One of them watched Gu Wenxuan go to the front yard respectfully. When Gu Wenxuan disappeared, Mai Qing hurriedly pulled Mai Huang.
As the eldest maid who finally left their girl's side yesterday evening, she thought she was the biggest fault, why did she let her master stay alone in the front hall!
"The second young master will not pursue the case this time, but we cannot rely on the master's generosity to do it again. If we are not the master, we must be more careful for ourselves.
Good master, we all have a master who protects us. I won’t go into details. Not only Aunt Lan, your family must have told you a lot about how good your master is.
For us to be lucky enough to meet such a good master, we must not act like a maid and act according to our duties, but we must treat the master as our benefactor from the bottom of our hearts. Only then can we live up to our conscience.
It's me who came first. I'm the biggest fault this time. I didn't change shifts with you when I came back yesterday. The four of us will remind each other next time.
You and Mai Xiang go to rest for a while first, while Mai Dong and I go in to guard the master. It's New Year's Eve and we are very busy. When the master wakes up, you can come in and wait on him. ”
Looking at Mai Huang who turned around and went in after saying that, Mai Qing suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. He averted his eyes and pushed Mai Dong to follow him, then quickly pulled Mai Xiang away.
"Where are we going? I need to go to the kitchen first." Seeing that she was going in the wrong direction, Mai Xiang quickly grabbed Mai Qing and asked, "Why are you going to the front yard?"
"Yes, it confused me. Instead of going to the front yard, I have to go across the hall to find Aunt Chang. Today and tomorrow I have to check the red seal with Aunt Chang."
"Then go ahead. I'm also going to the kitchen to find Aunt Fang, lest she accompany my wife to the village to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner later and send someone to run errands if I need to find her."
When Gu Wenxuan left the West Road Courtyard, he didn't know that it was still dark at this time, but the four maids around his wife had already begun to consciously perform their duties.
He didn't bother to do his usual morning exercises this morning, and he didn't even bother to go back to the backyard and take a shortcut. He directly took Jiaxing from the front, carrying a lantern, to the main courtyard.
Relatively speaking, it was a long detour, but it was not without its benefits. Before he could reach the main courtyard of the middle courtyard, his father was coming out of the main courtyard and heading towards the front hall.
What a coincidence.
At this time, the sky was getting a little brighter, and without Chang Sui Yucai's reminder, Gu Erzhu saw who the two people were with lanterns coming from the west.
Gu Wenxuan walked forward quickly, "Dad, you got up so early, my mother got up too?"
Yes, I got up earlier than your elder brother today!
Looking at his energetic old son, Gu Erzhu nodded in amusement, "I'll accompany you to the front to post Spring Festival couplets first, and then I'll find your mother later."
"Okay."
Gu Wenxuan happily agreed.
Even if his father didn't tell him, he still had this plan. He had put up the peach charms on the gate, as well as door god paintings, couplets, blessing characters, etc., and he had to rush to the village house to put up Spring Festival couplets.
On the Eight Immortals table in the front hall, there were pre-prepared peach charms, door god paintings, couplets, blessing characters, etc., and they brought the cooked paste, and the father and son went to the gate first.
From the main entrance to the east and west corner doors, there were peach charms that needed to be replaced and things that needed to be posted were replaced and pasted. Gu Erzhu couldn't take care of the places that still needed to be posted in the manor.
The home is big and the land is big.
It was already getting dark, so Gu Erzhu asked his old son to lead the people to continue all the way back, while he himself called his mother and rushed to the house in the village.
Mrs. Liu couldn't sit still today. Although there were many maids and women in the house, and she didn't need to do many tasks personally, she still couldn't help but look around.
Of the two daughters-in-law, one has twins and is not very young; the other has an infant son to take care of, so naturally she doesn't want them to get up early.
But the old girl was about to be a year older, so she wanted to train her, and she and Gu Erzhu took her for a walk around the inner and outer courtyards.
The couple met at the gate and took their old daughter back to the village. As for the old son, he wanted to follow?
Impossible. If you don’t say it needs to be posted here, the workshop won’t post it?
Gu Wenxuan also knew that he did not need to reach out for the red paper with auspicious words written on it in the workshop, but he still needed to go there personally at the gate of Gujiazhuang Village.
Gu Erlang, who came a step late, patted his younger brother on the shoulder with one hand and laughed, and pushed his father to get on the carriage quickly with the other hand. He wanted to follow but was caught by his enemy brother.
Now it was Gu Erzhu who was laughing. He was not willing to let any of his sons keep up. He didn't even need to step on the pedals. He jumped on the carriage shaft and told the driver to run quickly.
"Okay, big brother will accompany you."
Why the tone of coaxing Chang Suo?
The two brothers talked and laughed and put up the red paper with the corresponding auspicious words and the word "Fu" that should be posted in the outer courtyard. Next was the inner courtyard, where they could divide the work and cooperate.
Fortunately, the window paper, red lanterns and window paper had been hung up and pasted on the New Year's Eve. The division of labor between the two brothers was much faster, and Gu Wenxuan even took the time to visit the workshop.
Due to limited time, I had to rush to the ancestral hall in the morning to worship my ancestors. I didn't even go inside the workshop. I just rode a horse around the three main entrances of the workshops.
The stewards in the three workshops had already prepared the paste, but it took a lot of time. As for the Spring Festival couplets at the entrance of Hexi Zhuangzi, Gu Wenxuan just pretended that he didn't know about it.
This year is the first year. On this day next year, except at home, he does not plan to go to the workshop gate to post Spring Festival couplets in person, because he will not be able to post them at all.
He had to post it in person wherever he wanted. Logically speaking, the county town house also had to post it, and it had to be posted this morning, so there was no way he could get there.
On the way back to Xiluyuan, Gu Wenxuan was thinking that since he was going to the ancestral hall to worship his ancestors this morning, his ancestors still hadn't thought carefully about it.
Why don't they think that their descendants can't all live in one or two courtyards, just like his husband's old house in Zhou Mansion, which is much bigger than his family.
It is not allowed to post Spring Festival couplets to the female relatives.
It's not a joke.
If it were the case that Zhou Xiucai was the only one of the three generations, and it was only Li Geer's generation that broke through, he would still have to lead the family and bring men to hang lanterns and post Spring Festival couplets, but what would be the best way to be born?
This is a question worth pondering. No wonder there are families in the clan who have few sons and are not willing to live in a big house. It seems that it is not as simple as having a small number of sons and not being able to build a big house.
He has no intention of letting his wife have another baby. Giving birth to a baby these days is like risking your life. He has already put his wife through enough to get pregnant with this one!
West Road Courtyard.
Maidong learned to be clever this time.
After hearing the news from the little maid that the Second Young Master was coming in from the front yard, without waiting for Mai Huang to remind her, she walked with slightly heavier footsteps, then reached out to pull up the bed curtain, and said softly, "Girl? Second Young Master?"
Zhou Banxia got his head out of the brocade quilt, opening his eyes that couldn't be opened, "What time is it?"
"It's almost a quarter of the hour."
Quarter past seven, quarter past seven?
Zhou Banxia calculated the time subconsciously in her mind, and was a little confused as to why Maidong woke her up so early. It suddenly occurred to her that today was New Year's Eve!
It’s hard to stay in bed!
"Hel me up."
"Okay, slow down."
"Where is the second young master?" (End of Chapter)