Chapter 608: Warning Quotes
If the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law do not have a common enemy and cannot be consistent in dealing with the outside world, it will be very detrimental to family harmony. Zhou Banxia forgot who said this.
Maybe she didn't remember it deeply when she was young, or maybe she overheard it after work when a colleague or subordinate was talking about the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
What a warning.
It just so happened that she didn't like the Oda family either, let alone persuade her mother-in-law to let it go. Don't persuade her to be kind without her suffering. No one could kiss this mother.
After the Laba Festival, it was also the day when the second batch of New Year gifts was to be given out. Zhou Banxia ordered the village head to start slaughtering chickens, ducks and geese.
The pigs and sheep raised two months ago were not big enough, so when the pigs and sheep were put out for slaughter two years ago, I purchased ten pigs and twenty sheep through Majiazhuangzi and Aunt Gu.
A pig is considered a big fat pig, with an average weight of 150 kilograms. If a whole pig of 150 kilograms is sold for 20 taels of silver, ten pigs will cost less than 25 taels of silver.
Sheep, on the other hand, were sold for three taels and five taels of silver, based on the weight of a whole sheep with skin and bones weighing 100 kilograms. The total price of twenty sheep was close to 70 taels of silver.
The meat required for this batch of New Year gifts is relatively large, but it is still limited. With a hundred taels of silver in the account, there is no need to buy meat even from the end of the year to the first month of the next year.
Qinghe Village Hexi Zhuangzi.
Zhou Shushun watched the pigs and sheep being driven into the pig pens and sheep pens one after another. There were so many that they were about to be squeezed out. Then he thought of his family's San Ya, pointing her fingers one by one, saying that so and so should have at least some New Year's gifts. Two legs of pig legs, so-and-so’s family’s New Year’s gift requires at least half a sheep, and so-and-so’s family also gives a sheep...
He couldn't bear to think about it anymore.
I saw that the three girls in his family were merciless when they accepted favors and gifts, but the favors they returned were extremely rare. The pigs and sheep alone cost Laobi taels of silver, as well as pastries, wine and clothing materials.
But this time, his Sanya is not a prodigal child. After all, there is no way to get in and out of favors. Fortunately, the pigs and sheep will be raised next year, so there is no need to spend more money.
Seeing that the head of the village acted in a measured manner, even preparing wooden trays containing pig blood for killing pigs, Zhou Shushun felt that he was not a suitable father to stay with his daughter Zhuangzi for too long.
After all, the daughter is married to an in-law. No matter how open-minded the in-laws are, who would be happy to see the in-laws coming all day long to stare at their daughter-in-law and point fingers at her things.
Thursday Shun put himself in his shoes. If he had a daughter-in-law with a large dowry, he would not be happy to see his in-laws meddling in family affairs at every turn.
So he came quickly and left quickly. Before Gu Erzhu heard the news and came across the village, he went directly from here to the intersection market on Thursday.
Of course, it was impossible for him to go to the market to buy things. He just went to the market to take a look, and he felt comfortable when he passed by the entrance of Gujiazhuang Village and didn't enter the workshop.
Whose daughter has a promising future as his family’s Sanya, so what’s the point of getting married? The workshops opened one after another are not too good, and now there are more people helping his family’s Sanya earn money.
Unfortunately, he was caught by Gu Erzhu this time even as he passed through the entrance of Gujiazhuang Village.
Strange things.
How did you guess that he was coming here now and still staying here?
Gu Erzhu still didn't know the virtues of his in-laws. As soon as he found out when the pigs and sheep would be delivered today, he knew without thinking that his in-laws would not be able to stay at home.
Without checking whether the pigs and goats delivered were of good quality, whether they weighed enough, and whether his daughter had been deceived by someone, it would be a great miracle that Zhou Changshun could feel at ease.
Zhou Shushun laughed out loud when he was teased by Gu Erzhu, and he was even more happy when he heard Gu Erzhu proudly admit that he was just lazy on purpose and waited for him to transfer here so that he would have to travel less.
I also want to be lazy and lazy, how far can I go?
Very talkative.
It's no wonder that Sanya of his family is sincerely willing to be filial to her father-in-law and mother-in-law. On Thursday, she happily accepted the kindness of her in-laws and happily accompanied Gu Erzhu back to Hexi Zhuangzi. Early the next morning, before dawn, torches were lit on the wall and courtyard of Zhuangzi on the west side of Qinghe Village. Gu Erzhu and Zhou Shushun also arrived early.
The preparations are done.
After burning incense and paper money, worshiping the gods of heaven and earth, and praying for peace and success in the next year, the New Year pig is killed, and the person who does it is Uncle Gu, who is a butcher.
Whether the pig-killing technique is good or not is related to the owner's good luck throughout the year.
The most taboo thing about last-minute cuts is that they must be killed with one cut. It is best to make the pig's blood flow very smoothly and not to scratch the pig's intestines. These are all symbols of good luck.
As for Uncle Gu, his ancestral pig-killing skills are what he eats from this line of bowls. He has a good skill in killing pigs, which is not comparable to the amateur butchers in Majiazhuang.
He didn't even kill the pigs he harvested this morning, and gave them to his eldest son. After recharging his energy, he took his second son and his eldest son to come and "bring good luck" to his second brother-in-law.
When Zhou Banxia found out that Uncle Gu had come to kill the New Year pig, she had taboos on both sides and did not want to embarrass the maid. After reporting ten times, only two of the ten pigs were left.
In other words, Uncle Gu can kill five pigs during the day, then sleep, wake up at the fourth watch, and then kill three more pigs before noon. What speed is this?
Fortunately, she thought that ten pigs would take three to five days. Adding in the sheep, it would take more or less ten days. It happened to be the second batch of New Year's gifts given out before the Lunar New Year.
She didn't have time to think too much. Now that she had learned that Uncle Gu was here to help, she naturally couldn't ignore the fact that she was her nephew's wife. If she had any taboos, she couldn't show up and sent a steward to come forward and ask for it.
Just when Zhou Banxia wanted her couple's housekeeper Gu Dachang to come forward and bring two jars of good wine to Hexi Zhuangzi on her behalf, her couple came back.
Gu Wenxuan stayed at the county school for a relatively long time this time, for sixteen days. He even couldn't come back from his fifteenth day break this month due to something unexpected.
But why did you get home before noon?
Generally speaking, if there was no class in the morning, he would definitely go home before the city gate closed the night before, so he would arrive home at this time.
"Daughter-in-law..."
"I heard it."
It had been less than a cup of tea since the maid announced that the second young master had returned. Zhou Banxia thought that Gu Wenxuan had not come so quickly from the main courtyard.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she put on her coat and put on her cloak in the hall to greet her outside, Gu Wenxuan's call rang out.
"Don't come out, I'm going into the house." Gu Wenxuan threw the untied cloak to the maid who was holding the curtain, and rushed towards Nuan Ge'er as he spoke.
"Slow down."
"It can't be slower."
Looking at Gu Wenxuan who rushed in and suddenly stopped, Zhou Banxia looked at his expression, it didn't look like he rushed back because of something.
"It's okay, I'm fine." With a look, Gu Wenxuan knew what she meant and quickly spoke first, "I just miss you so much that I can't see you for half a month."
Zhou Banxia was not disappointed when she heard this and said that it was more important. She replied sweetly, "I miss you too. Today is not a holiday, why are you home at this time?"