Chapter 307 will be revised later
It was almost 9 o'clock when Gu Liu came over in the wind and snow.
Gu Lianshan was waiting at the gate of the courtyard early in the morning. When he saw someone coming, he warmly invited him to go to the main hall for tea first and to see if the meat dishes he prepared were suitable.
They grew up playing together, so Gu Liu didn't bother to be polite with him and followed Gu Lianshan into the house.
There are two stoves burning in the house, which is much warmer than Gu Liu's house.
But Gu Liu didn't notice this. As soon as he entered the house, he was shocked by the various kinds of meat piled on the ground.
"Didn't you tell me before that you were only going to have five tables? For five tables, you've prepared way too much meat!"
He looked at Gu Lianshan with an expression that said, "Are you going to have a hard time?"
It’s hard to put it into words.
Gu Lianshan, however, looked very proud: "Life is better at home this year, and we have no shortage of meat to eat. Of course, this feast must be prepared lavishly."
Life at home has changed dramatically now.
Besides, all this meat was given by Gu Sanlang, and he didn't spend any money to buy it himself.
"Let's not talk about the other meats. Just this short-legged sheep, a whole one would cost quite a bit of silver. You're really willing to spend that much!"
Gu Liu gave him a thumbs up.
Gu Lianshan didn't hide it from him and simply told him the truth: "I didn't buy this meat, so I'm willing to give it away. If I had bought it, you would only get a bone to gnaw on!"
Gu Liu understood and pointed outside: "Did your nephew buy it?"
"Yes, he bought all of these."
Gu Liu's face was full of envy. It was worth it to recognize this nephew. He would never lack meat to eat in the future!
Gu Lianshan poured a cup of tea and handed it over, continuing to show off: "Try it, this tea is said to cost one ounce of silver per ounce of tea, it's really expensive!"
"Oh my! Are you serious?" Gu Liu raised his hands to take the tea bowl. Looking at the green tea in the bowl, he was surprised and suspicious.
"Of course it's real!" Gu Lianshan said firmly, "Try it. It's just right for you to eat now. If you like it, I'll make some for you later. You can serve it to guests during the New Year. It will be a very prestigious thing!"
Gu Liu couldn't stop laughing: "How could I accept such a valuable thing?"
As he said this, he drank the tea in the bowl in one breath.
"How's it going?"
Gu Liu smacked his lips: "Smells good!"
"Since you like it, then it's a deal. I'll pack some for you later and you can take it back to use for entertaining guests during the New Year."
"This, this is too expensive..."
"What's so valuable? I didn't spend any money to buy it. Do you really not want it?"
Gu Liu: ...Wow! Looks like this is another gift from Gu Sanlang!
"want!"
Why not? He also wanted to follow his brother and get some of the tea served by the rich and powerful.
After drinking tea, the two of them carried all the meat to the kitchen.
The meat has thawed, so it is much easier to cut or chop.
Third Uncle and Gu Ping'an were both in the kitchen. The grandfather and grandson were peeling garlic and had already peeled almost a bowl of garlic.
After Gu Liu came in, he asked the grandparents and grandchildren to go back to the house to warm themselves by the fire and leave the situation here to him.
There are only five tables of food, and he can do it by himself.
After returning to the house, my third uncle was not idle either. He rummaged through the benches in the house and counted them. It was obviously not enough, so he went to the village to borrow some.
There is also a table.
The table used for the banquet was an octagonal table. There was only one at home, so four more had to be borrowed from the village.
We had already made arrangements with familiar families in advance, so we just had to go and move in now.
Gu Lianshan took Agou to each house to move the table, while Gu Tang and Gu Ping'an went to each house to borrow stools.
One table requires four benches, and five tables require twenty benches.
There are only four benches at home, and we need to borrow 16 more benches to use.
The benches were all made of heavy solid wood, and Gu Tang and Gu Ping'an could only carry one at a time.
If they carry it like this, both of them will be exhausted after a few times.
The brother and sister thought about it for a while, and simply took out the sled in the backyard, put it on the snow and pulled it, and put the borrowed stools on the sled. They could pull six stools at a time, so only three trips were needed.
When the two sisters came back from their last trip, many people had already come to the yard to pay their respects.
Gu Tang also saw Gu Liansheng in the crowd.
It was a surprise that Gu Liansheng appeared here, so she ran to ask her father.
"Where did you post it?"
If the invitation is not sent, given Gu Liansheng's stingy nature, he will definitely not come forward to offer gifts.
