The Ding'an Hou Mansion is not too far from Guozijian, and the Yao family arrived very early.

Gu Jiao had just finished washing when she heard a knock on the door, and when she opened it, she couldn't help but be stunned when she opened it and saw that it was Yao's.

Yao smiled softly: "I didn't make any noise to you, did you?" ”

Gu Jiao shook her head: "No, I'm already up." ”

Yao smiled: "You haven't had breakfast yet, have you?" I brought steamed buns and brown sugar steamed buns. ”

The house is preparing for Gu Jinyu's banquet, which was bought by Yao's family on the road earlier, and it is a very famous steamed bun shop in Beijing.

"Come in." Gu Jiao invited Yao into the courtyard.

Xiao Liulang also got up and was fetching water at the well.

Yao and Xiao Liulang met a few times in the countryside, and unlike Gu Houye's pickiness, Yao was very satisfied with Xiao Liulang.

People are good-looking.

That's the point.

I also read well, and my hands and feet are diligent.

Originally, because of the lack of a round house, Yao was worried about the relationship between the two, but after observing it a few times, she found that the two actually got along very well, maybe they just haven't opened their minds yet.

"Mrs. Gu." Xiao Liulang greeted Yao politely.

Gu Jiao is called Mrs. Gu of the Yao family, and Xiao Liulang is also called so.

Yao didn't care about the title, and happily gave Xiao Liulang the suitability.

Gu Jiao wanted to go to the stove house to cook porridge for the family, but was rejected by the Yao family.

The Yao family followed her for everything else, but today was her and Gu Yan's birthday, and the Yao family would not let her do things.

Yao made some snacks from time to time in the villa, and was quite familiar with the work in the kitchen, so she first boiled the millet porridge in the morning, and then began to prepare the next two meals.

Mama Fang was sent by her to buy vegetables, and she wrote down what to buy and how much to buy on the list.

This is Yao's first birthday for her daughter, she has been preparing for a long time, and the dishes have been practiced repeatedly.

Yao's family is still very popular at home, even the old lady with a strange temper let her dim sum be bought, and everyone is very happy when she comes.

Gu Yan had nothing to do after breakfast, so he ran to get corn on the cob, but was stopped by Xiao Qingkong.

Xiao Jingkong took the corn cob, raised his little hand, made a stop action, and said solemnly: "Today is also your birthday, you don't need to do anything!" ”

I won't quarrel with you either, let you have a day!

Yao's made a large table of good dishes, not only taking care of Gu Jiao and Gu Yan's tastes, but also other people's.

Gu Xiaoshun looked at the dishes that he almost couldn't put down, and he was so shocked that he was speechless!

Is this the Chinese New Year?

Why are there so many good dishes?

"Braised pig's trotters with soybeans!" Gu Xiaoshun's saliva flowed down all of a sudden, this was his favorite dish, the pig's trotters were shiny, oily, and the chopsticks poked the flesh and the skin was bouncing, Gu Xiaoshun felt that he was about to die.

This is marinated first, and then stewed in a casserole, glutinous, and melts in the mouth.

Xiao Liulang loves fish, and Yao made a delicious crucian carp soup.

The old lady liked sweetness, and Yao's made brown sugar glutinous rice dumplings, and only half of the sugar was put in.

There is also a vegetarian meat feast with a small clearance, and Yao did not forget to put it into the exclusive exquisite small bowl of the small clearance.

These are all things she asked Gu Yan about, and she memorized them one by one in her heart and prepared them carefully.

This is also the reason why everyone likes Yao, she always moisturizes things and can take care of people very thoughtfully.

In addition to these meals, Yao also made a bowl of longevity noodles for each sister and brother.

There are no extra ingredients for longevity noodles, just a few chopped green onions and a few drops of sesame oil.

But Gu Jiao felt that this bowl of longevity noodles seemed to be better than other noodles, with an indescribable taste, which made people's hearts warm, but the tip of their nose would be sour.

She couldn't tell if this was her own feeling or Gu Yan's feeling.

After eating, everyone began to give gifts to Gu Jiao.

The first to be sent was a small clearance, he was the smallest, and he couldn't wait.

He gave Gu Jiao and Gu Yan a small house that he kneaded with mud, which was made of clay, and after pinching, he asked his bad brother-in-law to help roast it with the fire in the stove.

In fact, he remembered that the little house he pinched was not like this, and he didn't know why it was deformed when it was baked.

The truth is that he pinched it so ugly that Xiao Liulang couldn't stand it, so he secretly repaired it for him, and it looked even better!

The door of the small house can be opened, and there are small wooden figures inside, which are carved by Gu Xiaoshun.

Gu Yan's house is inhabited by Gu Yan, and Gu Jiao's house is said to be inhabited by Gu Jiao.

