Mama Shang had no choice but to cough lightly twice, walked in with a smile with tea, and said, "In such a cold weather, the fourth master will drink a cup of tea to get rid of the cold." ”

Cheng Chi sat on the big kang by the window, but Zhou Shaojin stood aside, as if he was the owner of the house.

Mama Shang couldn't help but glance at Zhou Shaojin.

But Zhou Shaojin was unconscious, and asked Cheng Chi with a smile: "Have you had dinner?" When did you arrive at Baoding Mansion? Did Huaishan come with you? I'll have someone fetch water and change your clothes, and tell the servants to clean up the rooms. He said apologetically, "Everyone went out to visit the Lantern Festival today, I'm afraid I will ask for a delay." ”

Cheng Chi smiled and pointed to the kang opposite him, and said, "Sit down and talk!" I just arrived in Baoding Mansion and came over to see if you were not at home. After a day of riding, I'm a little tired, and I don't want to eat anything for the time being, didn't you just say that there are any horseshoe cakes? Let someone come over with a small plate, I'll eat a few, and then make a pot of Lao Junmei. I'm resting for dinner. I don't have to clean up the guest room, I don't live here this time, I live at a friend's house - I have some business with him, after all, this is the prefect's yamen, and it is not very convenient to enter and exit. When I'm almost done, I'll come back to visit Master Zhou. ”

Zhou Shaojin only heard him say that he was tired and wanted to eat horseshoe cake.

hurriedly called the little maid to fetch it, and asked Mama Shang to make a pot of tea again, and then sat down and said, "Did Xiao Zhenhai find it?" Otherwise, you would still live in the yamen, wouldn't you? ”

"Xiao Zhenhai is no longer in Baoding Mansion," Cheng Chi said, "I don't know when he ran out, I came here for this matter." Just listen to it, don't tell Lord Zhou, lest he worry about it. And he said, "With whom are you making your garments?" ”

The sleeves were small, but they were only three feet long.

Zhou Shaojin's eyebrows and eyes suddenly became gentle as water, and said, "It's for my sister's unborn baby." ”

If Shaojin becomes a mother, she will also be a gentle and good mother!

Cheng Chi smiled slightly and said, "For the sake of your obedience, such an enthusiastic lantern festival obediently stayed at home and did not go out, I will give you a small gift." ”

Zhou Shaojin was stunned.

Didn't he say that he should not go anywhere?

She listened to him and went anywhere, but he said this to her as if she were very disobedient.

Zhou Shaojin couldn't help pouting.

Cheng Chi turned around and brought in a lotus glass lamp the size of a sea bowl.

The ginkgo biloba stems and transparent glass petals emit a brilliant light under the illumination of the candle flame.

"It's beautiful!" Zhou Shaojin admired and took the lotus lantern, "Where did you buy it?" ”

"Let people do it." Cheng Chi smiled, "Hang it at the head of the bed." ”

Zhou Shaojin couldn't stop nodding.

This lantern is obviously not the one you bought on the street.

She said curiously: "Does Uncle Chi still know the one who makes lanterns?" ”

Cheng Chi smiled: "Don't forget that I am a businessman. ”

Zhou Shaojin pursed his lips and smiled, "It's a Confucian businessman." ”

Cheng Chi Waner.

Mama Shang and the little maid came in with refreshments.

Both of them looked surprised, and kept looking at the lanterns, and the little maid almost dropped the dish to the ground.

Zhou Shaojin couldn't help but smile, personally took the tea in Mama Shang's hand and put it in front of Cheng Chi.

Cheng Chi just didn't want Zhou Shaojin to worry, washed his hands, ate two horseshoe cakes, drank two sips of tea and got up to say goodbye: "I still have some things, I'll come to visit Ling Zun in two days." ”

Zhou Shaojin knew that he had something to do, so he naturally didn't dare to keep him, so he asked him to wrap the rest of the horseshoe cake and let him take it away, saying: "If you are hungry at night, you can pad your stomach." He added, "It's always inconvenient to live in someone else's house, if you want to eat something late, just ask someone to bring a letter, and I'll let the kitchen cook it for you." ”

Cheng Chi bowed slightly, and strode away from Zhou Shaojin's residence.

Zhou Shaojin stood in the corridor until Cheng Chi's figure disappeared for a long time, and his body was a little cold, and then he returned to the house under the urging of Mama Shang.

But when she returned to the house, she had no intention of doing needlework, and looked at the lamp, as if there was a flower embroidered on it, as if she had to count how many needles there were, until Zhou Zhen and Li and others came back, she then instructed Mama Shang to hang the lamp on the head of the bed and go to meet Zhou Zhen and Li.

Zhou Zhen bought her a silk yarn lantern for the Eight Immortals to cross the sea, and Li bought her a rabbit lantern.

Zhou Shaojin smiled and thanked her, feeling that it was not as beautiful as the lotus lamp that Cheng Chi gave her.

She told Zhou Zhen the news that Cheng Chi had come.

Although Zhou Zhen was a little surprised, it was not to the point of consternation.

Hearing that Cheng Chi was at a friend's house, he thought for a while and said, "Did your Uncle Chi say what his friend did?" ”

"Nope." Zhou Shaojin knew that the personnel around Cheng Chi were a little complicated, so he didn't say it, she never asked, for fear that she would ask something she shouldn't ask, which made Cheng Chi unhappy.

Zhou Zhen didn't ask again.

