The husband's son-in-law
Chapter 32
The Li family bought a mule, but Li Zhouzhou and Xing Geer still walked to the town.
The things the two of them wanted to buy were not heavy, such as cloth and cotton, carrying baskets on their backs, and they were easy to walk over.When we arrived in the town, we went straight to the fabric shop. Brother Xing chose a piece of bright red cloth for Yuan Yuan, and said, "This is good, festive."
"Would you like to choose red as well?" Brother Xing suggested to Li Zhouzhou.
Li Zhouzhou shook his head and thought it was not particularly good. The red cloth looked good on children, married brides and grooms, but he felt that it was too ostentatious on weekdays, and the elderly couldn't bear it.
The store clerk listened to the conversation between the two and pulled out a purple cloth.
"How do you see this piece?"
Li Zhouzhou: "Can I touch it?"
"Yes." The store clerk pulled one end away to let the customers try it, and said, "I just got this one back a few days ago. The prefecture sells it very well. The old ladies like this color. You can make gestures." , the color is not dull, if it is especially good to make a coat for the old lady, I am sure the old man will like it."
Li Zhouzhou touched it with his hands, and it was softer than the red one, and it must be more expensive than the red one.Brother Xing also put down the red cloth in his hand, touched the purple, and shouted: "This is good, soft, shouldn't it be cheap?"
"You two have good eyesight." The shop clerk praised first, and then said: "This one is five cents more expensive than the red one. If you make short coats for old ladies, ten feet will be enough. If you are rich, you can also make a pair of coats." Er, the old man is getting old, and he wears a forehead wipe to prevent the wind from blowing his head, how beautiful this set is."
The five renminbi that the store clerk said was based on a ruler. One foot is five renminbi more expensive, and one foot is more expensive than fifty renminbi.
Brother Xing put down the cloth in his hand after hearing this, and said to Li Zhouzhou: "It's too expensive. I think the red one is fine, and it doesn't matter if the indigo one is worth it. You don't like the color, so turn around." Wouldn’t it be nice and auspicious to embroider some patterns.”
"Yes." Li Zhouzhou nodded.
When the store clerk heard that the two of them didn't want to buy expensive ones, he hurriedly said, "If you want it sincerely and really like it, I'll give you another penny."
"Two texts." Li Zhouzhou said, with no expression on his face, his eyes shifted to the indigo piece, and he said, "Otherwise, you'd better get me the indigo one."
Shop clerk: "Let Erwen you want this one? If you want it, I'll install it for you."
"Let's put it on, it's one foot long, the indigo one is two feet long, and the black one is two feet long." Li Zhouzhou said.
When the store clerk heard that the customer asked for so much, he immediately beamed with joy, and let the two texts be within the range the boss said, but no matter how low it was, the customer bought so much now, so he quickly brought the cloth.
Brother Xing said in surprise, "Why do you buy so many?"
"Dad has been wearing the jacket for three years, and he has to cut cloth to make clothes, so I bought them all and made them together."
Brother Xing, don't ask, the two feet of indigo cloth must have been bought by Gu Shulang.After the store clerk cut the cloth, Li Zhouzhou also bought some red thread, and planned to embroider the word "Fu" on the jacket when he returned home.After paying the bill, the two went to buy cotton again. Carrying baskets on their backs, they bought some pastries and sugar before heading back.
Just after leaving the town, I didn't walk much, and heard the sound of ox carts behind me.Brother Xing also said: "I sound like my father's voice."
Looking back, it was true that Li Er was riding an ox cart on the far road, and Liu Huaxiang was sitting in the back car. Li Guangzong, who went with him a few days ago, was nowhere to be seen.
"It's really Brother Xing, and Li Zhouzhou." Liu Huaxiang patted the man.
Li Er stopped the ox cart, smiled and said, "You two are going to the town, come up and take you back to the village together."
Brother Xing was not polite, he unloaded the back basket and put it on the ox cart, dragged Zhou Zhou into the ox cart, and said, "There is nothing to be embarrassed about, come on."
"I'll just go, don't tire the cow, just put the things in the car." Li Zhouzhou said.
Who knew that the second aunt was so enthusiastic, she pulled Li Zhouzhou into the car, got off by herself and said, "I've been sitting all the way, and I happened to be tired, I'll take a walk, you and Brother Xing will take a rest in the car."
"Yes." Reiji also jumped out of the ox cart ahead, pulling the ox rope.
It is true that Liu Huaxiang suffered from back pain after sitting all the way, and now she is comfortable walking slowly, and she did not stop when she saw Xing Geer Li Zhouzhou smiling on her face, and now she will walk beside the ox cart, happily Said: "My Guangzong has stayed in the prefecture county."
"I just said why I didn't see Guangzong." Li Zhouzhou added a sentence.
Li Er turned his head back and grinned grinningly, "Your uncle said Guang Zong is smart, let him teach Guang Zong to settle accounts."
"Yes, at that time, you won't have to work so hard growing crops. You can earn more than 20 taels of silver a year just by sitting there and scratching the abacus beads." Liu Huaxiang answered.
Brother Xing said why the bedding was gone when he came back, and he probably went to the prefecture like Guangzong.
Li Zhouzhou knew that his second aunt and uncle were happy, so of course he cheered, "That's great, you can earn a lot when you're free."
"Isn't it? Guangzong has been clever since he was a child, and he dared to climb trees when he was four or five years old..."
Afterwards, Liu Huaxiang talked all the way. When she entered the village, she learned from everyone she met. Blessings, Guangzong will get rich and take Lao Ziniang to the prefectures and counties to enjoy the blessings.
Compared with Li Zhouzhou's one or two words of accosting, the words of these uncles and aunts in the village tickled Liu Huaxiang's itch, and the toothache came out of the laughter, and I didn't cook that day, listening to the villagers' flattery was better than eating anything powerful.
Brother Xing is also happy. If Guangzong recovers, his natal family will also stand up, and he will be more comfortable talking loudly in his in-law's house.
Before staying overnight, Li Guangzong of Li Er's family stayed in the prefecture to study and settle accounts, so everyone in the village knew about it.
Everyone said, no wonder Li Er sent food to the prefecture and county for so many years, dare to wait here, the food is not free.Naturally, he mentioned the old and bad things about the Li family in the past, but he said that he was pitiful and sympathetic to Li Da, and felt that no matter how powerful Li Da was, he could not catch up with the younger brother from the prefecture, and even worse than Li's second son.
Reiji also bought cattle.
But it’s different now. After all, Li Da didn’t have the sympathy for the weak at the beginning, but said that everyone in Li’s life is good, as long as the ten mu of paddy fields are sold this year, let alone dry fields, they also bought mules. The year is no less than that of the prefecture and county.
Li Da can also slaughter pigs.
The green brick and large tiled house of the Li family is also open, how nice it is.
Picking abacus beads in prefectures and counties is so easy to pick. Look at the shops in the town. Anyone who hires shop assistants dare not breathe loudly to the boss. It is better to live happily in their own fields.
Now that there are fertilizers, the harvest is good, what kind of prefecture?
