A misty rain painting the hometown

In the north of the county seat, Gu Ji lived in a medium-sized guest room. The county examination lasted for two consecutive days, a total of five sessions. The examination questions were very simple for a Ph.D.Gu Jilin chose ordinary questions and did all of them, and the rest included random answers and some intentional omissions.For him, it is good to pass the test.

After the Waking of Insects, the spring plowing was very busy, the good paddy fields left by the old Guli, Guji gave Wang Qin free of rent, and Wang Qin also asked Wang Qin to help plant the vegetable fields, and gave him [-] Wen.The cubs the size of a fist and an old hen laying eggs in the fence were all taken to Wang Qin's yard and put under the supervision of the helper.

I went to the private school to find Mrs. Wang, and said that I would go on a trip for several months, and return to the village before April of the following year to take the exam.Old Master Wang suspected that he was making a living, so he didn't persuade him to stay, but only told him to be more careful outside.

Gu Ji tidied up the old Guli house, locked it, and resigned from Wang Qin. Holding an old basket, he gnawed steamed buns slowly and walked to the township Linfeng.In the fields on both sides of the road, three or five busy farmers are talking and working together.Carts transporting dung buckets are driving fast, and people who are buying and going to the market are in a hurry.Linfeng Caishikou, there are two rows of horse-drawn carriages waiting to be rented, a total of seven.Gu Ji rented a seventy percent new carriage for fifteen renminbi, and the driver was a real young man.Waiting for people to sit down, the boy raised his whip, and the horse went straight to Zixian County.

Zixian County is located in the south of Jianan County.The scenery on both sides of the official road is the same as what I saw years ago. They are all green and shaded, only the young leaves are green and bright.The boy drove fast and steadily, and arrived at Yunlai Inn in Zixian County before noon.

In the lower-class guest room, he changed into an ordinary young man's outfit, and did not refund the deposit, so he left the inn with a canvas bag.

At Caishikou in the county seat, Gu Ji got into a carriage.The coachman was a down-and-out middle-aged man. Hearing that he was going to Lijin County, the carriage started running before he even negotiated the price.Cooked food and field camping are only suspended in the county town on the road.Three counties a day, never rest.In the twelfth day, Lijin County arrived.

In front of Fuzhi Inn, Gu Ji got off the car, handed over 20 taels of banknotes to the driver, stepped into the inn, and stayed in a lower-class room.

On February 26, near the Chenghe River, in a deserted house in Xiaoliang Village, Gu Ji changed his clothes again, entered Caoying County by ferry, and went straight to Qinshu Store to get the "letter".

After a year, shopkeeper Fu's old appearance has not changed. He looked at the middle-aged dwarf commoner, and naturally showed a trace of disdain on his face.

"Take the letter from the cloud."

Shopkeeper Fu was stunned for a while, then changed his face in time, and smiled.

"Do you have a proof number?"

"superior."

Shopkeeper Fu leaned over, took out a red-lacquered mahogany box from under the counter, and took out four "letters".Four "letters" have accumulated in one year, and no one has claimed them. He Dongyang's security measures are very appropriate, and Gu Ji is very satisfied, but the "letter" is really thin, and he directly called for the sales status of "Jianghu Fengyunlu" bad.

It's no wonder who knows that the arena is a human arena?The story is limited to one country, the layout is very small, and the vision is not high. Spend a lot of money on this idle book?

Holding the "letter", Gu Ji walked out of the Qinshu firm.Hualiu Lane in front of him was one floor higher. He stared at the high place with a face full of disappointment. He came back to his senses and walked towards the South Lane. He weighed four more "letters" on the way and guessed the denomination of the bank notes.Twelve taels? 20 taels? 50 taels?Behind him, Shopkeeper Fu breathed a sigh of relief.

The owner has inquired several times, but he knows that no one will take the "letter", so he just waits, hoping that Yunshang will come to pick up the "letter".

In the evening, in the back alley of Chenyang Inn, a beggar rushed out, and the sewing man begged for money. There were also two rich clothes who threw five copper coins on the ground. I went to the haystacks of the shacks in the south of the city, only the haystacks had been replaced with new ones, and the three beggars who used to be were gone.

The sky was getting darker, and the alley was brightly lit to the north. Gu Ji greeted Xiao Si, the gatekeeper, and slipped to the vicinity of the North Street Ghost House. Under the night, a black shadow rushed into the ghost house.Passers-by would be stunned when they saw this scene.

Removed the rotten wooden boards against the wall, pushed the boards lightly to reveal the entrance of the corridor, Gu Ji walked in, closed the wall, and went back to the study.Meiyuan was pitch black, except for the occasional chirping of insects, it was very quiet.Qingqiu had already rested, Gu Ji looked carefully at the lamp for a while, but did not wake him up, went to the kitchen alone to boil water, took a bath, and went back to his room to sleep.

Walking on the pier with heavy loads, his body became heavier and heavier, his chest was pressed into a ball, and it became more difficult to breathe heavily. Early in the morning, Gu Ji struggled to peel off his eyelids, and the secret ghost was crushed on the bed.As soon as he left, he realized that Qingqiu was covering his body like a pet dog, and was hugging his neck vigorously.Gu Ji took a deep breath with a light soap scent filling his nose.

"Qingqiu, let go of the young master."

Qingqiu got up as she said, and helped her young master to sit up, she was silent, her eyes were moistened.

"We already have a small courtyard and an acre of land."

