Since Chinese New Year's Eve, Gu Qing didn't know how many heads had been knocked over, and he didn't know how many taels of gold and silver had been used just to make gold and silver bills.

As the highest-ranking and oldest person in the Guogong Mansion, all the subordinates had to come to her courtyard to kowtow first.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, a large number of maids and women stood full in the yard, rows of people came in and kowtowed, and Gu Qing's face was frozen with a smile that day. Dressed in new clothes, the beautiful women knelt on the ground and kowtowed to her, she was a little uncomfortable at first, and then every time she was kowtowed, the smoke cloud around her picked up a lotus lotus purse next to her and gave it to a subordinate, and she made herself a god of wealth or a land mother-in-law or something.

When Li Mao and his wife came to kowtow to her with their two children and a mighty housekeeper, Gu Qing felt that if she had to put an offering table in front of her and light a stick of incense, she would probably be able to soar.

Yanyun, who was in charge of the "pressure money" that day, said that her shoulders were swollen, and Gu Qing sent her double the "pressure money" after hearing it. This made Xiangyun joke that she would ask the old lady for this "pressure money" grace next year.

The reason why the people came so diligently was because of the special drum of the "purse" issued by Gu Qing this year.

A few years ago, a few stewards in charge of the treasury came to ask how many gold and silver coins should be made into two or two of this year's casting, as well as how to string the copper coins of those first, second and third class subordinates and rough servants.

Gu Qing looked at his private treasury, and the private money that the old man left for Mrs. Qiu almost didn't scare Gu Qing to death. The old man left the old man's treasury with the production of such things as the grange and the shop, and the old lady's private treasury was mostly gold, silver, jewelry, and some rare treasures. Others, such as precious medicinal materials, furs, weapons, antiques, etc., are countless, and there are dozens of rosters made for items.

In the treasury, there is also Li Rui's mother's dowry, which is not left to his nephew because his uncle's family is not left, and it is also kept by Mrs. Qiu. A seven-in, seven-out warehouse was full of things, and the iron door at the door was three or four inches thick.

Gu Qing didn't want to stay here for a long time, so he naturally regarded the silver money as dung. This year is the first year she came, and after asking about the amount distributed in previous years, Gu Qing, who has a lot of money, waved his hand, this year it is all silver and gold, and there is no need for any copper coins! If the two are unified into one, they shall be issued according to the same amount. A few of the subordinates of each class were sent and let the Fang clan decide.

The money came out of the old lady's private room, the old lady was too generous, and wanted to be happy while the New Year, Fang's naturally would not let go of this opportunity to be a good person, and the amount set was very generous.

On the way back, the steward was overjoyed, and was naturally looked at by the subordinates who had a heart. I asked about the annual interest of minting money, and when I went back, I was smiling, it must be because there was a lot of money this year!

When casting the mold, it is naturally indispensable to use the carpenter, gold and silversmith in the house, there are many people, and this year's old ladies in the purse are set to "at least one or two, no copper coins" As soon as the news goes out, the whole house is jubilant. You must know that the old lady, the lord and the lady, each of the three masters has to pay money!

In this way, the annual money at the end of the year is not less than the monthly money of the year.

So when it comes to kowtowing, everyone kowtows deeply, and when you take the purse, you weigh it, and you laugh even more happily. Everyone laughed like a flower, and they were grateful to Gu Qing, even if Gu Qing was a wealthy lady, and her waist was sore when she was kowtowed and tired, she couldn't help but feel good.

This year, the whole house has been happy. In previous years, during the filial piety period, banquets, banquets, singing and dancing were prohibited, and the New Year was quiet. This year, I set off firecrackers and lit fireworks, and finally went to get rid of mildew.

Fang Shi and Gu Qing have been busy for a few months, and when they saw the laughter and laughter in the house, they also felt that their hard work was worth it. Even if Gu Qing didn't treat the other party very well, the family reunion dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve was peaceful.

didn't go out on the first day of the first month, and the masters in the house finally had a day of leisure. On the second day of the first lunar month, when relatives and friends from all walks of life come to congratulate, it is even more hectic.

Early in the morning of the second day of the new year, Fang's mother's brother brought his wife and children to the Guogong Mansion to celebrate the New Year. Li Mao greeted the two brothers of the Fang clan in front, and the younger siblings of the Fang clan took the children to kowtow to Old Taijun Qiu in Zhiyun Courtyard to celebrate the New Year.

