"What?"

Yan Chengyue sat up suddenly.

Li Luan'er hurriedly supported him, took his clothes and put them on him, and turned his head to ask the white chess outside the door.

"Xishan, Xishan martial arts arena is on fire."

Bai Qi shouted, and Yan Chengyue was startled: "Wait." ”

Li Luan'er was not slow at the moment, she helped Yan Chengyue put on his clothes and pants, tied up his hair, picked him up and put him in a wheelchair, and pushed Yan Chengyue to go out with a few clothes casually.

"It's cold outside, wear more clothes." It was at this time that Yan Chengyue was the first to think about Li Luan'er: "Put on the cotton clothes and put on the big wool clothes." ”

Li Luan'er smiled: "I'm not cold, I'm in good health." ”

As he spoke, he pushed Yan Chengyue out, and as soon as he went out, he saw Bai Qi wearing a short jacket and cotton pants, and the whole person was about to shrink into a ball outside, Yan Chengyue called him: "What the hell is going on?" ”

Bai Qi cried with a sad face: "Young master, I don't know the little one, that is, someone from the Ministry of Industry came to say that the craftsman workshop of the Xishan martial arts field was on fire, and said that this matter was in the hands of the young master, and asked the young master to take a look." ”

"In that case, you should go earlier." Li Luan'er knows what the craftsman's workshop represents, it is Yan Chengyue's hard work for I don't know how many hours, and it is the hope of the official family to deter the Fan Gang, if something really happens, no one will be able to do well.

"Then I'll go, don't worry about it, rest early." Yan Chengyue shook Li Luan'er's hand, gently instructed a few words, and called Bai Qi to ask him to prepare the carriage.

Li Luan'er sent Yan Chengyue out of the door and watched him get into the carriage before going back.

It's just that she can't sleep when she goes back to the house, she doesn't sleep, and several girls in the house are also asleep, Li Luan'er simply asked Ruizhu to take a few girls to sit around and talk, there are many people, everyone has a better time to say a word, and before you know it, the sky will be bright.

Li Luan'er waited until dawn and didn't see Yan Chengyue come back, so she asked Steward Zhou to send someone to inquire, and only after breakfast did the inquiring come back and say that Yan Chengyue had entered the palace.

Li Luan'er knew that Yan Chengyue must have gone to see the official's house, so she was even more anxious, and kept sending people to investigate, but no one who went there inquired about any news.

waited until it was almost evening before Yan Chengyue came back.

Li Luan'er saw that his expression was very bad, so she became even more worried: "What's wrong?" What about those muskets? Did the officials reprimand you? ”

A series of questions were asked, and Li Luan'er's anxiety couldn't be hidden.

Yan Chengyue shook his head: "There is gunpowder in the craftsman's workshop, and this fire is together, even the gunpowder and muskets are all burned, not only that, but also a number of craftsmen have died, His Majesty is furious, which makes people investigate thoroughly, and I and the guards in charge of patrolling are also reprimanded and punished, seeing that the envoys from Waifan are about to enter Beijing, His Majesty originally planned to use these muskets to deter those people, who knew that the muskets were all gone, and it would be too late to rebuild them now, and His Majesty was also in a hurry now." ”

"How's that for good?" Li Luan'er was also worried: "There is no other way?" ”

"If only there were." Yan Chengyue smiled bitterly: "Forget it, what are you talking about, you are afraid that you didn't sleep well all night last night, and now that I'm back, you hurry up and make up for sleep." ”

"Although I haven't slept well, but in the end, at home, I don't have to do anything, but I'm not tired, but you've been running around all day and night, I'm afraid I can't stand it anymore, I'll put some hot water for you, you take a hot bath and rest early." Li Luan'er said with concern, turned around and went into the bathroom to prepare things.

Yan Chengyue smiled, took the change of clothes handed by Ruizhu and followed into the bathroom.

When he went in, Li Luan'er had already put a pool of hot water, and when he saw Yan Chengyue coming, he helped him take off his clothes, put him in the hot tub, put his change of clothes on the edge of the pool and smiled: "I'll go out and get you some food, and call me when you're done." ”

"Okay." Yan Chengyue agreed, leaned against the pool and closed his eyes, obviously very tired.

Li Luan'er went out and called Shang Ruizhu into the kitchen to get some good and hot food, and boiled a bowl of ginger syrup, and when he brought it to Yan Chengyue, he saw that he had fallen asleep leaning against the pool.

"Chengyue, Chengyue." Li Luan'er pushed Yan Chengyue: "Get up and eat." ”

After pushing it several times, Yan Chengyue opened his eyes, and when he opened his eyes, he was still a little confused, and stretched out his hand and pulled: "What are you doing, I still have to sleep." ”

Usually Yan Chengyue always looks gentle and smart, as if everything can't stop him, Li Luan'er also accepts his calm and wise side, but Yan Chengyue I saw today also has a childish side, Li Luan'er looked at him funny: "Hurry up, the water is cold, and you will get sick if you soak it again." ”

At this time, Yan Chengyue came to his senses, dragged Li Luan'er's hand out of the pool, and let Li Luan'er help him dry his black hair, he put on a white middle coat, put on a robe and sat on a cushioned chair on the side to eat, and after eating and rinsing his mouth, Yan Chengyue went back to the house to sleep.

