Clam Pearl

On the tenth day of September, the regular eunuchs in the palace came to the house to announce the decree, and Gu Yan brothers patrolled the border on behalf of the emperor. Even came.

Maode, the uncle of the Gu family, is an honest man. Although he has experienced a lot in the past few years and can use his brain, but there are a lot of people who are full of smiles and nonsense. As a literati with eighteen turns, he was still terrified.

Although Gu Yan has often been confused recently, but as the third son left, he suppressed himself and regained most of his shrewdness. Therefore, he sent someone to Gu Zhao, the county government, to find out what he had arranged for him in the early years. Tao Wending on Gu Zhao's side, Mr. Ding Jiu came back to help.That Mr. Dingjiu was originally a man with great ambitions, but his family was not lucky, and he was so downcast that he became a diner for a while.

After getting the news, Gu Zhao naturally agreed. Anyway, he didn't have much relationship with Ding Jiu. If it was true, the former Yu Geng was actually good with Gu Zhao. But who would have thought that would be the result, so Gu Zhao In my heart, I no longer want to use Menke.

Since Mr. Dingjiu came back, he was greeted and sent off at home, and everyone had their own intentions in their hearts. Gu Maode was relieved, and often chatted with his eldest son Yunzhen in private. I'm afraid it's really hard to take it down, but if your little uncle takes my position, he will be a hundred times stronger than me.

His son Yunzhen laughed and said that each person has his own destiny, if the younger uncle inherits the title, there will be some movement in the middle of the day, which is not appropriate.In fact, father's temperament is actually destined to inherit the family business, and it is the most secure character.Look at Wei Guogong, the little woman who is always in the middle of the day, it is not a disaster to break into the alley, no one in Shangjing will laugh at him, but his position is still safe.Furthermore, when you look at Jingge Prefecture, the head of the family uses his own brain?DIY?If there are people who are busy on their own, they are also people who have no choice but to do nothing.As long as my father doesn't do anything wrong, he will be able to live in peace and stability for the rest of his life. Those people came here just to see how much we like our family in today's world.

After hearing this, Gu Maode showed no expression on his face, and even gave Yun Zhen a few words to tell him to keep his feet on the ground. In fact, he was very proud of his son, thinking that his son was much smarter and more sensitive than him, but this character still needs to be suppressed. At the beginning, his father treated him like he was, and he often went to the family temple to be boarded and listened to the ancestors' precepts, which made him even more perfect.

Not to mention Gu Yunzhen's unintentional few words, which made him feel like he was in dire straits, but he said Gu Yan.

Gu Yan is getting older, and seeing that he has to retreat, he has received such a great favor. This decree is also the final affirmation of the Gu family. It is such an honor to condolence and patrol the border for the emperor, and this kind of benefit is natural It goes without saying that old things are floating these days when they walk.

He thinks of himself, but because there is a capable daughter-in-law, Mrs. Su, the man in the mansion thinks farther than this man.Women have women's culture. Ever since the late emperor published the divine book, Su felt that he was different from others. Apart from complacency, he also felt that he should have the bearing of a god.Therefore, in the past few years, she has been secretly practicing everyone's skills, so after receiving the order, she arranged for someone to go down to teach, no matter what, don't get carried away with complacency.

Gu Zhao and Gu Yan have a lot of things to prepare for traveling, and they won't be able to leave for a while.Gu Zhao and Ah Run have had some small conflicts these days, and they cannot be described as conflicts, which are difficult to describe, but the inner feeling is very subtle.They have known each other for about ten years. Because of their personalities, they both have a tepid temper. They usually don't talk about what's on their minds. They are the ones who wait for others to speculate. Therefore, there has always been a hurdle in their relationship life, and they can't tell what the hurdle is. Son, in short, I feel that the body is close, but there is always a film on the heart.

Now seeing that they are about to separate, but the inexplicable film is gone, is it strange?Although the past few days are not as sweet as honey, they are still sweet. Sometimes Gu Zhao can't think that he is going to leave soon, and now he is leaving. It's not like a year or a half, no trains, no planes, no matter how fast his car drives, it is only the foot strength of four real horses.Therefore, no matter what A Run's request was, he would agree to it no matter how much it went too far.

But Ah Run was not willing to make things difficult for him. Ah Zhao would not be able to come back for a year after he left. Therefore, he only thought about how to arrange Ah Zhao's itinerary properly for the past few days, for fear that he would be slightly wronged. , so he can't say a few words every day, but it's really hard work for Gu Zhao to laugh and cry.

After laughing, I felt sad again.

Busy to and fro, blinking, the day came, and this day was a good day for the priest to make predictions. Early in the morning, the courtyard of the county government was in a hurry.