Facing Gu Tang's doubts, Gu Lianshan nodded quickly: "On the day of his wedding banquet, your father gave ten copper coins as a gift! Today, we are having a family reunion banquet, and he must give me those ten copper coins back!"
Gu Tang: ...You are even more stingy than Gu Liansheng!
The person who kept the etiquette account was still the Third Uncle, and the clan leaders and elders were sitting next to him. They were chatting and laughing, and the atmosphere was very lively.
When it was Gu Liansheng's turn to present the gift, the atmosphere changed.
Except for the third uncle, all the clan leaders and elders had dark faces.
Gu Liansheng seemed to be unaware of it. After paying his respects, he walked away as if nothing had happened.
Gu Tang was extremely curious. He took the teapot and went to add tea to the clan leaders and elders. He glanced at the gift account and was stunned.
After adding the tea, she put down the teapot, found her father, pulled him aside and told him.
"You only got back half of your ten coppers."
Gu Lianshan was confused: "Halfway back? What does that mean?"
"I just took a look at the gift account, and my cousin only gave five copper coins!"
"What the hell? Five copper coins?!" Gu Lianshan was incredulous. "Does he have any shame? I gave him ten copper coins that day! And he just wiped half of it off me?"
The more he spoke, the angrier he became, and Gu Lianshan actually ran to look through the gift account.
Over the years, Gu Lianshan has maintained a good relationship with the people in the village. Today, the minimum gift given by someone is twenty copper coins.
But Gu Liansheng is an exception.
He really offered a gift of five copper coins!
Gu Lianshan was so angry!
He started muttering and cursing.
Clan leader Gu was close by and heard him mumbling curses. He immediately glared at him, put down his tea bowl, and quietly scolded him: "Don't make any noise today!"
Gu Lianshan took a deep breath and said, "Don't make a fuss. I won't argue with idiots!"
After paying five copper coins, Gu Liansheng returned home with a few packets of medicine in his hands.
Hearing the noise, Qian hid in the east wing and quietly opened the window a crack. She looked at Gu Liansheng as he entered the main room with a pale face and shivered all over.
She closed the window with trembling lips and sat on the couch trembling with fear.
Last night, Gu Liansheng went to the west room with chicken noodle soup. She had been waiting anxiously in the east wing, waiting for him to come out and say that the old man was dead.
After waiting for about an hour, Gu Liansheng came back as if nothing had happened and said that the old man was extremely angry with her and didn't want her to go to the main hall again.
She also said that the old man was ill and couldn't get angry. For the sake of his health, she was asked to try not to go to the main room in the future.
After hearing those words, Qian felt horrified!
The old man is dead!!!
She saw it with her own eyes! She also tried it with her own hands, and the person was indeed dead!
What is Gu Liansheng planning to do?!
Why did you hide the news of the old man’s death?
Qian was puzzled and couldn't sleep all night. She thought about it all night. At dawn, she seemed to know why.
In February of the following year, Gu Liansheng was going to take the imperial examination.
If the news of the old man’s death were to be revealed now, Gu Liansheng would have to observe mourning for three years!
It is said that in order to prepare for next year's imperial examination, Gu Liansheng spent money to find out who the invigilator will be, and bought articles that cater to the invigilator's preferences and imitated them, striving to pass the examination and become a scholar next year.
Now everything is ready, just waiting for the end in February next year. If his father dies at this critical juncture, all Gu Liansheng’s previous efforts and money will be wasted!
Three years later, everything has to start from scratch.
Is Gu Liansheng willing to start over?
So far, he seems unwilling to do so.
If you don't want to, then you can only hide the old man's death...
If the weather is cold, carry Feng to the east room and place her there. Put out the stove in the west room and open the window. It will only take one night for the corpse to freeze into ice.
A corpse frozen into ice will not rot or stink even if it is kept in the house for a month or two.
The news of the old man’s death will be announced after the February exams are over.
It was still cold at that time, and the corpse would not have any smell. As long as no one saw the old man's body, no one should be suspicious.
Qian's guess was not much different from what Gu Liansheng had in mind. This was indeed what he planned.
When he entered the main hall, he instinctively stayed away from the west room and did not even look in that direction, but went straight to the east room.
Feng has now moved back to the east room.
Seeing her son coming back, Feng's eyes turned red, and her mind kept recalling her son kneeling in front of her and crying last night.
My son has paid so much for next year's imperial examination, and this time he finally got the chance.
But at this critical moment, the old man was so angry that he died!
The son knelt in front of her and asked her, if she were in his position and asked to make a choice, what would she choose?
Although she couldn't speak, the imperial examination was indeed the one she had in mind at that time.