However, Gu Yan opened the small door and looked at it, and was instantly dumbfounded: "Why are you in my sister's house?" ”

Little Clearance: Ah, it's been discovered!

That's right, the scheming monk Xiao Jingkong quietly let Gu Xiaoshun make a little wooden figure of his own, and quietly put it into the delicate room!

This way he can be with Jiaojiao every day!

Gu Yan was not happy and let Xiao Jingkong move out of Gu Jiao's house.

The small headroom is not moved.

He also said solemnly: "This is a delicate gift, you can't destroy Jiaojiao's things!" ”

Okay, I'm not going to destroy, I'll move in!

In the end, Gu Jiao, Gu Yan, and Xiao Jingkong, the three little wooden people, all lived in Gu Jiao's small house, and Gu Yan's small house was empty......

Gu Xiaoshun gave two Buddhist scriptures engraved by himself.

In exchange for helping him carve a small wooden figure, Xiao Jingkong found out his own line, put on Buddhist beads, put on monk's clothes, took out a small wooden fish, and reverently made a ritual for the Buddhist scriptures.

So this is a Buddhist sutra that has been opened!

Gu Jiao flipped through the Buddhist scriptures in her hand, which was a little incredible.

Gu Xiaoshun is the most worrying child in the family, but because of this, he is easy to be ignored by his family.

Gu Jiao didn't know that in just a few months, he could know so many words, and many of them were rare words.

"Do you know how to read it?" Gu Jiao asked.

"Yes, it will." Gu Xiaoshun nodded.

The brother-in-law said that if he didn't know how to read, he wouldn't know what to say if someone came to ask him what he carved in the future.

So even though it was difficult, he struggled to memorize the words, including their meanings.

Gu Xiaoshun scratched his head when he saw Gu Jiao's pensive look: "Sister, don't you like it?" ”

Gu Jiao raised her head and smiled: "I like it, I like it very much." ”

What Gu Yan gave Gu Jiao was a hand rope.

This was bought by him with his hard-earned money.

From the moment he refused to move back to the Hou Mansion, his father cut off his monthly money, Gu Jiao would give him pocket money every month, and he could use the silver given by Gu Jiao to buy gifts for Gu Jiao, he always felt a little uncomfortable!

So, he decided to earn it himself!

There is no work to do in my aunt, he can't copy books in his brother-in-law, and Gu Xiaoshun doesn't know how to carve there.

The small clearance has a rent of thirty taels of silver every month, and the family is a proper little tyrant.

Gu Yan's process of making money is like this-

Feed the chickens with little clearance every day, five copper plates!

Every day, I will replace the small empty chicken, five copper plates!

Clean the chick poop every day, five copper plates!

Every day, praise the fancy exaggerated small clearance sentence, ten copper plates!

He worked for ten days and earned two hundred and fifty copper plates.

He originally took a fancy to a pair of beaded flowers, but unfortunately the copper plate was not enough, so he retreated and bought a bracelet with jade on it.

Gu Yan used to have any stone in the house that was worth more than these jades, but none of them were earned by himself.

Gu Jiao put the bracelet on, it looked good.

Gu Jiao also prepared a gift for Gu Yan, Gu Yan didn't open it in public, he was going back to the house and secretly dismantled it alone!

Xiao Qingkong scratched her heart and lungs, I really wanted to know what Jiaojiao sent to Brother Gu Yan!

"Auntie, where's your gift?" Gu Yan asked.

"I didn't!" The old lady turned her face.

Gu Yan snorted: "I obviously saw it, you are secretly doing it every day!" ”

Gu Jiao looked at the old lady.

The old lady reluctantly grabbed out a purse, put it on the table, and ignored people: "Blind! ”

Gu Jiao picked up the purse.

Xiao Jingkong leaned over to take a look and said in surprise: "Wow! Auntie! You can embroider ducks! ”

What ducks? That's a mandarin duck!

One is your sister! One is your brother-in-law! And a few ducklings...... No, it's a mandarin duck egg!

Look at this little stinky monk who led her astray!

The Queen Mother was a beauty when she was young, and the Zhuang family was powerful, she didn't need to be virtuous and virtuous, it was enough to be beautiful in the harem.

Later, the Queen Mother found out that beauty was not necessary, anyway, the emperor was blind.

So the Queen Mother really doesn't know such a thing as a female red.

The queen mother did not embroider the mandarin ducks directly, and they were all the results of her secretly poking and embroidering many purses.

Gu Jiao's purse is indeed worn, and it is time to replace it with a new one.

The old lady looked at her eyes and didn't listen to what was going on outside the window, but her heart was attentive.

Gu Jiao smiled slightly: "Thank you, auntie." ”

Although the old lady's purse is not pretty, it is very practical, divided into several layers, which can separate silver tickets, broken silver, copper plates and small objects, and there is also a special sewing compartment.

