Clam Pearl

However, they said that the Gu family left Beijing before the new year. Except for Gu Yan and Gu Zhao, most of the people in the Gu family have never left their homes. Although the weather is cold and the scenery is not good, but the nobles go out, it is only the servants who suffer. Fortunately, the Gu family is a merciful and generous host. Along the way, the charcoal stove, hot soup with minced meat, and thick quilts are all neatly arranged.When Gu Yan people had a happy event, all the juniors asked for it along the way, they would all agree one by one, and everyone was happy for a while.

What's more, this trip is very high-profile but unassuming. When the convoy passes through various states, counties, and county government offices, there are people who pay their respects and give gifts to visit.There are countless people who get married, those who visit their bosses, and those who come to cling.Now that Gu Yan has made up his mind, he will only bring his two sons from his aunt to meet with him every day. If there are any posts, he will also send Gu Maode out to send them. net.

Gu Yan's move was supposed to be like this, but unfortunately, some people were still secretly angry and furious.Who do you know, but it is my concubine Jiaohong.

This time, Gu Yan took the whole family with him. Originally, he didn't want to take the whole family with him, but Gu Zhao said that in his life, this might be the only trip with the whole family. Besides, he was going to see his ancestors. Everyone should bring them to the ancestors and kowtow a few.Originally, Lizong was a big deal.

When Gu Zhao said this, he actually foresaw the chaos brought about by Ah Run. He couldn't tell his elder brother clearly, so he suggested to take the whole family out.Although he knew in his heart that elder brother had his own insights, he just didn't know how much elder brother knew.It's ridiculous that the two brothers are hiding it from each other, and they are afraid that the other will be troubled.

Therefore, for this trip, the family members will be all together.Gu Yan's one wife and two concubines, Gao and Ma.It is normal for wives and concubines to travel together, and there will naturally be some friction along the way.

The road was bustling, but it was the first time for Gu Zhao to fully identify the members of his elder brother's family, and he finally lived up to his reputation as an elder.

Gu Maode's family, his wife Su, and Su's two sons, the eldest is Gu Yunzhen.Under Yunzhen's knees, there is a son and a daughter. The son is the eldest, named Mingyu, and the daughter is the second, named Minghui.

In the previous generation, the names of men and women were separated according to the main branch, but when it came to the Yunzi generation and Mingzi generation, Gu Yan did not know what kind of stubbornness he had committed, so he did not follow the main branch.He is the head of the family here, so the underground will naturally follow suit.

The second child is Gu Yunping, who has a wife, Qian Shi, and now has only one daughter under his knees, who is only three years old and named Mingyi.

In addition, Gu Maode's family also had a concubine, Jiang, who gave birth to him a son named Yuntang. Now Yuntang is an official in other places. The official position of the first rank, this time the family had a great fortune, and the concubine was promoted to a higher level, so Yun Tang became the parents of the sixth rank.

Gu Yuntang is already married to a wife named Mu, who has a son name list. A while ago, he said that he married a two-bedroom child in his office. He still doesn’t know his surname. To put it bluntly, they are all women who cannot enter the court. Just listen to it. Now, Yuntang and his wife are both in office, so they can't ask for leave to follow.

Gu Maochang came alone, and his daughter-in-law Su'e is now pregnant, so Gu Maochang sent her back to her natal family.The later family naturally wanted their daughter to have a stable pregnancy at home, so they looked at this son-in-law differently and loved him very much.

That Jiao Hong is a troublemaker at home, and the reason she causes trouble is nothing more than that she and his wife have given birth to two sons.

Jiaohong has two sons, the eldest is Gu Maoming and the second is Gu Maofeng.Gu Maoming is a second-year-old at home, married a wife named Duan, and has a son named Yunlang.Gu Maofeng married his wife, the Zhou family, and had a son named Yunwei. (There is a slight error in the previous article, and I will revise it later, and this time shall prevail)

There is also Ma's Yunniang, she has only one daughter named Jinlan, but she has long been married to Qin County and is the wife of the state official's son.

Their team, big and small, including Gu Zhao and Gu Maobing, actually has more than 20 masters, servants, servants, guards, and handymen. There is actually a procession of three to four hundred people, driving a small car, and it looks like a long distance from a distance.

After leaving Beijing, the journey was fairly smooth. Although there was a snowy day when passing through Chengzhou County, he hurried quickly and left the snow area before the blizzard came.Fortunately, the servants Gu Yan brought had all fought with him earlier, so they had plenty of experience in lodging and traveling.So it was a blessing that no one got sick along the way.

