The husband's son-in-law

Before the boat arrived at Liangzhe Wharf, the people on the shore raised their hands to block the light in front of them and watched. When they saw the familiar flag with the word "Zhaozhou", they were overjoyed and said, "Here we come." Turning their heads and following The person behind said: "You go back first and spread the word, saying that the Zhaozhou boat has arrived."

But whether it is the goods from Zhaozhou merchants or Gu Ge's old family, then I don't know and I have to look again.

There is no shortage of people to run errands, so you have to pay attention.

The boat slowly reached the shore, and the steward bowed and asked the person who disembarked, "May I ask if the Gu family is on board?"

"It's my lord. I haven't asked the person in charge yet? Please answer my lord's words." Zhong Qigong lowered his hands and waist and said.

The steward immediately felt happy, and showed it on his face, "I don't dare to do it. The young one is the head of Mr. Lin's house, the prefect of Liangzhe. I heard that Mr. Gu Ge is going back to Beijing to report on his duties. My lord specially asked us to wait here..."

When Zhong Qi heard about it, he said it was a labor of love, "I don't dare to make decisions without authorization, I want to go back to the words of my adults, and I will talk to Butler Lin after asking."

"Be yourself, please."

When Zhongqi boarded the boat to report back, Steward Lin said happily to the people below: "Hurry up, go back and inform the master, it is indeed Master Gu's boat."

The servant ran so fast with oil on the soles of his feet that his shoes could be lost, so he hurried back to deliver a message.

Gu Zhao heard Xiaoqi's reply, and said to Zhou Zhou: "I'm afraid it will be a month after half a month." At this time, communication is inconvenient, but he is the chief assistant, and the documents handed down by the official family must be done quickly. It has been almost three months, and all local yamen in Dali know that the new chief assistant is called Gu Zhao, and they have done all the inquiries that need to be made.

His family is in Zhaozhou, from the south to the north, so the move is naturally accompanied by a large number of people, whether it is by water or land, presumably the way his family goes to Beijing, whether it is straight or detour, the nearby prefectures and counties are officials. Already gearing up for the reception.

Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case, what if Mr. Gu Ge really comes?

Naturally, it is necessary to make full preparations.

"We have a rented yard in Liangzhe, so is it now the reception or the rented yard?" Li Zhouzhou asked the gentleman.

Gu Zhao said: "Don't worry, there are more than one family here." He paused for thought, "I still don't want to go back to the Zhaozhou merchant's yard, but find an inn to settle down, and leave after a day or two of recuperation, and don't stay any longer."

"it is good."

There are too many things and things on the boat. If you want to transfer from water to land, you have to move them all down. There are big boxes. Su Shiyi is now working outside in the name of housekeeper Zhou.

Steward Zhou's whole family is from Zhaozhou, and they didn't sell themselves to Li's family. After thinking about it, they felt guilty and didn't go to Beijing to serve with the boss, so they kowtowed a few times.

Li Zhouzhou told him to stop knocking, and said, "What's so embarrassing about that?"

It was originally an employment relationship.

Steward Zhou is still the housekeeper of Li Mansion in Zhaozhou, and he just listened to Da Furen's advice.

"Moving things is very noisy, don't scare Yue Niang, I'll go and have a look." Li Zhouzhou said.

Gu Zhaodao: "Then I'll go out and have a look at Tutufeng, Li Zhaoxi must have run out long ago."

Once out of the cabin, Li Da, Li Zhaoxi, and his grandfather and grandson on the deck were talking happily leaning on the railing. Li Da pointed to the north direction and said to Fu Bao, "That is our village."

"Grandpa, I know, I was born on the kang in the village." Li Zhaoxi was also curious, looking at the people who came down to move things, this is the Central Plains, the clothes are different from them, he wanted to be with his father when he was a child Come here for business together.

I haven't gone to business now, but it's okay, and I finally saw Zhongyuan.

Li Zhaoxi followed his grandfather's finger to look in the distance, "Grandpa, how many days until we can go back?"

"Haha, I have to go again." In fact, Li Da didn't know.

When Gu Zhao arrived, he broke into the topic and said, "Our family has a lot of things. It takes about 20 days to pass through Tangzhou from Liangzhe to Wannan, right?"

