Gu Yun's heart jumped, and after waiting for half a year, he finally had news, but if he wanted to ask carefully, he knew that now was not the time, so he had to endure it for the time being, and celebrate the New Year happily first.

After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, fireworks were lit in the courtyard, the old lady gave the juniors money again, and even the palace chief and his wife each got one, and then they went back to the house to rest, and tomorrow they will enter the palace to pay New Year's greetings, Gu Yun sent them out, and before they broke up, the two made an appointment to eat tomorrow night.

Rong Entang's side has ended, Gu Yun sent the guests straight back to his Zhongming Courtyard, the girls had already prepared a hot soup for him to take a bath, and after taking a comfortable bath, he rolled into the warm quilt and fell asleep quickly, and did not play tricks like last year to leave Bai Ko.

Bai Ko was tired enough to be busy all day for tonight's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and when Shizi went to sleep, she also ordered her girls to rest early and get up early tomorrow to serve.

So after the lights in the main room were turned off, the girls went back to the room to wash with hot water one after another, and gradually the entire Zhongming Courtyard turned off the lights and quieted down.

Every year on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the masters who want to enter the palace get up at the right time, freshen up and eat and set off, the carriage meets the carriage of the palace chief and his wife on the street, Gu Yun wants to call the palace chief to follow his carriage, but King Cheng just waved his hand and let the coachman follow behind Gu Yun's carriage, and did not change the carriage.

Gu Yun didn't make any noise when he saw this, he knew that the news brought back by the caravan was not something that could be finished in the time of this one-way trip, and the specific situation would not be known until tonight.

Thinking about it like this, Gu Yun inevitably complained a little bit about Gong Changji, since he couldn't tell him the news early, why did he let him know that the caravan was back, wasn't this deliberately hanging on him.

Sullen and depressed, after the carriage entered the imperial city, Gu Yun cleaned up his mood, and when the carriage stopped outside the palace gate, and the officials who entered the palace to pay New Year's greetings were sorted by status, the palace chief Ji still got a roll of Gu Yun's eyes, he smiled proudly, raised his legs and went to the position where he should stand, and the carriage of the ladies continued to go inside behind the verification, and got off and walked to Yongxiang at the junction of the front dynasty and the harem.

The girls in Zhongming's courtyard sent the young master out, closed the courtyard door and climbed back to bed to sleep, and there was only one day in a year when they could do whatever they wanted.

Bai Ko slept until three o'clock in the morning, got dressed and got up, walked around the house after breakfast, gave red envelopes to her subordinates, as a private New Year's gift from the boss, as early as a year ago, although the money earned by the factory this year was rolled into the new construction, but Gu Yun, as the owner, still got a profit from him, and after Bai Ko three or seven points, both of them had a fat year.

Bai Rui is the same as last year, after the new year, she took her daughter to her grandfather Zhang's house for the New Year, Bai Ko didn't have to go to the street anymore, she went back to her room to turn over the ancestral recipes after a round in the house, and picked a few big dishes suitable for the New Year to try, Jichengtang and Zhongmingyuan The girls sat in the canteen of the small kitchen and ate a good meal hotly.

Halfway through the afternoon, the masters who entered the palace to pay New Year's greetings returned to the house, and added more things to the reward, which was for Gu Yun, he was praised by the saint because of the workshop, especially during the luncheon, he was repeatedly given wine and food, and the Manchu clan and civil and military officials were envious, and Gu Yun'an, the Duke of Yeguo, also received a lot of compliments from his colleagues, praising him for raising a good son.

Gu Yun entered his warm bedroom coldly, first warmed his hands with a cup of hot tea, and then his rewards were unloaded and carried into the room one after another to open in person.

Because he is now an imperial businessman, and he knows that he is good at poetry and writing, the things he is given are mainly small pieces of literature and play, all of which are used by boys, and what attracted the attention of Gu Yun and the girls is that there is a small abacus of pure gold, with a gold chain, which can be easily hung on the belt.

Gu Yun put down the teacup, picked up the small abacus and played with interest for a while, and then stuffed it into Bai Ko's hand.

"Let's play with it."

Bai Ko weighed the small abacus, the real gold was heavy, but he was still a little disgusted.

"It's too small."

"It's convenient to go out." Gu Yunping stretched out his hands to look at his fingers that were distinct because he had been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and shook his head, "Only your hands are suitable, this is actually given to you by the sage." ”

Bai Ko tried to fiddle with the abacus beads a few times, and reluctantly agreed with Shizi's statement.

The other girls ignored these, and took turns to borrow her gold abacus to play with in their hands around Bai Ko and feel the texture of pure gold.

Gu Yun didn't sweep the girls' interest, he checked what else he was interested in alone, and when he opened a long and narrow carton box that he thought was a brush box, he saw that there were actually two white jade mantis hairpins inside, one thick and long, and one thin and shorter, but it was not obvious when they looked at each other, only when they were put together did they know that this was a pair of mantis hairpins, the thick and long ones were men's, and the thin ones were women's, the men's mantis was lying on the tip of the grass, and the women's mantis was holding food in its mouth, all of which were carved vividly, and the two antennae were silver wires, which were very commensurate with the color of the white jade. If you blow lightly, the silver wire will shake, and it is cleverly embedded, and you can't see the solder joint.

This looks like a hairpin that is more suitable for collection than daily use, Gu Yun looked at it carefully for a moment, put the women's hairpin back in the box, only pinched the other one, and called the girls to serve him to wash his face, change his clothes and comb his hair, and use this new hairpin, and explain to Qinglan and others After registering and making a book, these other things will be sent to the ear room, and the others can be moved to the small warehouse.

Qinglan responded and beckoned the little girl to move all the boxes to the next hall, and she came to register them one by one, so as not to hinder the rest of the world in this bedroom.

Bai Ke saw that Hengzhu had nothing to do with her, and wanted to go back to the room to put away her golden abacus, and was called into the inner room by Gu Yun to serve him, took off his heavy winter court clothes, watched Feihua and Miao'er call hot water, waited for him to wash his hands and face, and then sat in front of the mirror and combed his hair again.

Gu Yun looked at his face in the dressing mirror, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that the mirror was still small.

"The big mirrors in the factory are ready to go on the market, do you think I should also get a big piece for combing my hair?"

"Okay, I'll make you a dresser with a half-length mirror, do you want to use it for a single person or a double person? If it's a couple, I don't know if your young lady will be happy to share it with you in the future, or if you'd rather prepare another one for your own dowry. ”

"If you think too much, just be a solo."

"Shall I draw a pattern for you when I have time?"

"Draw a few more styles, don't care if it looks reliable or not, just draw it, I just need to make one for myself, at least the masters of this size in the house have to have one person, and if there are patterns, they won't mess around."

"Okay, let me think about it slowly."

"Don't worry, I'll get it when I have inspiration."

"Yes, Shizi."

Gu Yun and Bai Qiao were chatting, and the girls combed the young master's hair quickly, carefully fixed it with the praying mantis hairpin, and then served him to change into new clothes, tie a cloak, and send him out.

Aunt Su, who was guarding the door, saw the prince cross the eight-step alley and entered the front yard, she bolted the door of Zhongming Courtyard, and hurriedly went to the main courtyard, tonight the prince ate in King Cheng's mansion, Bai Ko said at lunch that everyone would bake R together in the evening, isn't this to hurry over and cook the ingredients by hand.