Clam Pearl

But it was said that Gu Zhao took his elder brother out of the yard, and when he returned to the gate, Fang saw the ashamed Mrs. Su and the ashamed daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jiao, waiting at the gate of the yard.

The fact is that this uncle came too frequently, in the past five years, it has been a day without a break. The family also wanted to serve the old man well, but no matter what, they couldn't intervene. Gu Zhao no longer trusted them. Seeing Tian'er sighing, Maode was in a very bad mood.

Whoever changed, being slapped in the face by the little uncle so silently for five years, no one feels uncomfortable.

Gu Maode is not stupid, he knows that now relying on his father, if his father is gone tomorrow, the little uncle's affection will probably be taken away.

Gu Zhao saw that Su was standing there holding his daughter-in-law's hand in a state of embarrassment, he smiled, and said to her very politely: "It's not your fault, it's not your fault, it's my fault that I came early today. Is it for you? They're causing trouble."

Su Shi also knew that her actions were seen by her little uncle. After all, this was her home, so Gu Zhao's actions could not be concealed.

Su quickly blessed her and said: "It's all my nephew's fault! I made my little uncle a joke. These days my niece and my daughter-in-law are always worried and restless, and can't sleep all the time..."

Gu Zhao looked Su Shi up and down, and saw that her temples were already grizzled, so he sighed in his heart. This is also the age to be a grandmother. In this life, you don't want to grow old, but the younger generation is always there. Follow you to get old.

He knew that Mrs. Su had reached menopause. In the past two years, Gu Zhao often read miscellaneous books to relieve boredom, and even read a few medical books, so he said: "I know your symptoms, but you are restless and restless. ?”

Su Clan was taken aback, and raised her face to look at Gu Zhao. She has always had a delicate heart with nine orifices more than seven orifices. When Gu Zhao said this, she thought it was Gu Zhao who beat her.

Gu Zhao laughed, shook his head slightly, but did not explain, he just told Jiao Shi: "You are not young anymore, your mother has been a housekeeper for many years, and it is... everything is in order, now that she is old, can she not be tired?" , just tell her to rest more."

Jiao quickly responded.

Gu Zhao then continued: "I have a small prescription, try to give your mother a few doses, I think her face is pale, and I am afraid that she is getting old and starting to lack blood. If so, you should remember..."

Jiao hurriedly asked someone to prepare pens and ink, and Gu Zhao picked up a pen and wrote: three qian of dodder fried in wine, three qian of white peony root fried in wine, three qian of washed angelica, three qian of Dashudi (nine steamed), three qian of yam, three qian of white poria cocos Money, Nepeta spike (fried ink) two money, Bupleurum three money.Shuijianbi, two doses a day, avoid spicy.

Gu Zhao dropped his hand, and walked out the door holding his elder brother who couldn't hold back for a long time.

After they walked for a while, Su Shi dared to cry, she said: "What did I do wrong, how could I have been negligent up and down, and now my little uncle has a sweet smile on his face, and he wants to take the pain Fang Zi punish me?"

After finishing speaking, he stood uncontrollably in the courtyard and howled without mentioning it.

Gu Zhao is an elder, and he prescribed medicine. Su Shi has to take it if he eats it, and he has to take it if he doesn't eat it. Before taking it, he consulted the family doctor in private. There is no mention of menopausal syndrome, but they said, This prescription soothes the liver and nourishes the blood, and it is very suitable for the symptoms.

Su got the explanation, and then he ate it for a few days. Unexpectedly, but the symptoms were really correct, he ate well, fell asleep, and his complexion improved a lot.

I'm afraid that's what the so-called villain guesses. However, even if Gu Zhao knew it, he didn't care too much about them. Now he is more calm.

Today the weather was fine, but the sun was not sunny. Gu Zhao took his elder brother to a secluded place outside the east gate to fly kites for a while, but none of them flew. The old man was very disappointed and started to curl his lips.

A naughty boy curling his lips is charming, but his face curling his lips is hideous.

