Clam Pearl

The bleak cold wind on the grassland in winter came in through the gaps in the tent. Gu Maobing just got out of the quilt and froze back. When the curtain of the tent was lifted, Geer wrapped the hot copper pot with two pieces of leather cloth and entered it. Room.

Huazhi wore a clumsy animal skin skirt, and entered the tent with dry firewood in her arms. While burning firewood, Huazhi nagged: "Master Hou, why don't we go back to the city? It's going to be terribly cold in winter..." : "Master Hou, it's snowing outside, and you won't be able to find your way in a few days! I said go back to the city early..."

Nagging, she took out a wooden box from the low cabinet on one side, opened the wooden box, and revealed delicate porcelain boxes inside. After sniffing carefully, Huazhi found the balm, and pulled Gu Maobing out of the bed. With his hand, he shed tears while painting: "This is a crime, look at the cracks, poor... Isn't it good to be in Shangjing? If the prince of the county knows, he doesn't know how to feel distressed. Isn't it good to go back to the city... ..."

Gu Maobing looked at it with a smile, Hua Zhiyou, she, Hua Lei, Hua Li, Hua Sui, and Hua Rui were all big maids in the early years, and now those big maids have long been mothers, only the poor Hua Zhi has become an old girl with him, and she is getting better and better. More and more verbose.

Ge'er screamed outside the tent, then rolled into the tent, yelling in a mess: "Father Wanshan, it's snowing outside, it's snowing..." She was excited in a mess: "From the city There is a long, long carriage here, father Wanshan, come and see, come and see!"

The mountain is the sun god enshrined in the Haolaha tribe. It is broad, warm and kind. For many years, Gu Maobing has given such an impression to the Haolaha people. In this way, regardless of gender, Gu Maobing is called Wanshan Dad here. .

Geer is the daughter of Tata, the little princess of the tribe. Although she is only 12 years old, she still has to do various household tasks, such as milking goats, cooking, digging cow dung, picking up cow dung, and driving sheep.

The mother passed away, leaving behind three children. As the only woman in the family, she had to clean up the affairs of her tent.

12-year-old Geer is not beautiful at all, with a big round face, black and red, not tall but healthy, but has the brightest eyes on the grassland.

Ge'er saw the long carriage, and she knew that it was Wanshan's father's gift. Every time Liang people's festival came, Wanshan's father would get a lot of presents, such as beautiful silk, delicious snacks, and most importantly The most important thing is food, one car after another, to help the tribe survive the cold winter and famine.

Ge'er excitedly dragged Gu Maobing out of the bed. Gu Maobing didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so Ge'er picked up a basin of steaming water to wash himself clean, put on a thick fur, and then slowly walked out of the tent.

Outside the tribal fence, the Haolaha people happily rushed out of their tents and surrounded the convoy from Shangjing to help move things.

Almost ten years later, Gu Maobing came all the way. The tribe, regardless of men, women, old or young, worshiped and appreciated him from the bottom of their hearts. In front of him, they bent their straightest spines on the grassland.

Ah Mian is Xin Zai's apprentice, compared to the steady Ade, he is restless, so the mansion arranges for him to send gifts in various places.

Gu Maobing looked at Ah Mian with a smile, just about to tease a few words, but being sensitive by nature, he found that today A Mian, as well as those slaves who came to deliver goods at home, were all wearing dull-colored civilian clothes, and their expressions were not quite right. .

Seeing Gu Maobing coming, Ah Fang hurriedly climbed out of the car, and greeted respectfully: "Your Majesty is healthy, I have brought all the New Year's gifts from various prefectures." After finishing speaking, he took a thick list from one side and raised his hands. I will give it to Gu Maobing with high honor.

Hua Zhi took the booklet, and asked cautiously: "Ah Mian, but something happened in Beijing, who went, and you all wear plain clothes?!"

Ah Fang raised his face to look at Gu Maobing, swallowed, and said with difficulty: "Master Hou, Xibei is gone!"

Gu Maobing's body trembled, and his eyes were covered with desolation. He looked at the boundless grassland and closed his eyes slightly.

