"My lord, Yangzhou's New Year's gift has arrived. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info" Minglan ran in excitedly.

Luo Shao, who was playing chess with his daughter, raised his head and said with a smile: "This year is really early." ”

The Yangzhou in Minglan's mouth refers to Luo Jinyan's foreign family and Li's maiden family.

The Li family is a native of Anhui Province, has been operating in Yangzhou for two generations, and is one of the largest salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River.

After the death of the Li family, the Li family will give New Year's gifts every year before the first day of the first lunar month, of course, this New Year's gift is not for Luo Shao, but for Luo Jinyan.

Luo Shao's transfer to Longxi had already written to inform the Li family that the deadline given by the Ministry was to arrive before March 15, that is to say, after the five-day rest on New Year's Day, he would have to go to his post before the Lantern Festival at the latest.

Later, Luo Shao encountered an accident and asked the officials for leave, not wanting the Li family to worry, so he did not write another letter to inform him. The Li family thought that Luo Shao was going to take up his post after the New Year, and they were worried that the trip would be delayed by wind and snow on the road, so they simply sent the New Year's gift to Changping in advance.

It was Li's sister-in-law who came to give gifts, and Cui's mother, the eldest wife of the Li family, since Li's death, every year on the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and New Year's Day, Cui's mother came with a festival gift.

Because there is no female dependant in the family who presides over the feed, Luo Shao personally brings Luo Jinyan to receive Cui's mother every year.

Cui's mother is about forty, wearing a red bean paste red plain gown, a snow-blue skirt, a round bun combed smoothly, a red gold inlaid jade gourd hairpin, red gold and a little oil ear, and a fingernail-sized red velvet flower in the bun, Zhou's body is clean and neat, decent and festive.

Cui's mother smiled and greeted Luo Shao and Luo Jinyan, took a plain satin purse, and said, "This is the New Year's money that my eldest master and eldest wife gave to Miss Biao." ”

Chang Gui's daughter-in-law stepped forward to take it, Luo Jinyan got up and saluted, and Cui's mother turned sideways to accept the salute for her master.

Cui's mother said again: "The mother-in-law only knew that the aunt was sick when she entered the Zhuangzi, if the aunt didn't think the mother-in-law was clumsy, the mother-in-law would stay and wait for the young lady for a few days, and when the young lady was sick, the mother-in-law could also help." ”

Cui's mother is a member of the Li family, how can she be allowed to stay during the Chinese New Year, Luo Shao sighed in his heart, how good it would be if he could have such a person by his side.

He smiled and declined, rewarded Cui's mother with thirty taels of silver, and Luo Jinyan rewarded a finger-wide red gold bracelet, Cui's mother smiled so much that she couldn't see her eyebrows, and hurried back to Yangzhou with the Luo family's return gift after lunch.

Luo Jinyan handed the purse and the silver ticket inside to Xia Zhi, and Xia Zhi took out the silver ticket, which was a thousand taels.

Chang Gui's daughter-in-law smacked her tongue: "This uncle of the Li family is really generous." ”

Xia Zhi said with a smile: "The amount of New Year's money that my uncle gives to the eldest lady is this amount every year, but the objects brought to the eldest lady are called special." ”

Saying that, she took the gift list and gave it to Luo Jinyan to look at, pointed to the tea leaves and said: "Mother Cui said, in previous years, what I gave you was spring tea from Jiangnan, picked in spring, and it was about to become tea every other year in the lunar month. ”

Li Yi's eldest uncle Li Yi has four sons under his knees, the eldest son and the third son follow him to do salt business, the fourth is very good at studying, Li Yi wants him to take the road of the imperial examination, only the second Li Qingfeng is a "disobedient", did not run the ancestral business of the family, and started a business with the five hundred taels of silver he usually accumulated.

This autumn's big red robe? Luo Jinyan looked at the gift list and thought thoughtfully.

She stood up suddenly, and without waiting for Chang Gui's daughter-in-law to react, she got off the kang with her shoes on, and walked quickly to the door, then turned around and said, "Go...... See...... See ......"

Da Hong Pao is an offering, with autumn tea as the best, but due to the scarcity of production, it is a long way from Fujian to the capital, when it is sent to the capital, it is often the spring of the following year, when Luo Jinyan is in the palace, he rarely drinks this autumn's Da Hong Pao.

The two catties of big red robes sent by Uncle Li are too rare, and it's a pity to drink them.

After a while, these two catties of big black tea had already arrived in Luo Jinyan's house, and she said to Xia Zhi: "Lu ...... Raise...... Flat ......"

Lu Zhenping is the second of the six brothers, and now the six of them are Luo Jinyan's guards, although Luo Jinyan is seven years old, but the countryside is not as particular as the capital, Luo Jinyan met him in the hall.

"My lord, the New Year's gifts sent by the Li family have all been put into storage. Minglan said.

Luo Shao asked, "Did Miss pick something you like?"

Minglan replied: "Among them, twenty horses of Jiangnan fashionable materials and more than a dozen skins were received by Changgui's daughter-in-law from the Miss Library, a few small pieces of ivory and jade, the eldest lady asked them to be placed on the Baibao Pavilion in your study, and the food and drink were handed over to the second nephew and young master, and the eldest lady only took a few boxes of snacks and two catties of red robes.

Luo Shao laughed: "This girl is really knowledgeable, put away the two catties of red robe early, so as not to chew peonies from Jianchang cows." ”

Ming Lan couldn't help laughing, the nephew is a good person, it can be seen that there must be less knowledge, maybe he will really treat the big red robe as ordinary tea to entertain guests.

The Li family's things were originally given to cherish, but now that she is a little older, she knows how to dispose of these things, Luo Shao is very pleased, and when the Li family is there, he also likes to pick out some pieces to put in his study.

Luo Shao didn't know that Luo Jinyan didn't drink these two catties of rare red robes.

Early in the morning, Zhao You came out of the house, a few sparrows were chirping under the eaves, and when they saw someone coming, they flapped their wings and flew to the top of the corridor.

A little young man with a little face came over with a tea tray, Zhao You stopped him and asked, "Does Lord Wang have guests so early?"

Zhao You has been living in Wang Chaoming's back office for a few days, this little guy has not seen it, but looking at the direction he came from, it should be from Wang Chaoming's study.

The little servant said: "This is what Lord Wang used when he practiced calligraphy last night, and his old man was considerate of us and didn't let us clean up, but we also have to have an eye and clean up the house as soon as possible." ”

Zhao You glanced at the tea tray, and there was still unfinished tea soup in the tea bowl of Mei Ziqing in the kiln.

Seeing this tea soup, his brows moved, and he said with a smile: "Lord Wang really has taste, this is good tea." ”

He lived here, and Wang Chaoming said externally and internally that he was the son of a colleague, passing through Changping and staying for a few days.

When the little guy heard this little boy say this, he said a little ostentatiously: "You really have the vision, listen to my family, this is the tea just picked this autumn, what is it called...... I don't remember, anyway, it's a good thing that money can't buy. ”

One by one

Sisters and brothers, today's update is sent ~~~

It's a pity to say that the current Zhao You is still a child.