Chapter 318: The tacit understanding between grandparents and grandchildren
The Su family bought a cemetery outside Chang'an City in their early years, but before they could repair it, the Zhou family died suddenly.
This time Zhao Yuanbai and Lang Zhai are busy, and they have to be busy with many things all day long.
And Su Jing didn't pay much attention to these things, and almost locked himself in the Jichen Courtyard every day, and even the guests who came to mourn were received by Lang's thirteenth uncle and nephew with Su Que.
Suning'er didn't know what her second uncle was thinking, if she didn't care about Zhou at all, she saw him looking very lonely when she was eating a few times.
But to say that she was extremely sad, she couldn't feel it.
If it weren't for the Qi family begging Zhao Yuanbai to repair the Su family's cemetery, according to Su Jing's meaning, the Zhou family's coffin would be sent back to the old mansion in Yangzhou.
Ancient customs were complicated, and the tombs of deceased relatives needed to be taken care of by their heirs from time to time.
If Zhou's coffin is sent back to Yangzhou, it will be much more troublesome to sweep it every year.
Su Ningxiang naturally didn't want her deceased mother to be too far away from her, so she had to bury her mother's coffin in the newly built cemetery.
Su Jing had no intention of handling these things, and Suning'er had to tell her husband to help with it.
Mrs. Zhao was worried that her granddaughter-in-law was too hardworking, so when she came to the house, she stayed behind completely and helped Suning's mother and daughter deal with the affairs of the house together.
It was originally a second-room funeral, Su Jing was lazy and lazy, Su Ningxiang was young, and all the burdens had to be taken care of by the Qi family in the end, and he would be the backbone.
In more than ten days, it will be the New Year's Festival, which is the busiest time of the year for these big families, and if something like this happens, there will be more problems to be solved every day, and the Qi family is naturally too busy.
Fortunately, with the help of Mrs. Zhao and Suning'er, the Qi family can be much easier.
It's just that several people in charge of the Zhao family have come to the Su family, but the Zhao Mansion has begun to mess up.
After Zhao Pingguang decided to buy the porcelain kilns and Zhuangzi in various parts of the Tao family without authorization, he almost made the owners of several houses half angry.
The Su family was still doing the funeral, so Zhao Yuanqi hurriedly found the Su Mansion.
This is the evening of the twentieth day of the lunar month, two days before the day of mourning, Zhao Yuanbai led the craftsmen to repair the Su family cemetery and the Zhou family's cemetery almost to the end, and just returned to the house, I saw Zhao Yuanqi greeted him with a sullen face.
Zhao Yuanbai's face was dumb: "Why didn't my brother go into the courtyard, what did he do outside in the cold winter?" ”
Zhao Yuanqi waved his hand: "Brother Fool has just gone in, there are many people inside, and Old Ancestor Jun is in the courtyard again, so I will wait here for you to come back." ”
"Oh?" , Zhao Yuanbai frowned and asked, "Brother, what are you doing because you can't let the old lady know?" ”
"Yuan Bai, you, your younger siblings, and Zujun have been taking care of the Su family's affairs these days, don't you know that our house has become a mess?"
Zhao Yuanbai heard him say so seriously, he couldn't help but hurriedly ask: "What's the matter?" ”
"Your father said to the Naliu clan that he would use the money from the treasury to buy the Tao family's porcelain kiln and Zhuangzi, and prepare to do the porcelain business."
"Porcelain business?"
Zhao Yuanbai was stunned for a moment, and then smiled lightly: "That's a good thing, if he can make a porcelain business, then our Zhao family will turn the sky upside down in the future, who came up with such a good idea?" ”
Zhao Yuanqi shook his head disdainfully: "What's good, you Aya is so confused, you are still speaking for him, the Tao family's porcelain kiln has long been sold, and my Zhao family has never made porcelain, even if he buys those porcelain kilns back at a high price, how can he make good porcelain, and how to compete with the Su family and those time-honored porcelain shops, the Su family now has the imperial court's supply book, do you still have to fight with your younger siblings?" ”
"It's nothing", Zhao Yuanbai smiled happily: "Brother don't worry, let them do it if they like, Hengzhi is now in charge of the Liu family and Tao Jiuniang." ”
After that, he was ready to enter the courtyard: "The Su family has a lot of trivial matters, so I won't accompany my brother." ”
Zhao Yuanqi watched him leave with a big grin, he was angry and anxious, and said loudly: "Yuanbai, you can't watch them leave it like this, don't you build a new market and a cabinet shop?" ”
As if he hadn't heard, Zhao Yuanbai hurriedly led the servants into the courtyard.
There was a commotion in the courtyard, Mrs. Zhao was just explaining the trivial matters of the spirit of the day after tomorrow with her subordinates, Zhao Yuanbai saw that he was focused, and it seemed that his brother did not talk to the old man about the affairs of the family.
Zhao Yuanbai walked over as if nothing had happened, and made a salute to the old lady.
"Everything is done?"
Zhao Yuanbai responded shallowly.
The old lady looked at him fixedly, and waved her hand gently: "Go to Tanghua Courtyard to accompany Ning Yatou for some light meals, there are a few senior monks in Yunjing Temple who are going to come over to preside over the Dharma tonight, and I am also a little tired, go back to the house tonight, and you will stay here and take the Lang family's uncle and nephew to take care of the affairs of the courtyard." ”
"It's freezing on this day, Zujun will stay here to rest, I'll ask A-Ning to prepare a clean wing room for you, why bother going back and forth."
When Zhao Yuanbai heard that the old lady was going home, he was inevitably a little anxious.
In the past few days, Mrs. Zhao has not moved, but now what his father is doing is not a trivial matter, and he is very afraid that the old lady will be angry at this time.
Who knew that the old lady Zhao glanced at him meaningfully, and said slowly with a smile: "It's just a matter of a few steps, it's not a trouble." ”
After a pause, the old lady's tone suddenly became strange:
"This eldest lady in Su Yilang's family is too worried about her life, that's why she is so unfortunate, she died young, although she is already in her prime, but she still wants to enjoy the fireworks in the world for a few more days, I want to be an idler now."
After that, his calloused left hand slapped Zhao Yuanbai on the shoulder, waved his hand and said: "Go, go quickly, you have to take care of Ning Yatou more, after all, it is the incense of your third room, and it should not be taken lightly." ”
Zhao Yuanbai stiffened his neck and nodded firmly.
He suddenly felt that he and the old lady had a tacit understanding that had been reached without words.
Then, he went to Tanghua Courtyard with relief.
At this time, Su Ning'er was eating in her own room, and when she saw Zhao Yuanbai suddenly come in, she was a little surprised: "The thirteenth uncle outside has already ordered someone to set up a banquet, why doesn't the husband accompany the villagers to drink a few glasses of water and wine to express his gratitude?" ”
"With Zujun here, you don't have to worry about these things."
Zhao Yuanbai approached her and hugged her gently, and smiled with her evilly: "Zujun is afraid that you will be too lonely alone, so he specially asked me to accompany you." ”
Suning'er slapped him angrily, and scolded with a smile: "Don't be ashamed." ”
Qin'er and Shuang'er blushed when they listened to it.
After all, inheriting the status of the daughter of the Su family, the Zhou family is also an elder, and it is the day of the funeral, this guy is still so unreasonable, there is really nothing to do with him.
Mrs. Zhao has always been serious, how can she be as serious as this stunned young man.