Then the topic turned to next year's harvest in his own field. Thinking about what Li's family harvested this year, his family will harvest so much next year, he can wake up laughing when he sleeps, and he is also envious of Li Zhengren from Hanfu County.
Li Zhouzhou didn't feel any envy towards Guangzong's Liufu county. After eating and washing, he was in the bed asking his husband to write him a blessing tomorrow morning, "I will make a short jacket for grandma, and I will make a pair of breasts, with the left and right sides Together it is a word of blessing, Mr. Xianggong, can you say it well?"
"Okay." Gu Zhaoneng thought about it, and praised: "Zhou Zhou, you are so smart, but in time? Don't rush too much, if you can't make it, you can also embroider auspicious clouds on the cuffs and necklines." This is simple.
Li Zhouzhou said with a smile: "There are still ten days left, and there is not much farm work at home now, so I will make a short jacket and embroider it with the word "Fu". But what my husband said is good, it would look better with a little auspicious clouds on the collar and cuffs. "
Gu Zhao: ...
He originally wanted to steal a coincidence from his wife.
"I'll feed the chickens and pigs at home." Gu Zhao took his wife's hand and acted like a baby, "Okay, okay, Zhao'er really wants to feed pigs and chickens~"
Li Zhouzhou couldn't help being amused by Xianggong's appearance, his smiling eyes were crescent like crescents, and said: "Okay, I will leave it to Xianggong." He thought to himself, he cut the pig grass, and the chicken coop and pigsty were all dead in the morning. After cleaning it up, Xianggong only needs to feed him.
Early the next morning, Li Zhouzhou got up, boiled water, and boiled rice porridge in the pot.
There is a lot of rice left at home this year, and the new rice is very fragrant, and my husband likes to eat it.When Li Zhouzhou cooks, there is more white rice and less yellow rice, which is enough anyway.
In the past, there were Li Zhouzhou and Li Da in the Li family. Before the yard of the big tile-roofed house was built, the father and son did not see white rice in the pot all year round, and all they ate were yellow rice, which was all sold.Later, the yard was built, and the ten-acre paddy field also left two stones for the father and son to eat, and they both ate miscellaneous grains.
This year is the most.
White rice porridge is boiled to produce rice oil, and wild vegetables are very delicious when mixed.
Li Zhouzhou took advantage of his time to sweep the chicken coops and pigpens in the backyard, and poured the excrement into the pit for dry fertilizer.Gu Zhao also woke up. After washing, he mixed the pig vegetables and wheat bran with boiling water, and took the bucket to the backyard to feed the pigs.
There is a big one in the family and a small one. The big one will be killed if he says wait.
After finishing the work and washing hands, the family sat in the main room to eat.The white rice porridge made of rice oil, the shadow of the yellow rice can't be seen. After the wild vegetables are blanched, salt, vinegar, and hot lard are poured on it, which is refreshing and delicious.
"good to eat."
Holding the porridge bowl, Gu Zhao said happily.
Li Zhouzhou said with a smile: "There is enough rice this year, let's cook a dry rice instead. I won't put yellow rice, let's eat new food."
"Half a chicken stew." Li Dada mentioned.
Li Zhouzhou said yes.
After eating, pack up.Li Da said that he was going to cut pig grass and collect firewood, and let the two of them do their own things.Li Zhouzhou took a bamboo dustpan with needles, thread, scissors, and cloth in it and went to Brother Xing's house to ask Aunt Wang to make a jacket, while Gu Zhao stayed at home to watch the door and read.
Li Zhouzhou arrived at Brother Xing'er's house, the courtyard door was open, and the people inside had just had breakfast, and when they saw Li Zhouzhou, they all greeted Li Zhouzhou kindly, and Brother Xing's mother-in-law saw Li Zhouzhou coming with something and said: " Wait, I'll get my jacket and come over to make a gesture."
While waiting to do it, the man from the Wang family moved the big table from the main room to the yard.
Xinggeer, Xinggeer's mother-in-law, and Li Zhouzhou made clothes together, while his sister-in-law Xu watched by, occasionally doing her own work.Mrs. Xu lives with fine hair. There are a pair of children in the family. The clothes are worn tightly. If they can be patched, they are patched. new.
In the past, Xingge's mother-in-law praised Xu's ability to live a good life, but now seeing that the eldest grandson and granddaughter's clothes are clean, but the patches are unavoidably shabby, they said: "Boss daughter-in-law, this year's harvest is good, I will give the boss some money." I gave one or two halves, and I got half more, and when you have time, you also go to the town to pull a piece of cloth and make new clothes for the two dolls."
"No need, mother, they still have enough clothes to wear." Xu didn't want to waste the money.
Brother Xing's mother-in-law doesn't love her in her heart, but Li Zhouzhou is still here so I can't say much, let's talk to the boss later, she can still be partial to Wang Shitou like the old couple of Li's family, will the boss be mean when the family is separated in the future?
So much so that Xu's life is so tight now, can't he guard against her?
Women in the village and girls who are about to marry wear short jackets and skirts. Because they have to work, the skirts are usually made shorter to expose the shoe uppers.
Li Zhouzhou saw that the old lady in the town was wearing a pair of skirts, which looked good.
"This piece of cloth is good." Brother Xing's mother-in-law knew something good when she touched it.
Brother Xing said: "It's three Wen more expensive than the one I bought for Yuan Yuan. Zhou Zhou is so kind to his grandma."
"That's Zhou Zhou's filial piety, a filial child." Brother Xing's mother-in-law said.
Li Zhouzhou is my elder brother, and he has never made a women's short jacket. He got advice from Aunt Wang on how to cut it and how to make it. When you go out, people will laugh at you, saying that you are always cute, so you should wear wider clothes.
It's also quick to make, and it was cut in one morning.
Li Zhouzhou said that he would not take the things back with Brother Xing, and would come back in the afternoon after eating at noon.Brother Xing's mother-in-law agreed first, "Just put it here, don't worry, Auntie will watch it for you, and I won't lose a single needle."
"Thank you, Auntie, I believe in Auntie."
When Li Zhouzhou went home to cook, the water tank was full, and his father hadn't come back yet, so the husband went to fetch water.
"Sir, did you go fetch water this morning?"
Gu Zhao listened to the movement at the door and came out to look. When he saw his wife came back, he expressed his merits and said, "Am I good?"
Li Zhouzhou smiled and patted his husband's head, boasting that he was good.
"I beat half of it, and my uncle in the village brought it back for me. I said no, it won't work."
"Good husband, everyone likes it very much." Li Zhouzhou said naturally.
Gu Zhao rolled up his sleeves and followed Zhou Zhou into the stove house. He sat in the stove and lit the fire, and said, "It's not my fault, but the crops in the field are good. Every household's hands are looser, and people are kinder. Everyone smiles when they see it."
"It seems that this autumn, the uncles and aunts in the village came to knock their teeth with smiles on their faces, and there were fewer quarrels." Li Zhouzhou thought about it carefully, washing his hands and making noodles, and simply eating some noodles at noon. : "I went to Brother Xing'er's house in the morning, and I met Aunt Wang, who even greeted me."
