Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Where does Chapter 556 come from?
Looking at the two relatives chatting and laughing in front of them, Gu Wenxuan couldn't help but smile. He let them talk while he went to the other side to take care of his business.

As the end of the month approached, it finally snowed again.

Fortunately, the large items have been moved to the workshop at the entrance of Gujiazhuang village, and even the master craftsman who originally made the machine has arrived, so there is no delay in the installation and debugging.

Instruct the canteen chef not to let the old chef and others suffer in terms of food, and also see that they don't have to worry about accommodation even if they can't return to town tonight.

After arranging all the follow-up matters, Gu Wenxuan went home first without caring where his father and father-in-law were at the moment.

At home, his wife was much faster than him. Even the three maids in charge were already in place and had their own responsibilities. She herself had also moved to the private storehouse in the back room.

Previously, the heads of farms and estates from all over the country had brought in nearly a year's worth of taxes and various New Year gifts. Just the inventory and statistics kept the managers busy, and one person had to do the work of three people.

The various New Year gifts here are stored in the private treasury here, plus those brought back from the houses in the city, those brought from the west wing of the house, and the gifts collected from the greenhouse, etc.

However, Gu Wenxuan was surprised when he saw the pieces of cloth piled up on wooden boxes or tables and chairs in the main hall of the back room.

He hadn't been here for three or four days. Where did so many rolls of cloth come from? It didn't look like they were brought from the west wing of his house or from the workshop.

The fabrics in the workshop's warehouse were basically coarse cotton cloth, and even the village manager from Yangzhou Prefecture was ordered to bring silk and satin.

Don't think that because he is not an embroiderer, he doesn't know the types and textures of fabrics. Even if he can't tell what is cotton and what is silk, he still has a rough idea of ​​the price.

He had bought these high-end fine cotton cloth and mid-range silk cloth, such as the three-shuttle cloth, in the provincial capital before. A blue piece cost more than six cents of silver.

There was also the most expensive twill cloth, especially the top-grade scarlet cotton twill cloth, which cost one tael and two cents per piece. At that time, the shopkeeper gave a preferential price of five pieces of cloth.

The five red ones had been used up long ago. Apart from making a jacket and skirt, the rest were given to Baoya or cut into pieces by his wife to give as dowries and gifts to people in the village for weddings.

Moreover, the color is different from the twill red cotton cloth displayed here, and that color is much brighter.

Even though I bought more red cotton cloth later, the color still couldn't compare to the five pieces of bright red, not to mention that the ones displayed here were much darker.

It is impossible for anyone to give out seven, eight, nine... eleven pieces of red cotton cloth as gifts, and it is also impossible that this was the work of his father-in-law.

To hang red ribbons on the beams, his father-in-law had to buy them no matter how much he cared. It was even more impossible that the master gave him these eleven pieces of mid-range red cloth as a gift.

If he remembered correctly, he heard his wife mention yesterday that her aunt had prepared several boxes of winter clothes for her to wear during the New Year, and she also mentioned some clothing fabrics.

I heard about bright red and green brocade fabrics, but I didn't hear about red cotton quilts. What's more, there were more than eleven pieces of twill red cotton cloth in all the colors.

Where is it?
Zhou Banxia found it very funny.

Is it worth analyzing a mere fabric problem in detail?

It’s a pity to waste brain cells.

"The goods we bought from Uncle Zhao's cloth shop are just for giving out New Year gifts to some families, and also for our own daily wear at home.

Some of the fabrics are too good to be given away, so instead of drawing up a gift list, I will ask Mai Qing to pick them out and have someone cut them into pieces of fabric when he has time."

"I see, I think so too." For the old man at home, why give him such good fabrics? It's good enough to have silk and satin to wear. And among the relatives, although Daliang has a taboo except for the yellow color, other colors can be used by ordinary people, but giving silk and satin as gifts is not practical.

Like him and his wife, even if they don't have to work in the fields, they still like to wear fine cotton cloth. Fine cotton cloth is so comfortable to wear, so when they go out, they have to follow the local customs.

His aunt said to the old man, it is good enough for us common people not to wear linen, why do we have to wear silk every day in the village?

Last time, your old brother touched me and I got a thread hooked on it. Okay, now you don’t feel bad. My uncles and the others are too embarrassed to play with you anymore.

Speaking of which, the old man is quite interesting. He still has a big grandson on one side and a big grandson on the other, but he likes to show off to his father and mother.

In front of others, I feel both inferior and arrogant.

"Didn't you meet the old man by chance this afternoon?"

"Your father is here."

Yes, her father couldn't be cold to the old man because of his in-laws, so he always echoed the in-laws and left the old man no room to speak.

Once, she heard from her father that the old man happened to meet his two relatives-in-law, and then in front of her father-in-law, he said something implying that her father-in-law had been born in vain and was unfilial.

Her father laughed and joked that the gossipy old ladies in the village had ranked their two relatives, saying that he was the most unfilial in the village, and her father-in-law was the most filial.

After saying this, her father said that from then on, her husband's grandfather never dared to make fun of her father-in-law in front of her father about how disobedient he was.

Her father said that the old man was a shameless fool. Everyone in the village knew that he was a son who relied on his father and a father who relied on his son, but he still thought he was very respectable.

He has the face but is shameless. He doesn't even know that it is his second son who has fought for him. If he doesn't look after the elders of the Gu family, there would be no place for him, Gu Sanmu.

That's true. His father-in-law was a virgin, and before she got married, her father-in-law was a influential figure in the village, if not in the clan.

Generally speaking, such families are still very popular in the village. If the father is a little reliable, the clan will not ignore him when selecting elders.

However, according to her father, in the past ten years, even the poor Fourth Master Gu, who was not even fifty years old, was chosen as the clan elder by several of the Gu family's sons, but no one cared about the old man in her family.

It’s not that they are brothers of the same bloodline. The eldest brother is already the clan leader, and he cannot have a younger brother as the clan elder. Master Gu was elected as the clan elder two years ago.

Probably because everyone knows that the old man in her family has relied on his father and son all his life, doesn't know how to do farm work, and just runs around in the fields all day long to show off.

Regardless of whether she is biased or not, for a farmer, it is shameful for someone of such an old age to not be able to do farm work, unless he is like her father-in-law.

Her father-in-law also didn't understand farm work, but at least he supported the whole family and helped the old man to support the family. This was his biggest advantage.

Not to mention that she will definitely not be able to escape the position of a clan elder in a few years. If it weren't for her father-in-law being so shrewd, the position of village head would have been replaced this year, and there would be no way to avoid it.

"Your father is the old man's nemesis. I think he is afraid that your father will tell on you. Besides, he doesn't dare to make any requests to your father in front of everyone.

Will the son still spoil his father? He must know that this is outdated. We don’t need him to eat and wear. What can he say in public? "