"Wow!" Li Zhaoxi was refreshed, after so long, he could see many different scenes of different people.

Gu Zhao touched Li Zhaoxi's head, but Li Zhaoxi winked and said in a low voice, "Father, he's outside." It meant that he was getting old, so save him face outside, and don't snore his head like a snoring puppy.

"By the way, I'm going to see Wang Wang and Xiao Baihua. They must be suffering from seasickness. Fortunately, we're here."

Li Zhaoxi went to the back cabin of the ship.

What a brat.Mr. Gu hummed.He looked up and saw that his father was looking at him.

"Father, I just pat his head, pretending to be an adult when I'm young."

Li Da spoke for his grandson, "Then how can you save face if I snort your head in front of the officials?"

Master Gu moved his head closer to his father, "Your elder loves me, I'm so happy."

"..." Li Da.

"You touch?" Mr. Gu asked his father to snort his head.

Li Da lost his temper, and walked away with a grin, he really didn't do anything right!

It was sad to leave Zhaozhou, but when we arrived in the Central Plains, the homeland was in front of us, and the family's emotions were mobilized again, and they turned into anticipation and joy.Especially Li Da, the old man is getting old, and he always loves to think about his childhood and all kinds of things in the past.

It took half an hour to move, and taking advantage of the time, Su Shiyi went to book an inn.

Some people were cleared at the pier, and there were still people standing and watching the excitement from afar. Gu Zhao and his family disembarked a little earlier—it was not easy to keep the officials from Zhejiang and Zhejiang who had arrived all waiting for a long time.

After that, it was the old-fashioned greetings.After more than ten years of ups and downs in the officialdom, Mr. Gu started from Hanlin, was terrified of being involved in the struggle of the prince, and fought with local forces when he was a local official. The object of Yue's flattery, Mr. Gu, as always.

The officials from the two Zhejiang provinces saw that he was amiable, solemn, and coercive, really—although Mr. Gu was young and good-looking, no one dared to underestimate him.

When it comes to settling the inn, it's no one's face.

After settling down that day, Gu Zhao personally wrote a letter and handed it to Zhongliu to deliver the post to the Liang Mansion, and their family will visit tomorrow.The other one was for other officials in Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces. He was hosting guests at the inn.

Naturally, I'm going to the Liang Mansion.All these years, they have been convenient in Zhaozhou, thanks to Uncle Liang.

Early the next morning, the family set off for the Liang Mansion by car. The gates of the Liang Mansion opened early, Mrs. Liang and Mrs. Liang waited at the door with the whole family. , I have the opportunity today, Ziqing would like to thank Uncle Liang and Auntie Liang for their care in the past."

This is regardless of the position in the officialdom, discussing the relative relationship of Senior Brother Liang.

Liang Rui and his wife were naturally happy and invited people to come in and talk.

"Is this Fubao? Hey, it looks so pretty." Mrs. Liang couldn't wait to praise Fubao after exchanging greetings. She saw this little brother with his parents at a glance. He was so beautiful.

Li Zhaoxi was dressed formally as a guest in Zhaozhou. It was hot in summer. She was wearing a goose-yellow round-neck gown with a few green bamboo leaves embroidered on her body and light green trousers underneath. Her hair was tied into a bun and tied with a hair tie. clean.

During the sea voyages these days, Li Zhaoxi's skin was still tanned, but it couldn't hide his good looks.

Mrs. Liang had lived for so long, and this was the first time she saw a brother like Li Zhaoxi.

She has seen beautiful ones before, but Li Zhaoxi is beautiful, and what is more attractive is the strength on his body, which is different from ordinary men. If it weren't for the bright moles in his eyes, he would be a handsome man.

"Thank you, auntie, for your compliment." Li Zhaoxi smiled happily.

Gu Zhao said: "Where is it called Auntie, don't take advantage of me, call it Grandma."

"Auntie is young and beautiful, she doesn't look like grandma at all."

But Madam Liang was so coaxed from ear to ear that she could call her anything, and when she entered the main hall, she even called out the children of the Liang family and asked her brothers and sisters to take Fubao to play.

