charcoal non-stop for twelve hours. The bamboo charcoal has a small smoke, good taste, high heat and not dazzling.

Mr. Yu Geng has never lived so well. The bed in his room is covered with thick lambskin, covered with a brocade quilt, and his pillow is fragrant pillows. When he wakes up at night, there is a servant handing the urinal.

After he got up, a slave burned hot water to bathe him. Yes, it’s not as simple as cleansing the face. In this yard, the master takes two baths a day. Yu Geng and Bi Liangli, who is in charge, each take one. It’s not an ordinary bath. It is a real fragrant soup bath. You can imagine the salty look of an old man in his 50s, lying in a tub of flowers, reciting poems to the moon.

After taking a bath, I used soup in the house. Gu Zhao doesn't like greasy breakfast, so in the morning, there are vegetarian dishes steamed with fine noodles with pickles, plus warm tofu soup, mushroom soup, bone soup, radish soup, Seafood Soup……

Write big characters together with the master after dinner, feel free to use the pen and ink, and read the books as you like, but unfortunately, there is no book that must be read for official career in Xiao Qiye's study room, it is full of messy stuff, I don't know where it is Collected, after consulting Gu Zhao's books, Mr. Yu Geng confirmed that the master has entered the way of the devil, and the heretics are all small. Look, what you look at is made by craftsmen, and there are ghosts and gods.

There was no way, Mr. Yu Geng went to find Mr. Gu Yan and Gu by himself, entrusted the steward over there, and bought four carts of books. In fact, the bamboo slips seemed to be in large quantities, but there were not many.

Gu Zhao couldn't go out of the house, but honestly, he consciously extended the time for writing and reading, and when he was free, he also communicated with Yu Geng about the contents of the book, which was actually just asking for trouble.

It's like asking some strange questions such as: "Yu Geng, (there is no apprentice here, and the two are still master and servant), why is there no book about criminal law? The kind of book that covers all crimes in the world and clearly states punishment. ?”

Yu Geng has no way to answer, this is really not true, and now there are some notes for punishing too many people to participate in the ceremony.

"Yu Geng, find some music records for me."

This is not there either. If your family doesn’t edit the score yourself, why ask me for it.

"That astronomy class?"

Neither does this!

"Is there always a doctor?"

This is not there yet, people are all ancestral secret recipes, wouldn't it be fatal to find such a book!

"Nothing, how dare you ask me to read a book!"

Poor Mr. Liao, weeping again... After crying, he worked hard to make himself stronger, sorted out the list, and reported it to the top.

Looking at the list above, I was also worried: there is a subset of classics and history, but there are no such things as criminal law, miscellaneous biographies, geography, family genealogy, military family, farm family, and medical family. You say, you can’t write well, and you ask for so many!

In the end, it pointed to a title and asked someone to write it. The genealogy of the clan family really needs to be studied. The rise of each family, the temperament is indeed a research direction, um... the criminal law book is also true. It needs to be compiled and designated by a special person, and this is on the agenda.

Gu Zhao didn't know that his unreasonable demands turned into reasonable demands. Some changes didn't need to be twisted deliberately. Anyway, he didn't know that the butterfly would fan the whirlwind. A big moth like him not only fanned, but also made the wind blow. Not small.

Doesn’t it mean it’s snowing? Mr. Yu Geng went back to the countryside once, and there was something wrong with his house. He was really worried. One salary, one salary for Gu Qiye, but he is still poor. There are two sons in the family who can only study, plus a group of grandchildren, daughter-in-laws, and old wives who are waiting to be fed. He is poor, and the poor are justified. It's called strength of character.

After returning from home, Mr. Yu Geng knelt down to Gu Zhao, knocked him hard a few times, and made Gu Zhao jump.

But that is, when winter comes, employees should be given heating bills, cold clothes, and benefits. There are three solar terms in a row, and they should be paid double at the end of the year.In his previous life, Gu Zhao envied the iron rice bowl and the double salary at the end of the year, so he sent someone to Yu Geng's old wife, gave him ten pennies, a cart of sundries, including carbon, leather, bedding, and two live sheep. During the Chinese New Year, eat meat, two loads of wheat, two loads of beans and chestnuts.

