Chapter 526 is a little abnormal
Drink some wine and feel sleepy now. Are you drunk? While walking and chatting, Gu Wenxuan did not forget to observe the surrounding situation. At this time, he subconsciously took a closer look after hearing this.
His eldest brother's face was still very normal and rosy, not flushed like drunkenness, but his eyes, haha, became blurry in less than a quarter of an hour.
"What are you looking at?"
"How many fingers are these?"
"I'm not drunk, I'm just sleepy."
No wonder there were some unusual grumbles and complaints today. Gu Wenxuan smiled secretly and quickly turned around to find someone. Fortunately, Huiming was still following behind.
Watching Huiming accompany Gu Erlang to the East Road Courtyard, he looked in the direction of the main courtyard, and after thinking about it, like Gu Erlang, he turned back to his West Road Courtyard.
The West Road Courtyard has a considerable area, and like the East Road Courtyard, it has a main courtyard enclosed.
In the courtyard, there is a side hall in the front and a meeting hall for the council guests. After passing through the hanging flower gate, the courtyard is connected by a hand-curved verandah to the real private inner house.
The main house has five main rooms and two ears, three wing rooms in the east and west, a flower hall, an embroidery room, and a row of back rooms at the back that are temporarily used as laboratories and warehouses.
With sufficient funds and manpower, the new yard has already been tidied up, and this morning Mai Huang led someone to clean the yard, making it even cleaner.
Living in a big house is comfortable, and what makes Gu Wenxuan most satisfied is the courtyard that truly belongs to the couple's private territory.
Entering through the entire courtyard gate, as expected, he learned from the gatekeeper that Zhou Banxia had returned a quarter of an hour ago.
At this time, it was impossible for his wife to be in the meeting hall in front, or in the flower hall at the back, let alone in the west wing of the inner study room.
Go through the front yard, pass through the hanging flower door, and go from the side verandah to the main house.
Opposite the door of the main room is the main hall, with a blue gauze cabinet and a canopy bed on the left, and a suite with a warm pavilion on the right.
Gu Wenxuan felt that there was no need to call out to his daughter-in-law at this time so that he could distinguish the sound and find the right direction. At this time and season, he only had to go to the right to find the fireplace.
Zhou Banxia was leaning on the thick cushioned floor in front of the fireplace, with a book in one hand and a pear in the other, feeling indescribably lazy and leisurely.
"Back?"
"You should at least look up at me." Gu Wenxuan quickly walked to the fireplace, "What kind of book is this that can make you not even care about your man?"
Zhou Banxia showed the front of the simple thread-bound book in his hand, "As for the notes Dajiang took, I didn't want to flip through them while waiting for you to come back. I'm halfway through them."
"It's still cold when you came in from outside. Wait a moment. You can do it. You don't have to worry about it. You don't need to read miscellaneous books. You can read the Four Books and Five Classics. Do you want to take the imperial examination?"
Zhou Banxia pointed in the direction of the west wing, "I just saw Dajiang bringing you the notes you put on the table, just in time to see what was written."
"Dajiang is very thoughtful. I looked through it before and the notes were very detailed."
"Yes, it's also good for him. Now that everything is done, isn't your grandpa so irritated by the old man's words that he ran away?" Zhou Banxia looked at Gu Wenxuan and waited for the answer.
"No, the old man is no match for him. It's enough. We'll catch up before we reach Lijiacun." Gu Wenxuan felt that his body should be warm.
He hurriedly threw off his slippers and went to the floor, "I wanted to pick you up in the main courtyard before I came back. I heard from my eldest brother that the old lady hasn't gone back yet, so I guess you must have come back."
"It's not the old lady here, it's the fourth sister-in-law. She always wants to talk to me, and the sister-in-law is afraid that I will be interrupted by her sarcastic remarks. It's always embarrassing, so I ran away." Gu Wenxuan couldn't help laughing, "Why are you embarrassed, Silang's wife?" If you’re not about to give birth, why are you still going out? The old lady has a good relationship with her now.”
"Very good?" Zhou Banxia shook his head amusedly, "Absolutely average. The third cousin's child was peeing and pooping, so she realized it and left, leaving only the fourth sister-in-law.
You see, Dalang's wife didn't come today for some reason. Wulang's wife is happy. It seems that she is less than three months old and it's hard to congratulate her. Who else is left?
Even the eldest uncle rarely went to the city for business this time, so she asked her son and daughter-in-law to come to the house with gifts. If the old lady didn't look at the fourth sister-in-law with her, who else could she have. ”
In this way, the feeling after seeing it is probably different from the elder brother's. It's not that the old lady is ignorant and doesn't care, it's that Shiro's wife is messing around and looking through the gift list.
After thinking about it, Gu Wenxuan still didn't bother to analyze this problem, but asked about the gift list, "You left the gift list with my mother, and she didn't let you bring it back?"
"Yes, I'll coax my mother to wait until tomorrow. I want to have a good sleep first. Haha, my mother is even more frightened. She quickly asked my sister-in-law to come back with me to rest."
"Awesome, no wonder you sneak away so fast."
"Don't I just want to say that Mom knows it in her heart. She cooperates with me so that I can sneak out." Zhou Banxia nodded and smiled, "That's what I mean.
But more importantly, Wan Niang was the clever girl who used the gifts given by the eldest, second and other grandfathers to get the old lady to read the book of favors.
At that time, the gift list and the favor register were on the table. She resented that her man couldn't borrow a word from you, and wanted to show the old lady how stingy we were.
She is much smarter than her mother-in-law. If our family gives more of the gifts we receive to the old lady, she will not suffer a loss and can still please the old lady.
I ignored her, and I didn't expect my sister-in-law to immediately ask her with a smile, "Why do you know so much? Their family doesn't give as much gifts as yours."
Last time when Liulang was the head of the court case, your mother-in-law asked Sanya for wedding money, and she only gave her a red envelope of 20 yuan. You don't know about this, right? ”
Listening to Zhou Banxia imitating Ma Shan's tone, Gu Wenxuan laughed out loud, "How did the old lady react?"
"My mother happened to be talking to her, but the old lady must have heard the voice of the sister-in-law saying this, but there was no reaction.
After all, twenty cents is a lot. When I came in and offered tea the second day, my aunt gave me a twenty cents red envelope, the same thing.
Favors come and go, and if her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law greet me with gifts, I can just return the gifts. Who can say that I am stingy?
Just like when her family bought a shop before and had to accept favors for those who didn't treat guests, I just followed the example of opening a workshop and giving them whatever gifts they received when they opened their house.
Did you see what the old lady said? Even the eldest uncle didn't mention anything to anyone because she was so careless. She was just afraid that I would tell her what kind of gift she had done before. ”
"If she dares to talk nonsense, let her change money. She said she would pay us back at least twenty taels of silver at the end of the year. Have you asked Shiro's wife today?"
Zhou Banxia couldn't help but laugh out loud after being teased, "How could it be possible? I'm scared to death here. I'm just afraid that she will quarrel with my sister-in-law. It's not that I'm afraid of losing the quarrel, but what if she's going to give birth prematurely?"
"Smart, my wife is really smart," Gu Wenxuan couldn't stop laughing, "So she scared your sister-in-law to the point where she quickly pulled her away?"
"Yes, we lost this round. After we came out, my sister-in-law and I were worried about our mother, so we had to wait for the Dahua family to go in, and then we went back to each hospital separately."
"So, they haven't gone back before you came back?" Gu Wenxuan frowned in displeasure, "What the hell is the old lady doing? She's embarrassing dad again."