As soon as Gu Yunxiao's wedding ended, Gu Yunji and the others had no days left on the Dragon Boat Festival, and after saying goodbye to his family, he got into the carriage with Su Qi and Cheng Yan under the teary-eyed gaze of Xu Dong, and embarked on the journey back to Luxi Academy.

The road is far away, and in the swaying of the carriage, the gate of Hangzhou Fucheng is finally far away. At this time, the atmosphere of the festival has not completely dissipated, and the city gate is full of people coming and going, and it looks very lively.

Su Qi suddenly became excited: "Speaking of which, I haven't played in Hangzhou Mansion yet, why don't we hurry back to the academy and take a stroll around the city?" ”

Cheng Yan echoed: "It will take two days for the left and right academies to start, since they have come out, let's take a look." ”

Gu Yunji had no opinion on this proposal, so a few people entered the city gate, returned the rented carriage to the carriage and horse shop, and then walked around the street in a leisurely manner.

None of them are very familiar with the city of Hangzhou, and they don't have a clear destination, so they can stop at random when they see anything.

Su Qi was very interested in everything on the street, stopped for a while and looked at it, and at this time he was attracted by a sugar gourd seller, walked over and asked, "How much is a string of sugar gourds?" ”

The peddler replied, "A string of five cents." ”

Su Qi neatly took out the money: "Give me a string!" Then he turned to look at the two of them, "Do you want to?" ”

Gu Yunji was not interested in these children's food for a long time, and said with a smile: "I don't need it, you can eat it yourself." ”

Looking at Su Qi's childishness, Cheng Yan was also a little helpless: "My prince, aren't you known in the capital as knowing everything about eating, drinking, and having fun?" Why can't you walk when you see a string of sugar gourds? ”

Su Qi chewed on the sugar gourd intently, and said disappreciably: "Those are all false names!" You don't know, my mother died young, and my father didn't let me eat these snacks since I was a child. When I grew up, there were always a bunch of rich kids around me, and I was embarrassed to buy sugar gourds in front of them, for fear of being looked down upon by them. ”

"Okay now, no one in Hangzhou Fucheng knows me except for the two of you, I can eat boldly with confidence, and I'm not afraid to spread the word and make jokes."

As he spoke, he glanced at the gadgets on a stall again, his eyes suddenly lit up, he walked over in three or two steps, picked up a translucent small jar, and asked, "What is this?" ”

When the peddler saw that he was richly dressed, he immediately introduced him enthusiastically: "Childe has good eyesight, this is a cricket jar, made of glass." As he spoke, he started to demonstrate, "Look, there is a buckle here, and when you press it like this, it will be covered tightly, and no matter how big the cricket is, it will not be able to escape." ”

The more Su Qi looked at it, the more he liked it, and asked, "Good jar, I want it!" How much? ”

The vendor smiled slightly, stretched out his palm and gestured: "Five taels of silver." This is the material of the glaze, the workmanship is fine, and the number of the land next to it can't be bought. ”

A jar containing crickets actually costs five taels of silver, Gu Yunji was secretly speechless, and was about to stop it, but when he saw Su Qi's fast movements, he had already paid for the jar in his hand, and said helplessly: "Ancestor! You see that the texture of this glass is turbid, eighty percent of it is a defective product that has been eliminated, one or two silver has reached the sky, and you actually gave him five taels of silver, which is really generous. ”

Su Qi didn't care when he heard this, carefully put the jar away, and said, "That's all a trivial matter, I won't keep this jar for myself, but I want to give it to the mountain chief." When the time came, I said that I would buy it for twenty taels of silver, and he must have been very moved when he heard it, and as soon as he was happy, he might have given me the particularly powerful cricket. ”

Cheng Yan couldn't cry or laugh: "You really have a good calculation." As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Gu Yunji again, "Since you have arrived in this Hangzhou mansion, why don't you buy something for the mountain chief too?" ”

Gu Yunji also felt reasonable when he heard it, although the gift given by Su Qi was not in tune, it was better than giving nothing. He, an apprentice, goes and ends up with others, and he can't even compare to an ordinary student, so he goes to see his teacher empty-handed, right?

