Daughter-in-law

Before dinner that day, people in each courtyard received the red paper sent by Lu Zhou. Everyone saw that the red paper was full of divine blessings and blessings, and they were speechless for a long time, as if the people who worshiped the kitchen god were received by the gods. With great love, the divine power attached to this year's red paper is hundreds of times stronger than any previous year's divine power. When receiving the red paper, everyone showed a sense of awe.

After they left at the end of the day, Bi Mengdan quietly glanced at her mother-in-law's face, seeing that her hands were shaking with anger, she obediently closed her mouth and kept silent.

The second uncle snorted coldly: "This kid Lu Zhou is really capable."

The divine power in the red paper is actually more powerful than the divine power in the statue enshrined in their kitchen.

Bi Mengdan took the opportunity to speak out: "Mom, Lu Zhou has done better than us in offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God, so there shouldn't be any problem in worshiping the ancestors. If he does everything well, then won't we be in charge of offering sacrifices in the future?"

The second uncle gave the red paper to the servants to take it to the kitchen and pasted it, then sneered: "Do you think it is so easy to worship the ancestors? Don't you think about how much manpower it took us to worship the ancestors of the Li family in the past? Please come back, it is impossible for Lu Zhou to do it alone."

"The ancestor worship is on New Year's Eve. Nanxuan has already returned from vacation. He will definitely help Luzhou."

"This is the first year for Lu Zhou to take over the Li family. Nanxuan definitely wants his partner to behave well, and he won't help unless it is a last resort." The second uncle still has feelings for Li Nanxuan. Somewhat understood: "Even if Lu Zhou settles the matter of worshiping the ancestors, at most we don't need to worry about so many things in the future, it's good to have a leisurely time, then it's the turn of other courtyards to worry, we Just wait and see the play."

Their courtyard loses the management of sacrificial offerings and financial affairs, and their private income in the future will be much less. Bi Mengdan is not in a hurry. However, after hearing what her mother-in-law said later, she couldn't help but smile: "I guess it's four years now. Auntie and the others are more anxious than we are. After all, their courtyard is responsible for leading the people of the Li family to catch ghosts and seal demons. They have falsely reported how much income they usually earn. After a year, their courtyard earns the most. If this matter is taken back, They will surely cry to death."

Now she can't wait for the Marshal's wife to take back the right to catch and seal ghosts in the courtyard next door, to see if the concubine in the courtyard next door has the money to show off all kinds of brand-name bags and clothes to her.

The second uncle sneered.

The daughter-in-law of the fourth brother in the next door family valued power more than her. Even if she didn't take action, Lu Zhou would have to bear the consequences.

Once the days of worshiping the Kitchen God are over, the 24th of the twelfth lunar month is the dust-sweeping day, a day for cleaning and replacing the old with the new.

Before dawn, Lu Zhou was woken up by urination. When he opened his eyes, he saw that the roof was gone, the surrounding walls were gone, and the sky was covered with fluffy snow. At first glance, the roof is still there, and the wall is still there. The scene just now seems to be just an illusion.

"I'll go." He rubbed his face, he must have just woke up and misread it for a while, it really surprised him, he thought someone threw him outside when he was fast asleep.

After Lu Zhou relieved himself, he continued to go back to sleep, and didn't get up to wash and dress until dawn when there was noise outside.

When he walked out of the room and saw the new look outside, he was so surprised that he couldn't speak. For a moment, he thought he had gone to the wrong yard.

"This, is this Yangmen Courtyard?"

Lu Zhou looked around in disbelief.

The heavy snow in the yard has been swept away, and the roof, walls, pillars, doors and windows have been refurbished, as if the house has been rebuilt, and it is brand new, even the marble surrounding the flower garden has been replaced.

Old Weng, who was writing on the plaque, saw Lu Zhou coming out, and immediately greeted him: "Xiao Zhou, good morning."

Lu Zhou nodded blankly: "Morning."

Lao Bai, who was laying tiles on the roof, asked with a smile, "Xiaozhou, are you satisfied with our cleaning?"

"I feel like I've moved into a new home." Lu Zhou walked to the center of the courtyard in surprise and looked at the house: "How did you manage to renovate the Yangmen courtyard overnight?"

He was just joking about asking them to clean the house yesterday, but he didn't expect them to take it seriously and renovate the old yard.

Lao Bai laughed and jumped off the roof.

Lu Zhou hurriedly shouted: "Be careful, you will break your leg if you jump from such a high height."

"It's okay, it's okay." Lao Bai walked in front of Lu Zhou, pointed to the house and said: "Look at the tiles and blue bricks of the house, we have worked so hard to snatch them from the Temple of the King of the Underworld. Renovate and build it, you don’t know how ferocious the evil spirits are sealed in the underworld. We fought all night to snatch such a few tiles and blue bricks, and then there will be a house built with tiles and blue bricks in the Palace of Yama, just like the Palace of Yama in this world. , the ghosts and monsters outside would never dare to approach the Yangmen courtyard, but there is a Buddha land and barrier protection here, and other monsters and ghosts cannot enter."

"..." Lu Zhou looked at him speechlessly, this man was talking crazy again.

Lao Bai pointed to the red paint on the doors and windows again: "This is red paint boiled with the flower juice of Huangquanhua, and then painted on the doors and windows, I didn't expect the effect to be very good."