Several male owners of the Xinguo Mansion did not take concubines, and there were only a few relatives, except for the relatives of Jingnan's hometown, which were in-laws of the two mansions.

Before the New Year, the family received a post that his mother's family and Li Rui's uncle's family were coming to celebrate the New Year.

This year, there has just been filial piety in the Xinguo Mansion, and the uncle who served as the political envoy of Tongzhou is finally going to bring the whole family to the door to pay New Year's greetings, and the Fang family doesn't know if this uncle will be disappointed when he sees Li Rui, and his heart is full of ups and downs.

What worries her even more is that Li Rui's uncle Zhang Zhi, who has been serving in the border pass for more than ten years, also returned to Beijing, and heard that the old man said that he wanted to check the money and grain in the rear to the military department.

Zhang Zhi was born to Aunt Jiao of Zhang's Mansion, and the two siblings Zhang Ning and Zhang Jing are not the same brothers. He liked to dance with knives and guns since he was a child, and joined the army as an adult, and later went to the Liangzhou border pass in the way of Old Man Li to defend against the remnants of the Hu people. He stayed for ten years, and the official also became a lieutenant, and Aunt Jiao died early, so he didn't often return to Beijing.

Zhang Zhi did not have a house in Beijing, and lived in Zhang Ning's mansion after returning to Beijing. The mansion of the Zhang family was originally rewarded by the emperor when the late Mrs. Zhang was an official, and he also lived here before he left home. The brothers haven't seen each other for more than two years, and they drink and catch up every day, but they have a good sister-in-law less than before, which can't help but be a little embarrassed.

The eldest uncle Zhang Ning, his wife and children, as well as the younger uncle Zhang Zhi, are afraid that they will go to the house together today. For the sake of these important relatives, the Fang family also made a lot of preparations in advance.

If it is said that this Fang family's family was not very good when Li Mao married him, his father has always been an official of the Criminal Department after the founding of the country, and compared with Li Meng's father-in-law, "Zuodu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate", he can only be regarded as an okay official.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Chu, there were many people in the Han clan, but the old emperor still let the Shi clan and the Han clan maintain the proportion of half as much as possible, and in the second and third years, he also opened Enke in succession.

Zhang Yun, the Duke of the Jin Kingdom, came from a big clan, and seeing that countless outstanding children in the clan could not come out, he drank several times with the old Duke of the Kingdom. The two chatted behind closed doors, and he said in a drunken remark that at that time, "a person with a neat head and feet can be an official", which shows the shortage of people at that time. Fang's father had been in the army as a Lang officer inspecting military discipline, and later went to the Criminal Department.

In the early years, Li Meng married Zhang Jing, when his father founded the country, he served as the imperial history and prince of the Zuodu Imperial Court from the first product, and he was in a high position, Li Meng's wife was the daughter of the family, and there was a suspicion of standing in line, and the wife of the second Li Mao could no longer go to the family to find it, and could only go to see the girl who was born as a poor official.

When Fang was still a girl, he was quite famous. At that time, the aristocratic circle of Da Chu was small, the family had the circle of the family, the Han family had the circle of the Han family, and the Fang family often came and went in the circle where they started later. Back then, the official wives often brought their children to each other, Fang Wan was the eldest sister at home, and she was used to taking care of people, and she often treated children younger than herself, often in all aspects, very thoughtful, and there was no one in the handkerchief who did not call her good.

Mrs. Qiu doesn't like to socialize, but most of her old friends are from the Han clan, and after coming and going, she noticed this girl. Her second son Li Mao's personality is not as soft as his eldest son Li Meng, and his temper is a little more like her.

A woman's character is stoic and persistent, but as a man, it can't be said that it's bad, but after getting along for a long time, it's inevitably a little depressing.

Fang's gentleness and pettiness, and he is good at inducing rather than preaching to educate his younger brothers to learn well, Qiu Lao Taijun liked her very much after seeing her a few times, and was ready to let Li Lao Guogong go to propose.

Li Lao Guogong is also a wonderful person. His eldest son's wife is his own fancy, of course, it is very agreeable, but his second son's temperament is calm and cautious when he says it is good, and it is a stuffy gourd if he says it is not good, and the second son looks quite like him, with a square face and thick eyebrows, and his appearance is average, and he can't pour out the goods in his stomach.

