Gu Yunqiu is rich.

The palace gave him a lot of silver, as well as rewards from the prince and princess and the palace.

But none of this is "his" money.

Gold, silver, jewelry, pearl and agate are all under the premise that he is "the son of King Ning".

If he is no longer a son, then the money is no longer his.

When his background is revealed, the royal palace will most likely take back all the property in his name.

Therefore, Gu Yunqiu didn't want to use the money of the palace, and he couldn't use his current name, so he had to make up a fake name to do business.

Gu Yunqiu was lying on his stomach, but his mind turned quickly:

In addition to this, he had to find someone who was only loyal to him to stand up for him.

After all, he is only eight years old now, and he has some constraints on buying a house, buying land, and doing anything.

With such a determination, all the panic that came from being reborn was swept away, and he laughed as he held the little wooden sparrow.

The princess didn't know that his heart was turning a thousand times, but when her son really liked this little wooden bird, she confessed to the old doctor a few more words, and then got up and left Ning Xintang-

Halfway through April, she should also pack her things and go to Baoguo Temple.

Back then, she had a difficult birth, and she was able to be safe and sound, all thanks to the rescue of the monks of Baoguo Temple.

Since then, she has to stay in the temple for a few months every year, copying scriptures and reciting Buddha to give thanks and make vows.

……

Gu Yunqiu recuperated in bed for a few days, and when the sourness on his hands and feet passed, he called Brother Shun to go to the street again-

During the time he was lying in bed, Ning Wang came to talk to him late at night, and the meaning inside and outside was the same: study and practice martial arts, don't force yourself too much.

Gu Yunqiu nodded, and when King Ning left, he whispered, "Thank you, Daddy." ”

is not King Ning as a prince, but the father who once really loved him as his own son.

King Ning stood at the door of the room and shook his head funny, although he muttered "What is polite to my father", the smile on his face still couldn't be contained.

With King Ning's words, Gu Yunqiu naturally stopped getting up early to read.

On the day he led his brother Shun to the street, it was the day of the Jingzhong Society, and several markets were very lively: people gathered, cars and horses were busy.

Gu Yunqiu originally wanted to go shopping on the street to find some opportunities, but Brother Shun still treated him as a child, and pulled him to see all kinds of novel bamboo dragonflies, vine carrot balls and little sugar people along the way.

These things are exquisite, but seeing too much makes Gu Yunqiu a little lazy and perfunctory.

He was born again, long past the age when he was excited about a special toy.

Suspecting that Brother Shun was in the way, Gu Yunqiu sent him to Tao Ji to line up, and he continued to walk forward with the guards.

If he remembers correctly, the official tooth of the Jingzhong joint management of the land lease is in Changsheng Lane in the northwest corner of the market.

Changsheng Lane runs north-south, and the north side is a dead end, facing the ten-zhang high north city wall. Under the city wall was originally the North Water Gate, but after the Tongji River was diverted, this water gate was abandoned, and an iron fence was erected on the original waterway.

The official tooth is at the end of the alley, and there are also craftsmen and public fields next to it.

Gongtian is in charge of the barata of Gyeonggi Prefecture, and there is news of all the rental and sale houses inside and outside the capital in the official tooth, and some of the deeds of buying and hiring slaves can also be seen here.

Brother Shun is not here, and a few guards are not as eloquent as him, and he didn't think much about seeing Gu Yunqiu turn into Changsheng Lane-

Recently, a new cloth workshop has opened in the alley, the owner is from Zhangzhou, the cloth sold is brightly colored, there are many ready-to-wear clothes for adults and children, and there are puppets for children to play with.

They all thought that Gu Yunqiu was going to visit the cloth workshop, but in fact, Gu Yunqiu wanted to see the notice board at the entrance of the official tooth and the public field, and wanted to see if there was a suitable person to hire or a suitable field house to buy.

The society day is lively, the people gather in the market, but there are no people on the side of Changsheng Lane.

Gu Yunqiu walked and stopped, as if he was looking at the waterwheel at the entrance of the alley, and as if he was attracted by the raccoon slave licking his paws on the wall, and while being an eight-year-old child, he swept the information on the notice board one by one.

He was looking at it energetically, but suddenly the two of them ran behind him.

They were moving fast one after the other, if it weren't for the guards pulling them down, Gu Yunqiu would have been taken down by them.

The two of them ran over, and a panting old man ran out of the cloth shop in the alley, his clothes were disheveled and his face was ugly, and he shouted at Gu Yunqiu: "Catch the thief!" Stop them—"

Thief?

Gu Yunqiu looked back and understood, even if he asked the guards to follow up and help.

The guards of King Ning's Mansion were not one out of a hundred, and they followed in three or two steps, and it didn't take much effort to block the two people under the big elm tree at the entrance of the alley.

Both of them were dressed in black, one pretending to be a short one.

They scuffled together, tugging at each other's necks, and the rest of their hands were pulling at a cloth baggage.

Gu Yunqiu stood next to the notice board, and after a while, there were many enthusiastic people who heard the sound nearby, and they copied the guy in their hands and blocked the entrance of the alley.

