On April 2, the 23rd year of Sejong's reign, it was unusually hot, like cicadas chirping in the middle of summer. The scorching sun at noon sprinkled golden sunshine on the Yuzhuan River, and it went down the river with vigor, passing through the hunting grounds in the western suburbs of Kyoto in the Dayu Dynasty, and entering the Wangshan Mountain, which stretched for several miles.

Speaking of Wangshan, the most famous is the Tiemei Temple on the top of the mountain, which is located in the midst of lush plum forests, and there is a 9,999-step Buddha step leading to the temple gate.

At this time, there is a group of people with distinctive clothes on the Buddha steps are winding towards the mountain gate of Tiemei Temple, among which there is a sedan chair with eight lifts, the golden treasure top is bright and yellow, the ebony sedan chair body is carved with a heavy pattern, the eaves corner is a palm-sized bronze family crest, there is a "protection" word on the ancient seal body, and the back is a Lishu "Gu" word, at a glance, you can know that the sedan chair must be the protector of the head of the three princes of the Dayu Dynasty. From time to time, the dazzling vermilion curtain was slightly lifted by the wind, revealing a hint of coolness from the ice kettle placed inside, and a conversation between a boy and a boy could be faintly heard.

"I said, why didn't you open the head of the sixth child? Fat Eight must have learned it from him. ”

"Long-winded ......" people have long been far away.

The younger brother next to him, Gu Yi (fenfen), glanced at him with a golden face, red lips and white teeth, and sat upright.

"You can't do this well, wait for my brother to go back, teach you well, let you know, how to clean up people is called thorough!" The young man's voice is clear and lazy, ** years old, his face is like a crown jade, he is very handsome, it is the seven lang Gu Xi (hehe) of the Protector Mansion.

“……”

The voice faded away.

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The day before yesterday, the family study of the Protectorate Mansion can be described as a chicken flying and a dog jumping.

The family study was originally the first protector of the country, Gu Huaban, to enlighten the children of the Gu family, regardless of male and female, the people who came to the class were basically children aged three to ten, starting at seven o'clock every day and ending at eleven o'clock. But because there are almost no people in the side branch of the Gu family, the children who are currently studying are basically the children of the five-room family.

Among them, Gu Hui, the six-year-old Twelve Lang of the long house, only enrolled in school after the New Year this year, and the three elder brothers above have entered the palace school, and even began to contact the court and politics, which is the benefit of having an eldest princess. In the other rooms, there were several children in school together, and he seemed a little weaker.

He was originally a taciturn character, and he looked like he ignored the provocations and teasing of the little children on weekdays, and every day he slowly entered the room before class to set up the four treasures of the study, and left with Master Meng after class.

Approaching the memorial festival on April 4th, everyone knows that the masters of the long house must go to the Liufang Temple every year to worship, the eldest princess went back to the courtyard of Wangshan in advance, and the current protector Gu Yao and the three sons of the long house in the palace can only come back on the day of rest, so someone secretly poked and poked Gu Wenheng, the eighth man from the fourth room, and ordered a firewood, so that the famous meaty and brainless Gu Fatba happily recited the limerick after class:

"There is an Tiemei Temple in Wangshan, and Master Xuxu lives in the temple, raising a blind county lord who loves to eat if he can't speak......"

A room full of brothers and sisters either covered their mouths and snickered, or their eyes flew wildly, or they were proud, or they didn't care about it, and they all waited together to see how the clumsy Gu Twelve would refute it.

Gu Yi, who had already stepped out of the door, heard it, turned his head suddenly, walked back to Wen Heng slowly, stared at his oily face and smirked secretly, and without saying a word, he picked up the inkstone at hand and covered it, even his teeth were black in an instant, and blood stains were faintly visible on the door of his brain. Well, it's out of phase.

Gu Twelve, who had already begun to practice martial arts, said that he was very satisfied with his hand strength.

Onlookers on the side: =mouth=.

