Clam Pearl

Gu Zhao was stunned for a moment, he just couldn't remember who Young Master Sun was.

Mian Mian raised her head to remind: "It's the second young master in the north, Young Master Sun brought more than 20 carts and horses, two white camels, and Seventh Master's pony, which is still unloading."

Gu Zhao nodded: "Who will follow?"

Mianmian replied: "The uncle in our house will continue." Seeing that Gu Zhao was still remembering, she added another sentence: "Master Qi forgot, the one who went to Guozi School has arrived, that one, who can study That one!"

A scholar who can study is irresistible to the girls raised in the inner courtyard.Gu Zhao laughed, looking at the rosy cheeks, he could only wave his hands. A thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl always wants to give them some space, they can't go out, and they always want to find some fun for them to gossip and watch.Just go to the zoo and go through the back door, no need to buy a ticket.

Gu Zhao has always ignored this grandnephew. Now that he has arrived and he is an elder, he does not need to pick it up. However, he is a little anxious when he knows that his white camel has arrived. Otherwise, he has seen it at the zoo in his previous life. That thing stinks, and the saliva left in his mouth can be as long as a foot, but knowing that he has two at once, thinking about it...it's still full of vanity.

The people in the courtyard dispersed immediately, and Gu Zhao sat in the courtyard waiting for the dark moment, listening to the long sky separated by a wall in the Suyun courtyard, and it became lively.

The courtyard on the other side of the wall was originally called Niaoming Garden. Later, there was a particularly elegant and talented guest in the family who liked to hum a few good poems. It was renamed Changtian Yiseyuan over there.

The name of the courtyard is elegant, but the courtyard over there is not big. Although there are two entrances, it is four less than the Suyun courtyard. , the powder ball on the other side across the wall started to make a fuss there first.

Gu Zhao looked at the yard irritably and stared, Huarui looked over there eagerly for a few times, and whispered quietly: "Qi Ye, don't blame our old man, there was no one living there, but I don't know what happened, I'm here. The old well in the well-arranged courtyard has collapsed, and before a craftsman can be found to repair it, the old lady can't help it. Just bear with it. If... you can't bear it, you are still an elder, aren't you? "

Gu Zhao pursed his lips and muttered in a low voice: "This damn child is the lone star of Tiansha, and the well can collapse for him!"

Hua Rui obviously didn't hear clearly, so she asked loudly: "What did Master Qi say?"

Gu Zhao waved his hand, and was about to explain that he didn't say anything, when there was a woman on the other side of the flower wall who was swearing in Beidi dialect: "Look (you), you are a countryman, you have never seen a window lattice covered with veil, what are you looking at. I don’t know that there is not much wind and sand in this place, if we cover this kind of window screen in the north, we can eat a mouthful of ashes every day! Oops! Be careful of grandma’s cabinet, a corner is broken, carefully peel the skin!"

Gu Zhao listened here for real, and after hearing that, he turned his head and threatened Hua Rui in a low voice: "Did you hear that, don't be naughty in the future, if you are disobedient, be careful with your skin!"

Huarui covered her mouth and smiled, the housekeeper of my family is very strict, but he is very taboo to see blood, usually he should be sent to the official, should be sent back to the mansion to the mansion, for so long, I have never seen him expose anyone's skin .

That's not right, he peeled off the fourth master's skin, thinking of this, Huarui sticks out her tongue and hides away, Gu Zhao laughed.

The master and the servant were winking and winking happily, but they moved their hands on the other side of the wall, probably because they heard a girl screaming over there, saying that her pollen was knocked over by the boy, and then three or five girls The mother chattered and quarreled over there, complaining that the other party didn't take good care of the cage, complaining and complaining, so they grabbed each other.

Gu Zhao couldn't help covering his forehead, his quiet life.

My nephew is only 24 this year, but his family is well-equipped. He has a wife and three concubines. It is said that he did not bring any important female relatives with him when he came to Beijing to study, but he brought three or five of his beloved confidantes.

Listen, before they settled down, internal struggles started, and there was a commotion over there, and then I don't know who reprimanded them over there.

"Calm down, the elders live there, and this is not the general's mansion in the north. If I get annoyed, I will throw you to the family temple." After the training of this person, there was no life there.

Gu Zhao pouted, stood up from the stone steps in the yard, strolled back to his main house, and inadvertently saw Gu Maobing standing in the corner of the yard, with his hands crossed on his chest, lazily leaning against the wall looking at something.

Gu Zhao followed and patted him on the shoulder, which startled Gu Maobing. Gu Zhao asked him, "What are you looking at?"

