"What is it?"

She didn't speak, she just carefully applied it, and then wrapped it in layers with the cotton cloth she had prepared.

He had been painting outside all day, and his previously slender and beautiful hands had long been frozen and cracked, and even at night, she could touch the cuts on them, and her fingertips hurt.

He warmed his hands in his arms, and he hugged him tightly.

He didn't speak for a long time, then slowly withdrew his hand, tinkered under the pillow for a long time, and took out something and put it in her hand.

A flat box.

Open it up...... A sweet breath goes straight to the heart.

Rouge......

"I know that rouge used to be made of roses, but now it'......"

"You know I don't need this......"

"It's almost the New Year, so you have to have a new atmosphere, right?"

"Do you think I'm old?"

"Where?" In the nightlight, his pretended to look at him was still affectionate and doting: "Even if she is eighty years old, she is also a little girl who does not know sorrow." ”

She smiled, but her nose was sour: "How do you say you are going to spend this year?" ”

"There are parents who will ponder, so you can rest, how have you lost weight these days?" He groped her protruding collarbone in pain.

"I think we've had too many things this year, so let's completely remove the old cloth and make a new one for everyone during the New Year......

He laughed: "Then don't you want to be more tired?" ”

"Tired of what?" She suddenly came to her senses: "Guess how much I earned this day?" ”

whispered in his ear.

His eyes immediately widened, and then he sighed: "Looks like I'm going to have to see more beauties tomorrow......"

Immediately received a punch in the chest.

He was about to say something, but suddenly he coughed.

Cheng Xueyan was so panicked that she hurriedly poured water on the ground and fed him to drink, and Fang barely stopped.

"Are you sick?"

He shook his head again and again, and his voice was hoarse: "Wasn't you beaten yet?" ”

"Where do I have?"

"Come on, it's cold on the ground......"

That night, she always felt as if he wanted to say something to herself, but he never said it.

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It was a good time to make money a few years ago, and this copper plate was covered with a layer of metallic luster on the fingers.

Every day after dinner, it's time to settle accounts.

She didn't know how to use an abacus, and she didn't have a calculator in this time and space, so she took the goose hair and sketched back and forth on the paper.

Supplies...... Payout...... Overhead...... The money is divided among the people by the piece...... It always makes her head big. It's not that she doesn't know how to do arithmetic, the point is...... There used to be computers, now there are so many numbers......

“…… Eighty-eight plus thirty-five minus twelve...... Today's food, plus one hundred and thirty-one bracelets, eighteen dollars shipped, and five hundred and sixty-five small purses...... I don't know if it's sold out, so I changed it for two sets of 'Golden Rat Sending Rui'...... I also bought silk rope of 476 wen and scrap of 613 wen...... Oops, it's all messed up! ”

She threw the goose away angrily and patted her head vigorously.

"Now it's one two, three dollars, seventeen ......"

Gu Haoxuan, who had been half-leaning on the bed and reading a book, opened his mouth slowly.

He glanced at him suspiciously, and when he was talking in his dream, he grabbed the goose and concentrated on calculating twice, then suddenly stopped writing and looked at it again suspiciously.

"A bracelet costs eight yuan, thirty-nine pieces of shipment, twenty-seven pieces of materials, three dollars per person for manual fees, seven dollars per person for labor costs, and a net profit of ......"

"What else do you earn, you're going to lose your life......" He still looked at the book, and said slowly.

She puffed out her cheeks, and the goose Hao calculated for a long time, and she really lost nearly 500 yuan.

Staring at him, her eyes suddenly lit up, how could she have forgotten that this guy had stunned Heqi's envoy with a number problem in the court, isn't this just a ready-made calculator?

Immediately took the ledger and came to his side, smiling.

"Remember me now?" He pretended to be a big name and turned a page of "Book from Heaven".

Angrily threw the ledger into his arms and shouted angrily: "Count! ”

He hurriedly took it with a sincere and frightened look, but froze: "This is ......"

Cheng Xueyan didn't know when Arabic numerals were introduced to China, but looking at Gu Haoxuan's expression......

"I say you count!" Hurry up and grab it.

Gu Haoxuan was not persistent, she reported a string of numbers, and he casually said the result.

The arithmetic problem of boiling off half a lamp oil almost every night was clearly presented on the paper in an instant.

Cheng Xueyan nodded with satisfaction, but suddenly her face rose: "You have been watching me fight alone?" ”

"I thought you disliked me as an idler and didn't want me to help." His face was full of grievances.

She quickly drew the word "idle" on the paper and pasted it on the door of his head: "From now on, you, an idler, will be hired as the bookkeeper of the 'Gu Family Shop'!" ”

He smiled and peeled off the paper on his head, glanced at it, stunned, and looked at Cheng Xueyan in disbelief.

Cheng Xueyan is struggling to make the most reasonable distribution of the three taels or four coins of silver earned today, and it is about to be the New Year......

When he looked up, he saw a strange light in his eyes: "What's wrong?" ”

He suddenly hugged her into his arms: "Yan'er, do you believe in fate?" ”

"Well, there is a fate to meet thousands of miles away......" She still thinks about her account, but from modern times to ancient times, is it more than a thousand miles of fate?

He grabbed the ledger and tossed it aside.

"Oops, you ......"

