The little paper boat rippled away into the distance.
That small ripple only has a moment of brilliance when it falls.
There are many paper boats, but compared with the vast river surface, they still seem a bit insignificant.
On this day, Gu Dan and Gong Shangguo stayed here and participated in a complete Yuzhou festival.
At night, a large bonfire burns by the river, reflecting the red sky.
Many people sang and danced here, and some wealthy families spent money to buy food, and everyone who saw it got a share.
According to local people, this is to let the ancestors see the good days they live in now, so as to comfort their spirits in heaven.
Gu Dan not only saw people from the Xia Dynasty here, but also people from Daqing, Daqi and other countries. Their clothing was naturally different from the Xia Dynasty style and was easy to identify.
Those people also blended in, seemingly unaware of the bitter story behind it.
Time has washed away a lot of things.
In today's era, the hatred between the people of several countries is far less fierce than when the Xia Dynasty was founded. The increasingly prosperous business is one of the evidences.
A festival, for many people, is just a festival.
The next day, Gu Dan and Gong Shangguo continued to ride their donkeys around Yuzhou.
When Gong Shang came to a large palace, he was stopped by the guards at the door.
"He who comes is stopped!"
The guards in powerful attire were tall and thick, and their eyes looked like brass bells when they stared.
"Um?"
Gong Shangguo, who was riding on the donkey, was not afraid at all, "Why?"
"The palace here is under renovation and is temporarily closed to the public. If you want to visit, please wait until the renovation is completed."
The guard looked rough, but he was still respectful.
The reason is naturally due to the fact that Gong Shangguo's beard and hair are all white, and one can tell at a glance that he is a 'famous person'.
Thanks to the relationship with Confucianism, respecting the elderly and loving the young is almost a tradition in the Xia Dynasty. Such elderly people do not even have to bow when they see the emperor.
"Repair?"
Gong Shang passed by and looked sideways, and sure enough he saw a cart pushing stone slabs passing through the small door, "Why don't I just go in and take a look?"
"As mentioned above, it is not open to the public now."
the guard said.
"I'm not an exception."
Gong Shangguo is a little persistent.
Gu Dan also roughly figured out that this was probably Gong Shang's old home.
After running from the imperial capital to Yuzhou, he still wanted to come over and have a look.
"Brother, please be accommodating."
Gu Dan took out a few taels of silver and handed it over.
"What are you doing?!"
The guard was startled and immediately took several steps back, "I have no enmity with you, why do you want to harm me?"
Just looking at the frightened expression on his tall and thick face, it seemed that he was not telling lies.
"ha."
Gong Shangguo actually laughed out loud and said: "The owner of this place has something to do with me. When I get old, I want to visit my old place again. If you are worried about us causing damage, you might as well follow us behind. Look at us With such a weak look, there is no way he can be your opponent.
If we find that our intentions are evil, we can take them down directly. What do you think? "
The guard's copper-bell-like eyes scanned Gong Shangguo and Gu Dan. Seeing Gong Shangguo's sincere expression, he thought for a while and said, "It's not impossible to go in and have a look, but you, a junior, are not honest. You dare to do this again." Bribery will be punished severely!"
junior
The corner of Gu Dan's mouth twitched. The move that had been invincible in Dayue was now ineffective.
But isn't this a good thing?
The two tied the donkey under a tree not far from the door and walked into the palace together. The tall and thick man followed behind them, his eyes mostly on Gu Dan.
"It seems that this trick is not very easy to use now."
Gu Dan shrugged slightly.
“If a country is rich, its people will be strong, and if its people are strong, it will know etiquette.”
Gong Shangguo also had a little smile on his face. Seeing Gu Dan deflated was a rare joy during the journey.
The guard did not lie to them, the mansion was indeed under renovation.
The color of the attic in the distance has faded, and craftsmen are busy carrying various wood and stones up and down. You can still vaguely see the prosperity of this place in the past.
"This is a garden, and at the end is a pasture where you can go hunting on horseback."
Gong Shang pointed in front of him and introduced the situation here in detail.
But that was a long time ago. Yuzhou at that time was far less prosperous than it is now. Although it was not as vast and sparsely populated, it was still similar.
In addition, his father didn't understand what frugality was. Even when he came to Yuzhou, he loved to enjoy himself. The style of life in this aspect is really the same.
"The courtyard over there is used to house Beauty. He is very fertile, and I have many brothers and sisters. In fact, our relationship is not bad, but the adults don't like us."
Gong Shangguo said calmly.
It is common for a prince who is destined to miss the throne to be extremely enthusiastic about sowing blood.
