On the evening of the thirtieth day of the lunar month, that is, the Chinese New Year's Eve of the festive members, just in the morning, there was already a festive atmosphere in the Cao Mansion, and many small houses made the maid and the old mother spontaneously clean up all over the mansion A few days ago, Cao Yi was influenced by them, and he also took a broom dustpan to Wenshu Yuan to clean up, and he had already written a letter to his parents half a month ago, and the calculation date should be about this time to be delivered.

As the place where he almost appeared the second most after coming to this world, Manjushri still has extraordinary feelings and commemorative significance for him. In this courtyard, Mrs. Gao has been sincerely worshiping the Buddha for more than a year, just to pray for Cao Yi and bless her safety, hoping that her son's "illness" can get better, and during that period of time, Mrs. Gao did give Cao Yi meticulous care and care, and also rewarded Cao Yi with red sleeves and let her take care of her.

After a while, Red Sleeves also came over to clean up together, as Mrs. Gao's personal maid before, Red Sleeves naturally had a deep affection for Mrs. Gao, so at this moment, they also came over to clean up and do their part. Although Manjusri Garden itself is cleaned by the old mother before it every month, it looks very clean and not dirty. But Cao Yi and Red Sleeves were just cleaning to relieve their thoughts at this time. Later, Red Sleeves also went to clean the house next to Qingzhao, which also showed that she also missed this sister who grew up with her since childhood.

Although the two have corresponded with each other, it has been almost three months since Qingzhao went to Xiongzhou with Mrs. Gao. The emotion of this longing is actually okay usually, but the most fearful thing is that when everyone or the environment is very lively, it suddenly pops up, and it will form a very obvious and more unforgettable feeling. So after the red sleeves came out of the cleaning room, their eyes were still red, and they must have shed tears several times because they missed it too much.

Cao Yi saw it in his eyes, and he could only sigh with emotion that the sisterhood between Red Sleeves and Qingzhao was deep, now it is not as developed as communication in later generations, not to mention that video or voice calls can be made thousands of miles away, and even instant messaging cannot be reached. In this era, communication can only be carried out through letters that can only be sent in half a month, plus sending and receiving letters back and forth, and by the time I receive a reply, I am afraid that a month has passed.

Today is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and most people generally choose to stay at home for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on this night, after all, it is a good day for family reunion. Therefore, the Drunken Immortal Building is not so busy today, and Cao Yi, Red Sleeves and others are even more Drunken Immortal Towers who went to the Drunken Immortal Building almost near noon. Cao Yi also explained before that Zuixianlou was still open to the public at noon, and after lunch, it basically stopped entertaining customers, and the evening was a dinner party belonging to the entire Cao Mansion and Zuixianlou employees, so it was closed in advance.

It can be said that they have worked hard for so long, and they have always been to serve others, rain or shine, and take a lunch break year after year, and when it comes to the most important festival of the year, it is natural to have a good rest and relax for a while. Because all the people in the Drunken Immortal Building were sold, it can be said that they are basically alone, or they have a family but can't go back now.

After such a long period of cooperation and coexistence, everyone basically regards Zuixian Lou as their home, although their work is hard, but compared to others, it is definitely a high-paid person, from the beginning of the Zuixian Lou business, the old employees who have been in the business since the day of business basically have almost five dollars now. In the drunken fairy building, everyone's income is proportional to their efforts, the more they do, the better they do, in addition to the basic salary, then the more performance rewards will be applied. With the current annual expenditure of ordinary families in the Great Yan Dynasty is only about 1,500 yuan, so the people in the Zuixian Building can basically be regarded as the white-collar class of this era, although the things they do are of a service nature and seem inferior, but in terms of income, they are higher than the vast majority of people.

After Cao Yi arrived at Zuixianlou, he first went to the back kitchen and gave Huawen Huawu and Xiong Qing ten yuan each, because later the business of Zuixianlou became more and more popular, and Cao Yi basically did not eat in Cao's mansion, and Mrs. Gao also went to Xiongzhou, so Xiong Qing had nothing to do in Cao's mansion, as for the daily diet of other servants, he had the following chef to be responsible, so Red Sleeves later simply asked Xiong Qing to come to Zuixianlou to do things, and he and Huawenhua Wushi brothers came to the back kitchen and dining room together.

