The husband's son-in-law

A piece of paper is about 1.5 meters wide and [-] meters long, and costs [-] Wen.

Gu Zhao also has an inkstone, which only needs to be paired with an ink ingot.Cheap ink sticks, rectangular strips, about four taels, cost 150 Wen.Rabbit brushes and sheep brushes are relatively cheap, and they are divided into thick and thin sizes. They are usually used for copying books at [-] cents apiece, and large ones are fifty cents.

Two brushes, one ink ingot, one piece of paper, 330 Wen.

Li Zhouzhou raises a pig, cuts grass every day, mixes it with wheat bran three times a day, and raises it for more than a year. The fat and strong ones are only about two hundred catties, and the meat costs ten cents a catty. Meat Gu Zhao asked about the clean bones, and one penny can buy two big bones.

Two hundred catties of pigs, two taels of silver.

Gu Zhaogang also thinks that salt and sugar are expensive, compared with this, if one does not study or take the imperial examination, the people's life can be regarded as having enough food and clothing to live in peace.But if you just want to be comfortable for a while, you can only hope that the weather will be good, that the superiors will be kind and not increase taxes, that there will be no corrupt officials, and that wars will not happen.

The imperial examination is mandatory.

"Do you have these two books?" Gu Zhao took out the note and asked.

The shop assistant heard this and said, "Yes, wait a minute." He went to the bookshelf and found two thin books, and said, "Two books are worth two taels of silver."

Gu Zhao: ...

A big fat pig with a book.

"Is there a manuscript? I'll buy a manuscript." Gu Zhao said immediately.

The clerk put the book back on the bookshelf regretfully, and muttered that these two books were printed in the capital city with clear handwriting and good paper, which can be stored for a long time without damage.

Seeing that Zhou Zhou was very moved by his family, Gu Zhao immediately interrupted the waiter's chatter and said, "I want a handwritten copy, it's cheap."

The manuscripts are copied by students from poor families, earning living expenses and consolidating knowledge.

"It's a tael of silver in total." The man took down the handwritten copy.

Gu Zhao flipped through the pages, and the handwriting he copied was prettier than his. It was correct, and occasionally a dot of ink was smeared out.So he said, "This is what I want."

Li Zhouzhou was still thinking about the book that the buddy said just now, which was printed in the capital——

"Is Zhou Zhou okay?" Gu Zhaobaba asked.

Li Zhouzhou paid the money.

The clerk wrapped the ink ingots with oiled paper first, and if they got wet with water, those books and papers would be useless. After wrapping the things up, he handed them over, "Thanks for your patronage, a total of 330 Wen."

The two came out of the bookstore, Gu Zhao was carrying things in his hands, and Li Zhouzhou confessed, "Sir, in fact, I have saved three or four pennies over the years, and we can buy those two printed books."

"I didn't expect my family Zhou Zhou to be a little rich man."

Xianggong said something that he didn't understand but he knew he was teasing him.

Gu Zhao finished the joke, and said with a correct attitude: "I know that Zhou Zhou loves me, but this reading does not happen overnight. If you buy two books today, you will buy more in the future. If you can't finish reading the books, you can't finish them. These things are cheap enough."

On weekdays at home, my husband teased him and acted like a child, Li Zhouzhou liked it, now that my husband is serious and serious, Li Zhouzhou can't say it, I just think that my husband is reliable and stable, and I like it very much, so I can't help but say: "Okay, everyone Listen to me, sir."

After shopping, it was noon, the steamed buns brought in the morning were cold and hard, the two of them were starving, Li Zhouzhou took his husband to the noodle stall, and ordered a bowl of plain noodles and a bowl of meat noodles.

Three Wen for plain noodles and five Wen for meat noodles.

The boss came up with noodles, and the volume of the coarse porcelain bowl is also sufficient.

Li Zhouzhou pushed the meat noodles in front of his husband, but Gu Zhao didn't refuse, but just used a wooden spoon to divide more than half of the meat sauce that was poured on it into Zhou Zhou's bowl.

"Hey, sir, I don't need to—"

"Who just said 'everyone listens to your husband'?"