It wasn't until Gu Pang cried for eight days that everyone reacted, and hurriedly sent someone to tell the elders, call someone to fetch water and change clothes, and go to the doctor. During this time, the servants ran and knocked over countless tables and chairs, and the fat eight who sprinkled the corpse and threw the ink destroyed countless beloved clothes of the sisters, and there was a period of chaos.

After crushing the fat eight, Gu Twelve waved his sleeves, and directly took Shi Shiran, the little servant next to him, to leave the classroom and go straight to the carriage room of the long house, put on the car and went to the other courtyard to find his mother and relatives to "bear the guilt".

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The apse of Tiemei Temple goes out of the corner gate, a whole piece of bamboo sea covers the sky and the sun, the coolness comes to the face, refreshing and pleasant, in the meantime, a curved stone step leads to the towering mountain villa of the eaves and arches at the foot of the mountain.

An old monk with a snow beard and a fine cotton monk's robe was walking down the stairs with a brocade girl in his arms. If the pilgrims in the front hall see this scene like the grandfather next door taking his granddaughter to the street, they must not dare to believe that this person is the famous master of the apricot forest and the literary world, and the common name "Xiao Lu" before becoming a monk.

Master Xiao asked, "From here?" ”

The girl is Gu Ci, less than three years old, with two small mustaches on her hair, wrapped in a primrose-colored rope, strung with soybean-sized pearls, and the soft light reflects her pink and white apple face, showing that the dimples on her cheeks are more transparent, the upper body is embroidered with a goose-yellow brocade placket with a vine pattern, the lower body is an autumn-colored moire silk silk skirt, a pair of delicate and small ivory embroidered shoes that are not as big as a palm, and the two southern pearls on the tips of the shoes are dazzling as they walk. The eyebrows are picturesque but the color is very light, and under the long, curled and thick eyelashes, a pair of smiling big eyes seem to be covered by pearlescent light, with a faint blue, and it is clear at a glance that it is suffering from eye disease.

"Good!" Her voice was immature but slightly hoarse, out of place with her pink carved appearance.

Xiao Lu let her go to the ground as she said, waited for her to stand firm with the corner of the monk's robe with her left hand, bent down and picked up a bamboo branch of suitable length on the side of the road, wrapped one end with a handkerchief, and sent it to the girl's right hand, saying, "Take your time." ”

Gu Ci held the bamboo branch to test the way forward, and walked down the steps with full concentration. The action is familiar, and there is no hesitation on his face, which is obviously used to this.

At the end of the stone steps, there stood a beautiful young woman dressed in gorgeous clothes, staring at her with a smile on her lips. A little farther away stood a few maids.

In front of the woman, Gu Ci handed the bamboo branch to the maid next to him, and gave his mother a blessing gift not very skillfully, and then opened his hands to ask for a fragrant kiss and a touch. She touched the face of the beautiful mother, and she looked exactly the same as the mother in her previous life when she was young, so loving.

Yuyi made a family salute to Xiao Lu, who called "master", turned around and picked up her chubby daughter with a little difficulty, rubbed her little nose affectionately and said, "You and your brothers are here." ”

Then the group walked into the villa.

At this time, Gu Yao and his eldest son and second son had already rushed from the city to the other courtyard, and they were in the main hall with Gu Yi and Gu Yi, who had just entered the door. The servant women outside the hall saw the eldest princess and Master Xiao coming, and welcomed a few people in with a smile.

The hall is quite bright, there is an imposing man sitting on the left head, dressed in a dark robe, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, with an awe-inspiring expression, there is a killing atmosphere, but the two young men under the head are exactly the same face, it is Gu Ci's thirteen-year-old twin brother Erlang Gu Ao, Sanlang Gu Chong, with a smile on his face.

As soon as the three of them came in, Gu Yao took his four sons to get up and salute Xiao Lu, and when the sons and his beloved daughter also finished saluting each other, Gu Yao skillfully picked up his little daughter and kissed him lovingly, completely ignoring the affection of the four sons behind him looking at his sister.

Everyone sat down to greet for a while, and the maids brought up several bowls of "fruit yogurt", the milky white yogurt seemed to be still bubbling with a trace of coolness, mixed with red watermelon pulp, and a thin layer of cherry sauce on top, which made people feel relished when they looked at it.

