The nurse took her hand all the way into the house, and there was a young man sitting in the house, eighteen or nineteen years old, with a Chinese face, looking a little honest.

Xu introduced, "This is my nephew, named Xu Ming, I just found here a few days ago, and it happened that the young lady came home, and I asked you to come and take a look." He said and said, "Xu Ming, I haven't come here to see Miss yet." ”

Xu Ming hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, smiling and revealing a mouthful of teeth, "I've seen Miss." ”

Guo Wenying looked at Xu Ming, looking like a real child, and he was also very polite, although he came out of a small family, he was not timid.

Xu said: "This child is also a pitiful, my brother went when he was ten years old, and it is not easy to leave a pair of orphans and widows." Later, I learned some trades outside, so I came to Beijing to try my luck, so I didn't want to find a job to do. But where do I know anyone?"

Guo Wenying knew that this was the nurse begging her to help take care of it, and it was just a trivial matter, so she asked Xu Mingdao: "What will you do?"

Xu Ming knew that she was a noble person in the palace, so he replied respectfully: "Miss Yu, I can do carpentry work, and I have also been a blacksmith for a few years, although the iron is not good, I can still get by." ”

Guo Wenying nodded, but there is a craft, she has a lot of shops in Beijing, her mother has married some, Feng Jingting also gave her a lot, and now she has more than 20 shops in Kyoto alone. But I haven't had time to take care of it, and I don't know the specific situation, but I'm blind to a bunch of good deals.

The big shopkeeper who married with her mother back then was named Qu Bai, who had been following Fu Ying all these years, and she had never seen this person, and she didn't know if she could rely on it. After thinking about it, he simply asked Xu Ming to follow Qu Bai, and by the way, he also helped her see how this person was.

Xu Ming is very grateful, he is new to the capital, it is not easy to find an errand, if he is not desperate, he will not ask his aunt here.

After a while, the banquet was prepared, Guo Wenying asked Master Geng Yunkui to come over, and the family sat around to eat.

The reason why Guo Wenying likes the house on Sweet Water Street is mainly because it feels like home here, although these people are not related to each other, they are affectionate, the family sits together, there is no distinction between the old and the young, talking and laughing together, unrestrained.

After raising him for all these years, Geng Yunkui has obviously gained a lot of weight, and there is more smile on his face, although he does not sit at the table, he intersperses a few jokes from time to time, which makes everyone laugh.

Guo Wenying saw that the master was in a better mood than before, and felt happy, it seemed that since he moved away from Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing, the smile on the teacher's face had more.

After eating, the nurse went down to clean up with red incense and green jade, and Guo Wenying sat with the master to drink tea.

Geng Yunkui suddenly said: "Wen Ying, is it that the imperial court is about to hold a hundred crafts competition?"

Guo Wenying said: "It should be, it's about October, but the specific date of this year has not been decided." ”

Geng Yunkui's hands couldn't help clenching, and he looked at her eagerly, "Wen Ying, you promised Master that you would definitely participate." ”

Guo Wenying sighed lightly, "Master, my identity is really inconvenient now, and I dare not guarantee whether I can participate." ”

Geng Yunkui hung his head, obviously looking a lot lonely, he originally thought that Guo Wenying was a man, so he put all his hopes on her, since he knew that she was a woman, he was like a bird whose wings were suddenly broken, and he felt that there was no possibility of flying.

He cried out, "Is there nothing you can do?"

Guo Wenying sighed, it's not that there is no way, it's just that in this way, she can't participate in her original capacity, there are too many people staring at her recently, and it will always be a trouble once she finds out. But looking at the master's extremely disappointed expression, she really couldn't bear it, Deng Jiucheng just served as the right waiter of the Ministry of Industry, maybe he can have a way, after all, this hundred workers competition was organized by the Ministry of Industry.

She said, "Master, don't worry, I'll do my best." ”

Geng Yunkui couldn't help but grab Guo Wenying's hand, "Wenying, Master's only wish over the years is to defeat the enemy, you must help the teacher, otherwise even if the teacher dies, he will not be blind." ”

Guo Wenying was aroused, "Master always says that there is an enemy, who is the enemy, and what happened back then?"

The secret that has been hidden in my heart for many years will always have a moment when it is revealed, Geng Yunkui quietly looked out the window, and said in a leisurely voice: "I was still young at that time, but I was twenty-three or four years old, and my master was a famous master in the world, and he thought that his skills were invincible in the world, and he could be called the second in the world in addition to his master." I debuted at the age of 17 and participated in two consecutive 100 crafts competitions, both of which won the first place. It was also in that year that I met the woman I loved most in my life. As he spoke, his thoughts drifted away, as if the smiling and delicate woman appeared in front of him.

He said leisurely: "Her name is Yue'er, Li Yue'er, she is the daughter of Master's fellow disciple, she is so quiet and beautiful, I fell in love at first sight." Later, we fell in love, and kissed passionately under a cluster of peony flowers in Yangshan, and I wanted to ask my uncle for a kiss, so I specially invited the master and the elders of the clan to go to Qianjimen in Yangshan together. ”

Guo Wenying asked, "Is your uncle Li Futong, the head of Qianjimen?"

"Exactly. ”

Guo Wenying has also heard of Qianjimen, there are many people from Qianjimen in the Jingzhong Supervision Division, and the current director of the Supervision Department came out of Qianjimen. Feng Jingting seemed to have said it once, I heard that her ancestor was also from Qianjimen, so she looked at her differently, Qianjimen's mechanism is known as the first in the world, and she often creates various utensils for the imperial court, but she can't remember what it is called.

Geng Yunkui told her at the beginning that although he apprenticed to the most famous "Qianji Old Man" in Tianjimen, he did not enter Qianjimen, and she was not a member of Qianjimen.

Geng Yunkui said again: "But Uncle Shi didn't agree, only said that he would promise Yue'er to the leader of the next 100 Workers Competition." I've won the top prize twice, and I'm so confident in that I'm sure I'll win it. However, I later learned that Uncle Shi was willing to marry Yue'er to his apprentice Bai Yusheng. ”

"Ke Yue'er doesn't like Bai Yusheng, saying that her senior brother has a smooth temperament and is good at drilling, so he is not a good match. But his uncle Li Futong was deceived by Bai Yusheng, thinking that he was a good match for his daughter, and he wholeheartedly wanted to match the two of them despite his daughter's opposition. It's just because of the face of the senior brother that I have to mention the condition of marrying the next leader. He claimed that whoever won the crown would marry his own daughter. ”

"In order to marry Yue'er, I practiced behind closed doors every day, intensified my practice, and almost reached the point of forgetting to sleep and eat. Every other month, I will meet Yue'er, and we will make an appointment on Yangshan, although it is only an hour, it is the happiest time of my month. If more than a year has passed, there are still three months before the next Baigong Competition, and at that time, Yue'er suddenly came to me and told me that I had forgotten her. ”