Mrs. Qiu couldn't cry or laugh after knowing Li Laoguogong's plan. She has followed Lao Guogong all her life, and it has become a habit to see him do too many disorderly things like this. This time the youngest son married, she had expected that there would definitely be some fame, as if he didn't do it, it was really strange.

When the youngest son was curious about the other half of the future, the old man was unreliable, and Mrs. Qiu didn't want to disturb the "interest" of the father and son, so Li Meng quietly told the relatives of the Fang family, saying that the old man was worried that the girl of the Fang family was not satisfied with his son, and the old man wanted the young couple to cultivate their relationship first, and they were looking for a "way" to "meet" everywhere.

In ancient times, men and women were on guard, but now the world has just been peaceful, and the rules that were lost in the old days are being picked up one by one, and the opportunities for young men and women to contact are far less than before.

But the Xinguo Mansion is a high and powerful person, and the second is quite "chivalrous", and the third is also the most important, his family has been married for a few years, and there has always been only one Zhang, that is, he has not divided the room during pregnancy, which means that the mother-in-law will never take care of the affairs of her son's room. The old man also has the name of "dedication", and his family style is very good. Fang's father felt that it was a bit ridiculous to deliberately create conditions for the two young people to get along, but he couldn't help Fang's mother crying, making trouble and hanging herself, and finally opened the door to convenience.

The Fang family often creates opportunities for the two children to come into contact, which is naturally much more efficient than "encountering" them everywhere. The two have been friends for a year, and they have exchanged tokens with each other, and both sides are very satisfied with each other. Only then did the old man put his heart in his stomach, and pulled out a long street of dowry to go to the Fang family for employment.

After marriage, the two were really harmonious, and Fang's father was also promoted from the Criminal Department to Dali Temple as a Shaoqing because of this in-law.

At that time, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which was headed by the Imperial History of Zuodu, had two important functions in addition to the "professional correction and impeachment of the hundred divisions", one of which was the eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven, that is, the so-called speech officials, who could even hear about things in specific situations in a specific period; The second is the triage of serious cases, that is, major cases are tried by the three law divisions, which refer to the criminal department, the metropolitan procuratorate, and the Dali Temple.

Li Meng's father-in-law, Zhang Ze, was the top boss of Shang's father at the time.

For a long time, the office of managing the affairs of the criminal prison inevitably gave people a bad impression, especially the squire of the criminal department, who felt more like an "official" than an official. However, Dali Temple, which is in charge of the world's imprisonment and is responsible for reversing unjust, false and wrongful cases, has a very high prestige. Dali Temple is equivalent to the current Supreme People's Court, and the character and experience of the officials are very high, Fang's father transferred the official office, from the "official" to the "scholar", although the official has not been promoted much, but it is not the same as in the past.

Even now, the old lady of the Fang Mansion also thinks that the most right thing she has done in her life is to marry her daughter to the Xinguo Mansion. Li Maohui attacked the knight, and since then he has become the prince of the country, and his daughter also has the edict of the duchess of Yipinguo, which is really something that I can't think of, but it will fall on her daughter!

Especially the nonsense that made the old man loosen his mouth, and creating opportunities for the little couple made her proud for a lifetime. In the entire capital, there is only one wife like her son-in-law who has been married for ten years, and she never messes with flowers, how many can you find?

This old lady has been set up in the house since then, and she has taken care of the marriage of her two sons and watched each other personally. And since then, I have a habit of talking about matchmakers. But if there is a good girl in anyone's house, she has to look at each other when she walks around with each other. Some people in the world were quite annoyed with this woman, and they did not have a good opinion of her, but she pretended not to know, and took pleasure in commenting on the daughters of each family.

For the sake of her husband and daughter and son-in-law, everyone doesn't care about her, and she regards herself more and more as an "old man under the moon" and likes to match various families.

If it weren't for the emphasis on filial piety in her daughter's house in the past few years, she was ordered by Mrs. Fang to "converge", and after so many years, I don't know how many pairs of "resentful couples" will come out.