The team walked for two and a half months, and the journey was such that the twelfth lunar month, the first lunar month, and the New Year were hurriedly passed by.This is also a fresh experience, and there is a lot of taste in it. The children of the Gu family, perhaps in old age, are worth reminiscing about in detail.

Along the way, Gu Zhao was worried about A Run, and his mind was heavy, and many tempers were suppressed. In addition, as the distance got longer, the news from Beijing became less and less.He was concerned, so he ignored the things that he didn't like in the past.His elder brother occasionally went to his concubine's car to enjoy massage services, and took his concubine out to socialize. Lu Shi didn't say a word, and he had no position to lose his temper.

At the end of March in the 18th year of Tianshou, the guard of honor of Gu Yan, Duke of Pingguo, had just entered Huaxian County, Pingzhou, when he saw the lead horse in front leading a team of four riders rushing to report, and someone from Shili Pavilion at the entrance of the city came to pick him up.

Who were you at that time, but it turned out that the second child, Gu Shan, had arrived a long time ago, and had been waiting at the intersection post in Hua County for half a month.

Gu Yan was overjoyed, and hurriedly urged the team to move forward quickly, and at the same time ordered the sounder to be quiet, this is the hometown, don't be so exaggerated.

Their team rushed to the post house, and before the guard of honor was set up, at the intersection over there, the guard of honor of a marquis was in full swing.Seeing that Gu Yan and the others had arrived, a group of people ran out first. The person in the lead was actually wearing a silver armor and riding a very handsome white horse to greet them. Before the people arrived, laughter started arrive.

"Brother!! I want to kill Gu Shan!!!"

The 62-year-old Gu Shan, dressed in heavy armor, greeted him right away.

Duke Ping's team stopped, and Gu Shan came to Gu Yan's carriage, and shouted to the inside: "Old brother?"

There was still no sound in the car, Gu Shan laughed, squeezed his nose, got off the horse, saluted and said, "Brother, I'll pick you up!"

After a long time, there was a sarcasm in the car: "I said, Gu Laoer, why did you play with a monkey before it was time to go to the market? Look, you are so beautiful, if you don't beat the gong Don’t do somersaults anymore.” After finishing speaking, Gu Yan lazily lifted the curtain of the car and looked out from the inside.

Gu Shan blushed, and then angrily retorted: "What's the matter? In the past, you used to beat gongs and drums when you went out, but now I have one too, so why don't you allow me to have fun? What I knocked was repaired by my father. Well, the ancestors have spirits to earn for the younger generations, why don't you like it?"

Gu Yan smiled, just looked at him, watched Gu Shan go to the back to get the footstool, put it on the ground, and continued to complain angrily: "I know what you mean, come on, Lord, come down!"

He said so, but he still stretched out his hand to help, but Gu Yan didn't allow him to help, he jumped down by himself, so Gu Shan could only curl his lips.

Gu Yan got out of the car and looked at each other with his elder brother. Looking at each other, both of them became panicked.

"I haven't seen you for a few years, and your head has turned red. Look at your old white hair!" Gu Yan sneered at him.

Gu Shan immediately retorted: "Brother has become an old miscellaneous hair, why don't I add a few more?"

Gu Yan sighed a long time: "Can you not be in vain? I haven't seen you for many years. It's been...nine years since Daddy left?"

Gu Shan nodded, stopped displaying his genealogy of Lord Hou, sighed and said: "Hey... No, the house is full of children and grandchildren, and now I still borrow the light of my ancestors, hey, old brother, I am absolutely innocent. Thinking of this happening." Speaking of this, Gu Shan's eyes welled up with tears, he really didn't expect that the two years he lived in Beidi were quite sad.For a while now, he has been forcing him to hand over military power.But who would have thought that now that he is 62, he can still be a magistrate.

Gu Yan's feeling at this moment is really indescribable, he really wants to tell the second child that he and the seventh child did all these things!It's a pity that such a beautiful thing can only be enjoyed by oneself.

The two brothers sighed for a long time, Gu Shan looked back and asked Gu Yan: "Old man, I don't miss you. As for our little county master, I only think about him. I found a lot of interesting things for him in Beidi. The other day I got a pair of pure white baby camels, and I brought them to my younger brother, he must like them."

