The daily life of the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, thick black

Chapter 76

The news of Mr. Zhang's return to Tongcheng caused a sensation in this small place.

Originally Zhang Ying was a celebrity, he just left last year, and his second son came back this year.

Neighbors in the neighborhood sent things over, and when they turned around, Second Young Mistress Zhang returned something in return. Who didn't praise Zhang Second Young Mistress for being a kind person?

It's all about eating people's mouths and taking people's hands.

At any rate, Gu Huaixiu's reputation improved surprisingly after being publicized by them.

Gu Huaixiu himself did not expect that Zhang Tingyu cleaned up the study, but when he came back, he teased her: "I really tried my best to manage my own reputation, why don't you be a wicked woman in style, I, Zhang Tingyu, will definitely not stop loving my wife."

"Pooh!"

The more Gu Huaishu looked at Zhang Tingyu, the more he felt thick-skinned.

The more elegant this person's appearance, the closer he is to the romantic affairs, the darker he is inside.

"It's just reciprocity. I have no grievances or enmities with others. One more friend is better than one more enemy." Gu Huaishu glanced at him sideways, and suddenly saw Zhang Tingyu pick up a piece of chestnut cake and put it in his mouth, and said immediately, "Hey, I said, why are you duplicity? You look down on the things sent by the neighbors in the neighborhood, so what are you doing? Put it down quickly!"

"I married an evil wife..."

Zhang Tingyu sighed, and sat at the round table and poured tea for himself. One of the couple was lazy, and the other had different opinions. They were not very good people.

He said that Gu Huaixiu was not good, but he looked at her.

Gu Huaixiu didn't change his face: "I'm disgusting, if you have the guts, you divorce me. Anyway, I'm a troublemaker, if you have something to do, you can talk to the emperor."

"I'm a commoner, how can I face the saint?"

As soon as Zhang Tingyu arrived in Tongcheng, he was in a good mood, cut the flowers and plants, tidied up the study, maybe this is the way of life, and intrigues in the capital all day, it is better to come out and relax.

When a person leans back on the couch and covers his face with a book, he steals half a day's leisure.

He said again: "Unlike my wife, she has a cook, so she is not afraid to travel all over the world."

"If you are jealous, just say it straight, if you insist on being so vicious, it will suffocate you to death!"

Gu Huai said abusive words on his cuff, and also took a piece of chestnut cake.

Seeing Zhang Tingyu stretching out her hand, she immediately patted him with a paw: "This was given to me by the neighbor. Why do you still want to take it after eating a piece?"

She was merciless, and Zhang Tingyu couldn't laugh or cry, and felt aggrieved: "Young Mistress, why did I provoke you and make you unhappy? Tell me, can I change it?"

Gu Huaishu didn't bother to talk to him, and directly hugged the plate of chestnut cakes into his arms, saying: "Stay away from my snacks, don't come here, especially the claws!"

"I... what is this! Return the claws, you are the claws!"

Zhang Tingyu was aggrieved, and breathed heavily in his chest, "In the words of a countryman, you are a wicked woman, Cheng, I don't care about you, I'll go outside and have a look."

Still a wicked woman?

Seeing that he was going to leave, Gu Huaishu sat on the brocade stool and stretched out his foot to kick him: "I said you are such a virtuous person, it's a good thing to have a wicked woman."

Zhang Tingyu dodged neatly, tall, tall and handsome, just smiled, and said strangely: "Even to eat a piece of chestnut cake, you have to fight with your own wife, otherwise you won't be allowed to enter, what kind of good thing is this?"

"You don't understand." Gu Huaixiu was triumphant, with the tone of someone who has experienced it, "The more evil you are, the more afraid you are. There are many people who are afraid of their wives in the world, but being an official is something that can't be done. It’s because the more you are afraid of your wife, the more you will be able to rise up step by step and step on the blue sky.”

"..."

Zhang Tingyu was speechless.

Gu Huaishu rolled his big eyes upwards, but when he turned his head, he said solemnly, "Do you know Fang Xuanling and Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty?"

Fang Xuanling's wife was jealous, and Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty had Empress Dugu.

When Zhang Tingyu heard it, he shook his head again and again: "I don't know where to read the crooked book and unofficial history."

