The road of the farmer's fortune and the imperial examination

Chapter 127 Going to the Three Treasures Hall

Soon, a woman wearing a brown coarse cloth collared jacket and blue trousers came in from the courtyard.It's just that there are two big patches on the top and trousers.

Gu Chengyu looked at the woman in front of her. The woman's face was a bit dark, with a square face that was very similar to Gu's father, and her eyes were a bit big.It's just that at this time, there was a look of sadness on his face.

"Big sister!" Gu Chengyu had met Gu Xi before, and Gu Xi would visit home every New Year's Day, and usually left after lunch.

Gu Xi didn't talk much, and even when he came back, he was a little strange to his little brothers.However, it can be seen that she is good to the elder brother and the second brother, because she speaks to the eldest and second brothers in a completely different tone and attitude, and she has a sense of intimacy from the heart.

"Hey! Is Xiaobao writing? I heard that father sent you to study in the town?" Gu Xi was stunned for a while when he saw his younger brother writing. Then he remembered that he had heard that his father had sent Xiaobao to study in the town.

Her feelings for this little brother are undoubtedly complicated.They were not born by the same mother, so she always felt that she couldn't get close to her younger brother.What's more, the younger brother is especially favored at home, and his father holds him in the palm of his hand,

Gu Xi looked at this face carefully, she had never seen such a beautiful little baby, she looked very much like that woman.

I still remember that when she was nine years old, she met Lu Shi for the first time.At that time, the village said that his father had found a stepmother for them again, and now they have all entered the house.When she heard this, she panicked and led her younger brother back from the field with her elder brother. She had been hearing from people in the village that the stepmother would not be much better for the baby born to the woman in front!Maybe she would beat and scold them, and she was also scared on the way back.

My father owed a lot of debts because of my mother's medical treatment, so I had to go to the restaurant introduced by my uncle to work as a waiter in the restaurant in Fucheng. The monthly salary for working in Fucheng is more than that in the town.The eldest brother was ten years old at the time, and he was already able to support a family.Father would ask someone to bring money back every month. Although life was hard, there was no need to worry.

The family is poor, and I thought life would go on like this.Who knew that a year later, her father brought back a woman from Fucheng.I still remember the first time I saw Mrs. Lu, she was stunned. Is there really such a good-looking person in this world?
A small face, white and delicate skin, a pair of eyes that are indescribably beautiful, and the clothes on her body are made of unknown material, the color is beautiful, and the material is something she has never seen before. There, the impatient expression on her face made her think she was a fairy in the sky!
But she saw that the woman was carrying a bundle in her hand, and her father was holding a small box in his hand.She understood that this woman should be the stepmother brought back by her father.

No matter what she thinks, life is still going on.On weekdays, Mrs. Lu didn't care about anything, as long as she was served with food, she would eat it, and she didn't wash the dishes after eating. She threw the bowl away and lay down on the kang.Sometimes, she would lose her temper, but her father gave in and told them not to make the stepmother angry.In fact, if it were her, she wouldn't want to offend such a good-looking person.

But such a day, one day, suddenly changed.That day, the stepmother suddenly vomited while eating, so she invited the doctor to come and see.The doctor had seen it, but said congratulations, she couldn't understand, but seeing her father's happy face, she had an intuition that it was not a good thing for them.Sure enough, her father said that the stepmother was going to give birth to a younger brother for them.

After that, their life became more and more difficult, because the stepmother's temper became more and more irritable, and she often scolded them for some trivial things, and sometimes even refused to feed them.From there, Gu Xi began to hate this woman. Lu Shi treated them badly, but her father didn't seem to be their father anymore, and treated them completely worse than before.

Gu Xi fell into her memories, and Gu Chengyu felt curious why the eldest sister looked at him with complicated eyes, but the man remained motionless, wondering what he was thinking.

"Big sister!" Gu Wan sat on the kang and called out to Gu Xi.For Gu Xi, Gu Wan felt a little strange. Gu Xi got married right after she was born. On weekdays, she only saw her once during the Chinese New Year.

"Xizi? Why are you back at this time?" Father Gu saw the eldest daughter, and since he stepped into the main room, he looked at Xiaobao wondering what he was thinking?Ask now.

"Father!" Gu Xi came back to his senses after Papa Gu uttered his voice, and looked in Papa Gu's direction.Immediately, he also saw Mrs. Lu sitting next to Papa Gu.

Gu Xi paused, then called softly, "Mother!"

"Hmm!" Mrs. Lu didn't know what to say to this cheap big girl. When she married, Gu Xi was already nine years old, so she was only a few years older than Gu Xi.

"Xizi, have you eaten yet? If you haven't eaten, let your sister-in-law bring you something?" It took half an hour to walk from Xialing Village to Shangling Village, and Father Gu didn't know if Gu Xi had eaten.

"I'm not busy anymore! I've eaten." Gu Xi waved his hand and said.At this moment, something was hidden in her heart, even if the big meat was put in front of her, she would not have the appetite.

"Eldest sister, why are you back at this time? It's getting dark, when the time comes, the road is dark, can you see it? Why didn't brother-in-law come with you?" This is Gu Chengyi and his wife who rushed over. Gu Chengyi heard his elder brother shouting in the west wing room The eldest sister came back, so she hurriedly put on her shoes and came out.

Fang led Da Ya and the others into the main room.

Gu Xi usually only comes back once during the Chinese New Year, and never stays there for one night when he goes home. One is that the distance is not too far, and the other is that the Gu family's house is small and crowded with many people, so there is no room for Gu Xi, his wife and their two children.A married girl is a guest when she returns to her mother's house, and it's rare to see her again, so Gu Chengyi and the others still miss Gu Xi a lot.

"I have something to do at home, your brother-in-law is at home! Dad! I heard that the family bought land?" Gu Xi turned to Old Gu and asked.

"Ah! I bought 55 acres, and I'm planning to plow the land in the next two days! Yours is close, and I will help you look after it in the future." Gu Laopa thought that Xialing Village had been spread all over a while ago, and the eldest daughter It is not surprising to know.

"That land cost a lot of money, right? At least it cost more than 400 taels? Our family really dug ginseng from the mountain?" Gu Xi still can't believe it, such a good thing can happen?And let the Gu family run into each other?

"Well! Xiaobao and I went up the mountain to see the ginseng! Your little brother is lucky. Our family has also sold it for 500 taels of silver with this ginseng. Isn't it? Some time ago, I just bought land. You are going to build a house, do you have time in your family's life, maybe you can come to help on the day when you build the house?" Even if Gu Xi doesn't come today, Father Gu also plans to go to Gu Xi's house to report a letter the day before the house is built. The house is a big deal, and the daughter and son-in-law always have to talk about it.

"We still need to build a house? That's right, we have a large family, and we really can't live without building a house." Gu Xi didn't find it strange when he heard this. , can't be short of these few dollars.

Of course, that's because she didn't know that the Gu family was going to build a big tile house with blue bricks, and they had to build two entrances, otherwise, she would definitely be surprised.

"That's the reason. After the house is built, you and your son-in-law can bring the baby, and you can live in the house when you go back to your mother's house." Father Gu didn't mention the matter of building the big tile house at the moment, anyway, he will know about it in the future .He guessed that the eldest daughter came back so late, she had something to do, maybe it had something to do with the corvee that he was talking about during the day.

Gu Chengyu had already packed up his pen and ink, and he expected that he would definitely not be able to write today. The eldest sister must have come to the Three Treasures Palace so late, so she knew what was going on without thinking about it.

(End of this chapter)