In the blink of an eye, the New Year came, the house was extremely lively, lanterns were hung everywhere in the house, and the four women, such as Youjian, Qingzhu, Xiaoman, and Snow Goose, took Jin'er, red beads, green beads, silver beads and other maids, and arranged the mansion, and the red light was melted everywhere, full of festive atmosphere.

On the side of Mingyue Building, Bai Qiuyan also took the maid Xi'er to take care of the business every day, and there was a shopkeeper and a number of cooks in Mingyue Building, a total of seventeen people. Bai Qiuyan kept the restaurant in good order, and the operation of the restaurant was quickly on the right track, and business gradually improved.

Since Song Ting gave himself a holiday on the fifteenth day of the lunar month and dumped the gun-making business in Yangzhou to Chen Dabeard, he has been nesting at home with the princess's wife. After all, the design drawings of the second generation version have also come out, and it will be put into trial production next year, although the first generation is still being produced, but all aspects are working well, and there can be more than 100 guns per month, and even in the month of wax because of the increase in manpower and material resources, there has been a faint trend of more than 200 guns output, and the stock of muskets has reached the number of 450, which can fully arm a small army.

When the New Year comes, he has to pay tribute to the palace, and this matter is once again pushed to the four retainers, after all, he doesn't want to enter the palace to see the confused and faint monarch, Zhen'er has said that he will not step into the palace half a step again, since Zhao Jinji is not willing to be good to his daughter, then he is too lazy to see this emperor's father-in-law. Anyway, the retainers were also sent by Zhao Jinji, so let the retainers go to pay tribute, what kind of gifts do you need to buy, how many silver taels do you need, etc., the retainers only need to report a number and list, and Zhen'er will naturally order the subordinates to buy them.

Song Ting is very leisurely, when he has nothing to do, he accompanies the princess's wife to play chess, walk around, listen to music, go shopping or something, occasionally Xiaoman also brings Hongzhu to watch the chess, Jin'er guards the princess every inch, and once Hongzhu follows Xiaoman around, she will always be sent by the princess to do other things, and she will not be watched.

Since the last time Hongzhu rubbed her husband's shoulders, Zhao Yuanzhen began to take precautions against this maid, so as not to let her have a chance to trespass, in her heart, only Xiaoman and Qiuyan can be allowed to marry her husband, and other women do not have this opportunity.

Of course, she may not know that her husband doesn't want to marry any of them. As a new young man who retains the idea of equal rights in the 21st century in his bones, Song Ting can't accept the idea of concubines at all, not to mention that the princess's wife is young, beautiful, considerate, and gentle...... Everything is perfect, and if he can win the heart of the princess's wife, he is already very content.

This winter is really cold, since the seventeenth day of the lunar month, the snow has stopped for a day, and the twenty-first day has started to snow again, and it seems that there is no tendency to stop at all.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone gathered around to eat the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, which was very lively, but in fact, only Xiaoman, Youjian, Qingzhu, Xueyan and Bai Qiuyan sat and ate together, while Jin'er, Hongzhu, Green Pearl, Yinzhu, Xi'er and other maids were specially responsible for serving dishes, serving water, carrying hand stoves, etc.

Song Ting didn't have a choice, the dignity and humility in the house still had to be talked about, together with the maids, small servants, miscellaneous guys, etc., and Lu Junyi and Yang Zhao, as well as Qin's nurse and Qing'er...... Wait, the population of the house has reached more than sixty, if it weren't for Zhen'er's orderly management, he really didn't know how to manage it.

After the Chinese New Year's Eve, the snow is still falling outside the window, snowflakes are flying like goose feathers, as far as the eye can see, the city is shrouded in snow, the sky is still deep blue, in this kind of ice and snow weather, several maids who originally wanted to go home to visit relatives such as snow geese, Jin'er, green beads, etc., had to give up.

There is nothing to do every day on a snowy day, and the maids, large and small, in addition to serving their masters, have a lot of leisure time left, and they inevitably get together to chat and play games. And Song Ting rarely goes out except for accompanying the princess's wife, because the snow is really thick outside, and he can't go out with any shoes, and if he wants to go out, he has to wait for the snow to melt after the sun comes out in the first month.

