Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 604 Laba
In a blink of an eye, it is the Laba Day, which also marks the beginning of the Chinese New Year. Every household has to prepare for the New Year.

They had to return to their house in the village today. Even Gu Erzhu hadn't gotten up yet before daybreak. The couple personally brought the ingredients for the Laba porridge they had prepared last night back to the village.

As the saying goes: The seventh and eighth days of the twelfth lunar month are so cold that your chin will freeze off.

These days, there has been heavy and light snow for several days in a row. It finally stopped yesterday, the clouds and fog dissipated, the sun shone on the earth, but the temperature became even colder.

As the saying goes, it’s not cold when it snows, it’s cold when it melts.

It was not too cold early in the morning and Zhou Banxia was reluctant to leave her bed. She had no idea that her parents-in-law had gone to the village to cook Laba porridge.

She had already made arrangements early on. The workshop canteen prepared the ingredients for Laba porridge on the seventh night of the first lunar month, and the ingredients were distributed to various workshops to cook Laba porridge simultaneously on the eighth morning.

Firstly, it can avoid the long distance between workshops, which makes it inconvenient for people to travel back and forth; secondly, with the addition of Hexi Zhuangzi, it will be more festive to cook Laba porridge in three places together.

At home, her father-in-law and mother-in-law are the masters of the house. For example, in the kitchen of the West Road Courtyard, her mother-in-law mentioned to her yesterday that she also needs to cook Laba porridge at the same time.

When I woke up again, not only did I want to go to the toilet, but even the electronic alarm clock started yelling in my head, "Dabao, Xiaobao, get up."

In recent days, perhaps because I am in the later stages of pregnancy, I have been going to the toilet more often.

It was fine at night. Even though Gu Wenxuan was not at home, there was a maid guarding outside. He slept alone, quietly took care of himself in the master bathroom of the villa, and then slipped into bed.

It’s troublesome during the day. Many times, I just come out of the toilet and want to go to the toilet again not long after.

Ring the little bell.

Ophiopogon comes in.

After she lifted the curtain, closed it and hung it on the copper hook beside her, Zhou Banxia also lifted the brocade quilt, wearing only her middle clothes, and felt fine.

The indoor temperature was acceptable, and the maid thoughtfully placed an extra brazier in the bathroom at the back.

Move around a bit, and you’ll feel warmer after you come out of the shower.

When Maidong started to comb Zhou Banxia's long hair as usual, put it into a bun, inserted a hairpin, and added a hairpin, Mai Huang came in.

What she came in to report was that the master and the mistress got on the carriage and went back to the village at the beginning of the morning to cook Laba porridge. After that, the eldest master went to work in the clinic, and the young lady also took the grandson master to the village.

The young lady and young master grandson that Mai Huang mentioned are Gu Baoya and Xiao Changsuo, which means that only Ma Shan, Xiao Suocheng, and Zhou Banxia are at home at the moment.

Zhou Banxia was not surprised to hear this. Like the 15th day of the eighth month, Laba also has a gift-giving activity. Last year on this day, the family received a lot of Laba porridge.

It is obvious that the reason why her parents-in-law went to the village house to cook Laba porridge early in the morning without telling her in advance was that they felt sorry for the child and had to get up early in such a cold weather.

Especially now that she is further along in the pregnancy, they don't want her to go back and forth with them. However, it would be unreasonable for her to miss the early morning rush and not go there.

Zhou Banxia had made up his mind to go out, and was just thinking of asking Mai Huang to send a maid to the East Courtyard during breakfast to see what Ma Shan decided.

Mai Huang received the order to retreat, but before he could go out to find a maid to run errands, Ma Shan, holding Xiao Suocheng, had already taken a shortcut in from the backyard, surrounded by maids and old women.

The noise was not big, but Zhou Banxia had many rules. When someone came, no matter which door they entered the west courtyard from, the gatekeeper would send a maid to report first.

After hearing the news, Mai Huang walked directly from the corridor to the east side room. As expected, Ma Shan and others came around from the backyard, and she hurriedly went to greet them. After the greeting, she immediately took Xiao Suocheng in her arms and landed one step behind Ma Shan, reporting that the second young lady was about to go to the east courtyard, and laughed and said, "What a coincidence."

Ma Shan had no idea that the maids around Zhou Banxia had all been trained to be cunning and smart. Even Mai Qing, who she thought was taciturn, now spoke differently to different people when she was outside.

If anyone wants to find out from Mai Qing, who is now in charge of the accounts, how much wealth Zhou Banxia has, or how much money the workshop earns every month, it is better not to ask.

Even though the little girl is not even fifteen years old this year, she is not only good at calculating, but also has an extraordinary ability to read people's expressions.

It's hard to say who is trying to trick whom.

When selecting a personal maid for Zhou Banxia, ​​Zhou Molan really put a lot of thought into it. She not only considered her character and specialties, but also the positions held by her family members.

Like wheat yellow.

Although he has a pair of disabled parents, they are very loyal. Lian Mai Huang is a child who knows what is good and what is bad and values ​​gratitude, which is why he was first assigned to Zhou Banxia.

If anyone is even slightly less thoughtful than Zhou Molan, not to mention the four personal maids, even the six second-class maids would not be able to get close to Zhou Banxia.

Even so, Zhou Molan was still afraid that her young lady would be too soft-hearted, so she still took turns giving them lessons every month.

This is also the reason why Zhou Molan never shows up in the West Courtyard. She wants to see if everyone will forget the rules without her watching.

Her young lady is a kind-hearted master, but if you think her young lady is easy to bully, then don't blame her for being the villain and selling everything, branches and leaves.

However, what made her laugh and cry was that so far no maid or old woman had violated the taboo, giving her the opportunity to make an example of her.

But today, because it was a holiday, the couple Zhou Molan and Chang Qing got up very early and arrived at the workshop canteen early.

Similarly, the couple would just watch and say nothing, and only when Gu Dachang acted inappropriately would Chang Qing speak up to correct him.

For example, Zhou Daya took her two children and the ingredients for making Laba porridge back to her husband's home last night, but Li Chunsheng was still busy here.

It was almost 9 o'clock in the morning. Seeing that Gu Dachang still wanted Li Chunsheng to go to the workshop at the village entrance together, Zhou Molan glanced at Chang Qing, and Chang Qing understood what she meant.

He walked forward with his hands behind his back and winked at Gu Dachang. After the two of them left the cafeteria, Zhou Molan also came to greet Gu Dachang's family.

At this time, Gu Dachang's wife, the housekeeper of the West Courtyard, came here to find Zhou Molan. Naturally, everything was related to Zhou Banxia.

Before Gu Dachang's family opened their mouths, Zhou Molan had some idea of ​​why she came, which was that her young lady couldn't stay at home any longer.

really.

Even if the eldest lady of her family did not go to the west courtyard to invite them to go together, it is impossible for her young lady not to know about the movements of her father-in-law and his wife this morning.

If she wakes up, she won't even know when her parents-in-law go out, and all the people serving in her young lady's yard can be beaten to death with sticks, including this person.

From what Gu Dachang's family said, they were blaming Ma Shan for forcing Zhou Banxia to go out. Zhou Molan didn't mention anything and blamed the eldest lady of her family.

A good housekeeper is one who stands on the side of her master. How could there be a housekeeper who tries to please everyone and speak well of the eldest lady in law in front of her?