Clam Pearl

Gu Zhao spent three whole days in Suyunyuan before getting familiar with the climate of Shangjing. In the first few days, he had no taste for anything he ate. He only ate a small bowl of plain noodles for dinner and was full. He looked tired and exhausted. , I don't like to move my mouth very much.

In the past three days, Lu Shi came here once, and gave him a pair of Jiuhua tents, two Wuming fans, two sets of plain clothes, a set of hook belts, a total of six, made of gold, silver, copper and jade, and two horses. The tender color sentence brocade, silk shoes made by two rushes, a pair of fragrant shoes made of fragrant wood, and scattered accessories, all of which are fashionable in Beijing.

The masters of all the courtyards also came to pay a visit. Gu Zhao was a little dazzled, and at first he took care to memorize it. Later, his elder brother said, you are an elder, why do you memorize these things, and he unceremoniously threw them away.

Sometimes the world is like this, the more complicated you think, in fact things are not as you think, it has its own rules, Gu Zhao is a man, an unmarried man, and he looks very beautiful, but it is a pity that he has been born all the way. Some of the things that Gu Zhao was worried about had never been encountered by Gu Zhao, and he was not even "blessed" to see that the internal struggles in the so-called women's world were far away from him, seniority, great defense, face, filial piety...

It has to be said that Gu Yan's back house is unexpectedly well-regulated. A wife is a wife, and she is the king of the backyard. No one should try to cross this point.The management style of each family is compatible with the temperament of the owner of the family. Gu Yan is a soldier, and his habit is, I tell you what to do, there are not so many, if not, it is unknown.

I made money outside, but I didn’t keep it. I lost it all to my old wife when I got home. Why did I work so hard? Isn’t it because I want my wife and children to live more comfortably?You're welcome, spend it!Therefore, the women of the Gu family are not short of money, and they don't need to use their brains to gain power. They use shameful black money to save face.Gu Yan cherishes his old wife very much. His old wife has suffered with him for decades. He respects his old wife very much. He never interferes with the affairs of the backyard, and he can do whatever the old wife says.

In addition, Gu Yan is a person who is rough on the outside but soft on the inside, so there is a strong smell about him, he is a rough person, don't bother with me.If you like it, you like it, if you don’t like it, you just refuse it. He has never been confiscated by any woman. Jiaohong and Yunniang are both concubines from a good family with low social status. They bought them back to ensure that the family’s allowance is full. Jiaohong and the others knew about it.

Gu Zhao felt that what he was worried about before was really ridiculous. He and his elder brother are both grandpas. If the women in this family had a little head, they would not come to him to make troubles. The young masters of this family would not allow anything The woman suddenly became her seventh grandma one day.

For the past three days, Mr. Gu would stroll over every afternoon, looking like he would have a long talk, but every time Fang talked for a while, he would just lie on the mat and snore continuously, making his hands and feet lightly in the yard, which was very troublesome.When he came on the first day, he even asked the people below to carry a big box, and in the box were neatly stacked [-] gleaming big copper coins for Gu Zhao's pocket money, but Gu Zhao told him to accept it unceremoniously. .

In the evening, I vaguely heard that Jiao Hong went to cry, saying that her son wanted to change the car for travel, but had no money to change it. Gu Yan felt that he had lost face, so he ordered someone to take back Gu Maoming's current car. He said, you are also a person in your decades, and you are not satisfied, so you earn your own money. You are old anyway, so what is the point of always relying on Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu doesn't owe you anything.

Gu Maoming was so frightened that he took his wife and children to kneel in Lu's courtyard all morning, but it was Lu's who quietly sent someone to give the second master a new carriage and new equipment.

In the evening, Gu Maoming returned to his yard, then ran to his aunt's yard and continued to kneel, begging her, begging her, can you stop crying in his own name, he has a salary and income, so maybe he still needs a car? car?Isn't this slapping him in the face?

The above news was brought back by Huali in the courtyard, so Gu Zhao was very excited to reward her with a string of money to encourage her to bring back some gossip in the future to satisfy his desire to peep.That's right, this is like a back house!Huali took the money, but said very honestly: "Master Seven is really interesting, no matter what, you are the younger brother of the Eldest Master, and the Elder Master is shameless in front of you."

