Clam Pearl

In the summer and February of the 16th year of Tiancheng, the emperor was furious and issued a strict decree:

... The world is all right, and the rest of the world is different, and the world is in danger, and it will be the beginning of disaster.Learning about the case of Ganzhou, fire and robbery, mourning in Qianli, it can be described as earth-shattering, people and gods are indignant, now the cunning bandits are at ease, a thousand wastes are waiting for the new, the old and the new alternate, and the things are ordinary.The matter involved the Ministry of Criminal Affairs and the Department of Qianding. All the officials at home and abroad worked hard to appease the people and punish the evil.Zi Erduoshi, examine my will, so hereby tell you, I think you should know...

With this decree, the Ministry of Punishment, King Yan, Fu Ji, the Qianding Division, and Li Zhai, the governor of the five armies, ordered 8000 soldiers and horses, and a total of [-] people went out of Beijing to handle the case.

This incident really shocked the government and the public. When is this, what year is it, who dared to kill the officials of the Weaving Bureau in Ganzhou? You said you don’t want to grab gold or silver Yes, what are you doing stealing other people's looms and Siku?

This matter has been in trouble for two days, and there is news from the court that today the king of Lu, Zhao Yuanshan, is going to be appointed as the prince.

Immediately, this gust of hot wind went to King Lu of the Nunnery outside Beijing again. This Guichen master had been burned for many days, and his bones were turned into cold ashes. upsurge!

Gu Zhao didn't care about the matters of the court, and deliberately let it go. There was no way, the TV series taught him that all battles to seize the heir were life-threatening, and Gu Zhao didn't like such struggles, so he could only avoid them.

The family members have been with him for a long time, and they all know his temper, and they don't tell him what's going on.

This is all right now, Zhao Yuanxiu, Fu Ji and the others left Beijing in a hurry. The elder brother really couldn't get down because of the Yujie Guobun incident, and the couple almost knelt down to Gu Zhao. Gu Zhao felt embarrassed.

In this way, the old brother was taken back by people grateful to Dade and confessed. Rather than confessing, it would be better to hide him for fear that he would go out and lose face.

As an uncle, Gu Zhao really has no way to rob his father from his own son, so he is extremely lonely, and in addition, he has never been in the office, and he can go to work whenever he wants, and go on the day he wants to go. .

After all the good people had left, Gu Zhao and Zhao Chunrun suffocated again, so Gu Zhao walked out of the house and resumed his dandy life, spending all day at Geng Guogong's house listening to music, drinking wine, and occasionally watching Daliang's version of Yanwu or something.

In the blink of an eye, one month passed, and on this day, Feng Shang posted a message to the people at the wine table, saying that it was their Zhuangzi's turn to worship the mountain god this year, and there was going to be a big temple fair in the village. It is also a rural interest to live in a poor rural area there for a few days, eat fresh food from the countryside, and then listen to a big show for three to five days.

It's fine for others to hear this, but Gu Zhao is willing. He sees that his elder brother is locked up at home, and he has to go to Yaozhuang, thirty miles away. Presumably, it's not difficult to make a promo this time, right?

So, Gu Zhao readily agreed, and early in the morning of the third day, Gu Zhao changed into a green plain satin robe, tied an inconspicuous cloth scarf on his head, and put on homely plain cotton shoes on his feet.

He was going to the countryside, not to show off his wealth, so today he took a simple route.

Knowing Feng Shang in the past few years, he always eats other people's radishes and green onions, and the gifts at home are mostly books from the Ganzhou Printing Factory. Gu Zhao admires Feng Shang very much, and doesn't like to imitate that old guy Geng Cheng to get gold. Kaizi, the silver ingot hits people, so they have really maintained the friendship of gentlemen all these years.

All these years, Feng Shang is not bad, and he has never asked Gu Zhao for anything, which made him appreciate it even more.

Seeing Gu Zhao dressing himself up, Zhao Chunrun sat aside and sulked. When he was about to go out, he said sourly: "You are running wilder and wilder!"

