The Crossing of Fortune and Prayer Jubilee

"Add more meat, and prepare enough rice. By the way, I also prepare two more pots of charcoal fire in the guest room." Liu Kui should go down to work, Lou Yuzhu waved Huang Ying to help, and then the whole family happily sat around The group ate hot hot pot.

After a while the meat slices changed color, Lou Yuzhu got up and put some slices into the bowls of Lou Chengyi and Fu Linshu and said, "This is the beef, mutton, venison, etc. I brought back from Fucheng. Dad and Dad will also try it."

The importance of cattle to farming is such that ordinary people can't smell beef at all. Speaking of Lou Chengyi, when he was a child, he let cattle go, but when the cattle were old, he was taken to the Yamen by Mr. Lou for a few taels of silver. smell. "This is beef?" Lou Chengyi looked at the cooked beef slices with eyes full of awe. "Isn't it true that cows can't be slaughtered casually? Will there be any accidents if they are eaten?"

"Father, don't worry about eating, this is all through regular channels, and I won't trouble you." Lou Yuzhu smiled, and asked while brushing the meat: "Grandpa's New Year's goods haven't been delivered yet, right?" See Lou Chengyi nodded, and said again: "When I go tomorrow, I will take a few catties of beef, venison and other game, and let my grandpa and the others try something new."

Fu Linshu raised his eyes, hesitated, and said, "I have prepared enough New Year's goods for your grandpa's house. Didn't you say that you would invite Mr. Pei and Mr. Mu from the town to celebrate the New Year? Save them and greet them, your grandpa." Grandpa and the others are not greedy for these things."

"I've made up my mind to bring them back, Dad, don't worry." If there is no such thing, how dare Zhou Cheng ask him to help with the winery?After finishing speaking, he rushed to Lou Hua Louming and said: "In addition to these, I brought some other gifts back. I will give you a list later, and the eldest brother and the second brother will look at the distribution. After the distribution, I will send it to each other when I deliver the New Year's goods tomorrow." go home."

Unexpectedly, Fu Linshu stopped him, and said, "Leave me to do these general affairs. Your eldest brother and second brother have been busy with their studies and haven't had a good rest this year."

Lou Chengyi also nodded in agreement.

"It's good for the eldest brother and the second brother to get more involved with these general affairs. The so-called insights into the world are knowledgeable and sophisticated, that is, articles. It's not good to read rote books. Besides, this is our family's business, so we should take part in it." Lou Yuzhu disagreed with that. The nerd model who only cares about reading, is ignorant of common affairs, and can't do great things by relying on IQ alone. "Do you think so, big brother and second brother?" Seeing that the two nodded obediently, Lou Yuzhu smiled and said, "I don't think I can get up early in the morning, so I won't participate in the distribution of New Year's goods. Big brother and second brother will help by the way." I'll send the coachman and a few nursing homes away, remember to seal a red envelope. It's not easy to send me back in this cold and snowy environment."

Lou Hua pondered and asked, "How many seals?"

"Let's seal it up to ten taels. Make up the whole number for good luck."

With four guards and a driver, they went for 50 taels in one go. Lou Chengyi, an honest banker, panicked when he heard this.I still remember that in the past dozens of articles had to be carefully spent, and it was not uncommon for a few months to have no meaty taste and no new clothes for a year!

"Success, I'll prepare it later." Lou Hua should be, after eating supper, he really went to prepare the red envelope, and then went to the guest room to look around before going back to the room to rest.The next day, I got up again before dawn, told the coachman to wait for breakfast and gave them a red envelope, and they left. After that, they took out the gift list and counted the number. What kind of beads and flowers to give to whom, what kind of cloth pattern to give to whom, after the discussion, mark the back of the list, and then take the list to sort the gifts and put them away, and then send them out.

