Chapter 127

Ding'an Marquis's house is not too far away from the Imperial Academy. Yao arrived very early.

As soon as Gu Jiao finished washing, she heard a knock on the door. She opened it and saw that it was Yao. She was shocked.

Yao said with a gentle smile, "I didn't disturb you, did I?"

Gu Jiao shakes her head: "no, I have already got up."

Yao said with a smile, "haven't you had breakfast yet? I've got steamed buns and brown sugar buns. "

The family are preparing for Gu Jinyu's banquet. Yao bought the breakfast on the road, which is a famous steamed bun shop in Beijing.

"Come in." Gu Jiao invited Yao into the yard.

Xiao LIULANG also got up and was drawing water from the well.

Yao and Xiao LIULANG met several times in the countryside. Different from Gu's pickiness, Yao was very satisfied with Xiao LIULANG.

People are good-looking.

That's the point.

I'm good at reading and I'm diligent.

Originally, Yao worried about the relationship between them because she didn't get married. However, after several observations, she found that they actually got along very well. Maybe they didn't understand each other.

"Mrs. Gu." Xiao LIULANG said hello to Yao politely.

Gu Jiao's name is Mrs. Gu of Yao's family, and so is Xiao LIULANG.

Regardless of the title, Yao happily gave Xiao LIULANG the right one.

Gu Jiao wants to cook porridge for her family in the kitchen, but Yao refuses.

Yao does everything else, but today is her birthday with Gu Yan. Yao won't let her do anything.

When she was in the villa, Yao made some snacks from time to time. She was familiar with the kitchen work. She cooked the millet porridge in the morning, and then began to prepare the next two meals.

Mammy Fang was sent by her to buy vegetables. She wrote down what and how much she bought on the list.

This is Yao's first birthday for her daughter. She has prepared for a long time and practiced the dishes repeatedly.

Yao is still very popular at home. Even the old lady with a strange temper was bribed by her snacks. Everyone was very happy when she came.

Gu Yan had nothing to do after breakfast and ran to collect corn cobs, which was stopped by the small clearance.

Xiaojingkong took the corn cob, raised his hand, made a stop action, and said seriously: "today is your birthday too, you don't have to do anything!"

I will not quarrel with you, let you a day!

Yao made a good table, not only taking care of Gu Jiao and Gu Yan's taste, but also other people's.

Gu Xiaoshun looked at the dishes that he could hardly put down. He was so surprised that he could hardly speak!

Is this Chinese new year?

Why so many good dishes?

"Stewed pig's feet with soybeans!" Gu Xiaoshun's saliva came down all of a sudden. This is his favorite dish. The pig's hooves are shiny and oily, and the chopsticks poke the skin of the meat. Gu Xiaoshun feels that he is going to die soon.

This is the first time brine, and then casserole stew, glutinous Jiji, the entrance is melt.

Xiao LIULANG loves fish, and Yao makes delicious crucian carp soup.

The old lady likes sweet, Yao made brown sugar glutinous rice Ciba, only put half of the sugar.

There is also a vegetarian meal in xiaojingkong. Yao did not forget to put it into xiaojingkong's exquisite bowl.

She asked Gu Yan about all these things. She kept them in mind and prepared them carefully.

This is also the reason why everyone likes Yao. She always takes good care of people silently.

In addition to these meals, Yao also made a bowl of longevity noodles for his sister and brother.

There are no extra ingredients for longevity noodles, just a few scallions and a few drops of sesame oil.

But Gu Jiao feels that this bowl of longevity noodles seems to be better than other noodles. It has an indescribable taste. It warms the bottom of the heart, but the tip of the nose is sour.

She couldn't tell whether it was her own feeling or Gu Yan's feeling.

After dinner, people began to give gifts to Gu Jiao.

The first one is xiaojingkong. He is the youngest and can't wait.

He gave Gu Jiao and Gu Yan a small house made of clay. After that, he asked his bad brother-in-law to help him bake it with the fire in the stove.

In fact, he remembers that the small house he pinched was not like this. I don't know why it was deformed when it was baked.

The truth is that he pinched it so badly that Xiao LIULANG couldn't watch it. He mended it secretly and made it look better!

The door of the small house can be opened, and there are small wooden people inside. Gu Xiaoshun was asked to help carve it.

Gu Yan lives in Gu Yan's house, and Gu Jiao is said to live in Gu Jiao's house.

