Chapter 266: Honeysuckle
"The most famous poem describing Gusu is Zhang Ji's "Fengqiao Night Park", "Hanshan Temple outside the city of Gusu, the bell rings in the middle of the night to the passenger ship", this passenger ship, a berth is a hundred years......"
A beautiful boy in Tsing Yi cloth shoes, drunk and lying on the bow of the boat.
There was a wine gourd resting on the side of the boat, the young man's peach blossom eyes were slightly drunk, and the cold wind was blowing, which was extremely comfortable.
The light boat is slowly crossing the maple bridge.
The night is like a gloom, on both sides of the fishing fire, and the temple with the yellow wall of the blue tile is hidden behind the verdant trees, which is quite Zen.
The rowing boat was stunned, and said with a bitter face: "Childe is really leisurely and elegant!" The triennial scientific expedition, if you give up, give up, after returning to Jinling, how do we explain to the master? I'm afraid that the old man is going to kill me and Gu Yu alive! ”
The beautiful boy shook the folding fan, "Read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles, I am now sixteen years old, it is a good age to study abroad, why do you enter the court so early?" The court is full of old-fashioned, treacherous and cunning old men, and it is annoying to look at it. What can be compared to the delicate beauty of the Song House Tavern, which is interesting? ”
He smiled and seemed slightly drunk.
The waterway ahead is gradually opening up, and there are painting boats driving leisurely.
The man standing on the painting boat is over forty years old, elegant and vicissitudes.
He raised his hand to ask, "I received a letter from Master Cao Gang before, saying that Xiao Gongzi is about to come to Gusu. Xiao Gongzi, please get on the boat and speak. ”
Xiao Tingchen glanced at him and hooked his lips lazily, "I thought that I would meet that charming and graceful Gusu beauty on the water tonight." Isn't it wonderful to have a spring supper? Unexpectedly, the first person I met was a bad old man. ”
"Bad old man" Gu Qiongzhou twitched the corners of his mouth slightly.
He's only forty years old, right?!
Anyway, he looks clear and elegant, right?!
In other words, it was clearly Xiao Tingchen who asked him to meet by himself, okay?!
The man really wanted to cut Xiao Tingchen.
The painting boat is elegantly furnished, the ground is covered with bright bamboo mats, and the table has already been placed with fine wine and delicacies.
Several flavors of Gusu are particularly fresh and tender, such as snail shrimp, hibiscus whitebait, white sauce turtle cabbage, etc., which are full of color, flavor and flavor, which truly verifies the sage's words of "not getting tired of eating, not getting tired of fine".
The green bamboo curtains on both sides are half rolled, which can be used for people to drink and dine while watching the wind and snow on both sides of the strait.
Gu Qiongzhou was sitting precariously, "I heard that Xiao Gongzi came here this time to merge and acquire Sangtian?" ”
"Hmm, the silk weaving and salt and iron of Jiangnan...... This Biluo shrimp tastes really good, and Master Gu has a heart. The silk weaving and salt iron in the south of the Yangtze River are extremely profitable. Salt and iron aside, this silk weaving, the source is in the mulberry field. I think that if we can fund the merger of Sangtian retail investors...... How is this hibiscus whitebait made? I tasted it, and it retained the freshness of the fish to the greatest extent, without any fishy smell, which shows that the food of Gusu is really fine! ”
Gu Qiongzhou had 10,000 sentences in his heart, and he was embarrassed to scold.
He smiled and poured wine for Xiao Tingchen, "Xiao Gongzi just said, merging Sangtian retail households? ”
"Exactly. With mulberry fields, you can plant mulberry and raise silkworms. When the silkworms form cocoons, they will summon the textile girls of Quangu Sucheng - this cup is three white wines? The wine is mellow and long, more authentic than the one I bought from the side of the road. Come on, come on, don't be polite, Gu Yu, add wine to Lord Gu. ”
Gu Qiongzhou Zhengse, "The textile girl of Quangu Suzhou City? Xiao Gongzi lives in the academy, and this kind of big talk really comes out of his mouth. Gusu Gu's family, accounting for half of the textile women in the city, and the rest are scattered in large and small silk weaving workshops, where is it so easy to gather all the pieces? ”
The young man took a sip of wine and glanced at Gu Qiongzhou's left hand again.
Ever since he boarded the ship, the man had kept his left hand hidden in his sleeve.
He quickly retracted his gaze, "Let me ask you, as a member of the Gu family, why did you betray the Gu family and set up your own door?" ”
Gusu Gu's family is the old lady's maiden home.
It is a merchant for hundreds of years, and although it has a profound heritage, it has never produced a scholar.
The only exception,
It's Gu Qiongzhou.
But Gu Qiongzhou somehow broke up with the Gu family twenty years ago, and took the initiative to withdraw from the family tree and set up another door.
Faced with the young man's question, Gu Qiongzhou was silent for a moment, and said lightly: "Nine points cannot be discussed, and the remaining one point is because of the Gu family's family style." ”
The Gu family used to be a big family who was kind and charitable, but after generations, the children and grandchildren did not know how to open up the source and collect money, so they tried to save money.
Not only did he refuse to help the poor, but he was also so stingy that he was reluctant to pay his subordinates.
The most violent time was that the female workers in the weaving mill were not paid monthly money for three consecutive months, and those female workers jointly sued the yamen to recover the hard-earned money.
The old lady of the Gu family is not without money,
Just because of one word,
Stingy!
There are thousands of female workers and stewards in the weaving workshop, and the monthly money for three months is as much as thousands of taels, so why should it be paid to them if they are placed in the money bank to earn interest......
This incident was a sensation in Gusu City back then, because the wind was too bad, and it even affected Gu Qiongzhou's official fortunes.
Gu Qiongzhou repeatedly persuaded the old lady of the Gu family, but the other party didn't listen at all.
In a fit of rage, he expelled himself from the genealogy and set up a separate portal.