The Crossing of Fortune and Prayer Jubilee

Orderly prepare the dowry and discuss with Changlebo Mansion about the furniture in the dowry. On the second day of May of the following year, the red silk dowry will be carried into the Zhou Mansion. The festive ceremony and music will be accompanied by the sedan chair and the sound of firecrackers. , It took a full day to stop.

The next day, Lou Yuzhu and Zhou Cheng sat in the first seat and received gifts from Zhou Yi and newlywed Zhao Yao. They drank the tea from their daughter-in-law and gave them red envelopes. House rules are for servants, not family members, so there is nothing to be particular about, and everything can be done as you like."

Zhao Yao said yes shyly and respectfully.

Of course, Lou Yuzhu didn't expect to make it through once, after all, everyone needs a break-in period, right?

Three days later, when she returned to the gate tower, Yuzhu personally prepared a gift for Changlebo Mansion, and asked the two of them to rest for the night, not wanting to go back at night.Lou Yuzhu was stunned: "Didn't you say to rest for one night, why did you come back again?"

Zhao Yao took the tea from the servant with a smile and handed it to Lou Yuzhu: "My father means that it's not a reason to stay in the family because he is so close, so he should come back early to be filial to the family."

"Why are you so unreasonable? My brother who has been raised for more than ten years can be filial in front of his parents once he gets married?" He said so, taking a sip of tea in his hand, and then said: "Don't listen to these hypocritical things. To be honest, as long as you have the heart, you can be filial even if you are not in front of you every day; if you don't have the heart, it is empty to be in front of you every day, not as pure as if you can't see it."

Lou Yuzhu's words were quite different from the concepts Zhao Yao had always accepted, and he was almost confused. He turned around and asked Zhou Yi tentatively, so that he didn't want to make Zhou Yi happy enough.

"I'm still wondering when you will find out!" Thinking of this, Zhou Yijue was very happy: "We went to pay our respects in the past few days, and you didn't notice that my father's expression was not good?"

Zhao Yao said cautiously: "I thought it was because I was late and I didn't do well."

"It's not that I went late or I didn't do well somewhere." Thinking of the thoughtful expression on his father's face in the past few days, he can be happy for a day. It's not because he is bad. Zhou Yi, who is used to being squeezed since childhood, loves to watch them eat and hold back of. "I went too early and did a good job. Our family has never had the habit of saying goodbye. We always go to the main hall to eat by ourselves. If you don't want to eat, you can order it to be sent to the room. As for breakfast, I will serve it to my father." Shuicheng porridge and everything else is my father's work, these days you have robbed my father of his affectionate work, and my father has glared at me several times behind the scenes!"

Zhao Yao was dumbfounded: "No wonder I didn't see my second younger brother every time I went there, and the nugees who were in my father's room looked at me with weird eyes, and sometimes I saw that my father didn't straighten his clothes." Zhao Yao said. Yao blamed Yan Zhouyi: "Why didn't you tell me earlier, you caused me to make so many jokes these days."

What would he say if he wanted to see how embarrassing his father was under the covers?If you want to use Husband's hand to toss Dad, what will he say?I can't even say it if I suffocate.So I could only pretend to be stupid and said: "Didn't I say that? On the day of the wedding, I said not to get up early, but what etiquette are you saying to get up early?"

Zhao Yao's face blushed immediately when he thought of being tossed about on the morning of his wedding day, and he didn't want to leave for a while.

After admiring the changing expression on Fu Lang's face, Zhou Yi said after a while: "Our family has no rules, but there are some habits that you can't explain clearly after a while. But before you get used to it, you have to Be mentally prepared for separation."

Zhao Yao's cognition was refreshed again.

"It's not the kind of separation you imagined. In fact, my father is tired of taking care of our brothers. He made a plan long ago that only our brothers will get married. After the separation, the two of them can live a relaxed life alone. Seeing that Zhao Yao still couldn't understand, he thought for a while and said, "In short, don't judge my father by the world's standards. As for my father, you don't have to worry about it at all. Generally, my father will not let go of things that my father doesn't care about. in the eyes."