Fang's family is quite prominent, but compared with the eldest and youngest grandmothers of the Guogong Mansion and her eldest sister-in-law, they are still inferior to each other. His father is Dali Siqing, which is a matter of the past few years, and Zhang's father was still deeply trusted when he was a dragon. Although the eldest master of the Zuodu Imperial History led the prince and young master to go early, even now, none of the younger brothers of the Fang clan can be like the sons of their family who can be the official of the frontier or the commander of the army.

This is also one of the reasons why the Fang clan has been uneasy for so many years, this Li Rui's mother clan is too strong. If Li Rui is more capable, he will be pushed by his mother clan to rise up and fight for the title......

Therefore, she can only raise Li Rui in the depths of the sky, and it is better to become unsightly, so that his mother clan is completely disappointed in him.

It's a pity that her time to raise Li Rui is still short, and Li Rui has not yet reached the age of looking for flowers and asking willows, and she can't go out of the house often during the filial piety period, and she can't even let outsiders bring it bad. Otherwise, he will have a reputation for erosive gambling, no matter how prominent his uncle's family is, he will not dare to stretch out more for his official reputation.

Gu Qing knew that Li Rui's uncle and aunts were coming to celebrate the New Year today, so she asked the girls and mothers-in-law to clean up Li Rui early in the morning, and told them to keep a low profile, and let them get together when they went back. When Li Rui was impatient to hear it, she asked Li Mao to take him to the front to greet the guests.

A twelve-year-old boy can now also receive his peers. Even Li Ming, who is just eight years old this year, is also doing the same thing. However, he was greeting several younger brothers of his maternal grandfather's family.

When Xiangyun came to report that it was Fang's family who came to pay her New Year's greetings, Gu Qing couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. She thought that the first person to come would be the people of Zhangfu. But since she came, of course, she couldn't say something like "Ah, I have an important guest today, I'm too lazy to see you, so kowtow and leave", even if she thinks so.

Fang's two younger siblings have a round face and a melon seed face. The round face is the eldest brother's woman Wang, and the melon seed face is the younger brother's woman Zhao. There are a few little Lori's behind the two of them, all of them have bright eyes and bright teeth, and they look a little similar to each other. A few little Loli are not afraid of people, they knelt down and kowtowed as soon as they entered the door, and they also said a basket of blessings to Gu Qing crisply, which made Gu Qing, who likes children, laugh and couldn't close her mouth.

Fang's relatives naturally can't be the same as the people in the house, Gu Qing asked people to take out a plate of gold bills, there are traditional begonia style, plum blossom style, lotus leaf style, sunflower style, eight treasures Ruyi and so on, Gu Qing has seen Chow Tai Fook and other gold toys in the gold shop, in addition to these good gold bills, but also let the housekeeper make another small animal style.

A plate of scattered gold bills of various shapes, each with a difference between one or two, is by no means small. This pile of gold bills came out heavily, shaking people's eyes.

Gu Qing, who has never been so "spending" in modern times, said with a smile: "The children come to kowtow to grandma, and grandma naturally can't let you go back empty-handed." Grandma doesn't know what you like, pick and choose, take which one you like. ”

Rao is Fang's two younger siblings are used to seeing rich and noble families, and they have never seen Old Taijun Qiu give New Year's money to children like this. There are rumors outside that the old man gave all the valuable things to the wife of the princess, I am afraid it is true.

None of the children had ever seen so many gold bills. They hesitated for a long time, then looked at their mothers, and everyone dared to reach for it. I don't know how many to take.

"Picky? Come, grandma will pick a few for you first. Gu Qing also came over when she was a child, picked up a few small gourds and small animals, and put them in her hands for them to take. Zhao and Wang nodded at the child, and then they happily took the small golden coin given by Gu Qing, and then picked up their favorite style on the plate.

"Old lady, it's just a child, so such a heavy New Year's money can't help but be a bit blessed......," Wang said with a red face, "I often hear that the aunt says that the princess is the most generous, but this kind of generosity still flatters the juniors." ”

Her mother-in-law was not so generous. Her sister-in-law is so good!

"It's all something outside the body, just be happy. People like us are not afraid of many blessings. Gu Qing was happy to see several girls, and her heart was also very relaxed. She also asked people to take out all kinds of gifts and hand them to the Zhao family and the Wang family, all of which were some complete sets of head noodles and tribute satin, which were considered generous gifts.

