Chapter 51: A Very Similar Person
Duan Yi and Doctor Qi looked at each other.
Mr. Guan said without being squinted and said directly, "If I were in Jiannan, I would have remembered an old thing. Our Guan family inherited the family business, regardless of the elders and the younger, the older, the older, the older, the older, the older, the older, the older, the more powerful the craftsmanship."
"I had two people in my generation back then, each with their own strengths. One is me, I am a steady person and suitable for building houses and bridges. I was already well-known when I was young; but my younger brother Guan Zhongqiu was completely opposite to me."
"He is agile and doesn't want to build a house day after day, and is devoted to studying the secret techniques of the mechanism. My father thinks that he has gone astray. What kind of ordinary people can be an ordinary person? Once he has achieved his cultivation, we craftsmen like us may be killed and silenced."
"Zhongqiu was young and energetic. He had a big fight with his father, so he went out alone to explore the world. Just when we all thought he was dead outside, he suddenly came back and brought back a girl."
Mr. Guan said, looking up and down at Duan Yi, and he sighed lightly, "Do you still remember the first time we met?"
Duan Yi nodded, "You have been looking at me and asked me if there are any relatives from my grandmother. My grandmother was born in the Lu family of Fanyang, with lush branches and leaves. There are too many relatives from the same clan, and I can't count them."
She said, frowned thoughtfully, "Are you trying to say that the girl Guan Zhongqiu brought back is very similar to me?"
Speaking of the old charlatan when he died, he looked at her and said something like that.
Mr. Guan looked at Duan Yi in surprise, "I told you to make a big mistake."
"That girl is not very similar to you, but she is also seven or eight. When I saw you at the Duan family's grave, I wondered in my heart, if it weren't for the mother Jiang who came to look for someone, she said that you were the third girl of the Duan family, I even wanted to ask you if you had heard of my brother."
"The girl wore a sword around her waist, dressed in a begonia red dress, she was very beautiful, and she spoke nice official words. She was not a lady from a noble family, but a swordsman in the world."
Duan Yi held her cheek and listened carefully to Mr. Guan’s talk about the ancients.
After a glance at the outskirts, Cui Zigeng and Mr. Yan walked out at the right time. They each served a plate of dishes and placed them on the Eight Immortals table in the main hall.
"Because Tong Zhongqiu hasn't seen each other for many years, I remember the scene that day very clearly. The girl said that her name was Chu Ge, and she bought a barren mountain nearby and wanted to build a farmhouse on the top of the mountain."
"You know, there are many ridges here, and there are many martial arts people who come here to establish sects. In the end, they either become empty and have a ghost house, or they will become a bandit's nest. If they work for a long time, there will be only Shushan."
"At that time, we thought this girl was such a fantasy person, so we didn't care too much. As long as Zhongqiu came back, it would be a great joy. I wanted to help, but Zhongqiu refused, saying that there was an old house on the barren mountain that Chu Ge bought."
"It's all he needs to change. At that time, I was in my prime and had a lot of things to do, so I didn't take it seriously. About a year later, suddenly one day, Zhongqiu came back in a daze."
Duan Yi saw that Mr. Guan was choked and sighed, and she looked into the main hall.
Cui Zigeng and Mr. Yan had already arranged the dishes and chopsticks. They were half leaning in front of the door, listening attentively to Mr. Guan.
Seeing Duan Yi's appearance, Cui Zi said with a silence, "Come and eat. If the meat is cold, it will not be delicious."
Mr. Guan rubbed his eyes, nodded, and slowly stood up, "It's time to eat. In order to wait for such a meal, Gongzhong Qi was useless to eat."
The old Doctor Qi blushed and cleared his throat, "Who said I was useless? I obviously ate the melon!"
"Well, the melons planted by my uncle will bear fruit all year round. If I were to sell them in winter, I should have made a fortune. Why do I cry and shout to be an unfilial son?"
When Doctor Qi heard this, the flowers exploded instantly.
Cui Zigeng's cold face, with such words, was full of mockery.
"You care about heaven and earth, and you still care about melon planting? What's wrong with me if I am an unfilial son? If you are a filial son, someone will want me?"
Cui Zi didn't answer the conversation, lowered his eyes, walked to the table and sat down.
Qi Langzhong was stunned and suddenly remembered that Cui Yu was killed and Cui Zi was even driven out of Jiangnan Road. He felt that he had lost his words and felt a little uncomfortable.
He hugged Mr. Guan's arm, "We said while eating, I'm talking nonsense. Is it okay for obedient people to enter the left ear and exit the right ear. We have known each other for so many years, but who doesn't know that my mouth is born to owe it!"
While he was talking, he observed Cui Zigeng. After watching for a long time, he could not see the reason, so he gave up and ignored it.
Duan Yi looked speechless.
Look at Cui Zigeng's face, what's the difference between going to a temple to see Guanyin? It's the same thing that remains unchanged for thousands of years.
Mr. Guan obviously saw something, so he cleared his throat and continued to speak.
"After Zhongqiu came back, he said that Chu Ge liked scholars and now he had already made a marriage and wanted to marry to Kyoto. After that, he never went out again and only worked in small institutions at home, or Trojan horses and other things."
"My father arranged several marriages for him, but he didn't agree. It took about a year to go through it. It was very cold that winter that year. It was rare for half a month to snow heavily in Jincheng, and many people were frozen to death."
"Zhongqiu was infected with wind and cold symptoms and died soon."
The five people on the table suddenly became quiet.
Duan Yi picked up the wine pot on the table and filled Mr. Guan with wine.
Mr. Guan picked up the wine cup and drank it all, "It was something that happened many years ago. Because Zhongqiu left early and had no children, let alone people outside, even the younger generation of the Guan family may not know about this."
"Duan Yi, look at this, is it something you want to know?"
Duan Yi nodded heavily, she glanced at Cui Zigeng and said, "Maybe Chu Ge really has anything to do with me! I don't know why they all want to go to Guanyuan. You must be careful, old man."
Cui Zi felt her gaze even more, picked up the spoon and scooped a bowl of soup for everyone on the table.
"Drink the West Lake beef soup while it's hot. That Chu Ge does have something to do with you." Cui Zig also picked up the soup bowl and took a sip, and said something amazing.
"What do you know?" Duan Yi asked with a complicated expression.
Cui Zi even shook his head, "I don't know much. But do you remember the hairpin you gave me to repay my life-saving grace?"
Chapter completed!