During the break on the fourth day, Gu Zhao sat on a mat in the yard and watched people pack his luggage. He was a bit awkward, especially when it came to colors. The mix-and-match aesthetics of the ancients disturbed his mind.

At that time in his hometown, most of the bedding in his house was blue, cyan, light blue, or light green, such elegant colors, and he carried the habit of no more than a few color systems in his previous life.

This can be regarded as paranoia, and there are also some artificial intentions. Gu Zhao always reminds himself in this way that he is different from the people here. It is not that he looks down on the natives. The natives are much smarter than him, whether it is knowledge or cultivation. He just missed the past in this way.

Therefore, Gu Zhao would never allow that kind of thing to appear in the house, such as a pot of gemstone bonsai, which blooms with colorful flowers, and a piece of clothing embroidered with silk threads of various colors. Green, white and yellow, this is still acceptable.

The clothing and accessories of the ancients are all exquisitely crafted, and Gu Zhao has become accustomed to them over the years. For example, a dark pattern embroidery on the bottom of his clothes will take a whole month to be made by slaves. He has seen copper hair worn by someone. The hairpin, the workmanship is so beautiful, it took three months to make it by labor slaves.Looking around, what he saw and what he heard were all such an extremely exquisite lifestyle regardless of cost, time, and materials. His brother had a crane-patterned belt, which was said to be made by three slaves for half a year.

Gu Zhao also has such things, but he pays more attention to comfort, spaciousness, and naturalness, and he hates wearing new clothes the most. The kind of neat, starched satin is the most annoying.

Gu Zhao also likes lacquerware and jade pieces. Everyone has different hobbies. Lacquerware handicrafts are his favorite things to enjoy and collect. Therefore, his house is full of them, and he doesn't pay much attention to porcelain.Put some green bonsai in the house at most, and there will be no more.He has money, so he naturally wants to spend it well. For Gu Zhao, how much he can use alone, how much he can spend, and if he is exhausted, there is only so much. His living habit is not to seek luxury, but to strive for perfection.

Most of the servants in his house are male servants, and the two maids who are close to him are also brought back from the southern region and brought up since they were young. One is called Mianmian and the other is called Niannian. , the hands and feet are the most neat and caring, but they all look very ordinary, with dark skin, high nose bridges, and short stature, and they are submerged in the warm and fragrant nephrite of Gu's mansion in Shangjing.

Huarui Huali Gu Zhao didn't return it to his sister-in-law, and arranged to help in the house, but the personal work was still done year after year.On weekdays, the servant who followed him the most was Xinzai, Xizai, who was also from the south, not tall, and his hands, feet, and head were extremely neat.The fathers of Xinzai and Xizai are housekeepers in his southern Zhuangzi, and they are considered insiders of Gu Zhao circle.

Gu Zhao is quite satisfied with the courtyard arranged by his brother. This is a courtyard with two entrances. There are more than 20 rooms on this side, large and small. The door on the main courtyard side is closed, and this side can enter and exit through the corner door alone. into a family.I hope that the five or six courtyards in the north are reserved for uncles and guests who have returned to Beijing from other places. Unfortunately, they don't come there often, and the house is empty most of the time.

Suyun Courtyard is the largest courtyard in the north. Even if Gu Zhao brought more than 30 people from his hometown to live in, it does not seem crowded here, and it is even empty. There are no neighbors, all day long, it is quiet, like a sacred place in the busy city, the younger generation does not come to disturb him, and there is no elder to supervise him, but he is really eating and waiting to die, wasting the daylight.

Lu Shiyuan sent several families to wait here, but Gu Zhao didn't like those families very much. Although their attitudes were humble, they always had an attitude that I was wronged and that following you had no future. He wouldn't like them, so Gu Zhao sent them back, saying it was Ai Jing.It is said that those family members did not get good jobs when they went back. They were sent to the countryside to manage the farm. That is the old Zhuangzi in Pingzhou thousands of miles away.

In the past few days, Gu Zhao has carefully arranged his life in the yard. Although it is a new home and a new place, the rules are old. Gu Zhao puts modern contract management in his daily life. Go and pack the clothes, you who are in charge of the utensils, you should pack the utensils, and those who are in charge of the bedding, count and arrange it yourself... His servants all have a cloth bag, and put copper beans in the cloth bag, one copper bean can be exchanged for ten big coins, If the work is done well, Bi Liang will immediately reward the servant with a copper bean, and if the work is not done well, he will fine one.Right is right, wrong is wrong, generally don't listen to explanations, just watch copper beans talk.