The order of delivery for the new year is Lao Zhai, relative Zhang's family, Pei Guanying, Mr. Mu, Guanshi Hu, and Zhou Cheng each have a copy. Zhou Cheng handed over the things to his servants because he was still busy when he didn't come back. After that, there are shopkeeper Jiao, Shopkeeper Zhai waited for the good friends in the town, and then the Lizheng and Wei families who made good friends in the village also kindly gave some.New Year's goods are a matter of reciprocity, and Sanfang gives away as much as it takes back, and the unique old house doesn't even return half an egg.When someone asked about that good thing, the old house returned it confidently and said that Mr. Lou and Amo Liu are the elders, how can there be such a thing as an elder giving a New Year's gift to a younger generation?

Don’t you know that the logic of the old house makes the outsiders almost die of laughter. It is indeed right to give New Year’s gifts to the elders, but there is no saying that the elders can’t give New Year’s gifts to the younger ones. A full ox cart of things delivered?Taking a step back, even if Mr. Lou and Amo Liu didn't say anything, the eldest and the second bedroom are always gifted by their peers, right?The new clothes worn by the dozen or so members of the family, and the beaded flower decorations on the heads of the bright pearls, gold and silver beads, were picked up for nothing?

Others talked about the injustice for Sanfang, but Lou Yuzhu really didn't care when she heard it, because the things that Liu Ah's mean-spirited returned were either old or unusable. It's better not to send both sides to save trouble.

At the end of the year on 28th, Sanfang came to invite Pei Guanying and Mr. Mu to their home for the New Year as usual. Mu, who was senior, did not want to trouble Sanfang, but was forced to agree by Lou Yuzhu's words, "No wine for next year". The room was busy all day; on the morning of the New Year's Eve, Pei Guanying accompanied Mr. Mu to arrive, and then Zhou Cheng also came on horseback, but Manager Hu didn't come because he was busy.

As soon as they entered the house to serve tea, Lou Hua and Lou Ming talked with Mu Lao, Fu Linshu led Liu Kui to prepare lunch, Lou Chengyi and Huang Shan did the whole process of lighting the fire, preparing water or picking vegetables, etc., Lou Yuzhu and Zhou Cheng waited. Enter the study door and start to settle accounts.

Zhou Cheng took out five or six account books.

Pei Guanying felt a headache when she saw the finger-thick account book, and said: "You can report the total directly, and the detailed account will not be counted."

Lou Yuzhu also nodded with lingering fear.

Zhou Cheng glanced at the two of them helplessly, took out two brocade boxes and put one in front of Pei Guanying, and said, "Xinyi Building and the restaurant are both making profits. Although the winery has sold two batches of customized wine, the investment still needs more money." The amount sold is only 3000 taels, which is the share after deducting the input." Seeing that Pei Guanying had no problem, he turned his head and put the other in front of Lou Yuzhu, saying: "The first few of Xinyilou and the food shop and ice cellar You take out the monthly dividends and put them into Linnanwan, so now you can get the dividends for the next three months, including Xinyilou, restaurants, ice cellars, and out-of-season vegetables. You don’t need to invest money in the winery as a technology investor. So there are also wineries among them. As for the artificial breeding of red shrimp and river crabs, because the profit will not be seen until next year, so now there is no dividend, and the chain hotel has not yet started construction, so there is no one, so your cash is 650 taels. I'll help you make the decision and take out 50 taels to give red seals to the waiter and the shopkeeper, so you are now at 600 taels."

Lou Yuzhu had a purpose for these accounts before, and she knew how much money it was.

Seeing that both of them agreed, Zhou Cheng began to calculate Lin Nanwan's account. "Originally, it was said that the profit would only come after the next year, but I saw that it was almost the same, so I threw away part of it first, and I will throw out the rest in two batches after the year."

Neither Pei Guanying nor Lou Yuzhu disagreed, because Zhou Cheng was taking care of these matters, and he had the most say.The two looked at each other and opened the brocade boxes in front of them respectively. Pei Guanying found that in addition to the 3000 taels calculated before, there were three more 1 taels of silver notes, and Lou Yuzhu had four extra 1000 taels of silver notes. Bay that part of the proceeds.

It can be said that the capital invested in Linnanwan has not been returned, but the two of them are not in a hurry.Lou Yuzhu closed the brocade box: "Brother Zhou has worked hard for the past six months."

