A scholar of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

"Let's go, the old man is tired." Qin Qiong no longer looked at Gu Qing.

Walking out of Qin Qiong's mansion, Gu Qing walked alone on the cold Suzaku Street, the sky was covered with dark clouds and heavy snow fell again, there were few pedestrians on the street, so he hurried home.

Walking through the house all the way, I thought that Fang Xuanling was also my teacher. I didn't know what happened to him back then, so I knocked on the door, and the door opened after a long time, "You are?"

"I'm Gu Qing, I'm here to visit the teacher." Gu Qing said.

"The master of the family has already entered the palace and is not here now." said the porter.

Gu Qing raised his eyes to look at the quiet house, and had no choice but to give up and leave.

Walking out of Chang'an City all the way to the Taoist temple, the craftsmen of the fat monk hadn't been brought yet. As soon as Gu Qing reached the forefoot, he saw a group of officers and soldiers coming behind him, and the dead eunuch Wang Qin was the leader.

Gu Qing looked at the other party with a smile on his face, "My lord, we meet again."

When the officers and soldiers arrived, Sun Simiao and Wu Mei also walked out of the Taoist temple and came in front of Wang Qin.

Taking out the yellow silk, Wang Qin said, "The daughter of the Duke should accept the order..."

Hearing the eunuch read a lot, Gu Qing didn't understand anything at all, but only understood the words of Ying Guogong.

"Gu Qing, you should also listen to the order." Wang Qin read again, "Gu Qing offered a plan to solve the border siege of the Tang Dynasty. This is incompatible with the merits and demerits of colliding with the Zhongshu Province. He thought that he would care about the country and serve as the son of the Imperial College Xuan Yilang."

Wang Qin said with a smile, "Gu Qing, let's make an excuse."

Gu Qing cupped his hands to receive the imperial decree, and Wang Qin left with a thought-provoking smile.

Opening the edict, Gu Qing glanced at it, casually threw it on the grass aside, and looked in the direction of Taiji Palace, "Li Er, Li Er, you want me to be your official, it's a good idea!"

Gu Qing threw the imperial edict casually, which frightened Sun Simiao, and hurriedly saw that there was no one around, so he took the imperial edict away, "Stinky boy, how can the imperial edict be thrown away, be careful not to cause trouble again."

Wu Mei looked at Gu Qing's attitude, wondering why he was so disrespectful to the imperial power.

"I've visited General Qin Qiong, and it doesn't look like there's a big problem at the moment." Gu Qing tightened his collar in the heavy snow.

In the Taoist temple, there is the spiritual tablet of the warrior Xun. Wu Mei prostrated herself before the spiritual tablet and put the imperial decree on the table, "Father, Your Majesty has made you the Duke of the Kingdom."

Looking at her, Gu Qing felt a little throbbing in his heart, "It must be comforting under the Nine Springs."

Wu Mei looked at Gu Qing, "Before my father left, I was the one who worried the most. When I couldn't wake up my father, I knew he had already left."

"Wu Mei, how old are you?" Gu Qing helped burn a stick of incense in front of the coffin.

"13 years old." Wu Mei hesitated for a long time and plucked up her courage, "Will my father, Gu Qing, miss me?"

Hearing this, Gu Qing bowed to the spiritual seat, thinking that Wu Mei was still too young, and she was only 14 years old, and said: "The man has passed away, and now the three of us, master and apprentice, must depend on each other to live well in this Great Tang. "

"Well, live well." Wu Mei nodded.

Gu Qing bought a few more big quilts. The ancient quilts were very heavy. Wu Mei slept a little warmer that night. It snowed for two days and two nights, and a thick layer of snow accumulated at the entrance of the Taoist temple.

For a few days, Gu Qing didn't go to Chang'an at all, the matter of being an official has long been put on the back of Gu Qing's mind, the emperor's family is fickle, and Gu Qing doesn't want to participate in the intrigues of the officialdom.

Wu Mei likes to make snowmen very much, even though her hands are red from the cold.