Gu Yao, who was sitting precariously, picked up a lamp with a smile on his face, and watched his little daughter work hard one bite after another with a smile on his face, and ate with relish. Such a cup of yogurt, even a little lady with a smaller appetite can't eat it, Gu Yao was also startled by the good appetite of her beloved daughter, and later saw that she began to crawl every day when she opened her eyes, and when her eyes were better, she didn't like to let her be hugged, and she would stop playing until she was sweating profusely, so she went with her, and children would be healthy if they were more active.

Yogurt is the first finished product of Gu Cisu, she loves to eat dairy products, this will already have pure yogurt, most people don't love this sour, she loves to wander around the kitchen as soon as she can see, and when she found it, she asked the cook to add honey and diced fruit to mix it up and eat, so that other people in the family also fell in love.

It's so happy to eat a bowl of yogurt on a hot day.

After eating and resting for a while, he heard the servant woman come to report that the time had come. Everyone went out to board the car and get on the horse, and set up the guard of honor to go to the Liufang Temple across a hill from the Tiemei Temple.

Since Taizong's death, Xiao Lu and Yuyi, as well as the Gu family's room, have gone to worship the Liufang Temple every year. Because of his poor health before, this was the first time Gu Ci had left the gate of the courtyard.

For this ancestor worship, Gu Ci asked the master to give her a good science popularization in advance.

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Liufang Temple, as the name suggests, is the place where the famous ministers and famous generals set up the monument, and was built in the first year of Taizong. The "Monument of the Virtuous Ministers and Gods" in the ancestral hall and the monuments in the other two places are called the "Three Monuments of the Founding of the People's Republic of China".

The Dayu Dynasty was founded more than 50 years ago, and the first emperor was Taizong. At that time, the previous dynasty had suffered major natural disasters for many years, and the domestic uprising was igniting a spark, and the Qianyi in the north and the Xiongnu in the west took advantage of the weakness. And Taizong Yuan Bei was in Shangjing at that time in the Yandu at that time, facing the army of Beiyi, although he was a civilian official, but the rare military skills were full, and he beheaded the general of the Zhenbei Army who wanted to flee without a fight, and he led the troops while soothing the people, and stubbornly withstood the attack of Beiyi. When it came to the cold winter wax moon, the Beiyi people were unable to continue and retreated to their hometown, and Taizong happily asked for a request to withdraw to support the war on the Western Front.

At that time, the general of the Jingxi Army was the head of the Wang family, one of the four century-old families, but unfortunately he only loved poetry and literature and did not love martial arts, and before he saw a Xiongnu horse, he abandoned the city with his clansmen and subordinate soldiers who depended on him, and lost several cities in one day on the border. He ran all the way back to Liujin City, where his ancestral house was located, and wrote a lot of good words and famous sentences on the way, and he also published a book of "Nanpiao Zero Episode" when he was comfortable. And the victorious Xiongnu have approached Changjing, the capital of the previous dynasty.

Fighting on two fronts and the national strength was empty, unable to provide disaster relief and tired of resisting the enemy, seeing that half of the country was about to disappear, the last emperor of the previous dynasty degraded the people of the clan to commoners with a piece of paper, and burned himself and the entire prince and grandson in the palace to death, the whole city was in chaos, so that the civil and military officials were caught off guard, and everyone was panicked.

At this time, no one paid attention to Taizong's invitation to war, so Taizong unveiled the rod and established himself as the king, and arranged Gu Huazhen, the deputy general at that time and the grandfather of Gu Yao, who is now the protector of the country, to guard the North Pass, and led the three armies to the Western Front.

The royal family of Changjing is useless, but there are also Taizong's old acquaintances, Zaifu Xie Xiang, and General Xiao Zan Xiao, who rushed to Changjing from the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate. Xie Xiao and the others are the heads of the Xie family and the Xiao family, the heads of the four major families, and the two families have been married for generations and are inseparable. Under their joint efforts, they led the army and people of Changjing to fight a battle to defend the city for nearly three months, and when the city was broken, it still carried out ten days of arduous street fighting, until the whole city was slaughtered. Fortunately, before the Xiongnu could gain a firm foothold, Taizong arrived in time, and Changjing was recovered.

