The daily life of the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, thick black

Chapter 98 The Fish in the Bowl

Liao Fengyuan's son was named Liao Simian, and he asked a local Confucian to change his name.

Liao Fengyuan said that Zhang Tingyu was not there when the child was born, otherwise it might be better to ask Zhang Tingyu to name it.

These are all polite words, Gu Huaishu listened to Mrs. Liu talking, only teasing the child.

This child was called Young Master Liao in the garden, and he was born in a wealthy businessman's family like Liao Fengyuan, so he was born with a golden spoon in his mouth.

When leaving, Gu Huaishu was a little silent.

She hugged Zhang Tingyu's arm, closed her eyes, and sat in the car, "His eldest son looks so cute... Tell me how your third brother's child is doing now... It must be more than two years old..."

Sure enough, I began to look forward to having children.

It was all expected by Zhang Tingyu, he pinched her pink face: "Then let's go back and work hard?"

Gu Huaishu's cheeks blushed, but he didn't speak for a while.

She took Zhang Tingyu's sleeve and said, "Let's talk about it after August [-]th."

In the end, the township examination is still ahead, and I dare not relax.

Gu Huaishu has now become a virtuous wife. In the past two years of self-cultivation and self-cultivation, no one jumped in front of her, her temper has calmed down a lot, and she doesn't seem to be as hostile as before. She is as gentle and virtuous as a bird just out of water. The curvaceous hibiscus, with a bit of maturity and stability in the beauty, is no longer the Gu San who started to go crazy without paying attention in the past.

It's time to call her...

Grandma Zhang Er.

As soon as their carriage left, Kui Xia Yuan stopped here?The curtain of the big blue sedan chair was lifted, and Shen Yang came out from inside.

His eyes were even more frosty, but he still had the same feeling when he walked.

No matter how others change, Shen Qi will not change.

Holding a fan in his hand, he looked at the plaque outside the Sunflower Garden, and calculated with his fingers: "Yes, how much money will I have to lose when I come to see his son today... When I have a son, I will go back and pay for it." I have to ask Liao Fengyuan to spit it out for me one by one."

Suddenly I felt that I should have a son after so many years, otherwise, if I encounter such an occasion again in the future, wouldn't I lose money?

For so many years, Shen Yang's inner house has been empty, but now he wants to fill it up.

As soon as the servants guarding the garden saw Shen Qi coming, one of them came up to meet him, and the other went to report to Liao Fengyuan.

"Young one, I've seen Master Shen. Say hello to Master Shen. This way please."

Shen Qi waved his hand directly, and the young man who followed him took out a letter of worship from his sleeve along with the gift list, and handed it to the person next to him.

They all came with generous gifts, that's why Shen Qi felt distressed.

As he walked towards the inside, he said: "Just now I saw a car leaving, but your boss just sent the guests away?"

"Isn't it? It was Tongcheng Second Master Zhang and Zhang Second Young Mistress who left just now, and they just came to see our eldest son... I will come back a hundred days later..." The servant smiled, but found that the people around him The person disappeared at once.

The young man following Shen Qi was also stunned, "Master Shen?"

Standing on the spot with the fan in his hand, Shen Chao seemed to think of something.

I haven't heard this name for a long time...

Shen Chao now still remembers the gifts he received on New Year's Eve, a few packs of moldy tea cakes, two taels of silver, and a message from someone—Master Shen, what do you need, buy it with your own money.

What can two taels of silver buy?
Shen Qi paused for a while, then started walking again, but suddenly changed his mind and said, "Let me send all the books to Jiangning, I won't go back to Yangzhou until September."

"Didn't you tell shopkeeper Liao that he would leave in a hundred days?" The young man who followed Shen Chao was a little puzzled.

Shen Chao frowned, and snorted coldly: "You can do whatever you say. Where did you come from? Tell someone to tidy up my garden in the city...Let's go and see Mr. Liao."

The servants of Kui Xia Garden couldn't understand what the two masters were talking about, so they only led them to find Liao Fengyuan.

In a blink of an eye, July [-]th arrived.

Gu Huaishu accompanied Li Wei to the outskirts of the city and let Li Wei go in by himself, but they all stayed outside and did not follow.

