Chapter 82: Eight-Faced Guanyin
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With Wu Guogui, Wu Sangui's righteous son and confidant, staring at him, Wang Fuchen said that he would not be involved in the local government affairs dispute with Qujing, so he didn't dare to break his word and get fat, and he didn't intercede for Li Shuizu again. In this way, Wang Fuchen is inevitably a little angry, "Damn, what kind of face do you throw at Lao Tzu?" Can Lao Tzu be blamed for this? It's interesting enough for Lu Fatzi, he didn't say a word after losing so much silver, and took the initiative to ask me if I wanted to release him, if it weren't for Wu Guogui and the brothers who were there, could things be like this? β
Dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, after the banquet began, Wang Fuchen, who is a good drinker and addicted to gambling, quickly put this matter behind, and pulled Wu Guogui, Wang Jing and Lu Fatzi and others to eat and drink, although Lu Fatzi is not good at drinking, but he also barely drank a few glasses, generally speaking, talking with Wang Fuchen is quite pleasant, Wu Guogui is a calm year drink but does not like to drink, and Lu Fatzi can also talk, and he also blocked a lot of wine for Lu Fatzi. However, Wang Fuchen's deputy, Yunnan deputy Wang Jing, and Lu Fatzi hit it off at first sight -- a casino fat sheep like Lu Fatzi, who was so cheerful and generous, couldn't find it, pulled Lu Fatzi to drink a lot of wine, and asked Lu Fatzi to continue to gamble again.
"Brother Lu, come, let's have another bowl." Wang Jing ignored Wu Guogui's dissuasion, and filled Lu Fatzi with a bowl of wine, and said with a smile: "After drinking this bowl, let's set up another table and continue to play pai gow, it doesn't matter if you don't have silver, when you borrow you, anyway, I'm not afraid that you will run away, you can borrow as much as you want." β
"Second Brother Wang, brother, I really can't do it." Fat Lu covered his head, and said with a sad face: "Brother, my alcohol consumption is really too bad, last month's New Year's Day in the palace Tiren Pavilion, my brother only drank two pots of wine and got drunk there on the spot, making a big fool." Also, I have to wait for money, brother, I have to serve the yellow-faced woman when I go back, I have to read books, and I have to go to the city tomorrow to inspect spring plowing and handle official business. β
"The book has a ball to look at? The yellow-faced woman can't serve that day, and she must go back to serve every night? Wang Jing, who was already a little drunk, pulled Lu Fatzi and shouted: "Accompany the second brother to play for two more hours, after the second brother invites you to go to the kiln, there are still a few good girls in Qujing City." β
"Second Brother Wang doesn't know, brother, I married that yellow-faced woman with a big background and a big temper, brother, I really can't afford to provoke him." Fat Lu sighed, and finally regretted why he married such a fierce woman and went home. At the end, Lu Fatzi took the opportunity to say another reason for his coming here, and said: "As for whether the book is worth reading - Second Brother Wang, have you ever heard that there is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book?" Brother, I have studied Western knowledge, and recently found a way to make a fortune, and I am preparing to start a business, I wonder if the second brother Wang is interested in participating in a share? β
"Make a fortune?" Wang Jing's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Brother Lu, what is the way to get rich?" Let's hear about it. β
"Second Brother Wang, have you ever seen a Western glass mirror (glass mirror)?" Lu Fatzi gestured and said: "Brother, I have seen it once in the Pingxi Palace and the Imperial Palace, half a palm-sized glass mirror, which can be sold for thousands of taels of silver, brother, I consulted Western books, I know the practice of this thing, I want to make it in our Qujing, and then transport it to Jiangnan and the capital to sell, a million profits." β
The earliest glass mirror was made by the Venetian merchants in the fourteenth century, using the tin mercury method, the price was unusually high, a small number of finished products flowed into China, and the price was even more priceless. Now hearing what Fat Lu said, Wang Jing's eyes suddenly widened, and he exclaimed, "Brother Lu, do you really know how to make Western glass mirrors?" Can it be made in Qujing, a ghost place where rabbits don't poop? β
"Of course you can, Qujing has all the raw materials, and I also know that there are two ways to make a glass mirror." Fat Lu nodded seriously, and said: "Second Brother Wang, the most troublesome thing about making this kind of mirror is that it takes a long time, even if all the materials are ready, it will take more than a month, and now Qujing is plowing in the spring again, brother, I really can't find anyone to make this glass mirror by hand." So brother, I want to pull the second brother into a partnership, you give some manpower, lend me a little craftsman in the army, I contribute technology and capital, and make this thing, and we will divide the money we earn. β
