Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

One by one, they respectfully watched Gu Wenxuan go to the front yard. Until Gu Wenxuan disappeared, Mai Qing hurriedly pulled Mai Huang.

As the last maid to leave their girl's side yesterday evening, she believed that she was the one who made the biggest mistake. Why did she let her master stay alone in the front side hall!
"The Second Young Master will not pursue the matter this time, but we cannot rely on the master's generosity to do it again. Not only for the master, but also for ourselves, we must be more careful.

The master is good. We are all protected by the master. I won’t say more. Not only Aunt Lan, but your family must have told you a lot about how good the master is.

We are lucky enough to meet such a good master. It is not just a matter of being a maid and doing our duty, but we should regard the master as our benefactor from the bottom of our hearts. Only then can we be true to our conscience.

It was my fault. I am the one who made the biggest mistake this time. I didn't take over shifts with you when I came back yesterday. Now let's four remind each other.

You and Mai Xiang go and rest for a while. Mai Dong and I will go in and look after the master. Today is New Year's Eve, so we are busy. Wait until the master wakes up, then you can come in and serve him."

Seeing Mai Huang turning around and going in after saying that, Mai Qing secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He retracted his gaze, pushed Mai Dong to catch up, and quickly pulled Mai Xiang away.

"Where are you going? I need to go to the kitchen first." Mai Xiang saw that they were going in the wrong direction, so she quickly grabbed Mai Qing and said, "Why are you still going to the front yard?"

"Yes, I am confused. I am not going to the front yard, I have to go through the hall to find Aunt Chang, and I have to check the red envelopes for today and tomorrow with Aunt Chang."

"Then go ahead. I also want to go to the kitchen to look for Aunt Fang, so that she won't have to accompany my wife to the village to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner later. If I need her help, I'll have to send someone to run errands."

Gu Wenxuan, who had just left the west courtyard, didn't know that it was still dark, but the four maids around his wife had already started to consciously perform their duties.

He didn't have time to do his usual morning exercises this morning, and was too lazy to go back to the backyard to take a shortcut, so he went straight from the front to the main courtyard with Jiaxing, who was holding a lantern.

Relatively speaking, it was a longer detour, but it was not without advantages. Before he reached the main courtyard of the central yard, his father was coming out of the main courtyard and heading towards the front hall.

Skillful.

At this time, the sky was getting a little brighter. Without the reminder of his long-time attendant Yu Cai, Gu Erzhu saw who the two people coming from the west with lanterns were.

Gu Wenxuan stepped forward quickly, "Dad, you're up so early. Is my mom up too?"

Yes, you came here earlier than your elder brother today!
Looking at his energetic old son, Gu Erzhu nodded with a smile, "Go with Dad to the front to paste the Spring Festival couplets first, and then come back to find your mother."

"Ok."

Gu Wenxuan readily agreed.

Even if his father didn't say it, he had this plan. After the peach charms, door god paintings, couplets, blessing characters, etc. were pasted on the door, he had to rush to the village houses to post Spring Festival couplets.

On the Eight Immortals Table in the front hall were prepared peach charms, door god paintings, couplets, Chinese characters for blessing, etc. Then, carrying the prepared paste, the father and son went to the front door first.

From the main entrance to the east and west corner gates, all the peach charms that needed to be replaced and other things that needed to be pasted were replaced and pasted. Gu Erzhu was no longer able to take care of the places in the manor that still needed postings.

The home is big and the land is vast.

It was already dawn, so Gu Erzhu asked his eldest son to lead the men to continue their journey back, while he himself called the child's mother and rushed to the village house.

Liu was even more restless today. Although there were many maids and old women in the house and she didn't need to do many chores herself, she still couldn't help looking around.

One of her two daughters-in-law is pregnant with twins, and the other has to take care of a baby. Naturally, she doesn't want either of them to get up early.

But her old daughter was about to grow one year older, so she wanted to discipline her old daughter. She and Gu Erzhu took her old daughter for a walk in the inner and outer courtyards.

The couple met at the gate and took their daughter back to the village. As for their son, did he want to go with them?
Impossible. If you don't mention that it's required here, then the workshop won't put it up?

Gu Wenxuan also knew that he didn't need to personally get the red paper with auspicious words written on it in the workshop, but he still needed to go to the gate of Gujiazhuang village in person.

Gu Erlang, who arrived a step late, patted his brother's shoulder with one hand and laughed, and pushed his father to get on the carriage with the other hand. He wanted to catch up but was caught by his enemy brother.

This time it was Gu Erzhu who laughed. He was not willing to let any of his sons catch up with him. He jumped onto the shaft of the carriage without even stepping on the pedal and told the driver to run fast.

"Okay, big brother will accompany you."

Why is the tone of voice coaxing Changsuo?
The two brothers chatted and laughed as they pasted the red papers and the word "Fu" with corresponding auspicious words inscribed on them in the outer courtyard. Now it was time to post the inner courtyard, and they could divide the work and cooperate with each other.

Fortunately, the window papers, red lanterns and window papers had been hung and pasted during the previous New Year's Eve. The two brothers divided the work and worked much faster. Gu Wenxuan also took the time to visit the workshop.

Due to limited time, he had to rush to the ancestral temple to worship his ancestors in the morning, so he did not even go into the workshops. He just rode around the entrances of the three workshops.

The managers in the three workshops had already prepared the paste, but it took quite a while. As for the Spring Festival couplets at the gate of Hexi Village, Gu Wenxuan just pretended that he didn't know about it.

This is only the first year, and on this day next year, he does not plan to go to the workshop door in person to post Spring Festival couplets except at home, as he simply cannot do it all.

It would be better if he personally posted it everywhere. Logically, the houses in the county town should also be posted, but it had to be posted this morning, so he had no chance to get here.

On the way back to Xiluyuan, Gu Wenxuan was thinking that since we were going to the ancestral temple to worship our ancestors this morning, our ancestors were still not thoughtful enough.

Why don’t they think about the fact that it is impossible for all of their descendants to live in houses with one or two courtyards, like his husband’s old Zhou Mansion, which is much bigger than his house.

Female members are not allowed to post Spring Festival couplets.

This is not a joke.

If it was Zhou Xiucai, the only son in three generations, and this situation was not broken until Li Ge'er's generation, the head of the family would also have to bring the male members to hang lanterns and paste Spring Festival couplets. What should they do?

This is a question that is worth pondering. No wonder some families in the clan with few sons are unwilling to live in big houses. It seems that it is not as simple as there is no need to build a big house because there are few people.

He didn't intend to let his wife have more children. Having a child these days was like playing with one's life. This pregnancy had already caused his wife enough trouble!
West Road Courtyard.

Maidong has learned his lesson this time.

After hearing the maid's announcement that the Second Young Master was coming in from the front yard, she walked with slightly heavier footsteps without waiting for Mai Huang to remind her. She then reached out to pull up the bed curtain and whispered, "Young Lady? Second Young Master's Madam?"

Zhou Banxia poked her head out from under the quilt, and opened her eyes which were a little hard to open. "What time is it?"

"It's almost the quarter before noon."

One quarter past seven?
Zhou Banxia subconsciously calculated the time in her mind, and was a little confused as to why Mai Dong woke her up so early. Suddenly, she remembered that today was New Year's Eve!

Don’t stay in bed anymore!
"Hel me up."

"Okay, slow down."

"Where is the Second Young Master?" (End of this chapter)