Chapter Eighty-Seven: Corn Leaves
The Gu family's house was rented out, and after Gu Zhixian saw Meng Xuan and accepted the money sent by the Meng family, Meng Xuan said goodbye and insisted on living in the inn. Sending Meng Xuan away, Gu Zhixian and Gu Yao said: "It's not bad for the rent of one hundred taels of the house, take back the house as soon as possible, clean it up, no matter which one comes to live, it is extremely convenient." β
When he said this, Gu Yao was depressed.
When the house was used a year, it was only three or two times, and it lasted ten days and half a month. There is money to rent out, and you have to hire someone to guard and clean it for yourself, and I don't know how much silver is burned inside and out. As for convenience, Meng Xuan's guest house is also convenient, one or two first-class rooms a day are enough, he can't live for a few days, and it really doesn't cost a few dollars.
Gu Zhixian saw her look in his eyes, and then ordered with a straight face: "Don't be too frugal." β
"Yes." Gu Yao responded, but she would still say what she should say, "I listen to my father." But what I do is not to be frugal, but not to waste. The rich have empty houses, and the poor have no tiles to cover themselvesβ"
Gu Zhixian interrupted and asked, "What do you mean, you want to give the house to the people who have no house to live in?" β
Gu Yao was dumbfounded.
Gu Zhixian patiently taught his daughter: "Since it's wrong, admit that you're too frugal." Just like your grandfather, he claimed to be the first person in the army. β
"Yes, Daddy."
Meng Xuan only stayed in Shuntian for three or four days, and the family declined. The gifts are well-founded, comprehensive, and the money is reasonable. Gu Yao looked at the list of each family, and directly offered his knees to Meng Xuan.
Meng Xuan didn't accept it, and said: "The gift list is not from me, the Meng family has someone to deal with this matter, and I am only responsible for coming forward." I heard that the Gu family's family affairs, you are all hands-on. Before leaving, as an elder, Uncle Eleven has to teach you some principles of life. You can't do everything well, find the right person, hold that person, it's enough. β
Gu Yao nodded heavily.
In the past few years, relying on the lack of food in the family and the young age of his own family, he has been operating in a disorderly manner, and now the problems are exposed one by one. The problem is that my sister is not young, but she asks you to teach one by one, which is unreasonable.
After learning from the pain, Gu Yao directly asked Meng Xuan: "Uncle Eleven, go back and ask Grandmother Meng for two people, teach me, okay?" β
"That's a good idea! Wait. Okay, you go back, you don't have to send it. β
Out of the city, Meng Xuan began to tease people, Gu Yao held back a smile, coughed, and said, "What, Uncle Eleven, I'm not sending you, I'm going to Zhuangzi." Hehe, by the way. β
Meng Xuan: ......
Ten miles out of the city, Gu Yao went west, Meng Xuan went south, and the two parted ways.
Zhang Sheng asked Gu Yao worriedly: "Girl, the Song family, did you really respond?" β
"You'll find out right away."
Driving the carriage, Zhang Sheng approached the unfamiliar new alley according to Gu Yao's instructions, the second room of the Song family and the He family lived next to each other, and the new house was built in the north of the village. Gu Yao got out of the car, and the famous matchmaker Liu in ten miles and eight villages stepped forward to greet with a smile: "Miss Gu, I haven't seen you for many days, can you prepare the gifts?" β
Gu Yao smiled, and Han Xiang stepped forward and said, "Grandma Liu is so interesting, how old is my girl?" How can you officiate for Brother Zhang? We've hired another master. β
While he was talking, a donkey cart came from the south side, and on it were two people, a stout woman and a young woman. The mother-in-law is extremely stocky, and when she looks at it from a distance, it is like a hill, blocking the scenery behind her. If it weren't for the woman's height, she wouldn't have been able to see anyone. The woman's eyebrows were full of a confident smile, and she looked very confident.
Han Xiang immediately stepped forward to greet people, and the matchmaker Liu was well-informed and couldn't remember people's surnames, but she remembered what her husband did, and immediately said, "Yo, isn't this a talented lady?" β
The woman knew her character, and laughed without saying a word.
