Linglong

Chapter 96

The corner of Old Master Yu's mouth twitched, "Little Linglong, are you really a child of the Yu family? You don't even have a sense of dignity."

Linglong said modestly, "Of course I'm a child of the Yu family, so I'll give you my name."

She giggled, and wanted to tell Old Master Yu, "I'm much better now. Grandfather, compared with your wife, daughter, young daughter-in-law, and two other granddaughters, I'm really noble and refined." "However, people who tell bad news are always disliked, Linglong knows this very well, those bad words are just thinking in her heart, and she is not willing to say them out.

Anyway, even if Old Master Yu knew about it, he couldn't change anything.His wife, daughter, and youngest daughter-in-law are all adults, and their thinking has been fixed, and it is difficult to change; as for Jingjia and Jingxi, their grandmother and mother mainly teach them. Could it be possible for grandfather to bring them around and teach them personally? ?impossible.Besides, Jingjia and Jingxi are not young anymore. As the saying goes, "Three years old are old", probably their personalities are like this.

"Grandfather, you are an archaeologist. You should not be good at the work of an educator, and you can't do it well, so I won't find work for you." Linglong felt that she was very considerate of her grandfather, and she thought complacently.

Complacent in her heart, she had a smile on her face, as bright as a delicate flower bud in spring, very attractive.

Seeing his daughter's smile like this, Uncle Yu's originally calm gaze softened.

Old Master Yu beckoned to Linglong, and showed her triumphantly, "Look, little Linglong, what is this?" Linglong followed his gaze to a bronze vessel on the table, almost jumped up in fright, and asked in a low voice. Said: "Where did this come from?"

The bronze vessel is an ancient green color, with two feet, a square body, and a long and thick ear protruding from each side, and a short ear on each of the four corners on the top. It looks like a robot at first glance!

——Could it be that not only I have traveled through time, but also others have passed through time to create this robot-shaped bronze vessel? !Linglong was confused.

Seeing Linglong so shocked, Old Master Yu stroked his beard and smiled, "Little Linglong, it's just an incense burner, why are you so surprised?" Uncle Yu patted her lightly, "Long'er, this is an ancient artifact from the Han Dynasty, which has been kept in the palace for a long time. Yes, is there anything wrong with it?"

"Antiquities from the Han Dynasty?" Linglong sized the bronze figure up and down, and couldn't believe it was real.

Uncle Yu pointed to her patiently, "Long'er, look at the sign here, it's Xiaozhuan."

"That's right, it's Xiaozhuan." After being shocked, Linglong gradually understood, "Yes, I saw it, it is indeed Xiaozhuan."

After Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, "books have the same text, and cars have the same track", Prime Minister Li Si was in charge of unifying the writing of Chinese characters, which is what later generations called Xiaozhuan.This font was not gradually replaced by Lishu until the end of the Western Han Dynasty.

Old Master Yu took a cup with a handle with a serious expression on his face, "This is a bone vessel from the Shang Dynasty."

The cup is slender, with Taotie and Kui patterns carved on the body, inlaid with turquoise, exquisite in shape and superb carving work, it is a rare treasure.

"Grandfather, you sent it!" Linglong extended a thumbs up to Old Master Yu.

Old Master Yu laughed, "Little Linglong, what do you think is inlaid in this turquoise?" Linglong looked carefully, and the inlay on it looked like patterns, and it looked like words. After a long time of identification, she said dejectedly: "It's not nothing I don't like meat."

Grandfather, I think the four words "No meat and no joy" are purely ignorant. Do you think I really know the bronze inscriptions?The pattern on this is very old, maybe it is the work of the early Shang Dynasty, I... I can't get it out even if I want to...

I really have no idea.

Old Master Yu put the cup on the table and looked at it with eyes full of affection, lovingly like looking at a child.Linglong couldn't help being curious, "Grandfather, what is this word? Tell me quickly." Old Master Yu raised his head and smiled at her, saying, "Grandpa doesn't know it either."

"I don't know him, why are you so happy?" Linglong gave him a sullen look, and lowered her head powerlessly.