Yu Geng tried harder to encourage Gu Zhao to write big characters, and Gu Zhao felt very hard.

On the seventh day of the seventh day, the heavy snow finally stopped. Early in the morning, the Huaping door in the yard was slammed, and Hong Dan from Lu's side ran over, knelt down in a hurry and said to Gu Zhao, "Master Seven, Madame, please come and help me."

Gu Zhao was taken aback, and hurriedly tidied himself up, wearing a fox fur, shoes still wearing soft shallow shoes, walked over there, and when he came to the door, Bi Liangli had already asked someone to prepare a small sedan chair , Gu Zhao got into the sedan chair, and Hong Dan trotted along to explain.

The fourth young master stole the master's seal and wrote a letter of recommendation for others. It's not worth it if he wrote a letter of recommendation, but he also made the girl next to his wife, Xiuxiang, belly bigger.Master Gu lost his temper and wanted to beat him to death.

Uh, this bastard is really a coward, I have to take care of it, this little bastard is even more daring than Jia Baoyu, he is just a villain, but he is so cowardly, he directly killed people .

The group of people ran for half a stick of incense, and finally came to the main hall. Before entering the door, they heard Lu crying there: "...Master, be gentle, I won't live if you kill me!"

Clap clap clap clap! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Gu Zhao stepped out of the sedan chair without waiting for the sedan chair to stabilize, and accidentally staggered, but fortunately Bi Liangli held it steady.

As soon as he entered the yard, good guy, four or five servants pressed Gu Maochang on the bench, took off his pants and spanked his buttocks. The real beating was bloody, and the board was stained red.However, Gu Maochang's physical fitness is still good, and his struggle is still strong.

"Hit me to death! I just pretend I didn't give birth to him!" Master Gu was still angry, pointing and yelling with trembling fingers, probably unable to relieve his depression, he dropped the cup in his hand again, and immediately sent it to him again One was for him to drop, so he had to drop another one, and smashed half of the carved door of the main house with his foot.

The slaves in the yard were all trembling, wishing there was a hole in the ground, and they dug themselves and buried themselves.On the ground outside the main room, there were two of Gu Maochang's servants kneeling, two tall and three rough attendants, slapping their mouths with hands as big as palm-leaf fans, and their teeth flew out.

There were a group of juniors kneeling against the wall to watch the execution. The oldest one was Gu Maode, who was over 50 years old, with his sons, grandsons, sons, and grandchildren also kneeling there. The youngest child was only seven or eight years old. Looks like a year old, his face is blue with fright.

"Uncle... I shouldn't have given birth to him in the first place..." Lu Shi ran to him crying while clutching a handkerchief.

Halfway through the run, I heard Gu Zhao come and say, "It's right! It's over after beating to death! You deserve to be beaten!"

People didn't get there, but Lu Shijue passed by!

Master Gu glared at him, but still didn't tell the boys to stop, pointing at the other side with trembling fingers and scolding: "Yes! It's over, it's over!"

Gu Zhao ignored him, and with a warm smile like a spring breeze, he asked someone to move a seat for him, and after sitting down, he said to the executioners: "Wait a minute, let me ask, if it's hateful, the wooden plank What's the point of spanking, the well over there is not covered, just throw it in and drown."

The boy playing the board carefully looked at Master Gu.

"He's the master, I'm not the master? Tell you to stop! Didn't you hear?" Gu Qiye frowned and winked, Bi Liangli and Mr. Yu Geng hurried up to support the wooden board.

Gu Maochang, who was struggling with his mouth gagged, heaved a sigh of relief and passed by.

The yard was quiet, and no one dared to speak. Gu Zhao took the teacup and held it with one hand, pointing at the one who was kneeling there with the other, and asked, "What's wrong with them?"

Master Gu said angrily: "They? They are not good things. They look like dogs at the moment. Those who go out are not playboys, they don't understand things at all!"

"Brother said this, whose child is not naughty, I don't like it if I am not naughty, what happened to the naughty child? The naughty child is smart, it is done, stop kneeling, get up, get up! Hongjuan, go In the house, quickly order two more stoves to warm up the house, and take the children to warm up. Mianmian, go to my room and bring some prepared Xiaobuihu soup to them and cook for them. It’s a cold day The ones were frozen. Take two boxes of dried and preserved fruits. The medicine is bitter! I don’t like medicine.”

