Chapter 258 How about becoming brothers?
Because she was thinking about Agou, Gu Tang did not stay in bed the next day. She got up at around three quarters past noon.
This time is indeed early for Gu Tang, but for other people in the Gu family, they have already gotten up at this time.
Especially for Gu Ping'an, who learned to write with his third uncle, he had to get up before noon every day, wash up, review the characters he learned yesterday, and then he could cook breakfast.
After Gu Tang had tidied himself up, he opened the door.
It was still snowing outside, but the snow was not heavy, with a few snowflakes floating here and there. The wind was blowing very strongly, whistling, and it sounded like some kind of wild beast was roaring.
To prevent the door from being blown open by the wind, she took a small lock and locked the door, then walked along the corridor carefully to the front yard.
There was a lot of snow accumulated on the outside of the corridor, all blown by the wind. Gu Ping'an cleaned it up yesterday, but after a night, a lot of snow had accumulated again.
When they arrived at the front yard, they saw Gu Ping'an sweeping the snow under the corridor with a broom. Gu Tang watched for a while, but seeing that he didn't look up at her, she didn't say anything and walked towards the main room along the cleaned corridor.
When the curtain at the door was about to be lifted, a rich smell of broth hit his nose. Gu Tang took a sniff and his stomach growled.
She didn't even look closely at who was inside the house. She just walked happily into the house and said, "What did you have for breakfast? It smells so good..."
He didn't finish his words. Looking at the people sitting at the table, the rest of the words were stuck in his throat.
Agou was the only person sitting at the round dining table in the house. He was holding a rice bowl in both hands. Inside was the leftover mutton soup from yesterday. It was half full of soup and meat.
When Gu Tang was speaking, he was holding the rice bowl and drinking soup. After hearing Gu Tang's words, he quickly put down the rice bowl and asked her happily if she wanted to drink soup and eat meat.
"I stewed yesterday's mutton soup for a while longer today. It's even more mellow and fragrant. Would you like a bowl?"
Gu Tang looked disgusted: "Why don't you use a bowl? If you eat from the bowl, will others eat?"
Before Agou could reply, the curtain behind him was lifted and a cold wind blew in strongly. Gu Tang shivered and immediately turned around to see who was her father.
"Oh! My daughter is up?" Gu Lianshan looked surprised, holding a large bowl of sesame oil egg custard in his hand, which smelled tempting.
"Why are you eating so early today?" Gu Tang looked at the bowl in her father's hand, thinking that it was time for dinner.
This big bowl of egg custard is enough for the whole family to share.
But, we used to steam it in a small bowl, why did we use such a big bowl today?
"Our breakfast is not ready yet, so I made this for Mr. Gu first." As he said that, Gu Lianshan walked around Gu Tang and placed the large bowl in front of Agou.
"Eat it while it's hot! It's almost steamed, and I drizzled it with sesame oil. Smell it, it's so delicious!"
Ah Gou actually sniffed it a few times and said, "Hmm, it really smells amazing!"
Gu Lianshan laughed and urged him to eat faster.
Agou didn't move, but looked at Gu Tang: "I haven't touched this egg custard yet, you eat it first."
Gu Tang glared at him. What's the matter? Is he trying to deceive her in front of her father?
Sure enough, after hearing this, Gu Lianshan immediately misunderstood.
He said, "The kitchen is reserved for her. You just eat yours."
After saying this, he glared at Gu Tang, "Kid, why are you trying to win over guests? Your grandfather is in the kitchen. Ask him to cook for you whatever you want to eat."
Gu Tang: ...So angry! That's not what she meant at all!
Ah Gou: ...Damn it! He seems to have said the wrong thing again!
Gu Tang stopped looking at him, lest her father think that she was thinking about other people's meals!
He turned around, opened the curtain, and left with heavy steps.
Hearing the heavy footsteps, Agou swallowed subconsciously and felt very nervous.
If I hadn't remembered that I couldn't let the truth get out of my mind, I would have chased after him and tried to comfort him.
After coming out of the main hall, Gu Tang did not go to the kitchen, but found Gu Ping'an who was sweeping the snow under the east wing corridor and asked him what was going on in the main hall.
Gu Pingan actually knew about this matter, "Didn't that Mr. Gu get drunk and sleep all day and all night yesterday? When dad was about to get up in the morning, he woke up too and said he was very hungry and asked dad for food.
Dad gave him all the five bags of cakes in my room, but after he finished eating, he said he was not full! Dad and grandpa had no choice but to go to the kitchen to cook for him.
