Clam Pearl

Perhaps there are too many life experiences, Gu Maobing has his own views on various things in this world since he was a child, he watched his little uncle being calculated these days from the side, and he was quite disappointed.

The little uncle has never seen the face before, so how can he know what he has seen? Look at those good people who are as beautiful as heaven and earth, have sages and talents, and jade-like qualities, all of them are shameless and filial reputation calculator,

But this is home, his home, little uncle's home, sister's home, uncle's home, even if you have the ability to reach the sky, so what?

He looked at his little uncle, and there were thousands of things in his mind, but he could only put it into one sentence: "Now the sky in northern Xinjiang belongs to my second uncle, and the land also belongs to my second uncle. Little uncle, day and night defenses may not be able to prevent it." My family." He smiled wryly, and although he was a bystander, he could at most try to persuade him: "Yesterday, my nephew saw something she shouldn't see and heard something she shouldn't listen to. Those are elders. My nephew can't say bad things. , I can only say that you let them do their best, just go clean, what do you think?"

Gu Zhao stood up and stood in front of the window, when a burst of string music suddenly sounded in his ears. Listening carefully, it was the sound of the three strings of the pipa. The set of words was like this:

Last year's god Jingchun was blowing, wine was half drunk, lying on the jade bed made of gold roof tiles, high hall zither strings invited Robin, and the jade maid waited on eight treasures, and the beautiful woman lightly picked the jade belt hook...

After a long time, Gu Zhao smiled: "Forget it, let's avoid it! Anyway, just this time, your uncle is still alive, let them go, if that day, the old ones are gone, I just don't look for them , at that moment... who knows!"

Gu Maobing let out a long breath, all the heaviness in his heart fell, and his whole body was relaxed.

"My nephew will accompany you back home. Everyone is tacitly aware of my little writing. They are all scholars. Tomorrow you will go back safely, and I will go to my own place to stay."

Gu Zhao nodded: "It's up to you, it's a big deal for you..."

Gu Maobing's subordinates have not been idle these days. He has been alert and thoughtful since he was a child. What kind of heart is other people practicing, and what kind of heart is he?

He has checked all the households that Second Aunt has been looking for in the past few days. Who is that kind of girl prepared for, and what is her background? They are all relatives in Aunt's clan.Tomorrow the little uncle will go, don't need much, just be close to the brothers, get drunk a few times, wake up the next day, there must be someone who can't explain why, after a few years, the family can quietly help the little uncle raise his own flesh and blood come out.

It's just that the little uncle wasn't drunk enough to get there. After a few years, his brother insisted on sending one, and when he preached impressively, would he give him the face?

He has seen this kind of thing a lot, when the time comes, he will have to admit whether the little uncle recognizes it or not!Here is the loving heart of the two elder brothers. When the time comes, the other is not afraid, but the little uncle is afraid of being disappointed.

He grew up in the sect, so he naturally knows how powerful the clan is. Although the family is separated, the uncle is still there now, and the next day the uncle is gone. I can't get better there, hey!

There are thousands of kinds of harm in this world, no matter how others jump around, they will not harm you. The ones you are most afraid of are those kinds, parents, close relatives, and old friends.

No matter how hard your heart is, if you kiss them, they can hurt you. It is precisely because of the kiss that a hurt will make your heart ache when you look back.

The uncle and nephew wandered out of here, wandered around Bailan Lane for a long time, bought a lot of local products, and then turned back to their residence.

That night, the two elder brothers prepared food and drinks, buried the mechanism, and everyone was ready. Gu Yantete chose a man with a big butt, good birth and good looks, but they sent someone over there, saying that there was a purpose in Beijing to move the man. Qi Ye didn't have time to say goodbye to his subordinates, so he left overnight.

In this way, the two brothers looked at each other, and didn't know what to say for a while.

For a long time, Gu Yan scratched his scalp and looked at his second brother, and smiled wryly: "He actually ran away?"

Gu Shan didn't speak, just picked up the charcoal clip and tapped it on the charcoal basin, and sighed slightly in his heart, he knew that Gu Zhao's meager affection would be wiped out after leaving, and now he has With thousands of explanations and tens of thousands of mouths, he couldn't explain clearly that it was for Gu Zhaohao.

Even a smart person should just pretend that there is no such thing, and don't admit it to anyone!

two months later.

A line of chariots and horses came unhurriedly on the official road to the capital. The heads and frames of the chariots and horses have flat heads that ordinary merchants ride on. It looks like it's not easy to provoke.

The pedestrians came in a hurry, but stopped at the long pavilion ten miles away from Shangjing.