Li Zhouzhou was speechless, his heart was sweet, and he ate obediently, thinking that next time he would order two servings of meat, so that the husband could eat well.He will eat the steamed buns with hot noodles.

Xianggong has a small appetite and does not need it.

There were diners at the noodle stall. When Li Zhouzhou was eating noodles, he heard someone say that he and Xianggong didn’t look like husband and wife. Guess they belonged to brothers. He was the older brother, and Xianggong was the younger brother of a scholar. These.

"I'll take a bite of Zhou Zhou's steamed bun."

Li Zhouzhou came back to his senses, broke off the part of the steamed bun that he hadn't eaten and handed it to Xianggong, who knew that Xianggong didn't pick it up, but came over and gnawed on the piece in his hand.

"I think you taste delicious like this." Gu Zhao said vaguely.

Li Zhouzhou blushed, lowered his head to eat the noodles, and said, "Sir, do you want more?"

"No, I'll just take a bite, otherwise I won't be able to finish the noodles."

Now, the diner who was talking behind her back knew what the relationship between the two was.One person said: I just said that I just heard the big man called a scholar, but you still don't believe me, so you insist on being stubborn with me.Another person said: so tall, how could it be brother, I didn't expect it to be.

Another person said: You don't care if he is tall or not, the husband and wife share a piece of steamed buns for their love.

After Li Zhouzhou heard this, he secretly glanced at Xianggong. Xianggong must have heard it, so he intentionally bit his steamed buns.

After lunch, the two of them rested for a while before heading out of town to go home.On the way back, Gu Zhao took another rest, and when he could see the wheat fields in Xiping Village, the afterglow had already fallen.Today is still a drag on his feet. If he follows Zhou Zhou's walking method, he doesn't have to get up too early in the morning. He leaves at about [-]:[-] and arrives at [-]:[-].

Today is to light oil lamps for dinner.

"Father can do it." Li Zhouzhou said.

When they arrived at Mahei, Li Da said, "There is porridge with whole grains in the pot, you two have a rest after eating." He was not worried about Zhou Zhou.

"Thank you dad, did dad eat?" Gu Zhao helped his wife unload the basket.

Li Da looked at Gu Zhao holding the basket with both arms on his back, frowned, and turned around to tell Zhou Zhou, kill a chicken, and feed Gu Zhao well in winter, how can this happen.

"Eat." Li Da said and entered the room.

Gu Zhao put the basket on the ground, and put the pen, ink, paper and inkstone back first.Li Zhouzhou easily carried the bamboo basket with one hand and went to the stove. There was only a handful of firewood left on the stove, so he lifted the lid of the pot to have a look.

Dad just couldn't handle cooking porridge, he started hard, every time it was like eating dry rice.

Taking advantage of the fire in the stove, Li Zhouzhou packed the things he bought, poured the salt into the salt jar, put the vinegar in it, and opened the half of the jar at home after eating. The preserved fruit I bought, my husband likes to drink in water, rough tea leaves, and my husband wants to buy The big bones are said to be stewed with radishes for soup.

Farmers don't like to buy this kind of big bone sticks without meat, and it costs firewood to cook and drink soup, but Mr. Li believed it when he said that drinking this way can nourish the body and grow taller.

Put away the meat, sugar, and wine you need to bring to Dongping Village tomorrow.

When it was time to eat, it was already dark and there was no need to go to the main room. The couple ate directly in the kitchen, which was still warm.

"Our father's multi-grain rice is quite good, and it goes with sour radish." Gu Zhao walks a lot today, consumes a lot of energy, and eats anything delicious.

Li Zhouzhou: "..." Let's eat as long as Mr. Xianggong said.

After eating, he washed his feet and soaked his feet. Gu Zhao's left and right feet had blisters on the soles of his feet. Li Zhouzhou used a needle to bake them on the oil lamp, and he broke the blisters for his husband.

Gu Zhao stood up and hissed in pain.

"Sir, I will carry you into the house." Li Zhouzhou said.

Gu Zhao: ...

His man's face is still missing.

Gu Zhao stretched out his arms and hummed shamelessly, "Hug my wife."

