Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

The sun in July is scorching, and the sun at the end of October is warm. If the dental dealer hadn't brought people here in the afternoon, Zhou Banxia would have wanted to go out to the street.

Although it is warm indoors, it is not as warm as outdoors. It is like the room is as bright as day but there is no sunlight. It feels very strange after a long time.

When it was time to return to the courtyard for a nap after lunch, Zhou Banxia was not in a hurry to return to the inner room. He waited for Maidong and the maid to bring out the beauty couch, and then he sat down and enjoyed the sunbath.

After she became pregnant, her sleep quality seemed to have improved. She slept deeply at night and even her afternoon nap lasted longer.

Zhou Banxia, ​​who was drowsy from the sun, had no idea that a guest had come to the main courtyard in front. It was the cousin she had mentioned to her mother-in-law last night.

——Gu Yangqing’s wife, Ms. Zhou.

Gu Erzhu wondered whether his cousin's wife had heard about the scandal that took place this morning in the back alley of Gu Yangwen's grocery store not far from the cart shop.

Gu Erzhu, who was talking with his two sons in the large study in the front yard, was so frightened that he stood up when he heard Yu Caitong tell him that his cousin's wife had arrived alone.

"Dad almost forgot that I had an appointment with your Uncle Zhao last night to go to his place. Well, the three of us will talk later, and you two brothers can go and do your own things."

It made his father feel guilty.

Don't feel guilty about anything?
My mother doesn't know that my uncle and the widow are in cahoots, so how can she vent her anger on you, an innocent person, for the ugly things that Tian Ergou did?

The brothers Gu Wenxuan and Gu Erlang looked at each other, nodded in agreement, and sent their father off respectfully, saying that he would not return to the main courtyard but would go straight out to the Zhao family.

After watching Gu Erzhu and Yu Cai enter the Zhao family's house on the slope, the two brothers were too scared to step into the main courtyard and each slipped back to their own courtyard.

Unlike Gu Erlang who sneaked back to his own yard and caught his wife on her way to the main courtyard, Gu Wenxuan stepped into his own yard and saw his wife basking in the sun to supplement calcium.

The leeward side of the courtyard.

A beauty couch, a reclining chair, a coffee table, an incense table, two stools, one high and one low, and a screen are the standard equipment for sunbathing and calcium supplementation.

Gu Wenxuan waved his hand and retreated. Mai Huang, who had been sitting on a low stool beside Zhou Banxia and stood up to salute him when he came back, walked closer and glanced at Zhou Banxia.

Blocked out the sunlight.

Zhou Banxia opened his eyes slightly.

"Not asleep yet?"

"Half asleep, half awake."

"Then don't get up, just keep lying down." As he said that, Gu Wenxuan quickly pulled the recliner over to the position where Zhou Banxia's head was and sat down.

"Put a blanket over your legs."

"I know, sleep on yours."

Zhou Banxia closed his eyes obediently, "Why did you come back so early? It seems like less than an hour. Dad and big brother went out, or did you come back first?"

"Dad went to the Zhao family, but he didn't like the fact that it would be inconvenient for his brothers to brag if we went together, so he didn't let us go together, so we came back."

Zhou Banxia raised the corners of his mouth, "Now you know how unpleasant you two brothers are, you see, my sister-in-law, Baoya and I all have good eyesight.

Dad just came back from a long trip, so how could he not want to spend more time with Mom? But you two brothers just stayed after dinner to have tea and refused to leave."

"It's unfair." Gu Wenxuan pulled a soft pillow for his wife, "I've wanted to come back with you for a long time, but Dad winked at me, and I couldn't disobey his orders." "Really? So what did Dad talk to you about?"

"Are you not sleepy anymore? Go to sleep, and I'll tell you when you wake up. Anyway, I don't have to go to the county school today, so I'll give you the answer as soon as I have time, -"

"This is the first time." Zhou Banxia opened her eyes and was about to yawn, she quickly covered her mouth, "If I don't listen to it first, I won't be able to sleep."

Seeing this, Gu Wenxuan took her hand away with a smile, "No need to hide it, I'll tell you, I'll tell you just like a bedtime story so you can fall asleep."

"Okay, tell me now." If he didn't tell me, he would really fall asleep. Zhou Banxia moved his head forward, rubbing it against the soft pillow.

"The first thing -" Gu Wenxuan thought about it and decided not to keep it a secret, "is the money that we asked our father to carry with him before he left."

"Oh, that's it."

"Yes, it is this silver note of 11,000 taels of silver and ten gold leaves. I think Dad deliberately mentioned it to me in front of my eldest brother.

The reason why I didn't ask you to stay was probably because I thought it would be bad to let you stay and not let my sister-in-law stay, so I took my brother and me to the outer academy.

In front of my eldest brother, Dad implying that it was you who forced this money on him, and that you asked Mom to give it to you last night, but you refused to take it, so he told me to remember to keep it.

Dad said that pushing it back and forth would only make the relationship more distant. Originally, he and Mom had decided not to give us the profit, so the principal must be kept.

Then, my eldest brother also said that it would be bad if we didn’t collect it, and he also asked my father to take out half of the profit and give it to the two of us, and he gave us a long lecture.

Finally, he asked me to inform you not to let sister-in-law know how much dad has earned, and not to tell the truth about the principal. Brother is a little worried that sister-in-law will find out the details?
One is that I am worried that my sister-in-law cannot hide the truth from Uncle Ma and his wife. If Uncle Ma and his wife hear that you spent tens of thousands of taels of silver, we will easily attract attention.

Another reason is actually almost the same. If there is a chicken at one end of the village, it will become a cow when it spreads to the end of the village. It will only be exaggerated, not diminished.

The eldest brother was afraid that if the eldest sister-in-law let the secret slip without being careful, and the news got out, tens of thousands of taels of silver might be mistakenly conveyed as tens of thousands of taels of gold.

Just think about it, now you bring tens of thousands of taels of silver with you when you go out with your father. Next time when your father, or I, go on a long journey, will we have to bring even more?
"I'm not afraid of thieves stealing, I'm only afraid of thieves thinking about it." So, if my sister-in-law asks you, just say a few thousand taels of silver, that's reasonable."

"Okay." Zhou Banxia thought about it and agreed to his uncle's request in disguise, "Anything else?"

"Also, my eldest brother didn't want my eldest sister-in-law to know too much about how much our father earned this time. Although he didn't say it explicitly, I could hear it.

He is not worried that you are coveting the money in our parents' hands, but he is somewhat worried about my sister-in-law that my parents have the money but don't spend it. He would feel uncomfortable if my sister-in-law knew about it.

My eldest brother said this before, it would be better for my wife to always think that my younger sister-in-law pays the most, and then you and my mother can decide how much dowry you want for my younger sister. "

Zhou Banxia was silent for a moment, "I understand."

"Do you really understand?"

"Do you want me to explain it to you in detail?" Zhou Banxia opened his eyes, glanced at Gu Wenxuan, and yawned without being able to hold back or cover his mouth.

"..." Gu Wenxuan laughed, "I forgot that as soon as I mentioned money, you would sober up immediately."

"I am a money-grubber?"

"Definitely not. I am, he is, but you are not. At best, you are a money-grubber's little trickster, the wife and daughter of a money-grubber."

"…Tongue twisters, you're trying to confuse me. Besides that, what else? Don't squeeze it like toothpaste. If I don't ask, you won't answer. Just be quick!" (End of this chapter)