Gu Zhao woke up early, but he was reluctant to get up, and just lay with his head up and his eyes open. Later, Ah Run asked in a clear voice next to him: "What are you thinking?" Also tired.

Gu Zhao turned over to look at him, stretched out his hand to touch Ah Run's cheek and said, "I can't bear it! Ah Run, tell me...the days go by so fast. I thought it was early a few days ago. Why did I arrive in an instant? ?”

Ah Run didn't say a word, and he didn't think so in his heart. Hearing his complaints, Ah Run felt better, so he pretended to be magnanimous and smiled and said: "Get up, you always have to get up, you have to go, now If you leave early, you can come back early."

Gu Zhao hugged him, sighed, stretched out his arm and grabbed Ah Run helplessly a few times, and finally got up.

Ah Run was going to the morning court, even if he was leaving today, he had to go to the morning court, so he simply tidied himself up and wasted time because he was tired, so he left in a hurry without eating a few mouthfuls of porridge.

The family was busy coming and going, and they couldn't care less about being inseparable from Gu Zhao. In short, they separated so naturally. When they entered the rockery, Ah Zhao looked back. Gu Zhao was wearing a shirt and leaning against the porch. Looking at him from above, when he turned around, he smiled at him and waved his hands, looking very relaxed.

In the morning light, although Ah Zhao was smiling, his expression was filled with loneliness and melancholy that were many times stronger than before.It looked really distressing.Ah Run didn't know, Gu Zhao saw him as such.

Ah Run's heart tightened, he smiled back and left anyway.

After the man left, Gu Zhao sighed, and ordered the gate to be unlocked, and let Xizai, Xinzai, and his baby brother Bi Liangli come in with his servants to carry things.

Today, although Gu Zhao is not an aristocrat in the clan, he still has an independent sacrificial hall, a sacrificial field and other important properties of the aristocratic family.His family has a complicated establishment, and there is a department dedicated to him. The department official is also a nine-rank official, holding two salaries from the state and Gu Zhao. There are nearly 30 teachers and teachers in each prefecture, and there can be as many as 3000 people in charge of property in various places, such as Guantou and Zhuangtou. In addition to the [-] yuan subsidy given to Gu Zhao by the state according to the system every year, the additional expenditure of these officials is more than [-] yuan. Well, you can't do it if you don't need it. This is the rule and decency.

The 180 guan is still less than one-third of the government's expenditure over there. According to the regulations, Gu Zhao can use [-] official slaves under his name. His family has a big business, so how many are used below?Gu Zhao himself didn't even know how many real workers there were.At first, he had a small peasant mindset, and he was always preoccupied, for fear that he would make mistakes in literary works.

Now, he is not noble anymore, he is used to it, he just pretends not to see it and is numb.Sometimes Gu Zhao is very dazed, so dazed that he never dares to ask how many people serve him?Aren't those people around him every day?Bi Liangli, Xizai, Xinzai, and a few young eunuchs, the servants and maidservants with lower status in the family did not dare to show their faces in front of him, for fear of imposing rules.

In this way, it is only Gu Zhaoming’s private property on the surface. As for the family’s public property, there are more, such as those in Pingzhou, Dengzhou County, and in the fief... Gu Zhao wants to take one-fifth of the family’s property. Pay one-fifth of your energy for the family.His elder brother, Gu Yan, took two-fifths, and the remaining elder brother received the two-fifths.

According to his current level, normally counted, he is regarded as an iron hat county prince, and his wife is a lady who is earnestly receiving the second-rank salary of the country. If he can give birth, his prostitute daughter will be named the township monarch. In the temple of the family, the mother has to enjoy 28 tables of meals every year, each table is less than the original wife, and the total is [-], including lamp oil, Ming paper, more fragrant, and dried fruits. The country gentry lived comfortably and richly.

In fact, Gu Zhao can sometimes feel why he and A Run can't break through. This layer of film is something that A Run takes for granted. Gu Zhao can't get used to it, and can't fully accept the treatment before and after death. class.As a modern person, Gu Zhao was terrified and couldn't accept it, but he couldn't explain it clearly to Ah Run.As a former fart, Gu Zhao had the experience of looking for cigarette butts on a boat full of big cabins. His soul is real, so he has been here for many years, but most of his dreams are modern. As far as the aristocratic Arun is concerned, there is an indescribable and unspeakable gap between the millennium gap and the fictional era.

He loves, but in his nature, he has a personality that is calm, indifferent, indifferent, cold and too focused on his own personality in modern life.This cruel character is where his pain lies.

While thinking about it, his grandma Bi Liangli brought a row of house slaves into the house with food boxes and set up a table of meals. Because he was going to travel far away, he prepared fat fish that ordinary people could not eat today.Generally, when someone at home travels, they must prepare in this way.