Even so, Gu Zhao felt good no matter what he thought. Seeing that his elder brother was unhappy, he immediately coaxed him to play on the street like a filial son.

Gu Yan finally opened his eyes, and immediately rode his big bamboo horse to open the way ahead, while Gu Zhao followed unhurriedly, while ordering people to go to the forbidden street ahead. He was not afraid of jokes, but afraid that people would use strange Eyes to hurt the old brother.

Gu Yan unscrupulously rode a bamboo horse on the street for a while, passed by a grocery store and roared in, not long after, he came out again with a whole body of gadgets on.

Those things are all weapons for children to play with, such as small mallets, small machetes, wooden boring bars, etc., hanging in a circle.

The two brothers entered through the east gate, and walked slowly to Yujie Street. After walking for a while, Gu Yan saw that the peonies in the flower garden beside the road were blooming well, so he dropped his playing utensils and wanted to pick flowers.

He did whatever he wanted, said it was picking flowers, and immediately squatted down and stretched out his hands to pull them out. Gu Zhao didn't say anything, because he was afraid that it would be a hindrance. After all, this is the imperial street, and besides, the street cannot be closed forever He waved his hand, and immediately opened the four curtains around him, enclosing the two brothers and the two pools of flower gardens.

Gu Yan picked four or five big peonies and walked up to Gu Zhao, helped him insert them, then grinned and said, "Father! Beautiful!"

Gu Zhao pursed his lips and dressed himself according to him: "Well, beautiful, thank you ancestors."

Gu Yan who got the praise immediately became excited, he squatted down and ruined the two pools of flowers without any politeness, and no one serving in the curtain could escape his evil hands, everyone had peonies on their heads.

After picking it for a while, Gu Yan's eyes became dull, and he sat there in a daze and said, "Come here, get some bottles."

Gu Zhao was taken aback for a moment, then smiled again, and sent someone to buy some more porcelain bottles nearby and put them on the ground.

Gu Yan sat there, putting all the scattered flowers into the vase, still muttering, this bottle is for the old woman, this bottle is for brother, this bottle is for little four, little four like……

Suddenly someone smiled and said, "Yes, I really like it, thank you Dad."

As soon as Gu Zhao raised his head, it was Gu Maochang standing on the edge of the curtain and looking at his father with a smile.

Gu Zhao greeted him, "Aren't you busy today?"

Mao Chang shook his head: "Not busy, they said that the street is forbidden outside, I thought that the little uncle brought daddy out again to spoil His Majesty's flowers, so I came out to have a look."

While the servant brought a chair, Gu Maochang waved his hands, but he lifted his clothes and sat cross-legged on the street, sharing the flowers with his father.

Gu Yan felt that there was someone beside him, so he raised his head and looked at it seriously, and then said with a sweet smile, "Please, Uncle."

Gu Maochang replied with a smile: "Please greet Dad, the flowers Dad picked are so beautiful."

Gu Yan's face was in a daze, he didn't understand why this idiot called him father, he couldn't figure it out, so he could only raise his face to look at Gu Zhao: "Father?"

Gu Zhao stood up, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, wiped the drool from the corner of Gu Yan’s mouth, and asked him, “Are you thirsty? OK?"

Gu Yan thought for a while, looked at the vases on the floor, and shook his head seriously: "No, pick flowers for Dad."

Gu Zhao smiled: "Okay, then you can pick it."

After speaking, he asked for an oil-paper umbrella, and opened it to cover his brother from the sun while standing.

Gu Yan sat there with a confused look in his eyes. He continued picking and arranging flowers. He was very busy. After an unknown amount of time, someone outside the curtain said, "Your Majesty, Mr. Feng from the Duke of Wei is here." .”

Gu Zhao raised his face and smiled, "Call him in quickly."

Not long after, Feng Shang was still wearing his same set of equipment that has not changed for thousands of years, wide-sleeved commoner clothes, wooden hairpins and wooden clogs, and entered here with a click.

As soon as Feng Shang came in, he saw the flowers on Gu Zhao's head, and he was immediately happy: "Yo, the county prince is so elegant today, the spring breeze is blowing on his face, and there are flowers on his head."

