Chapter 115: Unmarried Men and Women
"Can you still get the money? If it's not enough, take it from me! Gu Chengyu calculated, in the past three years, the annual dividend will be eight hundred taels of silver, which is not enough.
"How can a small shop need so much silver? It's just that the medicinal materials are more expensive, I plan to plant medicinal materials in the field this year, and I just opened a shop, which is cheaper than others, so that there can be a way out! ”
When Daddy Gu heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand, "It can't be too cheap, otherwise people's business will not be good, and I'm afraid they will come to you for trouble!" I can still help with the cultivation of medicinal materials, but there are not enough manpower, or a few acres are planted, and it is said that some medicinal materials are difficult to plant! It's not the same as growing food! ”
"I know, of course it won't be much cheaper!"
After a few people talked for a while, Gu Chengchi led the Zhao family back.
Gu Chengyu passed by the big room and said hello to Gu Chengli, ready to go out for a walk. He walked alone on the path in the field, looking at the open fields, the green seedlings, and the villagers working in the fields, and walked slowly towards the foot of the mountain.
When he came to the village, he used to sit on the edge of a big rock when he was a child, and he could see the whole picture of Shangling Village here. Leaning against the tree, I sighed that it was still so cool in the shade of the tree. He hadn't been here since he went to school, and it felt like life was always so busy, he had a lot of things to do, and he couldn't stop for a moment.
In the entrance of Shangling Village, there is a stone archway, which was built by the clan when he was in Xiucai three years ago, as well as the Gu family's ancestral hall and the Gu family's two courtyards, these are the changes in Shangling Village after he came to the Dayan Dynasty, and maybe he will leave more traces of him in this world in the future.
Gu Chengyu looked at it, and suddenly felt that his mood was open. Then he picked up a branch on the ground and began to write and draw. After more than an hour, Gu Chengyu looked at the words he wrote on the ground, and the joy on his face suddenly couldn't be hidden, and his words were more majestic than before. It's a pity that the branches can't be painted, otherwise he will definitely be able to draw the whole picture of Shangling Village.
His calligraphy and painting have not improved for a long time, but I didn't expect to have such a harvest when I revisited my hometown this time? After sitting on a stick of incense again, Gu Chengyu got up and prepared to go back.
When Gu Chengyu returned to the courtyard, he happened to meet Mingmo who was coming towards him.
"Childe, Childe Sun is here!" Mingmo had beads of sweat on his head, just now in order to find Gu Chengyu, he looked for most of the village, and the son only said that he would go out for a walk, and he didn't know where he went.
"Oh? What about people? Gu Chengyu was not surprised, after all, in a few days, he was going to leave for the capital, and it was normal to take the time to come over and see his fiancée.
"I've gone to the inner courtyard, and the old lady is with me!"
Gu Chengyu nodded, walked to the inner courtyard, looked at the houses on both sides, Gu Chengyu suddenly felt that as the ancestral home of the Gu family, this house was still a little smaller. But there are people next to it, and this yard can't be expanded.
I knew that I should have bought the land at the foot of the mountain, and I should have been able to build a house with about three entrances. Several rooms are crowded into one house, and they are separated, so it is inconvenient to enter and exit.
What's more, this house will be the eldest brother's in the future, and it seems that it is necessary for him to rebuild the house. Although he has a mansion in Fucheng, Shangling Village is his foundation after all, in order to have a spacious house to live in in the future, he should still build a big mansion, anyway, he is not short of silver.
"Where did you just go? Mingmo is looking for you everywhere. Sun Xian sat on a stool in the main room and drank tea, and when he saw Gu Chengyu coming in from the courtyard, he said with a smile.
"Went out for a spin, what? You don't have to help your mother? Gu Chengyu sat down next to Sun Xian, the two were already acquainted, and they were about to become a family, so there was no need to salute each other, these false gifts had long been waived.
Three years ago, Gu Chengyu brought the Sun family's pickles to the restaurant, and the response was not bad, and later the Sun family sent pickles to the restaurant every year. A small jar of pickles ranges from 500 to 1 tael of silver, and in the past two years, my grandmother has developed more types.
The cheapest ones are radish strips and cabbage, and the more expensive ones are cucumbers, bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, etc., and my grandmother also made some sweet sauce and hot sauce, which really earned a lot of money in the past two years. The courtyard of the Sun family was full of large and small jars, so that the grandmother was too late to be alone, and asked the women in the village to help.
"Today's one has been pickled, and the family invited two aunts, and my mother said that she didn't need my help. I still have to thank you for this, if it weren't for your restaurant to help sell it, how could my family sell it? And earn so much silver? ”
In the past, Sun Xian was still thinking about how to repay Gu Chengyu, but who wanted to owe more and more debts.
"How many times have you said this? What else? Your family is doing well. Besides, with your pickles, the restaurant's business is much better! Gu Chengyu saw that Sun Xian thanked him again, so he had to say words of consolation.
In fact, Sun Xian knew in his heart that Gu Chengyu was just looking for a livelihood for his family, and the business of the restaurant was so good, his pickles were just icing on the cake!
The three of them chatted for a while, and Sun Xian couldn't sit still. Gu Chengyu looked at Sun Xianru sitting on pins and needles, and couldn't help but smile.
"Brother Xian, you can stay for dinner today and stay at home." Lu Shi came over from the stove and said with a smile.
"Then it's troublesome! I'm here to cause you trouble. Sun Xian was still a little shy in the face of his mother-in-law, for fear that if he didn't pay attention, his mother-in-law would be dissatisfied with him.
He has been here for a while, and he hasn't seen Gu Wan, and it's not impossible for unmarried men and women to meet each other in the presence of their elders. But Gu Wan had to learn the rules in the afternoon, so she didn't come to the main house until this time.
Of course, Sun Xian also wanted to stay at Gu's family to eat, this was a good opportunity to watch Gu Wan openly, although he definitely didn't eat at the same table.
When it was time for dinner, Gu Wan was finally late, and Sun Xian suddenly turned his gaze to Gu Wan.
Gu Wan is already fifteen years old, and there are still two months to go, but unfortunately Gu Chengyu and the others can't catch up with Gu Wan's ceremony.
I saw her wearing a scarlet pinched cardigan coat, with a blue pleated skirt underneath, a hanging bun, and a beaded flower and a hairpin ring inserted on it. The skin on the face is white and red, and it looks particularly good.
Sun Xian couldn't take his eyes off after just one glance, Gu Wan learned the rules from her dumb mother-in-law, and now she looks no different from everyone's ladies.
Gu Wan moved the lotus step lightly and came with Tingting. As soon as he entered the main house, he saw Sun Xian sitting in the house, his face was red, and he hurriedly turned his head and walked towards Father Gu. But this glance in Sun Xian's eyes, there are thousands of styles, that graceful posture, graceful face, all of which make him excited.
Gu Chengyu saw all this in his eyes, but he had to remind him out loud, cough! "He's still with his daddy! This Sun Xian, dare to act like this in front of his father-in-law?