Chapter 64: Jade Dog Golden Dog
"Oops! My little brother is really a golden doll! Zhu's mother held up Zhou Kai's little head, hugged him vertically, and immediately hugged him in her arms.
The little Zhou Kai in the swaddling clothes was so happy that he grinned toothlessly.
The boy who had just completed the moon was indeed in good health, and he ate and slept, and after sleeping and eating for a month, he suddenly grew five or six pounds of meat, and his whole body was round and round. Now he sleeps a little less, as long as he is awake, he must be carried around, and from time to time he wants to stand for a while, and he is energetic.
Thinking about the medicinal bath that his master made for him every day since his younger brother was born, Man Yun pursed his lips and smiled.
Although Zhou Kai did not learn poison like her, he said falsely that the children who have used the golden crow are strong in anti-toxicity, and the supplemented medicine soup is soaked every day, and in the future, it can barely be mixed with a hundred poisons, and the body bones will be much stronger than ordinary children.
Mother Zhu saw Manyun sitting on the side and was unhappy, but she put away the laugh lines on her fat face, snorted heavily, and said, "It's not nonsense, my little brother is golden!" For his last genealogy, the old man gave up the money Yinhai! ”
The warm atmosphere in the room suddenly froze, and Du Shi, who was leaning on the head of the bed, coughed softly, and Jiang and Gao, who were sitting with him, sighed helplessly almost at the same time.
Zhou Xian and Xibei Zhou Mansion did not leak a little bit before Zhou Kai's full moon ceremony, and it was only in the past few days after the ceremony was completed that people successively sorted out Zhou Xian's blood for his grandson through a series of actions of Xiao Zhoufu.
The 200 acres of fertile land in Zeting Town, the southern suburb of Huocheng County, which was privately owned by Xiao Zhoufu, was converted into a sacrificial field in the clan, and 20,000 taels of silver were donated to repair the ancestral hall and clan studies...... The third master of Xiao Zhou's mansion reported to the old man that there was not so much cash in the mansion for a while, so Zhou Xian directly asked him to pick up a few shops from all over the country to sell......
"You want me to say. I'm going to bring someone a few days early! Scare them, and you can also give less money! ”。 Jiang regretted this. In her opinion. Zhou Xian's heart was a little anxious, so he lost the lead in the bargaining and let the Great Zhou Mansion take advantage of it.
"Actually, it's a good thing for the clan!" Manyun replied softly.
There are some things that Manyun knows better than the adults, but he can't say it. The medicine that Master began to give Grandpa, she tasted it, and the toxicity was not weak, and Grandpa was worried that she had a case. can't handle Zhou Kai's business, so he is bent on speed. And according to the impression of her previous life, she felt that her grandfather gave up his money to the clan like this, which was a hundred times stronger than his grandmother selling land and shops to feed greedy wolves like Zhang Shaoxiong.
"Sister Yun is right! It doesn't matter, they're just things outside of the body! Gao, who was sitting on the side of Du's bed, smiled lightly and stretched out his hands to Zhu's mother and hugged Brother Kai.
"Hui Niang, you are a big heart! That day I saw your third daughter-in-law. As soon as I heard that Brother Kai'er's grandfather was going to donate land to sell the shop, his whole face was as if he had knocked over the sauce shop. Jiang Shi took Kai Ge'er's little hand while laughing and learned that day she saw Lin's sudden change of face.
I don't know what Brother Kai is. Seeing that it was fun, the little hand slapped directly on Jiang's face.
"Sisters-in-law and younger siblings, they are all used to being housekeepers. Don't know how expensive firewood and rice are ......like me," Gao smiled with his head down. The mouth is slurred, and it feels like chewing coptis. Lin's changing face was watched by Jiang. is very disdainful, but if someone sees Zhou Bai's virtue of being angry about this matter in private, it is estimated that they will be even more shocked, because they have a lot of compatriot feelings when they were husbands in the first place.
"Yo! The kid is quite strong!", Jiang's eyes flashed, and he shouted happily, and everyone's eyes were focused on Brother Kai'er's small hands.
Man Yun and others on the side also came over to have fun, and the topic just now was thrown away, and a bunch of women, large and small, began to explore how much strength Brother Kai'er has now. Bai Lu and Xiao Man, under Du Shi's command, opened the box and excitedly took some small objects for Kai Ge'er to grab one by one and try them......
"This little dog is alive and full of energy." After a while, a small jade dog of about an inch and eight or nine minutes was fixed in Jiang's palm. Brother Kai'er Xiao dog, this little jade dog made Jiang look at it, and it was very pleasing.
The puppy carved in Hetian white jade squatted and sat with its tail curled up on the side of its hind limbs, its head up, its mouth slightly open, and the carved lines were smooth and full of aura.
Gao turned his head sideways in recognition, smiled, and said softly, "This is the full moon gift that my mother's brother sent from Luojing. Said that this is a gift specially raised by my second nephew for Brother Kai, the carver of Yang Liuzhi in Jingzhong Linglong Fang. ”。
At this time, Gao was secretly glad that his mother's gift came in time. The news of Du's pregnancy was transmitted back to Luojing as early as Fengjin, but Guanshan Luyao did not receive the gift box and her brother's handwritten letter until the tenth day of February. Because there is always an inevitable birth in a woman's family, the letter also specially told the time to give gifts should be estimated.
"Let me see!" , Du Shi trembled, and stretched out his hand towards Jiang Shi.