Li Zhaoxi didn't recognize his life at all, so he went to play after saluting.

After a while, the servants hurriedly replied, the children of the Liang Manor took Li Zhaoxi out to play, and there were a few young ladies.Master Gu noticed it, and said that the young master took Li Zhaoxi out to play. Aunt Liang was a little surprised and then worried, fearing that something might go wrong, but when she heard that there was a little girl in the house, she couldn't calm down now.

Gu Zhao: ...the designation was instigated by Li Zhaoxi!

Why let's go out to play, sisters and sisters can't go out to play, it's so boring, I want to go with the big guys!

The daughters-in-law of the Liang family panicked first, saying why their daughters ran out, so hurry up and find them, Yunyun.

Li Zhouzhou obviously knew it well, so he said: "Li Zhaoxi has a sense of proportion when going out, and he should take someone with him."

"Yes, his brother dispatched a team of soldiers to escort us back to Beijing. There are two people around Li Zhaoxi. These two are good fighters who have fought in the battlefield. It is not a problem to see that the children are safe, and Li Zhaoxi has a sense of proportion. I won't mess around." Gu Zhao said.

With this said, the female family members of the Liang Mansion didn't know whether to feel at ease, or panicked, why are the soldiers still fighting——

But the meaning of the care adults and husband and wife is to stop looking for the children and let the children go out to play.

Mrs. Liang couldn't make up her mind, if the boys went out, she would go, but the girls in the mansion were all delicate and weak, and they rarely left the mansion on weekdays, let alone no adults watched them.

"Let them play." Mr. Liang said.

Mrs. Liang didn't say anything, just let it go, they have already run out.

A group of children came back before lunch, with food and gadgets in their hands, their faces were flushed, their foreheads were covered with sweat, and the tip of their noses were red. They were all very happy—especially the Liang family. little ladies.

They went out with their hoods on.Even so, it was out of the house to play, and I saw many things that I only heard from my brothers before, so I was very happy.

After finishing lunch and talking about the conversation, Master Gu's family returned.

"Father, we don't take the car, the car is full of suffocation, let's go for a stroll, I'll take you to look at the shops, I found a very interesting one..." Li Zhaoxi grabbed his father's hand and looked at his father.

Gu Zhao: "I haven't settled the score with you yet. You are a guest at someone's house, and you are asking the girl to go out to play." He talked about Li Zhaoxi, but he still waved his hands and refused to get in the car, letting the carriage follow behind. state city.

"Father, I didn't intend to mess around at first. I still know the rules. It's just that some Liang brothers took me to smoke the wooden spinning top. My sisters and sisters were bored. They chatted with me and asked me what Zhaozhou looked like and why the sleeves of my clothes were so tight. The short neckline is so big, I said that people in Zhaozhou dress so coolly, today is fine, as I was talking, I heard from my sisters that you still go out to play in the streets in Zhaozhou?"

Li Zhaoxi nodded at the time, what's the matter, he still rode to and from school, and went to play football with his classmates.

"They say they can go out to play during the New Year's Lantern Festival, but only for one hour, and they are still brought by the family. If grandma goes to burn incense and worship Buddha in spring, they can go out..."

Gu Zhao roughly understood the meaning, that is, Li Zhaoxi had a sense of justice after listening to it, and wanted to bring the sisters and sisters of the Liang family who were confined at home to see the world and have fun.

"... They were unwilling at first, because they were afraid of punishment, so I said that I would scold you all and push them all on my head. Anyway, I am a guest, so your father and mother would not beat me. My father begged for mercy."

Li Zhouzhou said at this time: "If your father beats you up, it won't do anything for you to ask me for mercy."

Li Zhaoxi: "..." Poor.

Li Zhouzhou didn't let go, but just patted Fu Bao's head.

"Forget it, I'll know." The little adult Li Zhaoxi sighed, and he had already realized that Dad had a higher status than him in Dad's heart, and then said: "I know that the customs are different, so let them cover their faces and don't go to dangerous places. Look at the street food shops, toy stores, and the excitement..."

"Father, being locked up at home since childhood and not allowed to go out to play anywhere, it's too boring."

