During dinner, the family saw Xiao Jingkong playing with a golden abacus, and they all felt as if their eyes were about to be blinded.
Xiao Qingkong doesn't have much concept of gold. The only currencies he knows about are copper coins and silver, because at present the family only spends these two.
As he said, he likes this golden abacus simply because it looks better.
Gu Jiao: Probably every child likes Bling Bling things
Any bead on the gold abacus can be eaten by the family for a year if they are picked and sold, but they still have morals.
At night, Gu Jiao helped Xiao Jingkong sort out all his things, and found that apart from the golden abacus, Buddhist scriptures and other books, there were no other valuables, they were all shabby gadgets that looked worthless. what money.
Gu Jiao breathed a sigh of relief: "Is that right? It's scary for a monk to be too rich, isn't it?"
It seems that Xiaokongkong's master loves him very much, even if he is very poor, but because Xiaokongkong likes the golden abacus, he still did everything to get one for him.
Private schools have abacuses, and students do not need to bring their own, so Xiao Jingkong only takes out the gold abacus when reviewing at home, and will not bring it to the private school.
It saved an uproar.
The next day, Xiao Liulang took the "big baby", "second baby" and "third baby" to school as usual, and Yao came to the house with a gift from Gu Jinyu.
Unsurprisingly, Gu Jiao took none.
Yao shi didn't force her.
Mama Fang whispered to persuade: "Madam, you should persuade the eldest young lady. Although the second young lady is not her own sister, she should have accepted the gift because of her appearance."
Mommy Fang really didn't hold grievances for Gu Jinyu, it wasn't her own, and giving her a wink would be flattering her, but sometimes people do things for the big guys to see.
The eldest lady should have the air of the eldest lady.
Yao shi said warmly, "Just be happy when Jiaojiao is happy, there is no reason in this world to force others to accept someone's kindness."
The housemaid sighed.
After Yao Shi left, Gu Jiao went to the town to order iron tools.
Zhao Guo has strict control over iron and salt. Gu Jiao needs a lot of farm tools and needs to go to the county government to register and get a permit.
Gu Jiao went to the county government office.
The county magistrate received Gu Jiao in person.
He smiled and asked, "Why did Mrs. Xiao come to the yamen? But who else in the village is restless?"
His words made Gu Jiaowen stunned for a while.
If he didn't remind him, Gu Jiao almost forgot about the restless people in the village.
The Gu family was suppressed by Lord Gu Hou. The county magistrate was the first knife, and it was he who dismissed Mr. Gu. After that, he gave Xiao Liulang rations, which was also arranged by him at his sole discretion.
Of course, he still didn't know Gu Jiao's identity, he only knew that she had some connection with the Hou Mansion, plus she was Xiao Xiucai's wife, so he treated her a little more politely.
"There were a lot of offending things in the past, don't blame Mrs. Xiao."
It was talking about how he took Gu Jiao and Xiao Jingkong into the prison car at the order of Lord Gu.
Gu Jiao said, "It doesn't matter. I'm here today because I want to make some iron tools. Can the county magistrate easily put an official seal on it?"
The county magistrate hurriedly said: "Convenient! Convenient! I wonder how much Mrs. Xiao wants?"
Gu Jiao reported the number.
The county magistrate was shocked: "So many? Can you ask Mrs. Xiao for what purpose?"
Gu Jiao showed her land deed: "I bought a mountain to open up wasteland."
So the county magistrate understands that land reclamation is not a trivial matter, it requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and it is not surprising that so many agricultural tools will be used.
Generally speaking, it takes several days for this kind of document to go through the process, but because the county magistrate handles it in person, it will be done for Gu Jiao in no time.
Before leaving, the county magistrate smiled and said to Gu Jiao, "If there is something that needs the help of the yamen, Mrs. Xiao is welcome."
Gu Jiao nodded slightly, thanked her and left.
