The way to suppress the villain brother

In the blink of an eye, early winter has passed this month, midwinter is here, and the wind here in the north blows like a knife, eroding hunger and bone, and at the beginning of this month, when Yan Zhen bid farewell, he brought the Several old and young servants from this village left and went to the newly bought villa in the south.

In such a time of rapid prosperity and withering years, Gu Qingcheng felt even colder in his heart after such a farewell.On the one hand, he was worried about gains and losses, and on the other hand, he thought that it would be the twelfth lunar month when this person arrived at the new villa, and it would be the New Year's Eve when he came again. I thought that this year's New Year would be with him in this villa. Who knows that this person will spend this year in Xinzhuangzi in the south, and he will still live with his old slaves. Such a situation is quite desolate to think about.

Gu Qingcheng had more subtle thoughts in his heart, during the whole month of midwinter, that is, during the days when Yan Zhen was on the road, he always sighed for himself and sighed for Yan Zhen.However, Yan Zhen doesn't have as much thought as he does. When it comes to emotions, Yan Zhen has a rough mind, and he doesn't really care about things like being separated from the person he likes for a while or spending the New Year alone.

That's how he is, just do the important things, such as buying Zhuangzi, building a house for refining weapons, and hiring labor are all worth thinking about, who has the leisure time like Gu Qingcheng? What about sighing?

The distance between the two places is too far, so it is not convenient to exchange letters. It will take seven to seventy-nine days at the fastest for two letters to go back and forth, and it is impossible to go faster.Those messengers in the post stations between the towns, riding alone sometimes take the wilderness trails, and sometimes they still have to go to the towns and towns of the densely populated cities. Riga is in a hurry.After the beginning of the spring of the second year, Gu Qingcheng couldn't hold back, and sent him a letter first, and then anxiously waited for a reply, until late spring.Calculated in this way, since Yan Zhen settled down in that new mountain villa in the twelfth lunar month of last year until March of the following year, there were only two letters between the two of them.A letter from Gu Qingcheng was written in four pages, because it was not easy to send it in one trip, and it had been two months since I hadn't seen it, so naturally I had to write more, not to mention that I really had a lot to say. He said that as he writes, his nostalgia is reflected on the paper.But who knew that Yan Zhen had finally waited for a reply letter, and there were only a few numbers on it: everything is fine, don't read it.

Gu Qingcheng frowned in anger.How did he know that Yan Zhen was worried, he wrote a letter on this side, and just handed it over to Chuan'er to send it to the post station in the city. Zhuangshang's special person went to the post station to pick up the letter and brought it back to Zhuangshang, and if it was handed over to the owner of the village, and if the words in the letter were too frivolous, then their affairs would be exposed.It's also strange that they didn't meet before they parted and how to communicate in letters in the future, and Yan Zhen was not good at spending words on it, thinking about explaining that he was well, and asking him to write something like his senior brother's Words are impossible.

After Gu Qingcheng received such a letter that didn't even have enough words in ten characters, he was alone in his heart. After a month of reluctance, he couldn't hold back, and sent another letter to Yan Zhen, and another letter. It is full of feelings, and the feelings of caring are not only shown on the paper, but also hidden in the pen and ink.He thought that Yan Zhen read such a letter, to some extent, he wanted to affect the affection between the two of them in the old days, but he didn't know that after about two months, he was looking forward to a letter, which read: Recently, I have been hindered by miscellaneous affairs, and the villager is entangled in important affairs, so the senior brother himself has to make some progress.

Seeing Gu Qingcheng's eyes almost crooked.When I received this letter that day, I held back my anger, and when I went to his parents' courtyard for dinner that night, they happened to be asked by his parents: "There is no news from Yan Zhen this time. , when he first arrived, he sent us a letter to tell us he was safe, and then we never got any news from him. I don’t know what is going on with him now, whether he has become rich and famous there, or whether he has been buried and retired. By the way, Qingcheng, when he lived in this village, he lived in the same courtyard as you, and Suxi also made friends with you, did he send you a word or two?" Gu Qingcheng was not asked He didn't feel so angry yet, but when he was asked, he became even more angry. He still had a sense of his life experience, a feeling of being left behind and gradually alienated after being tendered by that person, and he returned Said: "It does. They say 'blocked by clutter', 'encumbered by important tasks', and tell me to 'make progress'."