"Seeing that it's here, but I don't know what to do. How should I explain to my sister-in-law when I go back?" Gu Zhao was holding a bowl of medicine and muttering to himself, feeling very anxious.

He just left his elder brother in northern Xinjiang. Although he wasn't afraid that there would be a nephew there in a few years, he was really sorry.

Coming out of Northern Xinjiang, the journey was a fast one. Because of something in his heart, Gu Zhao started to have blisters all over his mouth as soon as he left Northern Xinjiang. Halfway through, he suddenly developed a low-grade fever, which scared the entire group.

Fortunately, I met a village on the road. In the village, an old woman took the beard of scallion and the old ginger, boiled water, poured a few bowls, sweated all over, and then the fever subsided.

Coming back this way, there were no serious illnesses, but minor illnesses happened one after another. Either his eyes were astringent, or his ears were buzzing. I had spring cough and couldn't sleep well all night.

"Little uncle, where should we go first?" Gu Maobing asked in a low voice outside the car.

After taking the medicine in one breath, Gu Zhao said, "Let's go home first, let's hide it from my sister-in-law."

"Then... wait until night to close the city gate, then take the sign and enter."

Gu Zhao thought about it, nodded and said, "Yes."

The line of carriages and horses leaned on the official road and waited quietly for dark. Gu Zhao held the blanket and closed his eyes to rest his mind. He knew that all his problems along the way came from the bottom of his heart. Small or fearful.

Now that he is alive, thanks to the fact that he has no descendants, and he doesn't have the courage to flood the sky after my death, he fabricated the shocking thing and raised the fetal statue of Gu Laoer's family. This is still Beijiang, let's look at it again Go down... He really didn't dare to look at it.

The more he thought about it, the more annoyed he was, he coughed violently again, and after coughing for a while, he fell asleep in a drowsy state because of the tranquilizing agent added to the medicine.

But I don't know how long it took, suddenly there was a gust of wind in my ears, and my body felt warm again. I opened my eyes in a daze, only to see Ah Run looking at him with joy.

"You sleep." Ah Run was so happy that he stretched out his hand to gather up the blanket, wrapped Gu Lao Qi and walked into the courtyard.

"You're here." Gu Zhao's heart felt stable all of a sudden, and his chest was no longer panicked. He naturally knew that he would come, and he should have come to pick him up, so he was safe when he came.

Ah Run hugged his big baby, feeling so beautiful in his heart, he couldn't bear to part with himself, he came back after not going out for a long time, he was so depressed thinking about himself.

"Sleep in your bed, I have something to say tomorrow."

Now he was completely stable, the sky was falling, and the tall man stood against it, anyway, he was not as tall as Ah Run.

In a daze, someone helped him take off his clothes, checked his pulse, and wiped his face with a hot towel. The bed and quilt were all his own, and he also liked the scent of incense. He slept really well this time.

On the evening of the second day, Gu Zhao woke up abruptly from starvation. He opened his eyes and coughed. Someone raised the curtain and saw the light. It was still his home and his tent.

"Master got up, the fourth master came here early in the morning, had breakfast here, went back for a while at noon, next door, and is waiting in the next room." It was Sun Xi who said this, but he was not here. Run is serving over there, why is he here.

Sun Xi smiled, and came over with the tray in his hands. The little eunuch under his command helped Gu Zhao hug two soft pillows and cushioned them. Sun Xi helped Gu Zhao rinse his mouth and clean his face with his own hands. After summing up, the Niuhuang Liangge Pill was prescribed."

Gu Zhao took the bowl and ate a bunch of pills before eating. Fortunately, he was never coquettish in this, and he ate whenever he wanted.

After eating, he drank another bowl of water, and saw that the left and right had gone out, so he asked, "Where is he?"

Sun Xi smiled, looked outside, then put her hands together and said in a low voice: "Today, the pilgrimage is over, and I changed into a camel velvet robe, and wore the small pearl crown presented by Nanfang last year, and wore a single cotton soap with green satin. He took the four-person sedan chair and went to the back.

After taking a bath, I changed my monk’s robes, recited the Sutra of Dispelling Diseases and Misfortunes ten times, and my Majesty started fasting after I went out. Today I’m done with incense, and I wrote a page of sutras. Let me give you a practice meeting. It just so happened that today the Ministry of Criminal Justice was involved in the case of Weihe Mi's family. His Majesty pardoned his family's boys under the age of 12 and sentenced him to exile.

Also, the Fayuan Temple said that [-] live fish will be given to you a day in the next month to cure your illnesses and misfortunes. They had a bowl of pigeon soup for lunch. Maybe they missed you. I asked twice and passed it on later. Mr. Yun Liangyun and Mr. Zhang Tu of the Ministry of Officials, after finishing their affairs, they went to the Dilu office, and they called..."

