Chapter 042: Deceived
Moreover, if his collection of books can make his son-in-law's eyes shine, and he will recommend it to his relatives and friends when he goes back, then his reputation in the upper circle of Chang'an City will be able to climb up one level!
Gu Chengyuan thought happily, and hurriedly pulled his baby son again. "Master Hou, please come here."
It's just that Gu Chengyuan, a small library of people, will definitely not be able to enter the eyes of Du Junqing, a century-old family.
However, he still patiently followed Gu Chengyuan around, and listened to this person babble about all these books, and then he found an opportunity to speak: "These books are not bad, but Ben Hou has already read them all." I don't know if you have any other books here that Ben Hou hasn't read? ”
"This ......" Gu Chengyuan shook his head, "I'm afraid it's gone." ”
However, how did Ben Hou hear his wife say that her grandfather had collected many rare and unique books back then. Before he died, he left all those books to his father-in-law, who knew how to read and loved books. ”
"Ah, Master Hou, that's what you're talking about!" Gu Chengyuan suddenly realized, "Indeed, my father-in-law did spend a lot of money to collect a lot of strange books. It's just that Xia Guan once looked through a few books, and they were not top things, so he asked someone to put them away. ”
"Really? That Hou just likes to read some miscellaneous books, why don't you take me there to see and learn, father-in-law! Du Junqing said.
Hearing this, Gu Chengyuan's face became a little delicate.
"Master Hou, do you really want to go and see it?"
"Isn't that possible?" Du Junqing asked rhetorically.
"No, no!" Gu Chengyuan hurriedly shook his head, "It's just a bunch of broken books, if you want to read it, Master Hou, Xia Guan will take you there!" ”
Then, the two of them left the study and circled around the back of the Gu Mansion for a long time, and then they arrived at the door of a small house that had not been visited for an unknown number of years.
There was only one old servant at the door. Seeing someone coming, he quickly got up and saluted, and Gu Chengyuan waved his hand. "Don't talk so much nonsense, hurry up and open the door, Master Hou wants to see the book left by the old man!"
"Okay!" The old servant quickly answered, and took out the key and opened the door.
As soon as Du Junqing stepped in, he found that there was a hole in this room: as far as the eye could see, there were more than a dozen bookshelves here, all full of books. As if that weren't enough, there were dozens of wooden boxes piled up on the floor, and when you opened them, they were all full of books. It's just that these titles are varied, and they are placed in a messy manner.
"What Ben Hou is looking for is a book called "The Strange Disease of the World". Du Junqing said.
"Yes, the lower official knows!" Gu Chengyuan nodded hurriedly, then turned around and beckoned the old servant to rummage through with his son.
It didn't take long for the book to be found, and Gu Chengyuan hurriedly took the book from the little guy and sent it to Du Junqing with both hands.
Sure enough, there's this book here. Seeing the four big characters of "The Strange Disease of the World" on the page of the yellowed hair curl, Du Junqing's eyes darkened.
He took it, opened it directly, and looked at it, and his face suddenly changed. Hurry up and flip it back...... His face was even more ugly.
Gu Chengfeng watched from the sidelines, his heart was already hanging in his throat.
"Master Hou, please calm your anger. Xiaguan's father-in-law is a Tian Sheweng who doesn't recognize a few big characters, but he always loves to be vassal, so he spends money to buy a bunch of things that can't be seen. Xia Guan also once persuaded him not to be deceived all the time, but he was still unhappy, so Xia Guan could only go with him. As a result, who knew that after he passed away, he left these books to the lower officials, and the lower officials' daughters wanted to keep them, so the lower officials could only keep them. Now, these things have stained your eyes, Master Hou, are they the lower officials, and the lower officials will destroy these books! ”
"No, Ben Hou didn't blame you." Du Junqing shook his head lightly, but his eyes were covered with a layer of coldness.
To blame, he only blames Gu Caiqin.
That woman, she definitely did it on purpose!