Chapter 151 The male protagonist’s best mother-in-law (thirty-eight)
Author: Salina
Chapter 151 The male protagonist’s best mother-in-law (thirty-eight)
In the afternoon of that day, Gu Qingcheng went to the ruined temple outside the city.
In the evening, Zhao Qingyun heard a story that was comparable to a storybook——
"Aniang, you said that the old beggar woke up and was grateful to you for saving him. He specially gave you the secret recipe passed down from his ancestors that he had hidden in the ruined temple?"
Zhao Qingyun only felt that this joke was inexplicably familiar.
Oh, I remembered that his father once had such an "adventure".
The two prescriptions that grandma brought to do business with Mrs. Cui were unexpected gifts from daddy for rescuing an old Taoist priest.
Dad is like this, and grandma is like this too?
Is there really such a thing as "good people are rewarded" in this world?
"It's not just gratitude! The old man also said that he gave me the secret recipe, and when he dies, I will help him bury it."
Gu Qingcheng corrected his son's remarks.
Zhao Qingyun: ...Very good, this is more in line with human nature.
The grace of saving a life is too frivolous, far less real than the exchange of benefits!
"I've looked at it carefully. This secret recipe is a pig-breeding technique."
Gu Qingcheng had long been thinking about how to help the original owner's natal family.
Putting aside the gift of childbirth, Gu Qingcheng should repay the favor of the original owner for all these years, and Gu Qingcheng should repay him well.
Furthermore, if the Gu family is better, it will be more helpful to their own family to some extent.
However, the Gu family and the Zhao family are different.
The Gu family is an ancestral butcher, and their strong genes made Gu Qingcheng a little stunned——
Great-grandfather, the original owner has never seen him.
Starting from my grandfather, the Gu family has always been strong, as strong as an ox, and fierce and domineering.
He seems to be a born butcher.
Women from the Gu family are no exception.
The limbs are developed, but the mind seems to be a little unclear.
Gu Butcher’s family’s ancestral business of killing and selling pigs makes them much richer than ordinary farmers.
Therefore, starting from my great-grandfather, the elders in the family wanted their children and grandchildren to study.
The boys of the Gu family have been attending private schools since they were six years old.
One by one, after studying for two or three years, they still have no idea.
The small pen barrel is far less comfortable to hold in the hand than the heavy butcher knife.
It has been like this for two or three generations in a row.
The Gu family also knew: Yes, their children and grandchildren (including themselves) are not good at studying.
Let’s continue to eat the rice of killing pigs.
By Gu Butcher's generation, he had six sons.
The eldest son inherited his pig-killing skills;
The second son raises pigs;
The third son was even more cruel and became the executioner in the county government where the Gu family lived;
The fourth son also killed pigs, but set up a stall in the county where the Zhao family was located.
The fifth son and the sixth son are also doing things related to killing and raising pigs.
Gu Qingcheng: ...This family probably had their ancestral graves dug into by pigs in their previous life, so in this life the whole family will rely on pigs to make a living.
Gu Qingcheng once thought that the Gu family was physically strong and had great strength, so they were good candidates for martial arts training.
It happened that his youngest son wanted to do business, and Gu Qingcheng successfully tricked him into saying, "If you want to do business, you must first learn martial arts."
Zhao Qingsong has already practiced well, and Gu Qingcheng is trying to find him a martial arts master.
At that time, we can select some of the nephews and grandnephews of the Gu family and let them learn from Zhao Qingsong.
In addition, Gu Qingcheng also wanted to give his brothers another skill - pig farming.
After all, the original owner was also the butcher's daughter. Even though she was pampered and exposed to the environment all day long, she still knew some skills in raising and killing pigs.
Through the memory of the original owner, Gu Qingcheng knew that in this time and space, pigs had never been slaughtered.
They don't grow fat enough to be easily kept in captivity, and the meat still has a smell.
Give the pig a ball and the problem will be solved satisfactorily.
Pig farming is also a technology.
If the Gu family masters it, it can be passed on.
Although children and grandchildren are not guaranteed to be wealthy, they will always have a bowl of food to eat.
To put it bluntly, it's a simple surgical operation.
What a coincidence. In the last mission world, Gu Qingcheng extracted Western medicine technology from the Republic of China era.
It’s totally OK to give piggy balls!
Just when Gu Qingcheng was looking for a suitable "excuse", the old beggar bumped into her.
When he saw the unconscious and dying old man lying on the ground, Gu Qingcheng had a plan in his heart.
Therefore, this "secret recipe" has a reasonable origin.
"Dalang, your grandma and uncles all make a living by raising and killing pigs. This secret recipe is very suitable for them."
Gu Qingcheng said to Zhao Qingyun in a matter-of-fact tone, "I'll just give them the secret recipe."
If the persona were to be changed, such as a good wife and mother, Gu Qingcheng would probably have a negotiating tone.
This is the sadness of being a woman in a patriarchal society——
It is obviously something I got, but I want to give it to my biological parents, but I have to take care of my husband's family.
Because in the eyes of men, when a woman marries into her husband's family, she is a member of her husband's family.
She belongs to her husband's family, and her money, her craftsmanship, etc. should also belong to her husband's family.
If you subsidize your mother's family, you are eating the inside and outside, and you are not virtuous.