Ge'er laughed and came over to pull Ah Wang, and said in broken Daliang language while pulling: "Brother Ah Fang, please get up, don't kneel, come with me, Dad left you the best horse in the tribe, The fattest cattle and sheep..."

Ah Man stood up, forced a smile and said to her: "I haven't seen you in a few months, Miss Ge'er has grown taller again!" After that, he took out a box from the side of the bag and gave it to Geer: "For you. "

Ge'er blinked her eyes, opened the box happily, and then exclaimed in surprise: "It's so beautiful!" She took out a beautiful silver comb from the box and held it up high, looking at the world through the gaps in the comb teeth. While looking at it, he muttered, "It's so beautiful. My grandma also has a silver comb. Grandpa traded fifteen sheep with Daliang people. Thank you, Ah Fang."

The little girl jumped up happily, hugged A Fang vigorously, turned her head and held up the silver comb to show off to the tribe.

Ah Man's face was flushed, and he stared at Ge'er's back with a dazed expression.

There was a coughing sound from behind, and Ah Man's body froze, and he turned his head to look at Lord Hou with a delicate expression.

Now, Gu Maobing, who was in a sad mood, was no longer in the mood to tease Ah Mian, so he waved to A Mian and said, "Come with me."

A Mian followed Gu Maobing to the largest tent in the clan.

As night came, the wanderers who left home returned to the tribe with a cold wind. They finally collected all the annual gifts for this year and sent them to the Wanfo Temple hundreds of miles away.

The Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple is home to the true Buddha who can connect to the heavens. Now the herdsmen in the grasslands support and believe in them, praying for the blessing and protection of the Buddha.Master Huiyi, the chief abbot of Wanfo Temple, responds to every request and is extremely merciful. People in the grasslands are willing to support and worship him.

Ge'er, who had been waiting at the gate of the tribe for a long time, greeted her with a smile. She picked up her nine-year-old twin brother from the horseback.

"Su Luke, Wendu, have you seen the Archmage? Does the Archmage like Ge'er's milk tea?"

After the little girl chirped and asked, before she could answer, she rushed to Tata and said loudly, "Abba, abba, Wanshan's father received gifts from relatives, and those gifts piled up ten tents! This winter We are not afraid of snow anymore!"

Tata was stunned for a moment, with a hint of tenderness in his stern eyes. He stroked his daughter with his rough hands, threw his riding whip to the people around him, and slapped the wind and dust all over his body vigorously, and then walked towards his tent. go.

In the tent, Gu Maobing's expression was not good. He was lying on the thick wolf fur mattress, warming himself by the fire while thinking about something.

For five years, the monks he brought from Shangjing consumed the property of the herdsmen and built the splendid Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple with the offerings exchanged for their cattle and sheep. Others said that he was the father of Wanshan who brought sunshine and guided the direction, but He felt that his sins were serious, and he could take care of Hao Laha, but Bai Yidu, Li Yi, encountered such heavy snow weather, and he didn't know how many cattle and sheep froze to death, and how many herdsmen suffered.

The felt curtain of the tent was opened, Ye Guiren came in mixed with wind and snow, Gu Maobing raised his head and looked at Tata, this is his evil fate, evil debt!

Tata took off her robe and warmed herself by the fire before coming to embrace him. He said, "My Wanshan, I'm back."

Gu Maobing held up a smile and beat his strong chest: "See, is the road going well?"

Tata nodded again and again: "It's going well, I met the Archmage and offered this year's offering. The Archmage performed rituals for the tribe, and I also performed a super-salvation ceremony for Abba, Aunt, and Geer's mother. And... I even lit the ever-burning lamp for you..."

Gu Maobing felt sore in his heart, turned around and hugged his man, he couldn't say anything, and he couldn't say anything, so he could only hug him.

Tata is a beast, the body is a beast, and the feeling is also a beast. He bit him for a while before asking him: "Are you sad?"

Gu Maobing smiled wryly: "Yes! I'm very sad! Some... some of my tribe died!"

Tata said foolishly: "It's okay, they went to a good place, that is a world of bliss, no snow, no cattle and sheep frozen to death, and you can see Ge'er's mother."

