The husband's son-in-law

When Gu Zhaoyue came back at the end of the month, the journey was full of dust and dust, and there were many teams.Just in time to enter the city before the city gate closed, the soldiers guarding the gate saw Mr. Gu come back, their faces were immediately enthusiastic, and they applauded hurriedly.

"Master Gu is back."

"Yes, I'm back." Gu Zhao stopped his horse and dismounted - because there were too many people watching, it was not good to ride a horse again, so as not to bump into the people.

As soon as he got off his horse, the teams behind him also dismounted one after another.

Gu Zhao circled around, seeing the enthusiasm of the people in Zhaozhou looking at him, the atmosphere of this scene suddenly became sensational, but Mr. Gu didn't like to be sensational, and said with a smile: "My home is in Zhaozhou, I can go if I don't come back where."

After finishing speaking, good guy, big guy has red eyes and wants to wipe away tears.

Gu Zhao: ...

"I was promoted. I used to be in charge of Zhaozhou, but now I am in charge of three prefectures. Our Zhaozhou is also included. It's not like I can't see them all. It's done. Those who should go home, those who should close the stalls, don't delay Go out of the city for a while, it's getting late, be careful of danger, let's go together."

The people were grateful in their hearts and rushed to respond.

Mr. Gu is still Mr. Gu from Zhaozhou.

As for those merchants, they eagerly wanted to flatter them. Gu Zhao had a dusty face, and he was not in the mood, so he said, "If you have anything to say, we can talk about it later. I can stay in Zhaozhou for a month."

"Hey, okay, Mr. Gu, go slowly."

"Master Gu, please go."

"You haven't been here for the past two months, but the little one is looking forward to you by counting the stars and the moon."

All of them are sweet-tongued, if Master Gu was in the past, he must be impatient to listen to these things-why does he listen to the elders say these things.Now after two months, I don't get tired of listening to the sycophant's words, and I smiled and nodded, and then got on the horse.

Master Gu's posture is all the way to Li Mansion.

Now that he has been promoted, his subordinates will definitely not be able to live in the yamen, and the subordinates of the chief secretary have all been brought back to the mansion. Fortunately, the mansion has expanded and there is enough room ahead.

Gu Zhao got off his horse and said, "Meng Jianyun arranged it." He hurried to the mansion and asked the servant, "Where's Boss Li?"

The boy trotted happily on two legs and followed Mr. Gu and replied: "Madam is in the main courtyard..."

The adult figure was no longer visible, but luckily he was running towards the main courtyard.

Meng Jianyun at the front sent Zhongliu and Zhongqi to settle people, and the subordinates brought by the chief secretary lived in the temporary yard at the front, and the official duties he brought were put in the study at the front. He came in person.There is nothing else to do, just wash and eat.

Let’s say that Gu Zhao hasn’t come back for two months, he really thinks that he seems to have gotten to the main courtyard all the way, the big guys are talking and chatting, apparently just finished eating, and his father is also there, frowning and saying: "... this is not possible, outrageous."

"What's outrageous?" Gu Zhao answered.

Now there was no one in the hall thinking about anything else, it was all Gu Zhao who had just arrived home.

"Master Gu is back."

"Zhao'er is back, are you tired from the journey?"

Li Zhouzhou looked at the exhaustion on his husband's face, and felt very distressed. He asked the housekeeper to go down to work on the food and hot water. Gu Zhao stepped forward and held Zhou Zhou's hand and said, "It's all road construction, and there is a lot of dust."

"I didn't eat well, I lost weight." Li Zhouzhou said.

In the past, Gu Zhao really didn’t eat, drink, and rest well, and kept running on business trips. At this time, business trips are not as convenient as modern high-speed trains and airplanes. Now he just rides a horse, and the road is still difficult to walk. He has been running non-stop. Sometimes I forget to eat.

But Zhou Zhou was even more worried about whether he could say that.

"The gray face looks thin." Gu Zhao joked.

There are many people in the hall, but they all wink, walking and retreating, even Li Da is not here anymore, and asked how long he will stay this time, and he was relieved when he heard that he could stay for a month. I made an excuse and went back to my own yard.

