Chapter 160: Round Bucket
At the end of February, in Hexian County, the cold wind was blowing.
The history of the Gu Dai family is too short and the conditions are limited, and there are too many guests who come to participate in the marriage of the Gu Dai family, so most people can only sit or stand in the courtyard in the cold and freezing, and gather around a brazier to warm their hands.
Even so, from time to time I can hear someone say, "It's not a loss, it's a good ......."
These people are talking about the braziers that Gu Dai's two families brought out for the big guys to keep warm, because in Puyang Town and even in the entire Hexian County, which family is not a kang to survive the winter, and few people are willing to use the brazier.
Gu Dabao and Gu Xiaosheng wore new clothes sent by the Dai family, shuttling back and forth in the crowd to greet guests.
Most of the people in the courtyard are young people, mainly received by Gu Xiaosheng, and young people like to shout, so they can hear loud laughter in the courtyard from time to time.
And when they were invited to the main house, those slightly older guests seemed to be much more reserved, most of them slowly tasted tea, occasionally ate snacks, and sometimes sighed about the past and present of the Gu Dai family.
Some people say that Gu Dabao's father and mother suffered a lot when they were young, so they left Gu Dabao a rich family foundation, and some people say that Dai Xiangen's father and mother are stronger, and the family was just able to eat a full mouthful, so they strangled their stomachs for Dai Xianye to study.
"So this study is a scourge, that Dai Xianye has been studying for more than ten years, and in the end, ......" someone shook his head, in fact, the big guy had calculated countless accounts for the Dai family when he was free, if the Dai family used the silver for Dai Xianye to study to buy land, I am afraid that the Dai family's field would have to be doubled several times.
"You can't talk nonsense, you have to look at the person when you read, Brother Min'er is not very good, if you become an official in the future, no matter how big or small, it will be the first in our Puyang Town" Although the big guys think that reading is a waste in their hearts, Brother Min'er's creation is an indisputable fact in front of everyone.
But even if this is the case, few people will want the younger generations in the family to take this path.
Puyang Town has a history of hundreds of years, and the show has never been a show, but it has never been a person to a jinshi, let alone an official.
It is precisely because of this ratio that everyone is discouraged from providing for the children in the family to read and write.
"Yes, but ...... "How many people are there in Puyang Town?" This person didn't finish his words, because Gu Dabao came in.
As soon as Gu Dabao entered the door, he first laughed, and then said to everyone: "Everyone drink and eat well, and when the newcomers worship heaven and earth in a while, we will have a banquet ......."
The people who came today, to be honest, most of them came hungry, so Gu Dabao prepared snacks in advance, what he was afraid of was that if someone came hungry, it would add bad luck to the happy event.
"Okay, Dabao, this time Brother Min and Sister Lin went to the capital, why don't you send them off?" The general environment is almost the same, this kind of hungry going to someone else's house to eat, no one will joke about it, not to mention that the Gu family has done enough face, so these people will talk to Gu Dabao.
"Don't go, Brother Min'er is older, and Sister Lin is also smart...... Besides, they have a note opened by Lord Qin along the way, and they can live in the post station, what is the post station? There is food and drink, we don't have to worry about it......"
"Oh, Brother Min'er is terrible, that post station is the official's field, we small people can't even get close, Brother Min'er can live all the way to the capital?" It's good to say that everyone didn't know before, but now that they know, the whole room is shocked, envious, really envious!
Gu Dabao can be regarded as finding the shining point, and his face is full of red light and excitedly said: "Yes, Lord Qin has even opened the strip......"
"Oh yo oh...... But it took a lot of money to get past this journey, right? "The commonality of this person is that no matter where he goes, the first thing he pays attention to is silver, especially when he is hungry, silver will always be put first.
"It's not much, I heard that the food inside is cheaper than the outside, after all, it is the imperial court for the official family......" Gu Dabao inquired early in the morning, and heard that the buns inside are bigger than the outside, but the price is cheaper than the outside, and the other dishes are the same, the portion is more than the outside, but the price is more than half cheaper.
When everyone heard this gossip, they couldn't help but have a high expectation for the people who were officials, and complained that it was so difficult to take the Jinshi exam, and there would be so many scholars in the world.
Gu Dabao, who was complimented by everyone, spoke freely as if he had lived in a post station, and fooled everyone to the point that they didn't want to.
Gu Dabao was proud, but the Chen family was directing the juniors of the Gu family to sort out the offering table at this time, and after a while, the offering table used by Gu Xiaomin and Dai Shuanglin to worship the hall was placed in the courtyard.
In fact, speaking of which, it is not the Gu family that does this, and many large families have arranged it in the same way.
And the reason for doing this, because most of the houses at this time were built cramped, really to say, because to burn the kang, after removing the two stoves in the middle of the house, it is great to be able to accommodate twenty people, not to mention that there are many guests who come today, in order to let everyone feast their eyes, and in order to make the day more lively, so the offering table is specially set up in the courtyard.
Today's offering table is a long table originally placed in the main house for the New Year, and at this time it is covered with a big red cloth, and on it is placed with wedding candles and various offerings, whole chickens, whole ducks, whole fish, and a big pig's head......
Looking at the offerings that were placed on the wedding table one after another, the big guys all swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva, my mother, this pro-marriage is too luxurious.
But more extravagance is yet to come.
I saw that the Chen clan commanded four young men from the Gu clan to carry two brand-new round buckets covered with big red envelope skins, which were woven with peeled wicker, and the off-white wicker was woven into a dense and dense way, and the huge round buckets were pleasing to look at.
As soon as the big red envelope was lifted, everyone shouted "wow" in unison.
I saw that there were several round and big white steamed buns in each of the two round buckets, the steamed buns were as white as snowflakes, and the key was that such a big steamed bun was steamed so smooth that there were no cracks at all.
Northerners all know that the bigger the steamed bun, the easier it is to crack, and if you want to have no cracks, you rely on kneading technology and the heat when burning, anyway, this is not something that ordinary people can steam out.
These dozen or so big white-faced steamed buns bowed to the wedding table, and the whole courtyard seemed to be wafting with a smell of wheat fragrance, which made everyone drool.
At this time, Dai Shuanglin, who was sitting in a big red sedan chair with her head covered, was carried by the sedan chair drivers to walk through two streets, and she was dizzy, God, she never knew what motion sickness was in her previous life, but now she actually experienced a sedan chair, and she was really dizzy to the point that her intestines were knotted.
The key is that he has only walked a few streets now, and there is still most of the county to go next, if he has been carried out like this, Dai Shuanglin is depressed and wants to hit the sedan chair. (To be continued.) )