In the morning, Geng Qiu was so tired that he didn't want to get up at all, holding a banquet was a high-intensity activity with both body and mind, but he had to hurry up and do things, there were a lot of gifts at home, although someone had specially registered at that time, but he also had to look at it himself, and he had to prepare some return gifts. Every now and then, someone will invite them to a banquet. Gift-giving is also a university question.

In addition, the family has to prepare all the materials for the New Year, this entry into the wax moon, everyone is very busy at home, he still just came from Beixian, there are many things in the general's mansion are poor, even cabbage and radish are not enough to eat, not to mention firewood and charcoal, chicken, duck and fish and so on. The New Year is also the same to have a treat, not to mention the big invitation, some good friends, also have to come and go, at that time can not go to the restaurant to hold a banquet, always have to prepare some commonly used food and dishes at home.

Thinking of so many things, Geng Qiu couldn't wait to go back to Beixian. At that time, he only worried about the food of a dozen people, but now there are more than 100 people, and he has to consume dozens or hundreds of catties of rice and noodles every day, not to mention vegetables. Other people's homes are in winter, the cellar at home is full of vegetables and vegetables, as for the live poultry, people are raised early, where is the general's mansion is basically bought and eaten, but now there are many people, it is too late to buy now.

"I knew that I should have brought all the chickens, ducks and sheep raised in Beixian." Geng Qiu sighed and said, this live poultry is not enough to eat as long as you have ten or eight, at least one hundred and eighty. He raised a lot of Zhuangzi in Beixian County, and when he came, he only thought that it was not easy to bring living things, so he killed a batch of pickled animals and brought them over. Now I regret that I didn't bring a living creature with me, so I raised it and ate it slowly. Like cabbage and radish, there are things in Zhuangzi in Beixian County, where did you think that you can't even buy much here. A large family, more than 100 people, has to consume 1200 catties a day.

"It's the lack of my prediction, so I'll let someone prepare some first." Ah Hao said regretfully. To tell the truth, he has always cared about these things at home, he just feels that the family has a small population and does not need many things.

"Alas, it's too late to say this now, I have to take someone to the outskirts of the city first, and if there is, I will tow two carts back. No, let's just talk about it. ”

The next day, Geng Qiu put down everything, and Zeng Dashan and Zeng Dashan took people to prepare to go to the suburbs, next to Tongxian, the nearest county in Kyoto, and went out of the city gate, and the carriage had to walk for two hours to arrive. Ah Niu and Ning Ge'er couldn't sit still, so they had to go out with them, Ah Niu went out with them, Ah Wan also had to follow, they followed, and the people who were waiting had to bring a few, and when they got out, Geng Qiu brought more than a dozen people, everyone basically rode horses and mules, there were not enough horses, and they also borrowed all the money from Yu Mingyi's family, and more than a dozen livestock plus two carriages formed a large team.

The weather is extremely cold, the outside is basically icy and snowy, the city does not feel it, out of the city gate, rushed for an hour, the pedestrians on the road have become fewer, the road is white, the carriage is very slow, fortunately, the children are in high spirits, not noisy, Geng Qiu is afraid that the children will freeze, and Ah Niu and Ah Wan even took Ning Ge'er to the car, and no longer let them ride horses.

The group dragged on until the end of the day, and did not arrive at Tongxian until the end of the day.

Tong County is also a lively county, but at this time, there is no one in the vegetable market for a long time. Geng Qiu had to take the children to find a clean inn to live in first.

Guest, where are you going? The shopkeeper asked curiously. This kind of weather, and the New Year is approaching, and few people generally go out of the city, unless there is a big event.

"I'm not going anywhere, we're here to play in Tong County." Geng Qiu said with a smile.

"Oh, at this time in Tongxian, the fun is Meishan outside the city, there are many people who go to enjoy the plum, but there are very few people who go these days, it's too cold, and it's almost the New Year." The shopkeeper enthusiastically introduced.

It may be that the weather is cold, and it is the month of Da Layue, the inn is Geng Qiu and his party, the shopkeeper is very idle, and I see that Geng Qiu and others are not dressed luxuriously, and they are also kind, where do they know that the people in their civil and military general's mansion are just ordinary rich people, and they don't care about it, and when they talk, they seem to be casual. Geng Qiu took the opportunity to inquire if there was a lot of vegetables and live poultry to sell in Zhuangzi.

"Coincidentally, there is a family surnamed Fang outside the city, and this is also a big official in Beijing, because of the crime, Zhuangzi Shangsheng was pulled to Beijing in previous years, and his family chewed it, this year is different from previous years, and this time he is still looking for a buyer." The shopkeeper smiled.

"The surname Fang, it shouldn't be Lord Zhou's Yue family, right?" Geng Qiu and Zeng Dashan whispered. Although his voice was low when he said this, he did not avoid the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "It seems that I heard that there is an aunt in the Fang family who has been promoted to a senior official, but that is also the uncle of the Jingli branch, where can I take care of these side branches." "Actually, this place is really run by the Fang family, and these side branches are just living by taking care of Zhuangzi for the branches.