Li Zhaoxi looked at his father eagerly, hoping that his father would not beat him.

Gu Zhao saw through Li Zhaoxi's little trick at a glance, but he really didn't want to beat the child, he just said: "It's like this now, but it will be fine in the future, take your time."

Liang Fuzhong.

Mrs. Liang also talked to Mr. Liang about today's events, but she didn't blame Li Zhaoxi, she said that the child was still young and ignorant, but fortunately nothing serious happened - she was afraid that her husband would be dissatisfied with Gu Ziqing's family because of this.

She has a good impression of Li Zhouzhou and Fubao.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Liang said: "Looking at today's events, the future calendar may have a different wind."

Change the wind?Still want to fight?Mrs. Liang couldn't figure it out, but seeing her husband's slightly pleased face, she knew that he didn't take what happened today to his heart.

Fubao is beautiful and lively, but she is too bold.

After inviting officials from Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces to dinner, the Li family set off again after only two days of rest.From Liangzhe to Tangzhou, there are both water and land routes, but this time, instead of taking a boat, they will take the land route completely—Fubao’s little white flower and Wang Wang are a little seasick, so they just took the opportunity to have fun.

Don't mention how happy the two are.

Li Da's mule died in Zhaozhou, and Li Da buried it with his own hands.

Go slowly by land, there are too many things.After passing through Tangzhou, this time I went directly to Wannan without stopping.Gu Zhao and Zhou Zhou's father separated in a prefecture and county in Wannan. He wanted to go directly to the middle of Beijing, so it was not good to stop and stop all the way. He returned to Beijing to report on his work first, and then tidied up the mansion until Zhou Zhou and his father came. There is a place to settle.

It has been more than two months since the transfer letter came down—the delay was only one month in Zhaozhou.It's not good for Gu Zhao to write in ink, so as not to be charged with 'treating' the Holy Majesty lightly.After all, coming down from Liangzhe, going north is all overland, and when you arrive in the city, you will be received by officials. What is it like?

"You, father and children, pay more attention to safety, things outside your body."

"It's okay to stay in the village for a few more days, but I can't live in a house. Now I'm settling down in the town."

"Zhou Zhou has worked hard for you."

"Young Master, you should also pay attention on the way. The weather is hot, don't suffer from heat stroke, and be careful on the way." Li Zhouzhou sent Xiang Gong off.

If there were two young people in the past, Gu Zhaozi would not be worried about Zhou Zhou, and he did not want to part with Zhou Zhou for a short time. Now that they are mature, they trust each other's abilities. And support each other.

Mr. Gu brought six people, two soldiers, and four cronies, and rode all the way without stopping.

Li Zhouzhou brought a large army back to the village.

The gate of Ningsong Town.

Li Da got down from the carriage and looked at the dilapidated gate of Ningsong Town with mottled handwriting. His eyes were filled with tears, and he muttered: "It's here, it's finally here..."

"Father, is this the town of the village?" Li Zhaoxi got off his horse and stood in a row like his grandfather, imitating his grandfather to look up at the city gate characters. The word 'Ning Song' comes out.

With a smile on his face, Li Zhouzhou said, "Yes, when we were in the village, we used to buy sugar and salt here, and we arrived in the morning."

"That's not necessarily the case. Zhao'er's feet are slow, and she walks a day faster. At that time, she couldn't be very delicate." Li Da recalled.

Li Zhaoxi smiled slyly, it turned out that his father still had slow and delicate feet.

Li Zhouzhou looked down at Fu Bao, and Fu Bao stopped laughing immediately. Both father and son had smiling eyes, and a message - to save face for your father.

whee.

After that, it was settling down, renting the empty yard of the old rich man’s house at a high price. The big boxes in the house were first sent in and locked, and left to be guarded, and then the washers cleaned up the food——Li Da couldn’t wait to go back, Don't persuade Li Zhouzhou to come down.

"It's getting late now, Dad, let's take a rest and go back tomorrow to bring some more things for relatives."

"That's right, you're still thoughtful."

