Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

Chapter 1041 I can’t take a break

Li said, "I want to ask you, you finally come back, why do you sleep so late every day?"

Zhou Gu said casually: "Guoguo said that if there is anything, let's finish it today. She wants to rest well in the next few days and do nothing."

Zhou Guo nodded and said, "I didn't do anything for the next few days. I just ate and slept at home."

Touching his stomach, he said, "Mom, I'm hungry, is there anything to eat?"

Wu Ya said quickly: "Yes, yes, yes, it's still hot on the stove, I'll go get it."

Zhou Gu was also hungry.

The two of them sat down to eat, and Li and Wu Ya watched them eat.

Zhou Guo said, "Mom, sister-in-law, you two should sit down and have something to eat together. It's getting late now, and the food we had in the evening is long gone."

Li said, "Eat your own food. We have been sitting here for so long and our mouths have never been empty. Go to sleep after you finish eating. Don't get up early tomorrow to practice. You can still be lazy for a few days in a year."

Zhou Guo nodded.

I woke up early the next morning and looked at the sky outside. It was still dark. I found a comfortable position in the quilt and fell asleep again.

It's so hard that I don't have to do anything today, so I might as well save the morning work.

I slept until dawn. Those who went to school went to school, and those who went to work went to work. The room was quiet, without any sound.

She stayed in bed for a while, then got up and got dressed.

I didn't rush out, but walked around the house. After not coming back for a long time, the house still looked very familiar.

Look through the wardrobe, rummaging through the jewelry box, looking at the small bookshelf, sitting at the desk, looking at the flowers and plants in the house, and opening the window to let the sunlight from outside in.

Listening to the chirping of birds outside and the noises coming from the kitchen, she felt that this day was so peaceful!

It feels so good to not have to do anything.

He staggered out to find water and washed his face.

Without combing her hair, she sat in the yard and ate breakfast leisurely. She was the only one at the table.

When Li came back from outside, she saw her sitting in the yard with disheveled hair eating breakfast.

She scolded him, "What do you look like? Why don't you even comb your hair before leaving the room?"

Zhou Guo said: "At home, there are no outsiders anyway, it's the same if I eat and then comb my hair."

In fact, she found it quite comfortable to wear.

Li shook her head, went into the house, took out a comb and a hairband, and combed her hair neatly. As she combed, she sighed, "Our Guoguo has grown up so big in just a few years and is so capable. When I think back to when you were just born, you were so small..."

Zhou Guo ate and nodded from time to time to make sure her mother's words would not go in vain.

Li fell silent while talking, and after a while she continued, "You were only eight years old when your father left us. If he were still alive today, I don't know if he would recognize you if he saw you."

Zhou Guo swallowed the last egg and said, "Mom, don't worry. My uncle said that we have to find Dad and Uncle, whether they are dead or alive. Not only him, but I will also look for them. No matter they are dead or alive, there will be a result in the end."

Li nodded, tied her long hair with a headband and let it hang down behind her. She said, "Your hair is darker than mother's, thicker and darker. Your sister-in-law always envies you for your beautiful hair."

Zhou Guo smiled and said, "You can't envy this. It's innate. Your parents gave it to you in the womb."

After the meal, the servants served tea and snacks, and Li was doing needlework nearby.

Before she finished her tea, she saw the doorman come in with a visiting card and said, "Master, someone outside is here to hand in a card, saying it's from the Wu family."

Zhou Guo stretched out his hand and said, "Give it to me."

The concierge handed it to her and went out.

As a result, within a quarter of an hour, another post came.

Or two at a time.

After a while, another post arrived.

Zhou Guo sighed silently. He originally wanted to stay at home quietly for a few days, but it seems that this is not possible anymore.

Li frowned and looked at the posts and asked, "Who are these people? The big names in Yunzhou?"

Zhou Guo found the first post, waved it in front of her eyes, and said, "This is the only one. These are the landlords and masters from Lu County and the neighboring counties. They knew I was back and wanted to come to see me."

Li was dissatisfied. "We all know that you have finally come back for a few days. Why don't you have eyes to see me and come to my house at this time? I think it's better not to see them. Doesn't your eldest brother see them often?"

Zhou Guo nodded and said with a smile: "Then I will listen to my mother. If you say you don't want to see me, then I won't see you. I will also wait until I return to Yunzhou to discuss this Wu family's invitation."

It was only four days, and she just wanted to spend some time with her family.

Thinking of what Yunzhou was going to do in a few days, she smiled and said to Li: "Mother, Yunzhou's snack shop will set up a stage in a few days. We have invited a troupe to perform in the field outside the shop. Do you want to go and see it?"

"A troupe?" Li was very surprised. "We have heard a lot of them when we attended banquets outside, but we have never held one at home."

The main reason is that my family is small, lives in the countryside, and lives at the end of a village, where there are many people around, and I’m afraid of offending those important people.

Zhou Guo said, "I have been looking for a house in Yunzhou recently. The current one with three courtyards is too small. When I find a bigger one, my brothers will have a place to stay when they go to school in Yunzhou. I can also invite classmates to come back home to visit. Mom, if you want to do it, you can do it at home when the time comes."

"You want to buy another house?" Li was even more surprised. "We already have several houses in Yunzhou, and several big ones. Why don't we take the big ones back for our own use? A house is not cheap. Don't you have no money?"

You keep complaining about being poor, is this how you become poor?

Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Although I am poor, buying a house is not something that can be done in a short time. Besides, I still have some money in my hand, which is enough."

Not to mention what Zhou Dacang and General Xu gave her, she hasn't touched it at all. Even the ones she settled at the end of the year, she still has some left.

It hasn’t been distributed yet.

Li said, "You can do it yourself, but you still have to keep some of the money on hand, otherwise where will it come from when you need it?"

Zhou Guo nodded, "I understand."

After sitting for a while, Zhou Xing and his wife came with their two children.

As soon as the two children came into the door, they came towards Zhou Guo and called her "Auntie".

Zhou Guo threw them up one by one, and the two children laughed happily.

Zhou Xing smiled and said, "Okay, okay, don't spoil them. Now, apart from you, no one can abandon them. You can only pester their father at home."

Zhou Guo threw each of them a dozen times, looked at their faces, and pinched one of them. "What did you eat? How did you get so fat? Do you want to be pigs?"

Zhou Xing said: "They love to eat. They rush to eat everything. They even eat before going to bed at night. In the past six months, they have gradually become rounder."

Li said indifferently, "It is a blessing to be able to eat. Let the children eat. It's not like they can't afford it."