But fortunately, there is enough grain storage in the horse house, and the annual goods have long been neatly purchased, and even bought crabs, lobsters, fresh fish, etc. in advance, and raised them, and ate a steamed yellow crab on Chinese New Year's Eve, I have to say that the craftsmanship of Nursing Mother Qin is still excellent, the steamed yellow crab is delicious and sweet, and the sword this Nizi is actually quite hungry, drinking and eating crabs with blush, drunk, and blurred eyes, after being thrown on the bed, he fell asleep with a grunt.

There is also Xiaoman, eating crabs hurts her stomach, Zhao Yuanzhen joked that it would be good to let the horse rub it, Song Ting didn't rub it, and in the end she couldn't knead it herself, and it didn't have much effect, and finally drank it with garlic and ginger water, and slept for a while, which was better.

Song Ting thought to himself, these two foodies can be regarded as a long lesson, I am afraid that I will never dare to be so greedy in the future, but unfortunately, I was soon slapped in the face by the facts, and the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month was a family banquet, Song Ting personally taught the secret method to make a pot of crayfish for the kitchen, which attracted a burst of robbery, Xiaoman and Youjian almost didn't fight to grab the shrimp, Youjian would not use force to bully Xiaoman, so she finally lost the battle under the offensive of grabbing her hands directly despite soiling her clothes.

Well, Xiao Man won the stomachache again.

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Yan Qing and Hu Sanniang were invited to their homes for the New Year. Hu Sanniang brought news from the south, Hangzhou City is still under siege, the 150,000 troops of the imperial court, from Song Jiang to the east gate, Wang Kang to the south gate, the master of the road to the west gate, Tong Guan personally around the north gate, the siege has been more than a month.

The land of the eight states of Fang La's regime, now only Hangzhou City has not been taken by the imperial court, and the day when Fang La has come to the end of the road is getting closer and closer.

And in the north, because of the snow, the Liao people did not move, and these people robbed the Han people enough, so they would not brave the wind and snow to attack the city.

But further north, at the junction of the Liao people and the Jin people, the Liao people were not so comfortable, because of the heavy snow blockade, the Jin people lived in the northeast of the ice and snow, suffering from hunger and cold, so they frequently launched wars against the Liao people.

Everyone knows that "Jurchen Man is invincible", this nation on horseback and with a yin and yang head has a strong cavalry and archery combat effectiveness, and has achieved decisive victories in a series of battles against Liao.

The destruction of Liao is not far away.

Song Ting decided to move the Horse Mansion to Yangzhou after the year, after all, if the Jin army really came in, he had no army and only guns, and it was impossible to stop the Jin army's cavalry army, so it was better to take refuge for a while.

Years later, the sun finally came out, and the snow on the ground gradually melted, making the snow muddy on the road, and it was impossible to travel for a while.

Until February, the army that conquered Fang La captured Fang La, Criminal Zheng, Fang Maung, Liu Yun and other 52 people in Qingyuan Cave, Qingxi County, and returned to the dynasty, and went north again, Lianjin launched a war to destroy the Liao country, and the Song court did not hesitate anymore, announced the move, and moved from the eastern suburbs to Yangzhou Song Mansion.

This move, naturally, was opposed by the four retainers, and even Zhao Yuanzhen couldn't understand it, but she still chose to believe in her husband, and dismissed those who followed not far away, and the only remaining followers were Youjian, Xiaoman, Xueyan, Qingzhu, Lu Junyi, Yang Zhao, Qin's nurse and Qing'er, and eleven people such as Qing'er and Luzhu Erwen, and maids like Hongzhu and Yinzhu were sent home.

A total of thirteen carriages from Bianjing Carriage and Horse Dealers also went down to Yangzhou together, and Mingyuelou's business was as usual, but Song Ting still brought Bai Qiuyan to Yangzhou.

No one can understand why Song Ting did this, including Zhao Yuanzhen, but seeing her husband's appearance in her chest, she naturally can't object.

After arriving at Yangzhou Song Mansion, he invited the former housekeeper Li Bo to take care of the affairs of the house, because Yangzhou Song Mansion is much smaller than the Horse Mansion, and suddenly so many people came, and it looked quite lively.

After moving to Yangzhou, Song Ting counted the number of muskets in Yongtai County, which was already 998, and the ammunition was sufficient, so he was a little relieved.

The northern kingdom, the land of destruction, is coming.

And his goal is to build a strong army in the south!

(End of chapter)