Chapter 45: Housewarming
Out of the kitchen through the alley there is a door, inside the bathroom repaired. In the bath room, there was a water tank and two bath tubs separated by screens, a hanger and a wardrobe, and a bench for changing shoes.
"Tsk, this land is as big as the house we live in. By the way, how do you put two bath tubs? ”
Xu Se replied with a smile: "Our brother Yu is older, so I can't use a bath bucket with my brothers." Let's go and take a look at the guest rooms. ”
After looking at the guest room on the left side of the courtyard, I can't go to see the rooms on the left side of the house, Lou Yuzhu helped Fu Linshu to go to the house to rest, invited Xu Se in to accompany him, and then came out and began to prepare for the banquet.
The three uncles of the Zhang family and a few brothers and daughters-in-law in the village who are skilled cooks are busy with the meals, and the three uncles and Lou Chengyi prepare the tables and benches together, Lou Hua led the Zhang family and several cousins to run inside and outside to deliver some words, Lou Yuzhu and Lou Ming took care of the things to be used, as for the two cousins who were studying, they had already been arranged by Lou Yuzhu to calculate the gift money.
Not to mention, Zhang Jiasanlang Zhang Heng and Shilang Zhang Yuan wore a long shirt and sat down on the red silk case, the four treasures of the study room are really like that! As for the old mansion, those people were automatically ignored by Lou Yuzhu.
When the shadow of the people was still a little westward, tables, chairs and benches were placed in the courtyard and outside the courtyard, and people entered the table one after another, only to see a carriage coming from the other end of the newly built road. A horse-drawn cart staggered over, and when it stopped in front of the door, the old coachman put down the footstool, and Lou Chengzu lifted the curtain and came down to lead down the two men who were dressed up.
Lou Yuzhu raised her eyebrows, no wonder she hadn't seen Lou Chengzu before, she was waiting here. Bring two showmen to give them a dismount? Hehe, I'm afraid I'll slap myself in the face again!
The two Xiucai Gong are also teachers of Luyuan Academy, and they have always been good friends with Lou Chengzu, and this time they came to give Lou Chengyi some face. "You are the third child of the Lou family whose parents are alive but want to make trouble separating the family?" One of the older Xiucai Gong looked at Lou Chengyi with his hands tied behind his back, and his words were all about favoring Lou Chengyi.
Lou Chengyi was immediately embarrassed, and Lou Yuzhu greeted him: "These two uncles are my uncle's friends, right?" Today happens to be our three-room housewarming, and the visitor is a guest, so please have a glass of wine before leaving. After that, he turned his head and shouted at Lou Hua: "Big brother, lead the uncle and his two friends into the hospital." ”
The faces of the two showmen were pale, and they could hear the meaning of Lou Yuzhu's words scolding them uninvited!
"What? The two uncles don't eat a glass of wine before leaving? Lou Yuzhu pretended to be innocent and asked.
Lou Hua couldn't help but smile and stepped forward and arched his hand: "The person who came is a guest, the two uncles, please go here." ”
Lou Chengzu was also angry, but it was a pity that he didn't want people to see jokes because of his talent status, so he had to smile with two friends and invite him to the courtyard. If this can be endured, then it will not be able to bear it if they are only allowed to sit at the table in the courtyard! "What do you mean by that, eldest nephew? Can't even go to the main hall with our talent status? ”
"I'm really sorry for the uncle, the two tables in the main hall are full, so I have to wronged the uncle to sit here." Lou Hua returned unhurriedly.
"Why are the two tables in the main hall full? There are still so many seats! "In the main hall, I was sitting and chatting with Mr. Zhang and Mr. Lou, and there were only three seats for ten people at the round table, and there was a round table that was empty!
"Those seats are already there, but they haven't arrived yet. Originally, the uncle could also sit, but you brought two friends here, you can't let these two uncles sit alone, right? After all, we don't know the two uncles, and it won't be beautiful if the hospitality is not good. Uncles, please sit down, the little nephew will not accompany him if he has something to do. After that, he was busy, but he turned his head and asked Lou Ming to guard the door to prevent Lou Chengzu from running to the main hall.
Lou Chengzu's eyes turned black, and the other two Xiucai felt that they couldn't hold their faces. "This is the banquet that Brother Lou invited us to eat?" After that, he shook his sleeves and left.
"Brother Liu, Brother Wang, stay and stay, my nephew has never read a book, and he doesn't know how to count the two of you, don't meet them with them." Lou Chengzu chased to the door, but saw another carriage coming from the other end.
This time it was a two-horse carriage, and it was not one, it looked like a string from a distance, and there were four carriages coming from a good fellow, and there were three big horses behind it, and the size of the horse was probably not something that ordinary people could raise.