Because Bi Liangli, the chief housekeeper here, can't speak, and most people in this yard can sign, so although there are people coming and going and busy, the yard is strangely quiet, and most of the servants are gesticulating in sign language. It made the stamens gorgeous and very passive, and occasionally they spoke louder, which made them feel stunned and awkward.

There were more than ten carts of things, and they were tidied up in the middle of the morning. Bi Liang immediately took people to the street to buy something that was missing. Over the years, he had already figured out Gu Zhao's preferences.

As soon as Bi Liangli went out, the fourth master Gu Maochang wandered over from the mansion with his servants.As soon as he entered the door, he made a deep bow. Because Gu Zhao was the elder, he was still sitting, but asked in vain, "Why is Xiaosi here? I am in chaos here."

Both Gu Maochang and Gu Zhao are under 20 years old, that is to say, they are not as old as Yuanfu, so most of them don’t wear crowns. Gu Maochang combed a phoenix tail today, which means that the roots of the hair are tied into a bundle, and the roots of the hair are tied. A bright and elegant three-color brocade belt, in order to show that he is a dandy, his phoenix tail is not combed well, it is crooked, and he does not walk well, he walks crookedly, just walks to Gu Zhao stood upright in front of him, and seeing that his uncle didn't pick on him, he quickly showed his gangster's anger.

The same is true for Gu Zhao, what he hates the most is the hairstyles of teenagers, all kinds of naive, the kind of hairstyles that can cosplay Nezha by stepping on a wheel and wearing a streamer, he feels depressed and hurts his liver when he sees it.

"Uncle Qi, my father said that he asked me to go shopping with you. If you are happy, my father will be happy. When my father is happy, my life will be easier. Look, Uncle Seven..." He pointed to himself The boy behind him was carrying a bulging bag and said: "My mother gave me dozens of them. Let's go to the street and buy whatever you like. If you don't have enough money, just go home and pick it up. My mother said it doesn't matter."

When Gu Maochang said this, he couldn't suppress his envy in his heart. He had 130 pennies per month, and now his annual income from small businesses was only around [-] pennies. In recent years, due to wars and plagues, prices have inevitably risen However, Gu Maochang is a young man belonging to the privileged class. He has [-] pennies a month, which is already a lot. Just like Gu Zhao, who originally had the title of a townsman, but only around [-] pennies a year. If you still can't get the cash, the imperial court will send you a note.Lumi was distributed, but most of them were old rice, which could only be used to feed cattle and horses, but for refugees, this kind of old rice was already a very good food.

Gu Zhao looked at the yard and saw that everything that needed to be tidied up had been tidied up, so he stood up and went back to the house and changed into a light blue robe with autumn moire pattern, cicada gauze on the outside, a belt with the same color moire pattern as the inner robe around the waist, and a A purse with a black background and a gold thread moiré pattern. Inside the purse are orange-flavored fruity balls that only he can have. A six-section moiré pattern with jade ornaments is hung in the purse. The wooden shoes with the fragrance of the hug.

Gu Maochang looked at his little uncle's mouth tsk-tsk, and thought that he was a famous leader in Beijing, and most of the good things became popular here. Looking at his little uncle now, he is wearing the same clothes as he is now. Most of them have it, but this color, this feeling, this smell, hey, no matter how you look at it, it is so comfortable!Look at yourself again, pulling clogs, wearing a red gold thread wide-sleeved robe, a jade belt with gold hooks, six sets of pendants given by my uncle, three pouches and sachets made of high-quality embroidery, and a small jade ax , Yuhuan... There are quite a few jingle things here, right?Take them out and punch them out, but why isn't it as eye-catching as the little uncle?

Gu Zhao naturally knows that the difference between himself and his little nephew lies in the knowledge of aesthetics that has spanned thousands of years. There is no way to teach this thing. He didn't have such a flamboyant temperament, and he didn't dare to put white powder on his face so confidently, even if he killed him.

