Clam Pearl

Gu Zhao had a conversation with his cousin Yue Duzhi. The sounds of running, greetings, and discussions filled the street outside. Those voices revealed an uncontrollable enthusiasm for watching, which made the people in the house scratch their ears and cheeks, which was very pitiful.

Gu Zhao just didn't move, and kept asking a few students about the school. His cousin Yue Duzhi was getting more and more embarrassed. He wanted to persuade him, but he was not familiar with his cousin, and he didn't know if he would give him face. .

The bustle of the street is as attractive as a child who sees candied haws and has no money to buy. From Pang Er to these students, they all seem to be on fire under their buttocks. There was also some reply, and it almost lost the demeanor of a Guozixue student.

Gu Zhao secretly laughed, making it even more amusing.In the end, his cousin finally lost face, and quietly tugged on Gu Zhao's sleeve and sighed, "Cousin, just give brother some face, don't make fun of them..."

At this moment, those few people knew that the county magistrate was playing tricks on them on purpose. Suddenly, these few people blushed, and they were so ashamed that they hurriedly saluted and apologized together.

Gu Zhao waved his hand, ordered someone to seal the box of the agricultural book, and carried it out the door. Everyone in the antique shop breathed a sigh of relief, and sent Gu Zhao to the door one after another. It was only a matter of beating gongs and drums to celebrate. This county lord is really difficult to tease, you should stay away from him when you see him in the future.

Pang Er closed the shop door and ran forward quickly. He was fat and looked like a rolling meatball. Gu Zhao couldn't imagine such a person with such a huge gossip heart in his body.He didn't notice for a while, he fell down, got up and couldn't care less about clapping, so he continued to run forward.After reaching the crowd, the man put in a lot of strength, twisted left and right, and soon forced himself out of the crowd, and ran to the front row amidst the shouts and curses.

Yue Duzhi looked at his little cousin, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart. Hearing him speak just now, he was unavoidably arrogant, but now he's taking it easy, with a look of unbearable expression on his face, but he doesn't look like the kind of dandy who stirs up troubles as others said.When a gentleman cultivates himself, he must be patient and compassionate, but my little cousin showed this gentleman's attitude at any time, which should be the same as what they have learned in daily life.

Hey, it's not enough to cultivate by myself, but now I also want to watch the excitement.Really, how rude... Thinking of this, Yue Duzhi endured it, and slowly walked forward with his cousin.

The two cousins ​​walked slowly to the entrance of the inner alley. There were already three floors inside, and the outer three floors were full of people. That was where the Anjihou Mansion in Baokang Li was located. , dressed in heavy armor at the intersection, guarding the main road, and now the street is closed.

Beside him, Yue Duzhi sighed loudly in one direction, Gu Zhao looked over there, and was immediately happy.The three classmates of my cousin, you push me, I pull yours are climbing up a big tree at the intersection of the street.While crawling, he shouted: "Come here, you can see clearly from above..." Gu Zhao laughed, Yue Duzhi became even more shy, and raised his sleeves to cover his face, he really couldn't bear to see it.

Gu Zhao looked left and right, there were three floors here, and the outer three floors had no way of getting in or out. He didn’t know how long it would take to stand here. He couldn’t see what was going on in front of him, but he could only hear people’s discussions all over his ears. , Talking about everything.

"Hey, come out, that's not the second housekeeper of his house, I saw him standing at the gate of the mansion a while ago, looking very proud, hehe, he also has today..."

"That's right, in the past, these grandchildren didn't look at people seriously..."

"Hey, that's the eldest lady of his family, she's as fat as a pig, she really has a good body..."

"Bah! Have you met some young ladies, are they cooks? Haha..."

Gu Zhao listened for a while, then turned around and wanted to leave, but he didn't want to be greeted by someone from the teahouse next to him: "That's my little uncle over there, little uncle..." Looking up, I saw the beauty sitting on the second floor of the next teahouse leaning on the railing, supported by someone. The body is saying hello.Looking carefully, it turned out to be an acquaintance, the eldest son of the Huai State Duke, Xia Houyi.Why is he here?Still occupy a good position in advance?

After a while, Xia Houyi and the owner of the teahouse ran out of the store, welcomed Gu Zhao and his cousin Yue Duzhi into the store, invited them all the way up to the second floor, and entered the private seat.