As soon as she walked out of the gate of the county government office, she saw Erdong's family running over breathlessly: "Gu... Miss Gu... I found you... I just went to the village... Your aunt said you came to the county government office... Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, I just need to buy iron tools and get an official seal." Gu Jiao said, and gave him a strange look, "It's you, how did you go to the village in the early morning?"
Er Dongjia rubbed his hands together, a little awkward to speak.
Gu Jiao said, "Tell me, where is the patient?"
"Cough cough!" Er Dongjia motioned for Gu Jiao to give him the document with the official seal in his hand.
Gu Jiao gave it to him, and he asked, "What kind of iron do you want to order? How much?"
Gu Jiao gave him the list.
He took it to the coachman and said, "You go to the iron shop in a while and get things done!"
"Yes!" The coachman took the paperwork and list.
"Get in the car and talk about it." Er Dongjia said to Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao got into the carriage with him.
"Go to Huichuntang first." Erdong's family instructed the driver.
The coachman responded and waved the whip to start the carriage.
He sent the two to the hospital first, and then to the iron shop.
Er Dongjia wiped the sweat from his forehead and sighed, "There's a patient here. It's a little tricky. I didn't find anything else until I went to you. This time I owe you a favor."
Gu Jiao paused and said, "No, this time is my consultation this month."
The second owner was taken aback for a moment: "Ah? Isn't that Young Master Gu not going there?"
Gu Jiao nodded and said, "Well, I won't go."
He lives in my house.
Gu Yan went to a private school today, and the second owner only saw her aunt, so she didn't know that Gu Yan had already lived in Gu Jiao's house.
The second owner nodded thoughtfully: "I see that the young master's condition has improved a lot. It's okay not to go. I'll go again next month."
Gu Jiao didn't speak.
After a while, the hospital has arrived.
It wasn't until Gu Jiao entered the lobby that she understood why Er Dong's family rushed to find her.
The patients in the hospital had already been emptied, and all the doctors and staff, including shopkeeper Wang, were restrained by a group of guards dressed in brocade clothes. There was a dangerous and quiet atmosphere in the lobby.
A young man in his early twenties with handsome eyebrows and stern features came over, with a treasured saber on his waist.
He glanced at Erdong's house coldly, and then glanced at Gu Jiao, but he didn't seem to take Gu Jiao to heart: "Where's the doctor you went to invite?"
The second owner tried to look at Gu Jiao calmly: "It's her."
The young guard frowned: "An ugly girl?"
Gu Jiao put on clothes made by Yao's. It wasn't too shabby, but she still looked like a commoner.
Besides, she's still so young.
"It's her!" Er Dongjia wiped away his cold sweat, "She is the most skilled doctor in our Huichuntang. If she can't be cured, no one in the town will be cured."
The young man looked at Gu Jiao suspiciously.
Small is smaller, but has a pair of eyes that see through life and death, cold and ruthless.
The young man frowned, and finally said, "Come with me."
Gu Jiao carried a small backpack and went to the wing in the backyard with the young man.
There were dozens of guards guarding the backyard, almost one person in five steps, filling the entire backyard.
Gu Jiao also noticed that there were several guards hidden on the roof and in the alley.
Such a strict defense, the other party is only afraid that there will be a lot of backing.
But Gu Jiao didn't ask anything, she was calm and calm from beginning to end.
"You, wait outside." The young man seemed to be a guard too. He blocked Er Dong's house outside the door and let Gu Jiao in.
Just when the young guard was about to step in, Gu Jiao suddenly said to him, "You are also waiting outside."
Youth Guard: "… "
Before waiting for the young guard to react, Gu Jiao slammed the door shut!
Youth again: "… "
The second owner couldn't hold back his laughter.
The more I get along with Gu Jiao, the more I realize that she is actually very protective, and there is no lower limit to her protection.
A landscape screen was erected in the house, and two servants were guarding the screen.
