Chapter 159: Protégé

Gu Baiyu had seen these two booklets in Gu Chengxiang's study, and at that time she thought that Gu Chengxiang would not be too cautious, but now she only feels very fortunate when she thinks about it.

Fortunately, Daddy left these things behind so that they could have a direction to trace.

Gu Baiyu and Xiao Yanlin looked at the two booklets page by page together, and almost half an hour passed unconsciously.

Gu Baiyu yawned and found nothing.

"Daddy is too cautious, none of the things recorded here can frame Daddy in terms of money, who is it......?"

Xiao Yanlin saw tears rolling in her eyes after yawning, and said, "If you're tired, rest for a while." ”

Gu Baiyu sat up straight and shook his head: "I'm not tired, I'm just a little bored." ”

As she spoke, she flipped through the night again, and suddenly said "huh".

Xiao Yanlin was attracted by her voice and leaned over: "What's wrong?" ”

Gu Baiyu shook his head and rubbed a name on the paper with his hand.

"It's been a long time since I've seen this name, and I'm a little surprised."

Xiao Yanlin glanced down, and there was a name written on the page: Liu Zhuzi.

Xiao Yanlin raised his eyebrows slightly: "This is?" ”

Gu Baiyu thought of the owner of the name, and couldn't help laughing: "This is a student of my father, and now he is on duty in the Ministry of Officials, although his official position is not big, but his background is not very good, and his current achievements are very quiet and powerful!" ”

Gu Baiyu seemed to think of the honest and honest face in his memory, and couldn't help but say a few more words.

"Brother Zhuzi's family is poor, in order to provide him with education, his father died of illness and couldn't be cured, and his mother also became ill from hard work, and left ......without enjoying a few years of happiness."

After she finished speaking, she sighed with some emotion, "Daddy is really, if Brother Zhuzi knows that he is still annotating people with this name, maybe he will be unhappy, and Brother Zhuzi sends some vegetables grown by himself every year, how can Daddy record it......"

Xiao Yanlin felt that a lot of the information in her words was very interesting, so he asked a few questions.

"What's the meaning of the name?"

Gu Baiyu was stunned for a moment, and explained: "There is nothing to say about the Tao, the name Zhuzi was obtained by his father, and after obtaining the fame, Brother Zhuzi felt that this name was cheesy, and wanted his father to give him a new name, but his father refused, saying that his father and mother had worked hard all his life to raise him to become a talent, and this name was obtained by them, and it should be kept." At that time, Brother Zhuzi was quite unhappy, Brother Zhuzi would grow vegetables, and he would personally plant some and send them to his father every year, because this matter was interrupted for more than a year, I thought he would be angry all the time......"

Maybe it was because Gu Baiyu had a natural sense of closeness to this so-called "pillar brother", so he didn't think about some things deeply, but Xiao Yanlin raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard it.

This Liu Zhuzi asked Prime Minister Gu Cheng to name him, but it was not as simple as Gu Baiyu said.

Since ancient times, names have been given by their parents, which is very meaningful, Liu Zhuzi asked Prime Minister Gu Cheng to give him a name after his father and mother died, but he didn't just feel that his name was not good, if Prime Minister Gu Cheng agreed, he really renamed such a student, which was equivalent to admitting that this person was his own child.

The friendship of giving names is equivalent to changing the court, and from now on, Liu Zhuzi is no longer the mud leg from the mountains, but the "child" of Prime Minister Gu.

This willow pillar seems to be far from being as simple as Gu Baiyu imagined.

And the reason why Prime Minister Gu refused was probably because he saw this person's ambition.

Such a person cares most about his background, he was refuted by Gu Cheng and chose not to communicate again, which is understandable to Gu Baiyu, but why did he resume contact again?

Xiao Yanlin's intuition told him that this person was not simple.

"What's the matter with him delivering vegetables to his father-in-law?" Xiao Yanlin asked.

Gu Baiyu didn't expect Xiao Yanlin to be so interested in this matter, so he said it carefully.

It turned out that after Liu Zhuzi won the fame in the initial examination, because the person who scored the papers was Prime Minister Gu Cheng, he was divided into the scope of Prime Minister Gu Cheng's protégés, and there were such protégés under Prime Minister Gu Cheng every year.

Every year, these people will send some things in the name of visiting the teacher, most of them are antique calligraphy and paintings, some pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and so on.

And this Liu Zhuzi, whose family is poor and has little money himself, gave him a basket of vegetables he grew when he visited for the first time.

Prime Minister Gu Cheng accepted it very happily, and praised him for planting well, saying that the eldest husband is not rigid and accomplished, he can personally experience the hardships of the people, and it is a good thing that he still remembers to work in the field after gaining fame.

Since then, Liu Zhuzi has sent some vegetables he has grown every year.

"That's right!" Gu Baiyu slapped his face: "Speaking of which, this matter was still a beautiful talk a few years ago!" After Brother Zhuzi settled in Kyoto, according to his official position, the imperial court also gave him some good land, he said that he did not spend much money alone, and distributed it to many poor people, leaving only a small piece of land, he personally worked in the field every day, planted vegetables to eat by himself, and some gave to his father, this matter was also rumored to be a good story for a while, and the people of Kyoto discussed it for a long time......

There are also people who go to see the land, saying that it is the "prime minister's land", and the "prime minister's vegetables" are grown, but my father thinks this statement is very bad, and ordered people not to say it again, and also reprimanded Brother Zhuzi, and then no one mentioned it, but vegetables are planted every year. ”

After Gu Baiyu finished speaking, he also realized something: "Hou Ye asked in such detail, do you think that Brother Zhuzi has a problem?" But he is only a petty official in the ministry, and he has no real power, let alone the prince's faction......"

Seeing Gu Baiyu seemed to be a little worried, Xiao Yanlin touched his head: "I'm just curious, besides, I plan to pay attention to all the people in the booklet, I'm afraid that I will be taken by surprise when the time comes, don't worry, I will tell you if there is a problem." ”

Gu Baiyu nodded:; If there is really a problem, Hou Ye doesn't have to show mercy, Daddy's safety is the most important thing!

Xiao Yanlin nodded: "You rest early today, and I'll take care of the rest." ”

Gu Baiyu nodded and agreed, and the more Xiao Yanlin thought about it, the more he felt that this willow pillar was very problematic, so after dealing with the matter at hand, he called the secret guard: "You go and ask, where is the "prime minister's land", I want to go and see it in person." ”

The dark guard was stunned: "This kind of thing, just go down and investigate....."

"No, I'll go myself."

The secret guard's movements were very fast, and that small piece of land was indeed very famous, and half an hour later, Xiao Yanlin rode a horse to the "Prime Minister's Land" that was once a good story.

I saw that in a field, there was a small piece of land in which the plants grew exceptionally smart, the fat vegetables were neat, and the green leaves did not have a little insect eyes, and they were taken care of by people at a glance.

And in the field, a middle-aged man in a cyan robe was wiping the beads of sweat from his head and taking out a water bladder to drink.