I went to take a look earlier and saw him heating up the leftover mutton soup from yesterday and making a huge bowl of egg custard! I saw him crack ten eggs into the huge bowl! This guy is such a big eater!
Gu Tang: ...Five packages of pastries, a bowl of mutton soup, and a large bowl of egg custard. Wow! Is this guy a glutton?
The pastries in Gu Ping'an's house were bought by her herself, one pound per bag, all of which were high in oil and sugar. She was not used to eating them, but Gu Ping'an and her father liked them, so she bought a lot and kept them at home.
One is to give Gu Ping'an, who is still growing, an extra meal at noon, and the other is to keep it as a gift to relatives during the New Year, or to serve to guests when they come to the house.
These five packs of pastries weigh five kilograms!
This person's stomach is a bottomless pit?
Gu Pingan added, "I wonder if this mutton soup and egg custard will fill his stomach."
"It will definitely fill you up!" Gu Tang said without thinking.
How much did you eat? If you still can't eat enough, how can that be justified?!
"What are you two doing standing outside? Aren't you cold?"
Gu Lianshan's voice came from the main hall. The brother and sister looked back and saw their father standing in the corridor of the main hall looking at them with his hands in his sleeves.
"I haven't finished sweeping the snow yet!" Gu Ping'an replied, holding up the broom, and wanted to continue sweeping the snow.
Gu Lianshan waved at him and said, "Don't sweep yet. Go to the kitchen and serve the meal. Your grandfather has prepared the meal. You can sweep after he finishes eating."
"Oh!" Gu Ping'an responded, put the broom in the corner of the wall, pulled Gu Tang's clothes, and asked her to go to the main room to wait while he went to serve the meal.
When they reached the corridor, Gu Lianshan let her into the house first. "Dad, your grandfather said that the fried fish yesterday was quite to your liking. I asked Master Gu how to make it, and I made you a fried fish dish in the kitchen."
"Then I have to try it." Gu Tang finally smiled, then lifted the curtain and entered the house.
Inside the house, Agou was gnawing on meat. As for the egg custard that had just been brought in, it had been eaten up clean by now!
Gu Tang was dumbfounded.
She glanced at the empty large bowl, then at the mutton that had lost all its soup and only had a few pieces left, and asked him with a trembling voice, "Are you full?"
Agou shook his head: "Almost." He stretched out his finger and gestured, "Just a little bit!"
Gu Tang felt a mouthful of blood stuck in his throat. "I heard from Ping An that you ate five bags of cakes earlier! Big brother! Those five bags of cakes weigh five kilograms! And you're still not full?!"
"I have a big appetite..." Agou smiled at her ingratiatingly without stopping chewing the meat.
It is not wrong to have a big appetite. It is human nature. Everyone's appetite is different, and there is nothing you can do about it.
"I'm not blaming you, it's just that your appetite is a bit scary."
She had never eaten with Agou before, and was really shocked to find out how much he ate.
"I'll be full soon!" Agou said with certainty.
Gu Tang believed this and thought that he would be full after finishing the remaining mutton.
Unfortunately, he was slapped in the face immediately afterwards.
Not long after, the third uncle brought Gu Lianshan and Gu Ping'an, father and son, into the house with food, placed the food on the table one by one, and greeted Agou warmly.
"Mr. Gu, please don't be polite. If you're not full, just pick up your chopsticks. I made a lot more!"
Today's breakfast is indeed a lot larger than usual.
The rice bowl for porridge was replaced with a large one, the number of fried egg pancakes was doubled, there were three fried fish, and two plates of fried meat with pickles to go with the pancakes and porridge.
Agou's eyes were fixed on the food. When he heard his third uncle tell him not to be polite and just pick up his chopsticks, he subconsciously glanced at Gu Tang.
This glance made Gu Tang understand instantly that what he said just now was just to comfort himself, and he really was not full!
"Eat, there's so much food, we definitely can't finish it all."
She pushed the egg pancakes and fried pork with pickled vegetables near Agou towards him, signaling him to just take them.
With Gu Tang's consent, Agou was extremely happy and stuffed the pancake into his mouth without hesitation.
It was the first time for the Gu family to see someone who could eat so much, and everyone's face was filled with amazement.
Gu Lianshan's imagination was even more open: "Mr. Gu has a good appetite! If I were like you, I would definitely be able to make my money back when I go out to eat!"
Agou knew what a banquet was and also knew that he had to give a gift to the host before the banquet.
The amount of the gift money will be more or less depending on the family background and status.
The gifts from ordinary farmers are not much, but the gifts from wealthy families are much more! It really is a loss every time you go!
But he is different. If he goes, he will definitely make his money back!