"Although Emperor Zongming was cruel to the people below him, his own heirs did not treat him badly."
Gu Dan was a little surprised.
The second prince was demoted to the frontier, but he could still live such a noble life in Yuzhou, which was indeed beyond his expectation.
"Maybe it's because he's incompetent and even Emperor Zongming doesn't bother to suspect him, right?"
Gong Shangguo didn't give his biological father any face, and he really looked down on that man. He even regarded his own bloodline as a shame, and he had never been close to a woman in his life.
This place has been here for a long time, and many places are in need of repair. The two finally found a small pavilion. Gong Shangguo sat on a stone bench and said, "This is his recruitment pavilion. If you can hire someone, All the 'wise men' will be brought here by him to put on a show."
For ordinary people, what they come here to enjoy is the scenery, but for Gong Shangguo, it is all about stories.
Even if those stories are not pleasant to hear, they are true.
After saying this, Gong Shangguo stopped talking.
Those already dim eyes looked at everything around them.
Some places are unfamiliar and some places are familiar.
It's in the past.
When it got dark, Gong Shangguo stood up first and said, "Let's go."
"Where to go?"
Gu Dan asked.
"Go back, there's really nothing to see here."
Gong Shangguo said casually.
"Okay, please invite me."
Gu Dan showed a narrow smile on his face and came to guide Gong Shangguo.
"snort."
Gong Shang blew out a stream of air from the tip of his nose and glared at Gu Dan, too lazy to make trouble with him.
When he walked out of the gate of the mansion, Gu Dan stopped while Gong Shang was trying to lead the donkey.
The guard following them said as if facing a formidable enemy: "What else do you want?"
"Have you read the "Shen Nong Baicao Jing Yao" promulgated by the imperial court a few years ago?"
Gu Dan did not answer, but asked.
"Isn't that a medical book? Why should I read a medical book?"
The guard couldn't grasp what he meant.
Of course he knew about that medical book. Nowadays, medical clinics are being opened in various places, and they all use "Shen Nong's Classic of Hundred Herbs" as their treasure. Xun Ke, the Prime Minister of the Xia Dynasty, also highly praised it in every possible way, and it was impossible not to hear about it.
"Let's take a look, maybe you'll find something."
Gu Dan smiled, turned and left.
The guard followed them for a long time without disturbing them. He was a careful person. Since he refused to collect money, Gu Dan would not let his work go in vain.
However, whether there is any gain or not depends on how careful he is and whether it is enough.
Each person has his or her own destiny.
Watching the somewhat strange two people riding away on donkeys, the guard scratched his head and looked at his big palm-like hands, "You want me to read a medical book? Can you treat someone with an embroidery needle?"
Having said that, some curiosity arose in my heart.
After all, the other party is far superior to ordinary people in terms of appearance and demeanor.
If he hadn't been startled when he first handed him the money, he would have thought that a banished immortal came down from the sky.
But not everyone can make him so accommodating.
Gu Dan and Gong Shangguo started their return journey.
Although Gong Shangguo didn't say it, Gu Dan could still tell that the trip to Yuzhou had settled some of his thoughts, and the aura of having lived in officialdom for a long time began to gradually fade away.
After getting old, looking back at the place where you lived when you were young will probably make a person see a lot.
In the forty-eighth year of the Xia Dynasty, two people rode donkeys and came to Yuzhou.
"This time, why don't you go to Yuanhe to take a look?"
The last time I traveled from Yuzhou, there was no such thing as the Yuan River. Gong Shang had never been there in his entire life.
"good."
Gu Dan nodded confidently.
"The current chief envoy of Yuzhou is Cang."
Gong Shangguo was a little more interested, stroking his gray beard, "The little guy you raised is extraordinary! He raised hundreds of wives and concubines. When I was still in office, I would receive impeachment reports almost every day. The documents all said that he was lewd and so on."
".Really unfamiliar."
Gu Dan's face was calm and his heart was as calm as water.
Cang?
who is it?
I really don’t know him!
"Hahahahaha!"
Gong Shangguo laughed so hard that he was out of breath.
If Gu Dan must find any bad deeds, his biggest bad deed seems to be that he raised such a guy.
There was obviously such a good role model like him, so why did he become a bastard like Cang?
Just marry, men should marry when they are young and women should marry when they are young, there is nothing forbidden about taking care of yourself.
Even Xun Ke and Xiao Ying were connected by Gu Dan.
But Cang married more than ordinary people, and even Wang Mang had to say that he was ashamed of himself.