"Of course." Lu Fatzi added, "Even if you can't build it, I will give them the money to start working on the craftsmen you lend me, Second Brother Wang, and I won't make it difficult for you to be a man." β
"Then it's settled." As soon as Wang Jing heard about this good thing, he immediately slapped the table and said: "I am in charge of the construction of weapons, and I have craftsmen in my hands, and I have not fought in the past few years. β
"Cheng, then it's decided, brother, I don't want too many people, twenty skilled craftsmen plus forty apprentices are enough." Fat Lu agreed, patted his chest and said: "At most, three months, Second Brother Wang, you just wait and see, okay, the silver you earn, take care of Second Brother Wang, you can't close your mouth with a smile." At that time, we will discuss how to expand the scale and make more mirrors to make a fortune. β
"Okay, I believe Brother Lu, I'll prepare manpower for you tomorrow, you can do it whenever you want." Wang Jing was also quite refreshing, and immediately agreed to partner with Lu Fatzi to do this deal. Wang Fuchen, Wu Guogui and others next to them were skeptical, but considering that if this matter was really done, with Lu Fatzi and Wang Jing's slipperyness, they would definitely not lose their share, and when the time came to expand the scale of production, they could still brazenly add a share to make a fortune, and they did not say anything against or interfere.
"Hehe, mirror, first make a tin gong mirror, and then make a silver nitrate mirror." Lu Fatzi smiled happier than Wang Jing - Lu Fatzi did not have the idea of playing glass mirrors for the sake of silver, but set his sights on the nitric acid used to make nitrate silver mirrors, and Yunnan also has a large number of copper mining by-products of bile alum, which can also be obtained by calcination to obtain sulfuric acid, these two things plus glycerin and Yunnan rich diatomaceous earth, but it is the thing invented by Nobel. If you're going to build this thing, you have to find some cover, right? When the finished product is produced, are you afraid that Wu Sangui will not obediently invest a lot of money, manpower and material resources to produce this thing? Besides, isn't it a big deal to be able to tie up your own interests with the interests of the Yunnan generals?
Because of the happy conversation, the fat man Lu who was not drinking well was finally drunk by the bold and enthusiastic Wang Jing and other generals, and he fell drunk on the wine table on the spot, Wang Fuchen and others laughed, and asked the servants to carry the fat man Lu into the back garden, and then found a room for the fat man to live in, and then continued to drink until late at night.
Poor Fat Lu has been busy these days, and he is indeed tired, and he slept until the sun rose more than three poles high the next day, and the bright and warm sunlight shone through the window on his belly, and Fat Lu woke up from his sleep. After drinking a few more sips of cold water and staying in the town, he was drunk and thirsty, and when he asked the time again, Lu Fatzi was startled, and quickly jumped out of bed barefoot, and yelled at Xiao Erlang, who was waiting in the room: "Quick, help me change my clothes, I still have to go to Donghe Township, there are many people who grow hibiscus over there, I have to keep an eye on it, don't miss this big thing." β
"Young master, don't worry, Master Zhu has already gone." Xiao Erlang explained: "When the time didn't arrive, Master Zhu came to look for you, and when he saw that you didn't wake up, he first went to Donghe to guide the people over there to plant a hibiscus. β
"Oh, it's okay, fortunately, this old pervert is still caring." Fat Lu breathed a sigh of relief. Xiao Erlang whispered again: "But young master, don't be too happy, Xiao Gege also sent someone here, and it was said that since you like to stay home at night, you don't need to go home for the night in the future." Also, Xiao Gege's maid also asked Xiao Gege, young master, did you sleep alone last night, or did Wang Junmen arrange someone to sleep with you? β
"This little girl, why is she so jealous? Why didn't I see that she still had this bad problem? Fat Lu was a little bitter, and hurriedly dressed and prepared to go home to report - it angered Shang Wanyan, the little girl who had the brutal blood of the Shang family, but it was not a trivial matter.
took the time to ask about Wang Fuchen, Wu Guogui and others, and learned that they had already gone to the school to order soldiers, and Lu Fatzi didn't dare to stay in the backyard of Wang Fuchen's mansion for a long time, so he hurriedly put on his clothes and left the room. And the climate of Yunnan is like spring all year round, although it is only mid-February, the garden of Wang Fuchen's mansion is already full of flowers, the grass and trees are verdant, and Lu Fatzi is inevitably a little regretful - such a good place, if it is used to grow hibiscus, how good?
