Although Lin Jin knew that towering trees grew slowly from young seeds, it was right for her to take the path of slow accumulation and stability. But looking at the rows of books on the shelves in the library, she was sometimes really anxious, knowing that she hadn't released other conceptual subjects such as physics, chemistry, and biology yet, and even mathematics, she had just taken out her high school textbooks.

When I got home, I saw that inside the gate, there were many slaves sent by salt merchants waiting outside the ceremonial door of the outer courtyard, and Li He, the chief housekeeper of the house, received the gift list on the one hand, and carried and carried the male servant on the other, summarized things, and was very busy.

Lin Jin glanced at the boxes and jars that were almost full of the yard, and said with a smile: "This hasn't entered the lunar month yet, isn't there still a period of time before the New Year, why did you start giving New Year's gifts so early?" ”

Li He replied with a smile: "Uncle, in a few days it will be the Winter Clothes Festival, and after that, it will be the Xia Yuan Festival in half a month." These two festivals are for the ancestors, although they are not as grand as the official grandeur of the ancestors during the New Year, but since they want to sacrifice to the ancestors, they dare not be a little lazy. These two festivals were given by these salt merchants. ”

After coming to ancient times, Lin Jin knew that there were festivals almost every month, and they were quite particular. It stands to reason that these festivals, except for traditional festivals such as the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Chongyang Festival, are celebrated all over the country, and the rest of the festivals are decided according to the habits of each family.

But as long as you are an official, no matter if you have a holiday or not, outside businesses will give gifts in the name of this festival. An official like Lin Ruhai, who serves as a salt patrol and is stuck in the neck of a salt merchant, in order to curry favor with him, even if he has no name, he still does everything possible to find a name to give gifts, how can he let go of these festivals?

Lin Jin reacted, looked at the gifts in front of her, and then looked at the servants of the salt merchants who were waiting outside, holding the gift list, and said "You are busy" to Li He and walked away.

Walking into the east courtyard, she lifted the curtain and entered the house.

In the house, Aunt Lin was sitting with Yang Lin guessing chess pieces, and Yang Wan, who was diagonally opposite, was sitting at the kang table with a bitter and hateful face and was writing and calculating against a stack of account books.

Seeing her, Yang Wan's eyes lit up, put down the pen in her hand, pushed the account book to the opposite side, and beckoned to Lin Jin: "Brother Jin, you came back just in time, hurry up and help me sort out these accounts." This morning, fiddling with this Rausch made my head dizzy. ”

In fact, Yang Wan, who was raised as a clan wife in the boudoir, has a good account, but she is not very impatient to do this. Since discovering Lin Jin's "talent" in counting, she did not hesitate to push this stall to Lin Jin, and only when Lin Jin was not there, she would reach out and sort it out.

Aunt Lin heard her words and complained: "What kind of dizziness, it's obviously lazy." Brother Sumire, ignore your mother and let her do the math herself. ”

Lin Jin was accustomed to such a similar verbal battle between her grandmother and mother, smiled, sat down opposite Yang Wan, opened the account book, picked up the pen, and began to calculate the account.

Although she handed over the account book to Lin Jin, Yang Wan was not idle, she took the gift list of each family, and while looking at it, she spread out the paper and pen, and prepared a list of return gifts for some people who needed to return the gift.

"Hey, this salt merchant surnamed Yan has made a lot of money this year, and he actually sent eight jars of canned food, which are ...... of lychees and pears."

Lin Jin, who was settling accounts next to her, heard that her hand was crooked, and she almost made a mistake in writing a word. In her previous life, she had a lot of fresh fruits to choose from, she hardly ate canned food, and she was not interested in it, but in this life, even if she was born in the Lin family, it can be said that her family is very wealthy, but a small bottle of canned food has become a luxury.

That's it, she still made it. Of course, she came up with this not for her appetite, but for the vitamin supplement of the seafarers who went to sea. Because no rubber was found, the rubber was replaced with eucommia rubber, and the output in the first two years was not large, barely supplying seafarers, so Lin Jin didn't have a share, and this year there was a surplus, but it was sent to her house by the salt merchant as a rare and good thing.

Yang Wan held a gift slip from the Jia family in her hand, shook her head and said, "I really don't know what to say." Although the eldest girl was sent to Jia's house, according to the time and itinerary, there should be no place at this time, right? However, the festival of the 'Ancestor Worship Festival' sent by the Jia family this year is also ......, "She really can't find a suitable word to describe the behavior of the Jia family."

Throwing the gift slip on the table, Yang Wan sighed: "Even if it's 'crossing the river and demolishing the bridge', it's not so fast, could it be that in the eyes of the Jia family, only the eldest girl is worthy of associating with them, and we are not worthy?" ”

The gift slip floated lightly to Aunt Lin, who was coaxing Yang Lin on the side, and she picked it up before Yang Lin reached for it, glanced at it, and showed an indescribable expression, and said: "This should be that the eldest girl went to his house anyway, so there is no need to be false with us." ”

Yang Wan sneered and said: "Hmph, just the Jia family's style, this virtue, the wife still wanted to marry the eldest girl back to her parents' family." Fortunately, the old man didn't agree, otherwise, he would have cheated the eldest girl for a lifetime. ”

Immediately remembered something and asked: "Mom, you said that the master promised to send the eldest girl to the Jia family, would it be the intention of marrying the eldest girl back to the wife's mother's family?" ”

Aunt Lin squinted her eyes and thought for a while, shook her head and said: "Impossible, raise your head to marry a girl, bow your head to marry a woman, the wife's maiden family is suitable for the eldest girl, only the brother named Baoyu in the second room, but although the second room over there is an official in Beijing, he is just an inconspicuous outsider in the Ministry of Industry, and the difference between him and the Lin family's family is too big." If that Baoyu is a young talent, like Brother Hai back then, he can rise out in the imperial examination at a young age, but there is still a glimmer of possibility. But that was a few years later, and now Hai Ge'er didn't have that mind, just sent Daiyu to be raised by her grandmother. ”