The first carriage drove to the door, the shopkeeper Jiao lifted the curtain and got out, helped out his daughter-in-law from the back carriage, turned around and hugged his little brother, and smiled at Lou Chengyi and arched his hand: "Congratulations, Brother Lou is happy to move and I'm here to drink a glass of wine!" ”
Lou Chengyi was sincerely afraid to greet him and hurriedly returned the salute: "Rejoice and rejoice!" ”
Shopkeeper Jiao was happy, and laughed: "Don't be nervous, brother, I'm here to drink housewarming wine, not to smash the field!" Saying that, when he saw Fu Linshu coming out with his stomach up, he asked with a smile: "This is the brother-in-law who has never met, right?" What a blessing. After laughing, I introduced my family.
Jiao's shopkeeper's daughter-in-law's surname is Liang, wearing a blue-green cardigan satin suit, with a simple rich bun tied in green silk on her head, and a blue bird pecking at the pearl and jade step, with a beautiful face and a warm wrist. I only heard that Jiao shopkeeper has a beautiful daughter-in-law but I don't know that this is the case, Lou Yuzhu glanced at Jiao's shopkeeper's face of Maitreya Buddha, and shook his head in his heart, it is really a fairy flower inserted in cow dung!
Jiao Taobao shook off the shopkeeper Jiao and ran over, looking at Lou Yuzhu with his eyes hooked. "You're Brother Yu, right?"
"I'm Brother Yu." Lou Yuzhu looked at the eyes, where did the cute little angel come from?
"You also have one mouth and two empty noses, it's no different," Jiao Taobao looked at people curiously, and said strangely: "But why did my father say that as long as I have you two points of intelligence, I won't suffer a loss for the rest of my life?" ”
"How do you take that?" Lou Yuzhu is simply crazy. But I don't know that the madness is still to come.
Jiao Taobao finished looking at the brocade box in his hand and stuffed it into Lou Yuzhu's hand: "I'm four months older than you, you have to call me Brother Bao, this is a meeting gift." ”
Lou Yuzhu was dumbfounded, Jiao Taobao had already opened the brocade box and said: "I'm a layman, look at this set of gold-headed patterns or not, if you don't like me, there are other tricks, you can change them!" ”
"Thank you, Brother Bao." Hello Brother Bao, goodbye Brother Bao!
"Hahaha" Seeing Lou Yuzhu eating turtles, the shopkeeper Jiao was so happy! The proud business talent was crushed by a little brother, not to mention the usual depression, and now I finally moved back to Yicheng! Although it's not himself, Jiao Taobao is his species, the same!
"I saw Shopkeeper Jiao smiling from afar, what's the matter? Is this getting rich again? The shopkeeper Zhai led his family members down from behind, and he couldn't help but joke when he heard his voice before he saw him.
"It's more pleasing than getting rich!" Shopkeeper Jiao turned around and beckoned to Shopkeeper Zhai: "Shopkeeper Zhai hurry up, the next carriage will be slow!" ”
Hearing this, the shopkeeper Zhai was angry: "You profiteer! Not like you! ”
The shopkeeper Jiao, who was scolded for being scolded, was not happy, and replied: "You don't seem to make money!" ”
"Yo, you still know how to talk back, why don't I settle accounts for you?"
The shopkeeper Zhai put out the shopkeeper shelf, and the shopkeeper Jiao was busy begging for mercy: "Don't, I'm a profiteer, I'm a profiteer~" He couldn't calculate the account, and he panicked when he counted it. I can't say what I really want to make in four months, and it's the truth to make a fortune in a low-key voice!
Lou Yuzhu watched the two shrewd shopkeepers play a sharp role, shook her head funny, and greeted the doctor who was sitting in the hall who was treating Fu Linshu and asked him to sit in the main hall, and then rushed to the three officials who dismounted behind him and greeted: "Uncle Zhao, Uncle Peng, and Uncle Yan are here?" Sit down! ”
The three officials helped a lot in Liangshan and the paperwork, Lou Yuzhu also used the wine table to say please eat housewarming wine, and then sent the invitation and didn't expect them to come, I didn't want to come from four, but I really wanted to deal with Sanfang.
The three officials sent gifts, but they refused to enter the main hall, and the shopkeeper Jiao took the initiative to pull people. "What excuse me, today we are all guests of Brother Lou, not some shopkeeper and official!"
Shopkeeper Jiao and Shopkeeper Zhai are well-known in Huya Town, and the people in Yanjia Village don't know the three talented people. The two Xiucai glanced at Lou Chengzu with ugly faces: "This is the cowardly and assertive third child in your mouth?" ”
Lou Chengzu was shocked and angry. has always been honest and obedient, has no opinions, and is even cowardly, since the younger brother will know the two big families in the town! No wonder suddenly able to build so in the house!
