Clam Pearl

Gu Qiye swelled his head full of literary thoughts, like a torrential river, with dark lines, one after another peerless beauty, and the fragrance of books one by one, lingering in his head, full of literary thoughts, rushing like a spring, This is exactly: Passers-by don't know XXX, ask Xiaoer what's the matter, Xiaoer smiles and guides, XXX is being sold over there!

Hmm... good poetry, good poetry!

Gu Qiye was so excited that he tripped over the threshold as soon as he entered the door, and before he got up, he raised his head and shouted at the stunned little slaves in the yard: "Xiaozi, prepare pens and ink for the master, I'm going to make a fuss!"

His grandma Bi Liangli had just collected five big goose eggs from the greenhouse. Hearing that Master Qi was going to make a fuss, he was so frightened that he dropped the goose eggs to the ground, stirring up the yolks all over the floor.

Burn a furnace of incense cakes, spread a piece of fine silk, turn a piece of famous ink, and make a good brush.

Gu Qiye was lucky to move his dantian, his eyes shined brightly, and he exerted strength with one hand, and millions of literary thoughts in his heart suddenly spewed out, only to see three large and black characters appearing on the fine silk,

"Feng Shen Bang"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok?

Why is it the list of gods, why not the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?No, Romance of the Three Kingdoms is not right!The list of gods...is that a fairy tale?Why not Water Margin?wrong!Water Margin is an anti-book, so... Tales from a Liaozhai Studio?No, Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio is the obsession of a cultured young man...

Copying... That also requires a strong memory. Don't say it's wrong to write these things, just want to write. Gu Zhao has never read a book intensively in his previous life. That's right, except for the teacher's threat to force me to recite elementary school Chinese textbooks, he has nothing in his head. None of the articles are complete, they are all fragments, just like the smoke from a modern garbage dump, it looks smoky and miraculous, but when you get closer and smell it, it smells bad.

One drop of ink, two drops of ink...

Bi Liangli sighed, despised himself, why did he believe in Qi Ye, Qi Ye made a fuss?It's a pity for those few good duck eggs of his!

Gu Zhao sat there blankly, a little dazed. Seeing that he was unhappy, he hurriedly made hot tea to comfort him:

"Qi Ye, don't worry, hold it in for a while, maybe it will come out in a while!"

Gu Zhao wanted to get angry, but felt that he was justified. He was not that guy Gu Maochang. If he said something wrong, he was punched and kicked. Get up and kick Xizai's ass.

"Fuck off! My master is constipated, and he can still be constipated for a little bit! It's not as good as being constipated."

Gu Zhao was depressed, and walked towards the front yard with his hands behind his back, but he didn't know that a legendary story had already caused a sensation in the Ewha Garden. Xue He, Li Yongji, and Yang Tingyin, for this story, Prefaces write prefaces, poems write poems, lyrics compose lyrics, and music compose music.

Enke also forgot about those people, the beauties were also lost, and they didn’t eat any food. Every day, they were insane and crazy like brain twitches, crying and laughing for a while. Climb up to the roof, stretch out two fingers and shout to the sky: "Heaven and earth are boundless! The universe borrows the law!"

After yelling, he jumped down from the small building. Fortunately, there was a peach tree in the yard, so he survived the fall, but his leg was broken. This year's Enke, Li Yongji didn't have to think about it.

What's more, Mother Zhou, since she got the story, she was obsessed with it for a few days. After a few days, as a senior procuress, she naturally saw a bright future, so she abandoned the sign of Ewha Garden, invited everyone, and wrote The plaque officially changed the name of Haohaoyuanzi to "Lanruo Temple".

Lanruo Temple was originally an appellation for wild temples, but now, in this space, it has a new flavor.

Is it possible that there will be a guest coming tomorrow, Mrs. Zhou will go up and ask: "Oh, Mr. Lang hasn't come for a long time, how many ghosts do you want?"