However, Gu Yan opened the small door and said, "Why are you in my sister's house?"

Little clearance: ah, it's found!

Yes, Xinji and xiaojingkong quietly let Gu Xiaoshun be a little wooden man of his own, and quietly put him into the delicate room!

So he can be with Jiaojiao every day!

Gu Yan is not willing to let Xiao Jingkong move out of Gu Jiao's house.

Small clearance does not move.

"This is Jiaojiao's gift, you can't destroy Jiaojiao's things!" he said solemnly

OK, I don't destroy it. I moved into the head office!

Finally, Gu Jiao, Gu Yan and Xiao Jingkong all live in Gu Jiao's house. Gu Yan's house is empty

Gu Xiaoshun sent two Buddhist scriptures he had carved.

In exchange for helping to carve a little wood for himself, Xiao Jingkong found out his clothes, put on the Buddhist beads, put on the monk's clothes, took out the little wooden fish, and devoutly did the Dharma for the Buddhist scriptures.

So this is a Buddhist Sutra that has been opened!

Gu Jiao turns over the Buddhist scriptures in her hand, which is a little inconceivable.

Gu Xiaoshun is the most reassuring child in his family, but because of this, he is easily ignored by his family.

Gu Jiao didn't know that in just a few months, he knew so many words, many of which were rare.

"Can you read it?" Gu Jiao asked.

"Well, yes." Gu Xiaoshun nodded.

The brother-in-law said that if he could not read it, he would not know how to say it when someone asked him what he had carved.

So even though it was very difficult, he still tried hard to remember these words, including their meaning.

Gu Xiaoshun saw Gu Jiao's thoughtful face and scratched her head: "sister, don't you like it?"

Gu Jiao looked up with a smile: "yes, I like it very much."

Gu Yan gave Gu Jiao a hand rope.

He bought it with his hard-earned money.

From the moment when he refused to move back to Hou's house, his father broke his monthly allowance. Gu Jiao would give him pocket money every month. He always felt a little dissatisfied that he could buy Gu Jiao a gift with the silver she gave him!

So he decided to earn it himself!

There was no work for his aunt, he couldn't copy books for his brother-in-law, and he didn't know how to carve for Gu Xiaoshun.

Small clearance has a rent of 30 Liang silver every month. It's a small local tyrant in the family.

This is how Gu Yan made money——

Feed the chicken in small clearance every day, five coppers!

Five coppers a day!

Clean chicken Baba every day, five coppers!

Every day exaggerates the small clearance, ten coppers!

He worked ten days and earned 250 coppers.

He had a crush on a pair of pearls, but the copper was not enough, so he went back and bought a hand rope with jade on it.

Gu Yan used to think that any stone in the house was worth more than these jade stones, but he didn't earn them himself.

Gu Jiao put on the hand rope. It looks good.

Gu Jiao also prepared a gift for Gu Yan. Gu Yan didn't open it in public. He wanted to go back to the house and open it secretly!

Xiao Jingkong scratched her heart and lungs. I really want to know what Jiao Jiao gave to Gu Yan!

"Where's your present, Auntie?" Gu Yan asked.

"I didn't!" The old lady turned her face.

Gu Yan hummed: "I saw it clearly. You are doing it secretly every day!"

Gu Jiao looked at the old lady.

The old lady took out a purse reluctantly and put it on the table. Then she looked at the sky and ignored people: "it's blind!"

Gu Jiao picked up her purse.

Small clearance came to have a look, surprised: "Wow! Auntie! You can also embroider ducks

What duck? That's Mandarin Duck!

It's just your sister! It's just your brother-in-law! There are also a few little duck eggs... No, they are mandarin duck eggs!

Look at the little smelly monk who took her to the wrong side!

When she was young, the Empress Dowager was a beauty. She was powerful and powerful. She didn't need to be virtuous and virtuous. It was enough to be beautiful in the harem.

Later, the Empress Dowager found that beauty was not necessary. Anyway, the emperor was blind.

So the Empress Dowager really doesn't know such things as needlework.

The Empress Dowager did not directly embroider the mandarin duck into duck eggs, which was the result of her secretly poking and embroidering many purse.

Gu Jiao's purse is really old. It's time to replace it.

The old lady looked out of the window and didn't hear anything, but her heart was fine.

Gu Jiao smile: "thank you, aunt."

Although the purse made by the old lady is not good-looking, it is very practical. It is divided into several layers, which can separate the silver note, broken silver, copper plate and small objects. In addition, it is inlaid with a special sewing bag compartment.

