jdhmnovel Chapter 1250 Old Friend
Chapter 1250 Old Friend
The old lady and her two daughters-in-law looked at them eating in exactly the same way. Zhou Guo could even eat better than them. They sighed that people from the same family are alike, and everyone in their family can eat and everything tastes delicious.
After dinner, it was already dawn. It had been snowing heavily outside all night.
The old lady asked everyone to go to bed. "We've been busy all night. This matter won't be settled so quickly. Everyone go to bed."
Zhou Guo couldn't sleep, and Xu Yubei couldn't sleep either, so the two of them had to go to the front to take a look.
When the old lady saw her standing next to Xu Yubei, she seemed a little shorter, but much more beautiful than Xu Yubei.
The little face is extremely pretty, and it's hard to tell whether it's male or female. He's calm and steady, and you can tell at a glance that he's been through a lot.
She waved her hand and said, "You can go if you want. We can't compete with you. I'm old and need to rest."
Most women are not used to seeing such bloody scenes.
Zhou Guo tied his cloak, turned around and left with Xu Yubei.
Although he is not as tall as Xu Yubei, his body proportions are much better than his, and his every move is graceful and easy.
The two sisters-in-law were very envious. Sun said, "This girl is really capable. A little girl can be as free as a man on the battlefield, and can also be a general and do so many things. I can't even imagine it."
Yuan said yearningly: "I don't know what it feels like to kill enemies on the battlefield. This is something that no woman in the world can do, and many men can't even dream of doing it."
The old lady smiled and said, "Yes, she lives freely and does whatever she wants. We must not control her too much in the future. This child doesn't obey us. If we control her too much, she will become estranged from us and she won't be so happy."
The two men nodded.
"Yes, mother, it's not easy for such a woman to appear among us women, and we want to see how far she can go."
It snowed heavily last night. The whole world seemed to be covered in new clothes. The snow piled on the wall was thicker than the palm of your hand.
A group of people rushed out on horseback. The sky and the earth were all white. They looked so small walking in the vast white world.
The war has ended, but the place is in ruins and the battlefield is still being cleaned up at the city gate.
Zhou Guo entered the city.
This was her first time in the capital. The streets in the capital were wider than those in other places, and were all paved with cobblestones. There were not many people on the streets except for the people who were cleaning up the battlefield.
The doors of every house on both sides of the street were closed tightly, as if there was no one inside.
It was like this everywhere. She turned around a few times and found it boring, so she came out again.
But she didn't notice that there were several pairs of eyes in the house behind her watching her go away.
"It's Zhou Guo, right? Did you see clearly? It's that girl, right?"
"Really? I don't think so. This is a boy. Look at the clothes he's wearing. We might have to sell all the belongings in our house to buy him one. And he doesn't look like one from the way he's dressed."
"Oh, isn't it said that there is a General Zhou in the Xu family army? I heard those passing soldiers say last night that the general seems to be called Zhou Dacang. The Xu family came from the north, so maybe he is the Dacang in our village! I didn't expect that in just a few years, those who went to the north became generals, while our lives are getting worse and worse."
This is the scholar's family who parted ways with them. After going through untold hardships to come to the capital, they found that it is not easy to live in the capital. Their wealth is not enough to be considered in the capital. In the past, scholars were respected wherever they went, but in the capital, no one looked up to them.
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Xu Xiushan set up a big tent outside the city gate. It was a busy time at that time, with soldiers delivering messages coming and going, and the big tent was crowded with people.
She was about to leave when Xu Yubei appeared from nowhere and led her in.
Xu Xiushan was explaining something to his subordinates. When he saw her coming, he pointed to a small table next to him and asked her to go and eat.
Zhou Guo took a look and saw some snacks, nuts, dried meat and fragrant tea on it. She was hungry as well, so she lifted her robe and sat down, happily poured herself a cup, and looked up at Xu Yubei.
Xu Yubei shook his head, leaned over and whispered, "Dad has given me instructions, I have to go downstairs to get busy, you stay here peacefully, if you get bored, go out for a walk, and go back to mother's place to sleep at night, it's warmer in the temple."
He is very busy now and cannot accompany Zhou Guo.
Zhou Guo nodded obediently, "Go ahead."
The generals who were in the vanguard army came back one by one to report on the progress of the work. They saw Zhou Guo eating the sweet fruit beside them, but they didn't take it seriously. General Xu had always doted on her and treated her like his own daughter.
Some generals still sighed that Zhou Dacang was lucky. Not only was he capable and promoted quickly, but his family also had such a powerful and capable niece. Now that she was a member of the Xu family, Zhou Dacang's future should be better than theirs.
Zhou Guo listened to these people constantly talking about what happened last night, the current news in the capital, the news in the imperial city...
As she listened, she felt that she couldn't just sit there like this, and her enthusiasm seemed to return.
This is the capital city where gold is everywhere and there are so many rich people. The value of her mountain products shipped from the north will be multiplied several times. If she sets up a few more shops of her own in the capital city, selling mountain products, crabs, duck products, and snacks... won't the money come in continuously?
They can also sell grain. Their family has several thousand hectares of land in the north. The harvest from the salty and bitter land this year has increased a lot compared to last year, and there will be more in the future.
With so much grain produced every year, the North alone cannot consume it all. If it could be transported to the capital, would we still have to worry about not being able to sell it?
There are so many people in the capital, but there is no land in the capital. Most people cannot afford the land in the suburbs of the capital, so they can only buy food.
After eating some snacks and drinking some tea, she found a study and started writing a plan by herself.
There are many shops to open. She has many businesses now, including a tea garden and a cloth shop. There are many rich people in the capital, and she has so many things to sell. She is not greedy and just wants to open a shop for each business.
She never got involved in any of those profitable businesses like gold and silver buildings, money houses, restaurants, and spice shops.
During his break, Xu Xiushan saw her writing seriously. He walked over to take a look and saw all the shops on the paper, this shop, that shop. He asked with a smile, "How many shops do you plan to open?"
He had no intention of stopping her from opening a business. It was a good thing for his daughter to open a few shops and earn some pocket money for herself.
As for not competing with the people for profit, he didn't care at all. It was just a few shops, and his daughter was worthy of it. Little did he know that the fertilizer that was loved by farmers all over the world was made by her.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "I went through everything I had and planned to open one of each."