Don't talk about Lanruo Temple or the man with a broken leg, just talk about Gu Zhao strolling towards the front yard with his hands behind his back. When he passed by Huayuanzi, he saw many female relatives, old and young. Come, just after a far blessing ceremony, he held the girl's hand and quietly retreated.

This is everyone's lady, right?Gu Zhao expressed his appreciation.

But he didn't know that most of the courtyards in the north were not directly relatives of the county government, and those people were quite different from him. For example, there were two courtyards in the garden where there were two roads in the past of Suyunyuan and Gu Zhao passed by. Where do three or five families live together? Most of those people are distant relatives and cousins. Due to various circumstances, the whole family came to Beijing to visit relatives and borrowed the county government to seek asylum. Gu Zhao's Suyunyuan happened to be here middle.

In the past, when Gu Zhao just came here, even though he picked him up, he was staying there as a borrower. At that time, the small garden was not so lively.But later, a lot of things happened, and some people thought, is this garden, people come and go every day, although they come to see the beautiful scenery in spring, it's a pity that the people in the painting of Master Seven never come out.

Master Seven picked up two handkerchiefs and a purse along the way.One of the two handkerchiefs is embroidered with poems, and now Master Seven hates poems the most.There was a pair of mandarin ducks embroidered on a piece of handkerchief, but it was a pity that Master Seven only liked mandarin ducks, and there was no such thing as ducks.The embroidery on the purse is simple, a noble lotus flower, Master Qi likes plum blossoms.

After beckoning to his mother-in-law, Gu Zhao said to her: "Go, see who dropped something, and send it back." After that, he asked Xin Zai to grab her a handful of money and reward her.

The woman didn't know what was going on, she didn't dare to laugh, she could only hold back, took her things and retreated.

Gu Zhao watched her back swaying, really baffled, sister-in-law's management of the backyard is really ordinary, maybe Qiye's so-called ordinary is completely different from what others think.

After the New Year passed, the family had a lot of expenses. Lu Shi and Su Shi sat in the side room next to the main room to settle the accounts. If you want to say, it's not easy for a woman in this big family, because the man is the breadwinner.This man just took his salary, and just threw it away and left it alone, and the housekeeper had to worry about such trivial matters.

Gu Zhao came to the courtyard of his sister-in-law Lu. As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw servants standing in a courtyard. These servants stood in three rows, bowed their heads, and waited for the leader above to call out.

When Hong Dan saw Master Qi coming in, his face was overjoyed. The little girl in Lu's house loved and respected Master Qi very much. Master Qi may have a bad temper, but he is always a You can't tell the difference in how you look, anyway, when you do things with Qi Ye, you can't see respect in it. How should I put it, our Qi Ye never makes things difficult for others.

"Old lady, grandma, the seventh master is here." Hong Dan didn't wait for the second girl to open the door curtain, she reported and opened the door curtain with her own hands: "Seventh master carefully check the threshold."

Gu Zhao ignored the servants who were saluting together in the yard, only smiled at Hong Dan, and walked sideways into the house.

"Sister-in-law, it's really lively here. Where's your military training?"

Lu put down the teacup, waved and smiled at him: "My younger brother said strange things about the south again, come here quickly, you are a rare visitor, why would you come to my sister-in-law's broken house.

Gu Zhao sat on a chair beside him, looking very paralyzed by Mr. Gu: "It's nothing, it's just that I can't make a fuss, and I'm so depressed and panicked."

Su Shi, who poured the tea herself, was immediately happy. She didn't know that this little seventh uncle in her family, although he had a delicate heart, he didn't even look at serious knowledge.

"Uncle Qi, what you said, you can write it yourself. Liao Beilai in your room is good. If you have something to do, just ask him to do it. Let's not write it. My hands hurt after being careful, and my father-in-law looks so distressed when I look back, cluck... "

Gu Zhao is most afraid of Su Shi's smile. Although he doesn't hate her, he is very afraid of her coquettish smile. This is probably because his eldest nephew is used to it, and recently it is like adding fuel to the fire. The Su family has developed in the direction of biochemical old hen, and dare not look at her anymore Gu Zhao turned to his sister-in-law: "Where is my brother?"