Gu Maobing patted his chest: "Ah! Little Uncle?!" His voice twisted into a coquettish cry, feeling something was wrong, he hurriedly changed his voice, and said politely, "Hello, Little Uncle."

"Well, it's okay, chickens and dogs are jumping over the wall over there, and the chicken feathers are almost flying around here, I'm okay!" Gu Zhao said, and walked out along the flower window made of tiles on the courtyard wall. Look, on the garden path over there, pairs of servants are carrying huge boxes and cages and walking towards the long sky. The team really can't see the end or the end, and it looks rich and powerful.

"Tsk...tsk...tsk!" Gu Zhao slammed the corners of his mouth slightly curled up. This is for vacation, not to study at all, right?

Gu Maobing didn't talk to his little uncle, just looked at the excitement outside and thought about something.

Gu Zhao knew that Gu Maobing was the most sensitive child, so he turned around and patted him on the shoulder: "Thinking again!"

Gu Maobing shook his head lightly, forced a smile on his face and said, "No, my nephew is not thinking too much." Can he say that, as the elder of the family, when his nephew came, he would be so worried about him at the meeting ceremony? ?He doesn't even have a penny of income, and with the money given by his aunt, has he quietly bought things to add makeup to his sister?Now all the things in his house belong to the uncle's house, wouldn't it be even more contemptuous to take them away casually?

Gu Zhao thought about it for a while, and felt happy. He thought the kid was jealous, so he stretched out his hand, flicked Gu Maobing's forehead, and pulled him to his small warehouse.

He has taught students. There are good families in the class, and naturally there are poor ones. Children love face. It is inevitable that there are often children who do wrong things for the sake of face. These children are very sensitive. Be careful if you handle it wrong, it will be a lifetime of inferiority complex.

Gu Zhao took Gu Maobing to his small warehouse, took the key, and opened several small doors in the warehouse.

Mianmian and Niannianben were watching the excitement at the door, and when they heard that Master Qi opened the warehouse, they hurried over to serve.

"Pick a few pieces of this bright satin for Mao Bing, and bring over the box over there. I remember there is still jade material, and give Mao Bing half a box for him to carve things..."

After arranging for a while, Gu Zhao walked to a row of grids in the house. Dozens of bronze vessels were placed on the grids.

Nowadays, real estate deeds in the world are not written on paper, but are generally engraved on bamboo slices. After the contract is completed, the bamboo slices are broken in half, and buyers and sellers each hold half.

Then there are the inscriptions on the bronze wares in front of you, that is to say, the inscriptions on a bronze wares may be the land deeds of a large real estate, or house deeds, land deeds and so on.In addition, there are brick contracts and other contracts engraved on hardware, so I won't list them.

Gu Zhao looked through several bronze wares, picked up a few, took the money, and called Mr. Ding Jiu to be carried to the Yamen to change the contract.Now, there is a catastrophe in the country, and the country has added a heavy tax. In addition to buying and selling houses and livestock, this tax needs to be paid, and even the modification of the contract needs to be paid. For example, what kind of survey money, Zhu Motou’s money, printing money, inscription money, There are so many, because of the heavy taxes, Gu Zhao sometimes thinks, if there is no change, no reform, maybe the peasant uprising is coming.

Of course, maybe the higher-ups have noticed this problem, but unfortunately, there is no good way to deal with this phenomenon. Gu Zhao knows some ways, but unfortunately, he doesn't want to tell the upper-level person. Later...we will talk about it later depending on the situation.

Gu Zhao picked up a pile of things, Gu Maobing's face became more and more red, and finally turned around and ran away.

Gu Zhao ignored his quarrel, just picked some unmarked, unseen good things, packed a few boxes, asked Xizai and the others to carry them to Gu Maobing's yard, this chick has never been good Whole, accidentally playing bright and sad, making the people around really have a toothache.

But for some reason, Gu Zhao felt pity for Mao Bing inexplicably, and he even had the idea that if he had no more children in the future, he would adopt Mao Bing to himself, which was also an explanation to his elder brother.

Therefore, he doesn't hate chicks. Doesn't the title of a boy from a foreign country still have a share of a national school? He told his brother and gave it to Mao Bing. .

Gu Maobing's yard is very quiet. The servants he uses here are all old people arranged by Gu Yan. They are strict-mouthed family slaves, and their ages are generally mature.

There is no way, Gu Maobing is a strange thing, his family is very troubled, there are a lot of gossips in Beijing, plus that secret matter, the child himself is under great pressure, Gu Yan is afraid that he will be careless, If something goes wrong, naturally there will be nothing on Yingyingyanyan's side.