Early the next morning, Yan Chengyue went to the Ministry of Industry to report that Li Luaner sorted out the list of New Year's gifts, sorted out the New Year's gifts by household, and began to send people to send New Year's gifts from far and near.

The first thing to send is the New Year's gift of several families in Jiangnan, these people are Yan Chengyue's friends, and now the family is in Jiangnan as officials, and they can't go back to the capital, since they go to Jiangnan, Yan Chengyue will send something to the past every year, of course, those people also have return gifts, and they are close to each other.

Now that Li Luan'er is in charge, she will naturally not forget those people.

Closer to Yan Chengyue are some friends who are officials in the north, and then there are relatives and friends in Beijing, naturally, the heaviest gift is the old house of the Yan family, followed by the second and third elders of the Yan family.

These are all New Year's gifts to be given by Yan Chengyue, but Li Luan'er has a smaller number of people, and there are not many gifts to give.

Li Luan'er is now a member of the Yan family, her mother's family is going to give gifts, in addition to the Gu family and the Pei family, when she got married, General Gao and Lord Wu gave a lot of dowries, and now that the New Year is over, the gifts of these two families are indispensable.

In this way, Li Luan'er calculated a general ledger, the cost of the New Year alone is very large, counting all the income of her and Yan Chengyue's Zhuangzi shop, more than half of the New Year's gift alone will be given, she can't help but sigh, no wonder people often say that the New Year is closed, this New Year is not like passing the customs.

Although Li Luan'er has a rich dowry, Yan Chengyue also divided a lot of money when he split the family, which is enough to live, but people often say that if there is no long-term consideration, there must be near-term worries, in the long run, Li Luaner will not use the dowry and the dead money in the treasury, she can only calculate the annual income, she has made a plan, in addition to expenses, she has to save some income every year, as the days go by, the net worth can only become more and more rich, not more and more simple.

Therefore, Li Luan'er saw that the expenses for the New Year were so huge, and she was a little anxious.

She couldn't help but think about what could increase income, and thought that open source was not enough, and it was necessary to throttle, how to make the New Year's gift look good and save money.

After thinking about it for a long time, Li Luaner wrote and drew on the paper, and changed the New Year's gift list several times.

She thought about it for a long time before she came up with a way to reduce expenses, which was to give New Year's gifts through the difference between the north and the south.

Nowadays, the traffic is extremely inconvenient, the things in the south are rare things in the north, and in the same way, the objects in the north are also precious things in the south, if you toss it like this, you can't say that you can save a lot of money.

Li Luan'er thought that it was cold and freezing in the north, and if it was nice and elegant to add some flowers to the New Year's ceremony, it would save her a lot.

Naturally, this flower had to be ordered by the Pei family, and in addition, she also wanted to ask the Gu family to help get some rare items from the south, such as southern silk, good tea, some lacquerware, and many fruits.

These things are very valuable in the north, and she can add these things to the New Year's gifts of every household in the capital.

Some of the popular jewelry in the north, good charcoal burning, and food that is not available in the south, these can be used in the south for the year's ceremony.

Moreover, Yan Chengyue is an official in the Ministry of Industry, and his main focus is also on the craftsman's workshop, which does not specifically refer to the workshop that makes muskets, but also includes some royal workshops.

For example, the official kiln, the workshop dedicated to making furniture and utensils for the royal family, the glaze workshop for firing glaze, and so on.

Li Luan'er can get some official kiln porcelain and wooden playthings through Yan Chengyue, and you can also get a little glass.

Speaking of glass, Li Luan'er really regretted it, why didn't she remember the recipe and method of firing glass when she was in school, if she knew this, where would she have to worry like this.

It took several changes before Li Luan'er finally decided on the New Year's gift.

She just got it done, Yan Chengyue came back, Li Luan'er said her plan, but Yan Chengyue's appreciation and encouragement, Yan Chengyue said that when he went to the Ministry of Industry again, he would definitely go to the craftsman's workshop to have a good look, to see if there were any new things that could be given out as a New Year's gift, if there really was, he would definitely be able to get some at a very low price, so that he could really save a lot of money, if the money saved was saved, in a few years, it would definitely save enough for his daughter's future dowry.

Li Luan'er only felt funny when she heard it, and couldn't help scolding, only saying that Yan Chengyue was not ashamed, and he didn't say anything about his daughter all day long, who knows where his daughter is?

Yan Chengyue also smiled, saying that the bride was brought, and the daughter would be far away, if the first child could not give birth to a daughter, the two continued to work hard, regardless of how many children they had, they would have to give birth to a white and tender fat girl.

The two discussed the topic of the New Year's ceremony and turned to the daughter, and it didn't take long for the two to deviate from what kind of bride the son would marry in the future, what kind of aunt the daughter was looking for, and finally it was to the grandson, and when the two of them came back to their senses, they laughed together and fell on the bed.

After laughing for a long time, Li Luan'er lightly shook Yan Chengyue's hand: "Now I feel a little happier, I know that those muskets are your hard work, but now they are burned out, let's not be entangled, after all, the muskets are improved and manufactured by you, and the methods are all in your head. ”

When Yan Chengyue said this, Yan Chengyue was moved and laughed at Li Luan'er: "If you let your sister hear this, she may have to turn her face with you." ”R1152