Long before Changjing was besieged, Xie Xiang sent away several of the youngest children of Xiao Xie's two families, Xiao Qing, the thirteen-year-old daughter of the Xiao family, did not let the eyebrows, led the elite guards, and took the six-year-old brother Xiao Xuan, and Xie Xiang's nearly fifty-year-old son, the five-year-old Jiulang Xie Chi, was able to save his life in Fengling City under the rule of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and their uncles and brothers were all killed in the "Hun Yi Difficulty".

After Taizong recovered Changjing, he had to continue to beat the Xiongnu out. Taizong sent Xiao Zan to Liujin City and Fubo City, which are important cities in the south, to recruit soldiers and food to quell the popular rebellion. As a deserter, the Wang family refused to give money and food without a single eye, and even teamed up with the Fang family, who lived at the end of the four great families, to raise prices, almost forcing more poor people to rebel. Fortunately, Xiao Zan suppressed the two Wang Fang with an iron fist, and united other local officials and gentry to open sea trade, so as to stabilize the situation in the south.

A year later, the Xiongnu retreated, Taizong ascended the throne as the king, the first thing was to issue an order to punish the nine clans of the Wang family, and set up a "shrinking turtle tablet" in the Jingxi Protectorate, and wrote the accumulated crimes of the Wang family when the country was in trouble, and escorted the head of the Wang family to behead in front of the monument, in order to comfort the soldiers and civilians in the west who died. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Fang family immediately offered all their family wealth bitterly and begged for mercy. Taizong, who was in a good mood, exempted the Fang family from the death penalty, but he was still angry and set up a "Monument of Apology" in Xiangyuan City, where the Fang family's ancestral house was located, which showed that the Fang family's behavior of making the country difficult to make money and the great kindness of the new emperor's forgiveness made the Fang family's reputation plummet.

The Wang family and the Fang family were completely ruined,

And in this "Hun Yi Difficulty" in the Xie family and Xiao family, countless outstanding children were killed and injured, and today people can only get a glimpse of their heroic Fengyi in the stele forest in the Liufang Temple.

Among the few surviving, Xiao Qing married into the royal family; Xiao Xuan married the widow daughter of a deputy general under Xiao Zan and had an only son, Xiao Lu; Xie Chi had no children, and married the daughter of the then General Pingnan, the current Weiguo family, and had only two twin daughters, Xie Yu and Xie Yun. Xie Yu married Xiao Lu as his wife, and died in childbirth when he gave birth to his daughter Xiao Tong, Xiao Lu was unwilling to marry again, and raised his daughter alone. Xie Yun married Gu Pu, the old protector of the country, and only had one son, Gu Yao, who died at the age of seven due to postpartum disorder.

Xiao Zhan, Xiao Xuan and Xie Chi died in the year when Gaozong Yuan Qi ascended the throne, and then Xiao Xie's two descendants withered, and the side branches were not visible. Even if Xiao Lu is still alive now, it can't stop the decline of the two families.

The four great families are no longer in their former glory.

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As soon as he met Liufang Ancestral Hall, Gu Ci was shocked.

The ancestral pavilion sits in the west and faces the east, backs the mountain and faces the water, and is the top of the mountain for the second entrance. The whole building is large-scale, imposing, and the towering eaves and arches are not much different from the Confucian temples she had seen in her previous life.

The front line creek is one zhang wide and shaped. And then there is the Lingxing Gate of four pillars and three gates, embedded with glazed wall tiles. After the middle of a passage, the road left and right respectively built two stele pavilions, each set up a stele in it, the left pavilion is "the record of the virtuous minister", the right pavilion is the "God will record", the stone is engraved. There is a side door behind the pavilion, inside is the biographical stele forest of Wenchen and military generals, under the shade of pines and cypresses, rows of white marble steles stand solemnly.