Every time I go to see Xu Chengyu, I can more or less meet Xu Shuhua, and the two are familiar with each other these days. Since you want to give gifts, you can't favor one over the other, you can't leave the teacher's daughter behind, you have to prepare a copy for everyone.

Thinking of this, Gu Yunji made up his mind and took the two of them straight to the largest bookstore in Hangzhou.

As soon as he entered the bookstore, Gu Yunji beckoned a spare young man to come over and asked, "Do you have a bilingual dictionary for Western characters?" Preferably from the British Isles? ”

The guy was a little confused: "There are books in Western languages, but what is a bilingual dictionary?" ”

Gu Yunji explained: "It's similar to "Shuowen Jie Zi", with words in Western characters on it, and annotations and translations of my Korean text next to them, which people can use to learn Western languages. ”

The guy went through it in his mind, and found that there were indeed no books that met his requirements, so he had to shake his head and say, "I have never heard of such a book." ”

Gu Yunji saw that Xu Shuhua seemed to be interested in studying Western characters, so he was going to buy books on this subject and give them to her. I was afraid that she would read a Western book casually, so I thought if there was a bilingual translation book, so that she could read it and improve her language level.

Now hearing that the other party said no, Gu Yunji sighed, and was about to give up this farewell gift, when he heard the guy stop him:

"Although we don't have any bilingual translation dictionary you mentioned, there is the "Catholic Essentials", both in Western characters and in my Korean script, which happened to be translated by a Gentile from the British Isles, would you like to take a look?"

Gu Yunji suddenly became interested again: "Yes!" Show it to me. ”

Soon the guy took the book, Gu Yunji took a look, and found that this "Catholic Essentials" is a scripture about Christianity, the first half is written in English, the second half is written in Chinese characters, and the Chinese characters are translated very appropriately from the original text, and it can be seen that the translator is proficient in both Chinese.

Although it is not as good as a bilingual dictionary, it is already good, and Xu Shuhua should be able to use it. Gu Yunji was very satisfied with the book, and immediately paid for it.

Su Qi couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart and asked, "Why haven't I heard that the mountain chief still has a study of Western characters?" Yunji, are you sure he'll like this? ”

Gu Yunji said: "This is not for the teacher, it is for Miss Xu, she is very interested in Western characters." ”

Su Qi slapped Gu Yunji and said, "Elm head!" How can anyone send this to a girl? Shouldn't you send some fat powder hairpin rings? ”

Gu Yunji said with a straight face: "Miss Xu is the teacher's daughter, and I am the teacher's disciple, although we are still familiar with each other, we are not close. I'm unmarried, she's unmarried, if I give some girls some fat powder hairpin rings, it looks too ambiguous, won't others misunderstand? It has a bad reputation for Miss Xu. ”

Su Qi couldn't cry or laugh: "Okay, okay, you think it through more than us." He said so, but in his heart, he felt that Gu Yunji was too dull, and he should be ambiguous at this time, otherwise how could there be a further future in the relationship between the two?

Gu Yunji couldn't see through what he was thinking, but he didn't want to do that. That not only makes him look like he has an ulterior purpose and is easy to lose people's favor, but it is also very likely to attract gossip to Xu Shuhua, which is not good for her, so forget it.

Gu Yunji didn't bother to pay attention to him, and went straight to the pastry shop to pack a large box of pastries.

Su Qi had an expression on his face that you had finally gotten on the road: "That's right, even if you don't send fat powder hairpin rings, it's not bad to send some food." ”

Gu Yunji shook his head: "This is not for Miss Xu, this is for the teacher." ”

Su Qi became more and more incomprehensible: "How can you give pastries to your teacher as a gift?" The mountain chief is a great Confucian in the world, and he is highly respected, even if he doesn't send anything else, he has to send some pen and ink calligraphy and paintings, right? You bring in a box of pastries and are you sure he won't kick you out? ”

Gu Yunji took it in his chest, and said confidently: "You don't understand, he will definitely like it if I send this." ”

Cheng Yan couldn't help laughing beside him: "We don't understand, everyone sends girls hairpin rings, you prefer to send books, everyone sends teachers calligraphy and paintings, and you prefer to send pastries." Your third son, Gu Sangongzi, is really unique in terms of giving gifts. ”