The age of the servant is not too young, similar to Gu Changhai and Gu Changlu, but he has an extraordinarily feminine temperament, not quite like a normal man.
When Gu Jiao was about to go around the screen, one of the servants stopped her: "Please stay."
"What?" Gu Jiao asked.
The man brought a piece of cloth over, intending to cover Gu Jiao's eyes.
Gu Jiao blocked his hand and said indifferently, "How can I look at people and see a doctor if I cover my eyes?"
The servant said: "You can take the pulse."
Gu Jiao said coldly, "Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to looking, smelling, asking, and cutting, and you only treat the pulse as if I were an immortal?"
The servant's brows furrowed, and he was about to rebuke something when the person behind the screen said in a hoarse voice, "Let her in."
The servant immediately bowed respectfully to the screen: "Yes."
Gu Jiao went around the screen and came to the bed.
The man was lying in the veil, with only a thin hand showing.
Gu Jiao sat down on the stool first and took his pulse.
"What the girl wants to see, just see." He said, and was about to lift the curtain.
Gu Jiao suddenly squeezed his wrist: "No, I'm not looking at your face."
Such a big man, is she still alive after seeing his face
Gu Jiao covered his face with the curtain, only showing the position below his waist.
After the examination, the man's face turned red.
Gu Jiao's face was as calm as water.
The man cleared his throat: "Excuse me, girl, what disease do I have?"
Gu Jiao glanced at the screen, and the man understood, and said, "They are people you can trust, girl, but it doesn't matter."
"Oh." The patients didn't care, so the doctor Gu Jiao had nothing to worry about.
"Flower willow disease." Gu Jiao said bluntly.
"Nonsense!" A servant outside the screen rushed over and glared at Gu Jiao aggressively, "My family..."
Before he could finish speaking, he was stopped by the man sternly: "Shut up! Step back!"
The servant gritted his teeth and retreated behind the screen.
"There are a lot of offenses, please don't blame the girl." The man's voice and breath were not too frightened, and it was obvious that he was someone who had experienced strong winds and waves.
"You know what?" Gu Jiao asked.
The man nodded sadly.
Some doctors have seen it and said that he has flower willow disease, but he has never been able to believe it.
He never went out to look for flowers and ask willows, how could he have flower and willow disease
Gu Jiao didn't have much interest in the other party's private affairs, and only gave him a few popularization methods of flower willow disease. As for how to get infected, he had to figure it out for himself.
Gu Jiao continued, "Your illness has been going on for a while, and it's already in the second stage. If you don't get treatment, you'll have to enter the advanced stage."
The first stage and second stage of flower willow disease are relatively easy to cure. Although it can be controlled in the advanced stage, the various damages caused to the body are irreversible.
The man was silent for a while, then asked in a low voice, "Can that girl cure me?"
Gu Jiao glanced at him: "Why can't I come in?"
The man was startled: "You, can you really cure it?"
Gu Jiao put down her small backpack: "I will try my best, but you'd better let them out first. They are always surprised here and will affect my treatment."
The man looked at the screen and said solemnly, "If you hear it, go out."
"Father!"
"Do you want me to say it a second time?"
"Small dare not."
The two servants were worried and went out helplessly.
"Why did you come out?" the youth guard asked.
One of the servants said: "Master let the little ones come out, and the little ones can't do anything. But she is just a teenage girl, and she has no power to hold a chicken. At first glance, she can't do martial arts, and she can't take our grandfather. how is it…”
Before he finished speaking, the young man clenched his fists and rushed into the house, but before he could fully open the door, Gu Jiao flew out!
The youth guard was like a sandbag that was knocked into the air, slammed into the tree with a bang, and hung upside down on the branch.
The young guard spit out a mouthful of rotten leaves: "Say, what about the power of the hand to bind the chicken?"
Gu Jiao plugged the door and took out a penicillin skin test from the small medicine box: "Give me your hand."
The man looked at the weird needle through the veil, inexplicably scared: "What are you going to do?"