"Don't you still understand what I'm talking about?" Gu Huai said, who knows if it's official history or unofficial history?She said, "You are watching yourself, why bother the crow laughing at the black pig?"

The more she talked, the more excited she was, Zhang Tingyu threw three words at her: "Cheek-skinned."

Gu Huaixiu said: "It's clear that you have a thicker skin. There was once a gentleman who said that there is a theory of being thick and dark in the world. For example, you: have a thick face and a dark heart."

Thick black thick black, thick face and black heart.

Isn't it Zhang Tingyu?
The skin is thick enough, and the heart is poisonous and dark enough.

For example, everyone knows the trick to drive up the price of tea, but how many people really dare to say it?Dare to make the people miserable, that is the crime of beheading.If this plan is successful, it will inevitably affect the common people.

Although long-term pain is not as good as short-term pain, but after all, there are only a few people who dare to use it even if they know it.

The reason, Zhang Tingyu was not for the people, he just helped Liao Fengyuan, and by the way, helped his elder brother Zhang Tingzan.

This matter has been told to Zhang Tingzan, how Zhang Tingzan will deal with it is not clear to Gu Huaixiu.

But Zhang Tingyu is now pushing this matter to break out early, isn't he black-hearted?

It is said that it is to help shopkeeper Liao, but it is because of the struggle in the court behind it.

Although he has not entered the officialdom, half of his foot has already stepped into the officialdom.

The mud is muddy, but I don't know what will happen to Zhang Tingyu?
Zhang Tingyu understood the phrase "thick face and black heart".

He smiled and said: "Since ancient times, only those with a thick face and a dark heart can achieve great things. If you don't see it, the Han Emperor Gaozu was mean and shameless and acted like a villain in the past, and won the Han Dynasty for 400 years; if you don't see it, Han Xin endured the humiliation. He is very thick-skinned. How can he do that?" Success is Xiao He, failure is Xiao He, the heart is not black, and the end will be hated forever? Don’t you see, at the end of the Three Kingdoms, there were Sima and his son, thick-skinned like Liu Bei, and dark-hearted, who can rival Cao Cao. They can be humiliated, and they can also make the world belong to Sima..."

Gu Huaixiu was stunned when she heard that, she was just saying something casually, yet Zhang Tingyu quoted scriptures and said so many deviant words.

Isn't Zhang Tingyu the Kong sage who played primary school?

how...

Perhaps it was Gu Huaishu's dull expression that pleased Zhang Tingyu, he turned around and picked up a piece of chestnut cake, took a bite, and then said: "It can be seen from this that you praised me for having a dark face and a thick heart, and I will surely achieve great things for my husband in the future. Thank you for your kind words, my lady, I am very grateful.”

Really thick-skinned.

Gu Huaishu almost fainted from his anger, seeing Zhang Tingyu go out cheerfully after stealing a piece of chestnut cake, she still hadn't recovered.

It stands to reason that this word was said by herself. It is impossible for Zhang Tingyu to have heard this novel term from other places before. As soon as she said "thick-faced and dark-hearted", this person can immediately pull out a lot of examples to prove it. I actually praised him, and it was really...

It's funny to think about it.

Gu Huaishu thought about it carefully, and it might not be the reason.

Regardless of the face, the heart is dark.

She ate two pieces of chestnut cake, put down her dessert plate, and went out to see Zhang Tingyu.

Their yard is close to the house wall, there are flower stands under it, and a lot of flowers are planted under it. The Zhang family is not there, but there is an Uncle Zheng who manages everything here carefully.

Zhang Tingyu looked at a stone table under the flower stand, made gestures, and thought that a chess board could be placed here, and maybe he could drink tea and play chess in the future.

Gu Huaishu had just walked over, before he had time to speak, he heard a burst of laughter outside the wall.

She was surprised: "This is next to it?"

Zhang Tingyu was not very familiar with the Zhang family's mansion either. After all, the Zhang family was in the capital all year round, and they didn't come back to worship their ancestors very often. They were occasionally at Longmian Mountain, and they didn't go around the mansion much.

He approached Zheng Bolai and asked, "Is this next door?"

Zheng Bo was old, his body was bent, and his back was a little hunched, but because the second master came back for a long-term stay this time, he thought that the mansion would be more lively, and his face was wrinkled with joy.