He gritted his teeth like that and repeated those words, not wanting, after his father heard it, he paused to ponder for a moment, then raised his head and told him solemnly: "Yan Zhen is very right, you naturally want to make more progress. You It’s fine if you don’t have the ambition to create your own foundation like him, you have to keep what your ancestors left for you.” Gu Qingcheng was unhappy at first, after hearing such instructions, Even more flustered.

When Master Gu heard the news about Yan Zhen again, it was no longer from his own son, but it was in August when Yan Zhen and his Yan family village became famous all over the world. , learned from the mouth of others.And this incident is not without warning. First, in the middle of this year, I felt that the number of people who came to order from the village was obviously less. Later, before I sent someone to inquire what was going on, I heard that there were too many people. People are talking about how great the weapons and components produced by the newly built Yanjiazhai in the south are, and how big the village is, and how many craftsmen there are.The Yanjiazhai in the south makes weapons quickly and well, and the styles are surprisingly refurbished. Once you use them, you can realize the beauty and hidden tricks of those weapons.This seems to be between Er and Er, the momentum of the Yanjiazhai in the south has directly overwhelmed the Qingcheng Mountain Villa in the north. One kind of argument, but the momentum is one-sided, and Qingcheng Villa can't breathe for a while.

Originally, at the beginning of this year, Yan Zhen really didn't know what to name his mountain villa, because he was not a literati, so how could he know what a good name to name, but he also thought of the name "Qingcheng Mountain Villa", because his elder brother called Gu Qingcheng, but in this way, it has the same name as the village in the north, and it is not good to steal the name of other people's villas like this.Coincidentally, his village was expanded later. Originally, this villa was built on the slope of a mountain outside the city, but there was another mountain next to that mountain. The place between the mountains, someone from his village later told him that everything built between the two mountains is called a "zhai", so he thought it would be easier to call this villa a "Yanjiazhai".From this, his Zhuangzi also got a name.

In August, Master Gu at the north side got the news, knowing that it would be good if nephew Yan Zhen didn't find his own way out in the south. The time is very unpleasant.In less than a year, he has become a strong enemy, so what should he do if he continues like this, he can't help but worry about the long-term future of himself, his son, and his children and grandchildren.I think that my two sons can only keep Xiaoan and Anyu in peace, and the things they do on weekdays are so hopeless. It’s just that Chen Xiangyin is all old things. In a few years, this villa will decline.

Master Gu has been worrying about this for more than half a month, and until September, there is still no time to relax.And in this situation, Gu Qingcheng was also troubled and depressed. Ever since he communicated with that ruthless and ungrateful junior, he knew that no matter how much he expressed his affection, what he got was nothing more than a few words of shaming from him. The reply in words is not only ruthless in it, but also written some remonstrance and admonishment, which makes people feel even more uncomfortable after listening to it.After that time, he didn't write any letters to his junior brother again, it depends on how this junior brother will get away from him day by day and month by month.

Therefore, in this period of time, although Gu Qingcheng was troubled and depressed, he still calmed down, but from time to time he would still think in his heart: If this junior brother really doesn't take the initiative to send a letter, I'm afraid he really wants to distance himself from me.

He still occasionally has the idea of ​​picking up a pen to write something and sending it to the south, but every time he picks up the pen, he puts it down again, thinking that if he really does this, it will be really boring, and three seasons of the year have passed That's right, the total number of words that that person sent to him was no more than forty. If he still misses him a little bit, he won't be so careless.

Because of this, he kept calm, how could he know that the one who couldn't calm down was Gu Zhuangzhu.One night in mid-September, when the family was having dinner in the owner's courtyard, the owner asked Gu Qingcheng, "Qingcheng, have you received any letters from Yan Zhen recently?" Gu Qingcheng shook his head , Master Gu was silent for a while, and did not speak, because he was also pondering in his heart, thinking that Yan Zhen's nephew had no correspondence with this village since he left, and he did not know about this village. Knowing about the progress of his farm, everything is secret, and he chose such a farm in the south to seek development from the very beginning, presumably it was intentional from the beginning, just to separate from here, Fortunately, he doesn't have to pay too much attention to sympathy when he grabs business in the future.