Hongjuan and the others didn't dare to move, they just looked at Master Gu, Gu Qiye was furious, threw the teacup, and stared at him: "Why, it's useless for me to talk, ah! I know, I'll come to your house to live under the fence and eat your food Wear yours, hey... it's done, I'll go back, anyway, no one cared about me before, eight years..."

"Still standing! Didn't hear your Seventh Master's order! A bunch of idiots!" Master Gu interrupted suddenly, shouting like thunder.

"Eight years", these two words are a curse.

All the people in the yard breathed a sigh of relief, and rushed up to surround their master, those who put clothes on, those who rubbed their knees, and the little ones started to twitch and cry, and Master Gu cursed again: "Cry fart! If you cry again, I'll throw you into the well!"

Suddenly, it was quiet again.

The little ones were carried into the room, and Gu Zhao was ashamed to look at those grateful eyes!

Hey... Seventh Grandpa is so kind, he is the savior of the world, he is not called kneeling, and he will give you candy after taking medicine.Immediately, the family, from big to young, had infinite admiration and gratitude to their little seventh grandfather.

This kind of gratitude has been carried over by these juniors for many years, and even after Master Gu passed away, it was Master Xiao Qi who dared not refuse to follow the orders of the family.

Master Gu sighed helplessly, watched his younger brother take off the fox fur to cover Gu Maochang, then turned his face and gave him a real stare.Tell me, who does Xiao Qi look like?One year younger than Maochang, why is he so smart?When he is loved by a junior, he has big ideas, and when he stares, he has the dignity of a superior, and sometimes he is jealous.

There are also reasons for doing things, and they never ask people to find faults.The whole family, no, there are only a few people in the whole country who are not afraid of him, but the seventh brother never cared about him at all, just do what he wants, say turn his face, turn it better than... Forget it, I am the same, or else, It's not that one family does not cast a second child.

"Go and get a bottle of Shunqi Pills from my house, give it to my brother Shunqier, and send a post to ask the imperial doctor in the palace to feel his pulse, so don't make my old brother angry. Hey, don't dare to make trouble, my brother If you want to get angry, no one will hurt me anymore. Huarui, go, bring over two jars of Chiyan wine, my brother has long been greedy, um... pick a big ham and cut it, bacon, sausage, vegetarian meatballs , tofu, and dried mushrooms are all prepared, bring me the copper pot together, and I will have a drink with my brother." Gu Qiye stood there and gave directions, and all the words were centered on his brother.

When people are old, they also need to be loved and coaxed...

"I'm not angry, I want to be angry, I'm already so angry!" Master Gu was so arrogant, his heart was sour and so moved.

"Yes, you are not angry, and you are punished to kneel without anger? Hey, Maode, why are you still kneeling, get up." Gu Qiye walked up to Gu Maode who was still kneeling there, and supported him with both hands , Hey, my nephew is very awkward with me, I can't help it, my nephew is already fifty, and he has grandchildren, and he is so scared by his father that he kneels down, hey, feudal society!No, now is the period when the slave society is transitioning into a feudal society.

Gu Maode was a little ashamed, seeing that it was the elders who came to help him or stood up.

Gu Zhao patted him on the shoulder: "Let's go, go to the house and have a few drinks with your father. He is angry and always wants to talk to someone. There are so many things in the family, and the old man has nothing to rely on. He is holding back."

"My little nephew is ashamed." Poor Gu Maode, who is already fifty, was forced to cry by his 17-year-old uncle.

A group of people crowded into the house, and Gu Zhao gestured at Bi Liangli: "Pig, hurry up, carry Xiao Si into my room, and find a doctor for him to have a good look at him!"

Bi Liangli grinned with a tongueless mouth, Mr. Yu Geng gave a thumbs up quietly, and Gu Zhao replied OK, but unfortunately, Mr. Yu Geng didn't understand.

The group of people watched Elder Gu enter the house, hurriedly walked up together, even carried the stool with Gu Xiaosiye, and went to Suyun Courtyard.