Somehow the fish meat has been processed, the smell is delicious, the thorns in the meat have been peeled off, the wonderful thing is that the fish still looks like a fish, but there are no thorns, and the whole fish is very comfortable to be served. All of them are lying on the long plate of deer flowers, and there are beautiful flower shapes on the side of the fish, and the decorated tabletops are very artistic and elegant.

Gu Zhao ate one bite at a time, carefully holding chopsticks, picking up vegetables and adding soup, and occasionally said: "Qiye, I'm afraid the next meal will be used in the car, it's always not as convenient outside as at home, you should eat more point."

Gu Zhao nodded, took an extra chopstick, and stopped eating.After eating, Gu Zhao changed into his official uniform, got out of the mansion, got into a sedan chair surrounded by everyone, and went straight to Tongtian Road.

Going out today by order, he and brother are going to say goodbye to His Majesty.

When they arrived at Tongtian Road, Duke Pingguo Gu Yan had been waiting there for a long time. Seeing that his brother was late, he didn't care about him, but hurriedly led him to the entrance of Tongtian Road, and turned his back to the palace. A large draft of Xie En was finished kneeling and weeping, after howling and praising the concern of the leader, the two brothers turned around and left after making a vow of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism.

When he was leaving, Gu Zhao vaguely looked at the city wall of the palace. Someone was wearing a dark black and red robe, standing in a hidden place and watching him. There was a wind blowing today, and the flag on the palace wall was in line with the man's robe. Drumming violently.He knew who it was, so he kept looking at it until he got into the sedan chair, and he still lifted the curtain to look over there. Looking at it, he couldn't help but feel a feeling of bonus in the palace of loneliness, it's so subtle !

Ah Run left the court early today, and stood by the outer palace wall waiting. He watched Gu Zhao and his brother come and go. Ah Run found him. He kept looking at him. How did he know he was here? Woolen cloth?He changed his clothes, it must be a tacit understanding!Thinking of this, Ah Run felt better.

"Your county lord is going, I'm afraid he will have to wait until September next year when he comes back." Ah Run said to himself there.

Sun Xi, who had been standing by his side to serve him, answered, "Your Majesty, today's world is not the same as it was in the early years. When you go out in the early years, let alone the way, there is no direction! It can't be compared to this moment." , then the people below said..."

Ah Run waved his hands and smiled, "Come on, I won't listen to your nagging today, just a few words."

Sun Xi smiled embarrassingly and dared not speak again.

Seeing that, the man got farther and farther away, and finally disappeared around the corner.Ah Run felt uncomfortable for a while, but accidentally touched a string of beads on his wrist, so he reached out and took off the beads, turned around and handed them to Sun Xi and said, "Hurry up, give this to him, and say that I carved it myself the year before last." Yes, I also enjoyed a year of incense in the altar...you tell him to take it with you, just say I...I said, stay together for a while."

Sun Xi hurriedly took it with both hands and said, "Yes! This old slave is going!"

He didn't take a few steps, when Ah Run called him again: "Come back!"

Sun Xi had no choice but to come back again, bowed his head and waited for orders.

Ah Run thought for a while and then ordered: "He looks peaceful, but in fact...he is the one who doesn't rub the sand in his eyes the most. Just say it when you go, just say...I said it, if you get angry outside , Just bear with it, the situation is always different in different places. Don't learn from Fu Xiaolang... Tell him to just pretend that he doesn't see something uncomfortable, and wait until he comes back next year... No! Tell him to write a letter immediately Tell me... when the time comes, I will have a way to vent my anger on him."

Sun Xi had no choice but to say yes again.

Just like that, he went back and forth several times, talking about Qianer, Daqianer, and Qianer's Qianer many times. After repeating this several times, Ah Run finally let Sun Xi go.

Sun Xi wiped off his cold sweat, hurried down the palace wall, and began to trot along the path beside the palace wall, in front of him, ran four little eunuchs, holding floating dust, shouting all the way: "Go! Go! Go..."

Therefore, those who had work along the way quickly put down their work and avoided it.

Sun Xi walked here in a hurry, the little eunuch he called to in front of him accidentally collided with an old eunuch who was cutting flowers in the garden outside at the corner.

The old eunuch Xu couldn't hear it, he was hit by someone, rolled on the ground twice, when he looked up and saw the clothes of the chief executive, he was so frightened that he started to tremble, his gray hair was bouncing up and down, She was wearing an eunuch's jacket, but it was an old spring-style one. It had been washed so much that the original blue color could not be seen, and several patches that could not be covered were superimposed one after another, looking very panicked.

Sun Xi had something urgent to do, so he gasped and stood up and scolded: "How courageous! Didn't you tell the Qing people, where did this old guy jump out? How did he run around? Didn't dodge it? What if he collided with you? good?"

