Chapter 195: New Year's Gift
The cold winter of the fifth year of Dashang, with the second snow falling, has come to an end.
The Lu family is busier than others every New Year.
In Jiangjiaba, the two daughters' families want to send New Year's gifts, and the Lu family also wants to send New Year's gifts. There are also merchants the size of Jiangjiaba, and the adjacency of the former wild wharf cannot be pulled down.
In previous years, Qiu's wax moon began to be busy in the middle of the month, steaming rice cakes and steamed buns.
Lu Quan also slaughtered the fat pigs raised at home early, and the meat was divided.
The Lu family gives New Year's gifts every year, including rice cakes, steamed buns, pork, and home-filled sausages.
If it is the relationship between the Chen family and the Ding family, live chickens and ducks will be added, and red envelopes will be given to the children.
This year, because they were going to the capital for the New Year, the Lu family's pigs were killed and only one knife of meat was sent to each family. The rest was pickled and brought to the capital.
This year, Qiu's family doesn't need to steam steamed steamed rice cakes to give away, only eat at home, and then send some to the Li family, which is not as busy as in previous years.
They have just arrived in the capital, and even if they want to be as busy as in previous years, they can't move the time.
On the twenty-sixth, the Li family was invited to eat warm house wine, and on the twenty-eighth, the Tang family sent a car of New Year's gifts. Four horses of silk, four horses of cotton, four boxes of dim sum, a pair of live chickens, a pair of live ducks, half a fan of pork, two boxes of tea, half a basket of lotus roots, a basket of vegetables and vegetables, two jars of rice wine from Suzhou Prefecture, and two jars of Du Kang.
This is a New Year's gift given every year since the Tang family knew that it was the Lu family who saved Tang Qi at the beginning.
However, in previous years, there were no lotus roots, vegetables, and no live chickens and ducks. The servant who gave the gift said that it was sent by Mrs. Zhuangzi in the countryside, and gave some to the four young people to taste.
As soon as the Tang family left, Song Yunfei took the little servant to personally set up the car to give the New Year's gift.
The New Year's gift he gave only represented him personally, and he also paid for it out of his own pocket.
Unlike the Tang family, Song Yunfei's New Year's gift is a bit arbitrary. What he gives depends on what he encounters when he buys things in the past two days.
For example, this year, the New Year's gift he gave was a little bit of clothing, as well as pen, ink, paper, inkstone, rice, flour, fruit charcoal, which is normal, and it was available in previous years.
It's just that there are only a few boxes of dim sum like in previous years, this year it is about close, Song Yunfei bought at least five or six houses, a few boxes of dim sum, a full twenty or thirty boxes of dim sum, and Lu Quan and Qiu were dumbfounded.
Not to mention the box of gadgets I bought for Xiao Wu, bamboo dragonflies, kites, spinning tops, and nine consecutive rings......
It's a mess, it's piled up with a whole box.
There are also pen, ink, paper, inkstone, gold and silver jewelry, rice, flour, fruit charcoal......
When Song Yunfei brought down a basket of crabs, a basket of yellow oranges, several baskets of silver frost carbon, a pair of live deer, two pairs of live rabbits, four pairs of live chickens, two live sheep, and two whole pigs that had been killed, even Lu Yangge shook his head and sighed.
This New Year's gift is simply impossible to receive, let alone return.
Lu Yangge frowned, not happy: "You have given too much." ”
If it weren't for the carriage driving directly into the house, the people outside wouldn't know what they were delivering, and they wouldn't know what to think when they were seen by others.
Song Yunfei didn't think it was: "Where is it, I'll buy it for you next time I meet a good one." ”
Lu Yangge reminded: "No need, my family is just a small people in Shengdou, you are a prince of the Hou Mansion who personally gave a New Year's gift to my family, what will others think if they know?" ”
Song Yunfei was slightly stunned: "But didn't the Zhenguo Mansion also send it to your house?" ”
People don't send as much as you send!
Lu Yangge wanted to complain, but he could only endure it: "That's because my father saved Zhenguo Gong back then." ”
"That's not easy." Song Yunfei raised his eyebrows, "When someone asks, they will say that you also saved me back then." ”
The Lu family did save him, so it seems to be true.
