The long historical novel "Guo Pu, the Renyi Zai Chancellor of the Ming Dynasty", 52

April 18, 1590, the eighteenth year of the Wanli Calendar, was the day of Guo Pu's eightieth birthday.

A few days ago, Guo Kun consulted with his family and prepared to invite relatives and friends to make a birthday feast for his father. Guo Pu refused, repeatedly instructing him not to alarm his relatives and friends, let alone disturb the government.

On this day, Guo Pu got up early, washed up, and went to the study, boiled tea and incense, and sat in front of the case to sort out the chapters and poems he had been an official. Guo Pu weak crown in the middle of the high-tech jinshi, long in Hanlin, but also with the word subject to serve the former emperor, naturally left a lot of word chapters, especially after zhi shi returned to his hometown, there are many yinfeng and moon masterpieces in addition to sightseeing in the mountains, he is hidden in the flute, never shown to others. In the old age, looking back on the past, it is inevitable that it is often taken out and played again and again to make nostalgia.

He took out an old work and whispered, "Preach to the eastern suburbs of the grass hall, and the geese soar in the south of the hometown." The countryside is not allowed to become a deserted path, and the bamboo trees are close to the short wall. Listen to the flute when the rain is clear in the distance of the village, and the curtain is white and quiet to burn incense. Ziyun called himself a Yuanyuan and had been a stubborn lang for ten years. ”

In that year, his father died, guo Pu returned to his hometown to worry about it, and built a grass hall in the backyard as a study, cultivating and reading for fun. After returning to the dynasty, he saw that the official field was in turmoil and the party was fighting with each other, so he thought that one day, he would return to the forest, live in seclusion in the countryside, and be a prodigious man. Later, he returned to his hometown, repeatedly recruited, and wrote many good sentences about nostalgia.

He picked out a few chapters and chanted, "There are three rooms in the hut to cover the sun, and the fence is covered by the wind on all sides; Taniguchi helps the plough to the wild, and Han Yin holds the urn Tuanweng." A few agricultural genealogies, a few ploughing maps between the walls; things are not rich and frugal, and the master is not wise or foolish. ”

Suddenly, a family member pushed the door in, breathlessly saying, "Lord, there is an angel from the imperial court outside the door, let you go and receive the will!" ”

"What angel?" Guo Pu stood up, unable to clean up a few cases, and said, "You go and let the whole family wait outside the gate, and I will go to receive the will!" ”

Guo Pu hurriedly found the imperial dress, and after the dress was finished, the staff came to the gate.

Outside the gate, in front of three fast horses, stood three officers of the Pedestrian Division. The first person saw Guo Pu coming out in his imperial clothes and shouted: "Fengtian Carrying Fortune, the Emperor decreed: Guo Pu, the former university scholar, has a dignified instrument bureau, a source of learning, a former emperor, Ding Xuan, and is the elder of the three dynasties; he has retired for more than twenty years, the mountains and forests are heavy, and he is an example of the four seas." Guo Pufu Bi Old Minister, Nian and Eighty, Tooth Virtue Ju Mao, Famous Position and Long, Grace Number Yi Wo, Qin Order Pedestrian Division Pedestrian Yao Siren Fengzhi, on April 18 to the door, Enzhao Cun question, month to give food rice four stones, the age of the person to six applications, Qin this. ”

Guo Pu and his descendants knelt on the ground, performed five prayers and three prostrations, and said in their mouths: "Emperor Xie Long'en!" ”

After the ceremony, Guo Pu went forward to pay homage to the imperial court angel, and Yao Siren hurriedly supported him and said: "Guo Gong please rise, you are the emperor's auxiliary minister, highly respected, and today is the birthday star Xianweng, it is time for me to congratulate you on your birthday!" ”

Guo Pu smiled: "I am a grass people, the Emperor of Meng does not abandon, even if there is Ganlin, there are Lao angels, please come into the palace to drink tea and talk." ”

Guo Pu led the angel to the study, busied himself with tea, and said, "The angel has been kurama Lawton all the way, please sit down and talk." ”

Yao Siren looked around the study, saw that the furnishings were simple, and blocked Xiao Ran, and said: "On the way here, the three of us still thought that guo mansion must be a deep mansion compound, a high-rise mansion, who knew that it was only a well-off family in the countryside, and even Guo Gong's study was so simple, so it can be seen that the chapters of the successive prefects of Zhangde Mansion are indeed not exaggerated!" ”

Guo Pu was puzzled and asked, "What is the chapter?" ”

"When I came, I heard the officials of the Ministry of Ceremonies say that after successive prefects of Zhangde Province called Guo Gongzhishi retired, he closed his door to study, refused to make friends, clothed with vegetables, and thriftily passed on his family, but he spread benevolence and righteousness, helped the poor and the poor, and benefited the townships.

Guo Pu knelt down and said, "Thank you very much for the false praise of the sages in your hometown." In fact, disaster relief and canal repair, the compilation of the "Chronicle of Zhangde Province", and the repair of the Xuegong are all Huizheng who have been sages and guards in the past, and Guo Pu is only praised and does not dare to take credit. Ask Yao Angel to reply to the Holy Lord, Guo Pu in his old age, get Mu Tian'en, can only lead his descendants to burn incense, kneel down and ask the Holy Bow Ten Thousand Blessings. ”

Yao Siren stood up and said, "The emperor still has an edict, and Guo Pu will compile the "Chronicle of Zhangde Fu" and the engraved Song Xiang Han Qi's "Anyang Collection" into the imperial collection. ”

Guo Pu prostrated, "Guo Pu obeyed the order!" ”

Yao Siren lifted up Guo Pu and said, "Yao Mou is on official business, so he will return to Beijing to resume his purpose." ”

Guo Pu led his descendants to send Yao Siren to the official road, and ordered his sixth son, Guo Can, to accompany the angel into Jing xie'en.