All of a sudden, the husband and wife were left alone.Gu Zhao is looking at Zhou Zhou more and more, holding Zhou Zhou's hand is not honest, rubbing it, the husband and wife have a lot to talk about, but now they don't want to talk, those miscellaneous things, it's better to get along quietly at this moment, Shake hands for a while.

"Is my father back?"

"Is my dad back?"

"Daddy, is daddy back?"

Fu Bao's voice came from far to near, obviously he had got the news and ran all the way from his yard, he followed Wang Wang and ran, he was in good health and not out of breath, at the moment he was full of energy and full of anticipation and joy.

"Master, Fubao is here." Li Zhouzhou whispered.

Gu Zhao: "Well, I haven't seen my child for a long time, so I'm thinking hard."

Mr. Gu was thinking about the child, but he kept groping for his wife's hand and didn't let go.

Li Zhouzhou pursed his lips and smiled sweetly, and said, "I heard that Fubao is coming to the entrance of the hall."

"It's okay to let him in, and we didn't do anything."

So Li Zhaoxi ran over in a frenzy, and saw that his father had really returned, so he stood face to face with his father, so close that he almost posted it.

Fu Bao was so happy, he ran over quickly, stabbed between the two fathers, and squeezed into his head.Gu Zhao: ...

Reluctantly let go.

"Father, Fufu misses you so much~" Li Zhaoxi acted like a baby.

Gu Zhaolue blamed himself for just disliking his child for a second. This is not what a father should do, especially when the child misses his father so much, so he became a good father again, rubbed Li Zhaoxi's head, and said, "I miss you too, this paragraph How's the time?"

Fubao has a lot to say.

"When your father takes a shower and changes his clothes—" Li Zhouzhou paused, smiled with Fu Bao, and said, "Let's go together."

"Okay!!!" Fu Bao was delighted.

After the hot water was boiled, Gu Zhao took a bath in the tub in the bathroom, while Zhou Zhou and Fu Bao waited outside the door, and the father and son chatted about little things through a door.

The green vegetables Li Zhaoxi grew won No.1.

Li Zhaoxi's big characters were praised by the official masters.

Li Zhaoxi also learned how to draw, so she drew a picture for Wang Wang and posted it in Wang Wang's kennel. Li Zhaoxi was very proud and said, "... Wang Wang likes it very much."

"What's the painting like? It must be good if Wang Wang likes it. You can show it to me. It just happens to be washed soon."

When Li Zhaoxi got his father's words, he immediately felt overwhelmed by Xianbao, and said with great pride: "Father wait for me, I will go get it now!" After speaking, he quickly ran to his yard to get the painting.

"Come in, Zhou Zhou, get the painting while Fu Bao is here." Gu Zhao shouted from the bucket in the bathroom.

Li Zhouzhou's face was dry and hot, but he also opened the door and went in.After a while, there was the sound of water splashing inside, and there was the sound of kissing indistinctly, but he didn't do anything else. Li Zhouzhou was still rational, and said softly, "Fubao should be back soon."

"...Fortunately, there is only one of them." Gu Zhao muttered.

When Fu Bao came back with the painting, he asked curiously, "Father, why are your clothes wet?"

Li Zhouzhou didn't know what to say, so he heard the Xianggong's voice inside: "I've got dressed, Fubao comes in and I'll take a look at the painting."

"Here we come, Dad!" Fu Bao stopped asking, impatiently showing Dad his masterpiece.

Gu Zhao used Fu Bao's masterpiece to completely drown out the fire that was interrupted just now. For this painting, he looked at the barking on the paper, then at Li Zhaoxi who was looking forward to it, and finally pondered for a while, boasting: "It's not too late. It's very artistic, very abstract, quite similar."

"Father, does it mean that my painting is very majestic?" Li Zhaoxi rested on his toes, and used his fingers to show his father the inspiration for creation, "Look at how fast this bark is running, and the wind is so black that it winds up."

Gu Zhao: "..." So it was this way of expression, he thought the black wind was barking.

Just say how huge.

"If you look closely, it's really good, very good."

Li Zhaoxi set off an unprecedented desire for painting, and said: "Father, Fufu will draw one for you too?"