Because today's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, basically everyone can have a good rest, just sit and enjoy the food, but only the group of people in the back kitchen can not rest with them, and they still have to cook and make food for this dinner in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve. Therefore, Cao Yi has decided from the beginning that the year-end rewards in the back kitchen and dining room will be a little more than others. Hot Spot Library

In addition to Xiong Qing, Huawen, and Huawu, the three chefs each gave ten yuan each, basically everyone in the back kitchen has a year-end reward of three yuan money, which naturally makes these people grateful to Dade and boast about Haikou, and will definitely prepare an absolutely delicious gluttonous Chinese New Year's Eve banquet for Gongzi and many brothers and sisters. Cao Yi naturally didn't dampen their enthusiasm, nodded with a smile, and said, "Then tonight, the dinner party of your brothers and sisters will depend on you!" Everyone agreed in unison, full of momentum.

As for the rewards of the others, Cao Yi plans to wait until the dinner party starts to distribute them, and then it can make the atmosphere a little more lively. This time, there are more than 80 people from Caofu, and there are more than 200 people in Zuixianlou itself, so that the two places add up to a total of more than 300, and this year's year-end reward will be at least 30% less than the current one, but because of the fines of Cuiweilou and Qingyuanlou, they contributed 20,000 taels of silver, so the year-end bonus also rose. The dinner party is almost more than 30 tables of specifications, the first floor of the west building is definitely not placed, and in the end there is no way to put it on the first floor of the east building, where the space is the largest, and all the tables can be put together, so it will be more lively.

As night fell, all kinds of fireworks began to be set off in various places in Jiangning City, the fire lingered, and the drunken fairy building and Cao's own dinner party also began in the lively and lively, during which Cao Yi naturally began to say a few words of blessing and encouragement, and then announced the start of the event, of course, when he spoke, he also announced that in order to thank everyone for their hard work this year, it was decided to give them a reward of two yuan each, hoping that everyone will continue to maintain it in the coming year, work hard, and strive to get more monthly money and more rewards.

These words naturally brought the atmosphere of the scene to a climax, everyone was noisily thanking Cao Yi for his magnanimity and boldness, Cao Yi himself also liked this kind of atmosphere of being happy with the people and everyone being happy together, so he planned to add some more ingredients to the dinner, so he announced loudly.

"Tonight is Chinese New Year's Eve, usually a good family gathering, a happy reunion meal, tonight, we are on the scene, plus the people who are still working hard to cook for us in the back kitchen, a total of about 300 people. I am very happy, which shows that we are a big family with more than 300 people, and today we are destined to get together, work hard, work together, overcome all kinds of difficulties together, and reap success together. ”

Cao Yi looked around at the black pressure of the people below, and said excitedly: "To be honest, tonight is indeed a rare opportunity to relax, maybe after tonight, most people will continue to face all kinds of hardships and troubles." So tonight we must have fun, everything is willing to go up to perform talents, performances for everyone's fun, as long as everyone is recognized, I will be rewarded, go up to perform with applause, 100 yuan per person, get the audience cheers, 500 yuan per person! ”

With Cao Yi announcing this reward policy, he basically thinks that he still has a skill, and the talented people have all come to the stage to perform, or dance, or silk and bamboo orchestra, or singing, or performing sword dance and other martial arts routines, which made this dinner very lively for a while, and even Tan Yun Musk Yue and others went up to perform the show, because they came out of the Jinfeng Building, singing and dancing are naturally not a problem, they are all very good at it, and naturally the audience cheers, Cao Yi also said before, there will be applause for a hundred dollars, The audience cheered and rewarded 500 yuan, so that everyone looked for Red Sleeves to receive the reward.

In the end, even Jin'er and Yu Youwei couldn't resist everyone's persuasion, and everyone basically performed once, so it can be said that they were just the two of them, so the master and servant took the stage together to perform the qin and song that Yu Youwei performed alone before, which naturally caused crazy cheers from the audience. After all, Yu Youwei is a freshly baked Oiran, and when the Oiran Contest was held before, no one in Cao's Mansion may have seen it, but the people in the Drunken Immortal Building have all seen Yu Youwei's miraculous talent at the scene. Even after they got off the stage, the applause was still endless, Cao Yi smiled and said to Yu Youwei and Jin'er who came down: "The show performed by the two of you is the best so far, very good, so there are many rewards, and each person will be rewarded with consistent money!" ”

Red Sleeves and Jin'er hurriedly covered their mouths in thanks, and when they came down from the stage just now, the two of them basically nodded and bowed while walking to thank everyone for their cheers. Especially Yu Youwei, her heart is very happy at the moment, on the one hand, she was just forced to perform in front of everyone before, her heart always resisted, but now there is no such pressure, purely because she herself also wants to give a wonderful performance to help the fun, so it is the kind of heartfelt emotional pouring, wanting to make everyone happy with a better interpretation, and the natural effect of the show will be better.

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