Blissful Days After Widowhood

    The group set off at dawn, and they did not meet people from the old dynasty on the way, and finally rushed back to Hanshan Town that night.

    The members of the rebel army led by the white-skinned boy did not stay long, and they were safely delivered to the gate of the Wen family mansion, and immediately turned to leave.

    The night-time servants of Wen's family were as happy as the Chinese New Year when they saw that Mr. Wen and Mr. Wen's second came back with all their heads and tails.

    Master Wen came out immediately when he heard the sound.

    Seeing that Mrs. Wen was taken into the house by her family, Gu Yin and the others should also review the house.

    However, not long after the carriage turned around, it encountered Wang who was looking for it with a lantern.

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    "Mother, I'm here!" Shopkeeper Zhou stopped the carriage, Gu Yin lifted the curtain and stuck his head out.

    "Hey! Don't get off." Wang trotted forward, and got on the back of the carriage with hands and feet.

    When she got into the car, Wang rubbed Gu Yin from head to toe, then clenched her hand tightly and said repeatedly, "Just come back, just come back!"

    Wang explained: "Just across the street, I was talking to Uncle Zhong at the door."

    The two are not far away, and the carriage stopped at the entrance of Gu's house.

    Gu Yin got off the carriage with Mrs Wang and Shopkeeper Zhou, while Master Yuan drove the carriage home by himself.

    At the gate of Gu's house, not only Uncle Zhong was waiting, Song Shiliu and Wu An, Gu Ye, Xu Chuzi and his two young apprentices, and even Tian's mother and daughter did not sleep. Welcomed out.

    "Mother!"

    "Sister-in-law!"

    The two little guys rushed over together like two small cannonballs.

    Gu Yin opened her arms to catch them, rubbed them one by one, then looked at Gu Ye and said with a smile: "Why are you dressed like this?"

    Wu An didn't change much, just a little taller and thinner, but Gu Ye changed a lot, wearing that **** cloak with a hood, and cutting thickness like Gu Yin The bangs and the ashes, as if they had experienced another wandering. As he was about to walk, Gu Yin might not be able to recognize him at a glance.

    "I want to be like my mother." Gu Ye said in a nasal voice.

    Since he had his mother, he has not been separated from his mother for such a long time.

    Sometimes Gu Ye is also very afraid, afraid that he will forget the mother's appearance like he can't remember the things when he was a child. That's why he insisted on dressing like this.

    That means he also went to the mountain to inquire about her news like this before?

    When the general saw him like this, would he think that the mother and son were so ugly?

    Thinking like this, Gu Yin could not help bending her lips, and when she saw everyone came out to greet her with a smile, her eyes became even hotter, "How come everyone is not sleeping?"

    "Oh, it's good for Master to come back, it's good to come back." Chef Xu covered his face and cried like a twenty-eighth-nine child.

    Although Tian's mother and daughter had the latest contact with Gu Yin, they also whimpered and cried together at this time.

    "Everyone is back, why are you crying? Go, let's go inside and talk." Mrs. Wang directed everyone to enter.

    And she never let go of Gu Yin's hand from beginning to end, obviously not as calm as she showed.

    Forget about Wu An and Gu Ye, they seem to stick to Gu Yin. When she got to the main hall, she was pressed down by Wang and sat down. The two little guys didn't even look for a place to sit, so they leaned on her from left to right.

    Song Shiliu greeted Song Pomegranate again, and the two quickly came over from the kitchen, one carrying water, grapefruit leaves in the water basin, and the other carrying burning charcoal brazier.

    "Come on, cross the brazier. I forgot when I first came in, and now I cross it again!"

    Although Gu Yin didn't believe this, but seeing that Wang's preparations were long ago, she still stepped over the brazier according to her words.

    Afterwards, Mrs. Wang dipped the pomelo leaf in water and slapped Gu Yin on the head and body, and then handed the pomelo leaf to the shopkeeper Zhou and asked him to slap it on himself, and finally twist it The handkerchief was handed to Gu Yin, "Wipe it first, the water is clean."

    Song Shiliu said by the side: "The old lady burns grapefruit water every day, once in the morning, noon and evening. This water is only boiled at night."

    Gu Yin wiped her face, Wang Shi stood behind her again and took a small comb to brush up her pot lid bangs.

    Gu Yin knows that her mother-in-law is the same as her, and she likes to find something to do when she is in a mood, so although she will definitely take it apart in a while and make her hair bun, so she still takes care of it. Dressed by her.

