Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

After leaving the west wing, Aunt Cai still stayed in the kitchen. She had agreed on what late-night snacks she could prepare for Gu Wenxuan tonight, so Zhou Banxia didn't stay much longer.

It was almost Haishi (nine o'clock in the evening), it was freezing cold, it was late at night, and most of the people in the village were already asleep.

This is also the Gu family. Ever since Gu Wenxuan picked up books again, the whole family has stayed up late. Even Little Chang Suo goes to bed later than other children.

I used to fall asleep when it got dark, but now I almost always get on the kang at eight o'clock in the evening. I am still very energetic and have to be coaxed by adults, and I don't fall asleep until eight or nine thirty.

It's not that the child is disobedient and has to be coaxed to sleep, but it's because everyone in the family goes to bed late. At this time, the light in the study in the east wing is still on.

It means that his father, Gu Erlang, is still seeing a doctor. It will take at least half an hour. It's almost eleven o'clock. He goes out to take a walk in the front and back yard and turns off the lights to rest.

Fortunately, after the family moved out, they no longer had to rush to the town hospital early every day to take a nap, and Zhiming (Uncle Cai's eldest son) would pick him up by horse, cart, and mule cart.

Of course, Zhou Banxia suspected that her eldest brother-in-law must have deliberately not wanted the old Gu family to take advantage of him, otherwise such a coincidence would never have happened.

——I changed from an apprentice to a junior doctor right after the family separation, or it was just half a month after the separation that I became a junior doctor.

There is a saying that a tiger father has no dog son. Her brother-in-law was obviously smarter than his father, a tiger, and he devoured his daughter-in-law like a smiling fox.

Similarly, Gu Erzhu and Liu, who had gone to the west wing before and made excuses to go out, had not rested yet. One was flipping through a book and the other was calculating the abacus.

Even if Zhou Banxia didn't enter the main room, he could still vaguely tell that it was his father-in-law who was planning the plan, and that his mother-in-law was reading a storybook, or something like the Three Seas Classic.

No, the mother-in-law talked about the legendary story of "year old", and for a while she was mixed with the father-in-law's chuckle and joking, which was called flirting.

These two couples have a good relationship.

When the families first separated and had dinner together, in front of their juniors, the father-in-law would always ladle soup and vegetables for the mother-in-law, and even coaxed her to eat slowly.

She was shocked that the ancients still had such magical operations.

Now, I'm used to it. If I don't see this scene, I have to worry about whether the couple is having a conflict.

Perhaps Mrs. Liu, a good mother-in-law, wanted to accompany her when she came out, so Zhou Banxia didn't dare to stay in the yard any longer, and then quietly returned to the west wing.

In the study, Gu Wenxuan was still immersed in the case. When he was not prepared, Zhou Banxia hurriedly escaped again.

Zhenzhen didn't hide and work on her embroidery work, which wasn't considered a breach of trust. She just went to prepare steamed buns, stewed some soup, and fried some vegetables to eat from the first to the fifth day of the first lunar month.

There's nothing she can do about it. As a native of the south, she still doesn't understand what "not turning on the stove from the first to the fifth day of the lunar month means."

It’s not like I haven’t heard about this custom before. What’s interesting is that even her little brother Xiaohe seemed to have his mouth sealed. He just didn’t give an answer and just covered his mouth and giggled.

In fact, I can't remember that there is still this custom in the North. From the first to the fifth day of the first lunar month of any year in Gaofu, there is no fire or stove, otherwise it would be okay.

These are the most crowded days of the year. Except for those who cannot return to work in other places, those who are studying in other places return home early to reunite. How can we not cook.

In addition, on the second day of the Lunar New Year, there are still married girls returning to their parents' homes, and clan members come to visit. There will be a banquet and banquet. Not only are the kitchens opened, but they are even busier.

However, in her memory before she was five years old, every year on the day of the banquet in the ancestral hall, her father would secretly bring back warm steamed buns and slices of meat in his arms.

In addition, everything I drank and ate at home in those days seemed to have to be soaked in hot water. Even the porridge was not warm. I wonder if my childhood memory was wrong.

I really couldn't find the answer, but I had no intention of being serious and had to find the answer. Zhou Banxia ignored it and prepared food for himself and his wife for five days first.

After all, her family is not like ordinary people. They have a huge appetite and stay up late reading and studying at night. How can they survive without a serious midnight snack. After finishing the busy work inside and busy outside, I was busy for two days in succession, and in a blink of an eye it was the twenty-seventh day of the new year.

Early that morning, when there was no one to take the bus, Zhou Banxia packed everything, accompanied by Gu Wenxuan, brought the braised food, and Uncle Cai drove him to the county town.

When Yun Ke came, it was not yet Chenzheng (eight o'clock).

It was not yet opening hours for the restaurant, but there were many customers making reservations during the New Year. Shopkeeper Wang was already at the restaurant early as the couple expected.

The three of them moved to the private room.

Too often, too much words lead to mistakes.

Gu Wenxuan knew that Shopkeeper Wang was the busiest in recent days, so he didn't waste any time and handed the braised recipe and recipe to Shopkeeper Wang according to the pre-arranged words.

In the name of being a "filial piety" to Mrs. Gao, I asked Shopkeeper Wang to try the braised food first to see how it tastes. If it is popular with diners, it will be regarded as a service.

After saying this, it was Zhou Banxia who said goodbye.

After leaving Yun Ke Lai, go to Yun's house.

Yun Chengming, who was escorted back to the county town on the day of the Lunar New Year, had been waiting at home for a long time today, waiting to see whether the couple would come on the twenty-seventh day of the Lunar New Year.

If he hadn't been unable to leave in the past few days, he would have had to go to Qinghe Village in person and ask the couple face to face whether they wanted to share the dividends.

He had never seen such an unreliable couple. They invested the money and didn't care about anything. They sent people to call them to share the money, but nothing happened.

It's just too busy.

You are so good, Gu Laoliu.

Yun Chengming smiled and kicked Gu Wenxuan's feet to relieve his anger. He knew that he was busy studying and rarely found time to come here. He wanted to take his wife to the street without delay.

I invested fifty taels of silver each, but I was able to receive seven or three taels of silver through dividends in a short period of time. This shows how popular the business of selling dried seafood at the end of the year is.

Of course, it’s just the end of the year.

In addition to the dried seafood ordered by restaurants and wealthy families, dried salted fish, regardless of size, is particularly popular during the Chinese New Year and is sold out before they even reach the city gate.

Yun Chengming doesn't need to explain this point too much. Gu Wenxuan also knows that dried salted fish has a salty taste and saves salt. During the Chinese New Year, most people who are tight on money are willing to buy some small dried salted fish to taste.

This shows how profitable the selling business can be when transportation is inconvenient. It is no wonder that Uncle Yun and his son did not do their job properly and started to behave like merchants.

After a few more chats about family matters, the two made an appointment to get together during the first lunar month. Zhou Banxia, ​​who was pulled into the room by Yun Chengming's wife, observed that they were almost done talking.

Today is the twenty-seventh year of the lunar new year. Not only she and her husband are anxious to return to the village as soon as possible, but Yun Chengming and his wife also have no time to spare, and their mother-in-law will reply to them while they are talking.

After receiving the dividends and a welfare package, Zhou Banxia didn't know why she still had frozen fish and shrimps. Then she got on the carriage, which made her even more unaware that she was on the wrong road.

I thought I could finally leave the city gate, but I never thought that Uncle Cai's carriage took the wrong road and stopped in front of the Zhao family's silver building in the county town.

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