Fortunately, in terms of blood, there is indeed nothing involved, otherwise Gu Dan would not be able to cleanse himself by jumping into the Yuan River.
"You."
After laughing, Gong Shangguo shook his head again and stared at Gu Dan's young face that could drive people crazy with jealousy. "When we go to the Buzhou Mountains, we'll look for any young women." Grandmaster. It is indeed difficult for ordinary women to fall in your eyes."
Beauty ages quickly and time flies by.
If there is a real hero in the world, the beauty will hardly be able to leave a trace.
Ordinary women really can't stay with him for long.
Judging from the almost constant appearance of Gu Dan now, I am afraid he can live for a long, long time. After all, he is a great master. There is no second one. It is natural for mortals to look up to him.
"You have nothing to do? What are you talking about?"
Gu Dan raised his brows slightly, "Could it be that you're in love?"
"It's sprouting to the ground."
Gong Shangguo curled his lips, and the two of them bickered all the way to the source of the river.
The bank of the Yuan River today was unexpectedly lively.
There were people beating gongs and drums on both sides, and there were people holding boats on the Yuan River to compete.
If you ask anyone casually, you will know that they are paying homage to a person.
Mo Qiu.
The sage master of the Xia Dynasty and the last giant of the Mohist family.
The Mohists admired frugality, so they did not throw anything into the Yuan River. They only held some celebration activities for such a grand festival.
What does it mean? The situation is similar to that in Yuzhou, except that the scale is larger, there are more people, and it is more lively.
Many people are not dressed in gorgeous clothes. On the contrary, they are dressed in coarse linen clothes and wearing the shabbiest straw sandals. They go around asking people if they need help. Only after asking do they know that they will need help in seven days. , to be a spontaneous "ink artist".
This is no longer just formal gratitude, they are experiencing the pain of their ancestors.
When Gong Shang came here, the Mohist immediately took out his own little horse for him to sit down and rest.
Gong Shangguo sat down without refusing and looked around.
On the bank of the Yuan River, the number of 'inkers' in short brown clothes actually accounted for a full 30%, which is already extremely remarkable!
If the Mo family really had so many people, the prosperity of the Xia Dynasty would probably have to go up several more steps.
However, it is still easy to distinguish between real Mohists and these temporary Mohists.
Because the skin of the ink artist looks very dark.
Under the wind and sun, even warriors can't stand the hardship. They are all similar to the old farmers in the countryside. They look so miserable that they can't pretend even if they want to.
Anyway, that's pretty good.
After finding a place under the shade of a tree by the Yuan River, Gong Shangguo sat on a pony, with his eyes open and closed, and said in a daze: "When was the last time we drank together with Brother Mo?"
Gu Dan had a very good memory and immediately remembered, "In the late spring of Zongming's thirty-seventh year."
"Zongming thirty-seven years."
Mentioning this year again at this time seemed to have become a very distant past, and Gong Shangguo looked a little dazed.
Gu Dan chanted: "Guanshan is a barrier between two hearts. What ambitions are there to bring the galaxy together? There is no need to hoe the traitor with a bloody sword. I lament that the hero is separated from life and death and is in danger."
This time, Gong Shang thought about it.
He cheered up, his youthful ambition appeared on his face, and loudly answered as if no one else was watching: "Full of anger, ask the sky! Ask the sky, when will Wanli Guanshan return? Ask the sky, when will the moonless children be reunited again? Ask the sky, when will we be reunited? Li Chong wields the three-foot sword!"
The people around heard the sound and looked over.
Gu Dan continued as if he didn't see anything, "The temple is wide when all the traitors are executed, and the strong breasts are stretched out. The thieves are sacrificed to Longquan, but why is the sky full of sorrow and resentment? Oh my God, are you also afraid of powerful traitors, and you can't speak out!" "
The two of them said in unison: "The wind and snow have broken the roof and cut off the sky, so why do you show off your majesty to the common people! It's hard to bury the blame of a hero. Where can you go to temporarily escape the wind and cold if you are lonely and angry!"
"Yeah!"
Gong Shangguo laughed loudly. He leaned against the big tree behind him, his eyes a little blurry, "Brother Gu, I'm a little sleepy."
Gu Dan said nothing.
The minister passed by and leaned against the tree stump, his eyes slowly closing.
"What happened?"
Many Mohists attracted by their voices gathered around him. In his gradual slumber, Gong Shangguo was awakened for a moment by the movement from the outside world.
In a daze, he saw a large number of Mohists approaching him, with no end in sight.
so good!
A satisfied smile appeared on Gong Shangguo's face.
He fell asleep.
(End of chapter)
