The Crossing of Fortune and Prayer Jubilee

Go out of the kitchen and pass through an alley with a door, and there is a bathroom built inside.In the bathroom, there is a water tank and two tubs separated by a screen, a clothes hanger and a wardrobe, and a bench for changing shoes.

"Tsk, such a big place is comparable to the house we live in. By the way, why put two bathtubs?"

Xu Se replied with a smile: "Our brother Yu is getting older, so we can no longer share the same bathtub with our brothers. Let's go and see the guest room."

After looking at the guest room on the left side of the courtyard and the three brothers' rooms on the left side, Lou Yuzhu helped Fu Linshu go to the house to rest, and invited Xu Se to accompany him, and then came out to start preparing for the banquet.

The three uncles of the Zhang family and a few brothers and daughters-in-law who are excellent cooks in the village are busy with cooking, the three uncles and Lou Chengyi prepare the tables and benches, and Lou Hua leads the cousins ​​of the Zhang family inside and out. After passing some words, Lou Yuzhu and Lou Ming took care of the things they needed. As for the two cousins ​​who were studying, Lou Yuzhu had already arranged for them to calculate the gift money.

Not to mention, the Zhang family's Sanlang, Zhang Heng, and the Shiro, Zhang Yuan, wore long gowns and sat on the desk covered with red silk. The Four Treasures of the Study Room really looked like that!As for those people in the old house, Lou Yuzhu automatically ignored them.

When the shadows of people were still slanting westward, tables, chairs and benches were placed in and outside the courtyard, and people entered the tables one after another, only to see a carriage coming from the other side of the newly built road.A horse came staggeringly with the hood of the carriage, and stopped in front of the door, the old coachman put down the footstool, Lou Chengzu lifted the curtain and led down two men dressed as scholars.

Lou Yuzhu raised her eyebrows, no wonder she didn't see Lou Chengzu before, so she was waiting here.Bringing two talented men here to show them off?Haha, I'm afraid it's just another self-defense!

The two scholar masters are also the teachers of Luyuan Academy, and they have always been friends with Lou Chengzu, and they came here this time to show Lou Chengyi some embarrassment. "Are you the third son of the Lou family whose parents are still alive but wanting to split the family?" One of the older scholars looked at Lou Chengyi with his hands behind his back, implying that he wanted to side with Lou Chengzu.

Lou Chengyi immediately became embarrassed, and Lou Yuzhu went up to greet him: "These two uncles are my uncle's friends, right? Today happens to be our three-bedroom housewarming celebration, and the visitor is a guest, please have a glass of wine before leaving. After finishing speaking, he turned his head and shouted at Lou Hua: "Brother, lead Uncle and his two friends into the courtyard."

The faces of the two scholars were pale and pale, and they could hear what Lou Yuzhu meant by scolding them for coming uninvited!

"What's the matter? The two uncles won't leave without a glass of wine?" Lou Yuzhu asked pretending to be innocent.

Lou Hua held back a smile, stepped forward and cupped his hands and said, "The visitor is a guest, the two uncles, please go this way."

Lou Chengzu was also very angry, but unfortunately he insisted on his status as a scholar and he didn't want to be laughed at, so he had to apologize to his two friends and invite them to the inner courtyard with a pale face.If this can be tolerated, then it is unbearable to just let them sit on the table in the courtyard! "Eldest nephew, what does this mean? With our status as a scholar, we are not even allowed to go to the main hall?"

"I'm really sorry uncle, the two tables in the main hall are already full, so I have to begrudge uncle to sit here." Lou Hua clapped his hands back in a calm manner.

"Why are the two tables in the main hall full? There are still so many seats!" In the main hall, I was sitting and chatting with Mr. Zhang and Mr. Lou. There were only three seats for ten people at the round table, and the other round table was empty. !

"Those seats are already occupied, but they haven't arrived yet. Originally, the uncle can also sit, but you brought two friends, you can't let the two uncles sit alone? After all, we don't know the two uncles. It's not beautiful if the reception is not good. Uncles, please sit down, and I won't accompany my nephew if he has something else to do." After saying that, he went to work, but turned around and asked Lou Ming to guard the door to prevent Lou Chengzu from rushing into the main hall .

Lou Chengzu's eyes turned black, and the other two scholars felt that they couldn't hold back their faces. "Is this the banquet Brother Lou invited us to eat?" After saying that, he shook his sleeves and was about to leave.

"Brother Liu, brother Wang, stay on your feet. My nephew has never read a book and doesn't understand etiquette, so don't compete with them." Lou Chengzu chased to the door, only to see another carriage coming from the other end.

This time it is a carriage with two horses, not one. From a distance, it looks like a string of carriages. A good guy has four carriages coming, and there are three big horses behind him. Look at the size of the horse. It is not something that ordinary people can raise.