Li Zhouzhou hugged Xianggong easily. He didn't know what Xianggong meant when he said wife. It should probably be called by someone in the house or a wife, and he didn't think it was wrong. She was Xianggong's wife.

"Zhou Zhou, when I grow taller, I will hug you like this too." Gu Zhao swore with his head pressed against his wife's chest muscles.

Li Zhouzhou: "Okay." He wanted to stew bone soup for Xianggong.

Gu Zhao first went to the kang to warm the bed, and Li Zhouzhou went back to the kitchen to clean up the basins for washing, and then went back to the house with the oil lamp, got on the kang, took off his clothes, and the husband came over.

Xianggong is afraid of the cold, so he likes to let him hug him when he sleeps.

Li Zhouzhou took his husband into his arms.

"Sir, go to sleep."

Gu Zhao was really too tired today, and he didn't have the energy to do anything. He hummed, and suddenly remembered in a daze, "Didn't Dad say that he made multigrain porridge? Why is it rice..."

Li Zhou bowed his head on Monday, Xianggong was already asleep, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily turned up.

Xianggong is so cute.

On the second day, when the rooster crowed for the first time, Li Zhouzhou got up first and patted the husband. Yesterday, the husband was exhausted, so there is no rush to go to Dongping Village today. Walking, even if the husband’s footsteps are slower, it will only take half an hour hour.

Li Zhouzhou didn't sleep too late, he got used to getting up early, got dressed, lit a fire and boiled water for breakfast, went to the backyard to touch eggs, nine chickens laid only eleven eggs today, kept three eggs for home use, and saved the rest save it.

Li Zhouzhou paid for the chickens and eggs sold by himself.

When I went out to town yesterday, Li Da gave Li Zhou and Wednesday two taels of silver in advance, knowing that studying is expensive.After Li Zhouzhou finished his breakfast, he saw his father get up, and told his father what he bought yesterday, how much he spent, and how much he had left.

"You take the rest. Now that you are married, it is convenient to have some money." Li Da knew that Zhou Zhou would not spend money recklessly.

"Gu Zhao hasn't gotten up yet?"

Li Zhouzhou took back the money and said, "My husband was tired yesterday."

Li Da has complicated emotions towards this brother-in-law, why is his body so weak, how can he have children if he is not a man?Zhou Zhou of his family had always had a mole on his elder brother, and he needed to mend it, so he couldn't help but say: "The chickens at home don't lay eggs very much, and Gu Zhao spends his time studying, so he kills one every month or so to make more mends."

"Okay."

Gu Zhao slept until almost seven o'clock and woke up, put on his clothes, and the blisters he picked up yesterday had scabbed over, but it was uncomfortable and painful to walk, so he walked more slowly.

Seeing Li Da, he sighed after the two went out with their things.

With his brother-in-law's body, he would have to wait to hold his grandson.

Although the two villages are at the east and west ends, they are not far away, at least much closer than the town.Gu Zhao walked slowly and arrived in about forty minutes.

It will be around nine o'clock in the morning. As soon as the couple entered the village, Qiqi, who was gossiping and basking in the sun under the tree at the head of the village, looked over. OK."

Men who participate in women's friends activities can only be married brothers, and it is true that they are called Uncle.

"Oh, Gu Shulang is back."

The original body used to be aloof and self-reliant as a scholar, his eyes were higher than the top and he looked down on the villagers, so he was laughed at.

"Yes, the three dynasties were delayed, so I'll be back today." Gu Zhao smiled and said, "This is my Zhou Zhou."

Li Zhouzhou's famous name is Dongxiping Village.

"Hello, aunts and uncles." Li Zhouzhou also greeted.

These people had seen Li Zhouzhou at the time when Gu Zhaorui had seen the excitement, and it was still a novelty to see it now, and they were kind on the face, so please come back, then you are busy, don't delay.Once the two of them left, it was completely lively, from the two people's comments from head to toe, from Li Zhouzhou's appearance to the things in his hands.

"Hehe, this is the first time I've seen such a tall brother, he looks like a man."

"See? Gu Shulang used to be a little thinner, but he looked fine. How come he has only been married for a few days, and he walks like a sieve. I'm afraid he was squeezed dry?"