Gu Jiao said, "I'll give you a needle, and if you want to recover, just be obedient."
The man said he didn't want to be obedient.
Gu Jiao said earnestly: "Hey, I'm a doctor in the medical center. The whole medical center is controlled by your subordinates. Do you think I can get rid of you if I hurt you?"
The man felt that Gu Jiao's words were not unreasonable, but he did not suspect that Gu Jiao would have ulterior motives, he was simply afraid!
Gu Jiao grabbed his wrist decisively, she was so good at dealing with disobedient patients, and the man didn't even have time to react. Gu Jiao had already done the skin test.
The man looked at the small bag on his wrist: "... huh?"
The best drug for the treatment of willow disease is penicillin, but unfortunately there was no penicillin in ancient times, so it is very troublesome to cure, and there are few cases of recovery. That's why men feel hopeless.
But this disease is not a terminal illness in Gu Jiao's place.
The skin test showed that he was not allergic.
Gu Jiao walked towards him holding the needle: "Be patient."
When the man saw that the needle was several times bigger than before, his hands and feet fluttered in fright!
- It turns out that no matter how many powerful men may be afraid of injections!
"Uh—" The man bit the pillow and endured the most terrifying torture to date.
Gu Jiao packed her things and said to him, "Isolate well and come back in seven days."
However, it was said that after the negotiation between Director Zhou and Xiao Liulang, the flying pigeon passed the letter and returned to the Lin family in the provincial capital.
When Master Lin learned that Xiao Liulang was willing to teach his son, but only wanted his son to come to study in person, Master Lin sent his son over without saying a word.
So on a sunny and sunny afternoon, the white and plump Lin Chengye appeared at the door of Tianxiang Academy.
Lin Chengye's face was tender, he was already twenty-one years old, but he looked like he was sixteen or seventeen years old.
Holding the heavy book bag, he asked nervously and uneasily, "Yes, yes, here, is it?"
He stutters, stammers, and stutters the more nervous he gets.
Manager Zhou shook his head secretly, what a smart child, but he stuttered, and he didn't know if he would be laughed at and disliked after going to school.
That's right, Lin Chengye always invited Mr. Xi Xi at home when he was so old, just because he was worried that he would be laughed at after school.
There is no way out now. Although Lin Chengye was admitted to a scholar, he is only a proliferator. If he wants to stand out among many young students, he still needs to put in a lot of hard work.
"It's here." Zhou Guanshi said earnestly, "Xiao Xiucai will come out in a while, remember what I said to Sixth Young Master?"
"Remember, remember." Lin Chengye nodded, "Let's talk less, talk less!"
Steward Zhou nodded in relief: "Yes, talk less, so that no one will find out that Young Master Liu is stuttering."
"Well." Lin Chengye lowered his head.
The two did not wait long when Xiao Liulang came over from the private school, followed by Feng Lin and Gu Xiaoshun.
Feng Lin also ate with them recently.
Steward Zhou walked forward with a smile, cupped his hands and greeted: "Xiao Xiucai!"
His eyes fell behind Xiao Liulang.
Xiao Liulang introduced: "My younger brother Gu Xiaoshun, classmate Feng Lin."
Steward Zhou smiled politely: "Ah, it turned out to be Brother Gu and Brother Feng, disrespectful and disrespectful."
Feng Lin bowed in return.
Gu Xiaoshun glanced at him and asked Xiao Liulang, "Brother-in-law, who is he?"
Xiao Liulang said: "The manager of the Lin family is surnamed Zhou."
"Ah, he!" Of course Gu Xiaoshun knew that his brother-in-law wanted to be a master for others. His brother-in-law seemed to have fallen in love with him in the past six months, and his grades improved rapidly.
Manager Zhou pulled Lin Chengye over and introduced Xiao Liulang: "This is Lin Chengye, the sixth son of my family. He is introverted and doesn't talk much. I will ask Xiao Xiucai to take care of him in the future."
