Chapter 33 Private School Borrowing Money Frustrated
After dinner, Tong Huaqiong rolled up his sleeves and decided to get to work.
She walked into her room carrying basins and jars, tore open the outer packaging of the butter, milk powder, sugar, condensed milk and other ingredients that Maner had taken out of the space, and put them into the basins and jars according to categories.
For things like butter that need to be stored in the refrigerator, just put it in a bowl and melt it, since you will be using it soon anyway.
Store sugar, milk powder, nuts in a jar and use them slowly.
Condensed milk can be stored for a long time without unpacking.
Tong Huaqiong stuffed the torn packaging bag under the bed, intending to destroy the body when the moon was dark and the wind was strong.
After doing all this, Tong Huaqiong wiped her hands, carried the basin out of the room and returned to the kitchen.
Liu Yue'e went to Liu's house to return the money, Gu Dashu went to Gu Baishuang, and Gu Jingzhe went somewhere. Tong Huaqiong didn't have time to take care of him, and Gu Taohua didn't get up, so only Chen Sufen was helping in the kitchen.
"Mom, I want to go to town." Gu Taohua got up and walked to the kitchen door and said to Tong Huaqiong.
Tong Huaqiong looked Gu Taohua up and down.
Today, Gu Taohua is wearing a new dress, a hairpin and pearl flowers on her head, and blush on her face. She had a good sleep last night, so she is full of energy.
Tong Huaqiong guessed something in her heart.
"Why are you going to town? You're not setting up the stall today." Tong Huaqiong asked.
Gu Taohua felt quite uncomfortable under Tong Huaqiong's scrutiny. She twisted her skirt and said, "Third brother went to the private school in town to borrow money. He hasn't been home for three or four days. I want to go to the private school to see if there is anything that has delayed him."
Tong Huaqiong stared at Gu Taohua with sharp eyes.
Coaxing ghosts!
When did Gu Taohua and Gu Jingzhe start to act like brother and sister? There is no need to dress like this even if she goes to the private school to find Gu Jingzhe.
It was obvious that he wanted to meet the scholar Fan Tong under the pretext of looking for Gu Jingzhe.
"Your third brother is already so grown up, he doesn't need your care. There are so many things to do at home, and we can't find anyone to help. We still need you to help make cakes at home."
"You can't go anywhere today except staying at home," said Tong Huaqiong.
Gu Taohua looked disappointed.
When she saw Fan Tong yesterday, she had a lot to say to him, but because Tong Huaqiong was there, she didn't have time to say it.
I thought I would go to the town today to look for Fan Tong in the name of looking for my third brother, but Tong Huaqiong forbade me to go out.
Gu Taohua had already found out everything as early as the first time she met Fan Tong when she went to the private school to visit her third brother.
Fan Tong lives in Yueliangwan, a village next door. Like her, he has no father. He has a widowed mother and a younger sister. His family relies on the support of his clan to support his studies.
Ever since she met Fan Tong, Gu Taohua has looked down on other young men in the village.
The young men in the village speak rudely and only know how to farm. They are not as knowledgeable and sensible as a scholar like Fan Tong.
Her second brother always laughed at her for being single even at the age of fourteen. She refused to accept this and had already set her sights on Fan Tong.
She had to find a scholar to compete with her.
"Come here and peel the walnuts."
Tong Huaqiong ignored Gu Taohua's depressed mood and arranged for her to work.
Gu Taohua pursed her lips, moved a stool over with a look of grievance, sat down and started cracking walnuts.
Tong Huaqiong decided to make date cakes, chestnut cakes, date paste cakes, butter biscuits, mung bean cakes, as well as honey three-knife, sachima, sheep horn honey and other pastries that combine modern traditions and are easy to make.
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"Madam, why has your evil stepmother changed her nature? Don't tell me there is something fishy going on."
After Mrs. Fei sent Gu Dashu out, she came back and saw fifty taels of silver on the table in front of Gu Baishuang, and couldn't help but say.
The sun really did rise in the west. Widow Tong actually refused to accept the money from the Nie family and even asked Gu Dashu to bring the explosive news. The news shocked the lady and she has not yet recovered.