Zhao Yao said that he couldn't understand, and didn't want Tianlou Yuzhu to really mention the separation of the family two months later.

After dinner, the family got together, and Lou Yuzhu glanced at the crowd and finally stopped on Zhao Yao's face, and comforted him: "This matter has been agreed a long time ago, so Brother Yao doesn't need to be burdened."

Zhao Yao secretly glanced at his husband-in-law, saw him drinking tea calmly, then nodded and said: "I know, everything is under Father's orders."

Lou Yuzhu glanced at Zhou Yi, then at Zhou Yu, and then at the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth.

Zhou Yi and Zhou Yu looked at each other, and said with numbness, "It's fine to separate the family, but I won't take over the business of the family."

Zhou Yu pretended to retort: ​​"If the boss doesn't pick me up, I won't pick up either."

Zhou Qi spread his hands: "The boss and the second don't even pick up, so it's not my third brother's turn, right?"

Zhou Lin followed up with kindness: "I am the fourth child."

Old Wu Zhou Rui expressed his attitude with a cold face: "I won't answer."

The sixth son, Zhou An, had an obedient face: "I am the sixth son, and there are five older brothers in front of me."

Zhou Yi squinted at the sixth son: "You are the richest of the six brothers, and you should take over."

Zhou An retorted, turned to Zhou Yu and said, "I am the richest because I collect a lot of New Year's money. Theoretically, it should be that the second brother is the best at making money. He has the most shops."

Zhou Yu smiled and glanced at Lao Wu: "I have a lot of shops but only quantity. In terms of quality, I can't compare to Lao Wu." Zhou Yu, who turned a blind eye to Zhou Rui's cold gaze, said that dead friends are not dead poor Dao, compared to this coldness, it is more or less a disadvantage to take over the family business.

"Third brother said before that he would become the biggest imperial merchant and earn all the money in the world."

Zhou Qi, who was betrayed by Zhou Rui, was not panicked at all. He spread his hands and said, "Is that a matter of how old I am? Six or seven? Old five, you have a really good memory. It would be a pity if you don't go into business!"

The six brothers chattered happily, Lou Yuzhu glanced coldly: "Make it up, keep making it up, I'll just watch."

The six brothers stopped talking immediately.Zhou Yu winked at Zhou An, the sixth son.

Zhou An leaned on Zhou Cheng's side from the good side, blinked those same eyes as Lou Yuzhu's and said, "Father, sir, he said that I'm a great Confucianist, I don't do business."

How much benefit did he get from Zhou Cheng by relying on being the most like him since he was a child?Lou Yuzhu didn't even bother to talk about him, and directly tore him apart: "Try playing tricks again?"

Zhou Cheng hurriedly gave Zhou An a wink to signal him to be calm.

Zhou An, who received the wink, hurriedly sat back in his chair.

Lou Yuzhu, who saw it in her eyes, rubbed her forehead, and felt that there was a pig teammate in her heart, and then said to the brothers six times: "I didn't expect you to take over now. Now only the real estate is divided, and the business is divided, but not now." Since the boss left He can't delay his official career, at least not before he has a firm foothold.

Hearing this, Zhou Yi breathed a sigh of relief, then took the things Lou Yuzhu handed over, and opened it to see that there were two Zhuangzi, three second yards, eleven shops of various sizes, more than 600 acres of fertile land, and more than 300 acres of mountainous land , two mulberry gardens with a total of two hundred acres can operate on their own, the only disadvantage is that these things are distributed in various places.The last is 2 taels of silver bills.

"This one is from the company, and the other is from my dowry. I will let the steward hand it over to you later."

Before opening the other so-called Zhou Yi subconsciously looking at his father, Zhou Cheng frowned and said to Lou Yuzhu: "Your dowry can't be moved, what's missing, you can buy it with money from the public."

"In these years, my dowry can only come in and out. Keeping it makes me worry. If I divide it out, I can be more relaxed." Food and beverages are used for business trips without using the dowry. From time to time, Zhou Cheng will add some things, totaling 20 The dowry of 30 taels is now [-] taels. "Either way or another, it must be divided. It is better to divide early than late."