When Geng Qiu and Zeng Dashan heard this, they happened to be Mrs. Zhou's Fang family's maiden family, and they were a little difficult to make a decision for a while. The relationship between General Wenwu and Yu Mingyi is close, and Mrs. Zhou has always hated Yu Mingyi very much, especially when Lord Zhou was promoted, she did not help Mrs. Zhou's brother at all. The Fang family caught up with the former prince a few years ago, and the spring breeze was only three or five years old, and the Zhou family was not lightly offended, as soon as the former prince died, the emperor and the current prince ruthlessly rectified the former prince's people, and the Fang family was unlucky, if it weren't for the relationship between the Zhou family, the Fang family would have been imprisoned by now. It's just that he was dismissed as an official of his family, and from then on, the Fang family, which originally had some power, immediately became an ordinary family with a little constant property.

And the two children born to the Fang family, the son married the niece of the mother's family, and now it has become a burden that cannot be shaken off, and the whole family depends on the Fang family to help. It's just that Young Master Zhou doesn't want his cousin to be his wife now, he shouts every day that he wants to divorce his wife and marry another, his father is now a second-class member, he is not too old, he only has two daughters under his knees, and he has no sons, so he can choose a good family if he marries another.

Fang's daughter married to a family that was originally a proud family of the former prince's family, and she had already been imprisoned, and Miss Zhou was even more miserable, and her husband's family saw that it was going to be over, so they immediately forced her to go to Lord Zhou to intercede, and also wanted Lord Zhou to look at his daughter's face and give them a way to live. This kind of thing, where does Lord Zhou dare to intercede, not to mention that he himself dislikes this family very much. This family is not a good one, they didn't get any benefits, and they actually took the two children born to Miss Zhou and her to blackmail Lord Zhou.

The Fang family made trouble at home every day, but Lord Zhou couldn't, so he had to ask the prince, but the princess sent someone to Zhou's house and ruthlessly appealed to the Fang family. Then, the family soon all died, leaving only Miss Zhou alone.

Fang's family didn't regret that he chose the wrong family for his children, but blamed Lord Zhou for not helping her mother's family, and her daughter-in-law cried every day, and there was a daughter who didn't say anything like a living dead, and she turned the family upside down. As soon as Lord Zhou saw Yu Mingyi go to Beijing, he immediately moved to the Baron's Mansion, and he didn't bother to pay attention to the bunch of bastards at home.

"Is there another Zhuangzi?" Geng Qiu asked again.

"Xiaoshanzi, come here. The guest officer has something to ask you. The shopkeeper hurriedly called Xiao Er. This small hill came out of a village outside the city.

Geng Qiu inquired about the situation, took a string of big money and gave Shanzi to go back overnight, helping to inquire if there was anything to buy.

The next day, early in the morning, the people of Fangjiazhuang actually arrived first, it turned out that the people of Xiaoshanzi's family actually had some relationship with the people of Fangjiazhuang, and I heard that Xiaoshanzi helped big customers find vegetables and poultry, and immediately found it. In previous years, the Fang family had a large business and a large population, and the vegetables and poultry grown on the Zhuangzi were all specially used by their own families to chew. This accident, where can their own family still consume it, if you want to say pull to sell, they can't find a big customer for a while, and they want to sell more silver, and they don't have a competent person to take care of it, so it has been delayed until now.

Then, Xiao Shanzi also brought a village head over, but there was only a small amount of fish left in this house, and he came to ask Geng Qiu if he wanted fresh fish, and there was a little bit of vegetables.

The people of Fangjiazhuang said good things to Geng Qiu one by one, and they almost knelt down and begged him, Geng Qiu thought about it, his family was lacking, anyway, he bought it with silver in a proper manner, and Yu Mingyi would not say anything, so the things of the two families were all wanted. However, he was also afraid that the Fang clan would find scum afterwards, so he specially invited a well-known local merchant gang to come forward, and he didn't use the name of the Wenwu General's Mansion, but used the names of the two brothers Zeng Changan and Zeng Changping, and only said that they bought it.

Because of the fair price, Geng Qiu asked for it all again, and the people in Fangjiazhuang were overjoyed, and hurriedly sent someone to pack the things for Geng Qiu and load them into the car. The two cars were full, and there were also more than a dozen baskets of live poultry, and Zeng Dashan took a few people to transport them back. Another Zhuangzi's fish was loaded with more than ten baskets, and they still hired a special delivery carriage to follow Geng Qiu back.

After two busy days, I finally got all the bulk New Year's goods. There are still things at home, Geng Qiu made a list again, and asked the people below to buy, as for some gifts to be sent, they are basically ready, anyway, the Wenwu General's Mansion has just opened, and there are no good goods at the bottom of the box, all the gifts are ordinary goods, and there are no precious items. Only a few good wolf skins were brought from Beixian, which were ready to be given to people with close relationships and good family backgrounds. Actually, this thing is not very good, it is just an item that can be taken out at home. Some of the precious items in the General's Mansion were all rewarded by the palace, and they were not suitable for giving away.

is so busy, it will soon be the day of the imperial court seal, and the ministers in Beijing will have a holiday. As a matter of fact, the local officials have already been on vacation, especially the officials who are going to go to Beijing to report on their work have all entered Beijing a few days ago.