Clam Pearl

Mr. Gu has had bad luck recently, and he was named and scolded twice in a row, not only him, but as if His Majesty's firepower, as long as he sees him, he will definitely burst out, so you are not polite.In desperation, Mr. Gu had no choice but to ask for leave again. When he fell ill, His Majesty offered his condolences and rewarded jade and medicine. A discerning person really saw something. desolate.

Jingzhong now regards the Gu family as a joke, and even brought Gu Maode to suffer a lot of embarrassment in his own office.Even at home, Lu's and Su's received a lot of communication in the past years, and the number of posts about flower viewing and bird watching has dropped by more than half.

When something difficult happened at home, it was natural to see how far it was. In the past, more than half of the diners who had devoted themselves to the family had left, and that was not to be considered. Some of the concubine daughters and grandsons of the family were divorced. This was a blatant slap in the face.

It was windy and rainy outside, and there were many guesses, but the strange thing was that the Gu family was as calm as ever.

In the middle of the day, Master Gu and his elder son were playing chess in the garden, complaining while playing.

"He is a majestic co-owner of the world. If he wants to tell the old man to go down, he only needs an imperial decree. Why do he have to play tricks like this? Old man...or if he doesn't tell the old man, what can he do to me?" Gu Gongye, who was sick at home, did not get angry. He should even eat, drink, and have a good temper.

Gu Maode had no choice but to dissuade him softly: "The family is big and the business is great, and people's words are scary, so father should be careful with his words."

Sometimes Mr. Gu would laugh when he thinks of this. If Xiao Qi wasn't there before, and the family didn't have the support for the future, he would have been caught blind by now. Hey, speaking of it, this person is cheap. After the guard of honor, he started talking nonsense.Seeing his son's dissuasion, Mr. Gu accidentally raised his head to see that his son's temples also had some gray hair, but he also felt sad.

In the past, in order to please His Majesty, I have been suppressing my son, but now my son is fifty-one, he is a fifth-rank, hey, if it weren't for my little brother, my good son would have been wasted all his life.

Shaking his head lightly, Gu Yan asked: "Where's your little uncle? These few days, I saw that he was very busy and didn't dare to disturb him, but your mother said that he doesn't eat very well, and he doesn't eat well every day. Two small bowls of pasta didn't taste good. Maybe it's because Tian is enthusiastic and anxious, if you are free, go and accompany him."

Gu Maode nodded in agreement, but he knew in his heart that even if he went, it would be useless, the whole family, who could influence the little uncle's intentions?If I were a little uncle, that matter would also squeeze me to not think about food and tea, hey!I just blame myself for being so worthless.

Speaking of which, the little uncle was always staring at the direction of the imperial temple in a daze. If he was free in a few days, it would be good to go for a walk with the little uncle to the temple to relax.If you are busy, you can't help yourself, but if you are small, you can still do it.

Seeing his son thinking about something, Gu Yan looked around, took another chess piece, placed it on the edge, and asked softly, "Bai Naisi, it's been arranged."

Gu Maode returned his son and nodded: "Father, don't worry, the old eunuch only has this little incense in his life, and he will accept everything, but...he is also illiterate, and memorizing those things really killed him. "

Gu Yan nodded, knocked on the stone table with a chess piece, and said as he knocked: "Don't urge him, all he needs to do now is to have everything ready, and he should prepare well for his success. It's just that this matter has been related to the Gu family for a hundred years, so be careful." , must not show your horse's feet."

Gu Maode nodded: "Father, don't worry, the Gu family has raised that line for more than 20 years, so it couldn't be more secure."

People in the past didn't see each other, but only looked at the blue sky.If you see your relatives, I really miss you.

Recently, Gu Zhao always likes to sit in the high pavilion at home, silently looking in the direction of Biluo Mountain. He knows that he is thinking about it, but he can't go, not only can't go, he can't even give things away.It's not that you can't give it away... It's just a matter of attitude. If he is weak first, he will definitely be inferior to that person in this life, and he has to be more ruthless.

People in this world always have to be divided into top and bottom, but this matter should not be too shameful.

Speaking of which, that person also had a conscience, he was afraid of hurting himself, so he cut off all ties, and never caused himself a little trouble. That's what he said, the monthly expenditure of the Nanhuo shop was very low. I don't see him using less!snort!Just passing on a sentence or a half sentence, can he still exhaust him to death?

Damn, just ignore him!

Gu Zhao was thinking about his thoughts, and sat cross-legged on the high pavilion in the Crane Garden at home, but he couldn't see that there was also someone sitting cross-legged on the Buddhist pagoda in Biluo Mountain. look at each other.

The man knew that at this time of day, someone sitting at home would also look at his side.

"Uncle!" Gu Maode stood in the yard holding the food box, raised his face and called his uncle.

Gu Zhao was in a daze for a moment, then looked down at him and said, "Maode, come up!"