Aunt Wang secretly talked about him because of the ten-cent money stove, but Li Zhouzhou actually knew about it.But for this kind of thing, Li Zhouzhou didn't scold him, so he had to stay away. I didn't expect that Aunt Wang would take the initiative to say hello, although it seemed awkward to be reluctant.
"Her family's five-acre paddy field has piled up rice and exchanged it for money, and she still makes faces at you, so don't blame the villagers for calling her." Gu Zhao said naturally.There is a saying that troublesome people come out of poor mountains and evil waters. It is not absolute, but there is some truth to it.
When he was a child, he was in an orphanage. There were many children in the orphanage, and food and clothing were in short supply. With donations from kind-hearted people in society, several children could fight for a toy and more meat.Later, he went to university with state funding, and several other contacts who worked in the same city said that they would have dinner together.
Those who used to earn money for small toys were very kind at the dinner party, and they were struggling to pay for it.
Mainly poor.
"However, let's be polite and not too close or far from Aunt Wang," Gu Zhao said.
There are those who are poor and have backbone, and we cannot rely on poverty for everything.Li's family was poorer than Aunt Wang's next door. It was a thatched hut with no food on the dry land. The father and son were hungry when they were young, but they never greedy anyone's petty gain. They had that kind of thinking.
Li Da has always remembered the friendship of reaching out to the leader back then, and he can help if there is anything.
It takes less water to kill pigs for others.
Li Zhouzhou also remembered that Aunt Wang had helped him when he was a child, and Gu Zhao dared to guarantee that if the stove was fired by Li's father and son, and Aunt Wang came to buy it, it would definitely be ten cents cheaper.
"I know my husband." Li Zhouzhou woke up from the dough, started to pick wild vegetables, took a noodle pot, in front of others, Li Zhouzhou might not say such honest words, it doesn't matter in front of his own husband, Knowing that Xianggong was on his side, he said, "I think Aunt Wang is stingy, but fortunately, the rice field fertilizer works well this time."
Otherwise, Aunt Wang hated the Li family even more, and didn't know what to do.
Although the village chief said he was responsible for the good and the bad, but he hated the Li family in his heart and made some bad things secretly. Could the village chief really make a big fuss and disturb the village law?
It's hard to guard against villains, especially neighbors, so just stay away from Aunt Wang and not deal with them.
Li Zhouzhou put noodles in the pot, Li Da came back with a basket of pig vegetables on his back and two bundles of dry firewood in his hand, Gu Zhao prepared hot water for his father to wash his face and hands, just in time for dinner.
After dinner, Li Da was not busy, and couldn't stay at home, so he ran to the foot of the mountain to collect more firewood.His brother-in-law is weak, and in autumn and winter he has to drink soup and burn the stove, all of which are worthless.
Li Zhouzhou then went to Brother Xing'er's house to make clothes.
After cutting in the morning, Li Zhouzhou started to embroider the blessing characters on the chest in the afternoon. He washed his hands before doing the embroidery work, stitch by stitch, and did it quickly and well.
The word "福" is simple, and Gu Zhao's characters are also deliberately rounded and full.
The old man looked at the appointment and felt good and blessed.
It took Li Zhouzhou four days to embroider it, and Xingge's mother-in-law looked at it and said yes, a round and round look will bring blessings.Brother Xing said that mother liked it, and changed that he would also pull a piece of cloth when he went to the town to embroider a short jacket for mother.
"What are you doing with that money? I don't live long enough." Brother Xing and his mother-in-law were happy in their mouths.
Later, Li Zhouzhou embroidered auspicious clouds on the cuffs and necklines. Brother Xing asked Li Zhouzhou to buy an indigo one, and also made a double-breasted jacket for his mother-in-law, saying that it was a new dress, according to the style Li Zhouzhou made. Come, also embroider the word "Fu".
Brother Xing's mother-in-law blamed Brother Xing for spending money, but they loved her in their hearts.When Mrs. Xu saw it, she might have felt a sense of urgency. Within a few days, Li Zhouzhou stuffed his short jacket with cotton and started making buttons. Mrs. Xu went to the town to buy cloth and came back, saying that she would make skirts for her mother-in-law.
It's like playing a ring.
Fortunately, Li Zhouzhou's short jacket was ready, and he said he didn't bother to wipe his forehead, so he could go back and make it, so he hurried home with a bamboo dustpan.
"Don't let my brother Xing and his sister-in-law be at odds because of me making a short jacket." Li Zhouzhou was still quite worried, and learned from Xianggong.
Gu Zhao rubbed his wife's hands and said, "The only thing left is to wipe the forehead. Don't burn your eyes, you're doing it during the day." , the head of the Wang family is still impartial."
Every year the harvest was sold and the money was confiscated, and the old couple of the Wang family gave pocket money to the eldest and the second room, one tael of silver each a year.The small family has money in their hands, so they don't have to look at the mother-in-law's face to ask for money to buy a thread for the child.
Brother Xing's mother-in-law pinched Zhongwei to death.
"Our family has given free methods to fertilize the land. Now the people in the village have seen our family and are in harmony. In addition, Guangzong Liufu County has several relationships. The cousins and mothers-in-law are closer to the cousins. You can see When I came out, my cousin and sister-in-law were afraid that her mother-in-law would be biased, and her mother-in-law's appointment could be seen, and she might use the opportunity of making clothes to beat Xu." Gu Zhao reassured his wife.
Li Zhouzhou felt more at ease after listening to his husband.
"It's better for our family. There are fewer people, it's simpler and there are not so many conflicts. The main thing is to say what you have." Gu Zhao said sincerely.
Otherwise, life will really become a fight.
Sure enough, within two days, Brother Xing came to Li's house to play, and it was rare for Li Zhouzhou to bring it up, asking if there was anything wrong?Brother Xing chuckled and said: "As soon as you leave, my mother-in-law will agree, then you can make me a skirt, otherwise I will wear the jacket of the second room instead of the skirt of the first room, and you still think I am partial to the second room. "
Mrs. Xu was so ashamed that she couldn't say anything on the spot, and her mother-in-law saw through her small thoughts.
"and after?"
"I'm too busy making jackets, and I just talk about it when I'm confused. In fact, I still feel sorry for the cloth and cotton money I bought. Now that my sister-in-law has made it, I feel at ease."
Brother Xing thought he couldn't contribute the money and efforts alone, and he had to ask his sister-in-law to contribute.
It's okay.Li Zhouzhou was completely relieved.
At the end of the month, Tie Dan came again to explain that he was setting up a feast at home.At the beginning of December, Gu Zhao and Li Zhouzhou went to Dongping Village with gifts.
The ceremony of building the house and landing is a piece of sugar and a jar of wine, and [-] Wen coins are wrapped in red paper.This is a very nice and decent gift.The gift for Grandma Gu's birth was a short jacket made by Li Zhouzhou himself, wiping her forehead, and [-] cash for grandchildren's filial piety.
The banquet was naturally placed in the newly built yard of Gu Si's family, and it was lively.
Li Zhouzhou and Xianggong entered Dongping Village and followed the road to look for it. The Yue family had changed a lot. Two rooms were added to the left and right of the main hall in the middle, as were the stove house and the grain depot. The film house, the main house is a green brick and tile house.
