Chapter 206: Temple Fair (Part II)

East of the city, Puji Temple.

The long street is full of beautiful lanterns, and the streets are bustling with people, one stubble more than another.

The vendors on the street seem to have been full of energy, and their cries are much higher than in the past, as if they are going to make a New Year's holiday.

Because the Lin family sent the mother-in-law who followed the car over, those mothers-in-law did not allow Gu Yutang to sit on the street stalls, for fear of being met by those prodigal sons on the street, so they booked a table at Xiangqing Building across the long street.

The four mothers-in-law who followed the car, plus Ah Hua and Da Han, six people surrounded the private room that Gu Yutang had booked.

Gu Yutang glanced at the looks on their faces, all of them had a straight face, without a smile, and sighed secretly, grandmother called them to come, but she didn't come out to play with herself, she came to monitor herself.

Finally, he was able to go out and lie down, and he had to be monitored, and after taking a look at the table full of delicacies, Gu Yutang also lost his appetite.

Every year in the temple fair of Puji Temple, there will be many private meetings of rich daughters and poor scholars.

It seems that there is an unwritten rule on this day, those rich girls who dare not show their heads on weekdays, and do not go out of the door, will be invited to come out to play together. Then he met those poor scholars who were left behind, and a series of poignant and moving love stories occurred.

Gu Yutang has been hiding in his own room and reading so many books these days, which is similar to the story of Miss Qianjin falling in love with a poor scholar, but he has read a lot.

She has to open her eyes today to see, whose girl will go out privately tonight, and she secretly promises?

Gu Yutang asked Ah Hua to open the window, and the lively long street downstairs suddenly came into view.

As soon as I opened the window, I only heard Da Han come from the bottom of my heart.

"Girl, look, there is a sugar gourd seller next to the Yangchun noodle stall, the girl doesn't eat it, the slave maid ordered the shopkeeper to go down and buy a few strings for the girl to taste."

When Gu Yutang heard this, he first glanced at Ah Hua, who was staring closely at the food stall downstairs, and then at Da Han, who was already swallowing his saliva. Then I realized that I had detained them for too long, and I couldn't give them a few days off. Now that they have finally come out, let them go out to play by themselves!

Gu Yutang thought so, took out ten taels of silver from his purse, and handed it to Da Han.

"Look at you two gluttony, like you haven't eaten in decades. But tonight we finally come out, what you want to eat, what you want to buy, take the silver! If the money is not enough, let people come to me to pay it. ”

Now that you have relived this life, you can't be sorry for the people who are by your side and treat you well.

After returning to Chengjiang, she personally discussed with Jiang Zhiming, handled the marriage between Ahua and Shishi, and sent Ahua to marry with her own eyes, but also got rid of the things that had been backlogged in her heart for two lifetimes.

Finally, there was a chance to go out and play for a while without waiting for people, Da Han and Ah Hua were too late to be happy, where did they dare to ask for Gu Yutang's silver. Da Han took the silver to Ah Hua, and Ah Hua quickly stuffed the silver into Gu Yutang's hand.

"The old lady hasn't given the girl pocket money these days, and the girl's money is tight, so she doesn't have to break the bank for us. After serving the girl for these days, no matter how I say it, Da Han and I have saved some money, and we can't use the girl's. ”

As soon as Ah Hua's voice fell, without waiting for Gu Yutang to reply, he took Da Han's hand and went down to the restaurant.

Before Gu Yutang could explain carefully to Ah Hua, Ah Hua took Da Han's hand downstairs, acting in a really hurry, and he couldn't wait for a moment.

Gu Yutang didn't think much about it, and immediately ordered Mrs. Xu, who was following the car beside him.

"Mother Xu, your old man is serving in Mrs. Feng's house, and now you are accused of serving me, but it is hard for you. My two girls are stupid, and I hope that your old man will go down, with your old man's house, presumably those vendors and young people on the street will not dare to bully them by relying on the temple fair. ”

The annual temple fair is a large amount of income for Puji Temple.

Some small vendors set up a stall for the night of the Puji temple fair in a year, and in addition to the principal and booth fees, they have to earn dozens of taels of silver.

Who spends money lavishly during the New Year's holidays? Those street vendors saw this and raised the price of the entire street food, and it was common for a bowl of Yangchun noodles to sell for 30 yuan.

Gu Yutang was worried that Ah Hua and Da Han would not have enough money on hand, and they would be cheated by those vendors, but they were afraid that before they finished shopping on the street, their purses would be empty.

With Mrs. Xu taking care of her, those small vendors know that they are from the Gu family, and naturally they will not go too far. There are also those who are small on the street, and they don't dare to come up and talk easily.

Mrs. Xu looked at Gu Yutang with a respectful look, and she didn't hold half of the girl's shelf, so she responded and replied.

"Thanks to the three girls, they can afford to look down on the old body! There is no ability next to the old woman, there are still some skills to escort, those little evil businessmen, seeing the old body, are allowed to retreat. ”

Xu Pozi said that when she was about to continue to talk about the scenery and deeds of accompanying Feng Lao'an when she was young, Gu Yutang interrupted her.

"Mom takes the twenty taels of silver, if the two of them meet something they want to eat and buy on the way, Mom will use the money to help them buy it! If there is any money left, leave it to your mother and the people below you to eat and drink! ”

Gu Yutang said, and took out twenty taels of broken silver from his purse.