Lu Shi said: "That's not it. Xu Langzhong from the Ministry of Rites got a good article yesterday, and today I invited him to go to share it. Hey...he understands it..."

Mrs. Lu was very sad, every time her husband went out to enjoy the papers with others, he looked happy when he went out, and when he came back, when there was no one around, he would turn into an old hen and chatter with him endlessly.

Why is it worth writing about a broken mountain, a few rotten stones, or a chicken feather pond in the countryside?

I don't understand what the master is embarrassing himself for!

"Then I'll wait for my brother to come back. I have something to tell him." Gu Zhao nodded, then sat and watched Su's settlement.

"Well, I'll eat here with my sister-in-law at noon, and I'll order the cook to cook your favorite food for my uncle today." After finishing speaking, she ordered and reported a bunch of dishes, all of which she thought Gu Zhao liked. Yes, without asking whether Gu Zhao likes that at all.

Gu Zhao listened with a smile, but did not disturb Lu Shi's kindness.

Mrs. Su sat down again and began to settle accounts. It was the first time that Gu Zhao saw an ancient female housekeeper. He had seen the Dream of the Red Chamber in his previous life, so he felt that Mrs. Su should be like Sister Feng in the Dream of the Red Chamber. A few, and grab a few typical ones to parade around the streets with big signs.

Unexpectedly, the one who pays the account is fast, the one who keeps the account is fast, the one who settles the account is fast, Su's words are very few, but later when a well-dressed woman offered the dowry of the third girl, the woman slipped her mouth very much , speaking quickly and without slipping, she was just saying: "...the multicolored Baizi Ruyi forging brocade quilts, 38 days of work, one day of eight silk processing, three days of small head reduction, and red warp thread, every two bundles are consumed and dyed. The fee is 42 yuan, which is calculated according to the eighth dimension. The dyeing fee for each two bundles of autumn color warp thread is 130 yuan. Because it is a new color that was popular last year, a new hand-painting craftsman and slave were hired from the outside, and the daily cost is [-] yuan. money……

Su Shi took her eyes away from the back kitchen bill, closed her mouth as soon as she raised her hand, and put the cloth account book aside, Su Shi actually talked with this woman: "In a blink of an eye, this Little Fangcao has become Fangcao's mother-in-law, I remember I just married in at that time, and Fangcao was in charge of the utensils in the back kitchen, right?"

The old woman hurriedly blessed: "Grandma really has a good memory, I even forgot about myself."

Su chuckled again: "Don't forget, outside this family, that person has not stayed in this family for three generations. Our family is different from other families. The men go out to work hard, and it is not just you old people who accompany us .”

Lu wiped away her tears: "Yes, the friendship of several generations, sometimes, if there is a mistake, they are reluctant to be punished."

Mrs. Su took a look at Mrs. Lu and nodded: "Well, my mother-in-law is the most kind. Look... this Fangcao has become a grandma in a blink of an eye. I heard from them a while ago that Fangcao has a grandson?"

"Hey, yes, it's quite fat, and it looks cute. Really, how dare I worry about my old skin."

Su waved his hand: "How can we not forget it? We should remember it, Fangcao. A while ago, they said that the old house in Pingzhou had been in disrepair for a long time. You and your family have a relationship. Let's go for us tomorrow. It's a job." I'm really worried about putting it in other people's hands. After thinking about it, it means that your house is bright and neat. Don't worry about the two of you when you go back. Just count how many rotten rooms are in the old house and how damaged they are. What happened? How many walls have collapsed? How long and high is the ruined wall? There is also the farm temple behind the old house. It is said that it also collapsed. It belongs to the folks in the village. Last time my mother-in-law said she would help pay for it. Building a temple!

