Chapter 218 The whole family is out!

Not long after Agou left, the bell in the house rang.

Gu Tang was stunned for a moment, then quickly stood up. It must be her father!

Agou doesn't know how to ring the bell, he just jumps over the wall and comes in. No matter how many times I scold him, he won't change.

Ever since she made a bell out of a small copper bell, her father was the only one who liked to pull it. He would still pull the bell even if he had the key to the courtyard gate.

He put away the rice paper on the table, glanced around carefully to make sure there was nothing extra, then trotted to open the door.

When she reached the gate of the courtyard, she asked outside, and then her father's voice was heard outside the door.

Gu Tang breathed a sigh of relief. She was right. It was indeed her father who came.

She removed the bolt and opened the gate. The next moment, she was stunned!

Her family's ox cart was parked outside the door, and next to the cart stood her father, third uncle, and Gu Ping'an!

What is going on?

Why is the whole family out?!

"Are you stupid?" Gu Lianshan grinned, "Didn't expect that I would bring your grandfather and Ping An with me?"

I really didn't expect it.

This is really more of a surprise than a joy!

"Hurry into the yard! I figured my dad would be here soon. I lit the stove in the house on the second side of the yard early in the morning. It's warm now!"

Gu Tang quickly put on a smile, stepped forward to support his third uncle, and let him into the yard.

The family entered the yard, and the third uncle walked in, looking around and nodding as he walked.

"This yard is nice. It looks like it was built not long ago."

Gu Tang smiled and praised: "You have a good eye. It has been built for almost five years and the materials used are all excellent. If the other party was not waiting for money, you would not be willing to sell this yard."

Arriving at the second courtyard, Uncle San paused and asked, "Why is there a chicken coop in this nice yard?"

"The chickens and ducks in our backyard were raised at my grandmother's place for a few days when I bought them. The whole family was thinking about them day and night, so I had no choice but to raise them in this yard."

Speaking of Feng, Third Uncle didn't have much to say. It was just a pity that such a nice yard was built with a large chicken coop, which looked very out of place.

Gu Lianshan tied up the cow and came over. After hearing what the grandfather and grandson said, "Now the chickens and ducks have all gone to their homes, and this chicken coop is useless. Since we have nothing to do right now, let's tear it down."

Gu Tang looked back at him in surprise: "This is really rare! When you first built this chicken coop, you spent a lot of money, and you were so distressed. Now you are taking the initiative to tear it down? Have you changed your mind?"

Gu Lianshan raised his head and said, "Your father has seen a lot of big scenes now, so he is different from before."

Her daughter asked for ten thousand for a piece of backflow incense!

How many chicken coops can this build?

Tear it down! He won’t feel bad even if he tear down eight or ten!

He got down to work right away. After calling his son, the father and son rolled up their sleeves and prepared to start dismantling the chicken coop.

Third Uncle did not stop Gu Ping'an from helping with these rough tasks. He smiled and said to Gu Tang: "Let them and their sons do their work. Let's go inside and warm up."

"Oh!" Gu Tang responded with a smile and helped the person into the house.

The second courtyard is the main house, and the main room in the middle is used for receiving guests. The room is very spacious and is equipped with a long desk, an eight-immortal table, round chairs, antique shelves, etc. It looks neat and tidy and quite elegant.

"How is it? I am very satisfied with all the furniture in this house, but my father said that these are not practical and are just for show!"

Gu Tang sighed. Her father's aesthetic taste was sometimes really touching.

"Don't listen to your father's nonsense. Grandpa thinks it's great." Third Uncle patted Gu Tang's arm to comfort him.

There was a kettle on the stove in the room, with the water boiling hot. Gu Tang helped his third uncle sit down, then took a purple clay pot from the antique shelf, took off the lid, and inside was half a pot of tea.

Pour some into the kettle and soon a pot of tea will be brewed.

"Master, have some tea." Gu Tang first poured a cup for his third uncle and handed it to him, then poured two more cups and sent them outside.

After serving tea, he asked his uncle, "Why did you want to come with my father today? Is there something wrong?"

"You've been living a miserable life, girl. Tomorrow is the Winter Fair. We agreed that on that day, we, grandparents and grandchildren, would go to Bei'an City for some fun together.

As a result, you stayed in this city and never went back, and even forgot about the fair. Fortunately, your father and I remembered it and came here today on a fixed date."

Gu Tang blinked. Winter Fair... you know what, she actually forgot about it!

"Blame me! Blame me! Look at my memory! I actually forgot such a lively event! Tomorrow I will pay the money, and I will buy you whatever you like, as an apology, okay?"

Third uncle laughed, "I heard from your father that your idea is surprisingly good. You actually promoted the incense as a divine incense. I heard from your father that people in the city are talking about the Cheng family paying 10,000 taels of silver for the divine incense."

As for the Cheng family... they might have been willing to pay ten thousand taels of silver for incense before, but now, it may be difficult.

Having lost so much gold and silver, even if there are still some banknotes left, compared with their previous affluence, the Cheng family will probably be stretched thin for a while.

Thinking of this, Gu Tang also laughed: "Thanks to the Cheng family's reward of ten thousand taels of silver, if the Cheng family hadn't done this, the price of my incense would not have been raised.

Now, the reward is there, and the price of this incense cannot be lower than a thousand taels. If it is sold to the Cheng family, it may be able to sell for ten thousand taels of silver."

Sell ​​it to the Cheng family?

This is not a good choice.

Third Uncle frowned slightly: "The Cheng family is not easy to deal with. If there is a choice, it is better to choose another family."

"I think so too. Fortunately, I don't have to worry about selling it now. I'll look for a buyer who is a gentleman. I'd rather make less money than get into trouble."

The Cheng family has been almost emptied by her, so they can be ruled out. I can then ask Agou to check privately to see if there is a more reliable buyer.

Now that she has enough money to spend, she is no longer willing to take any risks.

Seeing that Gu Tang had a plan in mind, Third Uncle stopped asking about it and talked to her about the Winter Fair.

"Before we came here, your father told us to take advantage of the winter market to buy all the things we need for the New Year, and then we will go home together and not come here again before the New Year.

Think carefully about it yourself and see if there is anything you want to buy, or if there is anything you are short of. Take advantage of the fact that all the shops and vendors are crowded during these three days and everything can be bought, so let's buy it all at once."

"Ah? You didn't come here before the New Year?"

Gu Tang was stunned for a moment, she still had things to do.

Third Uncle nodded, with a serious face: "It's been a long time since the snow fell this year. Based on past experience, the later the snow falls, the heavier it will be.

I remember it was like this the year your father married your mother. It didn't snow for a long time until the twelfth lunar month when the sky started to turn white.

In less than half a day, the scattered snowflakes turned into heavy snow, which lasted for a month! I don’t know how many houses in the village collapsed, and more than a dozen elderly people and children froze to death! "

(End of this chapter)