Farm Gate Business Tycoon

Chapter 18: Dowry (1)
"Oh?" Gu Liushi immediately became happy when he heard what he said, and hurriedly grabbed a handful of copper coins from the purse and put them on Zhang Blind's hexagram table. "So, thank you for your good words. If my fourth son can really win the gold list, I will definitely thank you again then!"

"Then it's settled!" Blind Zhang smiled and sent Gu Liushi away.

Mrs. Gu Liu returned home in the donkey cart driven by her old man, with a proud face on her face. When she got home, she took out the money without even changing her clothes, and called Gu Shaotong over, "Shaotong, go, go up!" The grocery store will buy half a catty of wine for your grandfather, cut up a catty of cooked beef, and buy two taels of peanuts."

Gu Shaotong took the money and went shopping.

Gu Qingmei had been thinking about this all the time, when she heard the voice of her parents coming back, she hurriedly put down the paintbrush in her hand, ran to Dongli Room and asked, "Mother, seeing you are so happy, is everything going well?"

"It's not just smooth!" Gu Liushi took off the fur-embellished beanie on her body, sat down on the edge of the kang, her eyelashes bloomed happily when she smiled. "That blind man not only rejected your third aunt's marriage as I wanted, but also told me that your fourth brother will definitely be named on the gold list, and he also said that your fourth brother will soon marry a Good wife."

Gu Qingmei was not very convinced about fortune-telling, so she didn't take it seriously after hearing her words, but she still said: "Fourth brother has outstanding literary talent, unless the examiner cheats, otherwise, with fourth brother's literary talent, the gold list A title is inevitable."

She never thought that the fourth brother would definitely be named on the gold list. Her family has no money and no power. No matter how good the article is, it is vulnerable to power and money.From ancient times to the present, there have been endless incidents of cheating in the examination room, not to mention the ancient times, even the modern times she lived in before. As long as there are people with money, knowledge is not important at all.

Gu Qingyang took a bath every five days, and the time passed in the blink of an eye, because Gu Yunbai had been tidying up the cultivated land at home, so he didn't have time to go out for a walk, but Gu Qinglei took the time to drive the donkey cart to the city to pick up Gu Qingyang. .

Although Gu Qinglei's family also needed to prepare the land, but fortunately his family rented two acres of land and had less work, so they had more time.

He and Gu Qingyang have always had a good relationship. Although they are cousins, they studied together in the free school in the village since they were young, so they are very talkative.

In fact, there are a lot of walkers in the city, but when they come back from the city, they get ten copper coins, which can buy two catties of noodles. Gu Qinglei knows that his second aunt's family has never been rich, so he is kind and willing to help bring Gu Qingyang back. It's just to save his family some money and bring some daily necessities to the family by the way.

The friendship between the two brothers is there, Gu Qingyang didn't thank him, got out of the car, went into the house, found Gu Liushi, and asked without thinking about changing clothes: "Mother, what happened to that matter? "

"Don't worry." Seeing her son, Gu Liushi was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth. "It's all settled. There are your sister-in-law and your second sister-in-law in front of you. Mother will never dare to wrong you. This time, I have to choose a sweet one for you. Shaotong, Shaotong, go, go up." Buy mutton for [-] yuan from the grocery store, and our family will eat dumplings stuffed with mutton tonight."

Gu Qingyang breathed a sigh of relief, and then changed out of Mr. Wen Sheng's robe on his body, carefully folded it, put it on the kang, and then scrambled to help Mrs. Gu Liu with work.

Filling the water tank with water, he walked into the Xili room, ready to warm up by the fire, but saw a colorful meticulous heavy-color painting on the table, a blue-green peacock with its tail open, looking forward to life. Standing among the colorful peonies, the posture is lifelike. Around the peacock, there are birds with colorful feathers and flying butterflies. The whole painting is shockingly gorgeous.

He couldn't help being a little stunned, "Meizi, did you draw this?"

"En! Fourth brother is back!" Gu Qingmei nodded with a smile, put down the paintbrush in her hand, and felt that the sky was getting dark, so she struck flint and lit the oil lamp.

Gu Qingyang stood by the table, looked at the painting with some fascination, and said: "This painting is so good, I am reluctant to sell it."

Gu Qingmei smiled and said: "Fourth brother, you have to know one thing, everything is fake, only money is real, when we have money and you want such a painting, I will paint it for you."

Gu Qingmei took a stack of drawing papers from the table and unfolded them one by one. The drawing papers were all lined with white drawing techniques. She pieced the drawing papers together, as if they made a picture of a rich peony with a peacock spreading its tail. The difference from that painting is that this painting is not colored.

Gu Qingmei said: "There are still two more pieces that can be made into a whole picture. When the time comes, you can take these flower shapes, together with the picture I paired with lewdness, to the embroidery shop to see if they can be sold for a good price. "

Gu Qingyang said: "Don't talk about Xiuzhuang, just this painting, if you take it to the painting studio, you can sell it for at least a dozen taels of silver. If it can make you famous, it will be a hundred taels of silver, and some people are willing to spend it."

Gu Qingmei couldn't help looking at him with curious eyes, she didn't expect that her fourth brother, who only knew how to read, knew about hype.

Gu Qingyang patted her head. Her head was always given medicine on time and wrapped in a fine white cloth. It was just because Wang Pingxian was just an ordinary doctor in the countryside, and the medicines in the medical clinic were all ordinary medicines. It can't be used, so her recovery from injuries is a bit slow.

He asked distressedly: "Is it better?"

Gu Qingmei pursed her lips and nodded, "It's much better, it's just prickly and throbbing."

"I'm the one who made you tired."

Gu Qingmei smiled and said: "We are brothers and sisters, what are you talking about, but mother said, Zhang Blind will tell you a fortune, saying that you will definitely be named on the gold list, and when you become an official, just remember to take good care of me."

"Silly girl, how could it be so easy to become an official?" Gu Qingyang sighed and said quietly.

"We have no roots, no jobs, and no backers. Even if we barely enter the officialdom, we can only be a seventh-rank sesame official at most. Didn't you see the eldest brother-in-law? Jinshi No. 16, but he has been a seventh-rank official for ten years. The county magistrate has been transferred three times, but they have always been transferred at the same level. Every time the place is more remote and poorer. I just thought, if I get a job, I can protect my family at least. It’s a pity that I don’t have the skills, no I will make money, and if you are tired, you will pay for my education.”

He said, thinking in his heart, it's a pity that the world is peaceful now, if there is a war, maybe he can fight for his future.Although he is a literary scholar, he learned kung fu from his grandfather since he was a child, and his kung fu is not bad. Now he is just discussing with Qing Lei, one for writing and one for martial arts. Just one.

If you are unlucky and both of them are useless, then you just have to find another way out.

(End of this chapter)