Chapter 15 Gao Shilian
Because of the late hour, when Shi Qingyi returned to Luoyang, it was completely dark, but it was good, because Luoyang was the most economically prosperous capital in the world, and the whole city was also busy at night, and the city gate generally did not need to be closed. The eldest grandson Wuji was waiting for her at the door, and when he saw Shi Qingyi coming back, he immediately pulled her into the door, and walked to the residence in the inner courtyard with Shi Qingyi, Shi Qingyi was a little strange, because although Shi Qingyi usually does not come back so late, but because of their own ability, Gao Shuyun and the eldest grandson Wuji have always been very at ease with themselves, and they can't wait to take themselves to the meeting today, which is very unusual. Shi Qingyi was about to ask, but the voice of the eldest grandson Wuji had already come, with a hint of anger on his face: "Why did you come back so late today, my mother asked me to wait for you since the afternoon, and now I have been waiting for you for a long time." Shi Qingyi sighed, and asked what happened, why did Mrs. Changsun want you to wait for me. The eldest grandson Wuji and the others had already left the inn gatehouse at this time and entered the courtyard, and the eldest grandson Wuji told Shi Qingyi the reason: Gao Shilian, that is, the uncle of the eldest grandson Wuji, finally arrived in the morning and is now with his mother. Shi Qingyi knew that this uncle had been running for so long, calculating the date, it was time to come back. The two came to Gao Shuyun's room, pushed the door and walked in.
In the room at this time, Gao Shilian was telling his sister about his experience all the way, because he learned the news that his sister left home, he went to Daxing City, planning to pick up his sister's family back, but he missed it on the way, and when he arrived in Daxing City, he quarreled fiercely with the eldest grandson Anye, and because of some things, he was delayed for a long time. Gao Shuyun knew that his brother must have received a lot of criticism this time, and it was all because of himself, so he was very unhappy, but Gao Shilian was very indifferent, for him, his sister was already his only relative in this world, no matter what he did for his sister, it should be. Instead, he comforted his sister and told her not to grieve.
When the eldest grandson Wuji pushed the door in with Shi Qingyi, Shi Qingyi saw this scene, this middle-aged man who was somewhat similar to Gao Shuyun was Gao Shilian. Shi Qingyi stepped forward and arched his hand: "I've seen Uncle Gao." And he said no more. Gao Shilian also knew from his sister that the girl who took care of them along the way, and when he saw him at this time, he was immediately surprised by the other party's youth, but after all, he had experienced a lot, so he immediately returned to normalcy, and immediately got up and saluted: "Thank you to the girl for your help along the way, Shilian is here to thank the girl on behalf of the little sister's family." Shi Qingyi hurriedly shook his hand and said: "Why do you say this, meeting is fate, not to mention that my wife and I are on the same road, raise your hand for treatment, don't worry." In this way, he excused himself, in fact, whether it was a gesture or not, the three people present all knew it in their hearts, but since Shi Qingyi refused together, Gao Shilian was not easy to mention. The topic turned to the eldest grandson Wurong.
Among the three people present, Shi Qingyi knows Rong'er's condition the best, and since Shi Qingyi came back from Rong'er, it became Shi Qingyi talking and Gao Shilian's brothers and sisters listening. Rong'er's condition is indeed slowly improving under the treatment of the void, but her body is too weak, and the speed is not reached, so it takes about a long time, and it should not be too tired, so it is the best choice to live in the temple for a long time, Gao Shilian brothers and sisters have no objection to this, and then, Shi Qingyi said that he recognized Rong'er as a sister, Gao Shuyun not only did not object, but agreed very happily, although Gao Shilian didn't understand what was going on, but since his sister agreed, Therefore, there was no objection either.
Gao Shilian's home is not in Luoyang City, but in a county town twenty miles away from Luoyang, Gao Shuyun wants to return to his brother's house to live, so he wants to take Shi Qingyi with him, but Shi Qingyi refused, although living in the Gao family is indeed more convenient than in the inn, but Shi Qingyi is not a member of the Gao family after all, so it is not suitable, on the contrary, although the inn has many inconvenient places, it can come and go freely, it is more convenient, seeing that Shi Qingyi is so resolute, Gao Shuyun can only dispel his mind and don't say anything. It was already late, and everyone discussed going to the Jingnian Monastery tomorrow to visit the eldest grandson Wurong, and then went back to their rooms to rest.