Lu Yangge endured it again and again, so he didn't drive Song Yunfei out. Forget it, when the time comes, I'll think of another way to send him some real money.
Don't look at Song Yunfei as the son of the Hou Mansion, he also has a fortune, but he is really not as rich as Lu Yangge.
Although Song Yunfei sends New Year's gifts to the Lu family every year, he pays for it personally. But the Lu family can't eat for nothing, and every year Lu Yangge will also ask Shopkeeper Li to back up the same New Year's gift to the Song family.
At that time, it was far away, and the things sent by Song Yunfei were not so exaggerated. It's nothing more than some food and drink, and there are things he specially bought for Lu Yangge.
Shopkeeper Li must give the Song family a New Year's gift every year, and then help the Lu family send a New Year's gift, although it is rich, it is also decent.
The Song family is a wealthy family in Beijing, and there are not many people who give New Year's gifts every year. The Lu family's New Year's gift was sent to the Song family, and probably only Song Yunfei knew why there was a Lu family to give the New Year's gift.
In the eyes of the people of the Song family, there is nothing brilliant about these years' gifts, just those poor people below who want to shoot the Song family's sycophants.
Such New Year's gifts, the Song family doesn't know how much they receive every year, some can be sent to the master, and some are only registered and made and sent to the treasury, and even the master doesn't know.
The New Year's gifts given by the Lu family every year were led into his yard by Song Yunfei, and those who could use them were used by themselves, and those who could not be used were given away.
Although he is not as popular as his eldest brother and younger siblings, he also has a fourth-grade official position.
In the past few years, Song Yunfei's father has also accepted two concubines and given birth to children, compared with his younger brothers and sisters, he is naturally different.
The housekeeper of the Song family also knew that Li Guangming, the owner of Jixianglou in Beijing, and Lu Quan, the owner of Ruyifang, would send people together every year to give New Year's gifts.
The things sent are also very similar, not good, not bad. However, the New Year's gifts sent by these two families cannot be put into storage, and they have to be sent to the courtyard of the second son.
Obviously, there are so many valuable things, but the second son is also strange, he only accepts the things of these two families, and others can't take a look at it.
Everyone in the house knows that this Jixianglou and Ruyifang are protected by the second son. The owner seems to have come from his hometown, probably because the second son is familiar with it, so he will be blessed by the second son.
When Song Yunfei's rituals were all moved into the house, the neighbors also knew that the newly moved Lu family was not an ordinary family, their family had a shop in the city, and they also had dealings with the Zhenguo Mansion and the Yiyong Marquis Mansion. Today, both governments have sent gifts to the Lu family, which shows that this relationship is extraordinary.
For Song Yunfei, the Lu family actually didn't know how to receive it.
This person can't be close, he can't be far away, he still knows the identity of Xiao Si, and Lu Quan and his wife are actually very jealous of his dealings.
Fortunately, Song Yunfei also knew that it was inconvenient to stay at the Lu family for a long time, so he didn't even drink a cup of tea after sending something, so he left with the car with the little servant.
However, Song Yunfei's movement is so big, the entire capital, everyone who wants to know knows about it.
Before the New Year, the Lu family's family was also cleaned up by well-intentioned people.
His family's sudden wealth over the years, in the eyes of others, must be because he hugged the thigh of the Yiyong Marquis Mansion. There is also a possibility that the Lu family is from the Yiyong Marquis Mansion, including those shops in the capital that belong to the Lu family, which are probably also purchased by the Yiyong Marquis Mansion outside, but on the surface, the Lu family is running it.
There is also Li Guangming, who has a restaurant and a teahouse, and Li Guangming, who is probably hugging the thigh of the Marquis Yiyong Mansion with the Lu family.
As for the Zhenguo Mansion, I heard that the Zhenguo Gong had an accident in the countryside a few years ago, and it was the Lu family who rescued him. The reason why the Marquis of Yongyi was so courteous to the Lu family, and even the second prince personally sent a festival gift, could it be because the Lu family also saved the life of the second son of Song? Besides, people have earned a lot of money for the Yongyi Marquis Mansion, so what's wrong with giving some New Year's gifts.
This news spread in Beijing, and even the one in the imperial city knew about it.
(End of chapter)