Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 57 Gu Family
In history, Kelan was a military fortress, which has always been the focus of conflicts between nomads and farming peoples. Kelan City, which has gone through vicissitudes, embodies the characteristics of an ancient frontier fortress. The city walls are extremely high and wide. is also relatively rare.

In addition to the majestic buildings, Kelanzhou City is also a place where many historical stories happened. For example, the folk tale of Fan Lihua returning from the expedition and entering Kelan on horseback against the flag has been passed down to this day.

Kelan Prefecture is also the most extreme place in Shanxi Town. It belongs to Shanxi Town's Kelan Brigade Road. .There is a guard in the city, led by Master Liu Jingchun, the commander of Zhenxiwei, who will lead the defense with his own troops. If there is a war, he will be restrained by the Taoist officer Kelan.

Gu Qianhu has always been the commander Liu Jingchun's confidant. When everyone entered through the north gate, the soldiers guarding the gate were the subordinates of Gu Qianhu's eldest son and Huang Laifu's brother-in-law Gu Shiyin. They were also Gu Qianhu's subordinates before.

Seeing Mr. Qianhu coming into the city, it was natural that the soldiers all rushed to flatter him. Gu Qianhu asked about his son Gu Shiyin.

Gu Qianhu nodded, and ordered a servant beside him to report to the Gu family, saying that he was back.

When Gu Qianhu was speaking, Huang Laifu looked at the soldiers with his own eyes. Compared with Wuzhai Fort, the armor, guns, knives, bows and other weapons of these soldiers were better, but most of the soldiers still looked relaxed. Many people were dressed in the same tattered, listless look.Such a sergeant must have similarly limited combat effectiveness.

After saying a few words, Huang Laifu, Gu Qianhu and others entered Kelanzhou City.It was actually Huang Lingbin's first time to travel far away, looking at this and that, everything was very fresh, so Gu Yunniang acted as a guide for him, explaining something softly to him.

Huang Laifu looked around, in terms of population and architecture, Kelanzhou City was naturally much larger than Wuzhai Fort, but in terms of spiritual vitality, Huang Laifu found that these residents were far behind Wuzhai Fort.

In the past few years, the situation has been bad and famines have continued. There are many refugees in the city of Kelan Prefecture. Most of these refugees are not clothed and don't know how to make a living.In addition to the refugees, there is another kind of ragged people walking around on the street. Most of these people are family members of military households. Doing some living in the city of Kelanzhou, the life is no better than that of the military households when Huang Laifu first ruled Wuzhaibao.

In contrast, everyone in Wuzhaibao now lives better than the military and civilian households in Kelanzhou City. At least there are not so many refugees in Wuzhaibao, and there are not many idlers. Basically, everyone has Work, everyone has something to eat.

Gu Qianhu also felt this obvious contrast. After a few months, he returned to Kelanzhou City again and had a different experience. He used to think that Wuzhaibao was a bitter cold place, but now he and Kelan Compared with the city of Zhou, apart from the grand construction of the city, the life of the military households and civilian households in Kelan is generally not as good as that of Wuzhai Fort.For a while, he thought about whether he would move his family to Wuzhaibao in the future, so that he could have a drink with Huang Xiandi every day.

As for other customs, in fact, all towns in Northwest Shanxi are similar, but Huang Laifu's interest was aroused by some unique lamps in the city of Kelan Prefecture.According to local customs, when pinching the lamp, it is required to pinch it as thinly as possible, so that the eyelids of the child will be thinner and smarter. Huang Laifu's eyes are greatly opened to the various shapes of lamps.

Everyone was walking on the street, and along the way, from time to time, someone saluted Gu Qianhu respectfully, showing Gu Qianhu's prestige in Kelanzhou City.

Soon, the group arrived in front of the Gu family's house. Just as the carriages and horses stopped at the gate of Qianhu's house, they heard the voice of a family girl from inside: "Miss and uncle are back."

Hearing everyone's words, Gu Yunniang glanced at Huang Laifu a little shyly, she seemed a little shy, before she could speak, she saw an old lady snatched inside, supported by several daughters-in-law, the old lady was around sixty years old , with gray hair and white hair, and a face somewhat similar to Gu Yunniang's, with a very kind appearance, she is Gu Yunniang's mother Song Shi, Huang Laifu's future mother-in-law.

Gu Yunniang's eyes turned red, and she went to meet her, Song rushed forward, hugged Gu Yunniang into her arms, and cried loudly: "My daughter, why did it take me so long to go, but my mother wanted to die gone."

Gu Yunniang also hugged Song and cried: "Mother, my daughter misses you too."

Seeing the two of them hugging each other and crying, Gu Qianhu said impatiently: "Okay, okay, I just kept crying when we met, what's there to cry about, don't you see any guests here?"

Mrs. Song seemed to listen to Gu Qianhu's words very much, she quickly put away her tears, took out a handkerchief from her sleeve, wiped away her tears with some embarrassment, and said, "Master, it's really a joke to see the old man like this , This is also something wrong with me, when I get excited, I can't help but cry."

Gu Yunniang pursed her lips and said, "Look at what Dad said, mother misses her daughter, so naturally she will cry."