It's not a rush job, it just needs to be detailed, how many bricks, how many tiles, and how many craftsmen are needed, all recorded one by one and brought back, and then calculated.This work is very important, so it can only be handed over to the old people in your class. You put the work in hand and clean it up tomorrow, and then go to the sign in front to pick up a car, just go with Ariake. "

After Mrs. Su finished speaking, Mrs. Lu suddenly put down the cup in her hand and said to the woman, "Go, you don't have to come to say goodbye."

The old woman bit her lip, knelt down and kowtowed heavily: "Thank you, old lady, grandma, I'm a slave, I'll come back immediately to serve the old lady, grandma, and men."

After saying goodbye here, I started to settle accounts and keep accounts.

Curious, Gu Zhao quietly sat down and asked his sister-in-law: "Is that mother-in-law corrupt?"

Lu Shi nodded: "Well, brother saw it?"

Gu Zhao nodded: "How much have you been greedy for?"

Lu smiled and shook his head: "I don't know."

Gu Zhao wondered: "Then how do you know that she was greedy for money?"

Mrs. Lu smiled: "The multicolored Baizi Ruyi forging flowers and brocade quilts is the same old style that has been blooming for a long time. Although the Ruyi lace is added here, it is only an extra three days' work, and there is no need to hire foreign slaves. If she I don’t know if it’s a different pattern, but I don’t know that it’s rare, if she invents one, I’ll definitely have a look, so I won’t be afraid to go out.”

Gu Zhao suddenly realized: "That's it, such a bad slave should be sold, why does my sister-in-law keep her? Are you not afraid that she will harm us in the future?"

Su waved her hand, and the gang of accountants went down, so she turned her face to Gu Zhao and smiled and said, "Uncle is really not in charge of the family. I don't know that Chai Migui is expensive. Her family sold it, but she got back a hundred pennies. Look at the people in this city, is there anyone who sells old slaves for nothing?

This grass was bought by my mother-in-law in the year she married in, and later she married a slave of the Gu family. Three generations of her family have served in our house, not to mention the troubles here. Is the rice grain that has been raised all these years worth money? A little slave who doesn't know anything, has been brought up since he was a child, knows a little about everything, treats people, settles accounts and works, just recognizing the pattern of the robe on the official's clothes is a waste of time.How can Baiguan be able to figure out the cost of each person?Didn't my mother-in-law not allow me to punish her severely just now, that is, I raised my hand and told her to pass. "

Did you say it?Did Lushi say it?Gu Zhao turned his face to look at Lu Shi, but Lu Shi just smiled.

"What if he was greedy again next time? The inner house is in chaos, and the family house is not peaceful." Gu Zhao asked Lu Shi.

Lu Shi pursed her lips: "Uncle is a man's family. Why do you learn this? As long as the men are up to the sky, how can a good inner house be messed up, and the world has a bad reputation outside? The world says that women don't manage well. It is a big mistake to shift the responsibility to women and other people.

Brother thinks about it, if a man is up to the challenge and the family provides enough, why should the woman come out to support the family for the sake of face?If the man is up to the challenge, why is the woman going out to find ideas?What is chaos in the inner house? All these flowers and plants were brought back by the man. What happened is the woman's fault.What my younger brother needs to learn is the ability to support the family and support the family business, don't learn our trivial things, hurry up and eat your fruit! "

Gu Zhao shook his head again and again: "That's not right, sister-in-law. I think there are some scholars here. What my sister-in-law and nephew and daughter-in-law do, the Minister of the Household Department can't do it well, really! But, this money It’s not right to be greedy for your own family’s money?”

The two women laughed together, and after laughing, Mrs. Lu peeled the dried fruit for Gu Zhao, and said while peeling: "The water is so clear that there are no fish. The method here is the same in every family. Being greedy for money is not a big problem. Who doesn't?" Greedy, it’s on the door, I don’t get one or two that day. The chickens (eggs) in the back kitchen, two big money for one on the street, our family buys five big money, there is no greed there... If you care too much It's clear, all the people in this mansion should be sold, and you don't even want to keep any of them."

