Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 781 At the dinner table

There is a hall in the middle of the main house and a small dining room on the east side of the hall. On the table are still four steaming dishes and one soup, as well as the indispensable small wooden barrel of rice.

Otherwise, it is said that you can pretend anything except taste, just like he is not used to eating steamed buns as the staple food, his wife still loves rice.

Fortunately, whether she was with her master or in Madam Gao's courtyard, she also liked rice and porridge, so no one found it strange.

Now, thanks to his wife, he has openly adopted his mother, who is from Wuchang Prefecture, and prefers rice as his staple food.

Although Zhili is not a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, it is not without rice fields, but they are extremely few. Most of the crops are winter wheat, sorghum, millet, corn, and sweet potatoes.

As a result, the price of rice is not low, especially refined rice, which is even more expensive during the lean season every year. In fact, not only the refined rice with low production, but even the dried sweet potatoes have increased in price.

The food consumption of the two or three hundred people he and his wife fed was quite alarming. This winter, in just the three months from November to the first month of last month, the food supply of two granaries had been significantly reduced.

The next season is the lean season, and thinking of this, Gu Wenxuan couldn't help but think of the "clan grain" of their Gu family, which was the stored grain that his great uncle had told him about a few days ago, which was prepared privately for the clan according to ancestral teachings.

"Wife, do you think every head of your Zhou family has hidden food for the people? I have never heard the guards mention any suspicious behavior of their family."

Hearing this, Zhou Banxia knew that while he was taking a sip of soup, he remembered that his great-grandfather and his son had been discovered hiding grain by the guards, but in the Hexi Zhou family?
"Probably not. Without sacrificial fields, where would the tribe's grain come from? If there is, it's probably that the Zhou clan leader's lineage has stored more grain privately, waiting for people in the tribe to starve to death before lending some out.

It's not the kind of situation where they are desperate and their people are starving to death. As far as I know, during the famine a few years ago, several Zhou family leaders kept complaining about being poor."

"Isn't it true that your Zhou family has a wealthy person every few generations? Is it because the head of your Zhou family is crying poor so that he can borrow more food for the family?"

Zhou Banxia did not deny that this was the reason, but more importantly, it was just one word - poverty. The clan leader's lineage was all very poor, and they didn't want anyone to take the lead in secretly storing food for the clan members.

Like the newly appointed clan leader of this generation, Gu Laogu's father-in-law, he has the best family background among all the clan leaders. In fact, the whole family can only achieve the level of food and clothing.

Even so, the son is capable and the daughter-in-law is filial. For example, Gu Laogu and his wife gave half of the monthly salary and dividends they received from the oil paper processing workshop to her father-in-law.

Without the help of his sons and daughters-in-law, and without the previous clan leader's father leaving behind much wealth, the current clan leader would be in trouble too. His family is so poor that he has no time to care about his clan members.

Just like her father said, the two sisters were sold, and it was not the clan leader's fault. It was just too poor. Whoever became the clan leader would be unlucky, and no one in the clan leader's family had ever become prosperous.

Unless this branch splits up, and one of the sons' descendants becomes prosperous, it is possible that the ancestor of the son-in-law returned to his original surname, and this is the retribution.

As Gu Wenxuan listened, he was already wary that his wife might say something shocking, so he deliberately didn't dare to drink the soup, but he still almost choked.

"Look at you, who snatched it from you? Eat slowly!" Zhou Banxia held back her laughter and handed over the soup spoon, "When did your sense of humor become so low? Drink some soup quickly."

"I can do it myself." Gu Wenxuan cleared his throat, holding a soup spoon in one hand and a soup bowl in the other, and said with a smile, "It's not as weird as you said, but it's true that I'm not rich.

According to the mind of our old man, he was not willing to marry my aunt to any of the sons of your Zhou family. He originally wanted to marry my aunt to a scholar. As for our old lady, how can I say that she is a person? She doesn't like her daughter-in-law, but she still cares about her own daughter and feels sorry for her.

For example, the husband's family found for my eldest aunt is very good. Being a butcher doesn't sound good, but there is meat to eat from slaughtering pigs, and my eldest uncle is the eldest son. She likes him, and the old man has no choice but to agree.

When it was time to find a husband for my aunt, the old lady in our family was smart again and asked my father for help, saying that she didn't want to listen to the old man's advice to find a scholar for my aunt.

It just so happens that my father has the same idea. Scholars sound good, but they are useless. The key is that my aunt's appearance is just average."

No!

No matter how beautiful her elder sister Zhou Daya was, her father had never thought of finding a scholar for her or marrying her into a wealthy family.

It's just that the old man of the Gu family has no self-awareness. Is it because he has enough power, or is it because his old daughter's dowry is so much that scholars are eager to become his son-in-law?
"Another thing is that our father just won't say it. It's actually easy to understand. Among our father's six brothers and sisters, my aunt and uncle are the most similar, even more alike than my father and eldest aunt, the boy and girl twins."

Yes!

Even though your aunt doesn't seem to like to give much to her parents' home, she is actually a sucker just like your father. Even as your father said, she is still your uncle's second largest creditor.

It can be seen that although your aunt curses and scolds you, she actually loves your uncle very much. She has three sons, but she also gives money to your uncle openly or secretly.

"Aunt is as smart as uncle. Did mother tell you which sister-in-law she gets along particularly well with?" Gu Wenxuan quickly picked up a piece of food for Zhou Banxia with his chopsticks.

His silly wife had melons to eat, but she only knew how to put rice into her mouth and didn't eat any vegetables. "In my impression, my aunt never got involved in quarrels with her sisters-in-law.

Even if she heard it, she would hide as quickly as possible. If she couldn't, she would immediately call for her mother and wait for the old lady to come out. Before the old lady could scold her daughter-in-law, she would run away.

Not to mention that after my aunt got married, she seemed to run to her parents' home every day. If any sister-in-law at home made a little noise, she would run away very fast. "

"..." This is something that Old Aunt Gu can do. Zhou Banxia swallowed the food in his mouth, and after thinking about it, he decided not to say anything. Old Aunt Gu is not a person who helps anyone now.

Not to mention the fight between Gu Dalang and his wife and Gu Sanlang and his wife the year before last, when Gu Laogu heard Gu Sanlang's wife complain, she just laughed and changed the subject.

Not long ago, my eldest aunt Xiaotian and my third aunt Wang had another quarrel when they met in the fourth room. Old Aunt Gu was there and according to old aunt, she also ran away very quickly.

Aunt Gu was very afraid of offending any of her sisters-in-law. Once when she was teaching Baoya in front of her and Ma Shan, she said frankly that it was difficult to control the sister-in-law.

"You can say that the old aunt is selfish, but she has not tried to curry favor with any sister-in-law to gain benefits for herself, nor has she helped her own mother to step on the sister-in-law. She is just a person who only cares about her own business."

This is already acceptable. Nowadays, there are many aunts who are arrogant and take advantage of others. For example, Zhou Daniu's fickle daughter decided to poison her two nieces with medicine after she got married!