Master Zhao at the foot of Mount Qingcheng

The snow is not heavy, and there are only a few flakes floating in the sky, but the wind still makes people shiver uncontrollably.

It's so cold, but there are many people crowded in the street, all of them came to pick up the third prince to Beijing.

Zhao Xuan walked forward in the crowd, and said casually: "The third prince is quite popular."

Lin Chaoyu nodded, quite agreeing: "Yes."

Zhao Xuan looked at the person beside him who still insisted on holding an umbrella for him, and said: "Put the umbrella away, anyway, the snow is not heavy, and there are so many people, it would be troublesome to hold an umbrella."

Lin Chaoyu looked at him and smiled: "Okay."

The two of them walked for a while and turned into an alley. The third prince naturally didn't know how to walk in an alley, so once they got here, it was like entering another world, quiet and deserted.

"The family lived in one old and one young. The old carpenter seemed to have dealt with Zhao Sifan when he was young. His only son died of illness a few years ago, and he raised his son alone. But now that he is old, his craftsmanship has been passed on to others Big grandson." Lin Chaoyu explained to Zhao Xuan, "Young man is very good at craftsmanship, he is well-known in the capital, and many people have asked him to order."

The two stepped on the thin snow side by side. Lin Chaoyu led Zhao Xuan skillfully through the alley. When they came to a house, Lin Chaoyu knocked on the wooden door.

This is already deep in the alley. The wooden door is old and looks old. There is a plaque on it that reads "Stop with the surname Zhao".

Zhao Xuan and Lin Chaoyu tacitly acted as if they hadn't seen the plaque.

There was a sound of footsteps behind the door, and then the wooden door opened, and a young man poked his head out: "Who are you two looking for?"

Lin Chaoyu took a step forward and bowed: "It will be my mother's birthday in a few days, and we are here to order a dressing box."

Zhao Xuan glanced at the other party, the Duke's wife has passed away for many years, so what birthday is there?

Lin Chaoyu turned his head, and silently said with his mouth: "Jie Sun."

"Oh, guests, please come in." The boy opened the door, and the moment they were about to step in, the boy called out to them, "Wait!"

I heard the boy say: "I almost forgot to ask, what's your last name?"

Zhao Xuan raised his eyebrows and asked seemingly casually: "Is it important what our surname is?"

"It's actually not important, I don't care, but I can't stand my grandfather." The young man was quite helpless, "My grandfather had some grievances with the former imperial teacher when he was young, and he didn't like Zhao for so many years, no matter how much we persuaded him use."

Zhao Xuan stood with his hands behind his back: "His surname is Lin, and my surname is Zhao. If that's the case, then I won't go in and wait for you outside."

The boy looked up at the gray sky that was still snowing, scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "Come in, don't let my grandfather know, it's very windy and cold in the alley."

The young man led them into the house and poured two cups of hot tea for them: "Sit down for a while, I'll show you some styles of dressing boxes, and tell me what I want to make after I show you. "

The boy planned to enter the back room, and when he passed the old man who was resting on a chair by the charcoal fire, he purposely leaned into his ear and said loudly, "We have a guest, I will cook later."

The old man raised his eyelids, moved them, and said "ah", "what did you say?"

The boy raised his voice and shouted again: "There are guests, I will cook later."

After a while, the old man said "oh", the young man entered the back room, the old man closed the quilt covering his body, and turned his head to look at the guest.

When he saw Zhao Xuan, the old man was obviously stunned, and then made a "ho ho" sound in his throat, and pointed at him: "You...you...what's your last name?"

The boy came out immediately when he heard the sound, and helped the old man: "Grandfather?"

The old man pushed him away and kept looking at Zhao Xuan: "Is your surname Zhao?"

Zhao Xuan did not deny it: "How did the old man know that?"

"You look very similar to him." The old man took a deep breath and asked in a deep voice, "Who is he to you?"

"If your great-grandfather has ever wronged you in any way, I'll apologize to him here first."

The scene was silent for a while, and the young man covered his forehead: "Your ears are clear now... It's my fault, I let him in without authorization."

As he spoke, he winked at Zhao Xuan: "Let's go."

"You're not allowed to drive him away." The old man reprimanded the young man, "How do you usually teach you, how can you have this kind of hospitality."

The young man was wronged: "Didn't you not let the person surnamed Zhao in?"

The old man became angry like a child at the moment, picked up his crutches and hit the young man: "You are the one who talks too much."

Boy: "..." Who did he provoke?

The old man threw away his crutch again, sat back on his chair angrily, and said to Zhao Xuan: "You are much more pleasing to the eye than Zhao Sifan."

Zhao Xuan: "To be honest, I came here this time to inquire about my great-grandfather."

"Your great-grandfather, what are you asking me for?" Before Zhao Xuan could answer, the old man said to himself again, "That's right, Zhao Sifan died early."

"Forget it, I'll just tell you. If you don't talk about it, you might not have a chance in the future." The old man sighed and said, "I was actually from the same town as Zhao Sifan back then. When I was my elder brother, my parents were old friends. When I was your age, I came to the capital to ask for a living. I wanted to join him who was already a national teacher at that time, but he refused to help me and kicked me out."

"Ah?" The boy frowned, "Why is he like this?"