Lu Zhou: "..."

"There is also the stone surrounding the flower garden, which was cut and surrounded by the stones we moved from Egouling in the underworld." Lao Bai sighed: "We can't leave here, we can only bring things up from the underworld, and you will Just live, in fact, it is a great honor to be able to live in a house made of tiles and bricks from the Palace of the King of Hell, and ordinary people can’t live in it even if they want to.”

Lu Zhou couldn't complain anymore, so he patted Lao Bai on the shoulder: "Shall I introduce you to a hospital?"

"Hospital?"

"Qingshan Psychiatric Hospital, this hospital is pretty good at treating mental illness."

Lao Bai: "..."

The others laughed.

Old Weng put down the brush in his hand and said, "Xiaozhou, don't pay attention to what he said, we just renovated the house, how about it? Are you satisfied?"

Lu Zhou can see that it is not only as simple as refurbishment, tiles, stone bricks and paint have been replaced: "Satisfied, very satisfied, thank you for your hard work, get up early in the morning to help clean the Yangmen courtyard, if you need anything in the future Where I can help, just come to me."

When he and Li Nanxuan get married, there is no need to renovate the house.

Lao Bai pushed him towards the gate: "Go to the next yard to have breakfast first, and come back after we clean the room."

Lu Zhou was busy with other things, so he didn't greet them politely, and thanked them again before leaving.

There are still seven days left before the Chinese New Year. Everyone is preparing new year's goods to give gifts to relatives and friends. In the busy schedule, the 29th of the twelfth lunar month is ushered in. This day is the day when everyone in the Li family goes home, unless there is no holiday Otherwise, everyone in the army would return to Li's house the night before New Year's Eve.

Lu Zhou knew that Li Nanxuan would not be able to come back until the morning of New Year's Eve, so he didn't wait for him, and went back to his room early to sleep.

On the morning of New Year's Eve, before dawn, he crawled back to prepare things for ancestor worship.

There is a large ancestral hall to the north of the Li family compound, where the ancestors of the Li family are enshrined. Every New Year's Eve morning, all the members of the Li family will come to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors.

Before everyone came to the ancestral hall, Lu Zhou asked his servants to put all the offerings on the altar.

At 07:30, people from the Li family came to wait in the square outside the gate of the ancestral hall one after another. The first ones to come were the marshal and his wife, and behind them were Lan Ruoran, Li Nanyi and Lu Zhou who had never seen each other before. of three men.

Introduced by Marshal's wife, two of the young men are Li Nanxuan's second brother Li Nanhao and third brother Li Nange. The young man is Li Nanxuan's father, Li Zhenzhao. He looks somewhat similar to Li Nanxuan. He has a very gentle attitude and a very friendly attitude towards Lu Zhou. He doesn't mind the elder son marrying a man at all.

"Xiaozhou, I heard that you have taken over the affairs of the Li family. You have really worked hard during this time. From now on, you will be responsible for the affairs of the Li family. If there is something you don't understand or can't solve, you can go to your grandma and Your mother or you can call us, we will settle it for you, but don't wrong yourself, you know?"

"I know, thank you Dad for your concern." Lu Zhou was very surprised that Li Zhenzhao would accept his son marrying a man.

Li Zhenzhao was very satisfied with Lu Zhou, patted Lu Zhou on the shoulder and continued: "You and Nan Xuan have registered for marriage for more than a month, and we haven't met your family yet, so I want to invite you on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. My family members came to Li's house for dinner, I wonder if they are free?"

Lu Zhou said, "I'll go back tonight and ask them, and I'll answer you tomorrow, okay?"

Although he and Li Nanxuan have registered their marriage, they haven't held a banquet yet, so they still have to go back to Lu's house for the Chinese New Year this year.

"it is good."

Li Nanhao and Li Nange looked at Lu Zhou quietly while they were talking, and then said in a low voice: "Back then, the third uncle predicted that the elder brother would marry a man after divination, so he really married a man."

The marshal standing beside them patted them on the back: "You two brats whispering in front of everyone, it's really rude."

Li Nanhao and Li Nange smiled awkwardly.

"Hurry up and call someone." The marshal snorted coldly, signaling them to call Lu Zhou quickly.

Li Nanhao and Li Nange immediately stood up straight and called to Lu Zhou, "Sister-in-law."

In fact, they called it that on purpose, just to tease Lu Zhou as a joke and get closer to each other.

Everyone: "..."

The corner of Lu Zhou's mouth twitched.

Li Nanyi chuckled: "Sister-in-law..."

It feels weird for a man to be called sister-in-law.

Lu Zhou also found it strange, so he quickly said, "Just call me Xiaozhou."

"This..." Li Nanhao and Li Nange glanced at each other. Anyway, Lu Zhou is their eldest brother's partner, so it seems inappropriate to call him Xiaozhou.

Marshal's wife smiled and said, "My brother."

Lu Nanhao and Li Nange obediently called out: "Brother."

Lu Zhou smiled embarrassedly.

Seeing that everyone was getting close to Lu Zhou, Lan Ruoran sighed silently. At this moment, she accepted the matter of her eldest son marrying a man.

Near eight o'clock, the rest of the Li family came to the ancestral hall one after another.