Gu Zhao snorted: "If you want to go out, you go out too!" Come on, he slammed the curtain and went out.

Zhao Chunrun pointed at his back, his fingers trembling angrily, and he said to Sun Xi, "I really spoiled him, and he doesn't take me seriously anymore!" After finishing speaking, he yelled at the door: "Come on!" People! I’m going to Fayuan Temple!!”

As soon as this was said, someone at the door said coolly: "Where else can you go? Look at you as the emperor, you are very promising! If you like the temple so much, you simply go back, who cares about you?"

The man's voice was getting further and further away, Zhao Chunrun looked at Sun Xi holding his breath and cursed: "Who provoked him again?"

Sun Xi was also embarrassing, and he said with a smile: "Return to Your Majesty, my son, the young master, wrote a letter, and I don't know what he said. I think he will never come back, and I don't know why the uncle and nephew are bickering." It's... small look, isn't it just a wild king outside the Great Wall, so I will give it if I give it, and I don't know what Qi Ye thinks, but he just doesn't want to! No, he won't come back, and Qi Ye will be like this after watching it!" It's embarrassing You, I just saw that people are angry today, who is not in a hurry with you?

Zhao Chunrun couldn't laugh or cry: "He is getting more and more unreasonable, Gu Maobing provokes him, what can I do to you?"

Sun Xi sighed and said: "Your Majesty...Qi Ye's temper comes and goes, don't worry, it will be fine in a few days..."

Gu Zhao didn't know that Sun Xi had sold himself again, he had been getting farther and farther away from Gu Maobing these past few years, he still didn't know what Gu Maobing was thinking, he was desperately looking for a rough man, and he didn't know what kind of ecstasy soup he ate First, he disliked himself for sending monks to consume the food of other tribes every year, and then blamed himself for preventing Tata from establishing a country.

It would be nice if this matter was so simple, so the country was established casually?Isn't this looking for trouble for future generations?Gu Zhao was furious, and wrote a letter to Jiantian to fight with Gu Maobing. Gu Maobing didn't come back for five years in a fit of anger.

Thinking about things on the way, I saw that when I arrived at the Duke's Mansion, where the Su family had been waiting for a long time, these days Gu Zhao came to see, the old brother's life is not difficult, although he can't go out, but it is not as good as before, grandchildren and men They all avoid the old man, but now everyone plays with him, so he is happy.

Is that right?There was a little smile on Gu Zhao's face. Seeing him happy, Su's heart was at ease, and she was about to speak, but she was immediately overwhelmed by the pair's address.

Wearing a plain short jacket with a big golden Buddha hanging around his neck, the old Duke excitedly came up to embrace Gu Zhao: "Father!"

Gu Zhao hugged back, and responded as if parting for thousands of years: "Ancestor!"

After hugging, Gu Zhao praised Su Shi with a smile: "It's not bad today, you're bothered by this outfit!"

Mrs. Su hurriedly humbled herself: "Look at what my little uncle said, this should not be due." After finishing speaking, she directed people to go out with some gifts.

"Little uncle, Mr. Feng's family is not rich. My niece and daughter-in-law thought that it would not be appropriate to give some commonly used at home, so I prepared five bolts of green cloud cloth, ten bolts of summer cloth from Ganzhou, and silver-red cloud satin. I gave two horses..."

Gu Zhao rummaged through these things, turned around and asked Ade: "My niece and daughter-in-law are well prepared. It's better than sending books. What did your master prepare?"

Ade immediately replied: "Master, my family thinks the same way. It's not suitable to send us the usual ones. I'm going to live for three days. I'm afraid that the food there is not suitable, so I brought my family's food. The other one... seems to be prepared. I brought four boxes of high-quality ink, and I brought two of Ganzhou's new general history..."

Gu Zhao heard that this was not as good as Su's gift, so he waved his hands and said: "These are not good, they are like this every time. When I go back to other people's houses, Lao Feng now has two grandchildren..."

Ade replied with a confused face: "I also brought a Mongolian book for the young masters..."

