Clam Pearl

But he said that Gu Maobing didn't know where he got a mantra: You have a sword in your hand, and I have a pen like a knife. Maybe it's his little uncle.

After comprehending this mantra, Gu Maobing felt that no matter how many truths he encounters in his life, this sentence is not correct.then!He started his book writing career.He grew up somewhat differently from others, no matter his background, family, or experience, he always experienced decades of suffering in his life, and he had experienced it in his youth, so his temper inevitably became a little more mean later on.In addition, he has written such a divine book and has seen the power of speech, so he often wants to write a different one.Sometimes, he felt that his little uncle had a mysterious power that could dominate everything. He believed in this power and wanted to have it.

He looked at him laughing and cursing, always out of place, in fact, he had some views on the imperial power and the system in his bones, so once life was a little unsatisfactory, he would close the door and write some unofficial histories that others dared not write and spread out to ridicule One or two, in the past, the affairs of his family were often teased and ridiculed. Later, the most yelling ones, Gu Maobing unceremoniously made up a wild history for them, which made the other party's hairs all over the place, and some people couldn't explain clearly. Then, Gu Maobing moved his underhanded hands to Jinshang's house. He changed his pen name seven or eight times in the past few years, and three or five of these seven or eight names were black names that were hunted down by the officials for inspection.This kind of very enjoyable underground work, Gu Maobing is going to do it to death!

It has been snowing and freezing for the past few days, Gu Maobing was a little unhappy, so he hid and wrote some pornographic stories to smear the sky.Now, this guy is not even afraid of gods.

Last night, he got so excited that he actually stayed up all night to write a composition. He didn’t finish a chapter until after daylight. He took the finished product to read, but found that there was nothing new. There wasn't much either.In fact, it was born in ancient times, and there is too little to learn from. Nowadays, there are too few stories, dramas, and serious articles.

Gu Maobing couldn't make a breakthrough, and he was stuck for a while. There were thousands of words in his head, all of them were stories and anecdotes, but the writing was insipid, and he really didn't know how to express it, so he lay there and turned over and over until the sky. Only when the light is bright can I fall asleep.He fell asleep, but he didn't know how long he slept until his throat was burned dry by the charcoal fire in the room. Then he sat up and called a servant to serve him and drink a glass of water.

If someone in later generations finds out, they will know that Gu Maobing's problem is actually not serious, he is Cavin!

After tidying up a little, after eating a bowl of porridge, Gu Maobing changed into a light green dark suit, his hair was not combed but tied with a ribbon, he brought a Haoran scarf, and wore a pair of plain shoes, his face was tired. Just out the door.

It doesn't matter when I go out, but I saw two people kneeling in the corridor, one is the owner of the shop Zhang, at this moment this honest man is throwing himself on the ground, trembling all over.The other one, in winter, was wearing a big oily green jacket embroidered with emerald flowers, covered in mud, had shoes on one foot, and was lying naked on the stomach with disheveled hair on the other.

Gu Maobing let out a laugh, and asked casually by the door: "What's the matter, did you worship that god early in the morning? What about the offerings? Who ate it?"

The one standing over there hastily returned: "Master, it's already half a quarter past noon."

Gu Maobing rubbed his chin and said: "My lord said how to dream of eating barbecue meat, but he was so hungry that he was dizzy. His mouth has been very dull these days."

The one who owed it over there said again: "Master, when my parents arrived here, they sent me two fat sheep, and now the cook is cleaning them up."

Looking up to the sky and laughing, Gu Maobing sarcastically said: "It's been a few days, and I'm only here now!"

After that, he walked up to the disheveled man, and stretched out his hand to lift his chin up. It didn't matter, he was really shocked. This man had a bruised nose, a swollen face, and a distorted face. He was twitching and crying with snot and tears all over his face. Both are.

too ugly!

Gu Maobing immediately threw away his hand and asked, "What is this!"

Xizai was calling over there with a saucer, seeing Gu Maobing startled, he came over with a smile and muttered something.Gu Maobing first listened to the Coke, and finally he looked at the disheveled hair and sighed: "It turned out to be you... What a pity." After finishing speaking, he said to Shopkeeper Zhang: "Shopkeeper, get up, it's icy and snowy, It was a good deed for you to let people in, no matter how it is considered a crime, it has nothing to do with you, if you blame it, you don't have to wait until today."

That's what he said, but it's a pity that Shopkeeper Zhang was still trembling, and apologized stammeringly, and then knelt down obediently after thanking.

Gu Zhao looked at the saucer in Xizai's hand and asked again: "This guy has a lot of face, should I treat him with this set?"

Xizai smiled: "Young Master, I don't know, this one has some connection with Mr. Ding's family. Our elders met his parents when they were alive earlier. It's an old acquaintance, so the elders will stay with him." Ask him about the local disaster situation." After Xizai finished speaking, she whispered in Gu Maobing's ear: "This one, also stayed in Fayuan Temple in Shangjing."

