When Guo Silang finished his second bowl of soup cakes, Guo Sanlang was still struggling with the only bowl of soup cakes in front of him.
Guo Silang has been accustomed to his brother's habit of chewing slowly since he was a child. He is not in a hurry and does not urge Guo Sanlang to eat quickly.
Not only did Guo Silang not rush him, he turned around and called the boy in the shop to come forward, took out a few copper coins from his waist and put them on the table. Guo Silang said to the boy: "Tomorrow we will meet I’m going to visit my relatives in Chang’an City. I’ve come all the way and I don’t know what’s the point of a door-to-door visit in Chang’an City?
What kind of gifts do you want to buy? Tell me.”
The boy was also a wise man, and his joy could be seen, but he bowed first, raised his head and asked Guo Silang with a smile on his face: "Your guest is asking the right person. I, Wang Fugui, know these things best."
I have to ask my guest, is there anyone in this family who is an official? "
Guo Sanlang also finished the soup cake in front of him, leaving only some soup. Hearing this, he looked over curiously: "Oh?
Can you please tell me about the importance of being an official or not?"
After that, Guo Sanlang also took out a bag from his waist. A bunch of money was put on the table.
Seeing this, the joy in the boy's eyes became even greater. He told everything he knew one by one. After talking for a quarter of an hour, he took a bunch of copper coins and left with a few coins.
After the boy left, Guo Silang asked Guo Sanlang with some distress: "Brother, why did you give so much? Didn't I give him several copper coins?"
Guo Sanlang coughed twice before slowly explaining to Guo Silang: "Where can I do things like you?
We are now in Chang'an, which is the most prosperous place in the Tang Dynasty, and It was naturally different when we were in Shule.
Didn’t you see that when you took out those copper coins and placed them on the table, the boy just had a little surprise in his eyes, and you could tell that he was not. I don't take this money seriously.
So we want to know something, why don’t we pay more?
I took out this bunch of money and let’s see, did he tell us all about the gift-giving method? "
Guo Silang thought about the boy's performance just now, and had to admit that Guo Sanlang was right.
"Hey, I listen to my brother. ”
Guo Sanlang originally planned to wait until the market opened tomorrow, so he and Guo Silang went to buy the eight gifts as the boy said just now, and then went to the address given by Li Dalang to deliver them. After sending a greeting card, the next day he brought the eight gifts and the gifts prepared by the Guo family earlier and went to the Li family with Guo Silang to recognize him
Unexpectedly, the boy from the inn knocked on the two brothers' door early the next morning.
"Dear guest, someone is looking for you downstairs, saying that they are your relatives, coming to take you home."
Guo Silang half sat up and rubbed his eyes, half asleep. , didn't pay attention to what the boy said, but Guo Sanlang, who didn't sleep well to begin with, guessed something.
"Hey, let's go down right now."
After replying to the boy's words, Guo Sanlang coughed twice again, then stood up and made a gesture to get out of bed and get dressed.
Guo Silang was used to taking care of Guo Sanlang, so when he saw this, he pressed down Guo Sanlang's body and went to the ground with his bare feet to get some clothes for Guo Sanlang to wear.
"Hurry up, my cousin from the Li family must be waiting for us below."
"Ah? Is it my cousin?
Why is my cousin here?< br>
How did my cousin know we live here?
Cousin, he is not.”
Under Guo Silang’s chirping voice, the two brothers packed themselves up and hurried downstairs to the lobby. Guo Sanlang was indeed right, the lobby Isn't the person sitting there none other than Li Dalang?
Li Dalang led Wang Dalang and Gao Haiping out of the camp early in the morning with their waist badges, told them where they were going, and received them.
Because the camp is located outside Chang'an City, it is the peak period for soldiers returning home these days, and there are a lot of traffic outside. Waiting for the job.
Li Dalang and the other three got on a donkey cart, and within half an hour they were lining up outside Anhua Gate, waiting to enter the city.
Guo Sanlang had told Li Dalang earlier about where they would stay after arriving in Chang'an City. Therefore, as soon as they entered the city, Li Dalang took Wang Dalang and Gao Haiping to the Guo brothers The inn where we stayed is here.
What Li Dalang was thinking was that the Guo brothers had come all the way to recognize their relatives, so it was his responsibility to take good care of them.
Without returning home, Li Dalang thought of coming to pick them up and personally led the two Guo brothers back to Li's house.
“Cousin, cousin, cousin, why are you here?”
Guo Silang really liked Li Dalang so much that he couldn't stop talking when he saw Li Dalang calling him cousin.
Li Dalang first touched Guo Silang's hair and responded to his words, then turned to smile at Guo Sanlang.
"These two are my colleagues, this is Gao Haiping, and this is Wang Dadan, they are coming home with us."
"It turns out they are my cousin's colleagues, disrespectful , disrespectful."
Both Wang Dalang and Gao Haiping knew about the Guo brothers from Li Dalang's mouth. This was the first time for them to come into contact with a scholar as thin-skinned and fragile as Guo Sanlang. Very at a loss.
"Brothers of the Guo family!"
The four of them faced each other and saluted, and the scene was a bit funny for a while.
Thanks to the lively Guo Silang, he became brothers with Wang Dadan and Gao Haiping in just a few words.
Li Dalang heard that Guo Sanlang said he wanted to buy some gifts, so he said directly: "Then I'll hire a carriage. After we've finished shopping, we're just in time to catch the carriage to go home."
Guo Sanlang naturally said yes and went back upstairs. Guo Silang followed Guo Sanlang, who had a lot of money in his arms, downstairs with a wooden box that was not too small.
Is there anyone who doesn’t bring gifts when visiting someone’s door?
So, Li Dalang did not stop Guo Sanlang from asking to buy a gift. After all, the gift was not valuable, it was etiquette and the face of both parties.
"That's just right. Bold and I also want to buy some gifts and come to the door. We can't come empty-handed."
Li Dalang said to Gao Haiping at this moment: "Then You'd better not buy too much with Sanlang, he is different after all, it's enough for you to buy some pastries and candy bars."
Li Dalang is afraid that Wang Daudao and Gao Haiping will be short of money, after all, they will be rewarded this time. Most of my money was taken home by others, and I probably only had a few taels of money left around for emergencies.
Everyone went to the West Market first, and Guo Sanlang bought several gifts according to the boy's instructions, including six jars of good wine.
After shopping like this, it was almost impossible to put it on the carriage. Li Dalang quickly stopped Guo Sanlang, a shopaholic.
"Sanlang, that's enough, that's enough.
It's almost noon, we should go home."
Li Dalang took Wang DaDa and Gao Haiping drove the carriage, with Guo Sanlang and Guo Silang sitting in the carriage. When he parked the carriage at the door of Li's Herbal Medicine Hall, the first person to notice him was Li Sanniang!
Li Sanniang was leading Luzhu'er around her legs to buy some cakes at the end of the street. When she turned around, she saw Li Dalang standing next to the carriage at the door! (End of this chapter)