How can ordinary people think so carefully?

This is the Empress Dowager's love for Gu Jiao and her excellent work.

Yao made two sets of clothes for each of the two children.

When she came to the capital, Gu Jiao didn't have to go to the mountains to cut firewood. Yao made her a suit of clothes for her to work at home, and the other one was the same as the expensive girls in the capital. It was beautiful and gorgeous.

There was also a box of gifts prepared by Marquis Gu and his elder brother in the mansion. They didn't open it.

Finally, Xiao LIULANG's gift.

People are looking forward to it.

He never gives pen or paper. The whole family knows what he will give this time, not calligraphy, right?

Then Xiao LIULANG took out a brocade box.

In the crowd can't wait to watch, Gu Jiao opened the lid.

It turns out to be a bunch of copybooks!!!

Gu Jiao

All of you:

However, it seems that it is not an ordinary calligraphy. Every calligraphy is a poem.

Gu Jiao felt that the poems were excellent, though she could not read them.

Gu Jiao patiently turns over every calligraphy, but Xiao LIULANG seems to have no idea that she will turn over the calligraphy in public.

Gu Jiao turns to the end and finds that the box is specially made, with a magnolia hairpin embedded at the bottom.

Huh?

Gu Jiao's eyes all stare round.

The iron man finally knows how to give her a hairpin?

What Gu Jiao didn't know was that this hairpin was also called Ji. On this day, the elder of Zhaoguo women's family would hold her hair and give her a hairpin, which represented that the woman was mature and could be married.

Of course, if a woman marries before her 15th birthday, the hairpin ceremony will be held on her wedding day, which also means that the woman is an adult.

When Gu Jiao got married, she didn't get hairpin ceremony. Gu Jiao wouldn't bother so much for a fool, but Xiao LIULANG always had an impression.

When Yao saw the hairpin that her son-in-law had given her daughter, she immediately understood what was going on. She thought her daughter had been given hairpin gift, so she only thought today was an ordinary birthday.

My son-in-law has a heart.

Gu Jiao finally understood why this guy didn't give her a hairpin. It turned out that the hairpin was really hot.

You can't use hairpin without hairpin ceremony.

Yao's eyes suddenly Red: "Jiaojiao, I'll comb your hair."

Both Yao and the old lady combed Gu Jiao's hair in a bun. In the witness of everyone, Gu Jiao finished her hairpin ceremony.

The moon is half empty.

The prosperous market is left behind by the horse.

Gu Changqing drives his horse to a quiet alley. He turns over, dismounts and leads the horse into a quiet alley.

Unknowingly came to the familiar courtyard.

The door of the courtyard was half open, and the laughter of women and children came from time to time, accompanied by the voices of the teenagers, a happy atmosphere.

Gu Changqing at the door for a while, finally did not go in, turned to mount.

But all of a sudden, xiaojingkong ran over and squeezed out of the door: "big brother! Is that you? "

Gu Changqing turned and looked at him: "it's me."

"Clearance, who is it?" Yao opened the half closed door and saw Gu Changqing outside. Her smile was stiff.

Gu Changqing was also very surprised to see Yao here. What was more surprised was Yao's undefended smile. Although it was soon stiff, it was still seen by him.

He never knew that the depressed Yao could have such a happy time, and he just laughed like a child.

"You..." Yao's words stopped.

Xiaojingkong looked at Gu Changqing and Yao, and asked, "do you know him, benefactor Yao?"

"Benefactor?" Ordinary people can't use this kind of address. Gu Changqing looked at the little guy strangely, "are you a monk?"

Xiaojingkong seriously explained: "I was a monk before I went down the mountain! I'm not now! Benefactor Yao is a pilgrim to our temple! I see her a lot! I know her very well! Elder brother, are you here to celebrate Jiao Jiao's birthday? "

Xiaojingkong is said from his own identity. However, in Gu Changqing's ears, he thought that Yao and the little monk's family were just simple old times.

It's a coincidence that he and his stepmother should know the same friend.

Gu Changqing said seriously, "no, I'm just passing by. Do you like birds?"

Small clearance tilted his head to think: "like it!"

Gu Changqing handed him a cloth covered birdcage hanging on the saddle: "here you are."

After that, he got on his horse and left without looking back.

Xiaojingkong looked at the wind and the back, waved his hand: "thank you, big brother!"