The chief eunuch in the outer garden, Eunuch Lu hurried over and knelt down on the bluestone slab with a plop. The bluestone slab was solid, and the ground could still feel the shock.This is the difference between old eunuchs and young eunuchs. Old eunuchs are the best at kneeling, no matter what kind of floor they are, they can kneel respectfully.

Eunuch Lu was about to explain, but Sun Xi didn't care to listen to his explanation, so he waved his hands: "I don't have time today, I don't care about you thieves, you lazy killers! Hurry up! Get out of the way quickly, don't miss our family's affairs ! This old fellow is getting old, and hitting him five times will improve his memory!" After saying that, he turned around and started running again, followed by a group of young eunuchs who raised a palace wall of popularity.

The implicated eunuch Lu was trembling with anger. Seeing that the chief executive had disappeared, he stood up, pointed at the old eunuch on the ground and cursed: "Bah! It's really bad luck for eight lifetimes. I met you like this!" The old thing from the Sangmen, who is this? Why haven’t I seen it? Come and come! Drag it down, drag it down... clean it up, you old thing with no winks!"

He was angry, but he didn't want the eunuch beside him to quietly remind him: "Grandpa can't hit you! This old thing was arranged here by Lord Qiantose."

When Eunuch Lu heard this, he looked at the little eunuch with twinkling eyes in puzzlement and asked, "Who is that? The ones inside, the ones outside...there are several thousand years old!"

What the general manager said was that there are indeed a few people in the direct lineage of the clan who can be called thousand years old, but those people are nothing, since they have been in three dynasties.

The little eunuch pointed to the direction of the queen's bedroom, made another comparison and said, "Grandpa, I didn't mean to hide it from you, this old bastard..." He tapped his chin on the trembling old eunuch and said, "He also It's not a registered figure, isn't it that we are unhappy here? This old thing served the old master in the old mansion at that time, and he has some old feelings. Now that he is old, all the people in the family outside are dead, so he can't throw it away. Going out. Isn’t this... At the beginning, this old thing didn’t have a plan, and he didn’t raise a sacrificial incense when he was wishful, hey... Isn’t that just the above sentence, your old man has a lot of adults, so let him be spared Damn it! If you care about it, in case that person thinks about it that day, ask, are there still few people who want to step on people up and down?"

"Yo!" The chief eunuch took a deep breath and smiled angrily: "Is that unbearable?" After he finished speaking, he leaned against the rockery on one side, sat on a short rock in the rockery, and then knelt down hard on him. Only now did he feel the pain, and he sighed: "Hey, the older you get, the more you'll go back, and you don't know where you came from! I'm old, I'm old..."

The little eunuch turned pale, hurried over to kneel down, and stretched out his hand to rub the chief's knee.Eunuch Lu opened the little eunuch with a wave of his hand, and said with a sneer, "Don't do this with me, what's the matter? I hate that our small garden is not rich, do you have any ideas?"

The little eunuch hurriedly explained that eunuch Lu is a very talkative person, if he had the ability, he would not be able to come here to see the outer garden, so it was just a complaint.However, the old eunuch deserved five punishments, but he was beaten horribly, even if he was beaten to death, what did it matter to him.

When the old eunuch was dragged out, he was still trembling, whimpering and pleading, he was so frightened that he peed on his pants, and the already smelly crotch was even more stinky.Others only thought it was funny, but they couldn't see under the drooping head, but they were not afraid at all, and even shone coldly.If someone with real power in the palace looked carefully at this time, I'm afraid they could still see under the layers of shabby disguise that this old eunuch was not someone else, but the eunuch Yunguang, the confidant of Emperor Tianshou.It's a pity that Zhao Chunrun, who was an old man in the palace back then, got rid of everything without staying, and silenced all those who knew the secret, fearing that no acquaintances would be found to recognize this Yun Guang.

After rushing out of the palace gate and getting into the sedan chair, Sun Xi touched the Buddhist beads and was in a daze. The old eunuch who bumped into him must be over 60 years old, right?Now that the palace has sent many people out, why are there still such senior eunuchs using it?

That old guy...he seems to have seen it before?Where did you see it?After thinking about it for a long time, Sun Xi really couldn't think of it, so he shook his head to think about other things, but he was used to trembling in the palace half his life, but he couldn't forget the shy old eunuch.It looked like a terrified quail, but... Sun Xi just felt that there was an indescribable weirdness.

Thinking of this, Sun Xi lifted the curtain of the mule cart, told the outside to hold the shaft of the cart, and trotted to follow the grandson and eunuch Yue Quanzi.

Yue Quanzi was jogging, but he couldn't feel panting, and he responded with a clever voice, asking what was the matter.

Sun Xi opened his mouth, thought for a while but then waved his hands and said, "Forget it, let's talk about it in a few days."