Chapter 151 The hero's best mother (thirty-eight)
That afternoon, Gu Qingcheng went to a dilapidated temple outside the city.
In the evening, Zhao Qingyun heard a story that was comparable to a storybook:
"Mother, you said that the old beggar woke up and was grateful to you for saving him, so he gave you the secret recipe passed down from his ancestors that he had hidden in the dilapidated temple?"
Zhao Qingyun just felt that this joke was inexplicably familiar.
Oh, now I remember, his father once had such an "adventure".
The two prescriptions that my mother brought to Mrs. Cui for business were the unexpected thank-you gifts my father received for saving an old Taoist priest.
My father is like this, and my mother is like this too? Could it be that there is really such a beautiful thing as "good people are rewarded" in this world?
"It's more than just gratitude! The old man also told me that he gave me the secret recipe and that I would help bury him when he died."
Gu Qingcheng corrected her son's words.
Zhao Qingyun: ...Very good, this is more in line with human nature.
The favor of saving a life is too abstract and far less real than the exchange of benefits!
"I've looked carefully. This secret recipe is a technique for slaughtering pigs."
Gu Qingcheng had long been thinking about how to help the original owner's family.
Putting aside the grace of giving birth to and raising the original owner, just the fact that the Gu Butcher family has always pampered and protected the original owner over the years, Gu Qingcheng should repay them well.
Furthermore, if Gu's family is doing well, it can also be more helpful to one's own family to some extent.
But the Gu family and the Zhao family are different.
The Gu family is a hereditary butcher family with strong genes, which makes Gu Qingcheng a little shocked——
Great-grandfather, whom the original owner had never seen.
Since their grandfather, the Gu family has been strong, as powerful as bulls, fierce and domineering.
Like a natural born butcher.
The women of the Gu family are no exception.
Although his limbs are well developed, his mind seems to be a little less sharp.
Gu the butcher’s family has been engaged in the business of slaughtering and selling pigs for generations, and they live a much better life than ordinary farmers.
Therefore, starting from my great-grandfather, the elders in my family have wanted their children and grandchildren to study.
The boys of the Gu family started to go to private schools at the age of six.
One by one, they have been studying for two or three years, but they just can't get it.
The small pen is far less convenient to hold in the hand than a heavy butcher knife.
This has been going on for two or three generations.
The Gu family then realized: Well, their children and grandchildren (including themselves) are not cut out for study.
I'd better continue to make a living by slaughtering pigs.
By the time of Butcher Gu, he had six sons.
The eldest son inherited his pig-killing skill; the second son raised pigs; the third son was even more brutal and became an executioner in the county government office where the Gu family lived; the fourth son also killed pigs, but he set up a stall in the county where the Zhao family lived.
The fifth and sixth sons also made a living by slaughtering and raising pigs.
Gu Qingcheng: ...This family must have had their ancestral graves dug up by pigs in their previous life, so the whole family relies on pigs to survive in this life.
Gu Qingcheng once thought that the Gu family members were physically strong and powerful, and they were good candidates for martial arts training.
It just so happened that her youngest son wanted to do business, and Gu Qingcheng successfully fooled him into saying “If you want to do business, learn martial arts first.”
Zhao Qingsong has already practiced quite well, and Gu Qingcheng is just thinking of finding a martial arts master for him.
At that time, we can select a few nephews and nieces from the Gu family and let them learn with Zhao Qingsong.
In addition, Gu Qingcheng also wanted to teach her brothers another skill - pig slaughtering.
The original owner was a butcher's daughter after all. Even though she was spoiled, she knew some techniques of raising and slaughtering pigs through observation and exposure all day long.
Through the original owner's memory, Gu Qingcheng knew that in this time and space, pigs were never castrated.
They are not fat enough, are not easy to keep in captivity, and their meat has a smell.
This problem can be solved satisfactorily by giving the pig a blow on the testicles.
Slaughtering pigs is also a skill.
If the Gu family masters it, it can be passed down.
Although our descendants cannot be guaranteed to be rich, they will always have enough food to eat.
To put it bluntly, pig castration is a simple surgical operation.
Coincidentally, in the previous mission world, Gu Qingcheng extracted Western medical technology from the Republic of China era.
It’s totally OK to give the pig balls!
Just when Gu Qingcheng was looking for a suitable "excuse", the old beggar bumped into her.
When Gu Qingcheng saw the unconscious and dying old man lying on the ground, he had a plan in mind.
Therefore, this "secret recipe" has a reasonable origin.
"Da Lang, your grandfather and uncles all make a living by raising and slaughtering pigs. This secret recipe is very suitable for them."
Gu Qingcheng said to Zhao Qingyun in a matter-of-fact tone, "I will give the secret recipe to them."
If she changed her character, such as a good wife and mother, Gu Qingcheng would probably use a negotiating tone.
This is the sadness of being a woman in a patriarchal society——
It is clearly something that I have obtained, and I want to give it to my biological parents, but I have to consider my in-laws' family.
Because in the eyes of men, once a woman marries into her husband's family, she belongs to that family.
She herself belongs to her husband's family. Her money, her skills, etc. also belong to her husband's family.
If you subsidize your parents' home, that would be betrayal and not a virtuous person.
