Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Compared with Gu Dachang, who is so busy at the end and beginning of every month that he almost has to kick his head, Zhou Banxia's life is much better, although not easy.

In her words, she only needs to talk. After all, it is a brain-intensive task, and she has Gu Wenxuan, her military advisor, behind her.

But after making all the arrangements, even though it only required some talking, I was still busy until dark, and only then did I manage to finish all the work before the New Year's Eve.

The work tasks of each person in charge of the workshop have been determined, and her parents-in-law will take care of the public affairs, but she still has a lot of things to do in her own small family.

Fortunately, as the most tedious task before the New Year - preparing New Year gifts, a list of gifts had been drawn up in advance, and the first batch of gifts had been sent out in advance according to their distance.

In the next two days, while Zhou Banxia was taking care of her pregnancy, she focused her attention on the sewing room, which made the mother in charge of the sewing room very happy.

While worrying about her master Zhou Banxia's hard work, Mother Zhou happily took the little maid to the sewing room and personally brought back a bundle in each hand.

Once the two bundles were unpacked, they were all filled with the baby's clothes, shoes and hats. Except for the outer layer of the coat and shoes and hats, which were made of satin cloth, the rest were all made of fine cotton cloth.

The colors are even more varied, available for both boys and girls, and there are universal styles. Some outerwear and shoe uppers are even embroidered with not only pearls but also gold thread.

Zhou Banxia didn't know what to say after seeing this. This scholar in her family was completely crazy. How many clothes could a tiny child wear after it was born?

Add to that the child’s grandmother, aunt, grandmother, great aunt, and the great-aunt who, like the rich, doesn’t count by set but by boxes?
If you don't use your brain, you can just use your butt to imagine that you can't even get the clothes on.

It's such a waste, and it's not easy to pick one out and give it to my sister-in-law (from the Zhou family). After all, my sister-in-law is someone who has no shortage of money.

Now, the earliest of her aunt and sister-in-law are still two months away from their due dates. The eldest sister-in-law even delivered clothes, shoes and hats for her one-year-old nephew in advance.

She thought that if her younger sister-in-law dared to send another box of baby supplies, her elder sister-in-law would definitely ask her to return a cart of children's things before the New Year.

It's really hard to associate with rich people. None of them take money seriously.

Just when Zhou Banxia was feeling emotional, a maid came from outside the door to report - the young master sent Jiaxing to accompany Yunkelai and the waiter to bring back a cart of things.

Did the Gao family receive the return gift so quickly, or was it that the eldest lady of the Gao family was also worried about the inconvenience of traveling in winter and notified Yunke in advance to deliver the New Year gift?
Just when she was puzzled and thinking about the New Year gift for the shopkeeper Wang of Yunkelai, she was planning to wait until after Laba Festival to send the second batch to Wang's house. Finally, she got the answer.

——These were the longans and lotus seeds that Shopkeeper Wang had prepared for making Laba porridge the day after tomorrow. Gu Wenxuan simply returned the gift with coix seeds and dried fruits in the county town.

Since it was a shop recommended by Zhao Laoer and the price was right, Gu Wenxuan bought some more and even bought some red beans and kidney beans to send back.

In addition, of course, there were letters home, in which he expressed regret that he could not even go home to spend the holidays with his daughter.

Zhou Banxia was secretly happy.

It was really difficult for someone with a face as thick as a city wall to express his emotions in a subtle way in a letter, and he couldn't even directly scold the county magistrate for having nothing to do and organizing the Laba Literary Meeting.

Considering that they would be attending a literary gathering in the afternoon of Laba Day, and Gu Wenxuan and Dajiang did not bring many clothes and accessories, Zhou Banxia immediately decided to pack a box for Jiaxing to take back to the county town.

Jiaxing really wanted to say that what the Second Young Master cared about most was the letter you wrote back to him, rather than some clothes. The Second Young Master now wears the county school Confucian clothes wherever he goes.

Of course, the reason why Gu Wenxuan did this was not because he was afraid of running into a bad love partner, but because he had reached his current status and there was no need for him to dress up for events in Qingyang County.

Even if it was a literary gathering hosted by a county official, even if he appeared in a washed-out "school uniform", there was no such thing as respecting the clothes first and then the person. In addition, it was no longer a secret in Qingyang County that Gu Wenxuan had changed his identity from an inconspicuous farmer's son. There were people who wanted to take advantage of him and there were also people who wanted to win him over.

There are even some people who want to use him to climb up the two big trees of Zhou Mansion and Gao Mansion, but after all, Zhou Banxia is the key figure among them.

No matter how virtuous a wife is, she would not be happy to have concubines vying for favor in the backyard, as it would offend anyone.

Who would be so foolish as to stuff a maid next to Gu Wenxuan under such circumstances, deliberately causing trouble for Zhou Banxia, ​​especially when Zhou Banxia was pregnant.

If it was like in a wealthy family, where the wife was physically disabled and was virtuous enough to let the maidservant around her serve her husband, she would not have waited until now, six or seven months.

Not only Gu Wenxuan, but Zhou Banxia is also well aware of the twists and turns here. It can be said that even people don't like to take him to places where people can have fun.

Unless the other party has the intention of causing discord between the couple and breaking them up from the beginning, who wouldn't want to be on good terms with them? It would be annoying.

Compared to Shutong Jiaxing's random thoughts, Zhou Banxia was actually worried that Gu Wenxuan might come up with an excuse to slip back home before the city gates were closed.

She also needed to think about how to coax Gu Wenxuan in her reply so that he could just focus on having fun without making a fool of himself in case someone saw the reply.

Here, Jiaxing hesitated for a moment, but in the end he couldn't bear to let his young master down, so he didn't want to blame his mother, the housekeeper of the West Courtyard, for everything, so he sent a maid to pass the message to Mai Huang.

Mai Huang was convinced by this idiot.

Didn't the master ask you to go to the master and mistress's courtyard first to see if the master and mistress have anything else they want you to report to the second young master?
Don't worry about anything. When you leave the master and mistress and get on the carriage back to the city, the master will naturally send a maid to deliver the letter to you for you to pass on.

Is that so?

Jiaxing said that in the past, the Second Young Lady had always been very quick to write back, but this time, she asked him to go back and tell the Second Young Master that everything was fine at home and that he was not cold or hungry, and that was all she said.

Fortunately, Mai Huang did not deceive him.

When he returned to the west gate where the carriage was parked, not only was Yunkelai's waiter waiting there with the reward money, but Mai Huang was also standing there himself holding a wooden box.

Yes, I almost forgot one thing.

The young master hasn't mentioned it to the second young lady yet, but he and Zhiming both know that Manager Hua went out this afternoon to find good things for the second young lady.

What good stuff?

do not know!
Mai Huang was so angry that Jia Xing laughed.

Back at the main courtyard of the West Courtyard, Mai Huang informed Zhou Banxia as soon as he saw her - Jiaxing said that the young master sent Manager Hua to find something good for you this afternoon.

Zhou Banxia was a little surprised when he heard this, but also seemed to have expected it, so he asked: What good thing?

Jiaxing, the bad guy, turned his head away and said he didn't know. After saying that, he deliberately ran to the side of Yunkelai's stone. It was too late to ask any more questions. (End of this chapter)