Where can ordinary people think so carefully?

This is the Queen Mother's love for Gu Jiao, and it is also the Queen Mother's excellence.

Yao made two sets of clothes for each of the two children.

After coming to the capital, Gu Jiao didn't have to go up the mountain to chop wood, Yao made her a set of clothes that were convenient for working at home, and the other set was the same as the nobles in the capital, a beautiful and gorgeous skirt.

There was also a box of gifts prepared by Gu Houye and his brother in Fuzhong, and neither of them went to open it.

Finally, Xiao Liulang's gift.

Everyone is looking forward to it.

He never sent a pen or a paper, and the whole family knew what he would send this time, wouldn't it be a copybook?

Then Xiao Liulang took out a brocade box.

Under the impatient gaze of everyone, Gu Jiao opened the lid of the box.

It turned out to be a pile of letters!!

Gu Jiao: "......"

Everyone: "......"

However, it seems that it is not an ordinary copybook, each copybook is a poem.

Gu Jiao felt that these poems were extremely well written, although she couldn't read what they meant.

Gu Jiao patiently flipped through each copybook, Xiao Liulang didn't expect her to flip through the copybook in public, and his expression became inexplicably nervous.

Gu Jiao flipped to the end and found an unexpected surprise, this box was specially made, and there was actually a magnolia hairpin inlaid at the bottom.

Not?

Gu Jiao's eyes widened.

This big straight man of steel finally knows how to give her a hairpin?

What Gu Jiao didn't know was that this kind of hairpin was also called a hairpin, and the women of Zhaoguo were fifteen and the hairpin, and on this day, the elders in the family would pull their hair and give the hairpin, and they would perform the ceremony, representing the woman's adulthood and reaching the age when she could get married.

Of course, if a woman marries before the fifteenth birthday, then the wedding day will be performed and the ceremony will be performed, which also means that the woman has reached adulthood.

Gu Jiao didn't have a good etiquette when she got married, Gu Jiao wouldn't bother so much about a fool, but Xiao Liulang always had an impression.

Yao saw the hairpin that her son-in-law gave her daughter, and instantly understood what was going on, she originally thought that her daughter had done a ceremony, so she only had an ordinary birthday today.

The son-in-law has a heart.

Gu Jiao finally understood why this guy didn't give her a hairpin, it turned out that the hairpin was really hot.

If you don't do the salute, you can't use a hairpin.

Yao's eyes turned red all of a sudden: "Jiaojiao, I'll comb your hair." ”

Yao and the old lady both combed Gu Jiao's hair in a bun, and under the witness of everyone, Gu Jiao completed her own ceremony.

Half the moon is empty.

The bustling street market is left behind by horses.

Gu Changqing rode his horse to a quiet alley, he turned over and dismounted, and led the horse to pace in lightly.

Before I knew it, I came to the familiar house.

The courtyard door was ajar, and the laughter of women and children came from time to time, accompanied by the voices of teenagers, and there was a joyful atmosphere.

Gu Changqing paused at the door for a while, but finally didn't go in, turned around and was about to get on the horse.

But suddenly, the little clear space ran over, and the small body squeezed out of the door: "Big brother!" Is that you? ”

Gu Changqing turned to look at him: "...... It's me. ”

"Clearance, who is it?" Yao opened the half-hidden door, and when she saw Gu Changqing outside the door, her smile froze.

Gu Changqing was also very surprised to see Yao Shi here, and even more surprised was Yao's unguarded smile, although it quickly stiffened, it was still seen by him.

He never knew that the depressed Yao family could be so happy, and he laughed like a child.

"You ......," Yao wanted to say but stopped.

Xiao Jingkong looked at Gu Changqing, then at Yao, and asked, "Master Yao, do you know each other?" ”

"Donor?" Ordinary people don't use this kind of title, Gu Changqing looked at the little guy strangely, "Are you a monk?" ”

Xiao Jingkong explained seriously: "I was a monk before I went down the mountain!" I'm not now! Lord Yao is a pilgrim of our temple! I see her often! I'm very familiar with her! Big brother, are you also here to celebrate Jiaojiao's birthday? ”

Xiao Jingkong said it from his own identity, but in Gu Changqing's ears, he thought that the Yao family and the little monk's family were just simple old times.

It's a coincidence that he and this stepmother actually know the same friend.

Gu Changqing said seriously: "No, I was just passing by, do you like birds?" ”

Xiao Jingkong tilted his head and thought about it: "I like it!" ”

Gu Changqing handed him a birdcage covered with cloth hanging from the saddle: "Give it to you." ”

With that, he turned on his horse and walked away without looking back.

Xiao Jingkong looked at the back of the wind and waved his little hand: "Thank you, big brother!" ”