"Grandfather will figure it out." Old Master Yu said with a smile.

Linglong pulled Uncle Yu's lapel, and muttered in a low voice, "It's done, grandfather has something to do in the future." Uncle Yu said gently: "Your grandfather is obsessed with the study of gold and stone, and it is a great pleasure for him to think about it. ,do you know?"

"I know." Linglong nodded obediently.

"Grandfather, I understand. You asked me to come here to reward me." Linglong smiled sweetly, "Although it's a bit troublesome to deal with the servants, and you have to bother to write the watch later, but these things are what you like ah."

"Yes, there's no place to buy it with silver." Old Master Yu stared intently at the pattern on the cup, and said in agreement.

"What are you going to reward me for?" Linglong asked courteously.

Uncle Yu coughed.

Old Master Yu looked away from the cup with a dazed look on his face, "What reward do you have? Little Linglong, let grandfather think about this, think again." Linglong raised her eyebrows mischievously, "Grandfather, do you have any shopkeepers on hand to add?" Do you want to send you jewelry? Give it to me. The things used in the study are also fine."

Uncle Yu coughed again.

Old Master Yu seemed to be infected by him, so he also cleared his throat, "Little Linglong, since your great-grandfather was alive, our Yu family has been used to being quiet and secluded from the world, and we don't like to join in the fun in court..."

He paused, his face pensive, as if considering his words.

Linglong listened attentively.

"...So, grandfather won't reward you." Old Master Yu said dryly after thinking for a moment.

Linglong rolled her eyes and made a pitiful look, "If you don't reward me, you won't reward me. Grandpa, as long as you don't punish me, I will be satisfied."

Old Master Yu smiled pitifully, "What did grandfather punish you for?"

Uncle Yu touched her little head, and said in a warm voice: "Long'er did nothing wrong, why should she be punished? Don't think about it."

No reward, no punishment, what did you ask me to do?Linglong didn't understand.

She looked at her father with wide eyes, full of doubts in her eyes.

Uncle Yu said slowly: "Long'er, back then my grandfather and my maternal grandfather were confiscated into the capital. My grandfather was indifferent, and he drove back after being interviewed, and spent the rest of his life leisurely; my grandfather stayed in the court as an official, but never Didn't come back either. Dad also wants you to live a safe life, you know?"

Linglong nodded half understanding.

Uncle Yu looked sincere, "Long'er, your great-grandfather was not a nerd, he was talented, he was not constrained in dealing with people, and he was good at being flexible in his work. Why did you think he didn't come back in the end?"

"Because, many times people are too small." Linglong said in a low voice.

Guan Yuanyi's decision to stay in the court could not be wrong.At that time, the country had just been established, and a lot of waste was waiting to be rejuvenated. There was an urgent need for learned people to come out of the mountain to contribute to the court; .

Emperor Taizu was upright and strict, and in his later years he preferred to kill, and the court was full of gloom.Whether it is a civil official or a military general in the court, if he can return home safely at the end of the day, he will hold a banquet to celebrate, "I am still alive today, and I have returned home alive."——At that time, I want to resign I can't even go home.

In such a big environment, individuals are very fragile, and it is difficult to have any clever plan to protect themselves.

How difficult it is to fight against a harsh environment with one's own strength.

"Daughter, you are very sensible." A gratifying smile appeared on Uncle Yu's face, "Sometimes a person is really smart and clever, but she is too small by herself. If she is on a large ship, she can only go with the flow and go with the flow. You can’t help yourself to make decisions about your fate. Daughter, Dad doesn’t want you to go on such a big boat, you’d better take a flat boat, it’s more comfortable.”

Linglong chuckled, "Father, I think so too."

Since this era, in the case of the Yu family, Linglong has indeed planned to do so.

"If someone is on the big boat and strongly invites you aboard, what will you do?" Uncle Yu asked cautiously.

Linglong smiled flatteringly, "Father, tell me."

Well, finally to the important part.That's why you called me here, right?