Gu Zhao was shocked: "The family has become so corrupt?!"

Lu Shi and Su Shi were taken aback for a moment, looked at each other, and then laughed loudly.Mrs. Lu shook her head, pulled Gu Zhao aside, and said in a slightly lower voice, "I don't know, we made them greedy for this money on purpose. If we didn't do this, there wouldn't be those scrambling for the first place in this yard who are desperately trying to make money for you." The master's slave."

Gu Zhao was at a loss. He had always thought that modern people had a lot of knowledge, but this incident was really a big blow.

Su explained with a smile: "Uncle, I don't know. The family he is now with, whose surname is Bao, has been an old farmer in our village all his life. He is an honest man, and he is the most loyal to our old man. Looking at his three sons They're all grown up, and it's time to marry a wife. The mother-in-law is charitable and arranges the whole family to work in the door for two days.

Our family is considered average, with only a few dozen people a day. Uncle has never seen the family of an official from the Ministry of Civil Affairs. That is the place where you can really get rich. After a month, it is more than your nephew's salary.The outsider don't give a few rewards to the errands below at will, and pass it on.

All we see in our family are the men at the top of this mansion. According to the convention, the father-in-law pays five hundred dollars, and Maode pays three hundred dollars. The young men below are only a few dozen dollars. The housekeeper can also earn a reward of tens to hundreds of dollars every day.

Anyone who comes to our house to talk about things or ask for a meeting must be passed on from door to door. Therefore, the Bao family can get a few pieces every two days. There is no way to run away from the green brick and tile houses.

Let’s talk about our back kitchen. The woman who is in charge of the back kitchen is surnamed Rui. This old woman Rui has been working in the front yard stove since she was twelfth.Later, the mother-in-law made the decision and rewarded a military soldier under the father-in-law. Unfortunately, her life was not good. On the third day of marriage, the husband went to war with the father-in-law. Not married.

A chicken and a handful of green onions are all small money, but you have to reward Mrs. Rui with pension money, right?If you know how much you give her, she may not feel comfortable, and she still feels that she deserves the money.

So, I can only put her in a place where she can dictate, tell her to take some small power, manage some small people, find some small things, and make her some small money.She just said that the masters are good.

Besides, the back kitchen is the place where the master enters. It is up to the lady on the stove whether to make three bowls of meat soup or four bowls of meat soup for one catty of meat.Therefore, for this one chicken, there are two big coins on the street, and our family will spend five big coins to buy them. If there are three more, Mrs. Rui will take one, and the women on the stove will share one, and the rest will be handymen. The slaves are divided, this is the custom.

I know that I am greedy for you.I don't say it, it doesn't mean I don't know, it's short, I don't need to pick the weather when I punish you, it's just a matter of anytime and anywhere.You take the money, and then go to the master's bowl to get food, and you will be punished for this.

They knew in their hearts that the old master loved them, but they couldn't keep things like Fangcao, and they couldn't sell them either!So she was fined to go to her hometown with the whole family to count the blue bricks. After three to five years, she would not be able to come back. When she came back, she would be arranged to do a hard job. Just watching others get rich was enough for her.Tossing back and forth for several years, including three generations of their family!So, Little Seventh Uncle, those who don’t know how to housekeeper are the only ones who sell!giggling..."

Gu Zhao's eyes became wider and wider, and Su Shi didn't finish talking. She didn't shut up until Lu Shi glanced at her, and finally she added: "The emperor even put his favorite minister in the rich Get rich where oil flows, this is grace, and grace must be repaid.”

"What kind of kindness do you want to repay? Why don't I know, Maude's family, your little seventh uncle is a simple person, don't teach him badly, this is not what he should listen to!" Gu's voice suddenly came from outside the door Come.