Gu Maode nodded, dismissed the servants, took the food box and went upstairs slowly, and sat down beside Gu Zhao.At this moment, the half-bright sunshine was just right, and people's hearts were calm. Gu Maode took out the prepared wine and dishes, arranged them one by one, and finally took out an apricot leaf pot and two small apricot leaf cups to help Gu Zhaoman.

Gu Zhao picked up his wine glass and smiled at his old nephew. It is not easy for him as an old nephew. I am afraid that he has been ordered to accompany this and that after work.To be honest, there are many things to do, but it is always not good. Fortunately, Maode is open-minded.

"Come on, let's have a drink with my uncle." The uncle and nephew clinked glasses, swallowed, and Gu Zhao clicked his mouth. This wine is really good, with a strong aroma of old cellars.

Gu Maode looked at his uncle satisfied with his side face, and then he said with a smile: "This is a dowry from the Su family. When she was born, my father-in-law brewed it for her. It is not the best wine, but it is expensive because of the age. "

Gu Zhao took an apricot leaf pot and poured it for his nephew, smiling, "Your husband's family always loves daughters, why did you drink it for me?"

Gu Maode was a little embarrassed: "It was Su's nephew who sent it, I have such a mind."

After all, both uncle and nephew laughed.

Wine is a good thing, after a few drinks, Gu Zhao opened up and talked more.

"Maode, tell me about your two younger brothers."

Gu Maode was taken aback, then looked at Gu Zhao: "But did they offend little uncle?"

Gu Zhao smiled, patted him on the shoulder casually, and cursed: "What are you thinking, I'm so big-hearted? Well, what do they come to provoke me, and I'm not afraid of your elders slapping them to death."

Gu Maode chuckled, and looked at his little uncle. This summer, he looked like he was spending summer. There were mats and ice cubes on the wooden pavilion. The little uncle was barefoot and only wore a jacket. A silk dress with two knots looks really cool and unrestrained.

Hey, I'm not an outsider with my little uncle, what are you doing with such a high profile? Thinking of this, Gu Maode also took off his coat and shoes, and pulled the cloth socks. Just want to hum.

Gu Zhao saw that he was at ease, so he laughed. After laughing, he said: "Our family is from a hard-working family. Sometimes education, career and economics are always far away. After all, it is missing a leg. Your father is a fool. Seeing that I am getting older, but I have not arranged for you. I also want to make a plan for you. Anyway, you are the next patriarch. Those guys in our family are subdued. Now, little uncle, I have a copy of the adults. with you."

Gu Maode blinked his eyes, listened to what the little uncle said, sat down again in a hurry, took a pot and filled it up for the little uncle sincerely: "Little uncle has worked hard, my nephew is not young now, I will take care of the younger brothers' affairs." Go and do it well, don't tire little uncle again. You, don't bother, if you have this spare time, eat well, and save my father from worrying about it."

Gu Zhao laughed, took a sip of the wine, took the cup, twisted the apricot leaf cup a few times in his fingers and said, "Don't tell your father about this, he is a man with both happiness and anger on his face." , I'm also afraid to add something to his heart."

Gu Maode nodded: "That's natural."

Gu Zhao looked sideways at his eldest nephew, hey, the matter of blood relationship is really hard to tell, he had had nephews and men in his previous life, and he cherished them so much, but at that time, his family was just a small lamp in the world , I really don't have much to give.Now that I have a little bit of ability, let's arrange these children well.

Thinking of this, Gu Zhao said, "A few days ago, I made some calculations. There are quite a lot of power in the world today. If we divide it carefully, it is just that the official history department is used, the officials are removed, the farming and mulberry sacrifices, the documents and memorials, and the civil affairs. Litigation, traffic letters, military currency, salt and iron criminal law, you do the math, how much does our Gu family stand?"

Gu Maode calculated in his heart for a long time, but the more he calculated, the more desolate he became. He didn't expect that apart from a few people in his family who stood up to the military criminal law, the others would not take advantage of it at all.Thinking of this, if he realizes something, if his grandfather's generation started to manage well, with such insight, then the higher ups would be the ones who cook, and today he dares to reprimand his old father from the top, Isn't it just because I saw my family was lonely and helpless, and there was nothing I could do.

Thinking of this, Gu Maode sighed slightly: "Little uncle, if we do it now, it will take decades of slow management. It is too late to say this now. If one day, father goes down, can help Laba How many more?"

Gu Zhao patted him on the shoulder, casually picked up a piece of ice from a wooden box on the side, and wrapped it in his mouth a few times. Now that his teeth are in good shape, he took the ice cubes and chewed them. Chew it and eat it.

Gu Maode shuddered when he saw it, and hurriedly persuaded him: "Little uncle, cool your stomach carefully, this ice can be eaten like this."

Gu Zhaocai is not afraid. Thinking about his previous life, at the age of 50, three butter puddings a day may not cause diarrhea.

