Chapter 269: Someone is missing? It’s none of my business!
"Why is it not worth so much silver and things?!" Gu Tang started to argue.
"He's the heir to the family fortune! His life is worth a lot! Just think about it, if I didn't save him, he'd be dead after sleeping outside in the middle of winter and being poisoned!"
"If he really dies, wouldn't all his family property go to his relatives who poisoned him?"
If that's the case...it seems to be true!
Uncle San subconsciously looked at Gu Lianshan first: "It was Miss Tang who saved the man, so it was Miss Tang that Gu Sanlang thanked. We two really can't make the decision on this matter."
"That's right." Gu Lianshan nodded and looked at Gu Tang: "Do you mean to stay?"
"Stay! I'll make the decision!" The silver originally belonged to her!
"Okay! Then it's as you wish. Leave all the things and money!"
Gu Tang breathed a sigh of relief, put the silver away, and began to divide the things.
First, she picked out the silks and satins that were not suitable for her and gave them all to her father, asking him to keep them and make clothes for the old man and Gu Ping'an in the future.
The second thing is the fur coats. Agou had divided them up in advance, giving them to whoever owned them, so there was no mess at all.
Finally, it’s food: chicken, fish, oranges, salt, sugar, and pastries.
The chickens and fish were placed in a tank with a stone slab on the top so that mice, weasels and the like could not steal them.
Citrus fruits must be stored separately and properly. You can’t finish eating so many of them in a short time, so they must not be frozen.
Putting all the salt, sugar and cakes in the cupboard will attract rats and weasels, so you can't just leave them there.
Fortunately, she remembered the backpack today. If she had forgotten about it for a few more days, the house would have been full of rats.
After sorting out the things, Gu Tang ordered her father and Gu Ping'an to classify the things in the east wing one by one.
All the grain was piled against the north wall, and all the meat and other items were piled against the south wall, all stored in jars to prevent them from being eaten by rats.
The cabbage and radish are all stored in the vegetable cellar in the backyard. Throughout the winter, if you want to eat some vegetarian dishes, you have to rely on them. They must not be frozen.
After tidying up the east wing, the west ear room should also be tidied up, and the things inside should be classified. This will save you a lot of trouble when looking for things in the future.
My third uncle has always used the west wing as a granary. In addition to storing grain, it also contains many jars of meat and pickled vegetables.
Gu Tang followed the same division method as in the east wing and piled all the grain against the west wall. He put the meat into jars and placed them against the east wall together with the pickle jars, leaving an aisle in the middle for people to walk through to make it easier to find things.
After sorting all the things into categories, I finally found a bag of radishes.
No one knew when it was thrown here, and Gu Tang had no recollection of it at all.
Go out and call Gu Ping'an in, and ask him to help carry it to the backyard.
This bag of radishes is enough to last for a long time. Carry it to the vegetable cellar in the backyard and store the good ones in the cellar.
Gu Lianshan was still busy in the cellar. They bought too many cabbages and radishes from Bei'an City this time, and they had to arrange them neatly to avoid being too cluttered and taking up too much space.
Third uncle was helping pass vegetables into the vegetable cellar. He looked at the brother and sister carrying a bag of things over and didn't understand what they were doing.
"What are you two carrying?"
"Master, these are radishes. I found them in the west wing. When did you put them in there?"
The brother and sister placed the bag at the entrance of the vegetable cellar, untied the bag, and poured out the radishes inside.
"Found it in the west wing?" Third Uncle was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a long time, he finally remembered, "Look at my memory! I bought this in the village a while ago."
Pointing to the north, he said, "There are several families in the north who are living in hard times. Every year they grow radishes and cabbages, hoping to make some money to survive in the winter.
Seeing how hard life was for them, the clan leader told the tribe about this matter and told them that if anyone wanted to buy radish and cabbage, they could go there and buy them. He would help them out anyway.
"Where did you buy this bag of radishes?"
"That's right. I saw that we had a lot of cabbage at home, so I didn't buy any cabbage. I only bought radishes."
Third Uncle squatted down and helped Gu Tang to look through the radishes on the ground. Those that were intact were handed to Gu Lianshan in the vegetable cellar. Those with broken skin and damage were thrown aside and not put in.
Gu Lianshan took the radish, weighed it, and nodded with satisfaction: "This vegetable is well grown and heavy, which means it's not dry inside."
He arranged the radishes and stood up again to pick up the vegetables. He asked, "Dad, is our land still there? We can grow some vegetables next year. We can keep them for ourselves instead of selling them."
"I've rented all my land to my clansmen. I used to live on my own and didn't need much to eat, but the rent alone was enough for me to live on. Now that I have you, it's time to take it back."