Gu Maobing raised his eyebrows, continued to nod, pulled his shoes and turned around to go to his little uncle.

The weather was warm, and Gu Zhao could finally go to the ground. He had just taken a hot bath, and after taking a bath, he lay leaning on a chair covered with wolf fur in the room to dry his hair. Help him smooth his hair.When Gu Maobing entered the room, he saw that his little uncle's cheeks were flushed, he was holding a book in his hand, he didn't read it, his eyes were looking at it, and the two charcoal stoves in the room were burning. The house is full of spring.As soon as Gu Maobing entered the room, he yawned, it was always so hot here.

"Little uncle looks really good today." Gu Maobing entered the room teasingly, found a chair at random and sat down.

Gu Zhao smiled, and said lazily in his voice: "I'm usually this good, and I'm not seven or eighty. It's just that they made a fuss! They forced me to sleep for more than ten days, and I was going to be useless. How old am I?" , They think that I am going to die every day, and they feel that a random gust of wind can blow me away."

Gu Maobing poohed a few times casually, but he couldn't say the elder was full of nonsense, he could only sigh deeply, and after sighing, he started gossiping with his little uncle.

"I had a dream today. I dreamed that a group of monks were chanting sutras around the pagoda trees in my old house. I was about to cry."

Gu Zhao burst into laughter: "It's a dream there! It's not that there are people who recite scriptures. Didn't the young master of the Qiu family downstairs say that he was going to be sent to a nearby temple for cleaning? People froze to death in the city this morning. When they were carried out He has been reading outside the door for a long time."

Gu Maobing exchanged glances with that young master. He is a face-controlling man, so it was inevitable that he felt pity for him, so he said: "Let me tell you! It's a pity, that one is clean. It's fine to send it to the temple or Provincial secularism defiled him." After speaking, he quietly looked at Gu Zhao's expression, Gu Zhao was still the same, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Gu Maobing was helpless, so he said casually: "When I came out, the few people recommended by Dingying this year... half of them had stayed in Biluoshan, and one of them seemed to be Lu, and my nephew didn't pay attention. Asked, just heard them say in a daze, His Majesty likes it very much, said that he is very talented, and even rewarded him with a purple robe."

Gu Zhao twitched his mouth to the side. Now that the monk profession is industrialized, it is as if he has not read a few volumes of scriptures in court, and he is too embarrassed to be an official if he doesn't understand a few words of Zen.

Gu Maobing also leaned on the chair lazily and said: "Ah, actually my nephew has always been tired of such things, reading a few volumes of scriptures will at least make me more merciful when I become an official!"

Gu Zhaoyi curled his lips and said: "You are clean when you are in the temple. Now... today..." When he said this, Gu Maobing raised his eyebrows over there. Others didn't know, but he knew that his little uncle and his brother What happened to that jinshang, so I was a little surprised to hear the little uncle outside, saying the word jinshang respectfully.

He expressed disdain!

Gu Zhao naturally knew what he was thinking, so he exerted a little force on his feet, and a shoe flew out.

Gu Maobing casually grabbed the little uncle's shoes, put them in his hand and glanced back and forth, the shoes looked like exquisite craftsmanship from the palace, and had never been seen in the soil.The fine cloth surface of the sole is raw white, with fine linen thread running on it.These shoes are called cloud shoes, also called inlaid shoes. They are usually red, but this pair is made of light blue satin with laces on both sides.Gu Zhao doesn't like patterns, so the shoes are only exquisite in workmanship, and they are neither soft nor hard to the touch.

Gu Zhao also raised his eyebrows, why is his nephew getting more and more abnormal, what's so good about a shoe.

"I'm sick." Gu Zhao said angrily.

Gu Maobing smiled, and casually put the shoes on the table beside him.Xinzai sighed, put down the grate in his hand, walked over to get the shoes, and knelt down to help his grandfather put them on. These days, everyone is worried about these feet. If you are not careful, they will swell into pig's hooves .

"I'm an old man, so my bones are naturally no better than others. If I don't have this problem, the younger ones will have less things to do. These days, I will be worried to death. I don't know the talkative one, saying that I am squeamish. Wait until tomorrow." If it swells up, the old man will complain again!"

Gu Maobing knew that he was offended, so he said in an embarrassing way: "Haha, in the past few years, there have been more and more handsome monks. When I came, Feng Zhi's family in Beijing was trying to meet, and crowds came here. Monk, Yishui, thirteen or fourteen years old, the long one is called delicate, and he puts on a posture, and when he reads it, it is really clear and crisp, like a gathering of orioles, hey! Huiyi’s old man’s workshop is getting bigger and bigger gone."

