The textile mills and dyeing houses closed five days ago, and the New Year benefits include half a month's extra monthly payment, as well as half a piece of cloth, two pounds of pork, and one pound of sugar per person.

Chicken farms and pig farms have people on duty every day, but the monthly payment is three times the usual. Other benefits are the same as those in textile factories.

Therefore, not only did everyone not complain, but they fought for three times the monthly salary to be on duty.

On New Year's Eve, the Su family got up early and started busy, killing chickens and fish, and frying various meatballs.

Su Zhaozhao and others no longer went out to play. They all stayed in front of the stove. Mrs. Su fried one and they ate one.

I was busy until the evening, when the sun was setting.

After hearing the sound of firecrackers coming from the village one after another, Su Dahai and Su Dajiang each took a firecracker to the gate and lit it.

In an instant, the sound of crackling firecrackers came.

Mrs. Su invited the family to sit down. After Su Youmin said a few auspicious words, everyone picked up their chopsticks to eat.

Tonight is the first New Year's Eve that the whole family has spent together. Everyone was filled with emotion for a while. The meal lasted for an hour before it was over. Then came the children's favorite part of giving out new year's money.

This year, the family had money and many happy events happened, so Su Youmin and Mrs. Su were generous, giving each child a tael of silver.

Su Shaoping is not married yet and is also included in the children.

Not to be outdone, Su Dahai, Su Dajiang and Su Meihua also gave each child one tael of silver.

Su Hehua and Zhou Qingshan had just saved enough ten taels of silver to return to Mrs. Su a few days ago, so they gave each child a hundred cents.

Su Dahe had no money, but fortunately, Mrs. Su gave him three or two coins in advance. Like Su Hehua and the others, he also gave him one hundred coins.

The children became rich in an instant, and they were so happy that they picked up their little purses and wanted to show off to their friends.

Fortunately, Song Yun and the others had quick eyesight and quick hands. They each coaxed them to hand over the money on the pretext of keeping the money for them and went out to play with only a few copper coins.

Seeing Su Shao'an take the lead in handing over the money, Su Zhaozhao couldn't help but mutter, as expected, the lies told by his parents have been the same since ancient times.

When she was a child, her grandfather also tricked her into handing over the New Year's money in this way. Later, when she asked her grandfather for it, he pretended to be stupid and asked what the New Year's money was.

This made Su Zhaozhao so angry that she didn't talk to her grandfather for two days. She only ate white rice and refused to take a bite of vegetables. This was her last act of stubbornness!

Song Yun took the money given by Su Shaoan and was about to coax Su Zhaozhao to hand it over to her when he saw Su Zhaozhao tightly covering the peach blossom bag around his waist, as if he wanted the money or his life.

Song Yun shook his head in amusement, and then thought that Su Zhaozhao was not an ordinary child, so he simply let her go.

What's more, Su Zhaozhao's current wealth is probably greater than that of her and Su Dahai combined.

Seeing that she had saved her silver, Su Zhaozhao ran back to her room, took out her locked treasure box from the closet, poured the silver into it, leaving only a few copper coins.

In addition to the silver, the treasure chest also contained the birthday gifts she received.

She took everything out, looked at it, and then put it back.

Starting tonight, she would sleep alone, so she decided to sleep with her treasure chest at night.

Su Zhaozhao did as she said. In the middle of the night, Song Yun was worried that she would kick the quilt when sleeping alone for the first time. When he came to the room to see her, what he saw was her holding the treasure box and sleeping soundly.

The next day.

The family got up and ate glutinous rice balls and were about to go from house to house to pay New Year greetings. Zheng Wenchang sent his housekeeper to deliver a cart full of New Year gifts.

"Master Su, this is given to you by my master alone." The housekeeper carried a box to Su Dahe.

Su Dahe opened it curiously and saw that in addition to books, there were many strategies inside.

"My lord gave this to me?" Su Dahe asked in surprise.

"Our adults have said that if Mr. Su has any doubts, you can come to him at any time." The housekeeper said respectfully.

Su Dahe cupped his hands and said gratefully: "Please thank me for me, Sir."

The butler avoided this gift and said with a smile: "The congratulatory gift has been delivered. I will go and reply to you now."

"I'll see you off, please." Su Dahai made a gesture of invitation.

When he reached the gate, Su Dahai stuffed a purse into the butler's sleeve. The butler squeezed it and his smile deepened before he said goodbye and left.

Su Dajiang watched this scene from behind. He was originally worried that Su Dahai would neglect the housekeeper, so he wanted to come and take a look. Unexpectedly, Su Dahai did better than he imagined.

Such slick methods were exactly the same as those of the big shopkeepers he met in the county.

main room.

Mrs. Su distributed the gifts to everyone. It seemed that the gifts given by Zheng Wenchang were based on everyone's preferences. She distributed them all without any effort.

"My lord is really thoughtful." Mrs. Su said with emotion.

"It's not just intentional, these things are worth a lot of money outside." Su Dahe pointed at the policy in the box.

No matter how many people want to ask for a policy statement from the county magistrate, they can't get it. But now he has a box with contents related to scientific examinations in recent years.

It can be said that he owed Zheng Wenchang a huge favor this time.

There are still two months left in autumn, and he was worried about the content of the policy discussion, but now that Zheng Wenchang's policy discussion is available, he is sure that he will be on the list.

But regardless of whether he was in high school or not, he would always remember Zheng Wenchang's favor.

After talking to Mrs. Su, Su Dahe went back to the house holding the book and policy papers, while Su Dahai and Su Dajiang went to pay New Year's greetings as originally planned.

The New Year's Day goes by very quickly, and the fifth day of the Lunar New Year is here in a blink of an eye.

afternoon.

The family gathered around the main room to bake glutinous rice cakes and eat them. Halfway through the meal, Matchmaker Zhang came to the door with a man.

Song Yun and Zhang quickly made way for them to sit down, and then went to bring water and melon seeds for snacks.

"Oh, what brought you to my house?" Mrs. Su asked with a smile.

This matchmaker always talks about marriage every time she comes to your door. Isn't she going to be a matchmaker today?

Matchmaker Zhang pointed at the man next to her and said: "Sister, brother, today I am here to propose marriage to this young man. This young man is really great. He has already passed the examination and will be a scholar in two months." It’s time to participate in the Autumn Festival.”

Mrs. Su looked confused and said doubtfully: "Are you mistaken? Our girls all have families."

"You can't be wrong." Matchmaker Zhang smiled and waved her hands: "It is your eldest daughter Su Meihua that we have chosen."

Su Meihua was baking glutinous rice cakes for Su Zhaozhao and the others. When she heard this, she was stunned for a moment, and her hand was accidentally burned by the fire.

"Uncle and aunt, Miss Su, Xiaosheng Lin Tianyou is being polite." Lin Tianyou stood up and said gently, holding his hands in his hands.

His eyes stayed on Su Meihua for a moment, making Su Meihua's skin crawl.

Su Zhaozhao next to him was holding glutinous rice cakes in both hands, chewing like a squirrel.

[The name Lin Tianyou sounds so familiar]

[Wait a minute, I remembered, wasn’t he just the scumbag who ate the extinct Zhang family?]

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