Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 608: Warning
If the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law do not have a common enemy and cannot unite to face the outside world, it will be very detrimental to family harmony. Zhou Banxia forgot who said this.

Maybe she heard it when she was young and didn't have a clear impression of it, or maybe she overheard it when a colleague or subordinate was talking about the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law at work.

This is truly a warning to the world.

It just so happened that she didn't like Oda either, let alone persuade her mother-in-law to let it go. Don't persuade others to be kind without experiencing their suffering. Who could be closer to her than her mother?

After Laba Festival, it was time to send out the second batch of New Year gifts, so Zhou Banxia ordered the village head to start slaughtering chickens, ducks and geese.

Two months ago, the pigs and sheep raised were not big enough, so I took advantage of the time when the pigs and sheep were ready to be slaughtered before the New Year and bought ten pigs and twenty sheep from Majiazhuangzi and Gu Dagu.

A pig is considered a big fat pig, weighing an average of 150 kilograms. If the selling price of a whole pig of 150 kilograms is 2 taels and 2 cents, ten pigs would cost less than 25 taels of silver.

As for sheep, a whole sheep including skin and bones weighs 100 jin, and the selling price is 3 taels and 5 qian. The total price of 20 sheep is close to 70 taels of silver.

The amount of meat required for this batch of New Year gifts is relatively large, but it is still limited. If one spends one hundred taels of silver on the account, one does not even need to buy meat from the end of the year to the first month of the next year.

Hexi Village, Qinghe Village.

Zhou Sishun watched as pigs and sheep were driven into the pigsty and sheep pen one after another. There were so many that they were about to be squeezed out. Then he remembered his Sanya counting on her fingers and muttering that someone's family had to prepare at least two pig legs as a New Year gift, someone else's family had to prepare at least half a sheep as a New Year gift, and someone else's family had to give a whole sheep...

He couldn't bear to think about it anymore.

Seeing that his San Ya was always busy collecting favors and gifts, but the favors she had to give out were also numerous. These pigs and sheep alone cost a lot of money, and there were also cakes, wine and clothes.

But this time his San Ya is not a spendthrift child. After all, it is impossible to make money without giving back in human relationships. Fortunately, the pigs and sheep will grow up next year, so there is no need to spend extra money.

Seeing that the head of the village was acting in a measured way and even prepared a wooden plate for collecting pig blood, Zhou Sishun felt that as a father, it was not appropriate for him to stay in his daughter's village any longer.

After all, when a daughter gets married, she has a husband's family. No matter how open-minded the couple are, who would be happy to see the in-laws come over to stare at their daughter-in-law's things and give them instructions all day long?

Zhou Sishun put himself in her shoes. If he had a daughter-in-law with a large dowry, he would not be happy to see his in-laws interfere in family affairs.

So he came quickly and left quickly. Without waiting for Gu Erzhu to hear the news and rush over through the village, Zhou Si went directly to the market at the intersection from here.

Of course, it was impossible for him to go to the market to buy things, so he just went to the market to take a look. He felt comfortable just looking at the workshops when passing by the entrance of Gujiazhuang village without entering.

Which girl is as promising as his San Ya? She is good at everything she does. She has opened one workshop after another, which are all very good. Now there are many people helping his San Ya to make money.

Unfortunately, this time he was caught by Gu Erzhu as soon as he passed through the entrance of Gujiazhuang village.

Strange things.

How did you guess that he would come here now and stay here?
Gu Erzhu knew very well what kind of person his relative-in-law was. When he learned what time the pigs and sheep would be delivered today, he knew without any hesitation that his relative-in-law would not be able to stay at home.

It would be a miracle if Zhou Changshun could feel at ease without checking whether the pigs and sheep delivered were of the best quality, calculating whether the weight was sufficient, and whether his daughter had been cheated by anyone.

Zhou Sishun laughed out loud at Gu Erzhu's teasing, and was even happier when he heard Gu Erzhu proudly admit that he was just being lazy on purpose so that he could make fewer trips when he transferred to this side.

And if you deliberately slack off, how far can you get?

Very talkative.

It was no wonder that his San Ya was sincerely willing to be filial to her parents-in-law. Zhou Sishun was grateful for the kindness of her in-laws and was happy to accompany Gu Erzhu back to the Hexi manor. The next morning, before dawn, torches were lit on the walls and yards of the Hexi manor in Qinghe Village, and Gu Erzhu and Zhou Sishun also arrived early.

Make preparations well.

After burning incense, burning paper money, worshiping the gods of heaven and earth, and praying for peace and prosperity in the coming year, it is time to slaughter the New Year pig. The one who does the butchering is Uncle Gu, the butcher.

The quality of the pig-slaughtering technique affects the owner’s good luck for the whole year.

The most taboo is to finish off the pig with a single blow. The pig must be killed with one blow. It is best to let the pig's blood flow very smoothly, and not to cut the pig's intestines or something like that. These all symbolize good luck.

As for Uncle Gu, he inherited the skill of butchering pigs from his ancestors, and he made a living from this business. He had a good skill of butchering pigs, which was not comparable to the amateur butchers in Majiazhuang.

This morning he didn't even kill the pigs he had collected, but gave them to his eldest son. He gathered his strength and took his second son and eldest son to come and "bring good luck" to his second brother-in-law.

When Zhou Banxia learned that her uncle Gu had come to slaughter the New Year pigs, she did not want to embarrass her maid and reported everything, as she was concerned about her twin sons. Only two of the ten pigs were left.

That is to say, Uncle Gu can kill five pigs in one day, then take a nap, get up at four o'clock in the morning, and kill three more pigs before noon. How fast is this?

She thought that it would take at least three to five days to prepare ten pigs, and if she added the sheep, it would take at least ten days, which was just the right time to send out the second batch of New Year gifts before the Chinese New Year.

She didn't have time to think about it. Since she had already learned that Uncle Gu was coming to help, as his nephew's wife, she naturally couldn't ignore him. Besides, she couldn't show up because of taboos, so she sent the steward to ask for it.

Just when Zhou Banxia wanted her husband and wife's housekeeper Gu Dachang to represent her and take two jars of good wine to Hexi Manor, her husband came back.

Gu Wenxuan stayed in the county school for a relatively long time this time, for a full sixteen days. He even couldn't come back on the 15th of this month, which was a day off, because of some urgent matters.

But how come you got home before noon?

Generally speaking, if he didn't have classes in the morning, he would rush home before the city gates closed the night before. How could he be home at this time?

"young married woman……"

"I heard."

Less than a cup of tea had passed since the maid reported that the second young master had returned. Zhou Banxia thought that Gu Wenxuan would not be able to come from the main courtyard so quickly.

Unexpectedly, she had just put on her coat and was thinking of putting on her cloak in the hall and going outside to greet him when she heard Gu Wenxuan's call.

"Don't come out, I'm going into the house." Gu Wenxuan threw the cloak he took off to the maid who was opening the curtain, and then rushed quickly to the warm room.

"Slower."

"It can't be slowed down any more."

Looking at Gu Wenxuan who rushed in and then stopped abruptly, Zhou Banxia evaluated his expression and it didn't look like he had rushed back because of something.

"It's okay, I'm fine." Gu Wenxuan knew what she meant by just one look, and quickly spoke first, "It's just that I haven't seen you for more than half a month, and I missed you so much."

Zhou Banxia didn't say anything to spoil the fun. She replied sweetly, "I miss you, too. Today isn't a day off. Why are you home at this hour?"