Seeing this battle, one of the white-faced bearded ones suddenly shouted, pointing at the other with stubble and shouting, "You are a good man! How embarrassed to rob the old man's things! ”

The one who was accused by him was stunned, opened his mouth, and held back a sentence for a long time, "Don't be a thief and shout to catch a thief!" ”

It was not easy for the guards to pull the frame around them, so they could only assign one person to pick up the burden on the ground first to take care of Yunqiu.

It turned out that the old man was a guest at his in-laws' house, and when he came out, he brought a burden, and the burden was a gift for his in-laws and some private money for his daughter, so it looked heavy.

He thought that the capital was at the foot of the Son of Heaven, so he was not very guarded, and walked around Changsheng Lane, and heard that there were exquisite puppets in the newly opened cloth workshop, so he wanted to go over and buy some more for his grandson.

I didn't think about it, I just looked at the two pieces of cloth, and called a man in black to jump out from behind and grab the burden.

The old man was so frightened that he shouted on the spot to catch the thief, and a notional man pushed aside the crowd and followed.

Coincidentally, the sergeant was also dressed in black.

There is not much difference between short fights and hard suits: a belt around the waist and a bundle of leggings on the feet, it is really difficult to distinguish between them at a sudden glance.

And this old man has a wound in his eyes, and he is covered with a heavy veil when he sees people and things, and he can see the color outline, but he can't distinguish people finely.

The onlookers also discussed:

There are those who support the white-faced little student, saying that he is clean and has a loud voice, and that he must be a righteous man who catches thieves with such confidence; There are those who support the bearded man, saying that the thief is cunning and has the ability to speak his tongue, but he is short and looks like a benevolent man.

The incident caused a stir, and soon alarmed the patrol officers of the nearby corner patrol.

He came with a few soldiers, and when he saw that the two men had their own opinions, they could not make up their minds.

To catch a thief and take the dirty, you have to talk about the evidence.

The physical evidence is down, but the human evidence is ......

As the owner of the old man, he has an eye disease, and the owner of the cloth shop, the men and the guests are busy with their own affairs and do not pay much attention to it. was invited by the inspector to come and identify, and there were two rounds of people who came down, and a few pointed out different people each time.

The inspector had no choice but to temporarily detain the two and let the yamen break it.

When Gu Yunqiu saw this, he couldn't help but laugh.

Only then did the inspection envoy notice that there was a little boy in a goose yellow silk shirt under the notice board, he recognized Gu Yunqiu, even if the other party was young, he still stepped forward to salute, "Why is the prince laughing?" ”

Gu Yunqiu returned the salute, "I have a way here, I don't know if the adults are willing to give it a try?" ”

The inspector thought about it and asked what the method was.

Gu Yunqiu raised his hand and pointed to the closed North Water Gate under the city wall, and there was a copper bell hanging on the top of the iron fence in the middle of the gate:

"Anyway, Changsheng Lane is a dead end, and everyone is guarding the entrance of the alley, so it is better for you to give an order, let them run from here to the water gate, ring the copper bell and come back."

He paused, his gaze swept over the two men in black, "The one who came back first is definitely not a thief." ”

The inspection made him stunned for a moment, and after a deep groan, he was immediately stunned.

But the white-faced bearded young man hadn't thought it through, and only sneered after hearing it, "What kind of method is this?" ”

"In this way, the lower official understands," the inspector nodded, "just follow the way of the prince." ”

He ordered someone to find charcoal, personally drew a black line on the ground, and after asking the two men in black that they knew the rules, he asked the guards of Ning Wang's Mansion to get out of the way.

Before he could give the order, the white-faced boy suddenly jumped out, and the remaining one was stunned, and then gritted his teeth to catch up.

At first, they could go hand in hand, but after a short half, the stubble on his face easily overtook the young man in front of him, and he ran under the city wall, and touched the brass bell with two kicks in the air.

When he turned back, the white-faced little boy ran to the water gate out of breath.

Before he could go to find the bronze bell, the inspector led his troops to take him down.

"Huh?!" He was anxious, "What's the truth about this?!" ”

The inspector ignored him, and only told someone to take a rope.

The people who watched the excitement next to them also didn't understand, and they asked the reason.

The owner of the cloth shop was a man who understood, he smiled, and kindly explained to everyone: "The thief has stolen something and is on the run, and the owner finds out and shouts to invite the righteous to chase him, and there must be a time lag in between." ”

"Doesn't the righteous man who set off after the time catch up with the thief who 'set off first' proves that the righteous man runs faster than the thief?"

"Just now, this young man is already a ghost in his heart, and he is so far behind, there must be no doubt that he is a thief."

After the owner of the cloth workshop finished speaking, the people suddenly understood.

The thief who was bound refused to accept his fate, and argued: "...... Maybe I tried my best to chase it just now, but I ran out of strength before I ran slower? ”

Hearing this, the palace guards couldn't help it, "What a thief who is good at sophistry!" You just saw that you couldn't escape, so you suddenly screamed to catch the thief! ”

Gu Yunqiu was not annoyed at all, and even smiled at him good-naturedly, "That's it? Then let's play a few more games, how about two wins in three games? ”

Thinking of the result of the competition just now, the man opened his mouth and finally fell to the ground.

