The Marquis of Ding'an's residence was not too far from Guozijian, and Yao shi arrived very early.
Gu Jiao heard a knock on the door just after taking a shower. She opened it and saw that it was the Yao family, and couldn't help but be stunned.
Yao shi smiled softly: "Didn't I disturb you?"
Gu Jiao shook her head: "No, I've already woken up."
Yao Shi smiled and said, "Have you eaten breakfast yet? I brought steamed buns and brown sugar steamed buns."
The house is preparing for Gu Jinyu's banquet. Yao's bought it earlier on the road. It is a very famous steamed bun shop in the capital.
"Come in." Gu Jiao invited Yao into the courtyard.
Xiao Liulang also got up and was drawing water from the well.
Yao shi and Xiao Liulang met several times in the countryside. Unlike Gu Houye's picky, Yao shi was very satisfied with Xiao Liulang.
People are good looking.
This is the point.
He also reads books well, and his hands and feet are diligent.
Originally, Yao shi was worried about the relationship between the two because of the lack of consummation, but after several observations, she found that the two of them were actually getting along very well, maybe they just hadn't realized it yet.
"Mrs. Gu." Xiao Liulang greeted Yao shi politely.
Gu Jiao was called Mrs. Gu of the Yao family, and so was Xiao Liulang.
Yao Shi didn't care about the title, and happily gave the food box to Xiao Liulang.
Gu Jiao went to the kitchen to cook porridge for her family, but Yao refused.
Yao shi will let her do other things, but today is her and Gu Yan's birthday, Yao shi will not let her do things.
Yao shi made some snacks from time to time in the villa, and she was familiar with the kitchen work. She first cooked the millet porridge in the morning, and then began to prepare the next two meals.
Fang Momo was sent by her to buy vegetables, and she wrote down what she bought and how much she bought on the list.
This is Yao's first birthday for her daughter. She has prepared for a long time, and she has practiced the dishes repeatedly.
Yao Shi is still very popular at home, and even the eccentric old lady bought her dim sum. Everyone was very happy when she came.
Gu Yan had nothing to do after breakfast, so he ran to pick up the corn cobs, but was stopped by Xiao Jingkong.
Xiao Jingkong took the corn cobs, raised her little hand, made a stop motion, and said solemnly: "Today is also your birthday, you don't need to do anything!"
I also won't quarrel with you and let you have a day!
Yao Shi cooked a large table of good dishes, not only taking care of the tastes of Gu Jiao and Gu Yan, but also others.
Gu Xiaoshun looked at the dishes that he could hardly put down, so shocked that he was speechless!
Is this New Year's Eve
How come there are so many good dishes
"Soy braised pig's trotters!" Gu Xiaoshun's saliva suddenly flowed down. This is his favorite dish. The pig's trotters are shiny and oily, and the skin of the pork is still bouncy when you poke it with chopsticks. Gu Xiaoshun feels that he is about to die. .
This is marinated first, and then stewed in a casserole. It is glutinous and melts in your mouth.
Xiao Liulang now likes to eat fish, and Yao Shi made delicious crucian carp soup.
The old lady likes sweetness, so Yao Shi made brown sugar glutinous rice glutinous rice cake, only put half the sugar.
There is also a vegetarian meat feast in the small headroom. Yao shi didn't forget to put it in the small headroom's exclusive small bowl.
All of these were inquired from Gu Yan, and she took them all in mind and prepared them carefully.
This is also the reason why everyone likes Yao Shi, she is always able to take care of people very thoughtfully.
In addition to these meals, Yao Shi also made a bowl of longevity noodles for each of the siblings.
The longevity noodles have no extra ingredients, just a few chopped green onion and a few drops of sesame oil.
But Gu Jiao felt that this bowl of longevity noodles seemed to be better than other noodles.
She couldn't tell whether it was her own feeling or Gu Yan's.
After dinner, everyone started to give gifts to Gu Jiao.
The first to send was Xiao Qingkong, he was the youngest and the most impatient.
He gave Gu Jiao and Gu Yan a small house that he made out of mud, made of clay, and after pinching it, he asked the bad brother-in-law to help him bake it with the fire in the stove.
In fact, he remembered that the little house he squeezed was not like this. For some reason, it was deformed when it was baked.
The truth is that he squeezed it so badly that Xiao Liulang couldn't stand it anymore, so he secretly repaired it again, and it looked even better!
The door of the small house can be opened, and there is a small wooden figure inside, which was carved by Gu Xiaoshun.
Gu Yan lived in Gu Yan's house, and Gu Jiao lived in Gu Jiao's house.