In order to get away with this matter, Zhou Cheng has hardly returned home in the past six months, either on the way or on the way out, and he really has nothing to do.

Pei Guanying smiled wryly: "Brother Yu, you did help a little bit, but I stayed in Huya Town and did nothing, and it turned out that I was the one who paid the most money."

It might be really unbalanced if they are common people, but both Lou Yuzhu and Zhou Cheng are very clear that they can do without one of them, but they can't lack Pei Guanying.Without Pei Guanying's status as the son of Jinghou's son to suppress them, even if they could put up such a big commercial shelf, they would still be jealous. In this world that pays attention to status, how many powerful people do things that turn black and white with one hand?

Lou Yuzhu and Zhou Cheng looked at each other jokingly and revealed the matter.Not long after, it was time for lunch, and the party moved away to eat lunch. Pei Guanying took Mu Lao and ordered Lou Yuzhu and Zhou Cheng to join a table of mahjong.

Lou Yuzhu went to the table, saw Xiao Lou Chen blinking his eyes curiously, hugged him cutely and kissed him fiercely for a moment, and said, "Fourth brother, I will teach you to play a game today, and the name of this game is 'Battle Local tycoon'!"

Pei Guanying, who was playing cards, belatedly asked, "Didn't you play mahjong? Why did you become a local tyrant again?"

Lou Yuzhu, who knew what was going on, fell down with a smile. Although Zhou Cheng didn't know what it meant, he guessed from Lou Yuzhu's expression that it was not a good word, so he said to Pei Guanying: "Master, it's better not to ask carefully, and to avoid the answer." Blocked."

Elder Mu stroked his beard, as if he had figured out something. "Tuhao is the word 'hao' taken apart? It has something to do with gambling. If the word 'hao' is a homonym for 'hao'..." Eyes turned around Pei Guanying and Zhou Cheng, and there was a sudden joy.

"!!!" Pei Guanying looked struck by lightning.

"..." Zhou Cheng was also speechless.

Lou Yuzhu couldn't help laughing when she saw it, and Lou Hua and Lou Ming who heard the whole story also couldn't help but laugh.

Pei Guanying said coolly: "I don't know who wins and who loses, Brother Yu, don't be too confident."

Zhou Cheng automatically surrendered: "I'll fight with you."

Mr. Mu didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement, so he rushed to Lou Yuzhu and said, "Why don't we form an alliance, if you lose, it's yours, and if you win, we will get half points?"

Hearing this, Lou Yuzhu was heartbroken: "...Where's your face?"

"I forgot to bring it at home." Mr. Mu dismissed him with what Lou Yuzhu said when he asked him for calligraphy and painting last time.

Lou Yuzhu, who was stabbed hard by what she said, said that the blood is empty!

The time of playing mahjong passed quickly, and soon a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner was served, and Mr. Mu deservedly be invited to the table.The atmosphere in Sanfang was good and comfortable, and several guests had a lively and sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner without restricting themselves.After the New Year's Eve dinner, the elder brothers, holding the smallest bun, Lou Chen, first gave New Year greetings to Lou Chengyi and Fu Linshu, and each got a red envelope, and then gave New Year greetings to Mu Lao, Pei Guanying, and Zhou Cheng, and got three more red envelopes respectively. Taking advantage of her young age, Lou Yuzhu asked Lou Hua and Lou Ming to ask for a red seal, and urged the little Lou Chen, who was just learning to speak, to also ask for a red seal. After being teased, she also gave Lou Chen a small red seal.So after all the calculations, the smallest one is cheaper.

After receiving the red seal, the reward was sent to Huangshan's family. Pei Guanying wanted to play mahjong but Lou Yuzhu rejected the suggestion to play a game.The game is called 'Who is the spy', Fu Linshu and Xiao Louchen are the referees, and one of the others counts as one. Lou Chengyi doesn't want to participate, but Lou Yuzhu thinks he is playing the who is the undercover game. There is an honest friend like Lou Chengyi Playmates may be able to make a lot of jokes. Sure enough, after a few games, the pig teammate who made up the sword made everyone laugh, and even Mu Lao couldn't help laughing once.