The 17-year-old beautiful boy smiled very seductively, and Qingqiu hummed, with an upward sound at the end, very proud.Seeing that the body's body shape did not decrease or increase, Gu Ji knew that Mei Yuan was as usual, so he stretched out his hands and asked him to wait for him to get dressed and get out of bed.

"Did something happen in the mansion this year?"

Qingqiu talked about the big and small things in the house in detail.The mistress, Fang Gu, frequently received a post about the banquet in the back house, and the elder and young master's birthday poem won a good ranking, and the college rewarded him with five taels of silver.The master also received the Young Emperor's Award.The lady has already embroidered flowers and entrusted one thing.Qingqiu took out the wooden box under the coffee table and handed it to Gu Jidao.

"The first handkerchief is already very good."

Gu Ji opened it and saw that the red and gold threads were slanted, and the flowers were plump and oval. When put together and placed far away, they looked like an indescribable flower.

"We Qiaoer are so stupid."

Qingqiu smiled, he knew that the young master has always loved Miss.

"Miss Youlan from the Zongfu stayed in the palace, and Jieshu has been granted the title. The other two thousand women were all sent back to their original places, and the remaining one thousand served as maids of honor. Shangguan Wanzhao passed the mansion last month to see the mistress."

"Does brother know?"

"The mistress didn't send anyone to invite the young master back."

"Go to the woods and talk while walking."

Going around the plum grove from the back wall, Guji’s eyes are full of lush green leaves, and dozens of small trees grow beside the forest. The big leaves are oblong, shaped like pomelo trees, and the small leaves are orange trees. The double-ninth fruit stone can already germinate.

"Do you want to move to the right?"

"No, next year at the latest, I'll take them all away. Keep the single branch, and chop all the excess with a kitchen knife."

"I almost forgot the business, come with me."

In the study room, Gu Ji took out four "letters", tore them open, took out the letter paper and handed them to Qingqiu one by one.

"Let's pool money to buy mountains. It's good to be a landlord. This time, we can pool two or three hundred taels first."

Empty envelopes were stuffed into the smoker and burned.

Qingqiu picked up the banknote and looked at it for a while.He knew numbers and could count, and the two bank notes were all one thousand taels.Gu Ji also quickly looked at the remaining six cards and took a deep breath.Only the first one is two hundred taels, the second one is one thousand taels, the third and fourth ones are two thousand taels, the fifth and sixth ones are three thousand taels, for a total of 3000 two hundred taels.

Qingqiu just looked at her young master.Gu Ji took the silver note, stuffed 200 taels of silver note with him, and patted his chest again.

"It's Qingqiu's. Let's buy a big mountain, build a big villa, Qingqiu will be the big housekeeper, and Guji will make a lot of money."

He said it on his lips, but he was muttering in his heart. When he saw the Qinshu store in Yanxian County in Huiyuan, he also had a book stand. The exhibition books of "Jianghu Fengyunlu" were covered with thick layers of dust.Calculated from the profit, the book has been published in more than 4000 copies.In a country with a population of [-] million but less than [-] million people who are literate, this sales volume is not a small number.

But who are the books sold to?Domestic sales? !Guji was shocked.He didn't know that "Jianghu Fengyunlu" had become a boudoir, and the study had a collection of books.It has quietly become popular in the backyard of gifted scholars and beautiful ladies.Because it is an idle book, no one talks about it.

Gu Ji was not at ease. For a whole month, he took his family's last year's bill, birthday money and New Year's money, a total of 56 taels of silver, and 3000 taels of silver in his pocket. Zhang Bailiang's denomination banknotes returned to Meiyuan and locked them all in the wooden box.

Holding the wooden box, Gu Ji began to think about the bun mountain.The taste of Shangming country is good, and the wild fruit is very expensive. The fruit forest is a good business, but it takes some time to only collect seeds.

He wanted to choose the land next to Zhuyang Zhuangzi, but finally Gu Ji decided to buy the Nanshan Mountain that his grandfather said, and build a villa surrounded by fruit trees.The fruit trees still have to be grafted, and it will be sooner rather than later.But he is still in the three-year filial piety period, so this matter can only be postponed.

But he can go find some rare wild fruit seeds and cultivate seedlings first.In the evening, he talked about harvesting seeds, knowing that the young master wanted to make a lot of money, and Qingqiu didn't stop him.The next day, Gu Ji only took 500 taels of silver bills, and put the rest in Meiyuan.

I bought a new carriage in the county seat, Gu Ji tried to drive it twice, and then drove the carriage to the south.In the north, there are three types of fruits, plums, tangerines, and grapefruits, all of which are wild fruits.There is the sea in the south. Mangoes, pineapple, bananas, lychees, and coconuts should be found in subtropical or tropical regions. They may all be wild and have not been discovered by people in southern continents.I have never seen peaches, plums, apricots, pomegranates, apples, oranges, dates, pears, grapes, and longan. Shangming has not yet developed a substantial fruit industry in China, and only a few flowers have been drawn into the book. There are planted and recognized in the courtyard, such as plum, hibiscus, crabapple, peony, and chrysanthemum.

After leaving Caoying County, go south, pass Jiangling County, and enter Jiaochang County under the jurisdiction of Jiangnan Xingdao.As a traveling doctor, Gu Ji asked the villagers if they had seen all kinds of "medicine" on the paintings, or asked the village children to take them to see the wild fruits in the mountains. Before entering the village, the carriages were sent to the nearby post.

In the middle of the month, two kinds of wild fruits, pears and grapes, were found in Jiaochang County. Guji and the village boy of Liuxi Village discussed that they would pick them in August and collect the full medicine cores to dry. , he paid three deposits first.