Gu Zhao sat down and received Xia Houyi's half-respect. He was not in a hurry to watch the excitement, but asked Xia Houyi: "Why are you here today? I remember you are working in the household department."

Xia Houyi accompanied her with a smile, and stood there to reply: "Little uncle doesn't know, today is just a coincidence, I originally invited a few friends to come to have tea, but I didn't want to be crowded into the yamen, and my friends didn't come..."

Gu Zhao didn't speak, just laughed.Xia Houyi rubbed her nose in embarrassment: "Actually... little uncle doesn't know, it's the fourth child who led the troops to ransack the house today."

Gu Zhao raised his eyebrows: "I know it, but...you shouldn't know it. Could it be that he told you in advance?"

"Oh! Little uncle! Wish! How can he have the courage to do such a big thing? Wasn't it last night that my nephew went to drink with him, but he was not at home. It was Tao Ruo who said, the fourth child and the three of them I haven't come out since I was announced to the camp a few days ago. During these days, everyone is talking about this matter. My nephew thought about it... Hehe, I know that there may be a lot of excitement this time. I came here often these two days, and it turned out... ... Hehe, I saw it as expected. Could it be... Isn't this what the little uncle is doing?"

"You!" Gu Zhao couldn't help but talk about his age, he is now at the age where he should watch the excitement.He didn't come here for this, he had other things on his mind!Gu Zhao stopped talking, leaned his body against the railing of the beautiful woman in the private seat, and turned his head to look for Anjihou's mansion.

Xia Houyi was clever, and hurriedly served a cup of tea.

Holding the teacup, Gu Zhao turned sideways to see other people's misfortune, um... this feeling is quite subtle, with an indescribable sense of superiority... Bah!What are you thinking?

On the other side of Anjihou's Mansion, there is no longer the majestic aura of pavilions, towers and pavilions in the past. Although it is far away here, the sound of mourning can still be heard in my ears. Inside the gate, people are constantly pulling a rope out. The two sides of the rope are tied with forked threads, and the wrists are tied one by one, and people are pulled out one by one according to the door of each house.The small wind in early spring pierced the bones. These people were all dressed in single clothes, wrapped around their bodies one by one, trembling, and their souls had drifted to nowhere.

Outside the gate, the upper body of the armored soldiers looked solemn. Occasionally, some disobedient people ran in for their lives, and some people went up and danced the leather whip. The beaten person rolled all over the ground, perhaps feeling insulted. The man struggled to throw off the rope, headed towards the stone lion at the door, and was about to go up. In a moment, some soldiers had expected this, and they rushed up, tied the man into a ball, and threw it aside, even their mouths were closed. Cut off his hem and sealed it up for him.

Yue Duzhi, who was sitting next to Gu Zhao, suddenly said faintly: "Then... I know that person, that's Meng Jirui... His family and Anjihou Meng Jidu were originally a grandfather, and we were still in the kingdom a few days ago. Let's go to class together..." Yue Duzhi's heart was soft, he couldn't bear to watch it any longer, he went to sit on the side, and never looked over the railing again.

Gu Zhao glanced at his cousin, but didn't say a word, just continued to search for someone among the soldiers. After searching for a while, he saw that Gu Maochang was riding a bay red horse, dressed in cloth armor, with his right hand on his waist. On the saber, he didn't move or speak, he just stood by the shadow wall at the entrance of the Hou's mansion, but his eyes only looked into the female relative.

A few days ago, Gu Maochang quietly brought him a letter, only saying that Yan Jinzhu, Mrs. Anjihou's wife, came and went in Shangjing, but somehow she found him here.Gu Maochang had nothing to do with the Wukang case, but he didn't know what to think after that day. He wanted to ask his little uncle to figure out a way for him without telling his old father.

Since he wanted to go, Gu Zhao naturally mentioned it to A Run casually, and he wanted to see what Gu Xiaosi meant, was he trying to do favoritism, or remembering his old love, or being someone else?

Gu Maochang looked back and forth in the crowd at the women's family members. These rich and well-clothed young ladies and aunts now lost half of their face, and they were tied up and pulled out one by one. Even if they wanted to cover their faces with their sleeves, they couldn't.So, that transparent one came up with a way to throw his long hair in front of his face, to cover his face, and to leave some dignity.

