Chapter 12 Finding the Roots by Gu Ji Xunzi

"You say you're wrong, but you say, what's wrong with you?" Gu Ji said in a deep voice with a cold face. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"I shouldn't talk nonsense and make Lord Zhizhou unhappy." Gu Ji replied, but his tone was somewhat unconvinced.

Gu Ji snorted coldly, "What else?" ”

“…… It should not be disgraced to uncle and father regardless of the occasion. ”

"What else?"

Gu Yan's face turned dark, and he craned his neck and said, "I don't know." ”

"I know you don't know." Gu Ji sneered. "I've read all the books in vain in the past few years, benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom, and faith, tell me that you have done that? Yes? You say. Gu Ji's anger came up more and more, and Gu Ji, who was kneeling on the ground, couldn't help but tremble. No one in the room dared to speak, which set off the severity of Gu Ji's questioning.

"I'm not convinced." In Gu Ji's loud scolding, Gu Ji shouted fiercely, and the tears that he endured flowed down, "I'm just not convinced, I'm not convinced of him...... Why ......" Gu Jian shouted while crying, but because of the crying, his speech was intermittent and could not form sentences.

Seeing his young son crying like he couldn't even breathe, the anger in Gu Ji's heart couldn't help but drop by half. The tone was still stern, but his voice unconsciously lowered a lot, and he scolded: "You are not convinced, what are you not convinced?" You say, if you are not convinced, you can stab someone in the back if you are not convinced? Yes? ”

Gu Yan stopped talking, just crying.

"If you are not convinced, you should study hard! And you? What good things do you do? Gu Ji's tone was lower, "What's more, no matter what, he is your cousin, so you can't see him well?" ”

Gu Yan didn't say anything, just sobbed without a sound.

Gu Ji sighed, "You are going to take the imperial examination to become an official in the future, and I didn't say that you can't ...... Your tone today is not bad, at least you haven't lost the face of my Gu family too much, you are still young, although Wang Zhizhou's impression of you must be greatly reduced, but the bad feeling should not be great. If you enter the court in the future, if you have any disagreements, as long as you stand upright, there will always be people who praise your direct ministers, and you are like this, for your own resentment, but it is aimed at your cousin. In the end, he brought humiliation on himself. This kind of thing that harms others and is not beneficial to oneself can only be done by a fool like you. Speaking of this, Gu Ji was a little angry again, and his voice was raised again. Seeing Gu Jian kneeling there silently, and I don't know how much he listened, he was bored for a while, and wanted to get angry and reprimand a few words loudly, but finally forced down his anger and waved his hand: "Don't kneel, go to your room, copy the Tao Te Ching twice, and don't sleep until you finish copying." After speaking, he flicked his sleeves and went to the back hall.

"Husband, I'm still young." As soon as he entered the back hall, Gu Zhang's greeted him, wiped his tears and said, "How can I bear to be a mother." ”

Gu Ji became even more anxious when he heard this, and said impatiently: "That is, you are used to him, so what does it matter if you kneel for a while to copy the book." After a pause, he said again: "Yan'er is about to be filial piety, you go to pick up things, in addition to filial piety, let him move back to that yard, and those land deeds are also handed over to him, by the way, don't we also have land?" You add ten acres to him and send it over. Well...... There seems to be everyone there, and a few maids have been sent over. ”

"This ......" Gu Zhang hesitated a little.

"Women's families are shallow-eyed. Just do what I say. ”

"It's not that I'm reluctant to do this." Gu Zhang said with grievances, "How many bad things that person did in the past, but you were very affectionate to his son, and you had to subsidize our things." ”

Gu Ji opened his mouth, didn't make a sound, and paused for a moment before speaking: "Don't talk so much, you just choose a few girls and arrange these." ”

Gu Zhangshi responded, "Then it's better to give him the red medicine." That girl is capable and steady. ”

Gu Ji was a little surprised, he had naturally seen the red medicine, and his appearance ability was indeed good, but he didn't expect to transfer the red medicine over. The tone was also a lot lighter, "Well, who is the other one?" Who are the candidates? ”

"Qingzhi embroidery is doing a good job, and her appearance is neat, just her." Gu Zhang said.

Gu Ji usually doesn't care much about the affairs of the back house, and when he thinks about Qingzhi carefully, he vaguely remembers that this girl does look good, so he nodded. I also felt that this time the arrangement was good, and the tone was a little softer: "This time is different from the past, Yan'er is now talented, and Wang Zhizhou has taken a fancy to him, I am afraid that a jinshi will not be able to run in the future, looking at the current demeanor, it is very different from before, I am afraid that there will be a creation in the future, in the end, those mixed things in the past will not do anything else." If you can sell it well, you can sell it well, maybe the two brothers will have to support each other in the future. ”

Gu Zhang's heart has his own Xiao Jiujiu, the red medicine was bought from outside, and the living deed was signed, and he will go out in a few years, and she is not worried about taking over some major matters. And Angelica Angelica ...... That frivolous character. It's also good to spend morning and evening. Gu Zhang's heart was calculating, but his face did not leak, "It's just a pity, it's a good opportunity." ”

"Not really." Gu Ji sighed and said, "I heard that Wang Zhizhou has a son, his talent is no worse than that of Jian'er, and his age is about the same, if these two children can be in the same place, it is also a good thing, so that he doesn't take his peers in his eyes all day long." Besides, Wang Zhizhou was the fourth Jinshi back then, and his academic character was good. It's a pity in the end. ”

Gu Zhang wanted to stab a few words, but the words turned around a few times before he took them back. "What about these...... Tomorrow to send it over? ”

Gu Ji groaned: "It's not in a hurry, it looks like those of us who are elders are catching up, and there is no reason for people to see the joke." Wait for filial piety, have a meal together, and then talk about these arrangements. ”

Gu Zhang's answered, and the two didn't say anything else all night.

Gu Yan said to do it, and early the next morning, he began to write, and with a memory in his mind, he wrote quickly. Writing about the university and the mean was quite smooth, but it was a bit difficult to write the Analects of Mencius. Although there were some books on hand, there were still too few materials, which made Gu Yan's work stop for a while. Soon it was winter, and the days went by, and the weather became colder and colder day by day. What made Gu Yan happiest during this period was not the completion of the annotations of the two articles of University and the Mean, but that he finally got rid of the filial piety period. For Gu Ji's overtures, Gu Yan naturally reciprocated, and said at that time that Tian Qi or something would just let Gu Ji look at it. After all, in Gu Yan's imagination, during this time, Gu Yan had to do his best to review the imperial examination and try his best to make a name for himself, if the imperial examination was successful, then he would not stay in Changzhou all the time. What's more, Gu Yan can be regarded as having food and drink now, and there is no need to rush to count the income of these dozens of acres of land in detail. We still have to take a long-term view. If in the end Gu Yan was so depressed that he really needed these fields to support himself, then he would have nothing to say.