The rest of the words were swallowed up by him.

She whimpered, and finally gave up the struggle, and lost a lot of tenderness, leaving only the ledger lying on the cold ground and turning the pages......

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The year seems to have arrived in the blink of an eye.

Although it is down, the rules can be simple but can not be eliminated, peach rune board, general charcoal, paste the door god, welcome the stove god...... This is not only for the season, but also to seek God's blessing, to bless the snow as soon as possible, out of the sea of suffering, even if it still takes time, but also begging for a smooth sail and prosperous business in the coming year.

As early as the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Ruizhu sent half a pot of pork and some fruits and vegetables.

This time he also brought her husband Hutu.

Cheng Xueyan saw that although the man was thick, he was extremely honest, and he didn't say anything, so he grinned and smirked. His temper is not very good, but as long as Ruizhu glares at him, he wilts.

According to Qin Manhe's point of view, although Ruizhu is not very good, but the butcher with Hu is still ruined, but she thinks that as long as she can live in harmony, it is better than anything else.

Mr. and Mrs. Ruizhu sat late that day, and when they opened the door, they suddenly found two pairs of pheasants and hares side by side at the door. Outside I don't know when fine snowflakes floated, and on the thin snow, there was a series of footprints that stretched straight to the gate of the courtyard......

Until the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the people in the new clothes were still discussing the foreign object of the day...... Who sent it?

Cheng Xueyan was a little suspicious of a person.

I remember that on the day when the officers and soldiers came to the mansion, Yang Zhoucha was beaten so that he couldn't move, but he still protected Duan Zilan to death, and then there was chaos, and the two people were gone......

Originally, if there was such a miracle, Qin Manhe should do his best to use his imagination, but today he was unusual, smiling very implicitly, sometimes distracted, and his eyes flickered.

Isn't it her cousin's handiwork? Cheng Xueyan thought secretly.

And even more subtle was Gu Shuihui, the table was steaming, and her face was in a haze. Her mind seemed to drift away from here, and the whole person seemed a little excited and slightly shy, a little girly and pregnant.

Cheng Xueyan found that she was often busy outside, and she couldn't understand these things at home anymore.

When he shook his head unintentionally, he saw Gu Haoran's gaze drifting through the hot mist.

She smiled politely.

This eldest brother is also strange, basically can't hear him talking, and don't see him do anything, the place where you can see him is at the dinner table, and occasionally you will meet in the courtyard, but the number of encounters seems to be getting more and more recently, and every time she looks at herself so ethereal and profound, as if she wants to speak and stop, which makes her very inexplicable.

"The flowers of wealth are blooming......"

Accompanied by Bitong's cheerful voice, a steaming and joyful dish appeared on the table.

"What's this dish called?" Cheng Xueyan didn't hear it clearly just now.

"Rich flowers bloom!" The name of Bitong's dish is reported to be this crisp: "The raw materials are cauliflower, which should be cut one by one, soaked in salt water for a quarter of an hour, and then scalded with boiling water and fished out; Peel and cook the carrots and cut into hob pieces; The potatoes are also peeled and cut into hob pieces, the salted water is floated over, and the fish is removed and drained; Peel off the hard skin of the asparagus, scald it with boiling water to soften, remove it and take it out to shower, and then cut it into small pieces; Stir-fry the potatoes with oil first, add water to cook, add all the ingredients and stir-fry well, then put out, add oil and other seasonings and add a glass of water, and then return the various vegetables to the pot to taste, and the soup can be dried and served. Ma'am, am I right? ”

Gu Qian was the first to praise her: "Bitong is becoming more and more capable now, she can go to the hall and enter the kitchen, I'm afraid this mother-in-law will soon catch up with her!" ”

was so ashamed that Bi Tong suddenly lowered her head.

Dai Qianping changed her previous seriousness: "It's just to ask for a lottery, I hope our Gu family can see the light of day as soon as possible, everything will go well, and the wealth will be extensive!" ”

The crowd applauded. Gu Shuihui didn't know what to think of, and suddenly called out coquettishly: "Third brother......"

Gu Haoxuan understood, got up and left the table, and later came in with paint, splashing color on the newly painted wall, and it was done in one fell swoop.

It turned out to be a New Year's painting. In the center is a large bejeweled vase with peonies, chrysanthemums and lilies, surrounded by fruit plates of peaches, bergamot, grapes and cut watermelons.

Gu Shuihui pursed her lips and smiled: "The third brother is really towards the third sister-in-law." You see, this peony and chrysanthemum symbolize wealth and auspiciousness, lily symbolizes the harmony of husband and wife, and the melon and fruit represent many sons and blessings...... Third sister-in-law, shouldn't our family be importing Ding again? ”

Everyone's eyes immediately focused on Cheng Xueyan.

Cheng Xueyan immediately blushed: "How can there be?" The longevity peach and bergamot are clearly wishing my father and mother many blessings and longevity, and there is also a big brother and sister-in-law......"

Seeing that everyone turned their eyes to him, Qin Manhe rarely became shy: "If there is no thing, my younger brothers and sisters will know how to make fun of me......"

"Anyway, this rich flower dish and this rich flower are both good luck, and our Gu family will definitely be more prosperous next year!" Gu Qian is extremely optimistic.