Chapter 282 Tell lies with open eyes!
Not only Yang thought it was outrageous, but in the main hall, after hearing what Gu Lianshan said, the head of the Gu clan had a dazed look on his face.
He looked at Ah Gou carefully, and the more he looked, the more frightened he became. Then he looked at Gu Lianshan and asked hesitantly, "Were you hysterical just now, or were you just saying nonsense to tease me?"
Gu Lianshan: "...Uncle, you know me well. Am I an unreliable person?"
"You are!" Patriarch Gu said seriously, "Over the years, I've cleaned up a lot of messes for you!"
Gu Lianshan felt guilty for a moment, but he soon cheered up again.
"This time it's true! Everything I said just now is true!"
After saying that, he glanced at Agou and motioned Agou to speak.
Agou nodded very cooperatively, indicating that what Gu Lianshan said was indeed true.
At the same time, his mind was racing, recalling the pitiful words he had said to Gu Lianshan earlier. He repeated them word for word, leaving Patriarch Gu stunned.
He may not believe what Gu Lianshan said, but since the real person in front of him also said so, it must be true.
Patriarch Gu looked at Gu Lianshan again. This time, he had only one thought in his mind: this bastard seemed to have changed his luck since he left that place.
Life is getting better and better, and now I even have a sincere and honest nobleman as my nephew!
This is really a stroke of luck!
To be honest, Patriarch Gu was a little jealous.
"Uncle? Why aren't you talking?" Gu Lianshan looked puzzled.
Patriarch Gu's heart choked, "What do you want me to say?"
"Of course it's a matter of choosing a date. Please pick a good date! I'll set up a few tables and we can all have a great time together.
My nephew sent over several short-legged lambs! They're all incredibly plump and delicious! I'll chop one up and cook it so everyone can have a taste!
Short-legged sheep...
Patriarch Gu swallowed his saliva subconsciously. His family was quite well-off, but even so, he was reluctant to buy short-legged sheep to eat.
The last time I ate short-legged lamb was in the winter of last year. Due to many natural disasters this year, the family’s harvest was much less, and our life became very difficult.
After winter came, not to mention buying short-legged lamb, even ordinary lamb was only eaten once, and the rest was saved to entertain relatives during the New Year.
When he heard Gu Lianshan talking about eating mutton, he became greedy.
"Wait a minute, I'll get the imperial calendar."
Patriarch Gu stood up and went to the study, took out a book that looked like a volume, and flipped directly to the end.
"Today is the third day of the twelfth lunar month. The nearest auspicious day is the seventh, a good day for meeting friends and family. I think the seventh day should be it?"
"Okay! Then let's set it for the seventh day of the first lunar month. I'll go back and ask the old man to write the invitations, and start sending them out tomorrow."
"Invitation?" Clan leader Gu paused, "Alright, it'll look more formal and grand."
Upon hearing this, Ah Gou immediately stated: "It doesn't matter whether it's grand or not, as long as all the relatives come to have a meal!"
"That won't do! It has to be grand! It's just not convenient on a snowy day, but if it were a snowy day, we'd have to hire a troupe to perform for a few days!"
They sent so many valuable things over, and also gave him six hundred taels of silver. If we don't set up a few tables for a grand banquet, he will feel overwhelmed by those things!
Patriarch Gu knew Gu Lianshan well, and he understood what was going on when he saw him like this.
This Gu Sanlang must have received many gifts. This bastard must be rich now. Listen to the tone of his voice, it is obviously different from before!
The more Clan Leader Gu thought about it, the more upset he became. He simply chased him away: "Hurry back and write the invitations. My eyelids are twitching non-stop when I see you!"
"If your eyelids twitch, it means wealth is coming! This is a good thing, I am bringing you good luck!" Gu Lianshan was extremely shameless.
Clan leader Gu's face immediately turned black: "Get lost! If you want to bring good luck to me, that would be hell!"
Gu Lianshan had a smile on his face and teased the guy a few more times until he got the guy angry, then he took Agou out of the house.
Yang, who was talking to her daughter-in-law in the east wing, heard the noise and came out to take a look. Seeing that Gu Lianshan was about to leave with the nobleman, she walked over with a smile and sent them to the gate of the courtyard.
"Is the date set?"
"It's booked! It's for the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month. You can bring your whole family over. I've prepared a whole ram and several jars of green wine! Please do me the honor of having a few more cups!"
Yang laughed and said, "Don't worry, I'll definitely go! Just for the mutton and green wine, I have to go and have a good meal!"