"It's time to take it back. Now that you have a son, I can take care of those lands by myself."
"Okay, I'll talk to Dad later."
As he was talking, all the reeds on the ground had been picked. Those with intact skins were placed in the vegetable cellar by Gu Lianshan, while those piled on the ground on the other side were all with broken skins.
Not many of the radishes poured out of the bag had broken skins. The radishes shipped back from Bei'an City had the most broken skins.
There's no way around it. The road is bumpy, and it's been moved up and down, so any bumps will cause some damage to the skin.
Gu Lianshan climbed the ladder out of the vegetable cellar, glanced at the radishes he had picked out, and frowned. "There are quite a lot. We need to eat them quickly. It's cold, and the skins won't keep well if they break."
As he said this, he took out the ladder and began to seal the entrance to the vegetable cellar.
"How are we going to eat this? There's so much, over a hundred pounds! Are we going to have to eat radishes twice a day from now on?"
Gu Tang's face wrinkled into a ball. The radish here was not the radish that had been improved countless times in the previous life.
These are all primitive species, small and thin, and taste bad.
Especially when eating it alone, Gu Tang couldn’t describe the taste, but it just didn’t taste good!
Unless you add oil and meat to stir-fry it, it's okay to eat it that way, and it can barely suppress the smell.
"It's indeed a bit much, why not pick some up and give them away?"
Third Uncle was also worried. He didn't really like eating this thing. No one in this world liked eating this thing!
"No need to give it away. The girl still has quite a few jars left from pickling vegetables last time. I'll go find them, cut these radishes into strips, and pickle them all!"
Gu Lianshan had already sealed the entrance to the vegetable cellar and was putting the radishes on the ground into a bag as he spoke.
Are you really planning to pickle it?
Everything went dark before Gu Tang’s eyes!
At first, she ate Feng's pickled vegetables, which were fishy, salty and bitter!
She thought Feng's cooking skills were not good enough, so she asked her father to buy a lot of jars for pickling vegetables and pickled them herself.
More than ten days later, she opened the jar and tasted it, and found that the pickles made with the salt she had only used were from the system reward. The taste was okay and barely edible, but it was still not comparable to the pickles she had made in her previous life.
The pickled vegetables made with salt bought from Bei'an City taste the same as those pickled by Feng's family!
Fishy, salty and bitter!
So, it’s not the craftsmanship that’s bad, it’s the salt and the dishes that are bad!
Gu Tang now refuses to pickle vegetables. Although the system rewards her with a lot of salt, pickling vegetables consumes too much salt! She is reluctant to waste it.
If you want to change the taste of salt, you can try to remove impurities and purify the salt.
But this cannot be done, at least not given their current status.
If this gets out, their whole family will probably die!
"Dad! Give it away! We have more than ten jars of pickled vegetables in our west wing! If you pickle a few more, we'll be able to eat them forever!"
Gu Tang was a little upset. She didn't want to eat pickled vegetables, nor did she want to smell the smell of pickled vegetables.
"You don't understand. These broken radishes are worthless right now, but if they were pickled, and I gave a bowl to each family during New Year's visit, they would be very happy!"
No matter how bad the pickled vegetables taste, they are still pickled with salt. For those who cannot afford salt, this is a rare thing.
These words made Gu Tang breathe a sigh of relief. So he was planning to give it to others after pickling it?
That’s good, as long as she doesn’t have to eat it all, she doesn’t mind how much it’s pickled!
After the bag was full, there were still a lot of radishes left on the ground. Gu Lianshan carried the bag and asked Gu Ping'an to find a backpack to put the radishes on the ground into and carry it to the front.
There was no need for Third Uncle and Gu Tang here, so the grandfather and grandson walked back slowly.
Gu Tang told the old man about the return gift: "I've thought about it again and again, and now I have an idea. We can afford it, and I don't think they'll be interested.
I heard that wealthy people love elegant things the most. I thought, why not make some incense and give it to others? What do you think?"
When Third Uncle heard about making incense, he thought of the noisy backflow incense and subconsciously reminded him, "Backflow incense cannot be given away."
"It's not backflow incense, but some incense powder, incense beads, incense sticks, incense paste, etc. Since I have nothing to do in winter and can't go to the mountains, I might as well make incense at home.
I prepared the incense recipe, ground it into powder, and taught my father how to make it. Chinese New Year is coming soon, and every household will burn incense. We can make some money during this period."
My third uncle is not the kind of pedantic person who thinks that if someone in the family has an education, he cannot engage in business.
He was very interested in Gu Tang's proposal. The craft of making incense was monopolized by big merchants and wealthy families, and very few people in the community knew how to do it.
