After settling Liu Yunyan's mother and son, and in the next two days, he sent his henchmen to send some New Year's goods, so that the mother and son and the two maids could have a New Year that was still passable, Fan Wucheng's attention had to be turned to the crossing team and to the Beiping Military Festival Mansion, because with the sacrifice stove on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the New Year officially began. Although the New Year's goods and trade department and the logistics department required by the crossing team for the New Year have long been completed, the cleaning of the houses of the Jiedu Mansion and the brothers who have mansions in Beiping City, the preparation of the Chinese New Year's Eve meal in the Jiedu Mansion, and the preparation of various related offerings, there are also people under their own servants who are doing it for them, so they do not have to do it themselves. However, as one of the few department heads in Beiping City during the Chinese New Year, Fan Wucheng still needs to work with Zhang Weixin, You Yuan, Zhao Min'an, Hong Yan and several others from time to time to direct servants and subordinates to do things, purchase some materials that are insufficient or temporarily needed, and receive guests who come to pay respects in the early years, and the first few days are also very busy, until the Chinese New Year's Eve day finally stopped, and ate a Chinese New Year's Eve meal steadily.

In terms of numbers, this Chinese New Year's Eve meal Chinese New Year's Eve in the seventh year of Xiande can be regarded as the least number of people who have participated in the crossing since the crossing. In fact, due to the fact that the chief officials of the civil and military affairs of various provinces took up their posts and were stationed in various places, there were many fewer people who had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together in Jiedu Province the previous year. And this time, with the establishment of Taiyuan and Yanmen, with the construction of the Taiyuan production base, and with the opening of the "Hidden Garden" intelligence center, the military chiefs of the newly established two provinces, the brothers of the Ministry of Science and Technology who participated in the construction of the Taiyuan production base, and Zheng Zhiwei, who led the team south to Kaifeng, were absent, and the number of crossers who had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together was actually less than two-thirds of the total.

Fortunately, although the number of brothers who ate together was less than before, driven by Zhang Weixin, Xu Shaoan and others, this Chinese New Year's Eve meal was still very lively and very enjoyable. And the result of the excitement and joy is that all the participating male traversers have been poured down by others or by themselves. From Wang Kunjun and Zhang Weixin to Mutel and Gao Jun, all the twenty or so brothers were drunk and drunk, and none of them walked into their room in Jiedu Mansion by themselves. In fact, it was not only them, but even several female traversers who had never drunk much alcohol were slightly drunk because they drank a few glasses of the team's own wine.

Although many brothers did not come to bed together at the beginning of the next year and the New Year because they drank too much on the 30th night, this did not affect the "elegance" of the brothers' hearty drinking. A similar feast lasts from the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve to the second day of the Lunar New Year, for three consecutive days and every night. Although the successive carnivals made people feel comfortable, the successive drunkenness also made the brothers a little unbearable, especially Wang Kunjun, who was the first choice of the toast object, felt even more unbearable. So, after getting drunk several times in a row, Wang Kunjun, who couldn't resist it, had to announce the temporary end of the collective carnival, and from the third day of the first lunar month, the brothers organized themselves and combined freely, and dispersed to their respective mansions to gather and drink. The brothers had no objection to this. For them, it is enough to have a place to meet and a place to drink, but there is no requirement for the number of people who can attend the meeting - for some brothers, it is more open to get together with three or five confidants than when everyone is around.

However, there are pros and cons to everything. Although the dispersed party avoided the possibility of being regarded as the first choice for drinking by the brothers in the next few days, it was also because the next few days were likely to lose the only opportunity in the year to be with the fifth brother, regardless of age or age, so the dinner on the second day of the first lunar month became a "zuihou battle" for the brothers to "encircle and suppress" Wang Kunjun. So, even though Zhang Weixin "stepped forward" to block a lot of wine for him, he was outnumbered after all, and our Wang Dajiedu envoy and the dignified Beiping County Duke finally ended up with a servant who carried him back to his residence that night. …,

After a night of hangover, when Wang Kunjun got up from bed with a faint headache, it was already the early afternoon of the third day of the Lunar New Year. Under the service of Han Qingwen, who didn't drink much, and Zhang Xiaofei, who had drunk some wine but had returned to normal after a night, after a simple wash, Wang Kunjun sat at the dining table, while enjoying Zhang Xiaofei's gentle massage of his head and relieving the hidden pain, while waiting for Han Qingwen to command his subordinates and maidservants to arrange a lunch that was two meals and one meal for him.

Just when the meal was just set and Wang Kunjun's family was about to eat, a maid walked in from outside and reported: "The fifth master, the seventh master asked to see him, saying that he had something important to report." ”

It will not be a trivial matter for Zhang Weixin to ignore the impact of the hangover and rush to the time of lunch to pray. Therefore, when Wang Kunjun heard this, he hurriedly put down the chopsticks he had picked up and ordered: "Quickly let Lao Qi come in and talk." ”

The maid agreed to go out, and after a while, Zhang Weixin opened the curtain and entered. He first made a compensatory note to Wang Kunjun's family for disturbing the other party's dinner, and then handed a copy of the newspaper to Wang Kunjun's hand, and said: "Fifth brother, Brother Zheng called from the 'Hidden Garden' and reported an important news from the palace of the Later Zhou Dynasty. ”

"What did Brother Zheng say in the telegram, is there something going on on Sister Lin's side?" Zhang Xiaofei, who has always cared about Lin Xiaoyu, asked with concern.

"What the fifth sister-in-law said is right, it is about the eighteenth sister." Zhang Weixin replied, "However, this experience is a good and happy event. ”

"The eighteenth sister was born at the beginning of the new year, and gave birth to a boy, and the mother and son are safe." Before Zhang Weixin finished speaking, Wang Kunjun had already shook the telegram in his hand and interjected with a happy face.

"That's great, show me the telegram." Zhang Xiaofei said happily, stretched out his hand and snatched the telegram copy newspaper from Wang Kunjun's hand, and watched it carefully.

Without a telegram to read, Wang Kunjun didn't care, but turned his head and discussed with Zhang Weixin: "Although the eighteenth sister married in the capital, it is still a happy event for our brothers that she gave birth to a child. In my opinion, we should prepare some gifts, and when the Chinese New Year is over, we should send someone south, and deliver them when the child is full moon. First, it is to congratulate the eighteenth sister on the birth of a dragon. Second, it is also to convey the affection of brothers and sisters to her. Let her understand that although she married far away, her brothers and sisters have not forgotten her. In everyone's minds, she is still our eighteenth sister and eighteenth sister. ”

"The official is right, this is the right way." Zhang Xiaofei agreed while reading the telegram.

"What the fifth brother and fifth sister-in-law said is very true. This afternoon, the brother went to the sixth brother and the fourteenth brother to discuss, and asked them to prepare a generous gift, and after the fifteenth day of the first month, they sent capable people to the capital. Zhang Weixin also has no objection to Wang Kunjun's suggestion.

After discussing the matter of sending congratulatory gifts to Lin Xiaoyu, Wang Kunjun did not let Zhang Weixin go, but even invited Yang Xiaoyun over, and the two families had lunch together. On the one hand, the reason why Wang Kunjun wanted to invite Zhang Weixin's family to dinner was naturally because Zhang Weixin was one of the closest brothers to him in Zhongli, and he was the best candidate for the small-scale gathering he proposed himself-especially when his cousin Wang Fengyuan could not come back from Taiyuan. On the other hand, it was also because he still had something to discuss with Zhang Weixin in private, and it saved him from running around by leaving the other party to eat.