"Success, I have dinner with your father, you draw a picture of us eating, I will frame it and hang it in the study later, I will take a look when I miss you and your father, I feel like I can eat three bowls of rice."

Li Zhouzhou smiled when he heard that the Xianggong was fooling Fubao.

Li Zhaoxi was very happy, and ran back to get a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, Wang Wang also followed.Gu Zhao took Zhou Zhou's hand and said, "Kiss again for a while, and he has to run away again."

"Is your husband hungry?"

"Hungry, go eat after kissing."

When I sat in the dining room, it was two meat and two vegetables, one soup, and rice.Li Zhouzhou and Fubao had both eaten, and they sat beside them to accompany them. Li Zhouzhou added a bowl of soup for himself, and used some more with his husband. Eating alone is not fun.

Fu Bao refused to eat, but Fu Bao waved his pen, sometimes wrinkled his fleshy face and concentrated on thinking, sometimes happily waved a large brush to draw on the paper, and occasionally frowned, with a look of 'too bad the pen is too big'.

Seeing Li Zhaoxi tossing about, Gu Zhao winked at Zhou Zhou, suppressed a smirk, coughed and said solemnly, "I just said that Li Zhaoxi is good at painting, I can order three bowls of rice, look, this is the second bowl. "

Mr. Xiang is really 'dead'.Li Zhouzhou knew it, but he followed his words, "Fufu likes to draw, and the more you draw, the better it will be."

Fu Bao concentrated on drawing, and even took the time to nod his head, "Father is right."

After Gu Zhao finished his meal, Fu Bao’s painting was finished. Gu Zhao saw the food on the paper. If he looked at the food first, he would not know what he was eating. Find out which one is him and which one is Zhou Zhou among the stick figures.

You can also see intimacy.

Zhou Zhou's stickman looks much better, with some charm.

"The painting is good, the painting looks like it." Gu Zhao commented.

Li Zhaoxi was very happy, but when he looked at the painting in his father's hand, he couldn't hold it, and asked expectantly, "Dad, you didn't lie to me, did you?"

"I'm really flattering you, the lines you drew are somewhat rounded, and the ones that should be raised—ahem, I mean, the expressions captured are very similar, your father and I are more agile and capable, like a stick. "

When Li Zhaoxi heard it, his father really didn't lie to him, and told his father about his painting experience.

"Daddy sees Daddy even with a smile on his face and eyes, and he is very gentle."

Gu Zhaoxi was proud of himself, and praised Li Zhaoxi for his good observation and carefulness.When it finally got dark and coaxed Li Zhaoxi back to his courtyard, Gu Zhao carefully put away the "Picture of Eating with Matchsticks" and asked someone to frame it and hang it up tomorrow.

"What will I say when I get back?"

Fu Bao was not there.

Li Zhouzhou took the painting and put it away. He smiled while reading it. He felt that the father and son, one who dared to paint and the other who dared to boast, were really close. If there is no major event in the next two months, I will pick up my husband's house for Brother Yu."

"The child is still young, so there is no rush to get married so early." Gu Zhao took off his clothes.

Li Zhouzhou took Xianggong's shirt and said, "Xianggong, how old is Brother Yu?"

"Fourteen five?"

Li Zhouzhou knew that Xianggong must not be able to remember, and his memory was confused, and when his memory was still in Beijing, he said, "This year is seventeen."

Gu Zhao said aloud, but also paused, "My mind is still in the four of them back home, they all have a face like a child, I didn't expect life to pass so fast, and it's been almost four years since we've been in Zhaozhou .”

"Yeah, I'm getting old too—"

Gu Zhao stopped his hands to untie his clothes, and held Zhou Zhou's cheeks, "Nonsense, how old is he? I see that Zhou Zhou looks younger than me now. If someone who doesn't know us sees you, I'll just say I'm taking advantage of you." .”

"Come on, little brother of the Li family, call big brother to listen."

Li Zhouzhou's face seemed to be on fire, how could he shout like that.

"Call it, call it." Mr. Gu, Mrs. Gu, began to act coquettishly.

Li Zhouzhou: "...Little Brother Gu."

"Brother is just brother, why do you still have small characters? Your husband is not young, Zhou Zhou, you still don't know."