When Gu Zhao entered the courtyard, he could hear Gu Maobing's crying from a distance, damn it!Crying is better than singing.

Gu Zhao, who couldn't laugh or cry, entered the house and ordered the old servant in the yard to put the box into Gu Maobing's private treasury. This child is considered a cleanseer, and there is nothing in the private treasury. It is empty and desolate. Jing, maybe he misses his sister again.

Gu Zhao entered the room with his hands behind his back, sat down at the table where Gu Maobing was crying, and didn't persuade him, but just picked up the tea brought by the maid, drank it slowly, and waited, waiting for Gu Maobing to cry Tired, with no water in his eyes, he raised his head in embarrassment, lifted the handkerchief, wiped away the invisible tears little by little, and then opened his mouth.

"He has parents, grandma and grandpa, and he comes to Beijing with more than 20 cars of luggage to enjoy the blessings. He doesn't have to worry about anything, so he is so good. It's really pitiful that he doesn't have anything to ask for, right?" This child is not Who is it for to pay back the tears, the whole Dashui Zun.

Gu Maobing blinked his eyes, sniffed his nose, and wanted to admit it, but that's what happened. However, he was wronged to some extent. At most, he was sad because he didn't have money for the meeting gift: "Uncle, don't think about it. , nephew is not that useless!"

Gu Zhao pointed at him: "You child, you don't want to see the slightest burr, you are stupid! Can people be the same? The emperor's family still has the 72 concubines of the Sixth Court of the Three Palaces. Could it be possible to be a man in the world? They all went to cry under the wall of his palace."

Gu Maobing sobbed and asked: "Nephew...nephew also knows that he shouldn't think about it, now it's much better than before...but nephew, nephew... just can't control myself. Uncle, don't worry about me, Tell me to cry as long as I want, and it's over when I'm done crying... It's definitely not a matter of business."

Gu Zhao ignored him, and said to himself: "In this world, there are many people who have no food or drink, no tiles to cover themselves when it's cold, and people who have never eaten minced meat in their lives. If this is the case, these people are born to be wasted. Food, why not just drown! You are too embarrassed to cry!"

Gu Maobing is actually the most clever, he is just sensitive, that's all by nature.Seeing that his uncle doesn't sympathize with him now, he had no choice but to swallow his tears and sit there gasping for breath.

Gu Zhao stood up, walked in front of him, patted the top of his head and sighed: "Don't think about it, there are many people who love you, including your uncle, aunt, sister, and little uncle. Don't cry, if you have something to say, you can shout and say it, but you can't cry behind someone's back, or you will suffer the loss.

A few days ago, I discussed with your uncle that I would buy a few hundred acres of land for your whole village nearby, so as to get some income for you.Your uncle's family has a big business, and sometimes I can't take care of it. You see, my little uncle, I have no parents since I was eight years old, so I made it on my own.We, Mao Bing, are stronger. At that time, for the sake of my sister, why don’t you go out and earn food and drink by yourself? We don’t envy others, so we only care about what we have. In my opinion, you are much better than him. Now you The important thing you do is to protect the Gu family's century-old foundation. There are many places over there that are not as good as yours. Think about it, don't you cry? "

Gu Maobing nodded, thought for a while, and it was true, then pinched the handkerchief a little embarrassedly, smiled through tears, his face turned red with embarrassment.

Besides, Gu Yunjing, the grandson of the second master Gu Shan, came to Beijing. When he arrived at Gu's mansion, because it was getting late, he only saw his uncle and aunt. Under the leadership of Mao De, he first went to the family temple and offered five kinds of sacrifices.

Gu Yunjing has never worshiped his ancestors in an authentic family temple since he was born until the crown ceremony. Therefore, the sacrifices offered this time are very rich, and there are five kinds, namely: cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens and dogs.The five kinds of rituals are divided into five colors, which are: green, red, white, yellow and mixed colors.He is the son of a concubine, so the etiquette is not very important. If he waits for Gu Zhaoguan's ceremony, he will need five animals and six colors. The general idea is that five types of livestock, each with six colors, green, red, white, yellow, and black, and six of each. After the sacrifice, the whole clan has to share food.

The threshold of concubines is so far away.

That Gu Yunjing is the second in the family and the fifth among the cousins. He is the second young master in the family, and when he comes here, the slaves call him the fifth young master.

After paying homage to the ancestors, Gu Yunjing formally went to the main room to present to the uncle. After the uncle and grandma saw the gift, they booed and asked for warmth, and then came to see the gift at Gu Zhao's side. Lu Er, the housekeeper who came from home, and several maids who accompanied him were waiting in the yard.