But because the houses in the middle are old and a bit old, and the newly built ones on both sides are very new, it doesn't look very neat.Seven or eight tables were set up in the middle of the courtyard, and a mud stove was improvised next to it, which was used to stew meat and stir-fry vegetables on the table.
Li Zhouzhou and Xianggong entered the house and brought the gifts over first.
Li Guihua took the basket and the red envelope paper, her eyes were still on the bag in Gu Zhao's hand, she didn't know what was in it, it was a big bulging bag.
"This is a birthday present for Grandma." Gu Zhao said in front of the villagers.
Li Guihua smiled sarcastically, looked away, and said, "That's right, your grandma is still at uncle's house, take it over and have dinner with me later."
"Then Zhou Zhou and I will go to uncle's house."
"Go, let's go." Li Guihua smiled politely, and when Li Zhouzhou and Gu Zhao went out, she opened the red envelope first, and saw that there were twenty coins in the basket, and there were sugar and wine in the basket, and she was very happy.
Uncle Gu's house is not far away.
The courtyard wall is short and more than one meter high. Gu Zhao and Li Zhouzhou are tall and tall. They can see the uncle Zhu is hanging the clothes to dry at a glance, but they look bad, as if they are angry.
Can Mrs. Zhu not be angry? Originally, Gu Si’s house was going to hold a banquet, but Li Guihua had to come to her house. Gu Si said his mother’s [-]th birthday, otherwise the elder brother and our brothers would hold a banquet together. My house is a house, yours is a house. Happy birthday to our mother.
Gu Da agreed.
Zhu's anger is that their family also paid half of the banquet money, and now the banquet is placed in Gu Si's yard, and Gu Si is responsible for all the scenes and favors. How about giving her a birthday.
The results of it?
Her mother-in-law was born at the end of November, so she dragged on for a few days to arrange the banquet today.
Because Gu Si checked the almanac and said that today is an auspicious day.Her mother-in-law used to say Gu Sihao's words when she met everyone, why didn't she say it now?
Zhu's heart was relieved, but also angry at the same time, her family spent a lot of money making noodles for Gu Si.
Hearing movement at the gate of the yard, Mrs. Zhu opened the door, and it seemed that Gu Zhao brought his elder brother Li Zhouzhou to the door, facing Gu Si's family. It was inevitable that Mrs. Zhu didn't have much enthusiasm on her face, and greeted the two of them to enter the house. The old lady is in the house.
Sitting on the kang, Grandma Gu let out a long breath.
I thought that my youngest son really wanted to celebrate her birthday, but I didn't realize——
"Aniang, Zhao'er and Zhou Zhou are here to see you." Mrs. Zhu said.
Grandma Gu came back to her senses, and saw her grandson who opened the door and came in. She saw no one else in her eyes, and she burst into tears and said, "Hey, my son, you can come and see me." When she got off the kang, she was overjoyed again, I patted my grandson's arm for fear, and looked again and again, "It's taller and stronger."
"Grandma, it's all because of me. I didn't dare to come here because I was afraid you would get angry." Gu Zhao helped Grandma sit down, pulled Zhou Zhou and said, "Grandma, this is Zhou Zhou from my house."
Li Zhouzhou was nervous and called out grandma.
Grandma Gu just saw that her grandson was really full of words, so she could only cry for a while, but now she has calmed down, and looked at the brother next to her grandson - she didn't look like a brother.
Not at all like a brother.
If in the past Grandma Gu would have been unhappy with Li Zhouzhou, she would have said something, but this time, she was hurt by her youngest son, and she knew in her heart that the eldest and the eldest daughter-in-law complained.Think about it now, Zhao'er used to be her beloved grandson, now that she has married into Li's family, she also lives with the eldest, so she can no longer favor the fourth wife.
"Okay, good boy." Gu A said from the pacifier.
Gu Zhao heard that it was polite words, but polite words are fine, lest Grandma say something that would make Zhou Zhou sad, and took out the gift, and Zhu's next to him saw that it was still a new jacket, and couldn't help being dumbfounded. Seriously, it costs a lot of money to do this.
"Look, mother, the material is good, and it's still a new dress. I'll wear this when I go to dinner later." Zhu said.
Grandma Gu said: "Don't bother, it's not a rich old lady in the town, it's just an old woman in the village. I don't want to go after my birthday."
"It's not going to work, the money is all given to the fourth brother, if you don't go, you will lose." Zhu said quickly.
After saying this, Grandma Gu lost all expression and sighed.
When Li Zhouzhou sees this situation, he will first see his husband, what should he do?What's going on?Why is it that Grandma is unhappy after her birthday?
Gu Zhaoxian patted his wife's hand, meaning it was all right.He loves to act coquettishly at his wife when he is at home, and he will coax the old lady, smiling and coquettishly saying: "Grandma, don't go." He took the short jacket in his hand and shook it off, "Look, this jacket is double-breasted, and the old lady in the town The lady looks good in this way, in our village, you are always the first one, right? None of the other old ladies have one."
"I wrote this blessing. Zhou Zhou spent a lot of time embroidering it. You are looking at this forehead..."
Gu Zhao put oil on his lips and made the old lady happy after a while.
It is mainly the jacket worn by the old lady in the village.
Grandma Gu touched the short jacket with wrinkled hands, and then wiped her forehead. The short jacket was still embroidered with words, so nice, so nice, "It's a nice color, I haven't seen anyone wear it in the village yet."
"When I bought it, the store clerk said that the goods only come from prefectures and counties." Li Zhouzhou replied.
"From the prefecture?" Grandma Gu regained her spirits, the more she looked at the short jacket, the better it looked.
The Zhu family next to her had already looked straight at her. On the day she married Gu Da, she also wore a red cloth short jacket without any embroidery. Now the mother-in-law's short jacket has the word "Fu" on the chest, and there are scars on the cuffs and collars. The embroidery pattern is really delicate and beautiful, with envious eyes, he said: "Mother, try it on the upper body, the fourth brother is very lively, if you wear it out for a while, you will lose face."
Does Grandma Gu have the idea of not wanting to have a banquet to celebrate her birthday?
"Change it on, take out my new jacket and skirt that I made two years ago, the black one." Grandma Gu instructed the eldest daughter-in-law to bring her the jacket and skirt.
Gu Zhao and Li Zhouzhou went to wait outside.
In it, Mrs. Zhu dressed her mother-in-law, wiped her forehead and put it on. There was no need for Mrs. Zhu to praise her. Mrs. Gu first saw from the face of her eldest daughter-in-law that she was well-dressed. The vigorous waist straightened.
"Let's go, let's go to Gu Si's house, let's celebrate our birthday, and call all the babies." Mrs. Gu said straightforwardly.
When we arrived at Gu Si's house, Mrs. Gu told everyone that the boss gave her half of the money for her birthday, exaggerated the filial piety of her son and daughter-in-law, and said that her jacket and forehead were brought by her grandsons Gu Zhao and Li Zhouzhou The ceremony was made by Li Zhouzhou himself.
"Zhou Zhou treats Zhao'er well, and I feel at ease now. It stands to reason that Zhao'er is married, and now he has become a member of the Li family. This time he also brought a generous gift. This jacket costs a lot of money. Look at this trick, it's all The child thinks of me, the two are filial." Mrs. Gu said.