Regret is regret, but now is not the time to enjoy the scenery, as soon as he thought of Shang Wanyan's majestic appearance after returning home, Lu Fatzi shuddered, and hurriedly accelerated his pace and went straight to the courtyard gate. But at this moment, a few girls suddenly turned out of the flower path in front of them, Lu Fat Man couldn't stop his pace while running, and his fat belly suddenly arched to the girl in Chinese clothes led by him, the girl was very light, and was hit by Lu Fat, who weighed nearly two hundred, and suddenly sat on the ground with his back facing the sky, his small hands on the ground, and his coquettish voice was a little more beautiful than that of the Yellow Warbler, "Ah! β
"Little sister, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry." When Fat Lu apologized repeatedly, and when he reached out to pull the girl again, Fat Lu seemed to have been hit his chest with a heavy hammer, and he was stunned all of a sudden, and he exclaimed in his heart, "Beauty! Belle! A real little beauty! Compared to her, my wife Shang Wanyan is simply a firefly compared to the moon, there is no way to compare! β
You can't blame Fat Lu for being rare and more for Brother Pig's virtue, Fat Lu is actually very gentlemanly in terms of women-otherwise, Kong Sizhen, who is also a big beauty, would not have repeatedly lamented why she couldn't make Fat Lu tempted. The key is that the girl in front of her is indeed too moving, only fourteen or fifteen years old, her eyebrows are already picturesque, her nose and starry eyes, although her cherry lips are not very ruddy, but they are more moving cherry blossom colors, extremely charming, her cheeks are almost transparent, and she is ruddy, so tender that she seems to be out of the water when she pinchs it. The figure has not yet fully grown, and a pair of slender legs have already made a man's heart tickle. Compared with her, the spring flowers beside her have lost their color. At the end is the sinking fish and geese, and the moon is shy of flowers.
"Miss, are you alright?" Fat Lu swallowed his saliva, and several maids behind the girl had already screamed and picked her up, and one of the maids shouted angrily at Fat Lu: "Why don't you have long eyes when you walk?" What should I do if I hurt my lady? β
"Xiaohuan, don't do this." The girl softly stopped the maid, and then blessed the fat man Lu, and said softly: "This adult, I'm really sorry, it's the little girl who didn't see you running over and offended the adult." β
"It's really polite, a hundred times more sensible than Wanwan's little girl." Fat Lu secretly praised, and hurriedly arched his hand to the girl and said: "Miss doesn't have to be like this, it's because the official is in a hurry, and he is walking in a hurry, so he accidentally bumped into you, are you okay?" β
"It's fine." The girl smiled, which made Fat Lu can't help but think of a sentence in his heart - looking back and smiling, the six palaces have no color. The girl said politely: "Don't mind, the little girl hasn't been bumped into there, if the adult has something urgent, please go and do it, the little girl said goodbye." β
As she spoke, the girl hid the little white jade hand that was scratched on the ground behind her, and the fat man Lu had sharp eyes and hurriedly said, "Miss, your hand has been scratched, right?" Is it serious? I'll take you to medicine, and my master will be able to cure you right away with a little medical skills. β
"--That's weird." Xiao Erlang added behind his back, and said in his heart: "Let Master Zhu see this little beauty, eighty percent of the number will have to be numbered for half an hour." β
"It's okay, I'll go back to my room and get some medicine myself." The girl's face flushed, and she spoke softly and modestly.
"No, I accidentally bumped into you." Fat Lu hurriedly pulled the girl's little hand and said, "Let me see, is there any bleeding?" β
"No need, my lord, go and do your errand." The girl's face turned even redder, and she hurriedly dodged, but said shyly in her heart: "This fat man, why did you ask me to hold my hand when we first met?" β
"No, if I get hurt, I'll die." It was rare for Fat Lu to tell the truth, and he felt that if he really injured such a sensible little girl who was more delicate than flowers, it would be too much of a sin.
"What are you doing?" The sudden roar of the Hedong lion interrupted the pulling and pulling between Lu Fatzi and the girl, and Lu Fatzi looked up in shock, but saw that his fiancΓ©e Shang Wanyan, who had bought a ticket first and then got on the bus, had appeared in the back garden with two maids at some point, and yelled at himself with a blue face: "Dead fatty, what are you doing?" β
"Wanyan, why are you here?" Fat Lu was startled and quickly withdrew his fat hand. The girl over there was also shocked, and when she turned around and saw Shang Wanyan, whose face was blue and black, gritting her teeth, the girl immediately understood that Shang Wanzhen had misunderstood the relationship between herself and Lu Fatzi, and her little face immediately turned red to the base of her neck.