After a while of silence, Gu Zhuangzhu said to Gu Qingcheng: "Qingcheng, you have always had a good relationship with him. He has established a firm foothold in Gaoyi over there, and he has a very famous name like this. But what is he with? You have been a senior brother for a few days, and I have such a friendship with his father, so you should visit him." After all, it means that Gu Qingcheng should go south to find out the enemy's situation and reality, and he can't just sit and wait This Yan Zhen collected all the business from all over the world to his one-man village.Moreover, the owner of the Gu village has another idea. He thinks that this Yan Zhen learned some forging processes because he came to his village. Now he has gone out and made good progress. It's so easy to develop, so now it's right to let my son go to him to find out.Is it possible that he is only allowed to steal the teacher? Doesn't he have to pay back what he has learned?

Gu Zhuangzhu held such an idea, and asked his son to let him go south, but Gu Qingcheng was actually unwilling at the moment.Because in Gu Qingcheng's thinking, after Yan Zhen goes out and develops well, it is reasonable to come back to him, otherwise that person has developed so well, instead of taking the initiative to look back for him, on the contrary He seemed to be leaning over, he felt ashamed, and who knew if he would be suspected by others.There is another one, in case he sees something boring, like that person has already married a new woman over there, he may have married a woman, or even that woman is pregnant, and he will be called After driving from here for more than a month, the cars and horses are exhausted, and the heat sticks to it. At that time, I will lose my face, and who knows what kind of heartache will be like?He was unwilling in every possible way, although he was not as capable as Yan Zhen on weekdays, he had always been strong-hearted, and it was really rare for him to take the initiative to rely on others.

Hearing what his father said, he bowed his head in silence for a while, then raised his head and said, "Father, I don't want to go, it's a long way away." Unexpectedly, his father put on an angry face: " Even if you were sent to do such a trivial matter, you would not do it. Look at Uncle Yan’s son, he went out to find a way out when he said he would go out to find a way out. Before he arrived, he developed his villa properly. Are you Senior brother, how many years have you lived in this village, and you haven’t seen any changes in this village! I asked you to visit him, so as to see if there is anything extraordinary in his place, but you I only know that Pian'an is here, I think this ancestor's foundation will sooner or later..." Before he could finish speaking, Mrs. Lin grabbed his sleeves and stopped him from talking.Mrs. Lin was thinking that her son had never been subjected to harsh or harsh words since he was a child, so how could her husband scold him so embarrassingly in a fit of anger right now.

Although the words were not finished, Gu Qingcheng naturally understood what his father was going to say. No one who was eating at this table was confused, but no one dared to speak up.At this moment, the whole flower hall is full of chills, obviously it is only late autumn, winter has not yet arrived, but it is so cold, the big guys only dare to lower their heads to eat, but they dare not raise their heads to glance at anyone on the table, one is afraid Being hurt and scolded by the angry owner Gu Qingcheng, and also afraid of seeing Gu Qingcheng who is embarrassed, anyone who is scolded is hoping that others will keep their heads down and don't look at themselves. look on the face.They were afraid to look at him and embarrass him even more.

Gu Qingcheng paused, and said: "Then let me go and take a look. However, if I can write a letter, I will ask him first. If he doesn't want our people to go, then why should I go?" Isn't it boring?" He originally meant to say "If he doesn't want me to go", but after thinking about it, he changed it to "If he doesn't want our people to go".Master Gu said: "You send this letter and wait for his reply. It will take another two months. It would be better if you just go like this. What? You are standing outside his villa, and he can still You are not allowed to go in? He has learned everything from us here, but after four or five months, he just left and developed on his own. What else is there that we can't see? You sent him a letter first, and even though he replied 'Go for it', he has two months to arrange everything properly, collect what should be collected, and hide what should be hidden. If that is the case , you might as well not go to save trouble!" Gu Zhuangzhu was extremely worried, but Gu Qingcheng couldn't refute it at this moment, so he could only allow his father to give a loud instruction at the dinner table in a rare disregard of everyone's face.In the end, he nodded in agreement, and said, "Yes, Dad, I'll clean up tomorrow and set off the day after tomorrow."