As soon as Lou Yuzhu showed weakness, Zhou Cheng had no choice. Zhou Yi looked at the other one, and found that one of the three courtyards was in the west of Shangjing City, very close to the yamen where he worked. "... Dad prepared this yard for us?"

"Now that you know, when will you move?" Lou Yuzhu said so confidently that Zhou Yi was speechless.

Zhou Yu gloated at the side: "I'll visit the boss when I'm free."

Zhou Yi glanced at him, with a meaningful expression on the corner of his mouth, and said cheerfully: "I'll move tomorrow." After that, he moved to the next door. The original tenant had already been moved by him, and even the repairs and other things were completed before he got married.

When Lou Yuzhu got the news and rushed away, Zhou Yi had almost smashed the wall between the two houses.

Zhou Yi, who was carrying a hammer, knocked off the last two bricks, and Lou Yuzhu, who was very angry, pulled out a smile: "This is called the Tao is one foot tall, and the devil is one foot high."

Zhou Yu, who came over after hearing the news, raised his finger: "Submit!"

The other four brothers also looked convinced.

Lou Yuzhu's heart hurts.

Zhou Cheng rolled his eyes: "Family rules are honored and violated, what should I do?"

Zhou Yi threw the hammer to the strong servant, gave Zhao Yao a look of nothing, and replied: "Squat for an hour. My son will go now." After finishing speaking, he bent his legs and stretched out his hands to perform a very standard squat In a horse stance, he directed the strong servants to clean up the remaining bricks and other things on the wall and put them on flowers, green plants and other things.

Lou Yuzhu gritted her teeth angrily: "You think I won't be able to deal with you if your wings are stiff?"

Zhou Yi felt bad, knowing that he was too arrogant.

"The third and fourth go to find a rope to tie two bricks and hang them in your elder brother's hands, the second and fifth go to find a potted cactus to put their butt down, and the sixth goes to find an hourglass for timekeeping." After finishing speaking, he sneered: "Bricks look for heavy ones, cactus look for thorns If there are too many, the hourglass will not work without a single grain of sand!"

The five brothers shrank their necks and gave Zhou Yi a sympathetic look, and then happily went looking for things.When the things were all together, they immediately put the rope on the rope and put the cactus on the rope, and the old Liu Zhouan held the hourglass in his hands and said in distress: "Brother has been squatting for a quarter of an hour, but my hourglass is only an hour, and my father said that I can't lose an hour." A grain of sand, so let's start now. It's such a happy decision, big brother!"

With a cactus on his buttocks and bricks hanging from his hands, Zhou Yi, who couldn't move, could only stare at Zhou An: "I really love you for nothing on weekdays, the sixth. There are also the second, third, fourth, and fifth, be careful not to leave me behind." Hands, otherwise hum!"

Zhou Yu smiled and flicked his fingernails: "I'll talk about it later, it's important now when I'm happy." Then the servants were summoned and the kitchen delivered several delicacies, and the five brothers began to eat and drink in front of Zhou Yi.

Zhao Yao felt distressed and funny, so he moved a stool to stand beside him from time to time, handing him some water and saying something to relieve his boredom.An hour later, Zhou Yi untied the bricks and moved his hands and feet, and casually pulled the bamboo stick next to him to drive the five brothers to run around the yard.

Zhao Yao, who was watching from behind, couldn't laugh or cry, and the rest of the servants couldn't help laughing.

After the oolong move was over, Lou Chengyi and his wife also set off to go back to Yan's Village. Three months later, Zhao Yao became pregnant and gave birth to the eldest grandson of the Zhou family in July of the following year, named Zhou Xue.When Zhou Xue was babbling, Zhou Yu won the first class in the examination, and through the relationship of Jingyang Hou Pei Sheng, he accompanied an outside official and became a tasteless master.Three years later, she took the exam and was appointed by the emperor as Tanhua during the palace exam. In the same year, she married the brother-in-law of one of Lou Chen's colleagues.

In the same year, Mr. Zhang passed away in October. At that time, Lou Yuzhu was thirty-five, and Zhou Cheng was past his age.