The things the two of them wanted to buy were not heavy, such as cloth and cotton, carrying baskets on their backs, and they were easy to walk over.When we arrived in the town, we went straight to the fabric shop. Brother Xing chose a piece of bright red cloth for Yuan Yuan, and said, "This is good, festive."
"Would you like to choose red as well?" Brother Xing suggested to Li Zhouzhou.
Li Zhouzhou shook his head and thought it was not particularly good. The red cloth looked good on children, married brides and grooms, but he felt that it was too ostentatious on weekdays, and the elderly couldn't bear it.
The store clerk listened to the conversation between the two and pulled out a purple cloth.
"How do you see this piece?"
Li Zhouzhou: "Can I touch it?"
"Yes." The store clerk pulled one end away to let the customers try it, and said, "I just got this one back a few days ago. The prefecture sells it very well. The old ladies like this color. You can make gestures." , the color is not dull, if it is especially good to make a coat for the old lady, I am sure the old man will like it."
Li Zhouzhou touched it with his hands, and it was softer than the red one, and it must be more expensive than the red one.Brother Xing also put down the red cloth in his hand, touched the purple, and shouted: "This is good, soft, shouldn't it be cheap?"
"You two have good eyesight." The shop clerk praised first, and then said: "This one is five cents more expensive than the red one. If you make short coats for old ladies, ten feet will be enough. If you are rich, you can also make a pair of coats." Er, the old man is getting old, and he wears a forehead wipe to prevent the wind from blowing his head, how beautiful this set is."
The five renminbi that the store clerk said was based on a ruler. One foot is five renminbi more expensive, and one foot is more expensive than fifty renminbi.
Brother Xing put down the cloth in his hand after hearing this, and said to Li Zhouzhou: "It's too expensive. I think the red one is fine, and it doesn't matter if the indigo one is worth it. You don't like the color, so turn around." Wouldn’t it be nice and auspicious to embroider some patterns.”
"Yes." Li Zhouzhou nodded.
When the store clerk heard that the two of them didn't want to buy expensive ones, he hurriedly said, "If you want it sincerely and really like it, I'll give you another penny."
"Two texts." Li Zhouzhou said, with no expression on his face, his eyes shifted to the indigo piece, and he said, "Otherwise, you'd better get me the indigo one."
Shop clerk: "Let Erwen you want this one? If you want it, I'll install it for you."
"Let's put it on, it's one foot long, the indigo one is two feet long, and the black one is two feet long." Li Zhouzhou said.
When the store clerk heard that the customer asked for so much, he immediately beamed with joy, and let the two texts be within the range the boss said, but no matter how low it was, the customer bought so much now, so he quickly brought the cloth.
Brother Xing said in surprise, "Why do you buy so many?"
"Dad has been wearing the jacket for three years, and he has to cut cloth to make clothes, so I bought them all and made them together."
Brother Xing, don't ask, the two feet of indigo cloth must have been bought by Gu Shulang.After the store clerk cut the cloth, Li Zhouzhou also bought some red thread, and planned to embroider the word "Fu" on the jacket when he returned home.After paying the bill, the two went to buy cotton again. Carrying baskets on their backs, they bought some pastries and sugar before heading back.
Just after leaving the town, I didn't walk much, and heard the sound of ox carts behind me.Brother Xing also said: "I sound like my father's voice."
Looking back, it was true that Li Er was riding an ox cart on the far road, and Liu Huaxiang was sitting in the back car. Li Guangzong, who went with him a few days ago, was nowhere to be seen.
"It's really Brother Xing, and Li Zhouzhou." Liu Huaxiang patted the man.
Li Er stopped the ox cart, smiled and said, "You two are going to the town, come up and take you back to the village together."
Brother Xing was not polite, he unloaded the back basket and put it on the ox cart, dragged Zhou Zhou into the ox cart, and said, "There is nothing to be embarrassed about, come on."
"I'll just go, don't tire the cow, just put the things in the car." Li Zhouzhou said.
Who knew that the second aunt was so enthusiastic, she pulled Li Zhouzhou into the car, got off by herself and said, "I've been sitting all the way, and I happened to be tired, I'll take a walk, you and Brother Xing will take a rest in the car."
"Yes." Reiji also jumped out of the ox cart ahead, pulling the ox rope.
It is true that Liu Huaxiang suffered from back pain after sitting all the way, and now she is comfortable walking slowly, and she did not stop when she saw Xing Geer Li Zhouzhou smiling on her face, and now she will walk beside the ox cart, happily Said: "My Guangzong has stayed in the prefecture county."
"I just said why I didn't see Guangzong." Li Zhouzhou added a sentence.
Li Er turned his head back and grinned grinningly, "Your uncle said Guang Zong is smart, let him teach Guang Zong to settle accounts."
"Yes, at that time, you won't have to work so hard growing crops. You can earn more than 20 taels of silver a year just by sitting there and scratching the abacus beads." Liu Huaxiang answered.
Brother Xing said why the bedding was gone when he came back, and he probably went to the prefecture like Guangzong.
Li Zhouzhou knew that his second aunt and uncle were happy, so of course he cheered, "That's great, you can earn a lot when you're free."
"Isn't it? Guangzong has been clever since he was a child, and he dared to climb trees when he was four or five years old..."
Afterwards, Liu Huaxiang talked all the way. When she entered the village, she learned from everyone she met. Blessings, Guangzong will get rich and take Lao Ziniang to the prefectures and counties to enjoy the blessings.
Compared with Li Zhouzhou's one or two words of accosting, the words of these uncles and aunts in the village tickled Liu Huaxiang's itch, and the toothache came out of the laughter, and I didn't cook that day, listening to the villagers' flattery was better than eating anything powerful.
Brother Xing is also happy. If Guangzong recovers, his natal family will also stand up, and he will be more comfortable talking loudly in his in-law's house.
Before staying overnight, Li Guangzong of Li Er's family stayed in the prefecture to study and settle accounts, so everyone in the village knew about it.
Everyone said, no wonder Li Er sent food to the prefecture and county for so many years, dare to wait here, the food is not free.Naturally, he mentioned the old and bad things about the Li family in the past, but he said that he was pitiful and sympathetic to Li Da, and felt that no matter how powerful Li Da was, he could not catch up with the younger brother from the prefecture, and even worse than Li's second son.
Reiji also bought cattle.
But it’s different now. After all, Li Da didn’t have the sympathy for the weak at the beginning, but said that everyone in Li’s life is good, as long as the ten mu of paddy fields are sold this year, let alone dry fields, they also bought mules. The year is no less than that of the prefecture and county.
Li Da can also slaughter pigs.
The green brick and large tiled house of the Li family is also open, how nice it is.
Picking abacus beads in prefectures and counties is so easy to pick. Look at the shops in the town. Anyone who hires shop assistants dare not breathe loudly to the boss. It is better to live happily in their own fields.
Now that there are fertilizers, the harvest is good, what kind of prefecture?
Then the topic turned to next year's harvest in his own field. Thinking about what Li's family harvested this year, his family will harvest so much next year, he can wake up laughing when he sleeps, and he is also envious of Li Zhengren from Hanfu County.