"Why am I here?" Shang Wan walked up to Fat Man Lu with a smile, suddenly grabbed Fat Lu's ear, and said even more with a smile: "Of course I'm here to see, my lord didn't come home for a night, what good things are he doing here." How? Sir, won't you introduce me to this young lady? What should I call her? β
While speaking, Shang Wanyan saw the girl's peerless appearance clearly, and couldn't help but exclaim in her heart, is there such a beauty in the world? Under jealousy, Shang Wanyan inevitably pulled Lu Fatzi's ears harder, and the pain made Lu Fatzi scream like a pig, "Wanyan, you misunderstood, I don't know her at all, I was just in a hurry to go back to greet you just now, and accidentally knocked her down, and asked her if she was hurt." β
"Ask her if she's hurt, then what are you holding her hand for?" Shang Wanyan, who was jealous, was willing to believe it, and almost pulled off Lu Fatzi's fat ears directly, and said coldly: "You don't understand whether men and women give or receive kisses." β
"This lady, you really misunderstood." The girl was indeed kind-hearted, although her little face was already red and about to drip blood, she still raised her little hand oozing blood, and defended the innocent Fat Lu: "This adult saw that my hand was bruised, so he wanted to see if he wanted to take medicine, and he didn't mean anything else." β
"Really?" Shang Wanzhen will be skeptical.
"Of course it's true." Shang Wanyan was so brutal and jealous that even the girl's maids couldn't stand it, and they all said, "This lady, can you be reasonable?" It was your master who knocked down my young lady, if you don't apologize, forget it, and ask my young lady like this, what do you mean? β
"Humph!" Shang Wanzhen finally understood that she had indeed misunderstood, snorted coldly and let go of Lu Fatzi's ears, took the girl's little hand and said: "This sister, I'm really sorry, I blame this dead fat man in my family for being ignorant and pulling your hand indiscriminately, I just misunderstood a little, and my sister apologized to you." Let my sister see, how is your hand hurting? β
At the end, Shang Wanzhen said again: "Sister, don't worry, just a little bruise, I'll ask the maid to get some medicine for you from the old thing surnamed Zhu in a while, just keep it for a long time." By the way, sister, what's your name? β
"My name is Wu Xiaosuo." The girl replied softly, and said, "Sister, it's not in the way, such a small injury will be fine without medicine." β
"Wu Xiaosu?" Fat Lu paused for a moment and asked curiously: "Miss Wu, since your surname is Wu, how can you be in Wang Junmen's house, who are you?" β
"Lord Hui, the youngest daughter's father is Wu Guogui, the commander of the Pingxi Prince's army, and the Pingxi Prince's grandfather." Wu Xiaofu replied with a red face: "My father was ordered to inspect the military affairs of Youzhen for my grandfather, and he planned to live in Qujing for a while, so he brought me and my mother and I to live here for a few days. β
"It turns out that you are Wu Guogui's daughter." Fat Lu suddenly realized. Shang Wanzhen was stunned and exclaimed, "You are Wu Guogui's daughter?" So, you are the famous eight-sided Guanyin? β
"That's someone else's name, how dare the little girl be called like this?" Wu Xiaofu's face turned red again, and she also asked curiously: "Sister, how do you know me?" β
"Last year, my mother mentioned you to me, saying that you are the first beauty in Pingxi Palace, just like I am ...... Pingnan." Shang Wanzhen originally wanted to say that she was the first beauty in the Pingnan Palace, but after seeing Wu Xiaosuo's appearance with her own eyes, Shang Wanhuan, who was really quite self-conscious about her beauty, didn't have the face to open her mouth, so she had to quickly change the topic and asked: "Sister Xiaosuo, why do you call the eight-faced Guanyin, what does this mean?" β
"Mrs. Hui, Guanyin is our Yunnan dialect, which is the most beautiful meaning." Lu Fatzi explained casually: "The eight-sided Guanyin, which means that there is beauty everywhere in the front ......and back, left and right, up and down, inside and out. It wasn't until this moment that Fat Lu suddenly came back to his senses, "Wait, eight-faced Guanyin?!" Didn't the coats say that the eight-faced Guanyin was Wu Sangui's little wife? How did he become his granddaughter? β
"E-niang?" Wu Xiaowu was a little surprised by Shang Wanyan's address to her mother, and asked, "Sister, are you a man?" β
"No, I'm Han." Shang Wanzhen explained: "My name is Shang Wanyan, and I am the youngest daughter of Prince Pingnan, so I call my mother my mother. β
"Shang Wanzhen? The little Gege of Pingnan Palace?! Wu Xiaosu and her maids were all shocked, the two maids simply laughed out loud, although Wu Xiaosu was very polite and did not laugh in person, but she still blushed, and secretly glanced at Lu Fatzi, as if wondering how a person like Lu Fatzi could deceive Shang Wanyan, who was also outstanding and noble, and eloped with her to Yunnan?
