novelraw Chapter 221 The whole family is mobilized!
Chapter 221 The whole family is mobilized!
Chapter 218 The whole family is mobilized!
Not long after Ah Gou left, the doorbell inside the house rang.
Gu Tang was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly got up. It must be her father who had arrived!
Ah Gou doesn't know how to ring the bell; he just jumps over the wall and comes in. I've scolded him several times, but he still can't change.
Ever since she made a small copper bell into a pull bell, only her father liked to pull it, even though he had the key to the courtyard gate.
He gathered up the Xuan paper on the table, carefully scanned his surroundings to make sure there was nothing extra, and then jogged to open the door.
When she reached the courtyard gate, she called out to someone outside, and then her father's voice rang out from outside.
Gu Tang breathed a sigh of relief. She hadn't guessed wrong; it really was her father who had come.
She removed the latch, opened a courtyard gate, and froze in shock!
Her family's oxcart was parked outside the door, and her father, third uncle, and Gu Ping'an were standing next to it!
Is this awkward?
Why is the whole family out?!
"Are you dumbfounded?" Gu Lianshan grinned. "You didn't expect me to bring your grandfather and Ping An along, did you?"
I really didn't expect that.
This is more of a surprise than a joy!
"Hurry up and get into the courtyard! I reckon my dad will be here soon. I lit the stove in the second courtyard early this morning, and it's warm right now!"
Gu Tang quickly put on a smile, stepped forward to help her third uncle, and led him into the courtyard.
The family entered the courtyard. As the third uncle walked in, he looked around and nodded.
"This courtyard is nice; it looks like it was recently built."
Gu Tang smiled and praised, "Your judgment is spot on. It's been five years since it was built, and the materials used are all of the highest quality. If it weren't for the fact that the other party needed the money, they wouldn't have been willing to sell this courtyard."
Upon arriving at the second courtyard, the third uncle paused, "Why did they build a chicken coop in this perfectly good courtyard?"
"The chickens and ducks in our backyard were raised at my grandma's for a few days when we bought them. The whole family was thinking about them day and night, so I had no choice but to raise them in this yard."
When the Feng family was mentioned, the third uncle didn't say much. It was just a pity that such a nice courtyard had been cluttered with a large chicken coop, which looked very out of place.
Gu Lianshan tied up the cow and, after hearing what the grandfather and grandson were saying, said, "Now that the chickens and ducks have a place to go, this chicken coop is useless. Since we have nothing else to do, let's dismantle it."
Gu Tang turned to look at him in surprise: "This is really rare! It cost a lot of copper coins to build this chicken coop, and you were heartbroken about it. Now you're actually offering to demolish it? Have you changed your mind?"
Gu Lianshan tilted his head back and said, "Your father has seen a lot in his life now, so he's different from before."
Her daughter asked for 10,000 yuan for a backflow incense stick!
How many chicken coops could this be built with?
He'd tear it down! He wouldn't even mind tearing down ten or eight of them!
Without further ado, he called out to his son, and the two rolled up their sleeves, ready to dismantle the chicken coop.
Third Uncle did not stop Gu Ping'an from helping with these chores, and said to Gu Tang with a smile, "Let the father and son do their work, let's go inside and warm up."
"Sigh!" Gu Tang responded with a smile and helped the person into the house.
The second courtyard is the main house, and the central hall is used for receiving guests. The room is extremely spacious and contains a long table, an eight-immortal table, round-backed chairs, and antique shelves, all arranged in an orderly and elegant manner.
"How is it? I'm very satisfied with all the furniture in this house, but my father says it's all impractical and just for show!"
Gu Tang sighed; her father's taste was sometimes truly touching.
"Don't listen to your father's nonsense, I think it's very good." Third Uncle patted Gu Tang's arm as a gesture of reassurance. There was a kettle on the stove in the room, the water inside was boiling hot. Gu Tang helped Third Uncle sit down, then took a purple clay pot from the antique shelf, removed the lid, and found that it was half full of tea.
I poured some into the kettle, and soon a pot of tea was brewed.
"Master, have some tea." Gu Tang first poured a cup for Third Uncle and handed it over, then poured two more cups and sent them outside.
After delivering the tea, she asked her third uncle, "Why did you decide to come with my father today? Is something wrong?"
"You've lost track of time! Tomorrow is the winter market. We agreed that on that day, we, grandmother and granddaughter, would come to Bei'an City together for a visit."
And what did you do? Not only did you stay in the city and not go back, but you also completely forgot about the market day. Luckily, your father and I remembered and came today.
Gu Tang blinked. The winter market... to be honest, she had actually forgotten about it!
"My bad! My bad! I completely forgot about such a lively event! Tomorrow I'll pay for it, whatever you fancy, I'll buy it for you as an apology, okay?"
Third Uncle laughed: "I heard from your father that your idea is exceptionally good. You've managed to promote that incense as a divine incense. Your father said that now everyone in the city is saying that the Cheng family is paying ten thousand taels of silver for this divine incense."
The Cheng family... they might have been willing to pay ten thousand taels of silver for incense before, but now it's probably difficult.
Having lost so much gold and silver, even if they still have some banknotes, compared to their previous extravagance, the Cheng family will likely be struggling financially for some time.
Thinking of this, Gu Tang also laughed: "Thanks to the Cheng family's reward of ten thousand taels of silver, if it weren't for the Cheng family's stunt, the price of my incense wouldn't have been able to go up."
Now things are much better. The reward money is right there, and the price of this incense can't be lower than a thousand taels of silver. If we sell it to the Cheng family, we might be able to get ten thousand taels of silver.”
Sell it to the Cheng family?
This is not a good choice.
Third Uncle frowned slightly: "The Cheng family is not easy to deal with. If we have a choice, we should choose another family."
"That's what I think too. Fortunately, we don't have to worry about selling them now. We can keep looking and find a buyer with gentlemanly manners. It's better to earn less money than to cause trouble."
She's practically emptied the Cheng family's pockets, so we can rule them out. I'll have Ah Gou investigate privately later to see if there are any more reliable buyers.
Now that she has plenty of money, she doesn't want to take any risks.
Seeing that Gu Tang had a plan in mind, Third Uncle stopped asking about it and started talking to her about the winter market.
"Before we came, your dad said that we should take advantage of the winter market to buy everything we need for the New Year, and then we would go home together and not come back here before the New Year."
Think it over carefully yourself and see if there's anything you want to buy, or anything you're short of. Take advantage of these three days when all the shops and vendors are crowded together; you can buy everything. Let's buy it all at once.
"Huh? You're not coming here before the New Year?"
Gu Tang was stunned for a moment; she still had things to do.
Third Uncle nodded, his face serious: "This year, the snow has been slow to fall. Based on past experience, the later the snow falls, the heavier the snowfall will be."
I remember it was like this the year your father married your mother; it didn't snow for a long time, and it wasn't until the twelfth lunar month that the snow started to appear.
Within half a day, the scattered snowflakes turned into a heavy blizzard, which continued for a month! Countless houses in the village collapsed under the weight of the snow, and more than ten elderly people and children froze to death!
(End of this chapter)