Li Zhouzhou didn't feel any envy towards Guangzong's Liufu county. After eating and washing, he was in the bed asking his husband to write him a blessing tomorrow morning, "I will make a short jacket for grandma, and I will make a pair of breasts, with the left and right sides Together it is a word of blessing, Mr. Xianggong, can you say it well?"
"Okay." Gu Zhaoneng thought about it, and praised: "Zhou Zhou, you are so smart, but in time? Don't rush too much, if you can't make it, you can also embroider auspicious clouds on the cuffs and necklines." This is simple.
Li Zhouzhou said with a smile: "There are still ten days left, and there is not much farm work at home now, so I will make a short jacket and embroider it with the word "Fu". But what my husband said is good, it would look better with a little auspicious clouds on the collar and cuffs. "
Gu Zhao: ...
He originally wanted to steal a coincidence from his wife.
"I'll feed the chickens and pigs at home." Gu Zhao took his wife's hand and acted like a baby, "Okay, okay, Zhao'er really wants to feed pigs and chickens~"
Li Zhouzhou couldn't help being amused by Xianggong's appearance, his smiling eyes were crescent like crescents, and said: "Okay, I will leave it to Xianggong." He thought to himself, he cut the pig grass, and the chicken coop and pigsty were all dead in the morning. After cleaning it up, Xianggong only needs to feed him.
Early the next morning, Li Zhouzhou got up, boiled water, and boiled rice porridge in the pot.
There is a lot of rice left at home this year, and the new rice is very fragrant, and my husband likes to eat it.When Li Zhouzhou cooks, there is more white rice and less yellow rice, which is enough anyway.
In the past, there were Li Zhouzhou and Li Da in the Li family. Before the yard of the big tile-roofed house was built, the father and son did not see white rice in the pot all year round, and all they ate were yellow rice, which was all sold.Later, the yard was built, and the ten-acre paddy field also left two stones for the father and son to eat, and they both ate miscellaneous grains.
This year is the most.
White rice porridge is boiled to produce rice oil, and wild vegetables are very delicious when mixed.
Li Zhouzhou took advantage of his time to sweep the chicken coops and pigpens in the backyard, and poured the excrement into the pit for dry fertilizer.Gu Zhao also woke up. After washing, he mixed the pig vegetables and wheat bran with boiling water, and took the bucket to the backyard to feed the pigs.
There is a big one in the family and a small one. The big one will be killed if he says wait.
After finishing the work and washing hands, the family sat in the main room to eat.The white rice porridge made of rice oil, the shadow of the yellow rice can't be seen. After the wild vegetables are blanched, salt, vinegar, and hot lard are poured on it, which is refreshing and delicious.
"good to eat."
Holding the porridge bowl, Gu Zhao said happily.
Li Zhouzhou said with a smile: "There is enough rice this year, let's cook a dry rice instead. I won't put yellow rice, let's eat new food."
"Half a chicken stew." Li Dada mentioned.
Li Zhouzhou said yes.
After eating, pack up.Li Da said that he was going to cut pig grass and collect firewood, and let the two of them do their own things.Li Zhouzhou took a bamboo dustpan with needles, thread, scissors, and cloth in it and went to Brother Xing's house to ask Aunt Wang to make a jacket, while Gu Zhao stayed at home to watch the door and read.
Li Zhouzhou arrived at Brother Xing'er's house, the courtyard door was open, and the people inside had just had breakfast, and when they saw Li Zhouzhou, they all greeted Li Zhouzhou kindly, and Brother Xing's mother-in-law saw Li Zhouzhou coming with something and said: " Wait, I'll get my jacket and come over to make a gesture."
While waiting to do it, the man from the Wang family moved the big table from the main room to the yard.
Xinggeer, Xinggeer's mother-in-law, and Li Zhouzhou made clothes together, while his sister-in-law Xu watched by, occasionally doing her own work.Mrs. Xu lives with fine hair. There are a pair of children in the family. The clothes are worn tightly. If they can be patched, they are patched. new.
In the past, Xingge's mother-in-law praised Xu's ability to live a good life, but now seeing that the eldest grandson and granddaughter's clothes are clean, but the patches are unavoidably shabby, they said: "Boss daughter-in-law, this year's harvest is good, I will give the boss some money." I gave one or two halves, and I got half more, and when you have time, you also go to the town to pull a piece of cloth and make new clothes for the two dolls."
"No need, mother, they still have enough clothes to wear." Xu didn't want to waste the money.
Brother Xing's mother-in-law doesn't love her in her heart, but Li Zhouzhou is still here so I can't say much, let's talk to the boss later, she can still be partial to Wang Shitou like the old couple of Li's family, will the boss be mean when the family is separated in the future?
So much so that Xu's life is so tight now, can't he guard against her?
Women in the village and girls who are about to marry wear short jackets and skirts. Because they have to work, the skirts are usually made shorter to expose the shoe uppers.
Li Zhouzhou saw that the old lady in the town was wearing a pair of skirts, which looked good.
"This piece of cloth is good." Brother Xing's mother-in-law knew something good when she touched it.
Brother Xing said: "It's three Wen more expensive than the one I bought for Yuan Yuan. Zhou Zhou is so kind to his grandma."
"That's Zhou Zhou's filial piety, a filial child." Brother Xing's mother-in-law said.
Li Zhouzhou is my elder brother, and he has never made a women's short jacket. He got advice from Aunt Wang on how to cut it and how to make it. When you go out, people will laugh at you, saying that you are always cute, so you should wear wider clothes.
It's also quick to make, and it was cut in one morning.
Li Zhouzhou said that he would not take the things back with Brother Xing, and would come back in the afternoon after eating at noon.Brother Xing's mother-in-law agreed first, "Just put it here, don't worry, Auntie will watch it for you, and I won't lose a single needle."
"Thank you, Auntie, I believe in Auntie."
When Li Zhouzhou went home to cook, the water tank was full, and his father hadn't come back yet, so the husband went to fetch water.
"Sir, did you go fetch water this morning?"
Gu Zhao listened to the movement at the door and came out to look. When he saw his wife came back, he expressed his merits and said, "Am I good?"
Li Zhouzhou smiled and patted his husband's head, boasting that he was good.
"I beat half of it, and my uncle in the village brought it back for me. I said no, it won't work."
"Good husband, everyone likes it very much." Li Zhouzhou said naturally.
Gu Zhao rolled up his sleeves and followed Zhou Zhou into the stove house. He sat in the stove and lit the fire, and said, "It's not my fault, but the crops in the field are good. Every household's hands are looser, and people are kinder. Everyone smiles when they see it."
"It seems that this autumn, the uncles and aunts in the village came to knock their teeth with smiles on their faces, and there were fewer quarrels." Li Zhouzhou thought about it carefully, washing his hands and making noodles, and simply eating some noodles at noon. : "I went to Brother Xing'er's house in the morning, and I met Aunt Wang, who even greeted me."
Aunt Wang secretly talked about him because of the ten-cent money stove, but Li Zhouzhou actually knew about it.But for this kind of thing, Li Zhouzhou didn't scold him, so he had to stay away. I didn't expect that Aunt Wang would take the initiative to say hello, although it seemed awkward to be reluctant.