When Su heard this, he laughed immediately: "Oh, little uncle, it's not my nephew and daughter-in-law. It's not appropriate for Mr. Feng to ask for a chapter. It's a rural area and it's a convention. Relatives, if you bring a child, can you prepare the gift and purse?"

Ade said: "Go back to Grandma and bring them all."

Su Shi nodded and asked again: "What are you pretending to reward others?"

Ade said, saying that it was a jade piece like a carp jumping over the dragon's gate.

Gu Zhao knew it was inappropriate when he heard this. It was like going to Grandma Liu’s house. You might as well give this as a ball of multicolored embroidery thread. It’s not that you look down on Mr. Feng. It’s mainly for traveling in the countryside. The smaller the better. In the end, Xizai and the others are not as good as Brother Nai, and besides, these people's vision has widened in the past few years, and these small things are a little unclear.

At this time, what else to say, Su Shi immediately went back cleverly and asked the women to prepare two carts of gifts again.

After all this tossing and waiting for another half an hour before going out, this way, because of the business in Beijing in the past few years, the road is very easy to walk, and at the end of Shen Shi's time, he arrived at the welcoming pavilion outside Yaozhuang.

Since I came to Daliang, I have traveled all over the world, but it is really the first time to be a guest in the countryside. To be honest, Gu Zhao is also looking forward to it.

Along the way, before reaching Yaozhuang, the Gu family's convoy saw a large number of folks from ten miles and eight townships rushing to Yaozhuang together. The old lady in the family is supported by a stool, the father carries one on the back, the other on the collar, and the mother next to him holds another in her arms.

Gu Zhao was delighted to see it, so he immediately asked Ade to write it down, and asked the people around him to draw it. In the evening, he sent it back to Shangjing to show Arun, and told him to look at his radiant subjects. Many years ago, Arun thought of The world is like this.

Feng Shang brought his eldest son, Feng Zhuang, and his youngest son, Feng Man, had been waiting outside the village for a long time. Today, this Feng Shang is also very richly dressed, wearing silk and satin, and wearing a scholar's screw crown. He picked up a conch, and each of his two sons got a conch on his head.

This stuff, it’s still last year’s annual gift, and those who can make conch crowns are all large conchs.

Gu Zhao saw that this family was interesting, so he picked up a laughing bean. He stopped showing presumptuous etiquette when he saw people, and he laughed for a while while holding the car.

Geng Cheng came earlier. Seeing that Gu Zhao couldn't help but smile, he pointed at him and cursed, "You're taking a joke. It's really embarrassing. Hurry up, and I'll introduce you to two good boys."

After all, he took the 17-year-old Feng Zhuang with one hand and Feng Man with the other and said, "These are the two sons of the old Feng family, hey! It's so amazing that I took the old man's exam. , those little bastards of my family lined up together, that's no match! Hey! This is Feng Zhuang! This is Feng Man..."

After that, he pointed at Gu Zhao and said, "This is your rich man uncle, come here, hurry up and kowtow, he has a lot of good things, loosen your fingers, you have enough for this lifetime!"

As soon as Gu Zhao heard Feng Man's name, he supported the car again, laughing out of tears.

The people over there didn't stop him either. It was a lively event to go to the temple fair, so they looked at Gu Zhaoxiao with a small smile.

Feng Man and Feng Zhuang were honest, they kowtowed three times on their knees, calling them Uncle Shi.

Gu Zhao smiled, helped the two people up with both hands, and also praised a few words. With one hand, he untied two jade pendants from his waist and gave one to each of them.

During the exchange of pleasantries, Feng Shang introduced the owners of the village. They are all surnamed Feng. Gu Zhao didn't remember who was who. Anyway, they all called Lao Feng.

In this way, Gu Zhao's team of eight carriages followed behind, the owner of the village in front, accompanied by the head of the village, and Mr. Feng, the most knowledgeable man in the village, respectfully and proudly, a large group of majestic people entered Yaozhuang .

Today, Yaozhuang is also very splendid in its pink-faced peach blossoms. The trees on both sides of the road are all hung with colored silk, and six colorful wooden archways have been built along Zhengda Road.