Gu Zhao smiled and said, "No, my elder brother is the best at handling things."

Feng Shang smiled, and then saw the old Duke sitting cross-legged on the ground, and the county uncle of Pingzhou.

He stretched out his sleeves, and brushed off the dust that was not on his body. Whether Gu Yan understood or not, he also saluted respectfully with a solemn face: "Hello old man, greetings to Uncle Gu."

Gu Maochang raised his face to look at him and said with a smile: "It's you, why are you free today, Mr. Geng is willing to let you out? Thank you for the coarse grains and wild vegetables you sent last year. The food at home is good enough. You have a heart." .”

In the past two years, with Feng Shang's persevering patience in delivering radishes and coarse grains and wild vegetables, he has finally entered the core of the Gu family. At least, Gu Zhao and Gu Maochang don't hate him. A good friend, there is a gathering at home on weekdays, a tea party, and a happy event, needless to say, the following is also a regular post for him.

Feng Shang smiled, but said frankly: "My uncle is short of something like me. Fortunately, I sow the seeds with my own hands, take care of some of the crops by myself, and a little bit of wild interest. It's a loss. Uncle does not dislike it."

Gu Maochang smiled, but while drinking the water brought in by the slave, he rested his chin with one hand and carefully fed his father with the other hand. He said: "Mr. Feng is sincere and sincere, how dare I despise it."

They were gossiping, but Gu Yan, who didn't want to, listened in. Now his intelligence has deteriorated and he is very confused, but he also has instincts. When he sees that someone close to him is nice to Feng Shang, he also wants to be nice to him.

Gu Yan pushed away the tea cup that Gu Maochang handed to him and stood up, reached out and grabbed two peonies from the flower garden and handed them to Feng Shang.

Feng Shang took the peony with an exaggerated surprise on his face: "Hey, where is mine?"

Seeing him happy, Gu Yan also became excited: "Hey!"

After speaking, he plunged his head into the flowerbed, and even started to pull out the roots.

Feng Shang reached out and took two peonies on his head, then sat beside Gu Zhao and watched Gu Yan play.

After watching for a while, Feng Shang's nasal cavity was sore and unbearable, and tears came out of the corners of his eyes.

Gu Zhao tilted his head to look at him, and immediately burst out laughing: "Sizan? What's the reason for this? You guys, really... are sentimental. It's been five years, and we are not sad anymore, but you Is this coming?"

Feng Shang laughed, and wiped away tears embarrassingly: "I'm not doing it for you! I'm thinking of myself.

I have never told you in the past that I have not regretted a single day in all these years. Others say that my adoptive father got me into trouble, but they don't know that without my adoptive father, how could Feng Shang have such a life? ! "

Gu Zhao and Gu Maochang looked at each other, and then nodded with a smile. To be honest, in the world, everyone is vulgar. Feng Shang is a child of an eunuch, and Gu Zhao does not discriminate against eunuchs, but it is a pity for this talent.

Fortunately, Feng Shang's nature is sensible, and he has the most unrestrained temperament.

If it was someone else, I was afraid that I would be depressed, and I would die of grief and indignation.

Unexpectedly today, Feng Shang actually missed his adoptive father in this way, wishing that his adoptive father was alive, he was so filial!He doesn't shy away from his parentage at all.

For a moment, what he said hit Gu Zhao and Gu Maochang's minds, and the two couldn't help but think highly of him.

Feng Shang is still caught in deep memories, still nagging: "My adoptive father treats me more than the sky, but I have never been filial to him for a day, and now seeing you treat the old man like this, I am also...me too ...I really regret that my adoptive father has never enjoyed such freedom and such a good life."

Gu Zhao patted him on the shoulder: "Think about it."

Feng Shang smiled wryly and shook his head: "Hey, if you can think about it there, it's like a big knot in your heart, and it hurts when you mention it. To tell you the truth, Si Zan lost his mother at the age of three and lost his father at the age of five. After the death of my parents, all the three thatched huts in the five acres of Susukida were taken by the clan. At that time, my younger sister was less than three years old. Due to lack of food and medicine, she followed her parents to heaven within a few days...