Even if there is, the incense made is extremely rough and has almost no fragrance, only choking smoke.
"Can I learn from you? I promise I won't tell anyone else!"
"Yes! Of course I can learn it. This skill can make money and it's also fun. Let Ping An learn it too!"
When it comes to incense, the most important thing is the recipe. As long as the recipe is not passed on to others, the skill of making incense can be passed on easily. After all, she is just a half-baked person who has learned it halfway.
"What do you think of what I just said? Will you give me some incense as a return gift?"
"Of course! Gu Sanlang is also a scholar. Giving him incense is indeed a respectable return gift."
"That's settled then!"
When she returned to the front yard, she saw her father pouring cold water into a basin with a bag of radishes next to it. It was obvious that he was going to wash the radishes.
Washing vegetables with cold water in the middle of winter?
Are you crazy?
"Dad, wait a minute. Let Ping'an boil some hot water for you. Mix it with warm water before washing the vegetables!"
"No, no, Dad always washes vegetables with cold water."
"Past years are past years! Starting this year, you are not allowed to use cold water." Gu Tang ignored him and ordered Gu Ping'an to boil water.
Gu Lianshan couldn't beat Gu Tang, so he had to give in to her.
The third uncle watched the father and daughter quarreling with a smile. When the father and daughter reached a consensus, he wanted to talk to Gu Lianshan about making incense.
At this moment, someone suddenly slammed the gate—bang! bang! bang!
Three consecutive sounds, deafening.
It's more like banging on the door than knocking on it.
Gu Tang was startled by the sudden voice and his face immediately turned black!
She walked angrily along the corridor towards the courtyard gate. Her ferocious aura made Third Uncle and Gu Lianshan's eyelids twitch, and they hurriedly followed her.
There was a stick behind the courtyard gate. It was carved by Gu Lianshan before. He intended to use it as a handle for a hoe, but later found that it was a bit short, so he just put it here.
Gu Tang grabbed it and held it in his hand. Instead of opening the door, he shouted outside, "Where did this bandit come from? Get out of here!"
Is there anyone who knocks on the door like this?!
Fortunately, the gate is thick enough. If it were a little thinner, it would probably crack!
The person outside the door obviously didn't expect Gu Tang to call him a bandit. An extremely familiar curse sounded against the door.
"You blind little bastard! I'm your grandfather!"
Hmm? Mr. Gu?
Gu Tang paused. What a rare guest! It has been a long time since I saw Mr. Gu come to visit.
She opened the gate, and sure enough, it was Mr. Gu outside.
"Hey! I thought it was a bandit when I heard the way they were banging on the door! I didn't expect it to be you. No wonder the banging was so loud."
"What do you mean by that?!" Old Master Gu's eyes were sinister, making the sagging skin on his face look even more terrifying.
"Don't you understand what I'm saying? My daughter said you're worse than a bandit!" Gu Lianshan pulled Gu Tang behind him to prevent her from getting so angry that she would hit the old man on the head with a stick.
"Beast!" Gu Tang was blocked, and Old Man Gu could only glare at Gu Lianshan fiercely, smashing the ground with the crutch in his hand.
"Stop calling me a beast. If I'm a beast, then what are you? Are you a human being?"
These words made Mr. Gu gasp for breath.
Gu Lianshan didn't want to waste time talking to him, so he didn't ask him to come in. He just blocked the door and asked him what he was doing there.
"Why are you here when we have such a good life to live? Can you please have some shame? My whole family has been adopted. If you have any problems, go find your son!"
"Bullshit!" Old Master Gu's eyes were bloodshot, and his expression was a little ferocious. "So what if I'm adopted? Your mother and I are still alive! Even if you adopt us, you still have to raise us!"
This is a unreasonable person!
"You came here just to tell me this?" Gu Lianshan sneered and was about to close the gate.
Mr. Gu's expression changed instantly. He blocked the gate and asked anxiously, "Is Wei back?!"
When saying this, Mr. Gu spoke in a very low voice, fearing that outsiders would hear.
Gu Lianshan remained calm and asked, "Who told you that? What does it have to do with me whether Wei comes back or not?"
She stole my daughter's money, I wish she would never come back! You come to ask me? What do you want to say? "
"Keep your voice down!" Old Master Gu was angry and anxious, and scolded in a low voice, not believing what he said.
He looked at Gu Lianshan suspiciously, trying to find some clues from his face: "Qing girl is missing!"
"Qing girl is missing?" Gu Lianshan was speechless. "What the hell does this have to do with me? Gu Liansheng's daughter is missing, what does it have to do with me?"
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