"I think so too! If there's a chance for a banquet, I'll definitely go in person!"
"That's right! You must go in person!" Gu Lianshan agreed very much and told Agou about the banquets at home in the past, passing on some of his few experiences.
Upon hearing this, Gu Tang and Third Uncle immediately turned their faces black and turned their heads away, not wanting to look at the two people.
Gu Ping'an didn't understand all this yet. He found the conversation between his father and Agou very strange. He widened his eyes and listened to every word.
Gu Lianshan and Agou got along better and better as they talked. One of them was a hard-core person with no manners, while the other retained the habits of a ghost from the underworld and had no moral bottom line towards people and things in the world.
On certain points of view, the two of them are surprisingly in agreement.
After eating ten pancakes, a bowl of white porridge, and half a bowl of fried meat with pickles, Agou finally said he was full.
Gu Lianshan gave him a thumbs up and praised him for his good appetite!
Ah Gou smiled innocently, and taking advantage of Gu Lianshan's cheerful mood, he brought up something: "I am alone here now, and my family and friends don't know that I settled in Bei'an City.
I originally thought that I would live alone in the future, but I didn't expect to meet your family, Mr. Gu, and Miss Gu also saved my life. I will remember this alone for the rest of my life!
I thought, since we are so destined to be together, why not just treat each other like relatives from now on, so that I, a stranger from here, can have someone to rely on."
Gu Lianshan was so angry at this time that he agreed to it without asking his third uncle and Gu Tang.
"You are the son of a wealthy family! I am grateful that you have shown me such respect. If you don't mind, just come over and talk to me in the future!"
As soon as these words came out, Third Uncle's eyes widened immediately. No, this is different from what they had discussed before!
Wasn't it agreed that this person would only come this time? How come everything changed after just a few words?
Third Uncle wanted to stop him, but Agou immediately took advantage of the situation, stood up and saluted him and Gu Lianshan as a junior.
"From now on, Master Gu, you are my uncle! Old Master, you are my grandfather!"
ah?
Third Uncle was stunned on the spot.
No, you just said a few words?
He just got a "grandson" for no reason?
Gu Lianshan had no objection to recognizing him as a relative, but why was he called uncle?
"There's not much difference in age between us. How about you call me brother and we become brothers?"
"puff--"
Gu Tang immediately spat out the porridge in his mouth, right onto the face of Gu Ping'an opposite him!
Gu Pingan:……!!!
"Cough cough cough! No, sorry!" Gu Tang coughed a few times and hurriedly took out a handkerchief from his sleeve to wipe Gu Ping'an's face.
Gu Tang's sudden appearance attracted everyone's attention.
"What's wrong? Why did you vomit for no reason?" Gu Lianshan looked puzzled.
Agou beside him also looked worried and asked hurriedly: "Is the porridge cold? Does it make your stomach uncomfortable?"
Gu Tang handed the handkerchief to Gu Ping'an and asked him to wipe himself. She took a deep breath and looked at her father very seriously.
"You two can acknowledge each other as relatives, but you can't let me have another uncle!"
Before she even finished her meal, she had a new uncle!
This is reasonable!!!
Before Gu Lianshan could say anything, Agou immediately fell to Gu Tang and looked at Gu Lianshan with a serious expression.
He said, "I used to have an uncle who was very kind to me, but unfortunately he was killed. You don't know, when I saw you, it was like seeing my uncle. Your temperament is very similar to my uncle's!
So, Uncle Gu, please recognize me as your nephew for the sake of my uncle who died early! From now on, your nephew will definitely treat you as your own father and be filial to you! "
Gu Tang: ...
Third Uncle: ...
Gu Pingan: ...
The three generations of grandparents and grandchildren got goose bumps all over their bodies!
Gu Lianshan was touched: "My temper is like your uncle's?"
"That's right! My uncle studied the Four Books and Five Classics diligently since he was young, and he passed the imperial examination at a young age! He has the same temperament as you, and he treats me very well! When I see you, it's like seeing him."
Being able to be similar to the scholar who passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, even though that person was dead, was still a great honor for Gu Lianshan!
"Okay! Then I will shamelessly acknowledge you as my nephew!" Gu Lianshan waved his hand and agreed.
Ah Gou knelt down and kowtowed: "Uncle! Please accept my nephew's greetings!"
"Good nephew! Get up quickly!" Gu Lianshan smiled and pulled him up. He turned around and asked Gu Tang for some wine: "Now Dad has a new nephew, and you have a new cousin. This is a great thing! Bring some wine! Dad and your cousin will have a drink!"
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