Lou Yuzhu raised her eyebrows. I have long said that it was a self-slap in the face, but now it is just a beating? You must know that Shopkeeper Jiao and Shopkeeper Zhai were also scholars before taking over the family's business, and their fame is a real person, which is much more beneficial than the three of them who have been poor and talented for most of their lives!
It was nearly noon, and a tall horse came running on the other side of the road. After glancing at the young master, Lou Yuzhu hurriedly asked Zhang Ling to report inside, and greeted him quickly with a smile on his face. "Brother Zhou is here? Welcome! ”
Zhou Cheng dismounted with his long legs, handed over the horse rope to the villager who helped Chonglou Yuzhu and said, "The road is a little unfamiliar, am I late?" ”
"It's not too late, it's just right!" The housewarming post was sent to Pei's Mansion by Lou Chengyi with Lou Hua and Lou Yuzhu, and there were three posts, which were invited by Young Master Pei, Steward Hu and Zhou Cheng. Now I look at it, I'm afraid that the other two didn't come, so Zhou Cheng came, but having Zhou Cheng is enough to represent the other two.
"The young master has something to do with the housekeeper, so he asked me to bring Lilly, where is the courtesy?"
"The young master is busy with the housekeeper's affairs, just say it, what kind of gift do you bring?"
"I'm just entrusted by someone, if you want to go back, Ming'er will tell the young master." Zhou Cheng had already seen the place where the courtesy was thin, and walked by himself.
Lou Yuzhu opened her mouth, and followed with a smile.
This will Lou Chengyi greeted him.
Zhou Cheng arched his hand: "Congratulations to Uncle Lou on his housewarming!" ”
Lou Chengyi sincerely returned the salute with fear: "Rejoice and rejoice!" Hurry inside please! ”
"Uncle Lou is polite." took out three red envelopes and put them on the case, and Zhou Cheng entered the door with Lou Chengyi.
Seeing Zhou Cheng, Shopkeeper Jiao and Shopkeeper Zhai's eyes lit up, and they hurriedly got up and gave their hands: "Brother Zhou is here?" Sit down here! ”
"Shopkeeper Jiao, shopkeeper Zhai,"
Lou Yuzhu led Zhou Cheng into the place, introduced the others one by one, and then went to get busy. When he went out, he saw Zhang Heng probing there, and hurriedly walked over: "What's wrong?" ”
Seeing Lou Yuzhu coming, Zhang Heng breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly stuffed the three red seals on his hand, and said with palpitations: "This jade brother will take it first." ”
"How?"
Subconsciously about to open the red envelope and see, Zhang Heng hurriedly stopped, took Zhang Yuan's gift book and turned to the last page, and motioned to see the last three names.
Lou Yuzhu looked at it suspiciously, and saw that Young Master Pei had ten taels of silver hanging in his name, Steward Hu also had eight taels under his name, Zhou Cheng had five taels, and the gift money of the three people was twenty-three taels, which was several times more than the total gift money of all the people! No wonder Zhang Heng was nervous.
"Do you want to go back?" Zhang Heng hesitated and asked, forgive him for his short knowledge, the five taels of gifts from the shopkeeper Jiao before were enough to surprise him, but he didn't expect that there would be heavier!
"No, you don't." In their eyes, this gift is a heavy gift, and in the eyes of others, it may be the lightest. After putting away the three red envelopes containing silver tickets, Lou Yuzhu said to Zhang Heng: "I know this in my heart. When my cousin was done, he went to sit in the inner courtyard, and the banquet soon began. ”
Hearing this, Zhang Heng was relieved and said with a smile: "Eh, let's go." ”
Soon the food was served, only to see a big bowl of fish and a big bowl of meat served to the table outside the courtyard, but the two tables in the main hall were another stove, whether it was the dish or the plate were very different, the spoon was the second uncle of the Zhang family, and it was recognized that the craftsmanship and Xu Se had a good cooking master.
Accustomed to the chef's skills, he suddenly changed to a farmer's style meal, which made Jiao Taobao eat fragrantly, and unexpectedly added two bowls of rice. After eating, he patted his little belly and said to Lou Yuzhu: "It's delicious!" Is Brother Yu'er's food so delicious every day? ”
"It's easy to eat on weekdays, and there aren't so many varieties. But if Brother Bao comes to play, I promise that it will be delicious every day. ”
"Hmph, I'm like a foodie."
The little cute baby with pink makeup pouted with pink lips and pretended to be angry, which is really cute, if it weren't for Liang Fulang next to Lou Yuzhu to pinch that face, how did it grow? How can it be so cute?!