After watching it for a long time, she put the little jade dog down, with a sincere smile on her face, and said, "Second sister-in-law!" Vigoer has a heart, and the original sketch of this jade dog should be the handwriting of her husband. ”
"Brother-in-law drew it?" , Jiang's eyes showed a look of surprise, and he took the little jade dog again.
"Yes, sister-in-law! Remember, I used to raise that 'black general' in Pine Cliffs? I was raised since I was a child, and then I married Gorou, and followed the Zhou family back to Luojing, and when I left, I was in a hurry, and it happened to be sick, so I had to entrust it to my second brother......"
"It's the one who waits for you to leave, no matter how much the second brother feeds him, he refuses to eat, and he hangs out to kill himself!"
"Yes!" , Du Shi sighed and said, "Later, I learned from the letter from home that I cried for several days. Gorou drew a number of small portraits of black generals to make me happy, and this is one of them! ”
"Wei'er learned to paint from her fifth brother. I guess some of the fifth brother's manuscripts were left with him in the past, making a show! Gao Shi held Du Shi's hand and persuaded him warmly: "Later, I will send a letter to Wei Ge'er to sort it out and send it back." ”
"That's not necessary, Vigoer likes it, so keep it......"
Gao Wei learned to paint with his father? Listening to the elders mention the husband of the knot in his previous life, Zhou Manyun suspiciously picked up the little jade dog that was left by the Du family and looked at it carefully. In her memory, Gao Wei's calligraphy and articles were good, but she had never seen Gao Wei hold a paintbrush.
"Huh!" , Xiao Man, who was holding the box, suddenly widened his eyes, and then, choosing one from a few small pieces, said in surprise: "This is also from the second young master of the Gao family!" ”
A puppy about the size of the little jade dog just now lit up in front of everyone. The same squatting, curled up, but the head is slightly sideways, and the two black glass eyes are lifelike.
"This kid! Where is there a gift that does not give a pair, a jade one, a gold one! Gao's took over and looked at it carefully, first whispered disgusted, and then quickly frowned, and said, "That's not right! It looks like an elephant, but the gift list from the Gao family doesn't have this! ”
The puppy made of pure gold, with its distinct hair and delicate black eyes, is obviously also everyone's handiwork. If you ignore the material and a little different, just look at the appearance and the little jade dog sent by Zhou Wei, it seems to be ten ten.
"This is one of the full moon gifts given by an owner surnamed Gao in Pingsheng on Jinyuan Street yesterday!" , immediately went to check the list of Bai Lu, turned around and reported, and said: "He bought the Zhou family's shop, and listened to the little brother's festivities, and forced it to be sent, and the master also asked him to accept it, and let people take care of his family's newly opened business." ”
"What does the Shengping do?" , Zhou Manyun secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and took over the little golden dog, so he asked curiously.
Man Yun's skirt was filled with two gadgets on the left and right, and the gold and jade were shining for a while.
She compared it and felt that this sudden golden puppy was very good, at least it made the enthusiasm of the mother and others disappear a lot when they mentioned Gaowei. In this life, she didn't want to provoke the old people again, so the look in Gao's eyes when he mentioned Gao Wei made her want to hide sensitively.
"I heard that it is going to pour goods from the north and south, and these days I am collecting grain, tung oil or something in the countryside......
"The Northland is short of food right now!" As soon as he mentioned these, Jiang Shi couldn't help but tighten his eyebrows, sighed, and said: "The grain and grass in the military warehouse are not happily drawn now, if you keep letting the soldiers go hungry, where can you guard the pass!" ”
Listening to Jiang's sigh, Zhou Manyun suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and remembered the words he had heard when serving tea and pouring water in his previous life.
"The country has no three-year savings, and the country is not its country. In the early years of Yongde, the world was overflowing, so that Emperor Xiao had the strength to conquer foreign countries repeatedly. In the Taiye period, Xiuling Tonghe had exhausted its inventory, and in the case of disasters and famines, the last emperor still thought about using troops against Hanguo, which was purely self-defeating. Liu Daochang, who is as stupid as the dog emperor, doesn't even understand the truth that grain and grass go first, and after robbing Yanzhou of military power, he will only force the soldiers to rush in......"
Grain and grass ...... Liu Daochang...... Grab the right to ......
If you have the courage to guess, this should mean that the Yanzhou military power of his grandfather Du Hengcheng would be robbed by a person surnamed Liu at or before the time when he used troops against Hanguo, and there was a problem with the grain and grass of the Chen Dynasty army at that time.
Zhou Manyun grabbed Jiang's hand, his eyes flashed brightly, and said, "Auntie! Yanzhou food is not enough, the day after tomorrow you will return, do you want to bring some from Jiangnan? ”
"From Jiangnan?" Jiang Shi smiled dumbly and said, "This is not normal!" Besides, the road is far away, what is the use of a drop in the bucket? ”
"I'm going to find Grandpa! Let him help think of ideas! Zhou Manyun stood up suddenly, raised his feet and ran out of the door.
The two small objects that were originally on her lap fell quickly with the rise of the skirt.
"Ouch!" , Bai Lu, who was quick-eyed, bent his waist, leaned on the ground, and caught two puppies with one hand and one gold. She got up and looked at it carefully, then she laughed out loud and said, "It's a shame that it didn't break!" Otherwise, when the little brother is older, he will find his sister to compensate, and Sister Yun will have no choice! ”
"Put it away, put it all away first!" Gao waved his hand fearfully. According to the age of Man Yun and Brother Kai, it is not the time to know how to cherish things.
The jade dog golden dog from different places was put into the same small box next to each other, and a bright brass lock snapped it up. (To be continued......)