"Back to the second master, the next wall is Ye Yuan's family, which is also our prominent family in Tongcheng. There are two sons and one daughter in the family, and now most of the girls in the house are playing with the maids."

Gu Huaishu just raised his head and looked at the other side of the courtyard wall, there were a few beautiful bougainvilleas sticking out, it seemed that the next door couldn't keep the plum blossoms.

She suddenly remembered that the Ye family had also heard of it.

In the past, when neighbors in the neighborhood brought gifts, Gu Huai sleeved others to return gifts.

Because the things sent at that time were stuffed randomly by others, and it was not easy to memorize them all one by one as usual, so I asked the maid who knew someone to return the gifts, but when I came back, I said that there were leaves. The family confiscated the gift, and the reply said that their Ye family had never given a gift to the Zhang family, and told them not to be polite, but to reciprocate courtesy, why bother to reciprocate when it is rude?
Just like that, the gift delivered to the door was returned again.

Gu Huaishu thought about it, and laughed for a while: "Don't let the evil neighbors be by your side."

Zhang Tingyu didn't know what was going on with Gu Huaixiu, so he just told Zheng Bo about the layout of the garden in the yard, and the sun went down after a while.

Gu Huaishu sat at the stone table on the flower stand, yawning, a little sleepy, just waiting for Zhang Tingyu to finish his work.

"Let's pick the ones that are more sustainable... After all, the Second Young Mistress is not a hardworking person..."

Originally, he wanted to plant some expensive things, but Zhang Tingyu thought about Gu Huaishu's temperament, so he simply saved it, and directly waved his hands to tell Zheng Bo that it would be easy to support.

When Gu Huaishu heard this sentence, he didn't refute it. He really wanted to say that it would be best to plant a cactus, but after thinking about it, it was not at all elegant, so he swallowed the words.

Zhang Tingyu came back and saw her sitting lazily as if she had no bones, so she said: "Go in and sit when you are tired."

"Ah."

Gu Huaishu nodded, got up, and was just about to go back to the house with Zhang Tingyu, when he heard the noise on the other side of the courtyard wall.

"Oh, miss! Be careful and come down!"

"Who told Miss to go up!"

"Haha, you can't catch me, can you? I'll just pinch off this plum blossom, and it will be fine."

Just as I was listening, a head suddenly popped up outside the courtyard wall. She was wearing a double-snail bun. It was a young girl with a somewhat crazy appearance.

She stretched out her hand to reach for the plum blossoms on the branch, but she accidentally saw two people standing under the wall looking at her.

That woman has the posture of sinking a fish and a wild goose, and when she looks at it, it makes people feel ashamed; when she turns her eyes, she sees the man next to the woman, dressed in a lake blue satin robe with bamboo leaf pattern, with handsome eyebrows, clear and quiet ...

"what……"

The girl who was about to stand on the top of the wall suddenly yelled, her face turned red instantly, her feet fell, and she fell back directly.

There was a flurry of chickens and dogs jumping inside, the screams of the maids, and the voices of the women scolding people, I really couldn't stop.

Gu Huaishu looked at the few plum blossoms branching out obliquely, but said: "The spring in the garden can't be controlled, a red apricot...ah no, red plum, come out of the wall."

She looked at Zhang Tingyu meaningfully.

Zhang Tingyu said in his heart that it had nothing to do with him, but seeing Gu Huaixi's sour petty appearance at this moment, he felt a little warm.

"Only you think too much."

Think too much?
Can Gu Huaishu not think too much?
Just now, the girl from the Ye family was not frightened when she saw her, but when she saw Zhang Tingyu, she blushed and shrank back, probably because she saw the foreign man all of a sudden.

Who is Zhang Tingyu, who looks like a dog?
Gu Huaixiu began to think secretly, anyway, none of his family had ever met the Ye family girl, neither had Zhang Tingyu.

If the Ye family girl said that she met the young man next door...

Ha ha.

You girl from the Ye family is really shameless, my grandfather hasn't seen you yet.

Gu Huaishu raised his eyebrows, but turned around and said to Zheng Bo: "Old man, build this wall three feet higher for me later."

Zheng Bo broke into a cold sweat and said "Yes".

Zhang Tingyu: "..."

(End of this chapter)