Gu Zhao sighed and said: "Not only that, yesterday they said that there are more and more temples in various places, and now students have to read one more volume of scriptures in addition to studying their duties, ah... Ah Run is really, used to It's a waste of money to have a group of people like this."

Gu Maobing chuckled, looked up at the little uncle, and quickly changed the subject: "This matter! Others can blame it, but the little uncle can't blame it."

"Ha!" Gu Zhao replied lazily, but picked up a book on the table and flipped through it.

Seeing that Gu Zhao was not happy, Gu Maobing had no choice but to stop talking about this topic. He muttered to himself, "Don't talk about it. When you came here, do you still remember the little uncle Tata who raised horses with me?"

"Tata? Oh! You've been talking about him these days, what's the matter with that tribal leader?"

"It's not a big deal. It's not that the business outside the customs has been getting bigger and bigger in the past few years. The Tata family originally had a tribe of 2000 people. Later, more and more people became attached to it. Now there are always four or five people in various places. Ten, together, there can be more than [-] openings."

When Gu Zhao heard this, he put down the book, picked up the teacup on one side, blew a few times casually, and asked after taking a sip, "There are so many?"

Gu Maobing said with a smile: "He has a lot. His uncle's tribe can now have 5 to [-] people. When I came... Tata said that his little uncle wanted to attach Dulles in the northwest and establish a country." , people are willing to pay taxes every year and call him the emperor's father."

Gu Zhao nodded, closed his eyes slightly, and listened to Gu Maobing continue.

It turned out that the Tata family was quite powerful in the west grassland.In the past, when their tribe was young, they were often pissed off. Their father's generation sent slaves to the big countries on both sides almost every year.Over the years, the population there has increased. Later, Tata’s grandfather divided his family’s tribe into three branches. One is Tata’s father’s tribe, called Haolaha, and his uncle’s tribe is called Liyi. , and another is his uncle's tribe, grazing in the far west, and that one is called Baiyidu.In recent years, when the weather is good, the tribe has grown bigger and bigger, and the three tribes combined can have as few as 10 people.

With more people, there will naturally be some ideas. These three families now want to establish a country.However, above them are Dulles State and Oble State, and below them is Daliang State.Among the three countries, Daliang is the largest, Ouble is next, and Ouble is the smallest.

To be honest, Gu Zhao had never heard the names of these two countries before. When he heard Gu Maobing nagging, he thought about it for a long time and didn't hang on to the history in his mind.

Today, there are many tribes on the grasslands, and the big tribes want to establish a country. Since they want to establish a country, they must find a strong supporter, otherwise, the surrounding countries may not agree.Therefore, when Gu Maobing returned to Beijing this time, Tata quietly gave him three hundred gold, asking him to help him maintain a relationship in Beijing and see if he could get attached.

What Tata means is that they are not in a hurry, they just want to find a father to support their tribe, and this father is the emperor of Daliang, Zhao Chunrun.

Gu Maobing finished talking naggingly, and then curled his lips and said: "Tata is stingy, what can three hundred gold do!" After finishing speaking, he quietly looked at his little uncle, thinking, if that fellow It's Tata's chief father, so isn't my little uncle the chief mother?No, why is this name so awkward?

Where does Gu Zhao know what Gu Maobing is nagging in his heart, but his head is now overwhelming. Throughout history, the border issue has always been a big problem. Now these tribes have begun to take shape. Maybe it doesn't matter now, but a hundred years later Well, after they have a country, they will produce the country's beliefs, culture, system, law, followed by writing, history, and the rest is ambition...

Now these tribes want to establish a country, Daliang does not ask them to establish a country, there are Dulles and Aubler over there, even if there are no such countries, they will still develop according to the track, which...is not so good... Gu Zhao was thinking about something on his mind, tapping his fingers on the saucer...

"Little uncle? Seventh uncle" Gu Maobing called Gu Zhao a few times.

"Ah? Oh...that Tata, how old is it now?" Gu Zhao suddenly realized, and asked casually.

Gu Maobing chuckled: "Why, little uncle still wants to find him a wife? You can't say goodbye, he is a savage, he is unscrupulous, he is very savage, and the barbaric land outside the customs is full of such unknown things." Etiquette, a man who drinks blood. Do you know who he married? His little mother! There is more than one. After his father died, all his father's wives belonged to him. What do you call this!"

Gu Zhao raised his head and chuckled. In fact, most countries in history continued in this way at the beginning, just like the marriage history of those few people in Greek mythology. At that time, tribes were inherited in this way, and a son marrying his mother was just a step in history.

And this is also the earliest inheritance method to preserve property and family rights, which is normal.

The uncle and nephew were talking gossip, knocked carefully on the door and came in: "Qiye, the local governor is asking to see you."