Even so, Gu Maochang was still in the crowd, and quickly found Yan Jinzhu.The best dream in life, how could he forget this person's figure.Maybe she had a quarrel inside just now, and she didn't know who put a veil in her mouth. She had been looking at Gu Maochang for a long time, and now she finally met Gu Maochang's eyes, and burst into tears.She kept shaking her head, pleading, looked at Gu Maochang, turned her head to look at the young son who was held in the arms of a woman not far away, and then looked up at Gu Maochang.

At this moment, there is always a thousand words...

Gu Maochang naturally knew what she meant. A few days ago, she kept looking for herself, just for her two-year-old son, wanting a way out.He remembered her crying bitterly, lying on the ground and begging: "Since ancient times, she has been married to her father. Could it be that Jin Zhu wants to marry that one, but she can do it herself? Jin Zhu knows that fourth brother hates me, but now she doesn't care about it anymore. I just ask fourth brother to save my son's life for the sake of past affection, Jinzhu will be like an ox and a horse in the next life, and he must repay fourth brother."

Was there any affection in the past?Gu Maochang kept thinking about the scene of Jin Zhu getting married that day, and being insulted by Yan Jinyi. Over the past few years, his mind was full of that ugly face, and he left the family, barefooted The look of running wildly on the street.What is Gu Maochang who left home?

He loathes and hates himself, so in the past three years he has led Gu's army to fight everywhere, and finally laid down a piece of sky for Zhuguan that belongs to his father.

Now, this woman came to cry... Gu Maochang asked himself, should he laugh up to the sky, laughing at her family would be considered unlucky!

It's a pity that he couldn't laugh at all. He wrote a letter and begged his little uncle like a fool, and found himself such an errand. Now, he looks at Yan Jinzhu's misfortune almost like masochism. She cried and knelt down, kowtowing to herself non-stop, begging, all she wanted was blood on her forehead.Finally...she was taken away, but there was no pleading in her eyes at the end, only resentment remained. She didn't hate her father, brother, husband, and son-in-law who made her suffer, and feared that she would only hate herself in this life.

This is very good, Gu Maochang let out a long breath, looked up at the sky, feeling sore and astringent in his heart.

Xiaosi, this is grown up!It can be regarded as growing up...

Gu Zhao was in the teahouse, looking at his nephew, he felt relieved.In the past few days, he was always worried about this child, and he was going to do some stupid things with his head getting hot.Now it seems that Gu Lao Si is here to bid farewell to his entire youth!This dead boy doesn't know what to think, if no one else comes, he is the one who comes.Tomorrow, I'm afraid there will be gossip about the Gu family again when I go to Beijing.

After the prisoners were counted, countless donkey carts came along the street. The soldiers were ruthless.

Treat people with a carload, and the carload is taken away, and those who watch the excitement stop talking about it.No one can bear to see this weak woman weeping and the child weeping.

The spring breeze was raging one after another, the huge plaque of Anjihou Mansion was pulled by the rope, chanted, pulled together, fell to the ground with a bang, and fell into two halves...

"what!!!!!!!"

But I don't know, who screamed, someone jumped out of the car, ran over there, and shouted in his mouth: "Ancestor! First queen!! God open your eyes!!!! Children and grandchildren! Unfilial!!!!"

Gu Maochang looked up at the sky, swiped his waist knife, and all his subordinates stepped on the plaque of Anjihou Mansion, and headed inside... Gu Maochang's errands today are to count assets, seal boxes, and transcribe Wait a minute.

Gu Zhao didn't speak, and Xia Houyi didn't say anything. After a long time, Xia Houyi sighed deeply: "It's a pity that Meng Jidu's generation is outstanding. If he is alive, I don't know what he thinks..."

Gu Zhao didn't speak, his eyes kept seeing Gu Maochang disappear, and then he was completely at ease.

The huge Marquis Mansion, rich and honored for three generations, once these soldiers entered, there were new guesses in the teahouse.Gu Zhao got a little impatient, so he stood up and said to Yue Duzhi: "Cousin, it's almost noon, why don't you go to my house for dinner?"

Yue Duzhi shook his head, he came out with his classmates now, it would be shameful to run away alone, so he refused, and said that he would invite Gu Zhao to come over to the mansion some other day, and when Gu Zhaoyun was gone, he took care with him Xinzai went downstairs and went up to Xiaoyu.

The crisp camel bells rang, and the crowd couldn't help but split the road. Gu Zhao's camel was a scene in Shangjing, so when the camel bell rang, soldiers from the forbidden street over there had already seen him.These people were all brought out by Gu Maochang now, so they accepted Ge Gou without asking anyone, drove away the crowd of spectators, and greatly opened a way for Gu Zhao.