    Treasurer Zhou has already started talking about what happened these days. Although the two of them went out for a month and a half, the situation was not complicated. They were both responsible for cooking at the beginning, and finally participated in the escape plan.

    "Hey! I knew your method would definitely work." Wang Shi turned around again and wiped his eyes.

    After the youth negotiated with Gu Yin and Mrs. Wen at that time, Mrs. Wen was responsible for deceiving Mr. Wen Er and asked him to come forward to deal with the commander who went to buy food, while the youth entrusted Gu Ye to pass the letter Back to Hanshan Town.

     Mr. Wang led Chef Xu and the kitchen knife and chopping board, and worked together with the Wen family and the rest of the family, and finally handled the food left by the second elders of the Wang family before the appointed time.

    After speaking, it was really late, Mr. Wang sent everyone to rest first.

    "I'm a little hungry, do you want a late-night snack?" Gu Yin said and went to the kitchen.

    Wang held her back, "There are ready-made ones at home, don't be too busy. Take a bath first, and then eat after washing."

    No need for Gu Yin to make any further arrangements, Wang Shi and Song Shiliu made hot water together and placed the bath tub.

    Gu Yin took off her gray dress and soaked it in hot water, only to feel that every pore was ironed, and immediately sighed comfortably.

    Being outside for more than a month, she doesn't wash her hands once a day or two at home, she acts like a thief every time she takes a bath, she hurries out after a quarter of an hour.

      It was frighteningly heavy, and thanks to her working in the kitchen, she would be warm by sitting by the stove for half the morning.

    It’s a good day at home, but it’s hard to go out for a while?

    She leaned on the tub, so comfortable that she was drowsy. Later, she noticed that Mrs. Wang came in lightly and took away the dirty clothes she had changed, and washed her hair again. Yin was too lazy to open her eyes, so she just let her play with it.

    Being so lazy, she really fell asleep, and she didn't even know how to get back to the bed.

    After so many days of trepidation and rushing all day, Gu Yin slept until the next morning.

    Before closing her eyes and staring at her, Gu Yin noticed that someone was looking at her.

    As soon as they turned their heads, Wang Shi, Song Shiliu, Wu An, and Gu Ye were all squatting on the head of the bed, looking at her with their hands on their cheeks.

    "What is this for?" Gu Yin stretched her waist amusedly.

    "Who knows about them, they don't make people worry." Wang shi stood up, beating his sore legs and complaining.

    "Don't talk about us, we are still sleeping!"

    "That's right," Wu An also whispered with Gu Ye, "sister-in-law, I don't know, we slept for half the night yesterday, and my mother said to accompany you to take a bath, so I just stayed in your room and didn't sleep all night. ."

    "I still don't remember, or we'll lie down together for a while?"

    The bed she is sleeping on was made a few years ago. It is a solid wood canopy bed that imitates a modern style. It does not have as many decorations as the beds of large families now, but it is very spacious, about three meters wide. .

    When the two little guys heard this, they took off their coats, stepped on their shoes, and immediately climbed up.

    Wang Shi and Song Shiliu didn't go up, one sat at the head of the bed and the other at the end of the bed.

    Gu Yin knew that they were still worried about herself, so she simply told them what happened before. Of course, she mentioned everything that happened between the young man and her. She didn't say much. She only said that she accidentally discovered that the helpers in the kitchen were volunteers. Finally, she cooperated with them and escaped with Mrs. Wen and the others.

    Although they have heard it once, Mr. Wang and the others still listened attentively.

    "That ugly-faced uncle is really powerful in martial arts." Gu Ye slapped his mother again, "When I grow up, I will be so powerful, to protect my mother."

    "What did Ono say about the ugly uncle? Is that the rebel general you said?"

    Gu Yin recalled that before parting, the birthmark on his face fell off. Although the blood on his face still made it difficult to see his true face, the raised red scar near the cochlea Conspicuous indeed.

    "It's the one in the rumors, but he won't do such cruel things." Speaking of which, Gu Yin couldn't help laughing, "At that time he pretended to be deaf and mute, and I still I was talking in front of him, saying that I had only heard of people tearing chicken and cabbage by hand, but I didn't know how to tear a living person..."

    "That ugly-faced uncle is not bad." Gu Ye praised people rarely, "With great martial arts, people are not fierce."

    "Okay, okay, let's not talk about those unlucky things." Wang waved his hand, although it was a new dynasty, but the rumored evil general was really scary, and such a big man It is not a good thing for the little people like their own to have entanglements.