This was the choice she made herself. After facing the choice given by her son, she calmed down and tacitly agreed with her son's choice.
However, the scene of the old man's death kept lingering in her mind. As soon as she closed her eyes, the scene of the old man's death immediately appeared before her eyes and could not be shaken off.
Just like that, she stared at the beams in agony all night long.
"Mother..." Gu Liansheng knelt before Feng again and begged, "Please at least get some sleep. Now that my father is gone, you are all I have.
I know you're angry, but don't worry. When my son comes back from the exam, the first thing he'll do is kill Qian and make her apologize to my father!"
Why did the old man die suddenly?
There is no need to think about it. It must be that Qian scolded the old man before, causing the old man to die of anger.
If it weren't for the imperial examination next year, he would have killed Qian long ago!
Feng couldn't bear to hear the word "Qian". She couldn't control the expression on her face. She could only stare wide open her eyes and moan, trying to tell her son.
Qian knew that the old man was dead!
She knows everything! There's no hiding it!
Unfortunately, Gu Liansheng didn't understand what Feng wanted to express and thought she was just cursing Qian.
"Mom, take good care of yourself. When your son passes the imperial examination, you'll be able to hold your head high!"
After saying this, he stood up and walked out: "I just went to Doctor Gu's house to buy some tonic medicine. I will go and boil it and feed it to you later."
Feng was still calling out from behind, but Gu Liansheng ignored her and walked out of the house to the kitchen to boil medicine.
He lit the stove unskillfully, dug out the pot for boiling medicine, opened a packet of medicine he had brought back, poured it into the pot, added water and boiled it.
He got this medicine from Doctor Gu's house after leaving his third uncle's house.
It's not a tonic medicine at all. It's a medicine for calming the mind and helping with sleep.
He told Doctor Gu that the old man and old lady in his family often couldn't sleep, so he wanted to get some tranquilizers and sleeping pills to make for them.
Doctor Gu didn't think much about it and grabbed a few packets and gave them to him.
Looking at the flames in the stove, Gu Liansheng was in a daze, but now he couldn't help but feel relieved.
Fortunately, Gu Zhier was gone, and fortunately, his son and daughter were not around, which made it easy for him to conceal the news of the old man's death.
There are only more than two months left before the imperial examination. After the exam, he will definitely give the old man a grand funeral!
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Gu Lianshan scheduled the banquet for the evening. After three quarters after 3 p.m., all the villagers who had received the invitations earlier came and sat at the table.
This was because Gu Lianshan cleaned up all three main rooms, placed two tables in the west room, two tables in the middle hall, and one table in the east room, and lit two stoves in each room to ensure that there was no coldness in the house.
This was much warmer than being at home, so the villagers had no choice but to come and sit here early.
Third Uncle was extremely happy about this, as it was a recognition of the host's work and showed that the host had done a good job.
Since everyone is here, let's start the meal early.
Gu Liu had already made preparations and called two people to help. They cooked on two stoves at the same time and the dishes were soon served on the table.
There were eight people sitting at the table, and Gu Lianshan ordered twelve dishes. Each dish was a large portion, not to mention eight people, it would be enough for five or six more people!
A lot of wine was served, all of which was green wine. Gu Tang was responsible for using a spoon to scoop the wine from the jar into the wine pot, and then he gave each table a pot of wine, constantly replenishing them with wine.
A total of five jars of wine were brought out, one jar for each table, and they were all eaten up in the end.
Everyone's face turned red. Clan leader Gu quickly stood up and said that no one was allowed to eat anymore and that they should serve the bread and vegetables quickly, so that they wouldn't drink too much and pass out drunk on the roadside on the way back.
If you get drunk on the roadside in winter, you will freeze to death in no time!
Hearing the words "freeze to death", Gu Liansheng's face, which was slightly red due to alcohol, quickly turned pale, and his head, which had been a little dizzy, fell to the ground in an instant.
He picked up the meat and vegetables and ate them without even looking. When someone left the table, he blended in with the crowd and followed them home.
By the end of the You hour, the yard, which had been noisy for half a day, finally quieted down.
Gu Lianshan and Agou were both drunk today, and they were forced to drink a lot during the meal.
They are the protagonists today, so they accept everyone and eat as much as they can. Especially Gu Lianshan, he eats as much as he wants today!
He was the drunkest of the two and was now asleep on the bed.
Agou was still holding on and kept following Gu Tang.
When Gu Tang walked, he followed; when Gu Tang stopped, he stopped.
I am completely speechless!
This caused my third uncle to keep looking over here.
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