Gu Zhao waved his hand: "Forget it, forget it! From now on, you will only tell me what he wore and what he ate today. As for who he met, what he said, and what he did, you don't need to talk about it. It's not the first time I've told you, but Forgot again."

Sun Xi smiled and confessed again and again: "Yes, yes, it's not that I'm happy to see you coming back, so... I didn't hold back."

Gu Zhao looked very happy, and arranged again: "I know you, you are kind. You go out and send someone to tell the fourth master over there, saying that I am not stable these days, and Fang Zi also tells him, he sees You'll know when you get the symptoms, and my sister-in-law... just said everything is fine and that His Majesty has something to arrange, but she still disappeared."

Sun Xi nodded and looked at the door.

Gu Zhao raised his head and said to the other side: "Where's Fu Ji?"

Someone replied at the door: "Go back to Grandpa Jun, Mr. Fu will wait outside after the pilgrimage."

Gu Zhao looked around: "Are they waiting in the same room?"

Sun Xi smiled: "How can it be, Mr. Fu is so thoughtful, he came in from the corner door, and he didn't see Si Ye over there at all."

Gu Zhao pointed to the window: "That's good, you open the window to release the smell of medicine, show him the things I brought from northern Xinjiang, and bring them here after reading."

Someone answered at the door: "Yes."

Sun Xi persuaded: "Qi Ye, don't wait for this day, why don't we talk about it after a while?"

Gu Zhao laughed: "It's just a cough, and I'll be bedridden there. I'm only too old, so find me some clothes quickly."

"Look at what you said, it's not that the old slave talks too much. You know it when you are old. If you don't pay attention when you are young, this spring wind has a root cause. He has been traveling for many days without lying down. No one dares to lie down today. Bring you clothes, and open the window! Don't embarrass the people below, they don't have enough heads to pinch, and besides, Mr. Fu is no different from your own son..."

"You go, you go!" Gu Zhao hurriedly pushed the old guy out, getting more and more verbose as he got older.

Sun Xi turned around with a smile and went out. Naturally, no one brought clothes or opened the window.

Not long after, Xinzai brought two maids into the house. This pair, one named Yunxia and the other named Heyi, had packed and delivered from the south, but they were used by Gu Zhao's family in the past two years.The male servants at home are okay, but the female servants have become the maids in charge when they get older, or they are married off.

"Grandpa slept very well yesterday, I could hear the snoring outside the door, and I haven't had such a good rest this way." Xinzai was very happy.

"Am I snoring?" Gu Zhao was startled.

Xinzai nodded, as happy as he got a big red envelope: "Well, I fought all night."

"Have you heard it outside the door?" Gu Zhao was startled.

The three people in the room all laughed, what happened to the snoring, which meant that they had slept well.

However, Gu Zhao felt that he was not feeling well. He was snoring beside Ah Run, so shy!Hulu that can be heard in the courtyard after playing around people all night?

He looked around in embarrassment.

Xinzai was still nagging: "Master got up in the morning and said with a smile that he was not at ease at first, but after listening to you snoring all night, he was at ease. I think all diseases have disappeared after returning home." Everyone at home knew. Call that person Zunye.

Gu Zhao was embarrassed, and didn't say anything for a long time. Seeing that he was unhappy, Xinzai lowered his head and smiled and helped him put on his shoes, and went to the Luohan bed in the outer room, still half lying down.

Not long after, Fu Ji entered the door and was very excited to see Gu Zhao. First he knelt on the ground respectfully and kowtowed as a benefactor, then stood up and bowed to greet the junior again.

"Bah! Don't be as verbose as they are! If you do this again, don't come tomorrow!"

Fu Ji didn't care about this problem, he smiled, and without waiting for others to move seats, he dragged an arhat stool and sat down: "I just looked at the prescription twice, and I should eat less bezoar. It's too cold. I read a book of Baijia medicine before, and there is a heart-relief soup in it. Your illness is caused by a heavy heart. Pearl Atractylodes is better than bezoar..."

Gu Zhao nodded: "No, it's a choking and astringent smell."

"How old are you this year, why are you so concerned about it? The students are all here, what are those things, they are worthy of your heart, and they are worthy!"

Gu Zhao smiled, leaned his head back and said with a wry smile: "How do you know...you are not an outsider, and when you talk about our affairs, I paid attention there, I...Second brother's house, His family has 35 machine rooms and six dyeing workshops. There are 36 people in each room of his gate. Here is a list. Last year, the monthly consumption of servants in his main house was 630, six stones, seven buckets and four spoons... ..."

