"How's this year's harvest going?"

As soon as he heard the harvest, Gu Huaien immediately smiled: "This year's bumper harvest is bumper, and the grain yield is twice as high as last year, and the villagers can have a happy year this year." ”

The main thing is that the harvest is good, and the field rent can also be a little more, Gu Huai'en is kind-hearted, and the harvest in previous years is not good, and the field rent is halved for others. This year, he collected an extra twenty taels of silver, which made Gu Huaien happy.

Although the Gu family was not a big family before, it was also a small rich and a small expensive, and there were several shops in the town, but since the death of Gu's father, Gu Huaien was not good at management, and several shops suffered repeated losses, and finally the thirteen-year-old Gu Huaisheng proposed to sell all the shops, exchange them for cash and then buy a few hundred acres of fertile land and rent them out, and he didn't have to bother so much when he was a charter man.

Gu Huaien is honest and simple, and he is indeed not the material for doing business, so he and his daughter-in-law sold it while the shop was still valuable, and then went to the countryside to buy 300 acres of fertile land, and started to be a chartered public contractor with peace of mind.

Gu Huaisheng couldn't help but nod when he heard the harvest, the harvest was better, the life of the peasants was better, he moved to the countryside at the age of thirteen, and in recent years, he also knew how difficult the villagers were, if the harvest was abundant, there would be fewer hungry people.

Gu Huaien suddenly put his arm on Gu Huaisheng's shoulder, and said with a good expression of the two brothers: "Huaisheng, when I met Fang Yu today, I suddenly remembered one thing, what are your plans for the marriage with the daughter of the Tang family, the other party has been married for two years, and you are not a small one, so it is not a matter to drag it all the time." ”

Glancing at the arm on his shoulder and then at the brother who was worried about him, Gu Huaisheng said helplessly: "I don't have any plans for the time being." ”

Gu Huaisheng has never liked to touch people, let alone someone who dares to put his hand on his shoulder or pat him on the back. Then he'd definitely unload the man's hand and throw it out. But this brother is an exception, because this simple brother treats him sincerely, so Gu Huaisheng is not excluded from occasional contact out of concern, anyway, it is useless to talk to this brother a few times.

Gu Huaien was anxious when he heard this, let go of the hand on his younger brother's shoulder, and said, "What do you mean by having no plans for the time being?" You are also not small, if you are interesting to other girls, we will go to propose, anyway, we have a marriage book and tokens, and the Tang family will not be repaid, right, and my brother heard that the daughter of this prime minister's house is still the first beauty of Dawei. You see you're good-looking, wouldn't it be just right to match you. ”

Gu Huaisheng said helplessly: "Big brother, Miss Tang has been in the house for two years, and the Prime Minister has never had any contact with us, which proves that people don't want this family business for a long time. The Tang family is no longer the Tang family of the seven-grade petty officials at the beginning, and we are not the Gu family with a slight marginal income. ”

Gu Huaisheng's brother is really simple, after so many years, things are people, who can still stick to the original intention.

The threshold of the Prime Minister's Mansion has long been not something they can set foot on, if Gu Huaisheng doesn't put it bluntly, this brother really thinks that he can go to propose marriage with a marriage letter and tokens, and if he is rejected by others at that time, there will be jokes in these ten miles and eight villages.

When Gu Huaien heard his younger brother say this, he immediately understood, thinking about how many people came up to talk about when his family life was okay, and how many people looked down on him and a farmer since he became a charter man. What happened to the peasants? Farmers are one level higher than merchants!

Gu Huaien hesitated and spoke: "Then why don't we take the initiative to come to the door and withdraw the marriage contract?" ”

The people in the province were embarrassed to retire when the time came, and it was good for the younger brother to look at other women after retiring from the marriage contract, Gu Huaien always thought that his younger brother did not look at other women because he was bound by a marriage contract, and he didn't want to be said to be treacherous.

Gu Huaisheng lowered his head and thought about it, soon King Liang was about to propose to the emperor, and Tang Yanqing's reputation would definitely be unsafe at that time, and it was indeed not suitable to have anything to do with him: "Then the eldest brother will take the time to retreat for me!" ”

The Tang family didn't know yet, thinking that they were going to close to the big tree of King Liang, and now they might not be able to ask for it.

The eldest brother is like a father, and it is indeed more appropriate for Gu Huaien to come forward in the matter of retiring from relatives.

"That's okay, in the past two days, I will go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to refund the marriage to you, don't worry, his Tang family has lost you, they are not blessed, and my brother is looking for a better one for you at that time." After speaking, he seemed to be afraid that his brother would be upset, so he patted him on the back again to show comfort.

Gu Huaisheng couldn't help laughing, where did his brother see that he was lost, just a young lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion who had nothing to show for himself, he never took it to heart, let alone feel sad and sad.

The two talked about trivial things along the way, and before they knew it, they had reached home.

The Gu family originally had an old mansion in the town, although it was not as conspicuous as the Fang family, but it was also a mansion, but in the second year when Gu Huaien took over the business, because of the loss of the shop, he went to learn gambling with a few friends in a hurry, and finally was deceived and lost a mess, and even the old mansion was mortgaged out. At that time, Gu Huaien wanted to take a risk, and he didn't discuss it with his younger brother, so he was deceived and had no skin, but fortunately he was not confused to the end, and kept a few shops, and finally Gu Huaisheng proposed to sell the shop and go back to the countryside to recuperate, and the old house will be bought back in the future.

After that, Gu Huaien also grew a little brain, cut off contact with his former fox friends and dog friends, and took his wife and children to the countryside to buy a four-room blue brick house.

When the two returned home, Lin Su'e's meal had just been laid out, and they were almost ready to start the meal with a vegetarian soup.

Gu Huaisheng, a sister-in-law, is medium-looking, and she is not a scholar, but she is diligent and thrifty, and she is a good hand at running a family. It's just a bit of a money-savvy and takes money more seriously.

After the two cleaned their hands, they went to sit down at the table, and Huzi went to the kitchen to help his mother serve dishes and chopsticks.

Lin Su'e put the freshly cooked tomato and egg soup on the table, and said curiously, "Why did you come back with Huaisheng today?" ”

"Oh, I just happened to be passing by to collect rent." Gu Huaien gulped down the rice and replied vaguely, as if he was extremely hungry.

Lin Su'e couldn't help but sigh when she saw it: "You eat slowly, and no one is grabbing it from you, be careful of choking." Then she handed another bowl of soup to her husband.

Huzi next to him saw that he put down his chopsticks and said with an adult kiss: "Dad, the master said that you should be elegant when eating, you look at your gobbling, and people will laugh at you outside in the future, you have to learn from the little uncle, you see the little uncle eat more than Sven." ”

Gu Huaien looked at his younger brother when he heard this, he took a bite for a long time, and only sandwiched a little bit of a dish, what is Sven, at this rate, the dishes are cold before the end of the meal, he shook his head and said: "If you eat, you have to eat hot, if you eat so slowly, the dishes will be cold, but it will be a waste of your mother's good cooking skills, let's hurry up and eat yours, you have to be elegant and not stopped, don't let your father be with you, you have to eat with a big mouth!" ”