Gu Yan turned his head, looked at the line that could not be seen, looked at the weather, and said: "He didn't know you were coming, you were behind, it's cold today, Xiao Qi is thin, he has foot problems, and he is most afraid of the cold , It’s better not to touch the hard ground and cold soil, let’s go to the post station first, and when the time comes, we will lead the whole family to meet.”

Gu Shan nodded, looked back, and thought of his little brother, his father was so used to him before he was eight years old, that little foot had never been on the ground.Now that the father is gone, the elder brother is used to it again.In this way, he didn't ask any further questions, just got on their respective horses with Gu Yan, and ran to the post station together.

Gu Zhao didn't know that Gu Shan was here, his team was a mile away from his elder brother's team, and when he went out on weekdays, he would just chat with Fu Ji and the others in the car, or call Gu Maobing Come, let's tell a story together.A few days ago, when passing through Yancheng, someone heard that the young master liked to listen to operas, so he sent fifteen small operas.

Now, Gu Maobing can be regarded as a toy, and plays with Gu Zhao making up stories every day.Recently, he had an idea, that is, to arrange a drama about the old ancestors, which is the story in the Incarnation.He thought it over and wrote 36 volumes, one for each Guardian Star.Originally, he was handed over to the heavens, and the fan should continue with a few more episodes anyway.

Early this morning, Gu Zhao called Gu Maobing early, and together with Fu Ji and Mr. Ding Jiu played flower cards (a kind of gambling tool) in the car. Now, Gu Zhao lost miserably. There are two hangs of money.

Gu Zhao was furious, and was trying to cheat, trying to make money, but the car he was sitting in stopped. Just in a strange moment, he heard someone outside the car calling him with a smile: "Xiaoqi, come out quickly, look at who coming?"

As soon as Gu Zhao opened the curtain, a gust of cold wind poured in from outside, and he quickly shrank into the car.Someone outside shouted again: "Hurry up and close the curtain, don't let the little brother get cold."

Yo, this is a brother who came to pick him up, Ting Sheng'er is old-fashioned, but still unassuming.The voice was heard when I was a child, but I couldn't tell who it was, so Gu Zhao yelled in the car: "Which brother is here, I'm sorry, I'll see you later!"

The outside of the car immediately cheered up: "Hey, brother, wait and come out first, it's not too late."

Fu Ji helped Gu Zhao put on two sets of clothes, added a red fox fur cloak on the outside, put on a pair of thick Wufu boots, wrapped him into a ball, and let him get out of the car.

This time I opened the car curtain, but there was no cold wind. The car was covered with curtains on both sides, and thick felt was also spread on the floor.

Walking along the thick felt, Gu Zhao walked into the post station and went up the steps. At a glance, Gu Zhao saw a man wearing a crown of county marquis, looking at him with a smile.

Gu Zhao stopped on the steps, looked up and down at this person, felt unexplainably familiar in his heart, and couldn't remember who he was, but he had six older brothers.Gu Yan stood aside, didn't speak, just watched his jokes.

Gu Zhao looked at it for a while, and suddenly smiled: "You are the second brother, I remember you, you hugged me when I was young, and the second brother has a mole under his earlobe, I remember that."

Gu Shan was immediately happy, looking at his handsome and cute little brother like jade, his eyes were a little sore, he walked over, picked up Gu Zhao, turned around twice in the same place and laughed: "It's still my little brother, you I still remember my brother."

Gu Zhao was treated like a child, turned around twice, stood a little shy and annoyed, but still kept his demeanor, and said with a smile: "I remember brother, when I was young, my father hit you with the board and scared me to tears."

"Hey..." Someone beside me couldn't hold back, and burst into laughter.

Old Gu Shan blushed, and he couldn't care less about his little brother. He sighed, patted Gu Zhao on the head and said, "That's the second brother. It's the last time I hit our daddy. If dad can see today, he will suffer more." How many times! I haven't thanked my brother yet, that time, my brother faked crying, the second brother saw it."

Gu Zhao was suddenly embarrassed again.

At that time, their father was just a stick education, no matter how old you are, if you can't make sense, you will be punished until you are convinced.

Gu Zhao was very happy at that time, and he didn't see his father beating someone when he had nothing to do. The old Gu family's family method was different from other families. It was five fingers wide and weighed eleven catties.Therefore, as long as there is an older brother in his family who is on the board, he will definitely instigate someone to hug Gu Zhao, and when Gu Zhao arrives, he will howl loudly. How many times have you escaped the board because of Gu Zhao?

So, later on, the older brothers had good intentions towards Gu Zhao, and most of them came from this board at first.