"Come on, call me big brother."

He started talking nonsense without shame.

After making a fuss, I went to bed. As for Brother Yu's marriage, Mr. Gu is not in the mood to hear about it. Anyway, there is plenty of time, so we can talk about it another day.As soon as the curtain of the bed was drawn, Gu Zhao's naughty words came out from inside. Sometimes he coaxed Zhou Zhou coquettishly, and then he pretended to be 'big brother' in a grand manner.

Anyway, there was a lot of trouble.

It's really better than a newlywed.The next day, Boss Li's waist couldn't take it anymore and he got up late.Master Gu also got up late, but it was just for Zhou Zhou to rub his waist, and the couple just got under the covers and talked and chatted.

"In fact, our Zhaozhou is rich, and the people of Mozhou are prejudiced. They haven't been here for more than ten years. The impression is still in Zhaozhou before. They have a high self-esteem, but I am an official, and no one will dare to look at me. , I give them a pretty good look."

Li Zhouzhou knew that Xianggong said these words to reassure him.

"It must be difficult to go to a place you are not familiar with at the beginning." Li Zhouzhou can also guess from his business, but he quickly changed his tone, "But I believe that Mr. Solved."

Gu Zhao laughed, and said with a little stinky fart: "Of course, I don't even look at who I am."

"It's Big Brother Gu." Li Zhouzhou deliberately joked.

Gu Zhao: "... Zhou Zhou, don't provoke me, be careful of your waist."

"My waist is actually fine, I just want you to rub it." Li Zhouzhou lowered his eyes, his ears turned red, and continued, "I wonder if Brother Da Gu can give Brother Li a little more rubbing."

"Knead rub, baby, I know that one posture won't tire my waist, come on, you sit on top of me..."

By the time the couple really came out of the room, it was mid-sun and it was time to eat lunch.

Fu Bao didn't go to school today, but he also understood a little bit of reasoning. Knowing that Dad is back, Dad must think, but with patience and enthusiasm, he left it all to Wang Wang in the morning, and dragged Wang Wang to run on the hillside in the forest all morning. , Now Wang Wang fell down in the kennel to sleep after lunch.

Hurrah.It doesn't work for anyone.

Fu Bao thought it was getting late, so he went to the main courtyard for dinner with his stomach full.

It was just the right time. Master Gu and Boss Li had just finished enjoying their life as a couple. There are cushions, and he is a bit lazy, but his expression is really bright, and his face is full of red.

Fu Bao didn't understand, but he could feel that Dad and Dad were in a good mood, because he made several requests carefully, and Dad and Dad were satisfied!

Li Zhaoxi was also happy.

"It's okay to play at home for two days." Gu Zhao agreed to Fu Bao's request to take two days off instead of going to government school.

"If you are bored at home, invite your friends to play, but everyone goes to school, what's the point of you alone?"

Master Gu changed his tone temporarily and said: "Otherwise, father will hold a cuju meeting for you. It happens to be May day, the grass is green, and the weather is neither cold nor hot. Cuju can play football. There is such an event in school physical education. Is there any?"

Fu Bao nodded his head.

Because Li Zhaoxi likes to play football, there are many people in the government school who want to flatter Li Zhaoxi, so there are a few people who play better.

"No, it doesn't matter. Practice it, run it, and start it at the end of the month."

Gu Zhao finds something for Fu Bao to do.Furthermore, cuju is good, the whole people exercise, and keep fit.Li Zhouzhou then asked: "Do the two schools play football? Can the people in the city watch it?"

"...Look, find an open place."

From the very beginning, he just wanted to drive Li Zhaoxi away. Later, Boss Li also wanted to watch the football game, and also wanted to fight for welfare for the people in the city, which led Mr. Gu to think about the feasibility of 'building a Cuju stadium'.

In fact, it is not difficult.

The land does not need money to be circled casually, and the water is repaired. It looks like a football field, and the surrounding viewing platforms are turned around with cement and smoothed out. Students from the government schools in Liangzhou also came to the competition.

Mr. Gu started to think and ran, this is not impossible.

Follow the example from the top to the bottom, and if the officials at the top are sought after, the people below will naturally be willing to flatter and follow suit.

