kingnovel Chapter 898 Protecting the Calf
Chapter 898 Protecting the Calf
Li smiled and said, "Brothers Yuan and Cheng are both very smart. They are talented scholars. They may become the top scorers in the imperial examinations. We have to rely on them to benefit from their influence. Once we tell others that we are the relatives of the top scorers, we will be envied wherever we go. We will hold our heads higher than ordinary people."
Everyone laughed.
In the end, Li accepted these things and carried them back home.
As soon as the Zhou family left, Old Mrs. Zhao questioned the old man. The old man did not dare to hide anything and told the truth.
The old lady didn't know what to say to him. "You know how busy this child is. She comes home less and less often throughout the year. Every time she comes home, Li and the others want to feed her food and don't let her do anything. The baby is like this, and now she is here, and you treat her like a mule and want her to give you face?
I think the older you get, the more confused you become. The older you get, the more pretentious you become. How many times have you seen the county magistrate in these years? Has the Lord of the Prefecture seen him once? He is such a high-ranking official. I don't know how many times Zhou Guo sees him in a year. The people he interacts with are people you can't even see. How noble is he!
You are so good, you let her see everyone and talk to her, and you still think you are proud of it? The county magistrate can be seen by anyone who wants to see him? ? You old fool, you are really going backwards as you grow older! "
No wonder, no wonder the old man looked so grumpy, and the others looked unhappy too, it was all because of this old man. The more I thought about it, the angrier I got. "Just wait, after you do this, will that kid dare to come to our house again in the future?"
The old man said with a bitter face: "I didn't think so much. I just wanted to be happy today. It's a rare opportunity for the child to come. Let her show her face in front of others and let everyone know that our family is not only not small in number now, but also has such a capable relative... Yes, yes, yes, I was wrong, and it's not okay. I have apologized and made amends to the old man..."
Mrs. Zhao and Mr. Zhao stood aside with their necks shrunk and kept silent. Although the old man was the one in charge of the outside affairs of the family, the old lady was the one in charge of the domestic affairs. She was the absolute master of the domestic affairs and everyone in the family was under her control.
After Zhou Xing and Zhao Yang sent someone back, they heard the noise inside and didn't know whether they should go in or not.
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Zhou Guo sat in the carriage, rubbed his eyes, yawned, and felt much better.
The old man looked at her face, felt relieved, and warned her: "Next time the old man asks you to accompany guests, don't go. Really, what does he think of you? He surrounds you with all kinds of people, and he says something to everyone. He's exhausted."
Zhou Mai and the others looked at each other and said nothing.
Zhou Guo said: "It's okay, he is just too happy this time. The situation of three generations of single-line inheritance has finally been broken, and the family is beginning to prosper. It's okay for him to be happy about such a big happy event..."
Seeing the old man's face getting darker and darker, she quickly changed her words and said, "Of course, I will definitely not go next time. If I encounter something like this, I will definitely turn around and leave!"
The old man's face looked better, and he said earnestly, "You are busy enough on weekdays. Your status is different now. You can't just do whatever others tell you to do. Do you think you would be willing to eat shit if someone tells you to?"
Everyone: "..."
Zhou Guo: "...Master, why would the old man ask me to eat this? It's disgusting even when you say it!"
The old man glared, "You also know that it's disgusting? That person, a small landlord with hundreds of acres of land, wants you to deal with him. Isn't he asking you to eat shit? Why didn't he ask his sons and grandsons to go, but you? Are you a member of the Zhao family?! Marry into his family?"
Zhou Guo was speechless. She didn't expect the old man to be so angry. In fact, she was not opposed to talking to so many small landlords. She even liked them very much.
These small landlords are much easier to deal with than big landlords and big businessmen. What's more, they cultivate their own land and have no tenants. They hire long-term and short-term workers and support quite a few people.
She knew that they didn't have much land and wanted new crops to plant, so she promised to give them some next year.
But later on, there were so many people that after talking for several hours she could no longer speak and had to avoid them.
This made the old man very angry and he was very dissatisfied with the old man. He was not so tired at home on weekdays, but when he came to your Zhao family, he ordered people around like this. Do you really think there is no one in the Zhou family?
Zhou Mai said, "Then let's go to Zhao's house next time?"
The old man nodded angrily, "You go."
Zhou Guo said, "But this time when we came back, the old lady and Madam Zhao gave us a lot of things, including a lot of food, and some materials, leather, and ginseng for me...Master, you are too short-handed to take things from others."
Old man: "...Is your family short of ginseng? I...anyway, next time if their family has something big going on, you are not allowed to work so hard."
Zhou Guo nodded obediently.
Zhou Mi touched his nose and said, "Sir, I think next time the old man won't dare to order Guo Guo around like this. You gave him a lot of cold looks today, and he drank a lot of wine."
Zhou Mai added, "He also said a lot of good things."
I guess the old man was afraid that he would punch him, and his face was as bright as a flower.
The old man snorted and said nothing. That was not his fault. He thought other people's children didn't know how to get tired. He was treated like oxen and horses, but he was reluctant to do so. How could it be someone else's turn?
When we got home, the old man's expression softened a little.
Li came up quietly and asked, "Sir, you are not angry anymore?"
In fact, she was also feeling uncomfortable, but seeing how angry the old man was and how he didn't look nice to the old man, the anger in her heart inexplicably disappeared for the most part.
Zhou Mai said, "He's not that angry anymore, mother. You didn't see it. At the beginning, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot, as if someone owed him thousands of taels of silver."
Li said, "After all, he is Guoguo's master."
The old man is so old, and he only has this one apprentice. The apprentice is very capable and considerate, and she usually protects her the most. But when she sees the old man ordering her around like this, she is naturally unhappy.
Zhou Guo followed him into the house, and as soon as he got back, he sat down on the recliner in the yard and rocked.
Li came in and said, "You didn't eat dinner, shall I go make you something to eat?"
Zhou Guo said, "Mom, let Mrs. Deng do it. You've been tired all day, take a rest."
Li went into the kitchen and told Mrs. Deng and the others to give her some more food since she didn't eat much.
As a result, after dinner was ready, everyone except Xiaohua and Xu sat down again, and each took a set of bowls and chopsticks.
Zhou Guo was surprised and asked, "Why, you didn't eat either?"