Chapter 177: Ancestor Worship

The main house of Lingtai Courtyard has been vacant since Gu Hezhang went to Ganzhou, and it was only cleaned by the Xue family that he wanted to come in and live in it, and later Ji Jing cleaned it again after receiving a notice that Gu Xinyue would come back for the New Year.

The house is bright and clean, the furnishings are elegant, and the flowers purchased at a high price are really pleasing to the eye.

Zhang touched the armrest of the circle chair under his hand, looked around with envy at those precious furniture treasures calligraphy and paintings, and said: "Grandpa Guo's courtyard has not welcomed guests for more than ten years, and it is still so beautiful." ”

The corners of Xue's mouth twitched, and his ass couldn't help but move.

The staff injury she suffered was not light, and during this time, she couldn't rest at all for various things, so she sat like this, and the pain was unbearable.

But she couldn't help but come.

The incident of the Marquis of Huibei, the emperor's holy decree, although he did not ask for their lives, but took away the future of the men in the family, from the young master of the Guogong Mansion to Bai Ding and people who could not even participate in the imperial examination, Gu Dalang almost went crazy, seeing that her mother was like an enemy, and shouted, why don't you die if you do such a big rebellious thing.

Gu Hejing has always boasted of being elegant and didn't value the official position, this official position was taken away, and the mood was not at the worst, but after the result of the separation came out, Gu Mohan directly took away 30,000 taels of silver from the second room and things, and he could no longer be calm.

If it weren't for Gu Hejing's thinking that he couldn't come out and fight for his identity, he still needed the Xue family to come forward shamelessly, and most of the remaining money in the second room was Xue's dowry.

Gu Hejing really wants to divorce his wife.

The letter of resignation was written and placed in front of Xue.

No matter how painful the body is, Xue can only come out.

It's just that Ji Jing is guarding with the guards, no matter how much trouble she makes, she is just grabbing her own things with the Wu family and the Sun family, and she can't put a finger in the Guogong Mansion and the old lady.

So when she heard that Gu Xinyue was back, she was overjoyed, and when the granddaughter-in-law of the clan elder came to her to help with the ancestral worship, she knew that her opportunity had come.

The cost of worshipping ancestors once costs more than 1,000 taels of silver, and each time it is paid by the Guogong Mansion, and it is into the public account of the clan.

However, Xue knew that those chickens, ducks, fish and meat would be sent to the Zhuangzi at the end of the year, and they did not need to spend money, but what was recorded in the public account was to be bought.

That is to say, the Guogong Mansion first gave 1,500 taels of silver to the public account, and then transferred it from the public account to the purchase of the Guogong Mansion, but it was something that did not need money in its own house.

Every year, relying on this, she can collect eight hundred taels into her pocket.

And this year, the ancestor worship is the first time that Dafang has taken the lead, and Gu Mohan is not there, as long as the Zhang clan speaks on behalf of the clan elder, it is no problem for Gu Xinyue to take two thousand taels from the mansion.

And the person in charge can naturally only ask her for help.

With this silver, it can make up for the loss to some extent and make Gu Siniang a little happier.

Seeing Xue's ass twisting around, Zhang said apologetically: "Second sister-in-law, I'm really sorry, your body is like this, and I still dragged you here." ”

When the first grandfather of the Gu family followed the founding emperor of Chu State, he was just a mud leg, and there were not many clansmen, but after a hundred years, the Gu family became a big family.

Although there are few people who can become officials, every time they worship their ancestors, it is a big battle.

There are many people, many rules, big posture, and they have to eat lunch together, which is not something that outsiders can imagine.

Gu Xinyue, a person who hasn't even been out of the house much, is afraid that the wind can't touch it.

The clan elder sent the Zhang family to see if Gu Xinyue could take on this important task, if not, the women in the family would have to help.

Zhang's first looked for Xue's.

She was thinking that for so many years, the ancestor worship has been handled by the Xue family, and there are many rules in it, and only she knows best, that is, now that the Guogong Mansion has been divided, it is always a relative, and she should be her aunt's helping niece.

Xue said with a smile: "What my brother-in-law said, this ancestor worship is a major event in the clan, if it is not done well, it is a blasphemy against the ancestors, I ......"

Before she could finish her sentence, she saw two maids open the curtain and enter and raise the curtain high.

A young girl was welcomed.

The girl was wearing a plain brocade robe, with a white mink fur coat on her body, and only a simple hanging bun on her head and two white hostas inserted.

Simple and elegant.

But there is no luxury that the daughter of the national mansion should have.

After the girl behind her took off the big hat for her, she revealed a string of beads made of finger-sized eastern beads around her neck, and the green and transparent jade bracelet on her wrist.

Zhang and Xue's eyes suddenly widened.

That luster, that color, that size, is that an East Pearl is worth a hundred taels of silver, so how much is this string?

And the jade bracelet looks like a top-level jade product, and it is almost the same as the royal gift.

Zhang's eyes were full of envy.

Xue's eyes were full of hatred.

These things should have been hers, her daughter's!

But with this little slut!

Hearing the number in her brain, Gu Xinyue glanced at the Xue family lightly, sat down on the main seat, looked at the Zhang family and said, "Aunt Jiutang, do you have something to do here?" ”

Cai Wei on the road has already said that this person is the granddaughter-in-law of the clan elder, born in a scholarly family, and is a little pedantic, but the clan elder helped a little when he split the family, and he still has to give face.

Her tone was soft, and her body leaned forward slightly, and Zhang immediately felt good, and unconsciously glanced sideways at Xue.

Along the way, the Xue family didn't say anything about this niece, Mu Ne, stupid, ignorant, never seen the world, if the ancestor worshippers let her be responsible, she would definitely mess up, and then she would lose the face of the entire Gu family.

"That's right." Looking back, Zhang's tone was gentle: "This year is the New Year, the ancestor sacrifice on the first day of the new year is a big sacrifice, many people in the clan will come back, grandfather is afraid that you will not be able to do this for the first time, so I want to come and see if there is anything I can do to help." ”

Gu Xinyue's brows smiled slightly, with a smile on her face, she thought for a moment, and said, "What is Aunt Jiutang's construction?" ”

"This." was lightly poked by Xue, Zhang said: "To be honest, this ancestor worship has always been handled by the Guogong Mansion, and I don't understand it very well, so I overstepped it and asked your second aunt for help, which was handled by the second sister-in-law before, and it will not be wrong to think about it, and your second aunt is also willing to help with this." ”

Gu Xinyue smiled, stroked her fingers on the bracelet, and said, "Aunt Jiutang is indeed overstepping." ”

Zhang's face froze suddenly.

"Aunt Jiutang doesn't know why the second wife was scolded by the cane, right?" Gu Xinyue glanced at the Xue family, whose face turned pale, and said slowly: "The second wife wanted to be greedy for Huibeihou's silver, so she slandered my brother for colluding with Huibeihou and plotting rebellion. ”

"What!" Zhang was horrified.

"Thanks to my imperial uncle Shengming, I knew that my brother would never do such a thing, and later found out that the silver was originally a dowry from the second wife, and originally, Gu Siniang would also be beheaded together with the Huibei Hou family because of this, or my brother came forward to intercede and gave such a verdict." Gu Xinyue smiled indifferently: "Such a rebellious sinner who wants to drag the Gu family to death, Aunt Jiutang, do you think it is really good for her to be in charge of worshipping the ancestors?" ”