Zhou Shaojin was a little uneasy, and said, "Dad, Uncle Chi, is there something wrong with it?" ”

"It's hard to say." Zhou Zhen said, "Last year, the weather in Xi'an was bad and the grain production was reduced, so I still transferred some grain from Huguang, which ensured the supply of Jiubian." Now it is the time of spring ploughing, but there is a shortage of grain in Xi'an, if your Uncle Chi's friend is engaged in grain production, I am afraid that they want to transport some grain from here. ”

Zhou Shaojin said: "Is the grain production here in Baoding Mansion very good? ”

"Not bad." Zhou Zhen said, "In recent years, Baoding Mansion has been smooth. ”

The people live on food.

The people had no worries about food and clothing, and my father's officials were doing well.

Zhou Zhen said: "Then do you know where your Uncle Chi lives?" ”

Zhou Shaojin shook his head and said embarrassedly: "I forgot to ask." ”

Zhou Zhen smiled: "It doesn't matter. I'll wait until he comes to visit me. If he is really in this business, I can introduce a few people to him, so that he will not run the wrong way. ”

The father and daughter chatted for a while, and then they separated.

But when Zhou Shaojin returned to the house, she saw the Spring Festival Gala, all of them surrounding the lotus lantern hanging at the head of her bed, and they were all in amazement.

Zhou Shaojin smiled and drove them to sleep, but she couldn't sleep with a smile looking at the lotus lamp in the quilt, she woke up Bi Tao, who was on duty in her house, and said, "You go and ask Xiao Que, are the two yellow birds that Uncle Chi gave me okay?" ”

The little finch was the little girl sent by Cheng Chi to raise birds for her, and now she also helps her raise the snowballs sent by the fireflies.

Bi Tao rubbed her eyes, yawned and got up, and said, "I also went to see those two birds just now, and the little bird served with all her heart." ”

But Zhou Shaojin still felt relieved to go and see.

Bi Tao served her and dressed her, and went to see the two birds, and then she lay down in peace.

Cheng Chi lives in an inn not far from Baoding Ya.

Because five or six out of ten officials going south and north have to pass through Baoding Mansion, although the inn not far from Baoding Mansion is not big, it is simple and elegant in decoration, and most of them are small courtyards.

Cheng Chi stood beside the steps of the main house, looked at the direction of the city wall of Baoding Mansion, and said in a condensed voice: "Are you sure that Xiao Zhenhai is still in Baoding Mansion?" ”

"Sure!" The man who answered him was a twenty-five or six-year-old man, wearing a short brown jacket of coarse cloth, his appearance was very ordinary, but his eyes were as bright as cold stars, "I personally led people to guard outside the city, even if a bird flew out of Baoding Mansion, it was impossible to escape our eyes." ”

Cheng Chi laughed when he heard this, and said, "Then a few birds have flown out of Baoding Mansion these days. ”

The man said seriously: "Because it is winter, a total of 654 birds have flown out of Baoding Mansion, and because of the difference between distance and distance, there is no way to distinguish what kind of birds they are. Fifty-eight dogs came out of the walls, but they all told us to eat ......"

Huaishan was speechless.

Cheng Chi laughed and said, "Okay, I'll wait for your good news." ”

The young man bowed and retreated.

Huaishan said: "Xu Mu of the Jinsha Gang is unlimited. ”

Cheng Chi smiled and said nothing.

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The next day, everyone in the government talked about last night's lantern festival, and the Zhou family was no exception. The servants who didn't make it were even more envious when they heard it. Fortunately, the lantern will not disperse until the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, and the Li family simply asked the servants to change their values, and everyone can go out to play.

The servants of the Zhou family were all happy, praising the Li family's virtuous and generous.

Mrs. Tan brought her home-made Lantern Festival to visit the Li family and asked Zhou Shaojin: "Why didn't you see your second lady going to the Lantern Festival yesterday?" ”

Now as long as someone asks about Zhou Shaojin's whereabouts, she first erects a shield in her heart, and hurriedly says: "The second lady of our family doesn't like to join in the fun, saying that she often goes to enjoy the lanterns when she is in Jinling City, and she is very tired every time, so this time let her rest at home." Our master agreed, and I can't say anything. ”

Mrs. Tan smiled: "Your second lady is really good-natured. Unlike the two maids in our family, they can't live when they hear that they have fun to eat. ”

Li knew that Mrs. Tan's family had two daughters, both of whom were still in the boudoir, and when they were enjoying the lanterns yesterday, Mrs. Tan wanted to let the two daughters get close to Zhou Shaojin.

If it weren't for Miao Gongzi's business, the Li family might have asked Zhou Shaojin about his wishes, but now, the Li family seemed to have not understood, and bypassed the words.

Mrs. Tan couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

After sitting for a while, he got up and took his leave.

Lee sent Mrs. Tan to the door of the house.

A little maid ran all the way over, panting and said, "Mrs., Mrs., the eldest aunt and the eldest aunt are here, and the carriage is parked outside the door, go and have a look!" ”

That tone, as if shouting "Oh no".

The Li family couldn't care about Mrs. Tan anymore, and said in a panic: "Go and invite the master back." He also instructed Mama Li, "You hurry up and clean up the guest room." Say to the second lady...... "Hurry out." After walking a few words, he stopped and turned to Mama Li as if he remembered something, "I still have to tell the kitchen, hurry up and make a table of noodles, if it's too late, go and call a table of noodles from outside...... Forget it, forget it, this restaurant hasn't opened yet, you guys find a way to make table noodles and come out......"

Mama Li said yes.

Li half-ran out of the yard.

Mrs. Tan couldn't help but pout.

It's not over the New Year, and the aunt and grandmother who married into Zhenjiang returned to their parents' house with the eldest aunt, who knows what happened?

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Sisters, today's gag.

O(∩_∩)O~

Update tomorrow everyone will wake up in the morning and watch it!

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