Chang'an, after leaving court, Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin walked together, "Brother Shubao, your complexion has improved a lot recently, huh? What did you eat!"

Qin Qiong ate the red dates as snacks, "Dried dates are for nourishing blood, do you want to eat them?"

"It's no wonder that your complexion has improved so quickly recently. It turns out that there is such a panacea, which must have been given to you by Sun Simiao." Cheng Yaojin said curiously all the way.

"No and no." Qin Qiong laughed, "It was Sun Simiao's apprentice who told me to eat more dates."

"It's that kid Gu Qing." Cheng Yaojin also said, "Such a medicine for strengthening the body doesn't even come to show respect to someone like me, Cheng. Shu Bao also gave me a copy of the prescription. Recently, my body is not feeling well. "

"I'll have someone from the family bring it to you when I turn back." Qin Qiong threw a date into his mouth, chewed and spit out a date stone.

Chapter 38

Gu Qing found the county magistrate in the village, knowing that Sun Simiao's master and apprentice lived here, so he hurriedly completed the land deed, "A total of thirty coins."

After buying the land and registering it, the land can be used. The land you bought is either somewhere else or an open space next to the Taoist temple. The fat monk brought more than a dozen craftsmen, "Mr. Gu, I brought you the craftsmen you want. .”

After handing over the drawings of the house to several craftsmen, Gu Qing said, "Build according to the drawings."

Several craftsmen looked at the drawings and looked at each other. They had never seen such a strange house before, and they nodded hurriedly without saying anything. The fat monk continued, "I will make arrangements for what is missing."

"Not for now!" Gu Qing waved his hand and said.

"That's fine!" The fat monk patted his stomach, "I'm in Chang'an, just come to me if you need anything."

Gu Qing thanked, "Thank you very much."

"Don't send it off." The fat monk shook his hand.

I don't know what this guy Yang Sheng did, and he never came back. The craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty were quite good at handling things, and arranged a large group of workers to start building the house.

Children in nearby villages like Gu Qing very much, especially storytelling and nursery rhymes, which are very popular with them. Several children pointed to the workers who were building the house, "Obviously there are only fifteen workers."

"I counted them, only ten!" said another child.

"Seven!" interrupted another child.

"Let me teach you counting formulas." Gu Qing sat among the children, "Today we won't tell stories, come and follow me to say one one gets one, one two gets two, one three gets three."

The children followed Gu Qingnian and saw Gu Qing drawing the multiplication table on the ground with a branch.

This method of memory is much more flexible than the counting method of the ancient single board. The child gradually became interested, arranged the stones in a row, and knew the number just by looking at it. "It's amazing."

"This is called a table of multiplication formulas." Gu Qing said, "My unique trick."

"Yeah!" The children looked like they remembered it in their hearts.

Gu Qing shook his fan and said again, "So... so you should pay, the old rule is that one penny per person."

"Slightly slightly..." Several children stuck out their tongues, and they all dispersed without paying the money.

Looking at their patched clothes, Gu Qing was heartbroken again, "What happened to the children of Datang, what is the reason for not paying for learning things, this trend cannot be encouraged, and we will not tell stories in the future."

"Do you only have money in your eyes?" Wu Mei looked at Gu Qing with pretty eyes.

"To tell you the truth, besides money, there are beauties in my eyes." Gu Qing looked at the sky, "You all say that I want money, but there are many things that can't be done without money, such as food, clothing, housing and transportation... Before, Master and I had no money. , Wandering in Datang has a place to shelter from the wind and rain, and the place is very good, most of the time I sleep in the wilderness, and I have to guard against some wild animals."

"Eating is not a meal, and a better one can eat a meal of meat." Gu Qing said, "When it is bad, you can only drink water to satisfy your hunger."

"You see we have a little money now, and we don't have to worry about basic necessities." Gu Qing smiled and looked at Wu Mei, watching her delicate face step by step.

Seeing Gu Qing's gaze, Wu Mei retreated step by step, she had already identified him as the man in her heart that night, but the other's gaze made her heart jump wildly.