Straight into is the instrument door, hanging the "Liufang Temple" plaque, through the instrument door is a wide patio, in the patio a corridor leads directly to the terrace. Climb the terrace to enter the second "good hall", enjoy the hall hanging "eternal Liufang" huge plaque, the three walls are painted, the left and right are all "the three armies break the formation map", and the middle is the "marching banquet map".

Passing through the hall is the dormitory, where the shrine is enshrined, and there are three three-bay rooms in parallel, plus two end rooms, a total of eleven rooms. Ten eaves pillars adopt the square stone pillar that is cut into the corner, and a horizontal plaque is hanging under the eaves "born as a masterpiece, and death is also a ghost male", and the left and right couplets "still leave the righteous spirit to reach the world, and Yongbingdan will follow the ancient and modern".

The couplets and plaques in the entire shrine are inscribed by Taizong, handwritten, and the murals are painted by her great-grandfather Xiao Xuan.

In the dormitory, there are 159 tablets of capable ministers and good generals who have been famous since the previous dynasty, and more than half of them are either surnamed Xie or surnamed Xiao.

Stairs at both ends of the dormitory lead to the attic on the second floor. The pavilion is used to treasure the edicts, edicts and other graceful decrees related to the Liufang Temple, as well as two copies of the spectrum - the Xie family and the Xiao family of the four major families that have lasted for hundreds of years.

The servants and guards stopped in the courtyard, and Xiao Lu, Yuyi, and Gu Yao entered the dormitory with their five children, men on the left and women on the right, and worshiped according to the priest's chanting. At the end of the ceremony, the three elders toasted the wine, and the juniors bowed with incense.

took the three-pillar incense handed over by his mother, and respectfully kowtowed to the ancestors and ancestors with his three-inch small body lying on the futon. She could barely read the words on the tablet, but found that she didn't recognize most of them......

After the worship, Gu Yao picked up Gu Ci again and told her lovingly that she could take her home on the next day off, so that she could learn the rules with Mama Hu in the past few days, because this would be the first official appearance of Gu Ci in the Huguo Mansion since she was born, and it was also to announce to everyone that she had recovered from her illness and was "blind and dumb".

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Yes, the newborn Gu Xiaomei paper is the legendary "blind and dumb", but it is not born with a disability, it is said that it is caused by eating the milk of the poisoned nurse, which can still be cured. So after weaning, I began to drink medicine, acupuncture and moxibustion every day, rain or shine, cold and summer.

At the beginning, as a soft baby with a stomach on his stomach, Gu Ci naturally knew that it was normal for him to be unable to speak or see in his eyes, and he was asleep all day long, and he had no concept of time. It wasn't until I was awake that I was more awake, I was hungry and wanted to scream but was silent, and I felt that the sun was shining in front of me, but my eyes were gray, and I realized that something was wrong with me.

I can't look at it or ask about it, but she didn't accidentally choose Hard mode when she entered...... Gu Zhi is full of cows.

There is not much that a soft baby can do, and the disease is already being cured, so Gu Ci wants to lay a good foundation for his body. So every day from the beginning of opening her eyes, she didn't stop much, she didn't climb if she could, she didn't lie down if she could, she sweated as long as she had the opportunity, anyway, she could feel that there was a group of maids waiting around her at any time, and she wouldn't be hurt. At the same time, the amount of food has also increased greatly, and she will never let go of what she can eat, even if she drinks bitter Chinese medicine, she has not ruined her appetite. From the fact that her mother loved her more and more to hold her and touch her kisses, she knew that she must be a fat ball with a round and jade flesh.

And the reason why she was so alive after being poisoned was thanks to the wonderful rejuvenation of the fairy master. The kind and loving master would diagnose her pulse, prescribe prescriptions, apply acupuncture to her eyes, teach her to speak, read things, and recite scriptures.

Now at the age of three, her voice is gradually open, her eyes have evolved into black and white ink paintings, plus the effect of soft light and filters, as long as she is not in the dark room, she is completely different from a normal child.

What's more, I have seen much more than ordinary children. Gu Ci cheered himself up, and he must do a strategy seriously in the few days before opening a new dungeon.