Turning back step by step, Gu Mingzhen sighed all the way.

Seeing this, Gu regret asked, "Ah Zhen, I think you seem to have other things to do in the county this time?"

Gu Cheng has a bad relationship with her mother, Mrs. Gu, since she was a child, she has been taken care of by the Ye family, not to mention the selfish Li family, in addition to Gu Sui's family, she is only a little closer to the third Gu Huai, because the age difference is only three years old, and there are still some things to say.

Gu Mingzhen didn't intend to hide it from her: "Hey, sister-in-law, you see that I am sick this time, all the private money that my mother saved has been pasted in, and even if there is a small illness or pain, I can only survive, such a day is really difficult." ”

Gu Mingyu nodded in agreement, the last time Gu Huai came back, she followed her to the river to touch the fish and caught a cold, and she started a fever in the middle of the night, just because she had no money, she just survived, this bad feeling is really the first time and I don't want to experience the second time.

Gu Cheng was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "I know you have the idea of splitting up, but the third brother hasn't started a family yet, and it is estimated that it is impossible to split up for the time being." ”

Gu Mingzhen was surprised: "Sister-in-law, you know all this little bit of careful thinking about separating the family?"

Gu Cheng pursed his lips and smiled: "Although we are nominally aunts and nephews, I am less than two years older than you, and we grew up together, I still understand your thoughts, to be honest, I also want to split up, so that my sister-in-law and you are a little easier." ”

Gu Mingzhen said happily: "The second aunt said in front of others all day long that our family is supported by the second uncle. ”

Gu Cheng shook his head: "It's not what the second sister-in-law says, we have grown older in the past few years, in addition to the second brother and the third brother, we and the sister-in-law are the most diligent, in addition to not being as good as the second brother in strength, the sister-in-law is not less than the second brother, since you want to find a job in the county, why don't we ask the third brother, what did he say that he has also worked in the county for two years, and he must know more than us." ”

Gu Mingzhen was right to think about it.

Gu Cheng had come to the county to send things to Gu Huai a few times before, and knowing where he worked, his aunt and nephew immediately stopped hanging out, and Gu Cheng led him to the place where Gu Huai worked.

Gu Huai learned carpentry, he followed the master to him is also good, apprenticeship money although not much, but food and shelter, at least do not spend the family's money, and then learned a few years out of the teacher, just the original one in the master's house to work on the person left, he simply stayed, now the basic salary per month is one or two, the rest according to the things made, as long as he made the furniture objects, sold can be pumped a percent, sometimes the business is good, the commission is even more than the salary.

Now that the heavy snow has only been falling for a few days, the road is a little muddy, there are few people in the county, and there is not much work, when Gu Mingzhen and the three of them entered the store, Gu Huaizheng was carving a wooden hairpin with a knife, and when he heard the footsteps, he looked up and saw that it was his sister and two nieces, and said in surprise: "It's so cold, why did you come to the county." ”

Gu Huai put down the things in his hand, got up, walked to the wall, took the cup, picked up the kettle on the small stove and poured water for the three of them.

This move made Gu Mingzhen's favor for this little uncle soar, took the teacup made of bamboo and held it in his hand, and looked at this little uncle carefully.

Although Mrs. Gu is old, she is said to be a symbol girl when she was young, and she gave birth to four children, three of whom are like her, and the only one who looks like her father is the third Gu Huai.

Gu Huai has sparse eyebrows, straight eyes and straight nose, not as handsome as Gu Sui, but he looks like a more pragmatic and down-to-earth kind of person, and this is indeed the case in the memory left by the original owner, this little uncle has been forgiving since he was a child, and he will not talk about people's strengths and mistakes behind his back.

Gu Cheng took a sip of hot water with a water cup, and felt that the cold air on his body had dissipated a lot, before he said: "There is something to do in the county, Ah Zhen wants to see if there is any small business to do, third brother, you have been in the county for a long time, what do you say?"

"Small business, what kind of business does Ah Zhen want to do?"

Gu Mingzhen smiled and said, "Recently, I have been more interested in eating. ”

Gu Huai frowned: "Food, if you want to open a shop, I'm afraid it's difficult, the rent of the slightly larger stores in the county is very expensive, if you only set up a small stall, the place is not easy to find, now the management is strict, some streets are required to be clean and tidy, and the random stalls are caught by the city management, and they will be taken away with the things on the stalls." ”

Gu Mingzhen was surprised: "And the chengguan?"

This is so avant-garde, even the chengguan has come out!

"Well, there is a place that I think is feasible, but I am afraid that my eldest brother and sister-in-law will not agree to you coming. ”

Gu Mingzhen immediately came to his senses when he heard this, the scumbag father was thinking about studying, and now he wanted to come out to make money, maybe he still wanted to wait for himself to earn money and get a few silver flowers from his daughter's hand, and he would stop the ghost, as for the Ye family, as long as the place Gu Huai said was really feasible, Gu Mingzhen was sure to convince her.