Gu Zhao raised his eyebrows to look outside, and then looked at his behavior today, then smiled and said: "Even if my brother has already met, I'll forget it. I don't feel well these few days, and they know it. Besides, he As for him, we just pass by and tell them to take care of themselves. The local disaster is serious. If it is necessary to open a warehouse, it will open a warehouse, and if it is necessary to provide relief, it will be rescued. It's bad...it's all good!" After Gu Zhao finished speaking, he waved his hand casually, except for the officials under the Qianding Division, he also met, even in the meeting in Shangjing, he rarely got involved with outside officials. In his heart, he is very tired of right and wrong.

Xizai nodded, turned around and went out, and took back a tray after a while, in which there was not only a post, but also two scrolls of scriptures, and a few hanging bracelets of arhats of various colors carved with high-quality jade.

"Qiye, this is what Ni Juncheng meant. It's rare that he is ready at any time. It's also popular in Beijing now, giving Luohanzhuer, Buddhist scriptures and so on!" Xizai put down the gift in his hand, laughing and mocking.No one knows better than him that it would be wrong for the whole country to send this to Qi Ye alone!

Gu Zhao stretched out his hand and randomly pulled the Arhat beads a few times, his face became more and more unhappy.Seeing that his master was unhappy, Xixi retreated backwards.Gu Maobing is also a man who can read his face, he also stood up and wanted to slip away, but he didn't want Gu Zhao to stop him.

"Mao Bing, wait a moment."

Gu Maobing turned around and said, "Yes, what's your order, little uncle?"

Gu Zhao dropped the Arhat Pearl in his hand, and suddenly showed a strange smile on his face, "Since it has become like this, I can't say that he is wrong, after all, this matter has something to do with me, right?"

Gu Maobing had a strange look on his face, and he didn't know if he was right or wrong!

Gu Zhao continued with a smile: "Hey! Now the Buddha incense is getting stronger and stronger... Panzi, my little uncle will show you the way and teach you to be good!"

Gu Maobing didn't understand, he peeked at him, his little uncle showed a very bitter and strange look, as if he was calculating someone, Gu Maobing couldn't help but shuddered, he lowered his head and said: "Little uncle, just give orders."

Gu Zhao stood up, stretched, shook his waist and sighed: "The bed board is too hard... By the way, go tell Tata that three hundred gold is not enough, at least one thousand gold, if he can pay this price, The master of Shangjing Pingzhou County Government is willing to introduce someone to him through the family post."

Is Gu Zhao just short of money?Gu Maobing looked at his little uncle, opened his mouth, and asked after a long time: "But I don't know who the little uncle wants to recommend to Tata?"

Gu Zhao said with a smile: "You are capable, can you fish?"

Gu Maobing said: "I understand a little bit."

Gu Zhao squinted at him and smiled: "Hanging on that pagoda! Don't make him happy all of a sudden, hey! As you said, Huiyi's workshop is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more disciples and grandchildren. , become a monk, be merciful, save all sentient beings, such a good truth, it is a loss if it is only spread in Daliang."

Speaking of this, Gu Zhao took the Pearl on the plate, stretched out his hand and pulled his nephew's arm to put it on, and said while putting it on, "Our family has little rice and many monks, why don't we send it away, wasting our own family's money?" Mi Liang is wrong! Just tell Tata that Master Huiyi is the most admired in the world today, and if he takes this line, he will not worry about great success!"

Gu Maobing obviously didn't know what his little uncle was planning, and he walked back to his room as if stepping on clouds and mist.All night, he tossed and turned, unable to figure it out.

After Gu Maobing went out, Gu Zhao went around the house a lot, until after midnight, he cleared up the mess in his head, and then he sat on the chair and wrote three letters to Go to Beijing.

He wrote one of these three letters to Gu Maode, ordering him to visit the temple industries in various places and make a list, as well as the old ancestor mentioned by the Qiu brothers downstairs. To be honest, Gu Zhao was very I don't care, so I have to keep up with this matter slowly, and investigate slowly. He wants to find out who has stretched out his hand in his backyard.

There was another letter he wrote to Master Huiyi, saying, now the master is getting more and more prosperous, and there are more and more disciples and grandchildren.Since the monks are merciful, why don't they open a philanthropic hall and train a group of monks who understand herbs and heal diseases? Now the grassland is in dire straits. If the master wants to do great things, he will help him. He is willing to protect him for a hundred years. The golden body does not fall down, and the world will burn him with thousands of years of incense, and it is unknown.If he doesn't want to stay golden, he promises!When he flies into the sky, he will definitely be rewarded with great blessings. If he burns it at will and doesn't give out five catties of relics, even if he reneges on his promise and becomes fat.

In the third letter, Gu Zhao wrote to Zhao Chunrun, and he said:

Your Majesty, I heard that purple robes are popular in Shangjing now!

that's all!