The uncles and nephews each brought a few servants with them. Some of the servants were wearing a bag, some were carrying a suitcase, some were carrying an umbrella, and some were wearing outer robes prepared by Ye Liang at any time. Gu Maochang’s side There are also two people carrying birdcages. If these two go out, they don't need to put labels on them.

When I got out of the door, my servants drove a green mule cart over. Standing by the side of the mule cart was a Confucian scholar in his 50s or [-]s, wearing a cloth robe, straw sandals on his feet, a goat mustache, and long eyebrows and slender eyes. .

"This is Mr. Liao, he's my dad's guest, you can call him Yu Geng." Gu Maochang introduced.

This doorman, Qingke, and master are originally a root system. Most of these people have the same special qualities. Like Mr. Yu Geng, he probably stayed with a dude like Gu Maochang all the year round, and taught him how to be a man while playing. Aristocrats, become the first teacher of a tasteful, self-cultivated, dandy hooligan who understands the ultimate aristocratic aesthetics.

Usually, the temperaments of such patrons as Mr. Liao are fine, cautious, smooth, and alert.Mr. Liao is considered a half teacher, but unfortunately, he was born as a commoner.Slaves, commoners, commoners, scholars, nobles... In this class, only mothers are chosen, and talents are not considered.

Mr. Liao has served the Gu family for many years, and in the past two years, he has finally begged his sons to be born as civilians.

He is a half teacher, but he has to give half a courtesy to these two dandies in his cognition. Of course, the expression on his face is naturally gentle and gentle. In Gu Zhao's view, this person has an indescribable taste.

Hmm... the taste of the ancients.

Although I am poor, I am proud, although I have a low status, I am proud, although I bow to you, I am proud, although I bow my head, I am proud... This kind of helpless awkwardness, this kind of swollen face is full of shame. The attributes of the fat man have been used for thousands of years, and the people in this land still look like this?Maybe, isn't that an overhead?

If you can't do it, you can't do it. I don't understand why you are proud?You can't, work hard, fight, grab, fight, fight!Not!I've been bullied like that, I just can't be proud...

Gu Zhao returned the gift, and took out a sapphire engraved palm-sized reclining rabbit from his sleeve, put it in Mr. Yu Geng's hand, and said, "I didn't know that I would meet Mr., it's a small thing, but I carved it myself. Take it and play with it, sir."

This is considered to be full of etiquette. It is inappropriate to give money, and it is even more inappropriate not to give it. A doorman like Mr. Liao can only earn thirty or twenty guan a year. To feed a large family.Nowadays, there have been many years of war, and there have been no new measures to select officials and test systems. This alone will cut off the way for all poor scholars in the world. No matter how talented you are, you still have to eat, right?

A group of people got into three mule carts respectively. The coachman put down the stool and raised his whip. After a crisp sound, he headed towards Lianhu, a small lake in Shangjing.

On this road, Mr. Yu Geng was mostly talking, only talking about the history of the streets, the elegant stories of literati, and occasionally Gu Maochang interjected because the food there was delicious. Beautiful, white skin and big breasts, but unfortunately married to a husband who is a kidnapper.

After he finished speaking, he laughed out loud, very proud of himself.

After walking for a while, he said that there was an embroidery shop on the corner of the street, and the female shopkeeper was fair and big, and he laughed again after he finished speaking, Gu Zhao wanted to strangle him to death.

Regardless of what that silly boy was enjoying, Gu Zhao slowly entered a delicate state.

So many people, so many shapes, so many voices, so many shops, bustling, hawking, frolic, husbands, women, old women, urchins, bookstores, cloakrooms, pill shops, coopers, brushes Painters, furniture stores, food stalls, restaurants, wave after wave, those landscapes, these people, each of them, has an ancient book, behind every libertine there is a Jin Ping Mei, behind every warrior there is a Water Margin, every Behind every scholar, there is a poem, all of which are distant but close stories.

Since coming here, Gu Zhao felt this kind of feeling for the first time, I am here, I have seen, this is the past, the ancient times that are alive, breathing, and textured.

His heart was beating so hard that he had to slowly close his eyes, his face blushing a little, only to see Mr. Yu Geng and Gu Maochang a little puzzled.

"That one, did you see the proprietress of the fish shop, she has white milk, big neck and long neck, ahaha..."

Really, Hanai's mother is tall!