In the end, I saw this kid come out crying again.

Gu Huaishu gave him a slap in the face angrily: "You have grown up a bit, your mother knows it, and you should be happy."

Li Wei wiped his face, still crying, and looked at Gu Huaishu, and couldn't help but threw himself into Gu Huaishu's arms with a "wow": "My godmother loves me..."

Ade laughed angrily: "Why are you yelling at people again?!"

Li Wei secretly pulled Gu Huaishu's expensive Suzhou embroidered satin dress to wipe away his tears, "Isn't this the only time I want to shout..."

Gu Huaixiu spent the past two days taking care of his food and clothing, and the women and maids in the mansion also took care of him, isn't it all because of Gu Huaixiu?This kind of kindness, even if it is called a godmother, it may not be impossible.

It's just that with Gu Huaishu's status, accepting him as a godson is flattering him.

Li Wei didn't dare to think too much, he just regarded Gu Huaishu as a godmother in his heart.

Gu Huaixiu was also speechless, frowned and looked at his sleeves, thinking that he would wash them again when he went back.

She pulled her handkerchief and looked at him with disgust: "Next time if you are pulling my sleeve, be careful with your skin."

Hearing this, Li Wei's shoulders trembled in fright, he quickly took three steps back by grabbing the satin handkerchief, and said with a solemn face, "I won't dare again!"

Everyone was happy, and took Li Wei back.

All these years, Gu Huaishu had actually raised him as a godson, and he was considered his half-mother, so Li Wei was close to her.

Qingdai is also used to giving this kid something during the holidays, which is still sweet after all.

Only Xiao Shifang kept a distance from Li Wei. Every time Li Wei called Gu Huaixiu godmother out of nowhere, he would sneer and pick up the knife to chop vegetables.

Li Wei also knew that Master Shi Fang didn't like him, so he didn't bother to provoke him at all,?Touch a chicken leg every few days, and serve a big soup in half a month...

In the past few years, Xiao Shifang's craftsmanship has also improved a lot. The more Gu Huaishu goes outside, the better he feels at home.

This time, she still didn't bring Xiao Shi Fang out, she thought, if there were no mistakes this time, the time to return to Beijing would be near.

The next day after taking Li Wei there, Gu Huaishu followed Zhang Tingyu to Sunflower Garden.

This day's Sunflower Garden was full of guests, laughing and laughing everywhere, although it was raining, but the maids with umbrellas in the garden came and went, it was quite interesting to watch.

Zhang Tingyu held a green oil-paper umbrella, and stood under the same umbrella with Gu Huaishu, the two of them clinging to each other, chatting and laughing from time to time, the looks of the man and woman were in harmony, and there was a sense of the tranquility of the years.

When he turned the corner, Shen Qi saw them. He wanted to go up immediately, but he stopped when he saw the back of the person over there.

"Zhong Heng, why do you think I like this one?"

The young man beside him coughed, and said with a smile: "Maybe Shen, you also like being cuckolded."

"Snapped."

Shen Chong hit him on the head with a fan, and said coldly, "What are you talking about!"

The young man didn't mind either, he just snickered: "Master Shen has a different taste, I'm just inferior to ordinary people."

This is much more pleasing to the ear.

Shen Qi looked at the two people holding umbrellas in front of them, and he was alone, looking empty, and regretted a bit: "I knew that even the concubine should bring one, no... bring two..."

As he said that, he went down the steps, but directly threw the umbrella in his hand into the pond, walked through the rockery and stone pavilion in the rain, and then entered the Sanjiang Tower, which specially entertains visitors.

Zhang Tingyu has already taken his seat, and the female guests are in the Sihai Building at the back, separated by a rather large private house, about a dozen feet apart, the two buildings are opposite to each other on both sides of the stone lake, and they can only vaguely see their shadows.

The Sihai Tower is hung with sparse bead curtains to block the sight of the male guests outside, but the inside is very lively.

Mrs. Liu and Mr. Liao are both here. Some of the female guests are married and some are not. They are all here to join in the fun.

At this time, Gu Huaishu just watched from the side, and sat down after the people had dispersed: "It's tiring to see and say hello."