Early the next morning, everyone hired a carriage, early to the foot of the Jingnian Zen Temple, and the same as the last time, everyone along the mountain road to the mountainside, through the mountain gate, to the door of the Zen Temple, because it is not the day of the pilgrims to incense, the front of the courtyard seems to be very deserted, after Shi Qingyi knocked on the door, a small Shani opened the door for everyone to enter, and then under the leadership of Shi Qingyi, went straight to the courtyard where the eldest grandson Wurong was.
Seeing the uncle who had not seen her for many years, Rong'er was very happy, and soon coquettished her uncle, Gao Shilian looked at the lovely niece, and she was also very loving, so she spoke to Rong'er very gently, so that the eldest grandson Wuji joked that the uncle is also an eccentric eye that does not hurt the girl and does not hurt the boy, which makes people can't help but laugh, the sun is rising, and the empty is coming on time to treat Rong'er's condition. In order to prevent the medicine from being too violent, the body could not bear it, so it was very time-consuming and laborious, and it took an hour before he could recover his true qi and leave quietly, which made Gao Shilian feel sad when he saw it. It's just that he is only a small official in Luoyang now, and he has no ability to help his niece.
Gao Shilian said to the eldest grandson Wurong that she would take her mother and brother back to her home to live, and Rong'er naturally agreed, but after hearing Shi Qingyi's decision to stay in the inn, she pouted again. "Sister, I have something to tell you." She said to Shi Qingyi, "You should live with your mother in your uncle's house, so it's appropriate." Shi Qingyi smiled and shook his head: "How is it possible, I am not from the Gao family, if I live for a long time, it will definitely cause right and wrong, besides." Shi Qingyi said, "It's farther away from the Zen monastery, and if I live in an inn, it will be much more convenient to come and see you." Rong'er shook her head: "I'm fine now, my sister doesn't need to run so hard for me every day, but my mother, I hope my sister can take care of him on my behalf." My mother's health is not very good, and I am worried about her. Shi Qingyi understood the girl's mood, because during the time when Bi Xiuxin's body was weakening day by day, Shi Qingyi's heart was also sad like dripping blood, Shi Qingyi comforted the girl softly: "Don't worry, Madame, I will definitely take care of it carefully." The eldest grandson Wurong nodded and smiled at Shi Qingyi: "Because it's you, my sister, so I don't worry." She said, "Can my sister live in Gao's house for me?" "Why?" Shi Qingyi looked at the girl puzzled, why did she have to live in, the Gao family really had nothing to do with her except for the eldest grandson's wife, Gao Shuyun.
Rong'er's face showed a melancholy expression: "Because I can't go there now." She said, "We mother and daughter came together to join my uncle, but I almost died on the road, and although I am now fine, I still can't leave, and I want my sister to live in my uncle's house instead of me." Promise me, sister! She took Shi Qingyi's hand, with a sincere look of longing. Do you put the unattainable things on someone else? Shi Qingyi understood Rong'er's thoughts, "Okay! I promise you," Shi Qingyi said, "but what kind of identity do I have, I can't live in it for no reason, it's too unreasonable." Rong'er smiled slyly: "What else can it be, since you are my sister, of course you are also my mother's daughter, who can say anything!" Shi Qingyi looked at her sly smile, and suddenly felt that he had been deceived.
In this way, after noon, Xiao Shani sent a meal, and the five of them ate it together with the two maidservants, and after they were finished, the four of them said goodbye to Rong'er and went down the mountain, first to go back to the Yuelai Inn to pack their luggage, and then go to Gao Shilian's house outside Luoyang City. made an agreement with the eldest grandson Wurong to come to see her after settling down, and the four of them left the Zen monastery.