"Xin Tongzhi's official letter hasn't come down yet, so the money for the cuju field—" Master Gu transformed into a little Gu Baba and looked at Zhou Zhou, earnestly, like a sycophant.

Li Zhaoxi also turned to look at his father, who was obsessive, earnest, like a sycophant.

Li Zhouzhou looked at the faces of the father and son, it was the husband teasing him, and Fu Bao also came over.

"Come on, Boss Benli has sponsored you to build a Cuju field."

"Good!" Mr. Gu cheered.

Li Zhaoxi also cheered, "Great!" He added, "Father is the best."

Master Gu grinds his teeth, this little sycophant still wants to cover him up a bit.It's all indisputable, Zhou Zhou is the best.

The news spread out on the third day.

"My Dalang came back from the government school and said, what kind of Cuju competition will be held by the government school and the school."

"You just heard it. I knew it yesterday. Boss Li paid for the construction of the venue. Now he is looking for a place, and there is a shortage of manpower to buy cement and wood. I heard from here."

"I heard that young master Fubao likes to play football."

"It's good to play football. It's just a game, and it's not something that costs money." The dude from other people's family is playing dice and women, not like the young master Fubao who just chases the ball.

"As soon as Mr. Gu came back, he really couldn't rest."

There was a lot of talk in the city, and finally the big guys started to wonder, "What is this Cuju?", "What kind of ball? Wooden ball, or something else, how do you play it?" Run faster than anyone?"

Now it's difficult for those who have some news, what kind of game is Cuju?

Some masters used to see their sons not studying, and they would get angry when they played other things, and they wanted to go up and play a few palm boards. This would not delay their sons studying and copying articles. They used to put on airs and asked: "How do you play Cuju? How do you play Cuju?" Say it."

Son: "Huh?"

"Ah for what."

"Father, I don't know how. If you don't let me lose my mind, I don't study. Li Zhaoxi, Qing En, and Lang Xi in the official school love to play football. I study in the school."

I was holding back my face at the time, because I couldn’t say anything about my son, after all, he told me to study hard and not lose our minds, but now I just want to say: Elm has a lump in his head, if he doesn’t let him know, he will jump in front of Li Zhaoxi?

Forget it.

Loei.

Zhongqi came back with the scroll and asked his lord, "My lord, the painting is finished, where should I hang it?"

"Let me see, hang it somewhere conspicuous, on the empty wall opposite my desk." Gu Zhao said.

Zhong Qi should be, holding the picture scroll and looking for someone to find tools to nail nails to hang the picture. As the picture scroll slowly unfolded, even Zhong Qi, who is loyal and upright, saw the content of the picture scroll and silently watched for a while.

Just this painting, the adults still framed it——

Don't slander the adults and the young master.Zhongqi tried to persuade him to stop his thoughts, appreciate it carefully, and finally suppressed it. As expected of the young master's painting, it looks good after looking at it for a long time.

Only then did he happily accept the guy and leave.

Later, Li Zhaoxi went to the front to talk to his father, entered his study, and saw that his painting on the wall was really hung up, he was a little happy and a little shy, thinking that it was really like what his father said, he painted it like this good?

Then he can't just stop there, he has to learn how to draw and draw more for his father in the future.

Gu Zhao is very free these days. He sleeps until seven o'clock and eats breakfast. He goes to the front yamen to deal with the paperwork delivered. He can finish eating at eleven o'clock at noon. When the sun cleared, I went with my father to water and weed the vegetable garden at home.

It's just that he was kicked out by his father within two days after he went there.

Li Da: Don't yell at my seedlings.

"Father must dislike my inflexible hands and feet." Gu Zhao groaned.

Li Zhouzhou said: "On the first day my husband went there, he smashed Dad's cucumber shelf—"

"It's a slippery road. I accidentally turned my foot and helped it up. Who knows that the shelf is not strong."

"I even picked the newly grown gherkins and ate them."

Gu Zhao explained: "It's tender and delicious. Dad even sued you about this?" Tsk, the whole family is a good sue. Dad used to think that he sued Zhou Zhou for trivial matters, but now this is not the case. Learned.