Mrs. Liu is getting older and has wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, but now she looks like a loving mother: "When you have a child, you will know that no matter how tired you are, you will be happy."

Gu Huaixiu smiled: "Seeing that you are enjoying it, I am looking forward to that day, but the weather is not good."

The Liu family is also familiar with her, Liao Fengyuan and Zhang Tingyu are close friends, the two family members should walk around from time to time, but the Zhang family has always been in Tongcheng, and the distance is too far, there is no way to contact them.

Now that they finally had the opportunity to get together, Liu naturally did not dare to neglect Gu Huaishu.

She patted Gu Huaixiu's hand, and smiled with a bit of ambiguity from people who came here: "I have some prescriptions for body repair, you can come back to my room to get them. I wanted to give them to you last time, but you go away Be in a hurry, wait a little longer this time, and I'll ask someone to pick it up for you."

Is there any other way to do this?

Gu Huaixiu also ate a lot of things to keep her body healthy, but she was still young, and she didn't think much about it even though she had no children, but there were some gossips from Zhang's house from time to time, even if she didn't care, it would be annoying to hear.

"Thank you Madam for your kindness, but I will be disrespectful."

As he was talking, the front suddenly became lively. It turned out that a big boat had launched into the water, and a stage was set up on the lake, and the famous Hanzhao troupe from Jiangning was invited to sing.

The maid in charge came up with the playbooks, and asked all the grandmas to order plays. It was Gu Huaishu's turn. She saw that there were nothing new and detailed. She happened to see "Green Plums Cooking Wine on Heroes". I also felt that it was not suitable, thinking about the occasion today, there was nothing to point at, so I casually pointed out "Wutong Leaf".

After handing over the notebook, Gu Huaishu continued to read it.

The men in the opposite Sanjiang Tower are also lighting up the show.

The first one was handed over to Shen Qi, he flipped through the playbook, and said with a smile: "Boss Liao, you are a big fat boy, if I order a fight scene, it won't scare you." he?"

Liao Fengyuan laughed loudly: "Master Shen, just go ahead, my kid is very courageous!"

With a smile on his face, Shen Chao clicked on "Wu Song Fights the Tiger" and then "Burning the Red Cliff" before handing over the book.

Some people like to listen to operas, some don't, so they lit it, and soon it was in Zhang Tingyu's hands. He flipped through it, and ordered "Green Plum Cooking Wine On Heroes", without looking at anything else, he handed the book away .

Shen Chao was sitting not far from Zhang Tingyu, when he heard the title of this play, he frowned.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei talked about heroes by cooking wine. At that time, Liu Bei was still a nobody, but he didn't know why Zhang Tingyu was doing this show?He doesn't look like Liu Bei either.

Shen Yang shook off the fan and started to listen to the play with his feet up.

His mind was not on the show either, he was only on an invisible beauty across the way.

Next, I started singing, and Gu Huaixiu's song "Indus Tree Leaves" was actually ranked first. It was about the separation of Ren Jitu from Xishu and his wife Li Yunying. They hadn't heard from him for several years. On the phoenix leaf, picked up by Ren Jitu, a story of the final reunion.

In the end, this play usually had few people listening to it, but as soon as it came out, it attracted everyone's attention.

Next, Huadan in Tsing Yi looks very good, presumably the troupe can be considered top-notch in Jiangnan.

The plot of the story is quite twists and turns, but the saying that the poem is written on the sycamore leaf is so absurd that Shen Qi laughed when he saw the back: "It's ridiculous..."

Zhang Tingyu only said: "Just watch a play."

Just watch a show.

Gu Huaishu was just watching a play, she finished watching the play she ordered, and was sleepy when she turned around, so she ran to tease Liao Simian.

There are quite a few merchant wives and concubines here, but they have never met Gu Huaishu, so they are a little curious about her identity.

Mrs. Liu only told people that she was a talented lady, and she called Zhang Er Young Mistress, but she didn't mention the identity of Gu Huaxiu's daughter-in-law of Zhang Ying's family.

Scholars are also rare. There are not many people who can read and write here. Those who can read and write well are all concubines.

Before half of the play, Gu Huaishu felt a little sleepy.