It's still the carriage hired when they came, and the four of them returned to the inn, because they were originally going to live temporarily, so there wasn't much to pack, Shi Qingyi was still a sword box and a burden, and the eldest grandson Wuji and Gao Shuyun only had two burdens, one big and one small, and the big ones were the daily necessities that Shi Qingyi bought for them along the way, so soon, the four of them got into the carriage again and walked in the direction of Gao Shilian's house, where Gao Shilian lived, was a small county town, so the carriage quickly deviated from the official road, Drove into a dirt road in the middle of nowhere. The carriage began to jolt violently. Yes, although the official road is also a dirt road, because of the large number of pedestrians, the road surface is already very solid, compared to this, this small road is much worse. The swaying feeling reminded Shi Qingyi of the electric three-wheeled road in the countryside, which is also a dirt road, and there is no shock absorbing device, and it is the same, the bumps are terrible. Shi Qingyi said in his heart: It's much faster than this broken carriage. You can suffer less time to sin. Twenty miles, the carriage traveled for two hours, and by the time Shi Qingyi and his party arrived at Gao Shilian's house, the sun had already set in the west. Shi Qingyi jumped out of the carriage first and observed the condition of Gao Shilian's home. Fortunately, although it is a little dilapidated, the place is big enough, and the house is relatively tidy. The eldest grandson Wuji helped Gao Shuyun get out of the car, and walked into the courtyard under the leadership of Gao Shilian, the servants who had been waiting for the luggage had already been unloaded from the carriage and moved away, and Mrs. Gao was already waiting in the courtyard, "This is Jing'er, my newly recognized daughter." Gao Shuyun pointed to Shi Qingyi and said to his sister-in-law, Shi Qingyi bowed obediently: "Jing'er to meet my aunt." Jing'er is the pseudonym that Shi Qingyi decided to use, because she got on the thief ship of the eldest grandson Wurong and confusedly recognized Gao Shuyun as her godmother, and simply followed the surname of the eldest grandson, and Jing, because Shi Qingyi was always reluctant to reveal her real name, so Gao Shuyun gave her the name, so after arriving at Gao Shilian's house, Shi Qingyi became the eldest grandson Jing, and will always use this pseudonym here.
The girl in front of her was just average, and Gao Shilian's wife only nodded her head, not seeing Gao Shuyun's own daughter, which made her feel very strange. "Little sister, where is Rong'er, why didn't I see her?" Mrs. Gao asked, Gao Shuyun sighed, and told her sister-in-law that the eldest grandson Wurong was seriously ill and had to recuperate in the temple, and Mrs. Gao was also very sad when she heard it.
The second elder of the Gao family has long passed away, and Gao Shilian's family has only one wife and one concubine, plus a few servants and maids, and at this time in a side room of the Gao family, a beautiful woman of about twenty-seven or eight is concentrating on gossip, divination, divination is a method of predicting bad luck that has been handed down from ancient times, the so-called Fuxi gossip, Shennong is a mountain, Xuanyuan pushes back to Tibet, King Wen plays Zhou Yi, although there is a far-fetched suspicion, but the art of divination is long, which can be seen, but with the gradual passage of time, Most of the divination techniques are lost, until now, Fuxi gossip has long been missing, even the mountain has been incomplete, or did not enter the Tao, or destroyed in the war, and at this time the woman is placed, is the legend by the ancient five emperors of the head of the Yellow Emperor created, has long been not visible in front of the people to return to the Tibet, at this time the divination has reached the most critical part, she held her breath, concentrated on the calculation of the last hexagram, and finally finished the divination. The young woman said in her heart, today's divination seems to be much more troublesome than usual? Picking up the thick "Book of Changes", the woman began to check and find it word by word, and today's divination results were very slow, and she said softly from the woman's mouth: "Kun carries all things, virtue is boundless, and the performance is smooth, and it is unspeakably expensive." The woman sat up from her seat in shock, and didn't even pay attention to Zhou Yi who fell to the ground from her hand, how could it be, the woman said in her heart: "How is it possible?" She stumbled out the door, knocking over many things along the way.
Shi Qingyi was observing the structure of the house, and saw a young woman walk in, the woman was dressed in light-colored clothes, there was an intellectual beauty, Mrs. Gao hurriedly introduced, it turned out that this woman was Gao Shilian's concubine, she liked to be quiet and did not like to move, she was good at divination, Shi Qingyi glanced at Zhang, but found that the other party was also looking at herself. When he met Shi Qingyi's gaze, he immediately turned his head away. Why did she look at herself, Shi Qingyi was puzzled, she had never met the other party, but the other party didn't seem to have malicious intent, and Shi Qingyi wouldn't deliberately pursue the answer, she should just be curious, right? Shi Qingyi thought to himself.