The first carriage drove to the door, shopkeeper Jiao lifted the curtain and got out. From the second carriage, he helped out his daughter-in-law, turned around and hugged his younger brother, and smiled at Lou Chengyi and cupped his hands: "Congratulations, brother Lou. Great housewarming, I'm here for a wedding drink!"

Lou Chengyi greeted him with sincerity and fear, and hurriedly returned the gift: "Happy, happy!"

Shopkeeper Jiao was overjoyed, and laughed loudly: "Don't be nervous, brother, I'm here to drink housewarming wine, not to spoil the scene!" Seeing Fu Linshu who came out with a full stomach, he smiled and asked: "This is the younger brother who has never met. Husband? It really is a blessing." After laughing, he introduced his family members.

Shopkeeper Jiao's daughter-in-law, surnamed Liang, was wearing a blue-green double-breasted silk and satin dress, with a simple rich bun tied up in black silk on her head, and a blue bird pecking pearls and emerald jade swaying obliquely. She had a beautiful face and a warm wrist.He only heard that shopkeeper Jiao had a beautiful daughter-in-law but didn't know it was like this. Lou Yuzhu glanced at shopkeeper Jiao's face of Maitreya Buddha, and shook her head in her heart, what a fairy flower stuck in cow dung!

Jiao Taobao threw off Shopkeeper Jiao and ran over to stare at Lou Yuzhu with hooked eyes. "Are you Brother Yu?"

"I'm Brother Yu." Lou Yuzhu looked at her eyes, where did the cute little angel come from?

"You also have one mouth and two empty noses. It's no different." Jiao Taobao looked at him curiously, and said strangely, "But why did my father say that as long as I'm twice as smart as you, I won't suffer for the rest of my life?"

"..." How should I answer this?Lou Yuzhu was going crazy.But I don't know what's going crazy is yet to come.

After reading the brocade box in his hand, Jiao Taobao stuffed it into Lou Yuzhu's hand: "I'm four months older than you, you want to call me Brother Bao, this is a meeting gift."

Lou Yuzhu was dumbfounded, Jiao Taobao had already quickly opened the brocade box and said, "I'm an ordinary person, see if you like the pattern of this set of golden noodles, if you don't like me, there are other patterns, you can change it! "

"...Thank you, Brother Bao." Hello, Brother Bao, goodbye, Brother Bao!

"Hahaha..." Seeing Lou Yuzhu eating turtles, shopkeeper Jiao was very happy!The proud business talent was crushed by a little brother, let alone the usual depression, today I finally moved back to [-]%!Although it's not him, Jiao Taobao is his seed, all the same!

"I saw shopkeeper Jiao smiling from a long distance away, what's the matter? Is he getting rich again?" Shopkeeper Zhai led his family members down from behind, and couldn't help joking before he saw the person and heard his voice.

"It's more satisfying than getting rich!" Shopkeeper Jiao turned his head and waved to Shopkeeper Di: "Hurry up, Shopkeeper Di, the next carriage is slow!"

Hearing this, shopkeeper Zhai was very angry: "You are a profiteer! I don't have the same knowledge as you!"

Shopkeeper Jiao, who was scolded as a profiteer, was not happy, and replied, "It seems that you don't make money!"

"Yo, you still know how to talk back, how about I settle the score for you?"

Shopkeeper Zhai acted like a shopkeeper, and shopkeeper Jiao hurriedly begged for mercy: "Don't stop, I'm a profiteer, I'm a profiteer~" He couldn't settle the account, and he was flustered when he did the calculation.The sincerity of making a net profit of one thousand taels in four months cannot be revealed, and the truth is to make a fortune in a low-key manner!

Lou Yuzhu watched the two shrewd shopkeepers fighting aggressively, shook her head funny, and greeted the doctor sitting in front of Fu Linshu who was treating Fu Linshu and told him to sit in the main hall, and then greeted the three officials who dismounted behind: "Uncle Zhao, Uncle Peng, Uncle Yan Are you coming? Sit in quickly!"

The three officials helped a lot in Liangshan and handling the paperwork. Lou Yuzhu also used the wine table to say please have a housewarming wine, and then sent the invitation card and didn't expect them to come. I didn't want four to come and three , I really want to deal with Sanfang.

The three officials offered gifts and refused to enter the main hall. The shopkeeper Jiao took the initiative to pull people. "What are you saying, we are all Brother Lou's guests today, not shopkeepers or officials!"

Shopkeeper Jiao and Shopkeeper Zhai are well-known in Huya Town, and the people of Yanjia Village do not know the three masters, but they do know each other.The two scholars glanced at Lou Chengzu with ugly faces: "Is this the cowardly and uninitiated third child you talked about?"