Han Xiang hurriedly reconciled: "Grandma Liu is not mistaken, this sister-in-law is indeed the little girl of the two stores and the wife of Zhang Xiucai." β
Xiucai Niangzi smiled and patted Han Xiang and said, "Bad girl, call me sister-in-law, what is your sister-in-law!" β
Han Xiang said: "Such a young aunt, I can't call it." β
made the talented lady laugh non-stop.
Yes, the more important identity of this talented lady is that she has a lifting father.
How powerful is this lifting person, Gu Zhixian himself is a lifting person. In the forty years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, all the people added up to only 10,000 people. and those who are alive are not enough for this number.
People are so powerful, Uncle Gu Yaotang's kind of two-list jinshi? That's even more powerful.
So far, the examination has been held more than a dozen times, with an average of about 100 people at a time. Thousands of Jinshi people died of illness and old age, and the emperor killed a few in the east and exiled a few in the west. Today's Jinshi are really pitiful.
Because of the small number of jinshi, Gu Zhixian can be promoted as a person.
So, what about this week?
First of all, although the two shops are a village, because of the people, they have gradually become the center of the ten nearby villages, although they are not named towns, but they have the function of towns. Secondly, Zhou Juren's own family, although he was fifty years old, also spent Zi to find a county in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Zhou family benefited a lot from this, and definitely did not lose money.
However, Zhou Juren's choice was wrong.
The backstage is not hard enough, choose the sweet well, a lot of waiting? The magistrate of the south of the Yangtze River, this kind of high-grade fat, everyone must fight for it. In less than two years, during the Jianwen period, Zhou Juren was taken down. By the time he ascended the throne today, Zhou Juren was already sixty years younger, and most of the people who were buried in the soil directly extinguished their hearts as officials and devoted themselves to educating the children of the clan.
In the past few years, although the Zhou family has not had many talents, there have been a lot of shows in the two stores.
The Chu Xiucai hired by Gu Zhixian was one of them, and Gu Yao invited Zhou Niangzi to be Zhang Sheng's matchmaker through Mrs. Chu.
Zhou Niangzi glanced at Zhang Sheng, who was a talent, and asked a few more questions. Zhang Sheng, knowing that this was the most important person in his life, immediately responded with twelve points of spirit, "little brother", "tired", "bothering" and other pretending words, and spit out one after another. Seeing that he was not as rude as an ordinary farmer, Zhou Niangzi nodded secretly, and said in her heart, she deserved to be from the county magistrate's house.
Mrs. Liu looked at her sour-eyed, and quickly self-regulated, anyway, she is making money as a matchmaker, just give money!
The Gu family invited out the Zhou family's wife, and hired Song Yingchun, the eldest girl of the Song family, as his wife.
Although Zhang Sheng has a broken arm, he has excellent talents, and his family has a permanent property, and he has a wide range of knowledge in addition to working in the Gu family and earning a lot of money. Begonia Niang said to the eldest daughter: "Don't dislike him! If it weren't for the broken arm, people would be an official now, how could they still marry you? β
Song Yingchun was so ashamed that he couldn't speak.
The eldest daughter got married, and she had another one in her belly, living in a brand-new brick house, and the begonia mother smiled from ear to ear. The second room, which was full of hope, was also so tired that he couldn't straighten his waist. The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and the eggs and chickens that have been saved have begun to be taken out, and while collecting money frantically, it is the hard work of not being able to sleep day and night; Song Erlang's five acres of barren land are planted with chickens, ducks and geese for the next year's rations, and at this time, it is the season of harvesting.
The busiest, hardest, and most tired is Song Haitang.
This night, Song Haitang couldn't sleep at night. Seeing the familiar corn stalks forming one cob after another, Song Haitang was very happy. But today, she saw a lot of dead leaves in the pine forest. If there are large dead leaves, pesticides should be sprinkled. The specific composition of pesticides, she does not know. It is only known that if the treatment is not timely, this leaf wilight disease spreads very quickly.
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