"Okay! You all go and have a rest! Xiaobao, have you not finished your homework today? Hurry up and light the oil lamp and start doing it. Otherwise, what will you give to Mrs. Wen tomorrow?" Father Gu saw Gu Chengyi
He hesitated to move his chopsticks and did not want to force him. Gu Chengli asked Gu Chengyi to hold them down and did not move them. The Fang family and the He family were two women who had always been ignored.
Father Gu firmly believed that Gu Chengyu would be fine if he ate the fungus. But he couldn't tell others the reason.
"Hmph! Boss, from the second child's family, bring the oil lamp from your house. Xiaobao needs it to write. Only one oil lamp is definitely not enough." Mrs. Lu shouted to the boss and the second child. The old man thought about the second child and the others.
But the old man wanted to taste it, but the second son didn't stop him. I'm afraid this second son also hated the old man too, right?
"Xiaobao! You said you have seen this thing in a book. But you have only been in private school for two days, do you already know so many words? Also, where did you find this book?" Gu Chengyi looked at him suspiciously.
Gu Chengyu.
He is the only literate person in the Gu family now, so of course Gu Chengyu can lie.
"I read it in a private school in town, and there were pictures in the book! I've never seen this before, so I asked the shopkeeper!" Gu Chengyu had already made an excuse, and was not afraid of Gu Chengyi's question anyway.
My brother is illiterate, so even if I ask, I won't be able to find out anything. Besides, there's no need to ask tomorrow.
"Since you are talking about what you saw in the book, let's talk about what you saw in the book! Dad! It's getting late, let's go back to the house right now." Gu Chengyi stood up, glanced at the fungus on the table, and saw that the plate was not big.
Moreover, there is still some left on the plate. I only ate this much, so it should be fine, right?
"Let's talk about building a house when I come back tomorrow! If we have to build it all again, where will our family live?" Dad Gu suddenly thought that if all the Gu family's houses were to be demolished and rebuilt, what would happen to everyone?
My dear, where do you want to live? Building a house doesn’t take a day or two, it will take at least a few months, right?
"Old man, didn't you say that at the west end of the village, there was a house next to Mr. Li's house, which was originally lived by Mr. Liu? Now, isn't this house still empty?" Mrs. Lu was able to think of that house because of Mr. Liu, who was also a bachelor.
Unfortunately, Mr. Liu is an outsider. He thinks he has no money, so he didn't marry his wife.
I am getting older day by day. As a result, I died at home for several days in the winter five years ago, and no one knew about it. The snow was very heavy that year, and several houses of every household were crushed. The house of Mr. Liu’s house
It also had a mud wall and a thatched roof, and half of the house had collapsed. The people next door saw that Mr. Liu's house had collapsed, and there was no movement from others. Then he went in and took a look, and found that the man had long since died and his body was stiff.
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"Isn't that house uninhabitable? It's almost collapsing! Besides, Mr. Liu died in the house. It's so unlucky!" Gu Chengyi immediately objected.
"Whose house has no one died in? Is it possible that no one lives in it anymore? The house is also an adobe house. The adobe houses look okay, and the thatch on the roof can be piled up by yourself. Anyway, you won't live for long.
You've only been living here for more than a month, but you can't stand it for so long? Besides! The house is quite big, so we can just squeeze it in." After thinking about it, Mr. Gu could only live there. It would definitely not work if he went to other people's homes to disturb others.
, they are a big family.
"Second brother, you can pick up some things tomorrow and go to Li Zheng's house and tell him to lend us the house to live in. When the house is built, we will move. If he refuses, then you can use
How about some money? Let's rent it." After thinking about it over and over again, Mr. Gu still felt that Mr. Liu's house was the most suitable.
"Hey!" Seeing that Father Gu had made up his mind, Gu Chengyi said no more.
"Dad! When will we move? Can we build a house tomorrow?" When He heard that a new house was going to be built, his sleepy head immediately became sober.