Gu Zhao's camels passed by those struggling people, one headed north, the other headed south...

During that journey, Gu Zhao's head was in a mess. When he returned to the county mansion, before he got off his camel, he saw a row of small sedan chairs lined up in front of his house.It's really strange, he has weak relationships in Shangjing, and he has a reputation of not being nosy!How can anyone be willing to burn his cold stove today?

After getting off the camel, Bi Liangli hurried up to meet him, and made several gestures to Gu Zhao's hand, probably because he didn't want him to care.Gu Zhao was also obedient, so he didn't look at anyone. He went straight into the mansion and someone closed the door of the house. He didn't answer anyone's post. If there was anything wrong, tell them to go to Gu Yan in Pingzhou Alley.

"Which family do those people belong to?" Gu Zhao returned to the main hall and asked Xizai at the door while changing clothes.

Xizai got the news a long time ago, and upon hearing Gu Zhao's question, he stood at the door and replied, "Qi Ye, it's all about turning inside out, with side branches covering the edges. Isn't that the house of the Marquis of Anji was ransacked? The old temple The Gu family seemed to have had several in-laws with them, and now the daughter of the main branch was also dragged down.

There is also our old aunt's family in Xianglian Road, it is said that there is also a marriage with his family, but today I am not here to intercede, but to ask, for fear of being implicated..." At this point, I carefully thought of something, and then He lowered his voice and reminded: "Seventh Master, the fourth master's matter, the Wen family of the uncle's family, I am afraid it is also involved. "

After Gu Zhao changed his clothes, he sat on a chair in the main hall and raised his feet. Two eunuchs came up to take off his boots with him. After the boots were pulled off, they helped him change into a pair of soft cloth shoes.

"Maojia's daughter-in-law? What's the matter with her? Why don't I know?" Gu Zhao stood up, stomped his feet, and waved Xizai into the room.

Xizai smiled, walked into the room, half-kneeled to help Gu Zhao pull up the clothes, and replied while tidying up: "Qiye usually hates gossip the most, how can I hear this. A while ago, didn't there always be tea parties in Beijing? I heard that the grandma of Uncle Mao Bing's family often went out to meet people in the past two years, and often went to various mansions with family background to play tricks. It seems to be last year. The old concubine An's natal family held a flower viewing party, and the grandmother of Anjihou's mansion... "

Seeing that Gu Zhaozheng didn't know the relationship, Xizai said in detail: "It's the dead Meng Jidu's own mother, who is now his grandmother. That old lady doesn't know what to think. Seeing Uncle Maojia's daughter-in-law When the Wen family went, they held on and refused to let go, insisting on getting married... just like that, the two families moved around."

Gu Zhao lost his temper as soon as he heard it, and couldn't help scolding: "That guy is just a careless person. He is either crying and picking up his mother, or he is seeking relationships everywhere. He made friends, and put a pig's head on him!"

Gu Zhao was cursing, but Ah Run didn't know when it was here. He didn't enter the house when he came, but just stood at the door and smiled softly: "I'm also wondering, you live with a family of foxes, why do you jump out when you're fine? Here comes a silly porpoise."

Gu Zhao was furious. He stared at the door and asked, "Who are you talking about? Whose family is a fox? Your family is the one."

Today, Ah Run was in a surprisingly good mood, so he didn't answer the conversation, just entered the room, sat down casually, sighed and said: "My home is not your home."

When he said this, Gu Zhao thought it was the same reason, so he didn't have the nerve to pursue it any further. He wanted to give him some face in front of others, so he was more courteous, and poured him tea and fruit with his own hands. The waiter begged for one thing: "That kid Mao Bing is pedantic by nature, it's not his fault, it's all taught by his mother, otherwise, you can go to Ganzhou to find a place, it's better that there are thousands of miles around. Man... you can send him there to practice for a few years. That kid has a good heart, ahem..."

Ah Run took off his shoes and lay half on the back of the house. He didn't answer Gu Zhao's words, but just smiled and said: "Is there anyone like you who is an elder? Ganzhou is a thousand miles away, and there are no people inhabited. If you ask him to go, isn't it harmful?" Besides, I told you to go to the Gu family, so I don’t know what to guess, your old brother is not young, so what are you messing around with!”