The status of the concubine is low, and it stands to reason that she would not dare to interrupt the conversation of the lady of the main room at will, but this woman not only did it, but Gao Shilian's wife did not mind, and there was no trace of resentment, it can be seen that Gao Shilian's family is really a family harmony, and living in such an environment, Gao Shilian must be very happy. Shi Qingyi thought. The concubine observed Gao Shuyun and the eldest grandson Wuji again, and left in a hurry before sitting for long, which made Shi Qingyi stunned. This is too disregarded etiquette, Mrs. Gao instead explained for the concubine, this concubine was proficient in divination before entering the Gao family, and she was not abandoned after entering the Gao family, and often divined in the house, and every time it came to divination, she always paid full attention to the hexagram, and basically ignored the outside world, so often like this, we are used to her like this. She came in to see you just now, it must have been shown in the hexagram, otherwise she wouldn't have come out! After listening to Mrs. Gao's words, Shi Qingyi understood why the woman stared at the three of them as soon as she entered the door, it turned out to be a soothsayer, Shi Qingyi thought to herself. Judging by her solemn appearance, it is very likely that she is the heir of authentic divination. It is also unknown. Speaking of which, divination was originally also a branch of the Demon Gate, but then the Demon Gate was infighting, and the weak Divination Sect simply became a dough in the game between the major forces, which was kneaded and pinched flat, and then the people of the Door fled to death, and gradually declined, and in the end, in addition to some classics, the Demon Gate did not even have a person who could really predict the bad luck, if this woman was the remaining divination people, it was a very interesting thing.
In fact, if you talk about divination, fortune-telling and other miscellaneous arts, the first person at that time was Yuan Tiangang of Taoism, but Yuan Tiangang's main job is to show people Feng Shui, fortune-telling and divination is a sideline, when the orthodox divination heirs meet the world's first part-time discipline, who wins and who loses, it's really hard to say.
After some time had been spoken, it was time for dinner, and the free servant set the meal on the table. Gao Shilian and his wife, Gao Shu mica mother and son, plus Shi Qingyi five people gathered in a circle, in order to entertain his sister and nephew, Gao Shilian deliberately killed a sheep and asked the cook to make a pot of mutton soup. The taste of the delicious mutton soup made Shi Qingyi's eyes shine, the chef of the Gao family really has two hands, although the seasoning is far less than modern, but the original deliciousness is also unique, it is already very remarkable, Gao Shuyun and Changsun Wuji, who have drunk the mutton soup, also praised the deliciousness of the mutton soup.
After dinner, Shi Qingyi asked to go to the place where he lived, the place Shi Qingyi chose was the backyard of Gao Shilian's house, although it was a little dilapidated, it was clean and natural, it was Shi Qingyi's favorite place, Gao Shuyun lived in the right side of the front yard, first, she also liked quiet, and secondly, in the front yard, it was also convenient to contact outsiders, and the eldest grandson Wuji lived in the house next to her. In this way, Shi Qingyi's life in Gao Shilian's house kicked off.
After settling Gao Shuyun and the three of them, Gao Shilian was also very sleepy, but he still had some things to deal with, so he didn't rest immediately, but came to the concubine's room, pushed open the door, and the beautiful woman who was off the line was still frowning and pondering, and was shocked when she heard the sound of the door opening, and couldn't help but shout: "Master." Gao Shilian waved his hand: "No need to be polite, I just want to ask, today, what did you calculate?" Gao Shilian said, "Over the years, you have married me, although divination is very frequent, but it is very rare to lose your temper like today, why is this, does this hexagram show something shocking?" The woman hesitated, but nodded, "The hexagram is a good luck, but it is very rare, so it is out of shape." As he spoke, he said the four sentences: "Kun carries all things, virtue is boundless, and it is unspeakably expensive to live in the middle of the performance." The concubine said: "Kun is a woman, this lord is a nobleman, and it is the elephant of the dragon and phoenix, so I will act recklessly, I hope the lord will not blame." Gao Shilian Qi said: "Really, who is that nobleman?" The concubine replied, "The maiden." "Huh?" "That girl," she said again, "although my level of appearance is only average, from the moment I saw her through the door, I knew that it was her, and that she could not be wrong." The affirmation of the concubine made Gao Shilian let go of the last trace of doubt in his heart, although he didn't particularly believe in these ethereal things, but his own concubine was also an indisputable fact, fortunately, there was no dangerous omen in the hexagram, which made Gao Shilian relieved his heart and decided to wait and see, "Is this so, then I understand, don't mention today's hexagram to others, as for Madame, I will talk to her in person." The concubine nodded knowingly, knowing that Gao Shilian didn't want her sister to know about it.