Mrs. Liu asked someone to hug the eldest son, but she went downstairs and led her to the back garden, and arranged a guest house for her, "Seeing how sleepy you are, what time is it now. This is the guest house, specially for guests It was arranged by us, Second Young Mistress, you go this way."

The courtyard is far away from the place where the opera is sung, and you can't hear the sound from outside. The maid came up to burn incense, and Gu Huaishu took a look: "It's a good place."

The lotus wind is blowing outside, and the inside is fragrant. The layout is also extremely pleasing to the eye.

Liu asked someone to fetch the prescription she had pressed under the pillow, and gave it to Gu Huaishu, saying that after using this prescription, there will be news within three months.

Gu Huaixiu was noncommittal, thanked her, and then saw that Mrs. Liu went out to make a fuss again.

She yawned and said: "I'm very sleepy, sleep for a while, if the second master asks, just say that I came to sleep."

"Yes." Qing Dai helped her to lie down, loosened the hooked tent, and guarded outside for a while.

Gu Huaishu lay down and soon fell asleep. She had a dream.

She was still lying here, with the lotus pond outside. When she opened her eyes, she felt fish swimming around the lotus leaves. Suddenly, a small golden fish swam to the window and jumped towards the window.

It felt like a carp jumping over a dragon's gate.

Gu Huaishu smiled in his dream, seeing the little golden carp struggling to jump, he took a shallow bottomed wide-mouth plate of Baizi Yingfu cloisonné enamel, filled it with water and put it on the window sill.

The carp jumped again and jumped into her plate, swam lightly for a while, and then disappeared in the water again.

She was wondering where did the fish go, when she heard a maid from somewhere beside her shout, "The goldfish has gone into your belly!"

Then, she looked down, and she saw the shadow of a goldfish swimming on a piece of satin embroidered with lotus flowers in front of her waist, as if she regarded this place as a lotus pond, and immediately covered her lips and chuckled: "It's a foolish fish." , Could it be the wrong place..."

All around suddenly blurred, she heard the sound of water, and saw the splashing dark clouds and thunder and lightning.

After a while, the eyes were completely blurred.

Someone passed by the window and said something.

Gu Huaishu listened hard, but someone else was talking and laughing.

"It's interesting that there are still fish in this lotus pond... Bring me a big bowl..."

She suddenly smelled the fragrance, opened her eyes, but forgot everything in the dream, and only vaguely remembered a carp jumping over the dragon's gate, which seemed to be a good omen.

Zhang Tingyu will enter the examination room in a few days.

She smiled slightly, seeing that the incense burner in the room was almost burnt out, she guessed it was late, so she stretched herself.

Qing Dai fell asleep leaning against the couch, Gu Huaishu didn't wake her up, she just walked to the window, there was a pool of green lotus outside, the lotus had already bloomed, only a few flowers could be seen here and there, most of the blue color was in the eyes for a moment, pleasing to the eye.

She woke up after a nap, but she was not very sleepy, and was about to turn around and leave, but unexpectedly, in the far pavilion, a person suddenly laughed out loud: "Haha, look, I said it got into my bowl." Right? Hahaha..."

Shen Chao held a large white porcelain bowl in his hand, and a golden carp was swimming in the bowl, completely unaware that he could no longer get out.

Zhong Heng, Shen Qi's subordinate, smiled helplessly: "You are still such a child."

Shen Qi brought the carp to the stone table, and stretched out his fingers to tease it, "Look at how interesting this little guy is? The fish in other people's homes are better than those in my garden..."

Again.

Zhong Heng had a headache, in Shen Qi's eyes, other people's things were good things.

He was helpless: "Don't say that, the one in your garden was caught from Taihu Lake..."

"Yo, it still dares to bite me!" Shen Qi retracted his finger and laughed for a while, "I thought I ate it today, so it has a good temper, so it's better to raise it."

He turned his head to talk to Zhong Heng, but out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure flashing past a distant window, which seemed familiar.

is her?

Shen Qi frowned, his thoughts became active, and he just handed the big bowl to Zhong Heng: "You keep the fish for me, I have to go beforehand."

Zhong Heng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, holding a big bowl of fish in his hand, and sighed fiercely.

Lord Shen...

(End of this chapter)