"If Xianggong is free, I happen to have a job." Li Zhouzhou changed the subject.

Gu Zhao is free. He has been busy with work for the past two months. All the work has been arranged. How to repair the road and who will supervise the repair section. When the time comes, he will check and accept it.

He went to do infrastructure construction, he finished his work, and now he is on vacation.But Ren's temperament is really - he feels tired when he is busy spinning around, and he is carrying it, but he has only rested for a few days, and he is not used to being so idle.

"What job? Didn't all the goods from Zhaozhou leave? Is there a problem with the factory? Is it an almshouse? Or a stew shop?"

Zhaozhou released the first season's goods, Wang Jian and Su Shiyi led the team and just left.

Li Zhouzhou said: "Not at all, my husband forgot? Before you came back, I picked up Brother Yu's husband's house. I thought that my husband is a good judge of people, so help me palm my eyes. I only read a letter before and knew that poor scholar It didn't work, and the result was really bad..."

Gu Zhao was not interested at first, but when Zhou Yi praised him, he immediately said, "I don't look at each other", and said: "This is a major event in life, you really have to take a good look at it. It's true that my wife picked me, I will give it to Yu. Brother touch and touch."

"Then how many wives have I invited to the house? It was all decided before, and now there is no need to push it again and again."

"Success, let the gentlemen come out, and I'll meet people. Marriage is a matter of being married to women in the back house, but if the character of the father is bad, I'm afraid the son has learned it. Of course, it can't be guaranteed. To be precise, a father who is not a thing gave birth to a filial and good son." Halfway through Mr. Gu's words, he thought of Uncle Wang and Xiaotian.

So you can't knock everyone down with one shot.

Since you really took over the job, let’s handle it well. Mr. Gu thought about it carefully, and then said: "You should also call the boys who are looking for Brother Yu. The main thing is to look at the boys. Brother Yu is pretty, so you can’t pick one." It looks too bad."

Mr. Gu looks like a dog.

Then pick.Li Zhouzhou wanted to laugh, Xianggong is really excited, just like Fubao, Fubao is actively going to school every day, and after finishing his homework, he goes to practice Cuju and kickball in the back forest.

The post was sent out, explaining the whole story, and sending an apology.The wives of Qihu who received the post showed it to the master without replying.Last time the lady also said: "Look, sir, a lady who is a fourth-rank official spoke to us very gently and replied, and even apologized for the delay last time, so I said, where is it?" It's because people dislike us, the Li family has a good family style."

"Yeah, he's just a cousin. If Boss Li can teach him for a few years, this kid's temperament must be good." The master also changed his tune. He only praised him, but he can praise them again. Li's mansion thinks they have a good family——

Why is it so high.

"Our family is in business, so we don't have anything to do with Gao." The master didn't give up, and followed his wife and said, "Well, this time, when you go to your natal sister-in-law's natal place, you can take Xiao Wu with you, maybe At that time, the little brother changed his mind."

The madam doesn't want it out of selfishness, it's not that she hates and despises Xiao Wu because she was born as a concubine, it's that Xiao Wu has ambiguity with the maids in his aunt's house before he gets married, and Madam Gu definitely doesn't like this.

But she didn't disobey the master's intentions, and she agreed on the surface. When the master left, the wife changed her face and said to the mother next to her: "It is appointed that the shameless person blows the pillow wind in front of the master, and he doesn't even look at her." Temperament, relying on the love of the master, Xiao Wu was brought up by her, and she taught her to be a wimp worse than girls."

The mother next to me is naturally helping the wife to talk together.

"You can't even compare to the decent young master's hair." Mom first praised the young master born to the madam, and made the madam happy, and then said: "Ma'am, I'm afraid that Aunt Hong will have other ideas, otherwise the Hou family will be happy." Shall I go and see for myself?"

The Hou family is the wife's natal family.

The lady said: "She can whisper in front of the master, who knows what she is doing behind her back, just go and tell my mother, since I take this job, it will be the best if it doesn't work. It's nothing, don't offend Mrs. Gu, let my second sister-in-law tell her natal family to prepare everything, don't be shabby, and your face should not be too ugly."

"Oh, I see, ma'am."

Mom will do it now.