Gu Maobing stretched out his hand and beat him, cursing: "Oh! I'm so mad, you fool!"

Tata hugged him and rolled on the wolf fur mattress for a while, then started laughing.

In the early morning of the next day, when the wind and snow stopped for a while, A Fang took the convoy and left here with the horse selected by Gu Maobing from the racecourse as a New Year gift. He carried the compass secretly forged by the Gu family. It's a pity that this year, the young master won't go back, but he doesn't know how much Qiye in Beijing misses him.

Before leaving, A-Mang cautiously advised a few words, he asked: "Master Hou, are you still not going back?"

Little Hou Ye looked in the direction of Wanfo Temple and said, "When I came, I brought too many things. These things are too heavy. I can only stay here and guard the heavy ones."

A-Mian said: "The king of the county misses you very much. When he came out, he also said..."

The young master didn't listen, he just waved his hands helplessly, turned around and walked towards the savage's tent.

What's going on, Ah Mian doesn't understand, but I feel very sad in my heart, the prince of the county likes the young prince so much, he treats him like his son, everyone in the family says that the title of the prince of the county will belong to the young prince sooner or later, Because the county king has no heirs, among his juniors he likes the young master the most.

Every time Ah Fang hears this, he wants to curl his lips. He knows better than anyone else that the young master outside the Great Wall is so happy and at ease.

He has seen the young master wearing bright clothes singing freely on the grassland. He can dress up as he wants, whether it is a man or a woman, and the fools of any tribe don't mind at all. Grandpa's side applauded him and cheered for him.

He has seen the young master galloping on the fiercest horse, he has heard the wanton laughter of the young master, and the biggest fool, he carried the young master on his shoulders, the young master Tell him to roll and roll, whatever you want.

The big fool is the little prince's baby.

What's in Beijing?Except for the rotten meat wrapped in silk and the vain socializing, the young master is not happy in Beijing, and if he were, he would not like to go back to Beijing either. Hey, it would be great if he could stay in the grassland with Ge Er for the rest of his life.

But what is he?He is a slave, no matter how bad Geer is, she is also the little princess of the tribe, he is not worthy of it.

In the 17th year of Tiancheng, due to the excessive killings this year, the Holy Spirit ordered to cancel all celebrations, but instead held more than a dozen super-delivery ceremonies.

In previous years, because of the advocacy of frugality, the celebrations were canceled. At that time, there were some complaints in Shangjing, but this year, every household in Shangjing accepted this arrangement calmly. With so many people dying, no family had the intention of celebrating the festival.

In this way, the year quietly went from 16 to 17. When spring came and the ice and snow melted, Gu Zhao still didn't leave the house. It wasn't that he didn't want to, but his family was too busy, and Gu Zhao had a son.

There are always a few old-fashioned things in the aristocracy of Shangjing. Sometimes these things are the privacy of the back house, and some of them are old-fashioned gossip.

Prince Ning doesn't want to get married and doesn't want women. In fact, everyone knows what he is, but they just don't say it and make jokes in private.

Ever since Gu Zhao became King of Ning County, many people in the clan secretly worked hard and made many plans. Who would not be envious of the title of County King?

Privately, each family has guessed who will end up with the title of Prince of the County. If it weren't for Prince Ning who is only in his 30s this year, the pressure on the Guang Clan would be quite high.

Regarding the adoption, everyone had some guesses. At first, they guessed that Gu Maobing, the second marquis of the fourth master's family, was later found to be a womanizer. In this way, the Gu family had two eldest sons. Pie, a title of county king, and a hereditary marquis are all hereditary.

In the past few years, rain or shine, I have come to Gu Zhao's house to say hello to my juniors. That's a lot. I can go back and forth from the entrance of the alley three times in the early morning every day.

Afterwards, everyone thought about it again, except for the Second Marquis of the Sifangtou, King Ning also favored Gu Maochang, the Sifangtou's Fourth Master, so the lottery fell over there.

Unexpectedly, these idlers came and went in a hurry. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, in the middle of the night, the county palace suddenly ordered someone to bring a sign into the palace overnight, saying that it was an aunt from the Ningjun palace. Difficult labor.

