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

Chapter 269 Gu Xiu Comes
"Boss, I heard that you are talking about marriage to Da Ya and Da Lang? You can't listen to other people's nonsense when talking about marriage, and you have to find someone who knows the bottom line before you can rest assured. You must check it out!"

Mrs. Lu remembered what Aunt Tao had said, so she gave an order.She is quite tolerant to the boss, the boss is not bad-hearted, he is also sincere, and he is still respectful to her mother, but this is just a random sentence.

"I want to ask someone to make a kiss, so I plan to ask a matchmaker. Aunt Tao, who has been to the house before, is pretty good to me. Why don't I ask her to talk to Da Lang and Da Ya?" Gu Chengli originally took a fancy to Xiasang Village I heard that the girl from that family was very capable, so she wanted to come to see her, but who knew that the former Dalang ran back and refused to take it, so he had to go back.

He also knew that the girl in that family was a bit stronger, but it's good to be strong!Can work!
However, I don't know which wicked person said this.

"Then be careful! You can't trust a matchmaker's mouth." Mr. Gu thinks that any matchmaker has a clever mouth and likes to brag.

"Changqing! Is Xiaobao there?" Uncle Gu's eager voice sounded in the courtyard.

When Gu Chengyu heard this, he quickly responded and came out of the room.Needless to say, it must be about building an ancestral hall.

Uncle Gu entered the main room without saying a word, he just walked quickly to the teapot, poured a cup of tea, and drank it all in one gulp, it could be seen that he was extremely thirsty.

"I told everyone about the matter. Everyone is willing to pay for the construction of the ancestral hall, but there is not much, and we do what we can. I also said that the building of the memorial archway and the plaque was also done." Uncle Gu, as the patriarch Of course, I hope that the Gu family can prosper, and that there are talented people in the family, and the prestige of the Gu family in the surrounding villages is not the same.

"I don't think it's easy to repair the ancestral hall. It's better to push it and rebuild it. It's all made of stone, and it's not far from collapse. It's just about the archway. We need to find a special craftsman, let's find out about it. I don’t understand either! If you don’t have enough money, just go to Mingmo, and he will report to me. I’ve been paying attention to the family farm, and there should be news in the past few days. Uncle still thinks about who is going to plant this family farm. Kind of, there has to be a charter."

Gu Chengyu will not always look at these troubles, he will go to school soon, he has to study the books carefully, calligraphy also needs to add copied fonts, he only copied Guange style and regular script for the time being, and there are too few fonts.

Besides, he has to learn the four arts of a gentleman. If he enters a government school, he can only do these things in calligraphy.Now when he has time, he will copy some paintings, piano and chess, which he has not dabbled in yet.

"That's right! How do you know this, you little boy? I'll go to find Carpenter Sun tomorrow, because he doesn't know how to build archways, so maybe we can get to know each other. But how big is this ancestral hall?"

Uncle Gu didn't know much about it, and he was ashamed to say that the money he collected was only 53 taels, which was far from enough.But every family went all over, and they all took out three or four taels of silver!Or he collected a little more himself, only 53 taels, it is not easy to collect so much.

It is definitely enough to build a smaller ancestral hall. The archway only needs stone materials, but the lettering is a bit more troublesome.

"It used to be a single room, so we don't have to repair it in the future. We can simply build three rooms. The stone materials from the demolished house can be used to build a courtyard wall outside." Gu Chengyu reckoned that 150 taels should be more than enough, after all, there is no furniture inside. of.

"Those three rooms, I'm afraid they have a lot of money!" Uncle Gu thinks it's better to make it clear, but don't just build it down and spend so much money, Gu Chengyu and the others will blame him.

"Just do it!" The three rooms are not small, and more than 100 taels is not much.

Gu Chengyu went back to the room, leaving Father Gu and Uncle Gu to continue the discussion.It suddenly occurred to me that if I didn't go to the county school to study, I would still have to say hello to shopkeeper Liu of Huichun Hall in the county town, and send the post.

"Mingmo! Go to shopkeeper Liu in the county seat tomorrow and send a message, inviting him to come and have a seat." Gu Chengyu ordered Mingmo, while sitting at the table and began to write a letter.The county seat is not close to the village, so he can only write a book, telling him about not going to the county school.

"Hey!" There was only one carriage at home, it seemed that he and Mingyan had to go out with the carriage alone.

Gu Chengyu suddenly thought of this question, it seems that the family still has to buy a carriage.When he was not at home, the ox cart was shared by several houses, so it was inconvenient for Father Gu and the others to use the cart.

"You pay money from the account to buy a carriage, one is not enough!" Gu Chengyu would put hundreds of taels of silver with Ming Mo as daily expenses.

"Go and see if Guanshi Yu has bought a field and a shop, and ask him to come back to me as soon as possible." Gu Chengyu felt that the house in Fucheng was also a top priority.

In the past few days, the construction of ancestral halls and memorial archways has been in full swing, and the day has reached the seventeenth.Tomorrow is the day of the feast, and the family has invited some women to process the chicken, duck and fish for tomorrow. If they don't process today, tomorrow will definitely be too late.

The meeting yesterday was very successful, Gu Chenglian and that girl are going to get engaged in the next few days, and the Gu family can be regarded as double happiness.The girl also came, she should be a shy one with a small round face, she looked very blessed, that's what his mother said.Gu Chengyu looked at it, she shouldn't be a particularly impatient girl, she doesn't seem difficult to get along with.

Anyway, the Gu family has already separated, and after the fourth brother gets married, they don't live together, so if the new wife is good, then walk around more; if it's not good, then go less.

"Changqing's family, your sister-in-law is here!" The women in the courtyard heard a sound of hooves coming from outside the courtyard, and everyone looked out the door.Only then did they realize that it was Gu Xiu from the Gu family who got out of the car, and behind Gu Xiu, many people came down one after another. An open bullock cart was full.

Mrs. Lu originally placed presents in the house, but in the past two days, the gentry and landlord nearby gave gifts, so Mrs. Lu had to register them.Some of these people need to return equal gifts immediately, and they don't want to have a relationship; those who want to have a relationship should be recorded in the book to prepare for future exchanges.

"Mother, it's said that the aunt is here!" Gu Wan heard the call from outside, put down the pen in her hand, and she was taking notes.

"Why did you arrive a day early? Let's put everything away, and it happens to be almost registered, but don't let your aunt see it, or her eyes will stick to it!"

When Mrs. Lu heard that her eldest sister was coming, her first reaction was not to go out to greet her, but to put away all the valuables.

When Mrs. Lu and the others finished packing, Gu Xiu had already entered the yard with two bundles in her hands, and her family followed behind.Lu's complexion turned ugly instantly, how could there be room for so many people?
Gu Chengyu came out of the house, and the corner of his mouth twitched when he saw it. Is this the whole family coming to his house?Gu Xiu has two sons, a daughter, and two sons. The two sons gave birth to two younger children, and the daughter also holds one in her arms, so there are not many fewer people than his family!

(End of this chapter)