These words made Gu Lianshan extremely happy.
When holding a banquet, we are not afraid of friends and relatives eating, but we are afraid that no one will come!
After talking with Yang for a while at the gate of the courtyard, Gu Lianshan hurried home humming a little tune.
The snow was still falling, and the uncle and nephew walked slowly, one in front and one behind. Gu Lianshan took the opportunity to admonish Ah Gou: "You can't hold your liquor well. You're bound to get drunk on the day of the banquet. If you don't want to get drunk, you have to be a little sweet-talking and know how to coax people!"
Agou glanced at him and didn't quite believe what he said.
Gu Lianshan added, "You should coax those people who come to toast you. It would be best if you coax them so hard that they don't know which way is which. I guarantee they won't try to force you to drink again!"
This is obviously unreliable.
Today's Agou would never believe this.
He said, "On the day of the banquet, I will dress up as if I were rich and noble. My clothes alone will stun them and no one will come to toast me."
Gu Lianshan: ...He forgot that Gu Sanlang is a nobleman, dressed in rich clothes, and all those troublemakers have to behave themselves!
After returning home, the uncle and nephew went straight to the main hall and told their third uncle the date chosen by Patriarch Gu.
The old man had no objection to the date chosen by Patriarch Gu: "The seventh day of the first lunar month is good. After the seventh day of the first lunar month, it will be Laba Festival. This day is good! And today is the third day of the first lunar month. There is enough time and it is convenient to prepare."
"I think so too." Gu Lianshan also felt that this date was well chosen.
He said, "I thought, since we're having a proper banquet, invitations are essential. But I'm not good at writing them, so I'll leave that to you."
Hearing the word "invitation", Uncle San was filled with emotion: "In the past, I have written countless invitations for others in the village, but I have never written one for my own family.
I thought this was the end of my life, but I never thought I’d get to write my own invitations one day. This life has been worth it.”
"You're talking nonsense again." Gu Tang suddenly said, "Your good days are about to begin, why are you saying such depressing words?"
Gu Tang was roasting oranges on the stove at this moment. She was holding a long bamboo chopstick and kept stirring the oranges on the edge of the stove. She was very dissatisfied with the old man's words and took the time to look up and glare at him.
Third Uncle didn't argue with her, just smiled and nodded repeatedly: "I was mistaken. Tang girl is right, my good days are just about to begin, I shouldn't say such depressing words."
Gu Lianshan breathed a sigh of relief: "That's right! Think carefully about how many people we want to invite, which families should we invite and which families should not be invited, and write down the families you want to invite.
I also thought about it and had to think about which family to invite and which family not to invite, and finally we would come up with a total number.
One invitation per family, we have to write carefully, no more, no less."
"We need to think about it..." Third Uncle frowned, "It's so cold, I don't know if it will snow on the seventh day. I'm afraid it will be difficult for relatives from far away to come."
Gu Lianshan had already thought about this: "We won't invite relatives from far away. We'll only invite relatives from this village and nearby villages. Just invite them."
Having said that, he paused for a moment, then looked at Agou and asked, "Do you have any relatives to invite?"
relative?
Agou shook his head: "I don't have any relatives here, I'm alone."
"If that's the case, we won't be able to invite many people." Gu Lianshan roughly calculated in his mind, "Five tables will be enough!"
"Five tables isn't too few." Ah Gou thought it was just fine. "Many relatives can't come, so being able to get five tables together isn't too few!"
"Sanlang is right. We can write invitations based on the number of people at five tables."
The old man already had a list in his mind, so he asked Gu Ping'an to get pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and quickly wrote out many names.
He handed the paper filled with words to Gu Lianshan and asked him to take a closer look to see if there were any names that needed to be added or deleted.
The names written by Third Uncle were all of the families he knew well. Gu Lianshan looked through them carefully and added a few more names at the end, finally gathering five tables of people.
After deciding who to invite, Uncle San found some red paper to write the invitations.
While the old man was writing the invitations, Gu Lianshan called his son and asked him to go with him to the west ear room and the east wing to see what dishes were available at home.
On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, there must be at least twelve dishes on the table, that’s what a respectable occasion!
Gu Tang’s roasted tangerines were ready. She peeled one and ate it, then put the rest on a plate, brought it to her third uncle, and told him to eat some.
Third Uncle was busy, so he nodded absentmindedly, concentrating on writing the invitations.
Seeing this, Gu Tang stopped disturbing him and turned to walk out.
When passing by Agou, she winked at him calmly, asking him to come out with her.