Afterwards, the palace sent Mr. Cheng, a gynecologist who is a master of gynecology, to rush to Prince Ning's mansion. Before he arrived, the aunt named Taohua gave birth there, and died after giving birth to a boy weighing [-] catties.

Hey, such a big fortune, it can be seen that this aunt is light-hearted and can't bear it.

Well, no matter what, King Ning has a son. To many people, this is bad news like a bolt from the blue. All of a sudden, the number of carriages that greeted them is reduced by half.

Gu Zhaocai didn't care what the outsiders thought, but he didn't know what to say to his sudden son, maybe it was because he was too sad, maybe it was Ah Run's little thought.

On the night when the entire Beixi family was executed last year, Yuan Xiu suddenly returned home with a basket in the middle of the night, and there was a newborn skinny baby in the basket.

Yuan Xiu said that this child was born by Gu Ziyu's wife Princess Yuehe before she died. Speaking of Gu Ziyu's wife, she also has some background. Emperor Tiancheng had seven princesses, but only one princess survived. Princess Ann, this princess is not a long-lived one either, Tianshou passed away after 16 years.

Princess Yu'an left behind a princess called Yuehe. After ascending the throne today, Yuehe's life was not as she wished, and the higher-ups couldn't see it, so she often gave out a dowry from the inner treasury to marry the princess Yuehe to Beixi Yulang Gu Ziyu.

Princess Yuehe is timid by nature. After marrying Ziyu, she stayed in Beixi for so many years in obscurity. She finally got pregnant but encountered a catastrophe in Beixi. In panic, the princess gave birth prematurely. A thin baby was born and went that night.

Gu Zhao didn't believe it when he said it was a dystocia, and he didn't want to pursue it.

Now, this child was randomly put in a basket and brought here. After all, this is also a poor little baby who escaped the massacre. Gu Zhao sat for half the night, and the child was crying weakly in the basket.At dawn, Gu Zhao finally let go and raised the child as his own.

He thought, now he understood what Ah Run was thinking.

King Sishui and King Lu saw that they would be sent to the south, and these two families might not be able to survive. King Jibei, who is jumping up and down now, will die sooner or later. Then, this child is the only blood of Beixi and Emperor Tianshou.

Ah Run, after all, was also afraid...

Therefore, this child Gu Zhao gave him a baby name, Taozi (runaway son).

Tao Zi has been raised at home for more than a month, and gradually gained weight. It was not until this time that Gu Zhao sang a big show at home, and also held a formal funeral at home. Not long after, Ah Run died in the palace. According to the decree, Tao Hua Ji, whom Gu Zhao did not know, was given the position of side wife.

As the emperor, Zhao Chunrun didn't care about the title of a county king at all, as long as his Azhao was happy now, it would be better than anything else.

It's strange to say that Taozi is a descendant of Xibei after all, and he is an ancestor of Gu Zhao. Apart from other things, he is really favored by God. Just talking about the facial features, this is a face that looks like a descendant of the old Gu family. Especially the outline of the nose and chin. Everyone who took it to the house said that the baby looked like a dead old Suan Ni.

Gu Maode and the others also came to see it, and they said the same after reading it. This is the child of the Gu family, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, which is rare.

Until now, Zhao Chunrun felt relieved when he saw Gu Zhao showing a smile on his face. After all, he showed some sincerity to this child. With love, he didn't want Ah Zhao to be gone in the future, and he didn't even burn paper for food in the grave. Thinking of this , he never regretted it.

The sky was getting dark, and Taozi was crying in her swaddling baby. This guy was a night cryer. In addition, it was Gu Zhao's first time raising a child, especially after he had a relationship, he was like a treasure. worried.

In a daze, Gu Zhao stretched out his hand from under the quilt and reached for the swaddling clothes. He groped twice and found a wet hand.

So, King Ning closed his eyes in the bed, stretched out his feet and kicked Long Live today's calf and said, "I've peed, go change the diaper!"

Present Wansui, who had been startled by Tao Zi for a long time, opened his eyes helplessly. He looked at Gu Zhao, and then at the lump of flesh sandwiched between them. He took out a piece from his pocket and quickly served the second ancestor of his family.