The so-called wealth should not be exposed, if you take out twenty taels of silver ingots, and are seen on such a crowded street, you will definitely be remembered.

If you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid that thieves will be worried, and when the time comes, it will be troublesome. Gu Yutang thought about them, so he gave Mrs. Xu broken silver.

Mrs. Xu took Gu Yutang's silver and deliberately flattered her, "In the past, I heard from others that the third girl was a person who treated her subordinates leniently and virtuously, but now the old woman has seen it in person." ”

Gu Yutang didn't want her, and only smiled faintly.

After Mrs. Xu left, there were three other mothers-in-law in the house looking at her.

These three mothers-in-law, I don't know where they came from, Mrs. Xu just flattered Gu Yutang before, and she left. The three mothers-in-law talked about Gu Yutang's good words, praising Gu Yutang in the sky and on earth, looking like a rare good person.

Seeing that they were still talking beside him, Gu Yutang only felt upset when he heard it, and hurriedly stopped.

"A few mothers said enough was enough, right? If that's enough, eat a meal! If a few mothers don't move their chopsticks anymore, these meals on the table will be cold! ”

When the three mothers-in-law heard this, they looked at each other for a long time, and a black-faced mother-in-law stood up and said.

"The girl hasn't used it yet, how dare we women cross the girl and eat it by ourselves?"

"How do mothers know that I haven't eaten? Before going out, Yutang had already had dinner, but now he has not yet restrained, and he really can't eat. Rather than wasting the food on this table, a few mothers should share it with it! Seeing Gu Yutang say this, the three mothers-in-law were a little moved.

The black-faced woman who spoke earlier had already been unceremonious, brought a stool and chair resting in the corner, and ate without any scruples.

The two mothers-in-law on the side watched the mother-in-law eat in a big gulp, and they simply didn't care about it, and just started eating.

It didn't take long for the full meal on the table to be solved by the three mothers-in-law.

The black-faced mother-in-law didn't care about Gu Yutang's presence, so she directly picked out a fish spine, made a toothpick, and picked her teeth.

"Third girl, we've been sitting here for three or four hours, and the son of the Jiang family hasn't come yet, isn't the son of the Jiang family forgetting? Or did you make an appointment with the girl somewhere else?"

The mother-in-law, who grew a little white on the side, cleaned up the leftovers and cold rice on the table, and asked lightly.

Hearing what the mother-in-law said, Gu Yutang reacted that he had been here for four or five hours, and Jiang Zhiming's stupid boy didn't show up for a long time, isn't it Jiang Zhiming's stupid boy who wants to surprise himself?

I haven't seen anyone for so long, and I don't know what I'm going to do? If he hadn't shown up in the end, he would have been angry, and when the time came, he would have to bear the consequences for Jiang Zhiming's stupid boy.

As soon as Gu Yutang got up, and when he was about to turn back, he saw Fan Siping, who had not been seen for a long time, leaning against the wooden door behind him, looking at Gu Yutang standing in the room.

Gu Yutang was a little surprised in her heart, didn't she hear that Fan Siping had returned to Beijing to report on his work? Why did he suddenly appear in Punpu, and still appear next to the private room he had booked?

Before Gu Yutang could ask her, Fan Siping told Gu Yutang the reason why he was here.

"Miss Yutang, do you think that I will return to Beijing to report on work, so I will not appear here? I wouldn't even want to see you?"

Gu Yutang waved her hand, asked the mother-in-law guarding the door to let Fan Siping in, and moved the stool and chair over, and only after he sat down did she dare to say.

"Yes! I'm wondering! A few days ago, I heard that Fan Gongzi returned to Beijing to report on his work, and I thought I would not see you again, but I didn't expect that I would be lucky enough to meet the Fan family again. ”

"Miss Yutang, I should be lucky. Originally, I was going back to Beijing a few days ago, but unfortunately I was delayed by the appointment of the prefect of Chengjiang, and now when the new prefect takes office, I should also return to Beijing. I thought about today's Puji temple meeting, so I thought about coming to see the excitement, but unfortunately I met Yutang girl. ”

After explaining why he appeared here, Fan Siping asked Gu Yutang why he appeared here.

"Is Miss Yutang the same as Siping, she feels that her home is boring, so she wants to come out to relax and join in the fun."

Gu Yutang did not hide her trip, it was to meet Jiang Zhiming, so she said.

"The son of the Fan family is out to join in the fun, but Yutang is not. Someone made a special trip to ask me to come out to see the temple fair, but I knew that I had arrived, but he had not yet arrived. ”

Although she didn't say who that person was, with Fan Siping's intelligence, she would definitely be able to guess who that person was.

Fan Siping didn't continue to ask the bottom of the matter, so he simply bypassed the topic and said, "Since that person didn't come, I don't know if Siping is lucky enough to invite Miss Yutang to accompany Siping to visit the lamp market?"

When Gu Yutang heard this, he secretly said in his heart: Since Jiang Zhiming's stupid boy hasn't appeared yet, she will accompany Fan Siping out for a walk first! It's so exciting to stimulate Jiang Zhiming's stupid boy.

Staying in this small private room for three or four hours is boring, right?

didn't think much about it, Gu Yutang responded to Fan Siping.

"Since the Fan family's son is interested, let's go!"