"Hurry up, don't talk about it, lest it gets cold to Xiaoqi, go inside first." Gu Yan let him into the room without being wordy.

Gu Shan smiled, and took Gu Zhao's hand into the house.

Now that Gu Shan has lived here for more than half a month, this place has already been settled, he is a wealthy account holder, and now the soldier in charge has no funds for robbery, so the floor of the inn here has already been covered with carpets, burning The big copper stove from Beidi brought by the family was replaced, the furniture in the house was also changed, and the soft couch was also placed.

"This kind of temperature is not good. It's easy to leave it alone. One is cold and the other is hot. Go and tell someone to turn off the stove." As soon as Gu Yan entered the room, he felt a wave of heat, so he hurriedly ordered.

"How can you be so delicate." Gu Shan immediately retorted, turned back to look at his limp, tender little brother, and smiled angrily: "That's right, come here, take a look at the stove and bring our family from the north Bring the fruit that comes to my younger brother."

Gu Yan pouted immediately, he knew Xiao Qi's temperament best, he said enjoyment, he was number one in the world in terms of food and clothing, could he be lacking fruit?Forget it, I'm used to taking care of him on weekdays, so let's take advantage of Gu Lao Er for the time being, and grab it back tomorrow.

Gu Shan personally helped his younger brother take off the fox fur, and then dragged him to sit down on the soft couch, intentionally ignoring Gu Yan, and only asked his younger brother a series of questions.Gu Zhao has a good temper, always answering any question, not like the rascal in Lu Bansi's family.

They exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then they heard the jingle of rings from behind, and after a while, a group of people came in around a woman.

Gu Zhao knew that this person was the second sister-in-law whom he had never seen, so he stood up to greet her.At this moment, Mrs. Lu also arranged things and entered the house, but as soon as she entered, Mrs. Lu cried first.

"Pei Fen, I only thought I would see you again after death!" After saying that, the two sisters-in-law hugged each other and burst into tears.

Gu Zhao was stunned for a moment.

The old couple hadn't seen each other in [-]. Since the old man died, the center of the family was gone. Now, it is a great fortune to be able to be together again.

The two women cried for a while, and Gu Yan and Gu Shan scolded several times, but they are old couples in their tens of years. When they went out to fight, the only one at home to rely on was the old wife.

Therefore, he has an extra respect for his wife that others don't have.Especially Lu's and Pei's, they served their parents-in-law well in the early years, so they are not afraid of their own men at all. They should cry or cry, not only crying, but also crying enough before giving up.

The three men sat on the soft couch, helplessly watching the two old women howl for a long time, and then they came together to say goodbye.

When Gu Zhao's second sister-in-law, Mrs. Pei, saw Gu Zhao, she felt a sudden pain in her heart. In her opinion, Xiao Qi was a fatherless and motherless person, so she held her back and refused to let go. She kept asking trivial questions. .

"Xiao Qi, did you receive the shoes that sister-in-law made for you last year?"

Gu Zhao quickly thanked: "Thank you sister-in-law, I have received them all. The three pairs of the first year were sent at the right time. Last autumn, I wore the shoes made by my sister-in-law. Now there is still a pair in the car."

The second sister-in-law was very happy, touched his hand and said: "Is it suitable?"

Gu Zhao nodded: "It's suitable and comfortable to wear."

Mrs. Pei was happy, patted his hand and said: "It's fine if you like it, now they don't like to wear the shoes I made, they dislike the old-fashioned ones, if you like my sister-in-law, I will make you a few more pairs."

"The shoes made by your second sister-in-law are the best in the family. Our father also loved to wear Pei Fen's shoes when he was alive." Lu Shi praised on the side.

Just as he was talking, another group of people came to the room over there, and they came to greet him one after another.

These people are Gu Shan's family.

His eldest son, Gu Maodao, whose daughter-in-law's surname is Mao, has two legitimate sons, and one daughter is already married in Beidi.

The eldest is Gu Yunqing, married his wife Mao, and has two sons, Ming Shang and Ming Huan.

The second child, Gu Yunjing, married a wife and returned to the clan, and had a son named Minglong.

The second eldest, Gu Shan, also has several concubines and seven brothers. Gu's second son is the most excessive in female sex, so Yunjing's love of color, who is staying in Beijing now, is probably passed down from his roots. There were more than a dozen women, and this time he probably felt ashamed, so he only brought a single concubine, and he didn't bring a single concubine's children.