However, Gu Yan opened the door of the small room and was instantly dumbfounded: "Why are you in my sister's house?"
Xiao Jingkong: Yeah, it was discovered!
That's right, the scheming monk Xiao Qingkong quietly asked Gu Xiaoshun to make another little wooden figurine of his own, and quietly put it into Jiaojiao's house!
In this way, he can be with Jiaojiao every day!
Gu Yan was not happy and asked Xiao Jingkong to move out of Gu Jiao's house.
Small headroom does not move.
He also said sternly: "This is Jiaojiao's gift, you can't destroy Jiaojiao's things!"
Okay, I won't destroy it, I'll move into the head office!
In the end, Gu Jiao, Gu Yan, and Xiao Jingkong all lived in Gu Jiao's little house, and Gu Yan's little house was empty...
Gu Xiaoshun sent two Buddhist scriptures carved by himself.
In exchange for helping himself to carve the little wooden man, Xiao Jingkong found his own outfit, put on the beads, put on the monk's robe, took out the little wooden fish, and devoutly did the dharma for the Buddhist scriptures.
So this is a Buddhist scripture that has been enlightened!
Gu Jiao turned over the Buddhist scriptures in her hands, a little inconceivable.
Gu Xiaoshun is the most worry-free child in the family, but because of this, he is easily ignored by his family.
Gu Jiao didn't know that in just a few months, he had learned so many words, and many of them were uncommon words.
"Do you all read?" Gu Jiao asked.
"Well, yes." Gu Xiaoshun nodded.
The brother-in-law said that if he didn't know how to read it, he wouldn't know what to say when someone came to ask him what he had carved.
So even though it was difficult, he still tried very hard to memorize these words, including their meanings.
Seeing Gu Jiao's pensive look, Gu Xiaoshun scratched his head: "Sister, don't you like it?"
Gu Jiao raised her head and smiled: "I like it, I like it very much."
Gu Yan gave Gu Jiao a hand rope.
He bought it with his hard-earned money.
From the moment he refused to move back to the Hou Mansion, his father had cut off his monthly money. Gu Jiao would give him pocket money every month. He could buy gifts for Gu Jiao with the money that Gu Jiao gave him. I feel a little uncomfortable!
So, he decided to earn it himself!
There was nothing to do at the aunt's place, he didn't know how to copy books at his brother-in-law's place, and at Gu Xiaoshun's place he didn't know how to carve either.
Xiao Qingkong has a monthly rent of 30 taels of silver, and the family is a proper little local tyrant.
This is how Gu Yan made money—
Feed the chickens in the small headroom every day, five coppers!
Every day for small clearance chickens, five coins!
Clean the chick Baba every day, five coppers!
Every day exaggerating the fancy and exaggerating the small headroom, ten copper coins!
He worked for ten days and earned two hundred and fifty coins.
He originally liked a pair of bead flowers, but unfortunately the copper plate was not enough, so he retreated and bought a hand rope with jade on the bracelet.
Gu Yan used to think that any stone in the front room was worth more than these jade stones, but they were not earned by him.
Gu Jiao put on the bracelet, which was very beautiful.
Gu Jiao also prepared a gift for Gu Yan, but Gu Yan didn't open it in public, he wanted to go back to the house and open it secretly!
Xiao Jingkong scratched his heart and wanted to know what Jiaojiao gave Gu Yan's brother!
"Auntie, where's your gift?" Gu Yan asked.
"I didn't!" The old lady turned her face away.
Gu Yan hummed: "I saw it clearly, you are secretly doing it every day!"
Gu Jiao looked at the old lady.
The old lady reluctantly grabbed out a purse, put it on the table and looked at the sky and ignored others: "What a fool!"
Gu Jiao picked up her purse.
Xiao Jingkong came over to take a look and said in surprise, "Wow! Auntie! You can embroider ducks too!"
what duck? That's mandarin duck!
Only your sister! Only your brother-in-law! There are also a few duck eggs... No, they are mandarin duck eggs!
Look at this little stinky monk leading her in the wrong direction!
The old lady doesn't know such things as female red.
She didn't embroider the mandarin ducks directly into duck eggs because she secretly poked and embroidered many purses.
Gu Jiao's purse was indeed worn out and it was time to replace it with a new one.
The old lady looked out of the window with her eyes closed, but her heart was attentive.
Gu Jiao smiled slightly: "Thank you auntie."
Although the purse made by the old lady is not good-looking, it is very practical. It is divided into several layers, which can separate silver notes, broken silver, copper plates and small objects. In addition, there is a special sewing bag compartment.