Gu Zhao didn't feel ashamed at all and slept until the sun was high. After he got up lazily and tidied up, he sat in the main hall of Suyunyuan to meet his nephew and grandson.

Who is this bastard, last night he was so noisy until the curfew turned off the lights, and Gu Zhao himself had to go to Heyuan to write a book with Gu Maobing, and he went back to his room to rest at dawn.

Gu Yunjing waited in the yard with his servants for a long time, and then his little uncle got up lazily. Even so, Gu Yunjing didn't dare to say a word of complaint, because of his seniority, even though this little uncle was younger than himself how old.Secondly, I also knew something on the way here. The little uncle is no better than others, he is still a dog face, and he will turn it over when he says it!Also, at home, he always said what he said, especially in front of his uncle, he dared not give the moon if he wanted the stars.

People order dishes when they see them, so from the beginning to the end, Gu Yunjing was always smiling, showing enough courtesy.

Gu Yunjing was standing in the courtyard just now, and had been looking at my uncle's courtyard. In the past, his family's house was considered the largest in the area in Beidi, and the things he bought were all popular in Beijing, and there were also old customs from Pingzhou.At that time, Gu Yunjing felt that what was at home should be considered the best.

Now that he arrived in Shangjing, he realized that the one at home is really nothing. Although the house is a bit bigger and the houses are a little bit more, sometimes money can’t make up for what is lacking. For example, the gate, Just talking about the squatting beast on the roof, and talking about the exquisiteness of the family, you can't go wrong with half a step.

Let’s just say that my little uncle’s courtyard looks bigger than my own. It is divided into inner and outer courtyards. The outer courtyard has more than 200 steps horizontally and vertically. The courtyard is like a small mansion. It looks exquisite, but it has everything it should have.The inner courtyard is even more exquisite, with pavilions, terraces and pavilions, orchids and elegant bamboos, rockery and koi carps, and so on.

The most important thing is that as soon as you enter the door, you can see the ancient locust tree planted on the south side of the house. It seems that the tree can be a hundred years old. This ancient locust tree is not something that everyone dares to have. The locust tree is a prince and official. An important sign is that in the north, Gu Yunjing's family also has pagoda trees in the garden, but the pagoda tree only exists in grandpa's yard, but not in other people's yards.If this uncle's house is a courtyard, there must be pagoda trees.

In Gu Zhao's yard, there are three ancient locust trees, one big and two small, and one osmanthus tree.The small locust tree was transplanted by Gu Yanhou for his younger brother, implying the Sangong.

There is a saying that goes like this: "The top three locust trees, one of the four peaks".Sanhuai represents Sangong. Although the Gu family does not have a Sangong right now, the family is regarded as a princely family. Gu Zhao lives with his elder brother, so planting three pagoda trees is not a violation of the rules.

While looking at it, the dumb butler who had been smiling and accompanying him in the courtyard came up and led Gu Yunjing in. As soon as he entered the inner courtyard from the gate of the outer courtyard, Gu Yunjing saw two east and west couplets outside his little uncle's main room.Ying is a pillar.It's not easy for anyone to have this pillar, but his little uncle dared to build a new one here without any scruples.

After a closer look, there is a wide corridor behind the jacaranda. There are seven or eight bird cages hanging on the left and right of the corridor. I don’t know what kind of birds are kept in the cages. They are colorful, and they are now called Zhenghuan.

Gu Yunjing tidied up her clothes carefully, brushed off the dust, and waited quietly outside the main room. After the dumb butler entered for a while, a gentle voice came from the room: "I'm not an outsider, and I follow so many broken rules." What to do, call him in."

This is the little uncle and grandpa. Gu Yunjing just listened to the voice, and the unknown fire in his heart was extinguished immediately, and he couldn't get it up at all.He smiled and entered the door through the curtain opened by a dark-skinned girl on the porch. Just now he was muttering in his heart that everything is fine with my uncle and grandpa, but the girl is a little less beautiful.

Sitting in the main room, Gu Zhao looked at the young man who entered the door. Just by looking at him, he remembered a character in a martial arts drama in later generations: Ouyang Ke.

This grandnephew who can study is not wearing white clothes, but is wearing a simple and elegant tooth color.Although the jade crown on his head was a bit eye-catching, it couldn't hold back Gu Yunjing's good health, he could really be regarded as a top-grade handsome young man.

Beautiful eyebrows, peach blossom eyes, high nose bridge, fair skin.Standing there, it looks attractive.

Hua Rui, who was standing on the side, hurriedly took the cushions in the house and spread them on the floor. Gu Yunjing smiled at Gu Zhao, twisted the hem of his robe with his right hand, and bowed down in an extremely chic posture...