Not to mention the more strict ancient times, even in later generations, there are still quite a number of women who cannot openly repay their parents’ love.
Gu Qingcheng is an ancient native, but she has not been brainwashed by patriarchal ideas. The world she lives in is a tough era where women can say "anyone can sleep with them".
However, she knew that men and women thought differently.
Especially after getting married, she assisted her husband to ascend the throne and her family became foreign relatives.
The relationship between her husband's family and her own family was no longer just a simple marriage relationship, but was mixed with power struggles between the emperor and his maternal relatives.
Her son, while relying on his maternal family, was also wary and on guard.
The butt determines the head, and the background determines the attitude.
Gu Qingcheng understands this deeply.
After coming to this mission world, Gu Qingcheng followed her character setting, but did not deliberately get close to her mother's family by relying on her "naivety" and "confusion".
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Because she is not really the best, she will act "the best" only when the time is right and according to her son's needs.
The ultimate goal of Gu Qingcheng is to make her son a powerful official in a high position! There is no other way. This time, the mission is that I can't fight for myself, but I have to be a dodder flower that always depends on others!
She considered herself as a wife of the Zhao family rather than a daughter of the Gu family, so that there would be no possibility that the words and deeds of herself and her son would be criticized.
Gu Qingcheng kept this principle in mind, and then was a little "willful" in some details.
Sure enough, after hearing what Gu Qingcheng said, Zhao Qingyun couldn't help but nodded, "Since my grandfather and uncles can use it, we should give it to them."
"Besides, over the years, my grandfather has been kind and loving to me, and my uncle has been so kind to me. We are grateful for their protection, and we should repay them well."
There were no conditions in the past, but now that my mother accidentally obtained a secret recipe, which is a skill related to slaughtering pigs, she should give it to the Gu family.
A'niang is not someone who is only concerned about supporting her mother's family. Even though the people in the Zhao family's old house are so hateful, A'niang still treats them as her own family.
This was not only because A'niang was a little naive, but also because she considered herself a member of the Zhao family from the bottom of her heart.
Love the house and love the dog, but this is it! A Niang treated them father and son sincerely, Zhao Qingyun would also treat the Gu family well for A Niang's sake.
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Two days later, the old beggar died and never regained consciousness before his death.
Gu Qingcheng bought him a thin-skinned coffin and buried him in a wasteland outside the city.
The whole thing was done almost perfectly, leaving no room for criticism.
In the county town, everyone even said that Mrs. Gu from the Zhao family was a good person who did good deeds and accumulated virtue.
Even though she was blackmailed for no reason, she was still willing to spend money and effort to help the person who harmed her.
The saintly lady who repays evil with kindness is probably like this.
Of course, there are also a few people who say she is a "good person" but in their hearts they are calling her stupid and a fool who can't figure things out.
For example, Mrs. Wan and her daughter Zheng Wanjun next door.
Zheng Wanjun even began to re-examine Zhao Qingyun, trying to determine whether he was a potential stock or a junk stock.
A confused mother-in-law, a husband who is partial to her...it seems like a big pit no matter how you look at it.
"Forget it! It's better to rely on yourself than on others!"
"Since I can't find any good talents for the time being, I just want to make myself 'stronger'!"
She didn't want to be locked up in the yard all the time, and she didn't want to learn the rules from that nanny from the capital.
She wanted to show her abilities to her parents, and tell them: Your daughter is not an ordinary girl. It would be a great loss to let her be trapped in the inner courtyard and follow the rules!
Glass?
Alcohol?
Zheng Wanjun knew the formula and process flow, but she only knew it on paper and had never tried it herself.
To make it successful, it requires repeated experiments by skilled craftsmen.
Zheng Wanjun was only seven years old. He couldn't even leave the house and had no one to run errands for him. He had no conditions to conduct any experiments.
"Let's go with movable type printing."
Zheng Wanjun thought about it for a few days and finally chose a target.
Ji Xiaosi, who lives at the corner of the street, is now working as a book printer's apprentice in a bookstore. He has already started learning woodblock printing.
Occasionally, if the engravings were damaged, he would be responsible for dealing with them.
Zheng Wanjun's range of activities is just the back street of the academy, so she still has the opportunity to come into contact with Ji Xiaosi.
That evening, Ji Xiaosi came out of the bookstore with a broken board in his hand.
After a day's work, he was tired and his back ached, but there was a fire burning in his heart.
"Da Lang, how do you pronounce these words?"
Ji Xiaosi approached Zhao Qingyun with familiarity and asked for advice with the engraving plate.
"Oh, this is a Buddhist scripture..."
Zhao Qingyun did not despise Ji Xiaosi's ink-stained body, nor did he think highly of himself or become arrogant just because he was educated.
He explained very patiently, telling Ji Xiaosi the sentence word by word.
Ji Xiaosi listened very carefully, and his greasy fingers kept gesturing in the air.
"…Our bookstore is going to print a new set of books. When they are ready, I will secretly give you one. You can copy it and I will return it. This way you can save money on buying books."
Ji Xiaosi would not just say thank you verbally, but would find ways to "return the favor".
"No, stealing is wrong. If the shopkeeper or the master finds out, you will be punished."
However, Zhao Qingyun refused to accept it as he had no problem making some money from selling books.
Even if I am short of money, I will never steal.
(End of this chapter)
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