Gu Qianhu has always loved his daughter dearly, after hearing what Gu Yunniang said, a smile appeared on his face, and he stopped talking.

Gu Yunniang whispered a few words in Song's ear, then glanced at Huang Laifu, with a shy expression, Song laughed, patted her little hand, and with Gu Yunniang's support, walked to Huang Laifu's side, and said : "This is Lai Fu Xian nephew, ah, time flies so fast, I didn't expect to grow so tall after only seeing each other for a few years, how is your mother?"

Huang Laifu stepped forward to salute and said, "Auntie Song is thinking about her. My mother is always well. She misses Auntie Song very much."

Song sighed: "Ah, my sister, I haven't seen you for many years, I miss her."

She turned to Huang Lingbin and said: "This is Lingbin's nephew, ah, when I saw you, you were so small. Now you have grown up so much."

Huang Lingbin had been hiding by Huang Laifu's side all the time, but at this time he stepped forward and bowed deeply, and said: "My nephew has seen Mrs. Aunt, how is Mrs. Aunt always in good health?"

Song said with a smile: "Okay, okay, thanks to the children, the old man is in good health."

As everyone was talking, they heard several male voices: "But brother-in-law is here?"

Following the sound, four men came hurriedly from the street, they were Gu Yunniang's four older brothers, the eldest brother Gu Shiyin, the second brother Gu Shicai, the third brother Gu Shibao, and the fourth brother Gu Shitong.

Walking in the front is Gu Yunniang's eldest brother, Gu Shiyin. He is 44 years old this year, 27 years older than Gu Yunniang, and his son Gu Dadao is only one year younger than Gu Yunniang.

Gu Shiyin has been replacing Gu Qianhu for a few years now, and apart from him, the other elder brothers of Gu Yunniang either serve as personal followers of the Commander, or run some shops in the city of Kelanzhou, or help The family took care of some of the Gu family's fields, and the Gu family was proud of it, but now Gu Shiyin is the only one.

Gu Shiyin looks quite similar to Gu Qianhu, tall and handsome, and when he walks, he looks like a dragon walking like a tiger. When he walked up to the crowd, his eyes fell on Huang Laifu, his eyes shone with joy, and his voice resonated loudly. He smiled and said, "It turns out that my brother-in-law is here."

Gu Yunniang shyly said: "Brother..."

Gu Shiyin always loved his younger sister, so he laughed loudly when he saw this situation, and said, "What is there to be shy about younger sister, even if she is called brother-in-law, what's the point of calling her a few months earlier?"

Huang Laifu stepped forward to salute Gu Shiyin and Gu Yunniang's brothers. Gu Shiyin patted Huang Laifu on the shoulder and laughed loudly, "Your brother-in-law, you don't have to be polite, you don't have to be polite." The other brothers were also smiling.

Gu Qianhu said: "It's getting late, Laifu and the others have come from a long way, let them go in and rest quickly."

Huang Laifu ordered Jiang Dazhong and the others to carry off all the presents that were on the car immediately. Looking at the large and small boxes of presents, as well as the heavy parcels of silver, Huang Laifu noticed that apart from Gu Shiyin, the other brothers of Gu Yunniang and theirs Daughters-in-law, all of them had sparkling expressions in their eyes.

The crowd embraced Huang Laifu and others to enter the Gu family's house, which was also an ordinary courtyard house, and it seemed no better than his thousand-household house in Wuzhaibao. Moreover, Huang Laifu noticed that the courtyard house was full of people, and it seemed rather crowded.That's right, except for Gu Qianhu and Song's family, the elder brothers all got married, had wives, and children, and the whole family lived in it, which naturally filled a thousand-household house.

After arriving at the main room, it was already dark, and various candles were lit in the room.Mrs. Song asked Huang Laifu and the others to take a bath and change their clothes first, while they prepared food and drinks for Huang Laifu, Gu Qianhu and the others to wash away the dust.The road conditions at this time can really be called dusty, if you don't wash it, you will be ashamed to see others.

At that moment Huang Laifu listened to Mrs. Song's words and went to take a bath and change clothes first. Gu Yunniang ignored her tiredness, and under the snickering eyes of everyone in the main room, she went to arrange for Huang Laifu herself, and prepared clean water, towels, buckets, etc. Huang Laifu was quite moved. This unmarried daughter-in-law is still good, and she will be a virtuous and lovely person in the future.

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Huang Laifu leaned comfortably next to the bucket, letting the hot water soak his skin. He slowly wiped his body with a brand new snow-white towel. There were a few small flowers embroidered on it, and a few flowers were sprinkled in the bath water. Flowers, bursts of fragrance came, and I didn't ask myself, all of this was arranged by Gu Yunniang.

Huang Laifu breathed out comfortably. For the first time, he felt that it would be nice to have a wife. He played with flowers in the later life, and women were just a spice of life for him. Although he had a few regular "bed friends" in the later life, but But none of them had the urge to let him get married and start a family.It was only in the Ming Dynasty that there was this warm feeling of a male-female family.

"What will life be like in the future?" Huang Laifu thought, dressing while thinking, and when he finished washing and changing into new clothes, when he arrived in the main room, he found that the lights were brightly lit, and there were meals, wine and fruit snacks on the table. , everything is ready.

When walking past, there was a burst of laughter...

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