"That's right, I'm Xiao Gege of Pingnan Wangfu." Shang Wanzhen also understood the reason why Wu Xiaowu and the others reacted abnormally - they must have heard the legend of herself and Lu Fatzi! Under the shyness, Shang Wanyan had no choice but to nod with a slightly red face, reluctantly admitting her identity.
"It turns out that my sister is Xiao Gege of Pingnan Wangfu, Xiao Su is rude." Wu Xiaosu blessed Shang Wan, saluted Lu Fatzi, and said with a forced smile: "Lord Lu, Xiaosu has also heard about your name a long time ago, grandfather praised you every day a few days ago, and he prepared everything for you in Kunming, if you are free, hurry up and take Sister Wanzhen to Kunming." Grandfather said that he would marry you personally. β
This time, Shang Wanyan's little face was so red that she was about to drip blood, so she quickly let go of Wu Xiaosuo, grabbed Lu Fatzi's ear, and said goodbye with a red face: "Sister Xiaosuo, this is not the place, I still have an account to settle with this dead fat man, you come to my sister's house another day, and my sister will have a good chat with you again, and I will leave first." β
"Sister go slowly, Lord Lu, please go slowly, little sister will go to say hello to her mother first." Wu Xiaosu saluted and hurried away with a few maids, but as soon as a few people turned the flower path, there was a burst of silver bell laughter that had been suppressed for a long time from the side of the flower bush.
"What are you doing?" Of course, Shang Wanzhen knew what the laughter meant, so she angrily pinched Lu Fat's ears and said murderously, "Why don't you go quickly?" When I get home, my wife will settle the old account with you! β
"What a mistake! What a mistake! In the face of Shang Wanyan's terrorist threat, Lu Fatzi not only didn't take it to heart, but sighed secretly in his heart, "Thousands of calculations, but the omission of the eight-faced Guanyin may also be the tampering of history by the coat mite!" I knew that the eight-faced Guanyin was so beautiful, and she was still the granddaughter of Wu Sangui's old Han Jian, I should have asked the teacher to be a matchmaker for me! ββA good man like me, who is young and rich, handsome, and talented, voluntarily went to his old man Wu to be his grandson-in-law, can he still agree? β
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Note: Many friends must be strange, isn't the famous eight-faced Guanyin Wu Sangui's concubine? How did she become Wu Sangui's granddaughter? In fact, the eight-faced Guanyin in history is the daughter of Wu Sangui's righteous son Wu Guogui, and married Wu Sangui's other henchman Guo Zhuangtu as his daughter-in-law. After Wu Sangui died of illness, the Yungui army fought separately, and was broken by the mite Qing army, Kunming was besieged in September because of the exhaustion of food, and the old man annihilated Cai Yurong and forcibly occupied the eight-faced Guanyin as a concubine.
At this time, Cai Yurong's retribution for the old Han Annihilation came, Liu Yi's concubine - Guanyin on all sides! was sent to Yanjing by the mite Qing army to present to Xiao Mazi, who was shocked by his beauty and asked, "How many people are like you?" The four-faced Guanyin replied: "The concubine is full of words, there are eight-faced Guanyin, the true national color." The news spread to Yunnan, and Cai Laohan, who had been the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou for a few days, immediately hanged the eight-faced Guanyin, who was two months pregnant, to death, but Xiao Mazi still arrested Cai Laohan's family and sent him to Heilongjiang to fill the army.
The above are described in "Pingwu Lu", "Wenjian Evenlu", "History of the Three Domains" and "Qing History Manuscript. Cai Yurong's Biography and other historical materials are accurately recorded, but some of the coated mites chose to turn a blind eye to their surnames, and planted all the stolen goods on the head of Wu Sangui, who almost overturned the little pockmark, and added makeup and color to their master - of course, Wu Sangui deserved it, and he could suffer the same fate as Lu Wende, the Great Wall of the Southern Song Dynasty, who resisted the invasion of foreign races, and Wu Sangui could also snicker.
(To be continued)