boyutpedia Chapter 166 An advance gift
Chapter 166 An advance gift
The little girl screamed in fear when the refugees jumped onto the carriage and reached out to pull her arm. Gu Wenxuan heard it and rushed over.
Before the malicious refugee could even touch the girl, Gu Wenxuan had already jumped onto the carriage and kicked him off.
The remaining dozen or so refugees did not get away with it either. There was no need for other enthusiastic people to come and help. Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan had already teamed up to kick all of them down.
When other enthusiastic people who came over to help saw this, they quickly took ropes and tied up the refugees tightly.
With their help, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou don't have to waste time dealing with follow-up matters.
Gu Wenxuan comforted the frightened little girl with a few words, and then kindly sent her back home.
The little girl's parents were very grateful to her and Bai Jingzhou, and gave them a generous thank-you gift.
Gu Wenxuan was embarrassed to accept it, so the little girl's mother held her back and wouldn't let her leave.
The two of them kept arguing until the government sent people to question them, and in the end the matter ended with Gu Wenxuan compromising.
As she went home accompanied by Bai Jingzhou in the carriage sent by the little girl's parents, she couldn't help but muttered, "Good fellow, you talked so much that my mouth was dry, but in the end I still gave in."
Bai Jingzhou smiled, "Parents all over the world are pitiful. They did this because they are grateful to you for saving the girl."
Gu Wenxuan laughed, "When I meet someone who is not grateful to us, I feel uncomfortable. When I meet someone who is too grateful, I can't handle it. Why do I feel so hard to please?"
Bai Jingzhou patted her on the shoulder and said, "It's human nature."
Anyone who does good things hopes that others will be grateful to him or her, even if it is just a simple word of thanks. Anyone who meets someone who takes your efforts for granted will feel uncomfortable.
As for those who couldn't handle the overwhelming gratitude, it was simply because Gu Wenxuan didn't think that her little effort required such a huge sacrifice from the other party. This was her kindness.
In short, Bai Jingzhou always felt that Gu Wenxuan was good in every way.
The next day, the two men used the silver money they carried with them and some silver ingots given by the little girl's parents to buy a total of 22 books that they didn't have from the middle-aged man.
In addition to the set of Four Books, the middle-aged man also sold eighteen travel notes, poetry collections, geography books, agricultural books, and miscellaneous books on water conservancy and handicrafts.
Among them, the two books on water control and equipment manufacturing were only fragments of part of the original books. But even so, these two fragments were already very precious to Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou.
The two of them didn't feel sorry at all for spending the eighty taels, especially when Gu Wenxuan told Bai Jingzhou that these books were birthday gifts she had prepared for Bai Jingzhou in advance.
Bai Jingzhou didn't expect that Gu Wenxuan would have started thinking about what kind of birthday gift to give him so early.
This surprise came too suddenly. Bai Jingzhou only felt that Gu Wenxuan's voice when announcing the news was even more beautiful than the legendary fairy sound.
He was smiling foolishly, and rarely did he look as shrewd as usual.
The two took a hired carriage, traveled the rest of the farm, and then returned to the village together.
As time goes by, the festive atmosphere in Baijia Village becomes stronger and stronger.
The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is the day when people in the north celebrate the Little New Year. Early in the morning, the Gu family started to get busy. On this day, they had to eat dumplings and send off the Kitchen God.
By the way, Gu Wenxuan actually wanted to call on her family to make malt sugar together according to custom, but Li and others were used to being frugal, and they all rejected her proposal.
On the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, the Gu family, in accordance with custom, mobilized the entire family to sweep the house together. In addition, they also went to the home of Bai Jingzhou's second uncle and took back the ten plates of old tofu that they had already reserved.
Gu Wenxuan loves to eat tofu. She likes it both fresh and frozen. But her favorite is of course pork belly and tofu stewed with sauerkraut.
The Gu family had a good life this year, so they did something unprecedented and slaughtered a big fat pig on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month.
They called close relatives and neighbors to their home, and everyone worked together to catch the pig, kill it, bleed it, remove the hair, cut up the pork, and make pig-killing dishes and blood sausage.
The pig-killing dishes here are made by boiling dried Chinese cabbage, pork belly and pork bones together. The pig blood sausage is made by evenly mixing pig blood, buckwheat noodles and various seasonings, which are then stuffed into clean sausage casings. The stuffed blood sausage is then put into the large iron pot where the pig-killing dishes are cooked.
During the cooking process, people have to constantly poke small holes in the pig blood sausage to prevent the casing from bursting.
What the busy Li and others didn't know was that Gu Wenxuan had actually been silently praying that some of the blood sausage in the pot would be cooked to pieces.
Unlike most people who like to eat fried blood sausage, Gu Wenxuan prefers to eat blood sausage after the casing is broken and cooked with pig-killing dishes.
No one knew what Gu Wenxuan was thinking, but a few pieces of blood sausage in the pot were boiled to pieces as she wished.
The already formed pig blood sausage was broken into several pieces and slowly mixed into the pig-killing dishes, disappearing without a trace.
Gu Wenxuan swallowed her saliva and silently decided to pick out the blood sausage from the pig-killing dishes later.
The children were even more greedy than she was. No matter whose kids they were, they were all blocking the kitchen door.
Their eyes were bright and the sound of them swallowing their saliva was louder than Gu Wenxuan's, so much so that Li and others did not realize that Gu Wenxuan, who was helping to light the fire, was actually also suffering from gluttony.
After finally waiting for the pig-killing dishes and blood sausage to be cooked, Li immediately gave each of the children a bowl and asked them to take it to the main room and eat it slowly.
Gu Wenxuan, who was in charge of making the fire, also had a share. Li originally wanted to help her scoop out the pig-killing dishes herself, but Gu Wenxuan was quick to grab the long-handled wooden spoon from her hand.
Two soft, glutinous and smooth pieces of blood sausage were picked up along with dried cabbage and pork belly. Gu Wenxuan couldn't wait to take a bite.
Li was a little surprised, "You like to eat this kind of boiled food?"
Most people dislike the taste of blood sausage that is boiled to pieces, so if we have to rank all the ways of cooking blood sausage, the one that is boiled to pieces will definitely be at the bottom.
Gu Wenxuan nodded vigorously, "This kind of food has the taste of vegetables and meat."
Li laughed, "Then I'll get it for you later."
She did not doubt whether Gu Wenxuan's eating habits had changed. After all, their family used to be so poor, and the pig-killing dishes and pig blood sausage that the children used to eat were always sent by relatives.
At that time, they were short of food and clothing, let alone these delicious things that they could only eat during the Chinese New Year, they even treasured wild vegetable dumplings.
Picky about food? What is that? This is a problem that only rich people have, but they, the family members, don’t have it.