"Don't interrupt." The old man waved his hand, "That's right. At that time, the situation was complicated. The emperor trusted Zhao Sifan but did everything he could to keep him. His colleagues were unwilling to let the emperor trust such a fortune teller so much, so they tried every means to pull him off the horse. Well, if he really helped me and got involved with me right now, that would be harming me. But I was young and ignorant at the time, and I didn't understand why he did it. On the contrary, I also felt that he was so unkind, and I worked hard in the capital in a fit of anger. I have done errands and run errands, and I have to eat when I am at my worst, and Zhao Sifan also sent someone to help me secretly."

"Then one day Zhao Sifan came to me secretly, saying that he took a fancy to a mechanism I made and wanted to buy my drawings."

Zhao Xuan took a sip of hot tea: "Organ? Can you tell me what it's like?"

"It's a little thing to make my wife happy. We were not married at that time." The old man called the young man, "Go get the box from my closet."

"Oh."

The young man answered, and after a while, he took a sandalwood square box from the back room. The old man turned on the switch tremblingly, revealing a delicate and realistic rockery inside.

The boy was also amazed: "You have hidden such a treasure!"

The old man took Zhao Xuan's hot tea and poured it on the rockery, a few words gradually appeared on the rocky wall of the rockery.

Lin Chaoyu read: "May I have a person with one heart...the white head will not be separated..."

The teenager grinned: "Wow, I didn't expect you and grandma to be quite nasty."

The old man rolled his eyes at the other party, and continued to Zhao Xuan: "Zhao Sifan wanted this blueprint back then, but I made it for my lover. Naturally, he wanted to be unique, so he refused to sell it. So Zhao Sifan wanted to share it with me. To make a deal, I was a poor boy at the time and couldn't afford the dowry, so Zhao Sifan wanted to buy the blueprint, and promised to make a dowry, so that I could marry my wife in a splendid manner, and also agreed to let him be the matchmaker in private."

The old man continued: "I gave him the blueprint later, but the dowry was all cheated by another local rich man surnamed Zhao. If it wasn't for my wife who insisted on marrying me and my father-in-law who was optimistic about me, we almost missed it." .”

The young man shook his head again and said, "Then you shouldn't hate Zhao, it's all the fault of that rich local man surnamed Zhao."

"Can you fix your interruption? I'm really spoiling you." The old man scolded softly, but didn't blame him too much, "Shouldn't Zhao Sifan hate it? What about being a matchmaker? The blueprint will disappear as soon as you get it." After that, it didn’t take long to hear that I don’t know where he died. My wife and I have been waiting. This person doesn’t mean anything, he really isn’t a thing!”

The others didn't speak, but the old man said again: "At the beginning, he asked me to do a favor, saying that if any of his descendants came to the door, he would give them something."

The old man said that he removed a small interlayer from the bottom of the mechanism box and handed it to Zhao Xuan; "Don't ask me, I don't know what's in it, I thought I couldn't wait for his descendants to come to the door in my life." , I didn't expect... this person is really amazing."

"I know so much about him. I'm getting old, and I'm about to forget a lot of things." The old man slowly nestled back into the chair, wrapped in the quilt and seemed to be ready to sleep, "Let's go, next time Remember to remind Big Brother Zhao when you go to the grave in Qingming that it is justifiable for my wife to marry me."

Zhao Xuan took the box and walked up to the old man and knelt down: "Old man, do I really resemble my great-grandfather?"

"Like, especially those eyebrows, otherwise I wouldn't think of your grandfather when I saw you." The old man's eyes were already closed, and he muttered, "It's really strange, after so many generations, there is still such a similar look. .”

Zhao Xuan smiled slightly: "Old man, do you know where my great-grandfather is buried?"

"Even you don't know where I'm going, and I'm not his descendant. But..." the old man said leisurely, "Brother Zhao is affectionate and smart. If he doesn't want you to find him, then you must not find him. I guess he must be somewhere where you can't find him and watch you."

Zhao Xuan nodded: "Thank you old man, sorry for the trouble, please leave."

The boy shouted behind them: "Hey, do you want a dressing box?"

"I want it." Lin Chaoyu took out the silver and gave it to the other party, "This is a deposit, let's keep it simple, my mother doesn't like things that are too fancy."

Boy: "Okay, get it after seven days."

Zhao Xuan and Lin Chaoyu came out of "Zhao's surname Zhibu", and vaguely heard the young man say something to the old man inside, and the young man complained: "Why are your ears not working well now, so let me tell Zhao Sifan that your ears are good." ...Wow, grandfather, you heard clearly again..."

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, Lin Chaoyu opened his umbrella again and put it on top of Zhao Xuan's head.

Zhao Xuan looked at the box and studied it over and over again: "What did the great-grandfather want this mechanism for? And how did he know that we would go to a carpenter after so many years? Could it be that he counted it?"

"This is the greatness of the former imperial master, who is a generation of strange people." Lin Chaoyu put Zhao Xuan's cloak affectionately together, "But so what, the dead are gone, and we have to look at the living in the future." .I don't believe he can count our every move, so I don't believe in destiny."

Zhao Xuan looked at him quite unexpectedly, Lin Chaoyu was embarrassed by his look, and blushed inexplicably: "That is, I don't believe that there is a person who can spy on the fate of the world, otherwise he would not be under the control of others in his life, and I am not interested in treasures after all. A gentleman is a metaphor for righteousness, besides, the Duke’s mansion is very good, so you don’t have to worry about food and clothing...but I will always help you find it.”

As long as you want, I will always help you.