"The two sons, Master Qin has already said yesterday that he has stayed away from the world, and he has avoided personnel, if the two of you rush to disturb, I am afraid of disobeying the master's original intention." Chen Zimin said thoughtfully.

"Huang Gongzi and I also know this, we are here to see Master Qin." Gu Siyuan's eyes were resolute, and there was an imperative that he had to see Master Qin, "What's more, it's not that we have disturbed Master Qin for no reason, but we must discuss matters related to Master Qin." ”

Huang Gongzi was silent, and nodded when he heard Gu Siyuan say this.

Chen Xuejiao was holding a silver ingot in her hand, listening to the language of several men like playing dumb riddles, her heart was surging, and she didn't know what kind of character Master Qin was. In her hazy memory, it seemed that she had seen Master Qin two years ago, an old man with a beard and white fairy bones.

"Dad, Master Qin refused yesterday, it doesn't mean that he will refuse today." Chen Qi'an stood beside Chen Xiucai, looked at the two sons, thought for a while, and said: "Huang Gongzi and Gu Gongzi came from afar from Beijing, there must be something important that others are not convenient to know, Dad, I am afraid that you can't say the reason why you should see Master Qin when you introduce you, it is better to let the two sons follow their father and directly enter the "Confused House", and at that time Master Qin will refuse to say something else. ”

"I agree with my brother." Chen Xuejiao couldn't help but interject. Master Qin's residence is also strange, called "Confused Residence", but anyone who dares to call this kind of name is a person who must be sober and understand things.

I saw Gu Siyuan looking at Chen Xuejiao, grinning, that smile was sunny, which made Chen Xuejiao's heart tremble, the ancient noble son was so good-looking.

No matter how much Chen Zimin respects Master Qin, the two sons have already made up their minds that they must see Master Qin today, even if they break into the "Confused House", they must meet him.

The group walked towards the private school at the head of the village, and Chen Xuejiao also followed, she wanted to see Master Qin's deity. On autumn mornings, the wind is cool, and the sun shines on the crops. Chen Xuejiao touched the silver in her pocket, and it was estimated that she could exchange a lot of silver taels. In the whole Maoshan Village, the land is divided into three parts, one part belongs to the squire Dingfu, one part belongs to Sun Juren, and one part belongs to the villagers. Most of the villagers have tenants of the Ding family and the Sun family's land planting, bring their own seeds to cultivate cattle, harvest two crops a year and pay two seasons of rent, and some villagers have their own land and are self-sufficient. Chen Xuejiao didn't know too well whether the Chen family was her own land or tenant's land.

Chen Xuejiao planned to buy land with the money from selling crabs and the silver given by Gu Siyuan. In this era, the land was privately owned, and she had to rely on hard work to sell the land, even if the war came, the land was still the land, as long as the land was there, it could bring food and clothing. Little by little, he added money, bought land little by little, became a landowner as big as the sea, and then lived on his own land, with his own sun on his head, his feet on his own land, eating his own grain, and collecting his own rent. What a wonderful thing to think about.

Chen Xue thought about it beautifully, the more she thought about it, the happier she became, and her desire for the land made her eyes shine brightly. Gu Siyuan turned his head to meet Chen Xuejiao's eyes, Chen Xuejiao imagined Gu Siyuan's handsome face as white silver, and couldn't help but smile at him, making Gu Siyuan's second monk puzzled.

Crossing the dirt road of the village, crossing the river and bridge at the entrance of the village, and walking to the private school under the cover of green bamboo, bypassing the private school, a row of green tiles and blue bricks of the courtyard is Master Qin's confused residence. Clumps of green bamboos swayed in the wind, morning glories were entwined around the fence, and purple flowers bloomed spontaneously.

Chen Daxiu knocked lightly on the door, but the door was not locked, and he pushed it open and entered. The rest waited outside.

"My father is a student of Master Qin, and Master Qin has a strange temperament, so I usually only see my father...... I don't see each other every day, but once in a while. Master Qin sometimes goes out, I don't know if it's a friend or a tour, the two sons come more coincidentally, if you come half a month early, I'm afraid I don't even have a chance to see Master Qin, the first half of the month Master Qin traveled, just came back for three days. Chen Qi'an said to Gu Siyuan and Huang Gongzi.

Gu Siyuan nodded, and glanced at Huang Gongzi, they had a good impression of this peasant boy who was neither humble nor arrogant and had a calm appearance: "Brother Qi An, it's too polite, just call me Siyuan, as for Huang Gongzi, you can call him Huang Sanlang." ”

Huang Saburo? Huang Gongzi rolled his eyes at Gu Siyuan.

"I'm third in the house." Although he muttered in his heart that Gu Siyuan took the opportunity to harm him, Huang Gongzi still nodded at Chen Qi'an, implying that he could call himself Huang Sanlang.

After a while, Chen Zimin came out. He looked up at the sun in the sky, shook his head at Gu Siyuan and Huang Sanlang, and sighed: "It's still those words from yesterday, Master Qin has been far away from Jingshi, and he doesn't want to see anyone from Jingshi, and he doesn't want to know about Jingshi. ”

Gu Siyuan and Huang Sanlang looked at each other. Chen Xuejiao thought to herself, this old man is so weird.