    Then Wang urged Gu Yin to rest.

    I lay down at home for five consecutive days, until the news came from the front line that the three thousand rebels had already defeated the imperial guards of the old dynasty, and there were only a few remaining parties to the south. flee.

    When this kind of great news came, the people of Hanshan Town who had been silent for a few months were all excited as if they were celebrating the New Year.

    Tian's mother and daughter moved back to Zhenyi Lane, and Shopkeeper Zhou, Chef Xu and Chopping Board also lived in the backyard of Shiweitian.

    Gu Yin couldn't be idle anymore, and called the shopkeeper Zhou to discuss the reopening.

    Shiweitian closed in spring, now it's June, which means half a year has passed, and my store has only been open for two months.

    Although Mrs Wang had the heart to let her slow down, she had not had any wounds on her body before, except that there were two shallow blood marks on the palm of her hand, which were worn by the reins. Seeing that she was in good condition, she didn't stop her.

    It was midsummer, and on the day of resumption of business, Gu Yin first launched the ice drink that was launched last summer. This time, it is no longer just iced, but it can be directly added with ice cubes. At the same time, it is launched again. New product - shaved ice.

    This time the ice was not hoarded by Mr. Wen Er, but she hoarded it by herself last winter. One large cellar stores cheap river ice, and the other small cellar stores clean ice cubes that can be imported.

      Just for these ices, Shiweitian can't miss the summer business.

    Shaved ice is easy to make with ice that you can eat.

    The whole piece of ice is smashed into ice **** with scorpions. Guests can choose to add watermelon juice, sour plum soup, milk tea or pure milk with only sugar according to their own tastes.

    The price of shaved ice is not close to the people, a small portion is 20 cents, if you add milk or milk tea, you have to add another ten cents.

    Cold drinks with ice cubes are also more expensive than usual.

    But this time, Gu Yin didn't have to bother to publicize it, the guests were willing to pay for the money automatically - it was daytime when she was invited away from the house by the palace servants, although many people were afraid to go there On the street, but there are also many people who are concerned about their own safety and always pay attention to the trend of the abolition of the emperor, so Gu Yin was taken to Wen's house on the front foot, and she knew it from the back foot.

    After abolishing the emperor and leaving Hanshan Town, the people did not know that the Guards were still in ambush, but when the rain passed and the sky was fine, they gradually returned to their previous living habits.

    Zhiweitian has not opened for business, and the gate of Gu's house is also closed. When I go to Wen's house to inquire, I know that she has been taken away with Shopkeeper Zhou and Master Yuan.

      No one knows.

    Now Gu Yin is a cook for the emperor!

    Although that was the absconded emperor who escaped, but the tongue must be cunning, the emperor is willing to take the cook by his side, who dares to say that the food is expensive for twenty or thirty cents?

    Since the reopening in June, there will be no more vacancies for the whole month. Ice drinks and shaved ice are especially good - after all, with so many people sitting in one place, even if there is an ice tub in the store, it will be very hot. Eating a bowl of ice-cold shaved ice or a cold drink with ice cubes is just the way to relieve the heat.

    The business is over today, and the guys are busy cleaning up. In the past, although there were many people eating for the day, hygiene was not difficult to do. Not only are there more people now, but there is also a storyteller, who is talking about what happened after the Emperor Abolition came to Hanshan Town.

    The storyteller is not aimless, the people have genuine authorization, and the content is taught by Master Wen Er.

    Master Wen Er heard that there were so many people that food was the best thing to do, so he saw this business opportunity and led the storyteller to find Gu Yin.

    I heard that books must be paid, five cents a person, how can you earn several hundred cents a day.

    "How about the two-eighth account?" At that time, Mr. Wen Er asked Gu Yin with his thin beard, "Or Sanqi?"

    Although Gu Yin had a bad impression of Mr. Wen Er before, but in the end we have overcome difficulties together, and this is also a win-win situation, so I should accept it.

    As soon as this temporary storytelling field opened, it was really in the morning before it opened, and queues started at the door.

    After a day, the melon seed skins in the store are almost less than the toes of a human shoe.

    But this melon seed snack is also sold for food, the more things to be cleaned, the better the business! So no one was bothered.

     After the shopkeeper Zhou finished his work, he went to ask Gu Yin about the expansion of the scale.

      Later, the decree of the new dynasty was promulgated, and the tax became an acceptable level for everyone, so the business was started again.

    Now it is not possible to directly buy the shop next door. If you want to expand the scale, one is to relocate, and the other is to choose a larger place to open a branch.