"Her family's five-acre paddy field has piled up rice and exchanged it for money, and she still makes faces at you, so don't blame the villagers for calling her." Gu Zhao said naturally.There is a saying that troublesome people come out of poor mountains and evil waters. It is not absolute, but there is some truth to it.
When he was a child, he was in an orphanage. There were many children in the orphanage, and food and clothing were in short supply. With donations from kind-hearted people in society, several children could fight for a toy and more meat.Later, he went to university with state funding, and several other contacts who worked in the same city said that they would have dinner together.
Those who used to earn money for small toys were very kind at the dinner party, and they were struggling to pay for it.
Mainly poor.
"However, let's be polite and not too close or far from Aunt Wang," Gu Zhao said.
There are those who are poor and have backbone, and we cannot rely on poverty for everything.Li's family was poorer than Aunt Wang's next door. It was a thatched hut with no food on the dry land. The father and son were hungry when they were young, but they never greedy anyone's petty gain. They had that kind of thinking.
Li Da has always remembered the friendship of reaching out to the leader back then, and he can help if there is anything.
It takes less water to kill pigs for others.
Li Zhouzhou also remembered that Aunt Wang had helped him when he was a child, and Gu Zhao dared to guarantee that if the stove was fired by Li's father and son, and Aunt Wang came to buy it, it would definitely be ten cents cheaper.
"I know my husband." Li Zhouzhou woke up from the dough, started to pick wild vegetables, took a noodle pot, in front of others, Li Zhouzhou might not say such honest words, it doesn't matter in front of his own husband, Knowing that Xianggong was on his side, he said, "I think Aunt Wang is stingy, but fortunately, the rice field fertilizer works well this time."
Otherwise, Aunt Wang hated the Li family even more, and didn't know what to do.
Although the village chief said he was responsible for the good and the bad, but he hated the Li family in his heart and made some bad things secretly. Could the village chief really make a big fuss and disturb the village law?
It's hard to guard against villains, especially neighbors, so just stay away from Aunt Wang and not deal with them.
Li Zhouzhou put noodles in the pot, Li Da came back with a basket of pig vegetables on his back and two bundles of dry firewood in his hand, Gu Zhao prepared hot water for his father to wash his face and hands, just in time for dinner.
After dinner, Li Da was not busy, and couldn't stay at home, so he ran to the foot of the mountain to collect more firewood.His brother-in-law is weak, and in autumn and winter he has to drink soup and burn the stove, all of which are worthless.
Li Zhouzhou then went to Brother Xing'er's house to make clothes.
After cutting in the morning, Li Zhouzhou started to embroider the blessing characters on the chest in the afternoon. He washed his hands before doing the embroidery work, stitch by stitch, and did it quickly and well.
The word "福" is simple, and Gu Zhao's characters are also deliberately rounded and full.
The old man looked at the appointment and felt good and blessed.
It took Li Zhouzhou four days to embroider it, and Xingge's mother-in-law looked at it and said yes, a round and round look will bring blessings.Brother Xing said that mother liked it, and changed that he would also pull a piece of cloth when he went to the town to embroider a short jacket for mother.
"What are you doing with that money? I don't live long enough." Brother Xing and his mother-in-law were happy in their mouths.
Later, Li Zhouzhou embroidered auspicious clouds on the cuffs and necklines. Brother Xing asked Li Zhouzhou to buy an indigo one, and also made a double-breasted jacket for his mother-in-law, saying that it was a new dress, according to the style Li Zhouzhou made. Come, also embroider the word "Fu".
Brother Xing's mother-in-law blamed Brother Xing for spending money, but they loved her in their hearts.When Mrs. Xu saw it, she might have felt a sense of urgency. Within a few days, Li Zhouzhou stuffed his short jacket with cotton and started making buttons. Mrs. Xu went to the town to buy cloth and came back, saying that she would make skirts for her mother-in-law.
It's like playing a ring.
Fortunately, Li Zhouzhou's short jacket was ready, and he said he didn't bother to wipe his forehead, so he could go back and make it, so he hurried home with a bamboo dustpan.
"Don't let my brother Xing and his sister-in-law be at odds because of me making a short jacket." Li Zhouzhou was still quite worried, and learned from Xianggong.
Gu Zhao rubbed his wife's hands and said, "The only thing left is to wipe the forehead. Don't burn your eyes, you're doing it during the day." , the head of the Wang family is still impartial."
Every year the harvest was sold and the money was confiscated, and the old couple of the Wang family gave pocket money to the eldest and the second room, one tael of silver each a year.The small family has money in their hands, so they don't have to look at the mother-in-law's face to ask for money to buy a thread for the child.
Brother Xing's mother-in-law pinched Zhongwei to death.
"Our family has given free methods to fertilize the land. Now the people in the village have seen our family and are in harmony. In addition, Guangzong Liufu County has several relationships. The cousins and mothers-in-law are closer to the cousins. You can see When I came out, my cousin and sister-in-law were afraid that her mother-in-law would be biased, and her mother-in-law's appointment could be seen, and she might use the opportunity of making clothes to beat Xu." Gu Zhao reassured his wife.
Li Zhouzhou felt more at ease after listening to his husband.
"It's better for our family. There are fewer people, it's simpler and there are not so many conflicts. The main thing is to say what you have." Gu Zhao said sincerely.
Otherwise, life will really become a fight.
Sure enough, within two days, Brother Xing came to Li's house to play, and it was rare for Li Zhouzhou to bring it up, asking if there was anything wrong?Brother Xing chuckled and said: "As soon as you leave, my mother-in-law will agree, then you can make me a skirt, otherwise I will wear the jacket of the second room instead of the skirt of the first room, and you still think I am partial to the second room. "
Mrs. Xu was so ashamed that she couldn't say anything on the spot, and her mother-in-law saw through her small thoughts.
"and after?"
"I'm too busy making jackets, and I just talk about it when I'm confused. In fact, I still feel sorry for the cloth and cotton money I bought. Now that my sister-in-law has made it, I feel at ease."
Brother Xing thought he couldn't contribute the money and efforts alone, and he had to ask his sister-in-law to contribute.
It's okay.Li Zhouzhou was completely relieved.
At the end of the month, Tie Dan came again to explain that he was setting up a feast at home.At the beginning of December, Gu Zhao and Li Zhouzhou went to Dongping Village with gifts.
The ceremony of building the house and landing is a piece of sugar and a jar of wine, and [-] Wen coins are wrapped in red paper.This is a very nice and decent gift.The gift for Grandma Gu's birth was a short jacket made by Li Zhouzhou himself, wiping her forehead, and [-] cash for grandchildren's filial piety.
The banquet was naturally placed in the newly built yard of Gu Si's family, and it was lively.
Li Zhouzhou and Xianggong entered Dongping Village and followed the road to look for it. The Yue family had changed a lot. Two rooms were added to the left and right of the main hall in the middle, as were the stove house and the grain depot. The film house, the main house is a green brick and tile house.
But because the houses in the middle are old and a bit old, and the newly built ones on both sides are very new, it doesn't look very neat.Seven or eight tables were set up in the middle of the courtyard, and a mud stove was improvised next to it, which was used to stew meat and stir-fry vegetables on the table.