Gu Qing has done countless "New Year's gifts" during the Chinese New Year this year, and the old woman who has scattered money has a lot of money, and she doesn't feel distressed at all when she sees these gold and silver jewelry like props in the game. Before she died, she picked up some things in the warehouse and gave them to Li Ming, and gave all the rest to Li Rui.

Zhao and Wang sat here for a while, and a few little Loli also gave Gu Qing some of their own needlework, these five or six-year-old girls embroidered their purses and handkerchiefs very neatly, and they didn't know how exquisite the cross-stitch that Gu Qing embroidered to pass the time, which made her blush for herself in her heart.

Hmm, do you want to learn some embroidery or piano, chess, calligraphy and painting? If you die and wear it back again, maybe you can still rely on these crafts to eat after you lose your job after learning some crafts?

Thinking of his right hand, which would tremble from time to time, Gu Qing still silently drew a cross in his heart.

A few people were chatting, and the old woman who was watching the second door at the door suddenly ran into the courtyard quickly. This old woman is announcing the good news, and her voice is naturally very loud.

"Mrs. Tai, Young Master Rui's uncle's wife has brought two cousins to greet you! Mrs. Uncle brought too many gifts, and the girls in the second door were helping to foil it, and Grandma Sun asked me to bring the gift list over, and asked Mrs. whether the gift was directly put into the warehouse, or put it in the treasure room first? ”

When Gu Qing arrived here, he knew that big families give gifts, unless it is a small object, otherwise there are few people who lack the heart and eye to carry a bunch of things in front of people to show one by one. Most of them register the gifts as a list, let the list into the house first, and then listen to the recipient arrange to put the things everywhere.

But there are so many gifts that the girls have to go out to help deal with them, so how many gifts should there be, and how thick is this gift? When Mama Hua went out, she followed up with two strange servants. The two servants were holding gift slips and congratulatory letters in their hands, obviously knowing that Mrs. Qiu was illiterate, and came in to sing the gifts given by their masters.

But seeing that Mrs. Qiu had a guest in the family, the two of them didn't know what to do with the gift list and congratulatory letter. They are here to tell Mrs. Qiu what the gift is, but they are not here to show off. sang in front of the female guests how many gifts his family had given, and he should be kicked out when he went back.

Not to mention that the two servants of the Zhang family don't know how to be good, and the two Fangfu daughters-in-law sitting inside are even more embarrassed. Although they also prepared Lilly, it was a little thicker than the etiquette in previous years, and the list was by no means as long as the old lady had now. Not to mention that the whole set of noodles given by the old lady was very valuable, and the two children also took seven or eight gold bills, the more obvious it was that they took advantage of the old lady in the name of "New Year".

Seeing that the two women were embarrassed, Mama Hua asked Gu Qing to go out of the room and scolded the mother-in-law in the yard.

"It's not good to punish you during the New Year's Festival, otherwise I really want to slap you twice. There are guests inside, what kind of body are you talking about! Write down this account first, and then clean you up after the New Year! ”

Although Mama Hua was ruthless, her expression was not ugly, and when she said, "I'll clean you up after the New Year", she even winked at the mother-in-law on the ground.

These mothers-in-law are all human spirits, and when they saw Mama Hua's behavior, they knew everything in their hearts, and hurriedly slapped their arms with a snap, and then scolded themselves for not seeing good things with shallow eyelids, and said that the house was generous, and they had forgotten the rules and other guilty words.

The two played for a while, and Mama Hua conveyed Gu Qing's words, and asked the girl and the others to leave the treasure room first, and then dispose of it after returning to send off the guests.

As soon as he said this, no matter how thick-skinned Fang's two younger siblings were, they couldn't stay longer, and hurriedly said that they still wanted to go to their aunt's to sit down, and quickly said goodbye.

Although the foundation of this country's mansion is shallow, it is much richer than his own mansion! The old lady followed the old emperor to fight the world, and the number of good things he received was innumerable.

Zhao and Wang looked at their daughter beside them, although they were still young, they could also see that she was a beautiful embryo. Brother Li Ming has been studying in their house since he was a child, close to the water......

When I go back, I should discuss with the master, and the gifts of the princess will be heavier in the future, especially the old lady and aunt.

The grandson of this country's mansion, their nephew Li Ming, hasn't they yet decided to marry?

The author has something to say: thank you Banzhu Bamboo for the illustrations I drawn. It's so much fun!