Catch the thief and recover the lost property.

The old man thanked Gu Yunqiu for his kindness, and the inspection envoy also thanked Gu Yunqiu.

The righteous man who was almost regarded as a thief also came over, respectfully clenched his fist at Gu Yunqiu and arched his hand, he opened his mouth and called "Childe", and his accent sounded like he was from the northwest.

Under the correction of the guards and inspectors, I realized that the child in front of me was the prince of King Ning.

Hearing the words of King Ning Shizi, a trace of surprise obviously flashed on his face, and after a while, he covered up the past well and changed his words, "Villain Jiang Jun, His Royal Highness Xie Shizi is righteous!" ”

Gu Yunqiu raised his eyebrows, searched through his memory, and found that he didn't recognize this person.

I don't know why his momentary surprise was born.

He secretly wrote down Jiang Jun's name, and only smiled on his face, indicating that it was just a gesture.

Brother Shun, who had finished buying the osmanthus cake, came over, pushed aside the crowd and came to Gu Yunqiu's side, and opened his mouth to say that there was a troupe at the gate of Wuling Garden, "Son, it's good-looking!" Fire-breathing dragons! ”

After such a fuss, it is definitely inconvenient to look at the notice board.

Gu Yunqiu took the osmanthus cake and nodded, "Then let's go." ”

When the group of them walked away, the crowd gradually dispersed, and a thin boy hurriedly ran to Changsheng Lane, he saw Jiang Jun standing under the big elm tree from a distance, and immediately laughed and waved at him.

Jiang Jun also saw him, and took a few steps from the little cloth tiger in his arms, "Dog baby." ”

"Uncle Jiang is right, I'm sorry," the boy stammered a little, "Today, today, today, the son will take Brother Shun to the street, and there will be more work assigned to me in the yard, so you will have to wait for a long time." ”

Jiang Jun frowned slightly, and finally smiled and stroked the child's head.

"I saw your son-in-law just now."

"Ahh——?!h The dog's eyes widened, "Uncle, you, you see ......"

Jiang Jun didn't let him finish, only took his hand and walked to the other side.

Changsheng Lane is facing Shuangfeng Building, which is the wine shop of the Shen family in the high gate of Beijing, the colorful painting Huanlou in front of the door, the gold red gauze lamp, the most prosperous and lively, crowded.

"Uncle, please go up there and eat."

"Huh?" The dog baby blinked, "That, it's expensive there!" Uncle, have you issued rewards in the army? ”

Jiang Jun smiled helplessly, "What kind of reward, no reward, disarmament ......"

"Huh?!"

"Okay, okay, don't," Jiang Jun pulled him through the crowd, "This time back, I also took a detour back to my hometown, everything is fine on your father's grave, and we will talk while eating-"

……

When Gu Yunqiu and his entourage came to Wuling Garden, he didn't care much about the troupe that was performing hard, but he noticed that a few children nearby were pretending to be a family wine.

They themselves made some things out of mud as goods, and picked up elm coins that fell from the ground as copper coins.

Gu Yunqiu looked at it for a while, and suddenly thought that April was the season for elm trees.

When the elm is ripe, it turns white, and it can be planted after peeling off the outer layer of seed wings.

After surviving seedlings, you can sell seedlings, comb branches to use as firewood, and sell wood after you grow into trees, and even if you don't sell them, you can collect elm money seeds again in the next year and sell them as tree seeds.

Moreover, if the elm money falls on the ground, it only takes time to pick it up and collect it, and it doesn't need the capital at all.

It's a pity that there are not many elm trees planted in Beijing, and the entrance of Wuling Garden extends in all directions, and several streets and alleys look at the past, but there is only one such one.

Gu Yunqiu thought about this, and the performance of the troupe over there also ended.

Brother Shun saw that he was up, but he looked down and saw Gu Yunqiu absent-minded, he thought that the prince was tired, so he took Gu Yunqiu out of the crowd intimately, "Son, it's getting late, why don't we go back first?" ”

"Madame will report to the National Temple in a few days, and we will go back to accompany her more."

Brother Shun said unintentionally, Gu Yunqiu suddenly heard the three words of Baoguo Temple, and suddenly felt happy in his heart-

Baoguo Temple is in the eastern suburbs of Gyeonggi to worship Longshan, there is nothing else on the mountain, it belongs to the pine, cypress, elm and bamboo the most. As soon as you enter the mountain gate, there are two big elm trees, and there are also patches of elm forests near the Daxiong Treasure Hall, Luohan Hall and Jingge Pavilion in the future.

"Yes, yes," Gu Yunqiu was suddenly excited, "I want to accompany A-Niang more!" ”

Ning Wangfu also has private property in Baoguo Temple, and there are many vacant and wasteland in several houses, and he can plant it immediately after collecting elm money.

Gu Yunqiu, hey, hey, this time he said that he had to take Princess Ning with him.

It's just that......

Gu Yunqiu couldn't help but raise his hand and touch his neck:

Li Congzhou, he is also in Baoguo Temple.