Chapter 213: Qin Sanlang's gift

Chapter 213 Qin Sanlang’s gift

Hua'er was afraid that Gu Yumei's voice would be too loud, so she called several family members around and hurriedly stopped her: "Girl, there is no need to call the door. This servant is just here to give gifts. She will go back now. If there is anything girl wants to know, wait until my lady comes here another day. When visiting, the girl will slowly ask my young lady."

"What? Your lady is going to visit me?" Gu Yumei was so happy that she almost fainted. As a peasant girl, she could never imagine that one day she would be visited by a government lady.

Hua'er whispered: "My young lady was bored in the village, so she thought of visiting a house with a girl in the village."

Hua'er was afraid of being discovered by several family members, so she handed a box in her hand to Gu Yumei: "These are things from the girl's house. My lady gave them to her specially. She should keep them by herself."

After Hua'er finished speaking, he bowed to Gu Yumei and then hurriedly lowered his head and left.

Gu Yumei held the box and felt happy.

Fa Geer opened the courtyard door and saw his cousin looking silly and happy. He frowned and said nothing. He turned back to the courtyard and continued to grind his spices.

After a while, Gu Yumei came to her senses and hurriedly carried the two bags of spices into the yard. As soon as she arrived in the yard, she threw down the load, ran back to her house, opened the box, and took out the contents.

 In the box were twelve silk flowers of different colors. Each silk flower was made of gauze and was extremely beautiful.

Gu Yumei was so happy that she held the box and laughed in the room. The laughter was so loud that it scared Fa Geer who was sitting in the yard grinding spices. He whispered in a low voice: "Brother is right, Sister Yumei." If she is really sick, I still won’t play with her.”

 Gu Yumei was happy for most of an hour because she received the gift from the official lady. It was not until Chen closed the stall and went home that she came out of the house and started to prepare the spices.

But when she was happy, she forgot about the portions Gu Jinli mentioned, which made Mrs. Chen so angry that she pointed at her and cursed: "You can't even remember the portions, what else do you think you can do? Xiaoyu finally prepared the spices." Tell us the weight, you idiot, you forgot about it in the blink of an eye."

After scolding Gu Yumei, Mrs. Chen ran to Gu Jinli's house and asked again about the ingredients. Then she went home and mixed cinnamon and cloves with Gu Yumei.

When it was getting dark, Gu Jinan and Brother Cheng went to several houses to call people and asked them to go to his house to have dinner for the Qin brothers and Luo Wu.

Several families took their families to Gu Jinli's house for a meal.

 When dinner started, Mrs. Cui brought a bowl of noodles and two red eggs to Gu Jinli on a wooden tray. Only then did everyone realize that today was Gu Jinli's eleventh birthday.

 Gu Jinli was born on March 19th. She remembered her birthday, but in her memory, the Cui family never celebrated her birthday. In the first month of the first month, Cui didn't tell Gu Jinxiu and Gu Jinan their birthdays, and Gu Jinli didn't want to get into trouble, so he didn't mention it. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Cui also made longevity noodles and red eggs for her.

"Xiaoyu, my mother made this specially for you. Eat it quickly or it won't get lumpy." Gu Jinxiu said from the side.

Gu Jinli looked at Mrs. Cui, smiled at her and said, "Thank you, mother."

 Although she didn't like noodles very much and Cui's noodles were not very tasty, she still finished them quickly.

 I also ate two red eggs.

 Qin Sanlang only knew at this moment that today was Gu Jinli's birthday. He was very sorry. If he had known it earlier, he could have prepared a birthday gift for Gu Jinli.

“It turns out that today we are not only practicing for Erlang Sanlang and Brother Wu, but also celebrating Xiaoyu’s birthday.” Gu Dalin said with a smile: “Then you must have a bowl.”

As he said that, he already picked up the bowl and said to Gu Dashan: "Brother Dashan, come on, let's go one by one."

Gu Dalshan smiled honestly and drank a bowl of wine with Gu Dalin.

The family had a meal happily. After eating, they talked to the Qin brothers and Luo Wu and explained the things they needed to pay attention to before starting to calculate the accounts of today's stall. Gu Jinan is busy now. He knew that Gu Dexing wanted to settle accounts with him, so he asked Gu Dexing to settle the accounts of the tofu stall in the town on the day the workshop opened.

From now on, Gu Dexing will handle the accounts of the tofu stall in the town, while Gu Jinan will only be in charge of the workshop's accounts.

In this way, Gu Dexing was happy. Gu Jinan himself was not so tired and could have more time to study.

Gu Dafu was very grateful for this and thanked Gu Dashan in private. After returning home, he taught Gu Dexing a lesson again, asking him to learn from Gu Jinan and not waste such a good opportunity.

Gu Dexing agreed. As soon as Gu Jinan came home these two days, he came to Gu's house and learned to do accounts from Gu Jinan. Now he has learned some clues and is no longer as busy as he was the previous two days.

　　After the families divided the money, they went home.

Luo Wu didn't really want to go back. He wanted to talk to Gu Jinxiu several times, but was stopped by Mrs. Chu. Mrs. Chu glared at him and told him not to do anything stupid.

There are so many people. If he openly talks to Sister Xiu, if things don’t work out in the future, wouldn’t it ruin Sister Xiu’s reputation?

Luo Wu was afraid of the Chu family, so he couldn't bear to talk to Gu Jinxiu and went home angrily.

The family was going to see the Qin brothers and Luo Wu off tomorrow and went to bed early. The four Gu Jinli brothers and sisters also took a bath and went to bed after playing a set of fists and kicks in the yard.

 But in the middle of the night, Gu Jinli heard a strange rooster crow.

The sound sounded like a rooster crowing at first, but if you listened carefully, you could tell it was a human voice, or someone you knew.

She got up, put on her clothes, left the house, walked around to the back of Qin's house, and saw Qin Sanlang as expected.

She yawned and said, "Brother Qin, you stayed up in the middle of the night, what do you call a chicken?"

Hearing this, Qin Sanlang was a little hesitant and grabbed the thing in his hand. He didn't know whether he should give it to her or not.

 Gu Jinli saw something in his hand through the moonlight in the sky, so he stretched out his hand and said, "What are you holding in your hand? Is it a birthday gift for me?"

 When you come to give me a birthday gift, just say it straight away. If you are so hesitant, are you still afraid that she won't accept it?

 And the bag looks quite big, so it’s probably a big gift.

When Qin Sanlang heard this, he could only look up at Gu Jinli and whispered: "I am indeed here to give you a birthday gift, but this gift is a bit special. I don't know if I should give it to you?"

"You just called me out without thinking about it. I was just about to fall asleep." Gu Jinli complained and asked him again: "What kind of gift is it? It makes you so embarrassed to give it to me?"

Qin Sanlang explained: "It is an iron roll that can restrain my family."

"If my family becomes rich, if you take this thing out, you can exchange it for countless gold and silver from my family; if my family suffers from disaster, you can take this thing to the Yamen and make a big contribution."

This is compensation for him using her to drag their family into the quagmire.

"What gift is so amazing?" Gu Jinli's eyes sparkled when he heard it. He stared at the bag in Qin Sanlang's hand and said, "Stop talking nonsense, open the bag and let me see."

 (End of this chapter)