Gu Tang motioned him to come out, originally wanting to ask him where the things he delivered today came from.
But when she reached the corridor, she saw her father coming out of the west wing, and then he waved to Agou, asking him to come over and help with the dishes for the seventh day.
Agou didn't move, but looked at Gu Tang, wanting to see what she meant.
Gu Tang: ...What meaning can she have under her father's gaze?
He secretly waved at Agou, signaling him to hurry over.
With Gu Tang's consent, Agou smiled and went to the west wing.
There are only a few kinds of dishes in winter, and the meat dishes include chicken, duck, fish, pork and lamb.
As for vegetarian dishes, there are even fewer. First there are cabbage and radish that every household has, and then there are various dried mushrooms.
Gu Lianshan and Agou worked hard to think of ways to stir-fry these dishes individually, or stew them individually, or stir-fry or stew them together. By the end of the day, they had managed to come up with twelve dishes.
In order to verify whether these hard-made dishes were edible, Agou, Gu Lianshan and his son Gu Ping'an went into the kitchen together to make and taste the dishes they had hard-made.
If the taste is okay, then it’s a pass.
If the taste is not good, then we have to think of other dishes.
Gu Tang followed behind and ate a lot. Some of the food tasted extremely delicious, while others tasted strange.
She picked up the food she liked and ate her fill, then went over to Gu Ping'an and followed him to take the dog out.
Now that the snow has stopped, let the puppies go outside to poop and pee.
We had dinner early at home today, so it’s not dark outside yet.
Gu Tang, relying on the fact that he was dressed warmly, had the rare urge to play in the snow, and he kept drawing on the snow with a stick.
Unfortunately, her drawing skills are not very good. She can only draw stick figures when drawing people, and her dogs turn out to be deformed creatures.
Looking at his second sister's painting skills, Gu Ping'an became proud and also took a stick to paint on the snow. With just a few strokes, he was able to outline the shapes of the puppies. He was much better than Gu Tang!
Ah Gou came out with a dish that was about to be cooked - fried lamb meatballs. He presented it to Gu Tang with a very attentive look and asked her to try it to see if it suited her taste.
But at this moment, Gu Tang was competing with Gu Ping'an. She pointed at two paintings on the snow and asked Agou to comment on them.
Agou paused and asked tentatively, "Which one did you draw?"
Gu Tang glared at him, "Why are you asking so many questions?! Just give your comments when I asked you to. Why are you talking so much?"
Understood!
Agou understood what was going on, and he pointed at the deformed picture calmly and praised it highly.
"This is a wonderful painting! The artistic conception is extraordinary! The momentum is fierce! The detailed brushwork is as graceful as a swimming dragon! It is a rare and beautiful painting. It's a pity that it was not painted on paper, but painted on the snow. What a pity!"
Gu Tang: ...
Gu Pingan: ...
What does it mean to flatter?
This is called flattery!
What does it mean to tell lies with open eyes?
This is called telling lies with open eyes!
Gu Ping'an was amazed and clicked his tongue twice. He couldn't help but give Agou a thumbs up: "My cousin has great eloquence! His vision is unique! I really admire him!"
"No, no, it all comes down to my cousin's excellent painting skills!" Agou said with admiration on his face as if it were true.
Then, he picked up a meatball with chopsticks and fed it to Gu Tang's mouth: "It's not hot anymore, try one, and we'll continue painting later!"
Gu Tang had a wooden face and took two steps back, away from Rouwanzi. He didn't want to pay any attention to him at this moment.
"What's wrong? Don't you like it?" Agou was a little nervous. This reaction was not right. Why did he look like he was angry?
"My second sister is full and probably can't eat anymore. Let me try it!"
Gu Ping'an was carefree and directly reached out to take the meatball from Agou's chopsticks, then stuffed it into his mouth, nodding while chewing.
"Delicious! This is good! I like it!"
Agou looked at him expressionlessly.
This isn't for you!
Which one did you like?!
"Hey, hey, hey! Don't look at me, both of you! Turn around and look east, there's an oxcart coming!"
Gu Ping'an pointed behind the two of them, signaling them to look back.
Agou moved his ears. He could hear the squeaking of wheels and the crunching of snow underfoot.
Gu Tang looked back and saw that there was indeed an ox cart coming this way.
A man was pulling an ox cart, which was carrying things and had another person sitting on it. Behind the cart were four people whose faces could not be seen clearly.
As the ox cart got closer, Gu Tang recognized who the group of people were.
She whispered, "It's Uncle Shunzi and his friends. The person in the car should be the bride."
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