"What I told the craftsmen is the day after tomorrow. Let them come over and take a look at the terrain first to see how to build it." Dad Gu took the cigarette rod, took a nostalgic puff, and asked Lu to stop him. He was about to fall asleep, so he smoked again.
What should I do if I fall asleep after leaving?
The next day, Gu Chengyi was lying on the kang, tossing and turning, unable to sleep. He sat up and propped up the window. Then he looked through the window at the door of the main room. After waiting for a while, he saw Mr. Gu and Gu Chengyu coming out of the house.
As the people were talking, Gu Chengyi saw that there was nothing unusual, so he lay down relieved. But in the blink of an eye, he thought, why did he go so early today?
Gu Chengyu and Father Gu left Shangling Village in a bullock cart, "Dad! Do you know how many restaurants there are in this town? Which one is bigger?"
"When it comes to restaurants, the biggest ones in town are Yingke Lai and Juhe Lou. I know shopkeeper Zhou in town, and Yingke Lai is owned by his boss. Shopkeeper Zhou must know the shopkeeper of the restaurant.
Let’s go find Shopkeeper Zhou first.” Father Gu had already planned to go find Shopkeeper Zhou yesterday.
Gu Chengyu listened as Dad Gu introduced shopkeeper Zhou. It turned out that shopkeeper Zhou was the shopkeeper of Tangji Cloth Shop in the town. His boss owned cloth shops and restaurants in the county and other towns.
Daddy Gu and Shopkeeper Zhou met because Daddy Gu saved his life. When Daddy Gu was young, he went to work in the town. Once on the small dock, he happened to meet Shopkeeper Zhou who accidentally fell into the river.
Shopkeeper Zhou happened to not know how to swim, so Mr. Gu jumped into the river and rescued him.
In the end, Mr. Gu declined Shopkeeper Zhou’s gift of thanks, which is how the two met. In fact, if Mr. Gu didn’t go out to save people at that time, the people next to him would do the same, but Mr. Gu would move faster!
Shopkeeper Zhou lamented that Mr. Gu was sincere. From then on, whenever Mr. Gu went to the town to look for work, his job would be counted as his own and he would be given more money. So now that Mr. Gu is older, his eldest brother and
The second brother also gave priority to work when he went there. There were many people on the pier who wanted to fight for the job, and many people could not find work, especially during the slack season.
Gu Chengyu and Mr. Gu arrived in the town more than an hour earlier than the previous two days. Mr. Gu went straight to shopkeeper Zhou's cloth shop. The cloth shop usually opened very early because the women from the village would come to town very early.
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Father Gu parked the ox cart under the big tree next to the cloth village. After tying the cattle, he took Gu Chengyu and entered the cloth village.
The cloth shop has two rooms. There are already two or three clerks in the store at this time, and there is also a cashier napping on the counter. Gu Chengyu looked around and saw that the cloth shop is mainly divided into two areas, one is dedicated to selling cotton cloth and
For coarse cloth, there is also a section for satin, silk, yarn, etc., but the quantity of these is smaller, and the patterns and colors are not too complicated, while the colors and textures of cotton and coarse cloth are more numerous.
The wooden cabinets containing cloths were placed diagonally against the wall. A waiter was dusting the cloths on the wooden shelves with a feather duster.
When one of the waiters saw Gu Chengyu and the others entering the shop, he immediately greeted him warmly. "Hey, sir, what ingredients do you want to buy?"
Although Father Gu was a man and wore coarse cloth, the waiter did not underestimate them and still greeted them warmly.
In fact, the waiter was also very puzzled. It was early in the morning, and as soon as he opened the door, two strange people came in. One was an old man wearing a coarse shorts, and the other was a little kid wearing a cotton trousers. It was really strange! Look left and right, these two
He doesn't look like a cloth buyer. However, the shopkeeper said that people should not be judged by their appearance. When opening a business, you must not look down on people. Who knows whether the person you looked down on just now will be a big customer?