Chapter Ninety-Eight: To Repair the Ancestral Hall
"It's Kiko who makes dried tofu, she learned the craft at home, and she makes it at home! I want to open a shop in the town to sell this, and I used this to cook for lunch, and my eldest brother drank two cups here! "Daddy Gu is also a little greedy when he smells the fragrance, and he drinks two sips of this dish with a little wine, and the taste must be beautiful!
"Then you're welcome, it smells really good!" Uncle Gu is also a little drunk, because of Gu Wanhua's mistakes, he hasn't had a sip with Father Gu for many days.
"Can you discuss Xiaobao's banquet? Is there a good day to choose? When are you going to do it? Uncle Gu was also full of emotion when he talked about this, how good it would be if his brother Hua could win! But fortunately, the county and government have tried, otherwise they will have to start all over again in three years. In the past two years, he has to force him to study more, otherwise it will be even more suspenseful in three years!
"It's not decided yet, we'll see when the time comes!"
"Then set eighteen! I watched it that day, and it was a good day. By the way, your eldest sister, you can know that it will be a while, don't forget! Uncle Gu remembered Gu Xiu in Dalin Village, Huaihe Town, who didn't come back from the last Dragon Boat Festival, which was a little strange, after all, he came quite diligently in the past few years.
"I'll send a letter then." Daddy Gu took a cigarette stick and took a puff from time to time.
"You're still blessed! Xiaobao is a competitive person, Hua Ge'er is not motivated, and he fell off the list this time. Otherwise, wouldn't our family want to be double happy? The more Uncle Gu thought about it, the more regretful he felt.
"Brother Hua is not very old, at this age, there are not many people who end up, why are you in such a hurry? Maybe next time I'll be a showman. Father Gu could only comfort him, while thinking in his heart that his little treasure would not be like Brother Hua, who was coaxed by a woman to be unable to walk.
"Tell me more! Since there was a Yanbi in the family, Brother Hua's whole heart was on Yanbi, and he didn't even hug his son, and his granddaughter-in-law didn't care about it. "Actually, Uncle Gu really can't figure it out, Xiao Yang's looks are not bad, and Yanbi is not a top beauty, why is he so confused about Brother Hua?
In fact, what Uncle Gu didn't know was that Xiao Yang's heart had long been dead to Gu Wanhua, and he just wanted to live with his son, so how could he please Gu Wanhua? When she saw Gu Wanhua, she hated.
And Gu Wanhua in Uncle Gu's house is still dreaming, and he still fantasizes that Yanbi can give him a son!
"That's not going to happen! In this way, Hua Ge'er can still have the heart to study? "Daddy Gu hates the kind of woman who looks bewitching and charming, and even has hooks in her eyes. Some women wipe their tears at every turn, as if everyone is bullying her.
"Who's to say it isn't? But he's just in love! Alas! can only wait for his freshness to pass, and then supervise and supervise! "Uncle Gu also loves face, this time he is really upset, otherwise he wouldn't have come to Daddy Gu to say it.
"It's time to eat!" Lu Shi walked into the main room and cleaned up the kang table. Seeing Uncle Gu coming, she didn't raise her eyelids, and only asked Gu Wan to put down the work in her hand.
Uncle Gu was also a little embarrassed, and the Changqing family didn't have a good face when they saw him here.
Stir-fried dried tofu and pork roasted shutter knots at noon, plus spicy tofu, and made a stuffed meat with fried tofu, fried two vegetarian dishes, and the dishes were alive.
Sure enough, the dishes were well received.
"The taste of dried tofu and fried tofu is very special, if you go to the town to open a shop, there will definitely be a business!" Uncle Gu admired while eating.
"It's delicious." Lu Shi also rarely boasted.
After eating, Gu Xi said goodbye, since she knew the practice of soy products, she wanted to go back early and collect more soybeans, when she left, Gu Chengyu got Gu's father's eyes and went out, and gave Gu Xi five taels of silver, which was the capital to buy raw materials. Wait until you earn money to pay it back.
"Eldest sister, don't bother about the shop, I'll find someone to pay attention to it in the town, and I'll give you an answer in the next few days." Gu Xi must be troublesome to find the shop, Yu Paralytic has already returned, and it just so happens that this matter will be handed over to Yu Paralytic.
"Ahh Then the eldest sister will thank you, this shop is not in a hurry, just look for it slowly. Gu Xi obviously said insincerely, in fact, she was more anxious than anyone else!
Gu Chengyu asked Ming Yan to drive the carriage back to them, and Wang Dou and Wang Tian'er waved their hands to him. The young man's feelings come quickly, and he is familiar with it in such a morning, and his grandfather's house has food and drink, which is much better than at home, so he is reluctant to leave when he leaves.
Of course Gu Chengyu will not keep it, the two babies are not young, and they are also the main force in the family's work, who will help Gu Xi do the work at home?
When they returned to the main house, Uncle Gu and the others were chatting about the archway again.
"This archway still has to be built, how to say, this is still the first show in our village!" Uncle Gu is now the patriarch and Li Zheng, no matter what aspect he considers, he thinks that one should be built.
"Didn't you say there was no silver in the clan?" Daddy Gu's excitement at the beginning calmed down again, it's not good for their family to take the silver, at least they can't take it all, lest people think that their family is rampant, I haven't heard of anyone who was admitted to Xiucai, so he built a memorial arch and a plaque for himself, so he still has to be shameless?
Uncle Gu was stunned for a moment when he asked this, and then came back to his senses and said: "Otherwise, our Gu family will come up with a little, then we should be able to make up a stone, the wind and rain of wood will be the most likely to break, and it will be repaired in the future, which is too troublesome." ”
"It's not easy for the clan, how can you let everyone pay money for this? I think it's better to forget it! "Gu Chengyu doesn't agree, everyone's life is tight, you ran to people and said to let out the silver to build a memorial arch, can people be willing? If he wins the show, how much benefit can the clansmen have?
In fact, Gu Chengyu underestimated the unity of a clan, as long as anyone in the clan is really admitted to Xiucai, everyone is not unwilling to give money, which is a good thing to change the court. If anyone is admitted to the promotion of people and jinshi and becomes an official, it can drive the whole clan, and as long as he goes out, he is a member of the official family, and ordinary people will give face.
"Then why not? This is a big deal for the whole clan, let's get together first! It's not enough to say more, don't worry! Everybody's going to be happy. ”
"I look at the archway or forget it, and when I am lucky enough to win the lifting or jinshi in the future, I will build it together! Now that my family's life is better, and I have more money, I want to repair the ancestral hall, which can be regarded as doing my best for the clan! ”
Gu Chengyu didn't have this plan before, but when he talked about it now, he suddenly remembered. Gu's ancestral hall is very small, the house has long been dilapidated, although the top is covered with tiles, but the walls are made of stone, probably to save money, so no bricks are used.
After so many years, the gap in the middle of the stone has long come out, and it is getting bigger and bigger, it doesn't look good, Gu Chengyu actually doesn't plan to repair it, he plans to rebuild it. He has silver, since he came to this Dayan Dynasty and invested in the Gu family, he should do something for the ancestors.