If it's simple bullying, it's fine, but I never thought that in the twelfth lunar month of that year, a few days after my little sister died of starvation, someone in the clan came up with the idea of ​​sending me to the palace to serve others..."

Gu Zhao sucked in a breath of air, never expected that this Feng Shang has always been famous for his demeanor and knowledge, and now most people in Beijing can think of a few examples when they mention free and easy, this Feng Shang is the one who must be mentioned.

But I didn't want to, this person actually had childhood shadows!

Gu Zhao looked Feng Shang up and down, and clicked his mouth, it's not easy not to look crooked.

Feng Shang didn't care that Gu Zhao sized him up, he just continued to narrate: "I'm not the first in my clan to be sent to the palace, and I really lost all hope that year. I was young at that time, and I only knew resentment. When Sun came to power, he came out and killed those people..."

Someone around him clapped his hands violently, Gu Zhao was startled, turned his head to look, but it was his elder brother holding a flower, standing in the flower garden with a solemn expression, and shouting: "You should be killed! You should be killed!" Die! Come! Take your armor, little ones! Follow your master!"

After speaking, Gu Yan jumped out and was about to run.

Gu Zhao has taken care of him for several years, and his movements are actually faster than him. He hugged his elder brother as soon as he went up, coaxing and scaring him: "Go to the ancestor's place, there is a shop over there to buy big sugar cakes, we Would you like to buy it?"

Gu Yan was stunned for a while, bowed his head and thought carefully for a long time before nodding his head. After nodding, he said to Gu Zhao in a serious manner: "Father, when the bad dog grows up, I will go to the border to find you in the next day, and be my father's pioneer." How is the officer?"

Gu Zhao smiled and promised: "Okay, ancestor, what are you talking about, hurry up and eat well, grow up quickly, grow up tomorrow, and I will buy you another pony..."

Gu Yan answered immediately: "I want the red one!"

Gu Zhao nodded again and again: "Okay, red, white, and black, let's buy three, and you can ride them differently."

Gu Yan heard the great benefits, so he gave up on the expedition, turned around, he forgot Hua'er, Ping'er too, and he was so full of thoughts that he was left with sugar cakes.

Gu Zhao pulled out his head and put on his whole clothes to drag his elder brother to eat sugar cakes. Unexpectedly, Gu Yanlai refused to walk on the ground and insisted on his father carrying it.

Just memorize it. I haven't memorized it in recent years. Gu Zhao tied his clothes around his trouser waist. Gu Maochang, who was standing on the side, was so envious. Ask me to carry you on my back too?"

Gu Yan would never follow him, there was no other way, it was still Gu Zhao who carried his elder brother on his back, and Gu Maochang followed behind to help.

The three of them walked far away, and the servants followed slowly. Feng Shang led his donkey and watched behind them.

He didn't know how envious he was, he had never carried his father like this for a day.

That year, the clan sold him to the chief eunuch for a price of two. He thought his life was over, but he didn't want to. Within two days, he was picked up by his father, who carried him to the alley next to the 24 yamen, Looking at him pleadingly, he said:

"You don't know me, in terms of seniority, I am your sixth uncle, and now I bought you, can you be my son...I will raise you, I will support you in studying, I will give you money, and I will marry you a wife... ...In the future, I won't need you to support me, I... I'm dead, can you bury me, can you burn a piece of paper for me on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year..."

Gu Maochang held his father's fat buttocks, looked back as he walked, and said, "Uncle, Feng Shang is crying in the back!"

Gu Zhao bumped his elder brother up, gasped and said, "Remember something sad, people are not the same in this life, don't look at him, usually spend more time with your father..."

Before he finished speaking, the old brother on his back stupidly repeated: "Go with your father! Don't keep following my father." After speaking, he pushed him away vigorously with his hands.

Now, Gu Maochang wanted to cry too.