      Fair prices for sale and rent.

    This is a great opportunity!

    In the past, Gu Yin was more active than anyone else, but the shopkeeper Zhou told her that day, but she was a little distracted and her eyes fell on the door.

    Thanks to the shopkeeper Zhou for being close to her, she was not angry, but said, "The owner is still...let's not wait for that one."

    "Who said I was waiting for him?" Gu Yin retracted her thoughts and said with a smile, "I'm actually still thinking about what the shopkeeper said. After all, the location is a big deal. Beijing is a good choice, but we know very little about both places.”

    Treasurer Zhou couldn't help but think, I didn't say who I was waiting for, so the owner answered directly, but was it still in my heart?

    But he was also afraid that it would be annoying to say too much, so he did not mention it again, but said: "I think the capital is better, I am a capital person after all. I am a little ashamed to say it, leave The homeland these years, at this age, I am already a little concerned about it."

    Beijing? Gu Yin lowered her eyes.

    In fact, she also thinks that the capital is better, at the foot of the emperor, the center of a country, and no matter what dynasty or generation, she has never heard that the people of the capital will suffer when there is turmoil. In the past, she thought that Hanshan Town was very good, but this time she realized how passive the remote town was in this age when the news was not well-informed.

    But if you go to the capital, isn't that the same place as that person?

    Gu Yin didn't know what she was struggling with - in mid-June, she heard that the rebels had won a big victory, and the class returned to the court. That person passed by Hanshan Town nearby. Even if he had military affairs at the time, it was inconvenient to come to see her. Now that more than half a month has passed, even if he returns to Beijing to report his work, he should spare his hands and feet.

    She didn't want to do anything with him, she just felt that the relationship between the two was somewhat different, and it was always necessary to report peace.

    Is she unilaterally self-indulgent, or is she just as worried as Mrs. Wen, that person already has a family, so...

    It was also a coincidence that they just mentioned the capital here, and the next day Mrs. Wen sent someone to pick up Gu Yin, and they were talking about going to the capital.

    Although Mr. Wen is a minister of the old dynasty, but this time, he received the favor of the rebels, which means that he has virtually accepted the olive branch of the other party.

    And now that he has figured it out, who is he to be a courtier? No matter who he is to be the emperor, he will never be worse than Emperor Longqing who thinks that the pigs and dogs in the city are inferior. He is old, but there are two generations of Master Wen and Wen Lang, and now is a good opportunity to recover.

    Mr. Wen was about to go to Beijing after August 15th and asked Gu Yin if she wanted to go with her.

    Gu Yingang said: "It's a coincidence that the shopkeeper Zhou also told me to go to the capital."

    Master Wen Er, who was standing aside, laughed first.

    The old man didn't like to pay attention to him in the past. Since he came back this time, he felt that although his temperament was crooked, he was not bad at the root. He still wanted to correct him, so he often brought him by his side.

    In this area, Mr. Wen was also angry with him.

    Like the old master Wen Er who was busy, he often talked about old and new dynasties in his mouth, Mrs. Wen thought that he was suddenly enlightened after a major event, but when he asked carefully, he actually Is making up a storybook to find someone to tell stories to make money.

    I earn a few hundred wen a day, and it will be 20 or 30 taels of silver in a month, and 30% will be given to Gu Yin. .

    Twenty and thirty taels are not a big sum for Gu Yin now, let alone the Wen family, a small sum of money that is not worth mentioning.

    Master Wen Er is already forty, if it is not for the men of the Wen family who all get married late, he should be a grandfather now, because a little Qian Le’s tail is about to be lifted into the sky, but it’s not Let Mrs. Wen hate that iron is not steel?

    Listening to his smile, Mrs. Wen angrily asked him why he was smiling?

    Master Wen Er immediately stopped laughing, but the corners of his mouth could not stop rising, "Don't laugh, just think Dad is right," and said to Gu Yin: "Miss Gu, don't hesitate, the capital is good. This place! How can you only stick to this small Hanshan Town with such a good craftsmanship? You should go to a place like the capital to shine!"

    The words are good words, and when combined with the mouse-stealing smile of Master Wen Er, it seems very wrong.

    Gu Yin said helplessly: "Even if you really go to the capital, now Shiweitian will not go out of business."

    Hanshan Town was the first place that gave her warmth after passing through. No matter where she does her business in the future, this is her hometown.