Xiao Liulang looked at him and said, "I have an exam today, you can only enter if you pass the exam, do you understand?"
Lin Chengye nodded: "Well, I understand."
Without revealing anything, Manager Zhou breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, it doesn't matter if he doesn't pass the exam. At most, he is stuffed in Dean Li's Zhongzheng Hall. It doesn't matter if he skips classes to give him tutoring, but Xiao Liulang didn't say that.
Xiao Liulang led Lin Chengye to find Dean Li.
Dean Li also sacrificed himself to win over his disciples. For the first time in his life, he did something to let people go through the back door.
However, Lin Chengye was a good candidate. He did not take any of the exam papers given to him by Dean Li, and his grades in the classics and essays were good.
He was assigned to Xiao Liulang's second class, at the same table as Xiao Liulang.
Lin Chengye couldn't live in the dormitory, and Steward Zhou spent a lot of money to buy a school district house nearby.
Xiao Liulang took the fragmented time every day to tutor him, one hour at noon, half an hour after school, and another half hour if he came early in the morning.
"Ah, why don't Xiao Xiucai live here too? It'll save you the trouble of traveling and traveling?" Manager Zhou suggested with a smile.
"My lady will be angry." Xiao Liulang ruthlessly refused.
Manager Zhou: "..."
Manager Zhou, who couldn't keep Xiao Liulang overnight, had to find another way, such as replacing Uncle Luo's little broken ox cart with his own luxury carriage that traveled thousands of miles a day, or providing lunch and lunch breaks for Xiao Liulang and his party.
Gu Yan and Xiao Jingkong were people who needed to take a nap. It was better to lie down in the wing than to lie down in the classroom.
Xiao Liulang has no objection to these two arrangements.
Because of the tutoring for Lin Chengye, it was too late for them to return to the village, but knowing that Xiao Liulang was trying to make money to support the family, Gu Yan and Xiao Jingkong had no complaints.
Gu Xiaoshun concentrated on carving wood without complaining.
"Are you hungry? Why don't you just have dinner here?" Manager Zhou said to the three brothers Gu Yan.
The three of them said in unison, "No!"
Manager Zhou was stunned, no, isn't the food here delicious? It's all made by the chef! Just the little lady in your family, can she be better than the chef's craftsmanship
Three people: Oh, how delicious the dishes made by Jiaojiao (my sister), you and other mortals can't imagine!
The township exam is held every three years. Xiao Liulang is a coincidence. This year, he is admitted as a scholar and will be able to take the township exam this year. However, many candidates have already waited for two years.
With the approaching of the township examination, the atmosphere of the academy has become unprecedentedly tense, and even the masters no longer care about the day-to-day, and began to simulate the township examination to write questions for the candidates.
Xiao Liulang would also give questions to Lin Chengye. The questions he gave were deeper and more tricky than those of the masters. Lin Chengye seriously suspected that Xiao Liulang would not sleep every night, so he made a special trip to read the Four Books and Five Classics to give him those sentences that no one had memorized!
At noon that day, Gu Yan and Xiao Jingkong went to the wing for a lunch break, while Gu Xiaoshun was carving wood in the yard.
Lin Chengye was confused by Xiao Liulang's exam questions.
Steward Zhou was guarding the door, and suddenly a servant came over.
Manager Zhou moved to the side and whispered, "What's wrong?"
"The post station was flooded, and Brother Zheng was washed away by the water. He only returned to the Lin Mansion a few days ago, and now he is in the Lin Mansion to recover."
Brother Zheng is the young man who came to invite Gu Jiao earlier. He is the son of a deputy manager of the Lin family.
After Xiao Liulang refused to go to Lin's house last time, the young man surnamed Zheng went home. Who would have thought that he would encounter Dashui halfway.
"When did this happen?"
"A half month ago."
