GBP Chapter 55 New House
Chapter 55 New House
Gu Yao caught about five or six fish in total, while Lin Wulang and his friends only caught one, but they were also very happy.
After all, they fished for several hours before catching one fish, which showed that fishing was difficult.
After returning, Gu Yao asked Zhang Gui and the others to cook the fish directly. After all, it was caught by herself and she felt a sense of accomplishment when eating it.
After they gave the fish to Zhang Gui, they sat under a big tree outside the house, looking at the scenery not far away, feeling the breeze, and chatting. Gu Yao suddenly felt that she had not felt so relaxed for a long time.
She had been working hard for fame and fortune, and she was always in a tense state. Although she would go out to enjoy the scenery, she was always hiding something in her heart?
Now that she has passed the examination and become a juren, she is not so anxious about becoming a jinshi and is not obsessed with obtaining the title of jinshi.
Now that I suddenly feel relaxed, I feel like I can't find anything to do.
However, seeing how happy Gu Yun and the others were having in the manor, I felt that coming to the manor today was indeed a very correct decision.
There are many fun things to do in the county town, but most of them are embroidery houses. There is only one line between home and school, and at most I can go shopping, and there is nothing else.
The place is spacious and the scenery is beautiful. There are even children of the tenants who can talk to Gu Yun and his friends, and they can also see different scenery.
Lin Liulang sat beside Gu Yao and sighed, "Our scenery is so beautiful. It would be nice if we could stay here every year. We are almost tired of staying in the county town every day."
As soon as Lin Liulang finished speaking, he suddenly felt that he had had too many good days.
He has been in Linjia Village for more than ten years, but he never seems to get bored. All he thinks about is working hard so that he can have food to eat.
After getting married and living in the county town, he didn't have much to do. Most of the time he just chatted with Gu's father and did some embroidery. Now he has to take care of the children, and he feels a little bored.
In the past, he hated seeing the trees all over the mountains and so many fields in the village. After all, he had suffered a lot.
It’s different now. Now, when I look at the fields in the farm, I feel a sense of family.
"If you like it here, let's stay in the village for a few days every once in a while. There are a lot of houses here, and the conditions here are pretty good."
She also felt that she couldn't stay in the house all day for too long, as she might really become mentally ill.
Thinking that there are many men in the family, I can let them go out for walks more often.
There are also houses in the manor, and there are other tenants living here, which allows them to interact with more people.
Hearing Gu Yao agree with him, Lin Liulang was very happy. He hugged her arm and smiled sweetly.
It seems that his wife still likes him. At least she has not forgotten him even though she has a new husband.
Gu Ping and the others were also much more lively and cheerful. Although they could not talk much, at least they were happy. They were led by the servants and found everything new and exciting. They even wanted to catch the chickens in the farm.
Even the three men including Gu's father smiled more often, and he had become friends with the tenants' husbands, and they even went to the mountains to dig some wild vegetables together.
Gu Yao and her friends haven't eaten wild vegetables for a long time. In the past, they only ate wild vegetables when they were poor.
But since the family had the means, wild vegetables have never appeared on the Gu family’s dining table.
Now suddenly he was eating wild vegetables again. Father Gu smiled and said, "I didn't expect that wild vegetables are already good things in my eyes. We eat good food at home every day, and eating some wild vegetables can also relieve the greasiness. When we go back home, we can dig more wild vegetables and bring them home to eat. We can eat a few bites from time to time, and it is also delicious to make porridge."
"If you want to eat it, ask the servants to dig it up in the mountains. I think it's pretty good too."
Mother Gu eats everything. I am not picky about food, and I am used to eating wild vegetables, so wild vegetables are not surprising to her.
They stayed on the farm for several days, and every day Gu Yao would take Lin Wulang and the other two to the mountains to hunt. They set traps and caught a lot of prey, some of which they ate and some of which they distributed to the tenants.
However, she kept the fur, intending to have the servants at home use it to make some winter clothes or cloaks that would still be very warm.
Lin Liulang looked at so many skins, all of which were intact after being peeled off, and said with a smile: "Brother, let's use this skin to make a cloak for my wife, and also make some for the two children. Winter is coming and the two children can't stand it."
It is indeed necessary to be more careful when having a child at home. Although Lin Liulang was very sorry that his child was not a daughter, she was still born after he carried her for ten months, so she is also a treasure.
Gu Yao would spend time with the children every day and would ask the servants who took care of them about the two children's conditions in detail, so they didn't dare to treat him badly.
After spending more than half a month at the manor, they returned home. As soon as they got home, Gu Yao sighed, "Mom, it's still better to live at home, but the manor is also good. When the weather gets better, I'll take them to the manor to stay for a few days. The two children also need to breathe some fresh air."
Mother Gu smiled and said, "You think too much, but it's really good. Even your father told me every day that he really wanted to live in the manor for the rest of his life."
"Dad is just looking for something new. If he were to live here every day, he would probably get bored. Anyway, the farm is not far from our home. We can just harness the carriage and leave."
By October, the weather had gradually turned colder, and Gu Yao and her family had moved to a new house, which was not far from the old house and could be reached in just over ten minutes.
Most of the neighbors next to the new house are scholars and are easy to get along with.
Originally, Gu Yao wanted to take advantage of this time to leave, but her father disagreed.
He said he would leave after the Chinese New Year. After all, the Chinese New Year was coming soon, and he didn't want Gu Yao to spend the New Year away from home.
The whole family should be together during the Chinese New Year. They would not be used to it without Gu Yao. After all, Gu Yao is the backbone of the Gu family.
Looking at the weather and Gu Yao's reluctant eyes, Gu Yao thought that it seemed that she could only leave after the New Year, but she could also go to her classmate's home to discuss academic matters with her.
She is no longer taking the imperial examination, but she cannot abandon her studies, otherwise she will make no progress in the spring examination and have no chance of making the list.
Before it snowed, Gu Yao would come to the county town every day to discuss academic matters with Wang Yang.
Wang Yang will be going to Beijing in the middle of the month, and will be taking her family with her.
She was planning to take the imperial examination next spring, but even so, she was still very nervous and unsure.
"Ayao, do you think I have a chance of passing the imperial examination next year? I don't even want to take the exam. I just think that my ranking is okay this time. I really won't be willing if I don't go to the capital to try again."
Wang Yang's family is better off than Gu's. Her family is also in business, and even her mother works as a trader outside, earning several hundred or even a thousand taels a year.
If it weren't for her grandmother's official title, even though she was an old scholar, it was only because of this that she was able to take the imperial examination. Otherwise, her mother would have been in trouble as a businessman. Fortunately, the business was entrusted to other people.
Her mother sent her to a private school in the hope that she would pass the imperial examinations so that she could have a supporter for the family and change her family background. Now that she has passed the imperial examinations, her family naturally has high hopes for her.