After passing the archway, the two sides of the road were replaced by the sheds set up by rich household registrations in Zhuangzi. Yaozhuang is next to Shangjing and under the jurisdiction of Shangjing. With the wind of Qingyun, there are many rich accounts.

Now Yao Zhuang's ostentation was actually set up by the rich in the village, whose family paid [-] yuan.

Although Feng Shang was not in business, there was a rich man like Geng Cheng behind him. In less than five years, Geng Cheng built three big houses for Feng Shang's family, and even gave him five children at the foot of Qinglong Mountain fifteen miles away. A hundred acres of fields.

In this way, Feng Shang is the biggest rich man in this village. Here, no one dares to say that he is a descendant of an eunuch.

Take the shed as an example. The shed of Feng Shang's family is three feet higher than that of other people's houses.

Today is also Feng Shang's hemorrhage. All the sheds in his house are built with high-quality pagoda wood. Thin blankets, and four mahogany tables are placed in a row. The fruit utensils he uses are silver inlaid treasures, and the tea utensils he uses are silver crab pots and silver shrimp cups.

Not to mention the utensils, there is a small courtyard behind the grandstand in his house, and there is a four-burner stove. The master chef invited the chef of Shangjing Minglou. The courtyard is surrounded by a tall square tree, on which hangs the south side. Rare ham, seven or eight slices of pork, leg of lamb, fresh fish, and even baskets of melons, fruits, pears and peaches.

Gu Zhao sent people to walk around with his elder brother to see what was new, and he lay on the second floor to watch the cooking pot in the small courtyard. While watching, Gu Zhao smiled and said, "Old Feng, you pretend to be poor, and now you are willing to make arrangements like this?"

Feng Shang glanced sideways at Geng Cheng and said, "What do you mean? You really think highly of me! How many of me do you still know? Last month, I fell in love with Mr. Sanxiu Taoxi's ink plum, and I borrowed it from Master Niu's family. Hundreds of emergency ones..."

Speaking of this, Feng Shang pointed at Geng Cheng with a helpless expression: "To tell you the truth, I planned to prepare a small wine table. The yard of my house is near the jurisdiction. Then I will build a ladder for each of you and climb on the wall." Look at that is also a good style, isn't it? Who knows! This person brought people and horses to make a fuss, and it's over. These days, my house is full of relatives who come to borrow money! Anyway, I am No money was spent!"

Gu Zhao turned his face to look at the complacent Geng Cheng, shook his head helplessly and said, "You old fool, you still laugh at my elder brother. My elder brother has a fruit in his arms. Go and see who can cheat it out? What is your name? He..." Gu Zhao pointed to the proud Feng Shang and said, "You spent money, but he still blames you!"

Geng Chengcai didn't care, for such a big idea, the first one was set up, and it only cost a hundred bucks to get it all messed up, and all the food in the backyard was brought from his farm, so how much was it worth?Be happy!

Just as he was talking lively, but he didn't want to, a boy dressed as a farmer came to the building over there to report that the relatives and elders in this village heard that the nobles from the capital of the master's house had come to visit, and they all came to pay a visit.

Hearing this, Feng Shang's expression suddenly changed, and soon he regained his good looks and said: "Yo, this is my rudeness, I will go to greet you!"

After all, he went downstairs.

Geng Cheng snorted, and looked down from the railing on the second floor, and said as he looked: "His family has a lot of relatives now, it's not the time when he bullied the orphan and starved his sister to death when he was young, you don't know, I came here yesterday, and there are still people looking for a bargain in the middle of the night..."

Gu Zhao scolded him: "You too, you're making trouble for him like this? He doesn't like to take matters into his own hands, isn't that harmful?"

Geng Cheng felt a little ashamed on his face, and cursed with hatred: "Who knew, there is such a thick skin in this place..."

While they were talking, Feng Shang led a group of thieves-like village women upstairs from the other side of the building. Before he could introduce them, the group of women rushed up and chattered for friendship...