Chapter 22: The Steward
This time, the two brothers and sisters of the Gu family moved their families and chose to settle in Xingyuan County, Yazhou, which is more than 30 miles away from Xiangcheng.
Gu Wan bought a local map from the store, and after reading it, she immediately determined the location, and it took nearly a month to convince her eldest brother.
"I read the letter of Grandpa Guo's nephew, Xingyuan County is surrounded by mountains and rivers, south is Dazhou Mountain, the scenery is beautiful, the wasteland he gave us is optimistic, in the southeast of Shiyan County, at the foot of Dazhou Mountain, although I heard that the road is rugged, it is not easy to walk, but now the army is chaotic, and it is not a bad thing to be blocked, and the land is full of thirty hectares, and there are only thirty-six families to move to our village, how can it be enough."
Gu Wan took the red bean cake and tasted it carefully, while silently calculating, looking forward to the new home she was about to arrive.
Sitting in the comfortable and spacious carriage, Gu Anran leaned on the cushions, his brows were tightly locked, and his expression was in a trance, as if he didn't listen to his sister at all.
Gu Wan saw that he looked very worried, and he couldn't even read the book at hand, so he couldn't help but smile: "Big brother, Grandpa Guo, they are reluctant to give up the harvest of grain in our village, and they are reluctant to give up their family business, if they want to come over, they have to wait for a year, there is a year, enough for us to find a way to settle down, you, don't worry about these, or think about how to enter the Jixian Pavilion to study, I heard that Gushi's requirements are very strict, and the assessment will not stick to the rules, and he refuses to accept the sons of many famous families...... Don't think that you have the same surname as others, they were the same family five hundred years ago, and they would be open to you. ”
Gu Anran smiled bitterly, stretched out his finger and nodded on the girl's smooth forehead: "You dead girl, you know that the eldest brother is nervous, and you still scare the eldest brother!" ”
Gu Wan narrowed her eyes, smiled and gave Gu Anran a cup of tea to apologize, but she was slightly puzzled in her heart: "I heard that Master Gu has long been out of the world, why did he suddenly come to Yazhou and open the Jixian Pavilion......
Gu Nan Gu Yiqing, there are three in his sixty this year, but he has been famous for fifty years, and even his eldest disciples, Mr. Qishan Liu Jun and Liu Jing'an, are now famous all over the world.
As early as ten years ago, Gu Yiqing felt that the world was about to be chaotic, lived in seclusion in Lancang Mountain, closed his door, and ignored the world, until two years ago, the Mu family, who was only sixteen years old, the seventh son of the Mu family, Mu Yanzhao, went to Lancang Mountain in person, and talked with Gu Yiqing in the Tianlan Courtyard for three days and three nights, no one knew what they talked about, and after that, Gu Yiqing suddenly decided to go to Yazhou and founded Jixian Hall.
Of course, the meeting between Mu Yanzhao and Gu Yiqing is a secret, not to mention that Gu Wan didn't know in the previous life, she still doesn't know in this life.
However, it doesn't matter what the reason is, for Gu Wan's eldest brother, it is always a good thing, the people who came out of the Jixian Pavilion in the previous life can be said to definitely occupy the Qing Dynasty court, and most of the high-ranking officials are out of this, and if they can enter the Jixian Pavilion to study, the future is definitely bright.
It's a pity that in the previous life, Gu Anran took his sister to Dayong and went to his uncle, all the way was hard, after arriving in Dayong, he caught up with his uncle who was seriously ill, and he was powerless to take care of the two of them, and his uncle was very cold to them.
When the Jixian Hall recruited students, Mr. Zhao of Dayong Qingcheng Academy recommended Gu Anran to participate in the assessment, Gu Anran also longed for it, but because he was sick in the examination room, he was not admitted, although Gu Anran worked hard and studied hard, but the foundation was not solid, there was no famous teacher to teach, and he took a lot of crooked paths, and in the end, he couldn't go up or down, wasting his talent for reading!
Occasionally, I dream back at midnight, thinking of my eldest brother's lingering sickbed, and regretting it for life, it still hurts to the bone marrow...... Gu Wan silently stroked the books that exuded the fragrance of books, and suddenly raised her head: "Big brother, you can study in peace, your own sister will take care of your family's affairs, and in another year, Sister-in-law Wang and Grandpa Guo will come, and you don't have to worry about your sister having no one to help." ”
Gu Anran smiled, rubbed Gu Wan's head, and sighed: "In the past three years, it has always been Wanniang who has taken care of the housework, and I, the eldest brother, have never bothered about ......"
At the beginning, Gu Anran was also full of pride and planned to take good care of his sister, but as soon as he got started, he found that he was the useless scholar, the housework was not as good as that of his little sister, the food was not as delicious as that of his sister, and the accounting calculation was not as good as his sister, and he was far behind even when he went out to buy.
Gu Anran could only admit in frustration that when it came to housekeepers, he didn't have ten of them.
After that, he followed his sister to a market, and saw that his sister had a pure and incomparably good face, and the big and small vendors in the market sold all kinds of good things cheaply. And the quality of the things I bought, not as good as the sister bought, the price, and the cheaper than the sister bought, was squeezed by his seven-year-old little sister on the spot to hand over the housekeeper's power.
When he saw that his sister was very well taken care of inside and outside the house, and she was cautious when she went out, she slowly reassured and let her sister follow Wang Gang and Wang's sister-in-law to the city and the market at will.
Speaking of which, his baby sister's luck is really good, it seems that every time she goes to the city, or to the market, she can find very good things, what has the old ginseng, the best pen, ink, paper and inkstone, the best leather fabric, even the grain seeds, the sister bought is stronger than others to buy, and there are even a few times when his Wanniang actually bought the books, and they are all rare books, absolutely rare.
The quality of the things Wan Niang buys home is also good, sometimes she and Wang's sister-in-law buy the same things from the same stall, and after coming back, take a closer look, the quality is different, so that Wang Mei always says that Gu Wan is blessed by the gods and is a girl with great blessings......
When Gu Anran heard these words, whether he believed it or not, he was always very happy in his heart.
Actually, of course, this has nothing to do with Fu Ze, and God doesn't have time to pay attention to her little person, but Gu Wan replaced it with something similar in the store.
Because Gu Wan is too young, it is not easy to make good use of the things in the store, most of the time, when she goes to the market, Wang Mei or Wang Gang follows her, and it is really difficult to break them away.
Fortunately, Wang Gang is honest, and Wang's sister-in-law is not a delicate person, Gu Wan sometimes buys some cheap, poor-quality leather, fabrics, and coarse grains at will, and when she comes back, she replaces them with the boutiques in the store, and when Gu Wan uses things, fabrics, leather, made into clothes, or small objects such as cushions and coasters, and the food is eaten into the stomach, they can't find anything, at most, they feel that Gu Wan is lucky, she doesn't spend much money, but she buys good things.
In the past three years, Gu Wan has spent a lot of effort to improve the life of her family, just like that, she didn't dare to buy many big things from the pocket store, for fear that the eldest brother would be suspicious, it's not that she doesn't believe Gu Anran, she has the experience of the previous life, she naturally knows that the eldest brother regards her more than life, and she can definitely be trusted, but the less people know about this kind of thing, the less likely it will be leaked.
Gu Wan exhaled and squinted her eyes in the breeze, it will be fine in the future, when she arrives in Yazhou, after she sends her eldest brother to study in Jixian Pavilion, she will be the master of the family at home, and it will be much more convenient to act in the future.
Sitting in the carriage and staggering, it was almost noon when Sun Darttou shouted with a smile outside: "Gu Dalang, little lady, we have arrived." ”