Fu Ji looked at his teacher. Although he came from a poor family, he also knew how luxurious the family was. Compared with the riches and honors of the previous generations, the Gu family was really nothing. Sometimes the brave master could make a hole for him today. , Now he is sick all the way because the Gu family built 35 computer rooms to make clothes for the family.

Gu Zhao didn't know that his petty bourgeois mentality had been pondered by his apprentice for a long time, and he was just babbling a series of numbers.

When Gu Zhao came to this world, he was naturally not short of money, but he didn't spend it like this. Thousands of people served those dozens of people. As for, hey...

"Don't talk, don't talk, you know me, I have seen a lot on this journey, and I inevitably thought too much. I met a poor family in the countryside on the way. His family moved out a set of wooden utensils, red lacquer buckets, and red lacquer soup bowls. The bowl is also made of vermilion lacquer, that bowl is so big..."

Gu Zhao compared the size: "His old lady is over 80 years old. She said it was a dowry given by her parents. This set was brand new, so she gave it to me. She said it was the most valuable possession. The old lady gave it to me." I'm quite proud, saying that I don't have this skill now...I'll use it...It's a loss!"

Fu Ji inevitably thought too much, he was a little moved, looking at his mentor who grew up in fine clothes and fine food, it took him a long time to cry out with tears in his eyes: "Men..."

Gu Zhaoer responded like an idiot, saying that he didn't want to talk about it, but he was still nagging somewhere: "I didn't think much about it, didn't you see it, the little boy in his family was wearing green weaving gold, and the whole family was dressed in green and gold. I used 260 pieces of rice noodles and red gold cups with both ears, but nine pieces were missing when I came back to the account. If you don’t match it, the set will be useless!”

Fu Ji suppressed his laughter, how did you know what your nephew and daughter-in-law said?

"...What do you eat, drink, and use on the other side! The old brother in the family dare not use it. His family has it, and Beijiang is the same as his family. Do you think I can stay here? ... Gu Lao San, Gu Lao Wu, and Gu Lao Liu's house, they didn't go!" Gu Zhao looked up to the sky and smiled wryly: "Forget it, I asked you to ask, have you asked clearly?"

Fu Ji nodded quickly: "I've made it clear, I've made it clear, and the affairs of the department have been sorted out. I'll wait for you to come back and make up your mind."

"You said."

"Yes, the matter happened on the autumn equinox of the year before last. The Southern Weaving Bureau reported at that time that a few new looms were lost."

"How many?"

"Five."

"Details."

"Yes, one piece of new-style scriptures, two flower looms, one silk cart, and one plain loom. On the spring equinox of last year, Dengzhou Yan's set up 36 innings in Ganzhou, using the weather and flowers. Let’s make a distinction tomorrow.” He suddenly raised his head and nodded with a firm tone: “…It’s the way of the king of Sishui, imitating our style in the south, and the width and width of the fabric are the same as ours.”

Gu Zhao was stunned for a moment, then raised his face to look at him: "I remember that King Sishui has a close relationship with the Yan family, so you didn't reach out from us?"

Fu Ji shook his head with a serious expression: "It's the Yan family of Neo Confucianism."

"Hey, it's really everyone. You can buy and sell cold clothes for the people in the district, so go ahead and talk."

Fu Ji smiled lightly: "Teacher is right, you know in your heart, how many households there are in the Aomin, how many households are there in the counties and prefectures of Juhu, they seem to be involved in the business of needles and needles, and they dare not flow into our jurisdiction. , it's only made of cloth from outside the county, but you know what?

His family has 36 bureaus, although now it only supports Dengzhou Fengzi No. 24, Fengzi is divided into [-] places, Taohua is a place with four hundred plain machines, and a craftsman with a thousand five. Our weaving bureaus are all in the south. Although it is convenient to get materials locally, But Ganzhou is next to Dengzhou. The Yan family in Dengzhou has been operating there for many generations. How many acres does his family have? Now, half of Yan’s fertile land is planted with mulberry and cotton. It is the color material of our family, the Yan family and the king of Sishui... Tomorrow, the Ding people of Wukang will gradually migrate, and within ten years of reproduction, the Yan family of Dengzhou will be the richest man in the world. "

Gu Zhao took off a string of beads from his wrist and played with them for a while, then closed his eyes, and after a while he suddenly smiled: "Tomorrow, go to the Ministry of Industry and call some emblem craftsmen."

"Yes."

"Quietly."

"Yes!"

Gu Zhao shook the beads and sighed: "Oh, this is a lot of money in the pockets of my son and my father, and I took it with confidence, how good it is!"

Fu Ji smiled and lowered his head, knowing that his master was holding back the bad water again. In fact, he had been holding back the bad water for a long time.