Let's talk about the more harsh ancient times. Even in later generations, a considerable number of women still cannot support their biological parents in an upright manner.
Gu Qingcheng is an ancient aboriginal, but she has not been brainwashed by patriarchal ideas. The world she lives in is a tough era where women can say "everyone can do whatever they want".
However, she knows that men and women think differently.
Especially after getting married, assisting her husband to sit on the throne, and becoming a relative of the family.
The relationship between her husband's family and her natal family is no longer just a simple marriage relationship, but also a struggle for royal power and maternal relatives.
Her son, while relying heavily on his maternal family, was also wary and defensive.
The butt determines the head, and the origin determines the attitude.
Gu Qingcheng understood this deeply.
After coming to this mission world, Gu Qingcheng followed the character set, but did not deliberately get close to her natal family because of her "naivety" or "confusion".
Because she is not really the best, she will only be "the best" when the time comes according to her son's needs.
The ultimate goal is for Gu Qingcheng to make his son a powerful official in a high position!
There is no way, the task this time is not to fight on your own, but to be a dodder flower that always relies on others!
Thinking of herself as the wife of the Zhao family, rather than the daughter of the Gu family, there is no possibility of being criticized for the words and deeds of herself and her son.
Gu Qingcheng kept this principle in mind, and then became more "willful" in certain details.
Sure enough, after hearing what Gu Qingcheng said, Zhao Qingyun couldn't help but nodded, "Since my grandma and uncles need it, I should give it to them."
"Furthermore, over the years, my grandpa has been kind and loving, and my uncle has loved me. Our family has been protected by us, so we should repay them well."
There were no conditions in the past, but now my mother accidentally got a secret recipe, which was related to pig killing skills, and she should give it to the Gu family.
Grandma is not someone who only cares about supporting her parents' family. The people in the Zhao family's old house are so hateful, but Grandma still regards them as her own.
Apart from the fact that Aniang is a little naive, she also regards herself as a member of the Zhao family from the bottom of her heart.
Love the house and the bird, but it’s just like this!
Auntie treats father and son sincerely, and Zhao Qingyun will also treat the Gu family well for Auntie's sake.
…
Two days later, the old beggar died. He never regained consciousness before his death.
Gu Qingcheng bought him a thin-skinned coffin and took it to the wasteland outside the city to bury it.
The whole thing was done almost perfectly, leaving nothing to say.
In the county, everyone even spread the legend that Madam Gu of the Zhao family was a good person who did good deeds and accumulated good deeds.
She was blackmailed for no reason, but she was still willing to spend money and effort to rescue the person who harmed her.
The Holy Mother who repays kindness with kindness is probably like this.
Of course, there are a few people who say "a good person" on their lips, but in their hearts they call her stupid and an incomprehensible idiot.
For example, the mother and daughter Wan Niangzi and Zheng Wanjun next door.
Zheng Wanjun even began to re-examine Zhao Qingyun and evaluate whether he was a potential stock or a junk stock.
A confused mother-in-law, a husband who is partial to her mother-in-law...it all looks like a big trap no matter how you look at it.
"Forget it! It's better to rely on yourself than to rely on others!"
"If you can't find any good seeds for the time being, then you just want to make yourself 'stronger'!"
She didn't want to be locked up in the yard all the time, let alone learn the rules from that nanny from the capital.
She wanted to show her abilities to her parents and tell them: Your daughter is not an ordinary woman. It would be a great loss for her to be trapped in the inner courtyard according to the rules!
Glass?
Alcohol?
Zheng Wanjun knew the formula and process, but she only talked about it on paper and never tested it herself.
To be successful, it takes skilled craftsmen to try and trial again and again.
Zheng Wanjun was only seven years old. He couldn't even leave the house, and there were no errands around him. He didn't have the conditions to test anything.
"Let's start printing movable characters."
Zheng Wanjun thought for a few days and finally selected the target.
Ji Xiaosi, who lives on the street, is now working as a book printer's apprentice in a bookstore, and he has already begun to learn engraving.
Occasionally, he would take care of the broken engraving plates.
Zheng Wanjun's activity area was the back streets of the academy, and she still had the opportunity to come into contact with Ji Xiaosi.
That evening, Ji Xiaosi came out of the bookstore, holding the incomplete board in his hand.
After a day's work, he was so tired that his back ached, but there was a fire burning in his heart.
"Da Lang, what do you pronounce these words?"
Ji Xiaosi approached Zhao Qingyun in a familiar manner and asked for advice with the engraving plate.
"Oh, this is a Buddhist scripture..."
Zhao Qingyun did not dislike Ji Xiaosi's ink, nor did he think highly of himself or be arrogant because he had read a book.
He explained it very patiently and told Ji Xiaosi word for word.
Ji Xiaosi listened very carefully, and kept making gestures in mid-air with his oily fingers.
"...Our bookstore is going to print a new set of books. Once they are engraved, I will secretly give you a copy. After you copy it, I will return it. This way you will save money on buying books."
Ji Xiaosi would not just say thank you verbally, but would find ways to "reciprocate".
"No, it's wrong to steal things. If the shopkeeper or the master discovers it, you will be punished."
Zhao Qingyun did not accept it. He was not short of money from selling books.
Even if you are short of money, you will never be contaminated with the word "stealing".