Lou Chengzu was shocked and angry.Since the younger brother who has always been honest, obedient, independent and even cowardly will know the two big families in the town!No wonder you can build such a house all of a sudden!

Lou Yuzhu raised her eyebrows.I said it was a slap in the face a long time ago, isn't it just a slap now?You must know that Shopkeeper Jiao and Shopkeeper Zhai were also scholars before taking over the family business.

It was close to noon, and another tall horse came running across the road.Glancing at the young master immediately, Lou Yuzhu hurriedly asked Zhang Ling to go inside to report, and she walked up quickly with a smile on her face. "Brother Zhou is here? Welcome!"

Zhou Cheng got off the horse with his long legs, and handed the rope to the villager who helped him. He rushed to the building and said, "I'm a bit unfamiliar with the road, but I'm late?"

"It's not too late, it's just right!" Lou Chengyi, Lou Hua and Lou Yuzhu sent the housewarming post together. There were three posts, and they invited Young Master Pei, Steward Hu and Zhou Cheng respectively.Now it seems that Zhou Cheng came because the other two didn't come, but Zhou Cheng's presence is enough to represent the other two.

"The young master has something to do with the butler, so he asked me to bring the gift. Where is the gift book?"

"The young master is busy with the housekeeper's affairs, just say yes, what gift do you have?"

"I was just entrusted by others. If you want to go back and tell the young master tomorrow." Zhou Cheng had already seen the place where the courtesy book was, and walked away by himself.

Lou Yuzhu opened her mouth, smiled and followed.

Now Lou Chengyi came out to welcome him.

Zhou Cheng cupped his hands: "Congratulations to Uncle Lou on his housewarming!"

Lou Chengyi returned the gift with sincerity and trepidation: "Happy, happy! Please come inside!"

"Uncle Lou, you're welcome." He took out three red envelopes and put the case table, and then Zhou Cheng followed Lou Chengyi into the door.

Seeing Zhou Cheng, Shopkeeper Jiao and Shopkeeper Zhai's eyes lit up, they hurriedly stood up and cupped their hands: "Brother Zhou is here? Sit here!"

"Shopkeeper Jiao, Treasurer Zhai,"

Lou Yuzhu led Zhou Cheng to his seat, introduced others one by one, and went to work on his own.When I went out, I saw Zhang Heng poking his head there, and hurried over: "What's wrong?"

Seeing Lou Yuzhu approaching, Zhang Heng heaved a sigh of relief and quickly stuffed the three red seals into his hand, he said with lingering fear, "Take this brother Yu first."

"how?"

Subconsciously, he was about to open the red envelope, but Zhang Heng hurriedly stopped him, took the gift book in Zhang Yuan's hand and turned to the last page, motioning to see the last three names.

Lou Yuzhu looked at it suspiciously, and saw that Young Master Pei had ten taels of silver in his name, Housekeeper Hu also had eight taels of silver in his name, and Zhou Cheng had five taels in his name. The gift money added up is several times more!No wonder Zhang Heng was nervous.

"Do you want to return it?" Zhang Heng asked hesitantly. Forgive him for his short-sightedness. The five-liang gift from Shopkeeper Jiao and the others was enough to surprise him, but he didn't expect it to be even more serious!

"No need." In their eyes, this gift money is an important gift, but in the eyes of others, it may be the lightest.After collecting the three red envelopes containing the banknotes, Lou Yuzhu said to Zhang Heng, "I know this well. My cousin will go to sit in the inner courtyard when he finishes his work, and the banquet will start soon."

Hearing this, Zhang Heng was relieved, and said with a smile, "Hey, let's go."

Soon the food was served and the banquet started. I saw big bowls of fish and meat served on the tables inside and outside the courtyard, but the two tables in the main hall came out of another stove. There was a big difference in both the dishes and the plates. The person in charge of the spoon was The second uncle of the Zhang family is recognized as a culinary master whose skills are as good as Xu Se's.

The chef who is used to the skill of the chef suddenly switched to farm-style food, which made Jiao Taobao delicious, and unexpectedly added two bowls of rice.After eating, she patted her stomach and rushed to Yuzhu and said, "It's delicious! Is the food at Brother Yu's family so delicious every day?"

"The usual food is simple and there are not so many varieties. But if Brother Bao comes to play, I guarantee that it will be so delicious every day."

"Hmph, you're talking like I'm a foodie."

The little cute baby with pink makeup and jade-cut pouting her pink and tender lips and pretending to be angry is really cute. If it wasn't for Liang Fulang being next to her, Lou Yuzhu would have to pinch her face. How did she look so long?How can it be so cute? !