Mrs. Fei replaced the cold tea in Gu Baishuang's hand with hot tea, and Gu Baishuang came back to her senses only after holding the hot tea.
The black-hearted stepmother had changed so much that Gu Baishuang didn't know what attitude to adopt towards her for a moment.
Gu Dashu came to Nie's house early in the morning. She didn't want to see him at first, but Gu Dashu called her at the door and said he was here to return the silver, so Gu Baishuang had no choice but to call her in.
Gu Dashu returned the fifty taels of silver to her as soon as he entered the room. She originally thought that she had persuaded Tong Huaqiong to give up by suggesting that the tablets of her mother and father be placed together. She cursed Tong Huaqiong in her heart for being so cruel and for not caring about her grandson's life or death and wanting to compete with her dead mother.
But things were completely different from what she thought.
The black-hearted stepmother not only agreed to place the tablets of her mother and father together, but also planned to rebury her mother and father together. The stepmother even promised that she would not be buried in the Gu family's ancestral tomb after her death.
This operation completely confused Gu Baishuang.
She didn't understand what her stepmother was doing!
Gu Baishuang had been fighting with her stepmother for so many years and had suffered so much at her hands. Suddenly, her stepmother called off the fight. Instead, Gu Baishuang felt a little disappointed.
"I don't care how she changes, as long as my mother and father can be buried together."
Gu Baishuang felt slightly relieved when she thought of this.
But I have finally fulfilled my wish. I just hope that my evil stepmother won't change her mind and do anything weird again.
Gu Dashu was in a good mood after coming out of Nie's house.
The eldest sister let him in, he completed what his mother asked him to do, and his son did not have to be sent away. All of this made him happy.
He took out the copper coins that he had saved from buying grain and oil for his family, bought two big meat buns, and ate them as he walked.
Seeing a scholar-like person on the road rushing to the town's private school, he suddenly remembered that his third brother Gu Jingzhe had gone to the private school to borrow money and had not returned home for several days. Since his son's problem was solved, Gu Dashu wanted to go to the private school to bring Gu Jingzhe home.
The wheat at home has already sprouted. Weeding, watering, harvesting, which one doesn’t require manpower?
Since Gu Jingzhe has not returned home for a long time, this job has fallen on his shoulders.
Now that mother doesn't allow Gu Jingzhe to go to school, third brother can forget about leaving the farm work to him alone.
Thinking of this, Gu Dashu walked towards the private school while eating meat buns.
At this time, the talented young man Gu Jingzhe was struggling to borrow money from his classmates in private school.
In the town's private school, apart from the scholar Fan Tong, the coolest and most favored student by the teacher is Gu Jingzhe.
After all, Gu Jingzhe was one year younger than Fan Tong when he obtained the title of Tongsheng, and his test paper was personally reviewed and praised by the provincial education commissioner.
It is only a matter of time before a scholar passes the imperial examination.
This kind of Gu Jingzhe has always been arrogant in the private school.
A few days ago, Tong Huaqiong kicked him out of the house to get money. He first went to Wanliu Academy in the city to try his luck, hoping that the city would return the fifty taels of silver because of his poor family, but the academy insisted on its principle and refused to return the money.
He had no choice but to return to the private school in town to borrow money.
Gu Jingzhe's popularity in the private school was inversely proportional to his academic performance. The better his grades, the worse his popularity.
Not only did he fail to borrow money, but he was ridiculed instead.
Even those classmates whom he usually looked down upon said that they would lend him money if he could be as good as Han Xin.
Gu Jingzhe naturally couldn't stand such an insult.
It was already embarrassing for the usually arrogant Gu Jingzhe to be forced to bow his head to his classmates. Faced with their ridicule and bullying, his psychology almost collapsed.
But if he can't borrow the money, his second brother Gu Dashu will never let him go.
The genius boy was like a mouse in a sealed box, being bullied from both ends and feeling extremely miserable.
As a last resort, he borrowed money from his nephew Nie Xiaofeng, Gu Baishuang's son, who was also studying in a private school.
"Could it be that my uncle drank too much? Why is he looking at me straight in the eye today?"
As soon as Nie Xiaofeng opened his mouth, he became an old Yin-Yang master.