"Uncle, don't sell it, just say it. ”

The three of them stared at each other with three pairs of eyes, Gu Huai was not nervous, and said with a smile: "Last year, there was a food street in Ningguofu, which only sold all kinds of food, and nothing else was sold. ”

Isn't this the kind of commercial food street in modern times? Could it be that in addition to Princess Taiping and herself, there are other pioneers in this dynasty?

"Uncle, who came up with this food street?

Gu Huai said with a smile: "It is said that I found an essay from the relics of the former emperor, which recorded this, and now His Majesty is grateful to the former emperor and ordered it to be built, I don't know if there is a talent, but in the words of the former emperor, it is true that this food street has promoted the economic development of the Great Zhou Dynasty." ”

It turned out to be the masterpiece of Princess Taiping, and there was no pioneer in crossing, Gu Mingzhen was slightly disappointed in her heart: "Uncle, where is this food street, I want to take a look!"

Gu Huai stood up and walked to the curtain and shouted towards the backyard: "Hongying, come out." ”

Hongying: It sounds like a girl's name, three little girls holding teacups, you look at me, I look at you, and your eyes are full of curiosity.

As soon as Gu Huai's words fell, a crisp female voice answered in the backyard, and after a while, the door curtain was lifted, and a girl looking at sixteen or seventeen walked out with a rag.

She wears very daily, with long legs and a thin waist, thick eyebrows that fly obliquely into the sideburns, her eyes are as bright as stars, big, bright and bright, which matches the name Hongying very well.

Seeing Gu Mingzhen and the three of them slightly stunned, Gu Huai hurriedly said: "Hongying, this is my sister Gu Cheng and two nieces Mingzhen Mingyu, I have something to do in the county, I want to go out for a while, you can take a look at the shop for me first." ”

The girl who was called Hongying nodded and said with a smile: "Then you go, have fun, don't worry about the shop." ”

Gu Huai thanked her, picked up the long jacket placed by the stove, put it on, and went out with his sister and niece.

It wasn't until he turned a corner that the furniture shop was out of sight, and Gu Mingzhen gossiped: "Uncle, who was that beautiful sister just now?"

Gu Huai stretched out his hand and knocked on her head, "Master's daughter, what do you think about all day long?"

Gu Mingzhen grinned: "It's not a mess, uncle, you have to be nineteen after the New Year, and then you will be twenty in a blink of an eye, my father is your age, I can run all over the ground to make soy sauce, and our family is not poor and can't afford to marry a little aunt." ”

"I think what Ah Zhen said makes sense, third brother, you are not at home all the year round, I don't know what the people in the village say about you behind your back. Gu Cheng added.

The youngest Gu Mingyu was not to be left behind, and also crackled and said a gossip that she had heard in the village.

Gu Huai was not angry at all after hearing this: "I'm not in a hurry, you don't have to be in a hurry, the matter of getting married is a matter of course, you can't be in a hurry, your mouth grows on others, people can say whatever they like, but don't take it to heart, it's not up to them to decide whether I have anything wrong or not." ”

Gu Mingzhen felt that what Gu Huai said was very right, remembering that in his previous life, he was thirty years old and didn't even have a partner, every time he went back to his hometown to give his parents, he had to be pointed at by those villagers, and he felt that Gu Huai should not be persecuted, but ancient times are still different from modern times, in modern big cities, late marriage and late childbearing or even non-marriage and infertility abound, as long as Gu Mingzhen does not return to his hometown, in fact, there is not much pressure, and in ancient times, there were three unfilial pieties, and no queen was great.

Thinking of this, she sighed.

Gu Huai looked funny, and it happened that there was a fried chestnut seller on the side of the road, so he stopped and asked about the price.

When the chestnut seller saw that there were many of them, he took the initiative to lower the price: "There is only so little left, it was originally sold for thirty wen a catty, and there are about four catties here, if a few people buy them all at once, they will give one hundred wen, the weather is so cold, I also want to close the stall early and go home to eat hot." ”

Gu Mingzhen didn't care if she ate it or not, but when she walked in, she saw that although the chestnuts in the pot were not big, they were full of grains, and the skin was fried and exploded, and the burnt fragrance was overflowing.

Before Gu Cheng could say that he would not eat, Gu Huai had already taken the money out: "Let's divide it into four paper bags." ”

He counted out a hundred wen from the money bag and put it next to the wok, and the chestnuts were quickly handed over in a paper bag.

Gu Mingzhen asked the boss again and asked for a paper bag with chestnut shells.

A few people walked and ate hot chestnuts, and soon arrived outside the food court.

This food street from the appearance, built quite tall, the entrance is a very high archway, the middle of the dragon flying phoenix dance carved food street three words, probably because it is still early, the back of the door door is wide open, you can see the situation inside from afar.

The houses are all built in a unified manner, and the layout is similar to that of a modern food street, with tables and chairs in the middle.