How can ordinary people think so carefully
This is the old lady's love for Gu Jiao and her excellence in doing things.
Yao Shi made two sets of clothes for each of the two children.
After coming to the capital, Gu Jiao didn't have to go up the mountain to chop wood. Yao shi made her a set of clothes that was convenient for working at home. The other set was the same as the ladies in the capital.
There was also a box of gifts prepared by Mr. Gu and his elder brother in Fuzhong, and neither of them went to open it.
Finally, Xiao Liulang's gift.
Everyone is looking forward to it.
He never gave pen or paper. The whole family knew what he would give this time. Wouldn't it be a copybook
Then Xiao Liulang took out a brocade box.
Gu Jiao opened the lid of the box under the impatient gaze of everyone.
The result is really a pile of copybooks! ! !
Gu Jiao: "..."
Everyone: "… "
However, it seems that it is not an ordinary copybook, each copybook is a poem.
Gu Jiao felt that these poems were very well written, although she could not understand what they meant.
Gu Jiao patiently flipped through each copybook. Xiao Liulang didn't expect that she would flip the copybook in public, and her expression became inexplicably nervous.
Gu Jiao turned to the end and found a surprise. This box was specially made, and there was actually a magnolia hairpin inlaid at the bottom.
Well
Gu Jiao's eyes widened.
This big straight man finally knew how to give her a hairpin
What Gu Jiao didn't know was that this kind of hairpin was also called a hairpin, and the women of Zhao Kingdom were fifteen and a hairpin. On this day, the elders in the family would hold the hairpin and give the hairpin a ceremony.
Of course, if a woman gets married before she is fifteen, then the wedding ceremony will be done on the day of marriage, which also means that the woman is an adult.
When Gu Jiao got married, she didn't do the wedding ceremony. The Gu family wouldn't bother so much for a fool, but Xiao Liulang always had the impression.
When Yao Shi saw the hairpin that her son-in-law gave her daughter, she immediately understood what was going on. She originally thought that her daughter had done the wedding ceremony, so she only had an ordinary birthday today.
The son-in-law has a heart.
Gu Jiao finally understood why this guy never gave her hairpins. It turned out that the hairpins were really hot.
You can't use a hairpin if you don't have the rite of passage.
Yao shi's eyes turned red all of a sudden: "Jiaojiao, I'll brush your hair."
Both Yao's and the old lady combed Gu Jiao's hair in a bun. Under the witness of everyone, Gu Jiao completed her wedding ceremony.
The first half of the month.
The bustling street market was left behind by the horses.
Gu Changqing rode his horse to a quiet little alley. He turned over and dismounted, and led the horse lightly paced in.
Unconsciously, he came to a familiar house.
The courtyard door was half open, and there were laughter from women and children from time to time, accompanied by the voices of the teenagers, a happy atmosphere.
Gu Changqing paused at the door for a while, but did not go in in the end, and turned around to get on the horse.
But suddenly, Xiao Jingkong ran over and squeezed out of the door: "Big brother! Is that you?"
Gu Changqing turned to look at him: "...it's me."
"King Kong, who is it?" Yao shi opened the half-closed door, and when she saw Gu Changqing outside the door, her smile froze.
Gu Changqing was also very surprised to see Yao shi here, and what was even more surprising was Yao shi's undefended smile, although he quickly stiffened, he was still seen by him.
He never knew that the unhappy Yao Shi could be so happy when he laughed like a child.
"You..." Yao Shi hesitated.
Xiao Jingkong looked at Gu Changqing, then at Yao Shi, and asked, "Master Yao, do you know each other?"
"Donor?" Ordinary people don't use this title, Gu Changqing looked at the little guy strangely, "Are you a monk?"
Xiao Jingkong explained seriously: "I was a monk before I went down the mountain! I'm not now! Shizhu Yao is a pilgrim in our temple! I see her often! I know her very well! Big brother, you are here to celebrate Jiaojiao's birthday too. Is it?"
Xiao Jingkong was speaking from his own identity, but in Gu Changqing's ears, he thought that the Yao family and the little monk family were just plain old times.
It was a coincidence that he and this stepmother knew the same friend.
Gu Changqing said solemnly: "No, I'm just passing by, do you like birds?"
Xiao Jingkong tilted his head and thought for a while: "I like it!"
Gu Changqing handed him a cloth-covered birdcage hanging on the saddle: "For you."
After all, he turned on his horse and left without looking back.
Xiao Jingkong looked at the back who was riding the wind away, and waved his little hand: "Thank you, big brother!"
(End of this chapter)