At this time, Han Zijian came, greeted Chen Zimin from a distance through the shadow of the fence tree, and walked in to see that he was carrying a dark food box with delicate patterns and a pot of wine in his hand.

"I'm sending food to Master Qin again." Chen Zimin asked with a smile.

Han Zijian said: "Autumn is the season to eat crabs, Qingfengzhuang's chef Master Miao burned a good crab soup, last time my father ordered me to send it to Master Qin, Master Qin loves to eat very much, these two days I got a basket of good fat crabs, and quickly let Master Miao burn it and send it to the master to taste." As he spoke, his eyes looked at Xue Jiao, this basket of crabs was caught by Chen Xuejiao and Chen Qiping in Xiaohuai River.

Chen Zimin nodded with a smile, Master Qin's behavior is quirky, he doesn't have deep friendships with people, but he loves food very much. I've heard that if you find something delicious, you have to taste it yourself. Qingfeng Village's chef Miao has superb cooking skills, and Chef Qin often praises his craftsmanship, so Han often asks Han Zijian to deliver food. Han Zijian knew Master Qin's temperament and didn't like to see people, so every time he brought food, he handed it over to his teacher Chen Zimin, who sent it to him.

"Who are these two?" Han Zijian looked at the two teenagers standing beside Chen Qi'an, dressed as a noble son, and his whole body was not from Xuzhou Mansion at first glance, full of doubts.

"The two are Gu Gongzi and Huang Gongzi from Jingshi." Chen Qi'an introduced, "This is my classmate friend Han Zijian, who is also studying in this private school. ”

Han Zijian was enthusiastic by nature, and the two sons greeted each other, and learned that the two were here to see Master Qin, and said that he was not very optimistic about the result.

"Liu Bei invited Zhuge Liang to come out of the mountain and look at the thatched house three times, and Liu Bei had to ask Zhuge Liang three times to see him for any identity. As long as we show the greatest sincerity, Master Qin still refuses to see us? The so-called insistence is not seen because the ** chips are not enough. Chen Xuejiao thought about it and said unscrupulously, and also brought out Qian Zhongshu's classic quotation of "** chips are not enough".

"Don't have enough chips?" Gu Siyuan looked at Chen Xuejiao meaningfully.

"Yes. Master Qin has made it clear that he doesn't want to see you and don't want to hear about you, and the things on you are not enough to impress Master Qin. I know what can impress Master Qin. Chen Xuejiao raised her head and said proudly.

Everyone looked at Chen Xuejiao.

"Master Qin likes to eat delicious food, and my father once said that two years ago, Master Qin heard that the roast goose in a deli in Yingchuan was fat and delicious, and he had to rush to taste it regardless of the wind and snow. I think the only thing that can impress Master Qin now is the food, and when I turn around, Huang Gongzi and Gu Gongzi went in under the name of sending crab soup to Master Qin, and Master Qin will never drive the two sons out when he sees the crab soup. Chen Xuejiao took the food box from Han Zijian's hand and handed it to Gu Gongzi.

Gu Gongzi and Huang Gongzi smiled bitterly, thinking that their status was not enough to have face in a bowl of crab soup.

Chen Zimin felt that the little girl was too young and could have any doctrines, but although the method was naïve to hear Chen Xuejiao say this, under the current circumstances, the two sons had to do this to meet Master Qin.

Chen Zimin vaguely guessed that it was a matter of importance for the two sons to find Master Qin, otherwise it would be impossible for them to ask to see each other three times or twice, and depending on the situation, they did not want outsiders to know about the things they discussed with Master Qin. So Chen Zimin asked Xue Jiao, Qi An, Qi Ping and Han Zijian to guard outside, and led the two sons to go in in the name of sending crab soup.

Chen Xuejiao leaned against the vermilion lacquer gate and looked into the courtyard through the cracks. I saw that the grass and trees were sparse, the trees were verdant, the yard was full of plum trees, and a clear stream was introduced from the outside into the depths of the plum forest and poured under the stone cracks. Chen Xuejiao thought that there was such a good place in Maoshan Village, presumably Master Qin was weird but had good taste.

Gu Siyuan and Huang Sanlang followed Chen Zimin through Merlin, bypassed the Flying Water Strange Stone, and came to the main room of the Confused House. I saw Master Qin writing calligraphy on the stone table in the courtyard, and the font was vigorous and powerful. Master Qin is eight feet long, wearing a white robe, and his beautiful hair floats in the wind, fluttering like a fairy, quite like a fairy.

Huang Sanlang and Gu Siyuan had seen Master Qin when they were young, and their voices and smiles were very vague in their memories, but now they are inevitably excited when they see them. Huang Sanlang often heard his father mention that Master Qin was the youngest and most handsome Tanhua Lang in the dynasty, with one hand of articles moving the world, and one hand of calligraphy famous in Beijing, and was handpicked by the first emperor as Tanhua in the year of the weak crown.

"Here we are." Master Qin suddenly said lightly, I don't know if it was for Chen Xiucai or for the two sons, the pen in his hand did not stop, only to see the snow-white rice paper written "When is life enough, it is idle before you are old."