Li Zhouzhou and Xianggong entered the house and brought the gifts over first.
Li Guihua took the basket and the red envelope paper, her eyes were still on the bag in Gu Zhao's hand, she didn't know what was in it, it was a big bulging bag.
"This is a birthday present for Grandma." Gu Zhao said in front of the villagers.
Li Guihua smiled sarcastically, looked away, and said, "That's right, your grandma is still at uncle's house, take it over and have dinner with me later."
"Then Zhou Zhou and I will go to uncle's house."
"Go, let's go." Li Guihua smiled politely, and when Li Zhouzhou and Gu Zhao went out, she opened the red envelope first, and saw that there were twenty coins in the basket, and there were sugar and wine in the basket, and she was very happy.
Uncle Gu's house is not far away.
The courtyard wall is short and more than one meter high. Gu Zhao and Li Zhouzhou are tall and tall. They can see the uncle Zhu is hanging the clothes to dry at a glance, but they look bad, as if they are angry.
Can Mrs. Zhu not be angry? Originally, Gu Si’s house was going to hold a banquet, but Li Guihua had to come to her house. Gu Si said his mother’s [-]th birthday, otherwise the elder brother and our brothers would hold a banquet together. My house is a house, yours is a house. Happy birthday to our mother.
Gu Da agreed.
Zhu's anger is that their family also paid half of the banquet money, and now the banquet is placed in Gu Si's yard, and Gu Si is responsible for all the scenes and favors. How about giving her a birthday.
The results of it?
Her mother-in-law was born at the end of November, so she dragged on for a few days to arrange the banquet today.
Because Gu Si checked the almanac and said that today is an auspicious day.Her mother-in-law used to say Gu Sihao's words when she met everyone, why didn't she say it now?
Zhu's heart was relieved, but also angry at the same time, her family spent a lot of money making noodles for Gu Si.
Hearing movement at the gate of the yard, Mrs. Zhu opened the door, and it seemed that Gu Zhao brought his elder brother Li Zhouzhou to the door, facing Gu Si's family. It was inevitable that Mrs. Zhu didn't have much enthusiasm on her face, and greeted the two of them to enter the house. The old lady is in the house.
Sitting on the kang, Grandma Gu let out a long breath.
I thought that my youngest son really wanted to celebrate her birthday, but I didn't realize——
"Aniang, Zhao'er and Zhou Zhou are here to see you." Mrs. Zhu said.
Grandma Gu came back to her senses, and saw her grandson who opened the door and came in. She saw no one else in her eyes, and she burst into tears and said, "Hey, my son, you can come and see me." When she got off the kang, she was overjoyed again, I patted my grandson's arm for fear, and looked again and again, "It's taller and stronger."
"Grandma, it's all because of me. I didn't dare to come here because I was afraid you would get angry." Gu Zhao helped Grandma sit down, pulled Zhou Zhou and said, "Grandma, this is Zhou Zhou from my house."
Li Zhouzhou was nervous and called out grandma.
Grandma Gu just saw that her grandson was really full of words, so she could only cry for a while, but now she has calmed down, and looked at the brother next to her grandson - she didn't look like a brother.
Not at all like a brother.
If in the past Grandma Gu would have been unhappy with Li Zhouzhou, she would have said something, but this time, she was hurt by her youngest son, and she knew in her heart that the eldest and the eldest daughter-in-law complained.Think about it now, Zhao'er used to be her beloved grandson, now that she has married into Li's family, she also lives with the eldest, so she can no longer favor the fourth wife.
"Okay, good boy." Gu A said from the pacifier.
Gu Zhao heard that it was polite words, but polite words are fine, lest Grandma say something that would make Zhou Zhou sad, and took out the gift, and Zhu's next to him saw that it was still a new jacket, and couldn't help being dumbfounded. Seriously, it costs a lot of money to do this.
"Look, mother, the material is good, and it's still a new dress. I'll wear this when I go to dinner later." Zhu said.
Grandma Gu said: "Don't bother, it's not a rich old lady in the town, it's just an old woman in the village. I don't want to go after my birthday."
"It's not going to work, the money is all given to the fourth brother, if you don't go, you will lose." Zhu said quickly.
After saying this, Grandma Gu lost all expression and sighed.
When Li Zhouzhou sees this situation, he will first see his husband, what should he do?What's going on?Why is it that Grandma is unhappy after her birthday?
Gu Zhaoxian patted his wife's hand, meaning it was all right.He loves to act coquettishly at his wife when he is at home, and he will coax the old lady, smiling and coquettishly saying: "Grandma, don't go." He took the short jacket in his hand and shook it off, "Look, this jacket is double-breasted, and the old lady in the town The lady looks good in this way, in our village, you are always the first one, right? None of the other old ladies have one."
"I wrote this blessing. Zhou Zhou spent a lot of time embroidering it. You are looking at this forehead..."
Gu Zhao put oil on his lips and made the old lady happy after a while.
It is mainly the jacket worn by the old lady in the village.
Grandma Gu touched the short jacket with wrinkled hands, and then wiped her forehead. The short jacket was still embroidered with words, so nice, so nice, "It's a nice color, I haven't seen anyone wear it in the village yet."
"When I bought it, the store clerk said that the goods only come from prefectures and counties." Li Zhouzhou replied.
"From the prefecture?" Grandma Gu regained her spirits, the more she looked at the short jacket, the better it looked.
The Zhu family next to her had already looked straight at her. On the day she married Gu Da, she also wore a red cloth short jacket without any embroidery. Now the mother-in-law's short jacket has the word "Fu" on the chest, and there are scars on the cuffs and collars. The embroidery pattern is really delicate and beautiful, with envious eyes, he said: "Mother, try it on the upper body, the fourth brother is very lively, if you wear it out for a while, you will lose face."
Does Grandma Gu have the idea of not wanting to have a banquet to celebrate her birthday?
"Change it on, take out my new jacket and skirt that I made two years ago, the black one." Grandma Gu instructed the eldest daughter-in-law to bring her the jacket and skirt.
Gu Zhao and Li Zhouzhou went to wait outside.
In it, Mrs. Zhu dressed her mother-in-law, wiped her forehead and put it on. There was no need for Mrs. Zhu to praise her. Mrs. Gu first saw from the face of her eldest daughter-in-law that she was well-dressed. The vigorous waist straightened.
"Let's go, let's go to Gu Si's house, let's celebrate our birthday, and call all the babies." Mrs. Gu said straightforwardly.
When we arrived at Gu Si's house, Mrs. Gu told everyone that the boss gave her half of the money for her birthday, exaggerated the filial piety of her son and daughter-in-law, and said that her jacket and forehead were brought by her grandsons Gu Zhao and Li Zhouzhou The ceremony was made by Li Zhouzhou himself.
"Zhou Zhou treats Zhao'er well, and I feel at ease now. It stands to reason that Zhao'er is married, and now he has become a member of the Li family. This time he also brought a generous gift. This jacket costs a lot of money. Look at this trick, it's all The child thinks of me, the two are filial." Mrs. Gu said.
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