The summer nights in Ningsong are very cool, the sun sets and the breeze is gentle, unlike Zhaozhou where it is a bit muggy.The roads in the town are compacted dirt roads, not cement roads, and the front shops are all short and old, and they are not as neat and orderly as planned in Zhaozhou.

But what Li Da sees is that everything is a good memory.

Li Zhaoxi is the same, he is interesting and curious about everything he sees.

"Fufu, grandpa took you to the street to play. I know there is a noodle shop. Their meat noodles are delicious. Let's not eat in the yard. Grandpa will take you to eat outside." Li Da returned to Ningsong Town The voice is much louder.

Li Zhaoxi's eyes sparkled, "Okay, okay, Dad, I went out to eat with grandpa, do you want to go together?"

"Let's go together. I know the noodle shop your grandpa mentioned. It used to cost five yuan for a bowl of meat noodles from the village to the town. I don't know if the price has increased."

Gu Zhaoli’s raising Fubao Zhou Zhou is considered a “down-to-earth” method of raising Fubao. After Fubao arrived in Zhaozhou, he visited all the counties and towns. Li Zhouzhou was a businessman for money. Fubao knew some prices by ear. I know, it's cheap to hear that a bowl of meat noodles costs five cents.

In the town below Jiting, a bowl of pilaf costs seven or eight cents.

"Father, will we eat more noodles, steamed buns and steamed buns in the future?" Li Zhaoxi asked.

Li Zhouzhou said: "The north grows a lot of wheat, and the wheat is hulled and ground into flour to make flour, but the common people mostly use mixed grain noodles. When we go to Beijing, we can eat rice and noodles."

"Now counting the days, the wheat seedlings and tassels in the field are about to end. It's almost the harvest time. When we arrive in the village, Fufu and grandpa will go to the field, and grandpa will teach you to cut the wheat." It should be done after a cut.

Li Zhaoxi was very interested in new things, so he immediately agreed and was full of expectations.Li Zhouzhou laughed beside him. In such a hot day, he went to the field to harvest wheat. If the husband heard about it, he would definitely wave his hand.

They have a lot of people and things, and they wear different clothes. Even the guards are well-trained, mighty and powerful, and they are different from the guards of the landlord's house - this person looks like an official.

Not to mention that the horses are all tall horses, and the boxes are all patterned and engraved.

The one riding a horse in front is the owner's house, which looks very luxurious.

The people of Ningsong Town have not seen such a scene for a few years, so when Li Zhouzhou and his pedestrians came to the gate of the city, the people watched the excitement, and after a while the whole town was buzzing, wondering where the pedestrians came from What are you doing? It doesn't look like a businessman.

But no ordinary people dare to go up and ask.

Li Da found a noodle restaurant, the shop was still open, but the boss looked at his face and said he was a young man, and after asking, he found out that his father had passed away two years ago, he was the second child in the family, and the eldest brother went to war...

"Master, do you know my father?" the little boss asked.

Li Da said: "My family used to live in Xiping Village next door. I ate noodles in your shop more than ten years ago. At that time, your father made noodles for me. Counting the days, it must have been thirteen or four years ago?"

"Less than four years in Beijing, nine years in Zhaozhou, almost." Li Zhouzhou said.

When I lived in a prefecture, I could eat a bowl of noodles if I stayed in the town for one night when I returned to the village.

How time flies.

The author has something to say:

I calculated the age and then corrected it. Xiao Gu should be 37, and Zhou Zhou is 40. They are all false years.Fubao is 13 years old.

The fight for power is not written in too much detail. First, the main theme of this book is the daily life of Gu Zhouzhou's family, a farmer. Although it also writes about being an official and doing business, the overall tone is calm.The second is that the plot of the war is mainly about fourteen and four, and later I will write the story of the emperor and empress, and I will focus on the previous war plot.Including Meng Jianyun Fanwai will also write about wars.

There are too many characters to write in the episode, including the empress, Meng Lin, Wang Jian, Fu Bao, the second brother Liu Shu, Liang Zizhi and Sun Mingyuan, as well as Xing Geer, Su Jiayu, Liu Tao and other characters interspersed. The village is like the Gu family. Stepmother Li Guihua, these will also be brought along.In general, let's see when the time comes.

will be arranged