"It's okay, the more you raise this person, the more delicate he becomes! I said Maode, you think too much. When you think about things in the future, you have to plan for the next ten years. Otherwise, it will be too late to do anything temporarily. Think about it, now The east wind blowing at home is about to pick up.

When the east wind passes one day, there will always be turmoil. Now you go and pay the money quietly. From our house to the sixth brother's house, you will help arrange for some children who are concubines to unimportant places, such as Don't donate too high an official position to the places where officials go, such as transportation, farming, and clerks, and you can start from the seventh rank. "

Gu Maode thought for a while, there could be more than 30 concubines in his family, big and small, the same generation, the next generation, if they are from the seventh rank, the money is really not much, the donated money is his own private treasury Then we can get everything together.There are many tedious things now, so I won't trouble my father anymore.

"Well, I'll do it as soon as I go down. It's a good thing."

Gu Zhao continued to count: "For those who are born in the future, you have to take a good look at their character, because the people who are born in the future will go to important places, such as civil affairs, criminal law, and currency. As for military affairs, leave it to Maochang. Mao Bing is also counted, and sent to the Ministry of War, it is still from the seventh rank."

Gu Maode was confused this time, he had to survive from the seventh rank to the fifth rank, if some people were unlucky, they might never even try to climb up in their lifetime, and it was possible to die at the seventh rank. Nowadays, there is no military affairs in the world , it is even more difficult to go up to the next level in the Ministry of War.

"Uncle, rank seven, isn't it too low?" Gu Maode asked cautiously.

Gu Zhao glared at him, and said angrily, "What a fool you are, you listened to me and asked so many questions! It's not convenient for me to tell you now, but I will show you a little bit now, and I gave you a copy The big favor went out, borrowed a good wind, within a year, I guarantee these people, everyone will be promoted to three ranks, if it is done well, there is no way to know if there is a title with a feudal city.

Your father is getting old day by day, if these things are done well, you, the patriarch, will be safe in the future. "

Gu Maode didn't know what he was thinking, but he just looked at his uncle's eyes and admired him more and more. Gu Zhao was proud of himself, but pretended to be calm and calm, as if he was used to the big world.If he had a feather fan in his hand at this moment, he would fan it lightly twice and say a classic sentence: "Well, I understand a little bit, I understand a little bit, even god horses understand a little bit!"

In the attic, the two were talking happily, but in the distance of the attic, Mr. Yu Geng was very bad.Recently, there has been a lot of urging from above, but he feels very sensitively that he has been excluded by the owner of this house.

"Ding Jiu, tell me, what does our seventh master do in the attic every day?" Yu Geng was a little anxious.

Mr. Ding Jiu was drawing in front of a pair of rubbing books, and when he heard his complaints, he just smiled and said with a good temper: "Young man, eat wine, enjoy flowers, talk about makeup, fragrance, what can Qi Ye say? Neither published nor read a single book. If you are interested, find some travel notes and chat with Master Qi, he will appreciate the interest."

Mr. Yu Geng thought about it, and it was the same, so he turned around and went to the study without saying hello.When he walked to the door, he happened to meet Bi Liangli.Seeing that Bi Liangli was holding the odds and ends bought from the street in his hands, his heart felt a little crooked again. My good man, I don't know how to read a few books.

Bi Liangli ignored him, just went to the Crane Garden with the food box, went straight to the attic without waiting for anyone to inform him, stood there and nodded slightly to Gu Maode, just stood without saying a word.

Seeing that his uncle had eaten a lot of food and wine, Gu Maode also had something on his mind, so he stood up without tidying up, put on his outer robe and bare feet, and walked away with a sense of drunkenness.

Seeing Gu Maode walking away, Gu Zhao turned around and said with a smile, "Mr. Bo has a letter?"

Bi Liangli nodded, put the fragments in his hand on the ground and rummaged through them, took out a bamboo letter box and handed it to Gu Zhao.

Gu Zhao took it and was about to open it, when suddenly he felt a pain in his abdomen, and a rush of defecation, as if a volcanic eruption was about to come.

No way, he grabbed the bamboo tube, barefooted, and ran to the toilet behind the screen in the attic, took off the two-layer lid, sat down on it, and immediately, the volcano spewed out.

"Damn it!!!! I forgot to change my stomach..." Gu Zhao's complexion was flushed, and he was extremely uncomfortable.

Bi Liangli heard a crackling sound behind the screen, and his face turned blue immediately. He walked to the outside of the attic, looked at the box of ice cubes, and secretly calculated in his heart. He steals it, he deserves it!

Bi Liang Lizheng was furious, but Gu Zhao did not come out after waiting for a long time. The more he waited, the more anxious he became, so he quietly poked his head over the screen regardless of the smell.

When he looked at it, he saw Gu Zhao looking at a piece of silk cloth with a blue face. The silk cloth was originally sent by the money collector on the mountain, and it has been delivered for three days. What is going on?Could it be bad news?