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Chapter 884: Books in the 1st Room
The old man was watching from the corridor with a smile on his face.
Li came out of the kitchen and laughed, "You are not young anymore, why are you doing this?"
Wu Ya came out and took a look at Xiaohua. She saw Xiaohua following Zhou Guo with her little butt sticking out, doing all sorts of things, but she was laughing.
Xu followed beside her and watched her closely.
Wu Ya smiled and said, "They haven't been this happy for a long time."
Li said, "Everyone is happy that my uncle is back, and we feel much more at ease."
Zhou Dacang and Zhou Guo are now the two pillars of the Zhou family. Now that both pillars are back, how can we not be happy?
By the time breakfast was ready, everyone else had already made their snowmen.
Only Zhou Guo's was only half completed. Seeing her weird snow doll, everyone shook their heads and asked, "What are these four pillars?"
"Could it be hands or feet?"
Zhou Guo said: "You will know when I have finished piling it."
After saying that, they looked at their snow dolls. Zhou Mai and Zhou Mi made the best ones, followed by Zhou Suli and Li Lai, then Zhou Dacang, and finally Zhou Gu.
Zhou Guo looked at Zhou Dacang's snow doll and said with a smile: "You still say big brother, but look at you, you are not that good looking."
Zhou Dacang said, "That one is better looking than his anyway. At least it looks like a human being. The two eyes are in the same line, the mouth is not crooked, and the body is well-proportioned, without any missing pieces or extra pieces."
Overall, it is indeed much stronger than Zhou Gu's.
The family prepares to eat.
Li said, "Da Cang, you haven't been back for a few years. You missed the ancestral worship yesterday. Take Guo Guo to the ancestral temple to worship the ancestors today."
Zhou Dacang nodded, "Okay."
Although girls usually do not participate in ancestor worship at this time, Zhou Guo is special. Besides, the Zhou family is a common family and everyone is a member of the family. Even Xiaohua can enter the ancestral hall, let alone Zhou Guo.
This ancestral hall was built when the new house was renovated. From then on, they no longer had to go to the intersection to worship their ancestors.
Li also carved out a ancestral hall for the Zhao family.
The old man didn't want it. His family was small, so it didn't matter whether he offered sacrifices or not. He was a rootless person.
But thinking about how Zhou Guo never missed a festival and never forgot to offer sacrifices to his master, he thought it would be good to have one.
Zhou Guo followed Zhou Da Cang to worship the ancestors. He kept muttering for a long time that Zhou Da Cang would go south to do great things next year and that he must be blessed with safety. He kept muttering for half an hour before getting up.
Zhou Dacang, who was standing by, listened attentively at first, but later, when he saw her repeating the same thing over and over again, he felt helpless. This girl would never stop once she started.
I have finished talking to the ancestors of the Zhou family.
She switched to the Zhao family and started talking again, not caring whether the ancestors of the Zhao family knew Zhou Dacang or not, she just talked about it.
The old man just mentioned it in passing.
The old man who heard it began to doubt whether this ancestor's surname was Zhao or Zhou.
After finally finishing his speech, another half hour had passed.
Mrs. Li said to everyone, "Look, how long can she keep complaining after she goes in? But you guys are the only ones who stop talking after a few words. When your grandparents were around, they loved you so much, and there's nothing to complain about with them?"
Everyone does not speak.
They also talked a lot, but no matter how much they talked, they could only finish it in a quarter of an hour at most. They didn't know where Zhou Guo got so much to say, it seemed like he could never finish. How could they have that ability?
Zhou Su said, "Mom, my sister keeps repeating the same thing over and over again. Next time I will say as much. I can talk all day."
Li: "..."
The sacrifice is over.
The family set off a long string of firecrackers outside the house before starting to eat the New Year’s Eve dinner.
There was a huge table with all kinds of things, including creatures that fly in the sky, swim in the water, run in the mountains and grow. There were many dishes that Zhou Dacang had never seen before. They looked very exquisite and were no worse than those in restaurants.
He was surprised and asked, "Who made these dishes? What are these?"
Zhou Suli and Li Lai introduced them to him one by one, saying which ones were newly learned by Mrs. Deng, which ones were learned from books, and which ones were learned by Li and Wu Ya when they went out to attend banquets. In short, these newly added dishes were all new acquisitions in the family in recent years.
The taste is very good.
Zhou Dacang laughed and said, "It's incredible. They say that only the third generation will pay attention to food. We are only the first generation and we are so particular about it?"
Zhou Guo said: "We are not so particular. We can't compare with the rich families."
Zhou Dacang looked at her and said, "You, you jumped directly to the fourth generation. The fourth generation saw through you. You dress more elegantly than those wealthy families and go out more respectably. This old saying is no longer true for you."
Everyone laughed.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Isn't it for enjoying life when you have money? How do you enjoy life? The most direct way is to eat and drink well. Eat well and dress well. Ten out of ten people will do the same. I am just following the trend. You can do the same."
No one commented.
Although they were not as particular as Zhou Guo, they also wore clothes made of top quality materials.
Of course, these were all prepared for them by Li and Wu Ya. The boys in the Zhou family had no choice but to have something to wear.
They feel that they cannot empathize with others when it comes to clothing, and don't understand why they can't wear them when they are all clothes, made of top-quality materials and look good, but have to wear the best one.
But when they thought of Li and Wu Ya who were keen on buying fabrics to make clothes, they felt that women seemed to be more concerned about these things?
Zhou Su nodded and said, "Sister is right. If you have money, of course you should eat what you like and wear what you want."
Zhou Guo smiled and rubbed his head, saying, "If I didn't know, I would have thought you were a girl."
Such a delicate mind.
The New Year's Eve dinner, which was a great reunion, lasted from morning to afternoon and everyone was very full.
After finishing her meal, Zhou Guo went to work on her snow doll again. After working for more than half an hour, she finally finished making her snow doll!
Really bold and black!
Xiaohua liked it the most, and she cried and yelled around the vivid black and bold creature. The black and bold creature even jumped up and down.
Others also laughed when looking at the snow doll, loving it very much, it was indeed prettier than ordinary ones.
Zhou Guo said proudly: "Who won this pile of snow dolls?"
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In the evening, before the family had enough to talk, many people from the village came to visit.
Mainly people like Wang Fugui and Zhou Cheng. They all migrated from the same ancestral land and shared so many hardships along the way, so naturally their friendship is different from that of the villagers.
But Zhou Dacang still had no plan to meet them.
I went to Zhou Guo's study and was amazed by the rows of bookshelves.
This was the first time he had come in after such a long time. He looked around and saw all kinds of books on the bookshelf, including the Four Books and Five Classics, astronomy and geography, gossip and essays, medical and agricultural books, and even military books... everything was there.
He walked through the bookshelves and thought, no wonder Zhou Guo is getting better and better, he has read so many books in the past few years!
He picked up a military book and sat on the kang to read it.
Zhou Guo sat in the room for a while, then left, making the excuse that he had something else to deal with.
Zhou Dacang has finally come back, we can't leave him sitting alone in the study, right?
I don’t know how many years it will take for me to come back next time?
Zhou Guo entered the study and saw him lying on the kang reading a book comfortably. He picked out a book he liked and sat on it.
Zhou Dacang glanced at her and said, "Why don't you sit with them for a while?"