In the autumn of the eighteenth year of Zhengkang, although the Great Zhou and the Western Jin Dynasty had ceased fighting and sent the prince to the Western Jin Dynasty as a hostage, the relationship between the two countries was still in a state of stalemate. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In order to exert pressure on the Western Jin Dynasty, Emperor Zhou closed the major treaty ports along the route from the Great Zhou Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty at the end of the seventeenth year of Zhengkang, blocking the trade between the Zhou and Jin Dynasties, and forcing many merchant ships transported by water to run ashore, resulting in a large number of stranded goods, which had a serious impact on the trade circulation in various places.

This year, in order to prevent the Gu family, which had frequent business and trade contacts, from being hit hard, Gu Hanqing, who was only ten years old, formed a caravan with his father Gu Xun and his party and embarked on the road of dredging trade together. On the way back, because of the external storm, he hid in Qiyang, the capital of the Western Jin Dynasty, in the name of a trade envoy.

It was in this year that because of this unexpected journey, he accidentally met Gao Heng, who was sent to the Western Jin Dynasty at that time.

It was a calm and clear afternoon after the storm, and the sky was so blue that it looked like it had been bleached in chlorine water.

In the most lively street market in Qiyang City, Gu Hanqing, who had sneaked out of the post station, wandered around the market alone.

Although the Qiyang City in front of him is not as prosperous and prosperous as the imperial capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it is also full of vitality everywhere he looks, which is enough to glimpse the prosperity of the Western Jin Dynasty.

Gu Hanqing walked aimlessly through the crowd for a while, curiously searching for new things around him, when suddenly, a stall selling silk caught his eye.

Because the silk sold in this stall is not ordinary silk fabrics, but the unique red scene silk of the Great Zhou.

This kind of silk and satin texture is fine and even, the color is brilliant like clouds, the layers are distinct, the patterns are complex, for the small country where the silk weaving process on the border of the Great Zhou Dynasty has not yet been perfected, it is the thing of the royal court, and it is regarded as a treasure in the silk weaving.

Of course, the ubiquity of red articosite silk in the Great Zhou is not enough to arouse Gu Hanqing's interest, just because it is now an extraordinary period of trade between the two countries, but there are still red articos silk being sold to the Western Jin Dynasty, which makes him a little curious about it.

At the same time, he also noticed that a young man who was a little older than him had been standing in front of the stall for a long time, and seemed to be as interested in these red rosewoods as he was.

However, when Gu Hanqing walked a few steps closer and stood beside the young man, he saw that although he had a handsome appearance, his face was full of arrogance and arrogance. He stared at the silk in front of him in a daze, showing no interest at all.

However, Gu Hanqing could faintly see that there was a sadness between his eyebrows that was not commensurate with his age, both light and heavy, as if there were too many sad emotions that could not be expressed, so he could only suppress them secretly.

In addition, in his hand, he carefully held an urn-shaped copper pot, but because of the lid on it, he could not see what was inside.

The young man seemed to feel the strange gaze coming from beside him, and glanced at Gu Hanqing slightly, the sadness between his eyebrows instantly faded, and the cold light in his deep eyes was replaced by a trace of hostility.

Gu Hanqing was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly squeezed out a smile at him in embarrassment, but saw that he turned his head indifferently, and he didn't care about himself at all.

"I said you kid, can you buy it after watching it for so long?"

When the silk stall owner saw that the young man had stood for a long time without speaking or leaving, his face showed some impatience.

"This is a tribute from the Zhou Kingdom, I don't think you can afford it for a child, so let's go." ”

He glanced at the young man with disdain, waved his hand as if he was away, and turned his gaze to Gu Hanqing's body.

"Yo, it's really strange today, why are you here to patronize all the children?"

The stall owner muttered to himself, and wanted to send Gu Hanqing away together, but seeing that he was well-dressed and interested in the red scene silk in front of him, he put on a good face at him.

Even though he was despised by the stall owner, the young man remained silent. He slowly raised his eyes to look at the crowded street market in front of him, and was about to leave when he saw three children running past him in groups, and suddenly crashed into the boy. The young man was caught off guard, and the whole person fell on the silk stall, and the copper pot in his hand overturned together, and a transparent oily liquid quickly poured out of the jar, and soon spread on the brightly colored red silk.

"Are you alright?"

Seeing this, Gu Hanqing hurriedly stepped forward to help, but was thrown away by the young man.

"Hahaha, it's really useless, you just hit it like this and lay down, you're too weak to help the wind, right?"

A commotion of schadenfreude sounded from behind him, Gu Hanqing followed the sound and turned his head, only to see that it were three children of his own age, and a richly dressed boy in the middle was watching the show with his hands on his hips, his eyes full of disdain.

"My silk! This is the best red silk!"

The stall owner screamed with a bitter face, grabbed the young man's hand and shouted: "You kid, I asked you to leave early, you didn't listen, look at the good things you did, this is the red silk I finally got from the hands of the Zhou people, and now it is soaked in your lamp oil, where can I still sell it?" You have to pay me!"

Gu Hanqing looked at the stall owner's fierce look, and then glanced at the arrogant children behind him, he couldn't help but feel a little angry in his heart, and stood up for the young man and said: "Uncle, if it wasn't for those children who bumped into him just now, he wouldn't have spilled the lamp oil, how can you blame him all?"

"Who are you? How do you speak? Do you know who our son-in-law is?"

Seeing Gu Hanqing standing up to speak for the boy, the two children beside the boy looked at him carefully, stepped forward and threatened: "Say it, be careful to scare your dog's guts." ”

Although Gu Hanqing is still young, he was born to be a person who is not afraid of power, coupled with the unique sense of justice in the child's heart, even if he knows that he should not meddle in other countries and cause trouble, he can also see that the boy in front of him is a noble person, but he is still not afraid to say: "No matter who you are, today's incident is originally your fault, I can see it clearly here, and everyone has seen it." ”

The young man obviously didn't expect Gu Hanqing to help, he slowly straightened up from the silk stall, wiped the lamp oil stained on his forehead with his hand, and glanced at Gu Hanqing with a little gratitude.

But as this gratitude was fleeting, he turned to look at the boy, and the frosty eyes burst into flames, and a fiery hatred erupted at the sight of the boy's lips.

"What do you see, lose money quickly!"

He deliberately raised his voice to increase his momentum, and pulled the corners of his mouth disdainfully, his eyes full of disdainful sarcasm.

"Also, a nameless prince who is regarded by the emperor of the Zhou State as a mustard, where can he afford to pay for this excellent red silk? But with your status, you must not be able to afford it when you were in the Zhou Kingdom, right?"