    And when she was resting at home, she had nothing to do. She and Shopkeeper Zhou stared at Chef Xu and his two young apprentices to practice basic skills. Even after they leave, they can support the business of cheap fast food in the store.

    As soon as these words came out, the smile on Mr. Wen Er's face instantly collapsed.

    That is the shop he has been thinking about for two years!

    Fortunately, his father and eldest brother are going back to the capital, and the family's ancestral property will still be returned to him.

    The corners of Mr. Wen's mouth were about to go up again, but he heard Mrs. Wen angrily saying, "Do you care whether girl Gu will withdraw the lease or not? Anyway, your family has to go back to Beijing with me. of."

    "I'm not going!" Wen Er raised his voice in a hurry, seeing the old man's face ashen, his eyes rolled around, and immediately added: "Father and eldest brother, even eldest nephew, Kyoto is for the imperial court, and it has to do big things! What am I going to do? I can’t do anything like that when I’m eating idle meals at home. I’m good at taking care of my ancestral property at home…”

    Every time he said a sentence, Mr. Wen's face darkened, and finally Mr. Wen's voice became lower and lower until he dared not speak any more.

    In front of Gu Yin, Mrs. Wen didn't scold him any more, but she made up her mind to take him away.

    After she came out of Wen's house, Gu Yin didn't bother anymore. She wasn't someone who was a bully, and she was the capital, so let's go and have a look! Look at the shop, and look at the person. If you really want to find out clearly that the other party doesn't mean that, or has a family, you won't be bothered anymore. The capital is not a small place, and it is possible to never meet again in a lifetime.

    And Gu Yin had already prepared for the worst, and attributed this never-before-seen feeling to the "suspension bridge reaction", thinking that it was a chance meeting, not a deep feeling, it would eventually meet Attributed to bland.

    After returning, Gu Yin announced that she would go to Beijing with Mrs. Wen after the Mid-Autumn Festival to inspect the new store.

    When Wang Shi heard this, his first reaction was just right!

    The former Xu Shi told her that Xu Qingchuan would end when the new dynasty opened up to the Enke.

    He has been preparing for many years, and he will definitely be able to take the test. He will enter Beijing for the Jinshi test next year.

    If he went to the capital and Gu Yin stayed in Hanshan Town, wouldn't the marriage between the two families be lost?

    Now is the time to worry about that.

    Wang shi and Xu shi gave each other a frantic wink, and after the wink, the two laughed together, and their mouths could not be closed.

    When Gu Yin met, she would inevitably ask them what they were doing.

    Opening another store will certainly not make them happy.

    "Nothing!" Wang said.

    These days she found that Gu Yin was always distracted and asked her what was wrong, but she couldn't say why.

    After asking the old doctor to see her and confirming that she was not sick, Wang guessed that the current situation had affected her - although Gu Yin said that the situation was not critical at the time, but she was an Annunciation The temperament of not reporting worries is really dangerous and she is unwilling to tell her.

    Thinking about this stall, Gu Yin didn't want to think about those things, Wang Shi didn't mention Xu Qingchuan at the moment, only said: "Then let's go back to Batou Village? Burn some paper money."

    Because she didn't know the anniversary of her husband and eldest son's death, the Wang family burned ingot paper clothes for them every year on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

    After all, in the tradition, the gate of ghosts is wide open during the Mid-Yuan Festival, even the wandering ghosts without graves can enjoy the things burned by their family members.

    And Wang Shi was also going to formally tell them about her preparation for Gu Yinxun's marriage that day.

    Gu Yin had long agreed with the Wang family that she would go back to her hometown to set up a tomb for the Wu family father and son, so of course there was nothing wrong.

    After the discussion, at the beginning of July, Gu Yin asked the shopkeeper Zhou to look after the shop, and the family set off from Hanshan Town.

    Although it is said outside that the army of the New Dynasty has wiped out all the bandits, the world is much more peaceful. Especially in the vicinity of Hanshan Town, the Rebel Army chased and suppressed the deposed emperor, and by the way removed all those cancerous tumors, it was even safer.

    But to be on the safe side, Gu Yin still asked everyone to change into coarse clothes, and gave some silver money to catch a ride with the **** bureau in Hanshan Town. They send it back.

    The horses of the **** are strictly selected, and their feet are much faster than ordinary horses.

    In the beginning, they walked from Batou Village to Hanshan Town for more than a month, but this time it took only ten days to go back.

    On the tenth day of the seventh lunar month, Gu Yin and Wang Shi brought two little guys back to Batou Village, a familiar and unfamiliar village.