Uncle Yu said persuasively: "Daughter, the person who invited you to board the big boat is very proud and busy. If you ignore him coldly, he will stop pestering you."

——Well, you still want me to reject Wang Xiaosan.What you said is also reasonable, Wang Xiaosan is so proud and so busy, if I reject him a few times, his self-esteem will be hurt, and he will probably really forget me in the world.

Uncle Yu's gaze was intense, and Linglong couldn't help but nodded slightly.

He cares a lot about this, so don't let him down.

Uncle Yu seemed to be full of thoughts just now, but after Linglong nodded, he felt much more relaxed.

Old Master Yu's attention had already been focused on the cup inlaid with turquoise. He picked up a pen and copied the pattern on the cup with a concentrated expression.

"Daughter, go back." Uncle Yu glanced at him and said helplessly.

"Grandfather, father, Long'er bid farewell." Linglong bent her knees lightly.

"Slow down on the road, don't run and jump." Old Mrs. Yu confessed without looking up.

"Understood, grandfather." Linglong agreed crisply.

Linglong bid farewell to her grandfather and father and walked out. When she reached the door, she didn't close the door right away, but paused.

The grandfather's displeased voice came from inside, "I don't choose the status of the grandson-in-law, the first thing is to have a good character, and the second is to be good to Xiao Linglong..." Uncle Yu's voice was very calm, "Father, I just want my daughter to be safe. of."

Linglong walked out lightly.

Walking in the sun, breathing in the scent of flowers wafting from the roadside flower garden, Linglong felt a little dazed.It was the great-grandfather who didn't come back after leaving, but neither the grandfather nor the grandmother showed much concern. On the contrary, it was the father who had been brooding over his grandfather's death.

Linglong faintly felt that something was wrong, but for a while, she couldn't figure out what was wrong.

Erye Yu came back after seeing off the servant, and happened to walk across from Linglong.

"Uncle." Linglong hurriedly saluted.

Second Master Yu clicked his tongue, "Little Linglong, what you did under the pseudonym Xiaolingdang has affected our whole family."

Linglong frowned, "Uncle, don't mention it. My father is not happy about this."

Erye Yu said apologetically, "Isn't the reason why King Zhou came to our house because of the bandits? Well, if I didn't like to go out and wander around, I wouldn't have been caught by the bandits; if I hadn't been caught by the bandits." If the bandits captured me, your father wouldn’t risk his life to save me; if your father didn’t risk his life to save me, we wouldn’t be able to go down the mountain alive; if we couldn’t get down the mountain alive, King Zhou wouldn’t be able to find me after ten years. Come to the door; if King Zhou didn't come to the door ten years later, he wouldn't have happened to meet you in the study... Xiao Linglong, it's not your fault, it's all uncle's fault."

"Uncle, you..." Linglong was almost dazzled by his string of words.

"Little Linglong, you don't have to blame yourself, it's all uncle's fault." Second Master Yu said comfortingly.

Linglong knew that he had good intentions, and she felt warm in her heart, "Uncle, I don't blame myself."

"That's right." Yu Erye was very happy.

Linglong asked tentatively: "Uncle, do you still remember what your grandfather and my great-grandfather looked like?"

Second Master Yu was quite surprised, "Xiao Linglong, why do you think of his old man? You have never seen him, no, even I don't remember what his old man looks like. He went to the capital in the early years, but later . . . well, it's a sad thing to say."

Although Yu Erye said "tragic", his expression did not look very sad.

This is of course normal.He couldn't even remember what he looked like, he wouldn't have too much affection for his grandfather, and "tragic" can only be regarded as a polite term.

"You and my father have very different attitudes towards great-grandfather." Linglong was even more puzzled.

"Little Linglong, are you okay?" Seeing her preoccupied appearance, Second Master Yu asked worriedly.

"It's okay." Linglong smiled and shook her head.

"Uncle, I'm going back." Linglong bid farewell to Second Master Yu.

"Let's go back, take it easy." Second Master Yu confessed with a smile.

(End of this chapter)