Going to the provincial capital is up the mountain road, the journey is slow, and coming from the provincial capital is down the mountain road, the journey is faster, which leads to Lin Chengye who came from the provincial capital perfectly avoiding the flood.
But if Xiao Liulang and Zhou Steward went to the provincial capital at that time, he would have encountered a flood at the inn just like the young man surnamed Zheng.
Xiao Liulang came out after tutoring for Lin Chengye. Seeing the appearance of Butler Zhou as if he had survived the disaster, he couldn't help but ask, "What happened?"
"Ah, that's it." Manager Zhou said about the flood of water at the half-month station.
Xiao Liulang knew about that post, and it was the only post on that official road. In other words, as long as they go to the provincial capital, they will definitely live in that inn.
Judging from the time, it happened to catch up with the flood.
Lin Chengye couldn't keep up, the provincial capital came quickly, and he had already passed by the station a long way in half a month.
Xiao Liulang thought about Gu Jiao's obstruction of her going to the provincial capital.
This is not the first time such a coincidence-
Because she asked him to buy sweet-scented osmanthus cake, he avoided the medical troubles in the hospital.
Because she came to him for lunch, he escaped the collapse of the dormitory.
And because she was going to spend the night in town, he missed the blizzard halfway through.
Once or twice is a coincidence, three or four times is a bit thought-provoking.
In the evening, Xiao Liulang went to the stove to help Gu Jiao when he got home.
Gu Jiao cooks, and he burns fire to add firewood.
Both pots were used on the stovetop. While steaming sweet potatoes and cornmeal wowotou, the mushroom soup was boiled.
Xiao Liulang broke a dead branch, put it into the stove, and said unintentionally: "Today, Director Zhou said that there was a flood of water at Qishan Station half a month ago. Fortunately, I didn't go to the provincial capital, otherwise I would be washed away by the flood. already."
Gu Jiao: "Oh."
Xiao Liulang looked up at her: "Aren't you surprised?"
Gu Jiao paused: "Oh!"
Xiao Liulang: "..."
Xiao Liulang asked her, "Did you know there would be a flood?"
Gu Jiao said calmly, "No."
Xiao Liulang gave her a deep look, then lowered his head and broke a dead branch: "This time I'm going to the provincial capital, I plan to live in the Lin family."
Gu Jiao grabbed the spatula's hand and said, "Can't you say it?"
Xiao Liulang said sternly: "It's convenient to live in Lin's house, and I also asked Steward Zhou. Steward Zhou said that although the daughters of the Lin family are beautiful, they are all married, and there is no one waiting in the boudoir, so you don't have to worry about that."
Is she worried about the daughter of the Lin family? It was the cousin who was worried about the Lin family!
What kind of blessing for the rest of his life, does he still want it!
Gu Jiao took a sigh of relief, but couldn't spit it out, her face turned black instantly!
Xiao Liulang was almost amused by the way she wanted to but couldn't.
The conversation was about to continue, but at this time, Xiao Jingkong rushed in angrily with a chicken in his arms: "Jiaojiao! Brother Gu Yan's dog bit my chicken!"
After Gu Yan's little milk dog also lived in the house, the whole family experienced what is called a real chicken flying.
As long as the puppy and the chicks come out of the cage at the same time, they can bite all over the floor.
The little puppies are big, but they can't stand the large number of chickens, and they can also form formations, so the two sides are not afraid of fighting.
Gu Jiao asked him, "Then did your chick peck Gu Yan's brother's puppy?"
Xiao Jingkong was silent for a moment.
Xiao Jingkong raised his head and said cutely, "The food is delicious! Suddenly I remembered that my homework was not finished yet, so I'm going to do it!"
A certain little monk who sued first by the wicked jumped out, making sure that she was invincible and cute, but Jiaojiao was so confused by herself that she couldn't help herself and forgot to get angry.
As he jumped, he stuffed the chicks back into the coop, and then ran away with a bang!
(End of this chapter)