It's okay to talk dirty when you're married.Everyone laughed.

"Three dynasties have forgotten to come back, how can this Gu Zhao live a good life?"

"I heard that Gu Shulang still fetches water every day."

"Yo, I really don't treat my son-in-law as a human being."

Someone said: "I'm not mean when I look at Li's family. Just look at what Li Zhouzhou is carrying in his hand, two catties of meat, a jar of wine, and sugar. It's a courtesy. Here, there are eggs, and there are still eggs in the basket." I can't see anything."

"It's true. After all, you spent a lot of money to marry back. Whose daughter can ask for 18 taels of silver? Gu Shulang came to Li's house to enjoy the blessings."

The words were sour and mean.

Nowadays, when girls in villages get married, the bride price is usually two or three taels of silver, and some brothers can give a tael of silver if their moles fade.This is money from the greedy Li family.

"Take good care of your pillars, maybe you can come to your house to exchange money in the future."

"Fuck you, I'm my own mother and not Li Guihua's stepmother, my eyes will be opened when I see it." Zhu Ziniang said anxiously.

Li Guihua is the name of Gu Zhao's stepmother.

"If you don't give Gu Zhao out, how can you let her baby Li Guihua study? It's really cruel. When Gu Shulang was still there, you didn't see it raining. Li Guihua even asked Gu Shulang to work in the field."

"It's not entirely Li Guihua's fault. Gu Zhaoshu can't read, and he can't do the work in the field. I heard that his father asked him to go to a shop in the town to find a job that can read. Gu Zhao won't do it. Tell me it's not right If you don’t do it, who’s going to support it?”

"The Li family."

"Then Ganqing Li's family spent 18 taels of water to buy a casual meal."

……

The Gu family's house is a little further back, and they separated earlier.Gu Zhao’s father has six brothers and sisters, Gu Zhao’s father is the youngest, and his two older sisters are married. When the family was not separated, the four brothers lived in an old house. Gu Zhao’s grandparents preferred to love the younger son. Because it occupies this relationship.

Of course, the whole house is not tight for a child.

He and Li Zhouzhou's situation is upside down.

Later, Grandpa Gu Zhao passed away and the family was separated. Grandma Gu Zhao lived with the eldest son, and she left a rich family fortune. She privately subsidized the younger son. Can.

This can be compared to other people in the village.

After all, the other three brothers of the Gu family don't need to support their children's education, and they have spare money to eat wine and meat on weekdays.

Gu's father's situation is slightly worse. He has long been displeased with his son's study and examination of the imperial examination, but the original body painted big cakes, and has been making do with it. The donkey under the slope gave up his son's desire to study.

Li Guihua thought that if she cut off Gu Zhao's study money, she could use it to support her youngest son Hutou's education, so she would be happy every day.

Gu Zhao could see clearly that the original body hated the stepmother to the core, but in fact the stepmother was taking the blame for his own father.

Regarding the self-recommended marriage, the Gu family had another quarrel. Gu's father wanted to take action against Gu Zhao because of his face. Fortunately, Gu Zhao pretended to faint quickly.Later, this matter was reluctantly agreed. First, the stepmother Li Guihua learned that Li's family gave 18 taels of silver, and she blew pillow wind for Gu's father every day.The second is that since the spring of last year, the original body does not go to the fields, does not work, does not go to the town to work, and just eats at home.

The stepmother said: "In the past, the three eldest brothers all contributed to Zhao'er's education. It cost so much. I counted 20 taels instead of 18 taels. Now Zhao'er can't go on studying and doesn't work anymore. Are you going to raise him for the rest of your life?"

"Going to Li's family to marry is also for the good of Zhao'er..."

In the past, it was paid by the old public house for Gu Zhao to study, but now that 18 taels have been cashed into her own hands, Li Guihua is very happy, and she can't wait for Gu Zhao to pack up and go to Li's house that day.

Gu's father finally agreed to agree, and on the day of the Li family's wedding ceremony, he had to scold Gu Zhao in public.

It means that you are doing something embarrassing, and it has nothing to do with the Gu family and me.