Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 195 New Year's Eve
The five-year cold winter of Dashang is coming to an end with the second snow falling.

Lu's family is busier than other families every Chinese New Year.

In Jiangjiaba, the two daughters' family wanted to send New Year gifts, and the Lu family also wanted to send New Year gifts.There are also merchants the size of Jiangjiaba, and the neighbors of Qianye Wharf cannot be pulled down.

In previous years, Qiu's family began to be busy in the middle of the twelfth lunar month, steaming rice cakes and steamed buns.

Lu Quan also slaughtered the fat pigs raised at home early, divided the meat, gave away the ones that should be given away, and marinated the ones that should be marinated.

Every year, the Lu family gave the same New Year gifts, including rice cakes, steamed buns, pork, and homemade sausages.

If it is the in-law relationship between the Chen family and the Ding family, there will be red envelopes for the children with live chickens and ducks.

This year, because they are going to Beijing for the New Year, the Lu family will only send a piece of meat to each family after the pigs are slaughtered.The rest were pickled and brought to the capital.

This year, the Qiu family doesn't need to steam steamed buns and rice cakes to give away, they only eat them at home, and give some to the Li family. It is not as busy as in previous years.

They had just arrived in the capital, so even if they were as busy as they were in previous years, they still couldn't spare their time.

On 26, the Li family was invited to have housewarming wine. On 28, the Tang family sent a carload of New Year gifts.Four pieces of silk, four pieces of cotton cloth, 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, one basket of vegetables, two jars of rice wine from Suzhou Prefecture, and two jars of Dukang.

This is an annual gift given by the Tang family every year since they knew that it was the Lu family who rescued Tang Qi.

However, in previous years, there were no lotus roots and vegetables, and there were no live chickens or ducks.The servant who gave the gift said that it was from the madam's country village, and gave some to the fourth young master to taste.

As soon as the Tang family left, Song Yunfei and his servant came to deliver the New Year's gift in a car.

The annual gift he gave only represented him personally, and he paid for it out of his own pocket.

Unlike the Tang family, Song Yunfei's New Year's gift was somewhat arbitrary.What he gives depends on what he encounters when he is shopping in the past two days.

For example, this year, the New Year gifts he gave include snacks and clothing materials, as well as pens, ink, paper and inkstones, rice noodles and fruit charcoal. This is normal, as in previous years.

It's just that unlike previous years, there were only a few boxes of dim sum. This year, Song Yunfei bought at least five or six boxes, a few boxes for each family, and a total of twenty or thirty boxes of dim sum. Lu Quan and Qiu Shi were dumbfounded.

Not to mention the box of gadgets bought for Xiao Wu, bamboo dragonflies, kites, spinning tops, nine chains...

It was a mess, and a whole box was piled up.

There are also pens, inks, paper and inkstones, gold and silver jewellery, rice flour and fruit charcoal...

After Song Yunfei got out of the car, a basket of crabs, a basket of yellow oranges, several baskets of silver frost charcoal, a pair of live deer, two pairs of live rabbits, four pairs of live chickens, two live sheep, and two whole slaughtered pigs, Even Lu Yange shook his head and sighed.

This year's gift is simply impossible to accept, let alone return.

Lu Yange frowned, not feeling happy: "You gave too much."

If it wasn't for the carriage driving directly into the mansion, people outside would not know what was delivered, and if others saw it, they wouldn't know how to think about it.

Song Yunfei didn't think: "Where are there many, I will buy it for you when I meet a good one next time."

Lu Yange reminded: "No need, my family is just a small citizen of Shengdou. If you, a son of the Marquis Mansion, give my family a New Year gift in person, what will others think if they know?"

Song Yunfei was taken aback for a moment: "But didn't the Zhen Guo Gongfu also send it to your house?"

Others don’t give as much as you!

Lu Yange wanted to complain, but he could only bear it: "That's because my father saved Zhen Guogong back then."

"That's not easy." Song Yunfei raised his eyebrows, "When someone asks, just say you saved me back then."

The Lu family did save him, so it seems correct.

Lu Yange endured it and did not drive Song Yunfei out.Forget it, when the time comes, I'll find another way to give him some real money.

Don't look at Song Yunfei as the son of the Hou family, and he also has a salary, but he is really not as rich as Lu Yange.

Although Song Yunfei sent New Year's gifts to Lu's family every year, he paid for it personally.But the Lu family can't eat and get for free, every year Lu Yange will ask shopkeeper Li to back up similar annual gifts for the Song family.

At that time, it was far away, and the things Song Yunfei sent were not so exaggerated.It was nothing more than something for food and drink, and something he bought specially for Lu Xingge.

Shopkeeper Li must send an annual gift to the Song family every year, and then give an annual gift to the Lu family. Although it is rich, it is also quite satisfactory.

The Song family is a wealthy family in Beijing, and there are many people who give New Year gifts every year.The Lu family's annual gift was sent to the Song family, probably only Song Yunfei knew why a Lu family came to give the new year gift.

In the eyes of the Song family, these annual ceremonies are nothing special, they are just the poor people below who want to flatter the Song family.

The Song family received such annual gifts every year. Some of them could be delivered to the master, while some were sent to the warehouse after being registered in the book, and the master didn't even know.

Song Yunfei took the New Year's gifts that the Lu family gave every year into his own yard, used those that could be used by himself, and gave away those that could not be used.

Although he is not as popular with his mother as his elder brother and younger siblings, he still has a fourth-rank official position.

In the past few years, Song Yunfei's own father also took in two concubines and gave birth to children. Compared with his concubine siblings, he is naturally different.

The housekeeper of the Song family also knew that Li Guangming, the owner of Jixiang Building in Beijing, and Lu Quan, the owner of Ruyifang, would send people to give New Year gifts together every year.

The things sent are not bad, not good, not bad.However, the New Year's gift from these two families cannot be stored in the warehouse, and must be sent to the second son's yard.

Obviously there are so many valuable things, but the second young master is also surprised that he only accepts things from these two families, and no one else can take a look at them.

Everyone in the mansion knows that the Jixianglou and Ruyifang are protected by the second son.The owner seems to be from his hometown town, probably because the Second Young Master knew him well, so he was blessed by the Second Young Master.

After Song Yunfei's rituals 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 the residence of the Duke of Zhenguo and the residence of Yiyonghou. come and go.Today, the two governments even sent gifts to the Lu family, which shows that the relationship is extraordinary.

The Lu family actually didn't know how to receive Song Yunfei.

This person can't be near or far away, he still knows the identity of Xiao Si, Lu Quan and his wife are actually very afraid of his contacts.

Fortunately, Song Yunfei also knew that it would be inconvenient to stay at the Lu family for a long time, so he took the servant and drove away without even drinking a cup of tea.

However, Song Yunfei's movement was so big that everyone in the capital knew about it.

Before the New Year's Eve, the Lu family's property has also been stripped clean by someone with a heart.

In the eyes of others, his family's sudden wealth over the years must be due to holding the thigh of Yiyonghoufu.Another possibility is that the Lu family belonged to the Yiyonghou Mansion, including those shops in the capital that belonged to the Lu family, which were probably run by the Yiyonghou Mansion outside, but it was obviously run by the Lu family.

There is also the shopkeeper Li Guangming who owns restaurants and tea houses. This person probably hugged the thigh of Yiyong Houfu with the Lu family.

As for Duke Zhen's mansion, I heard that Duke Zhen had an accident in the countryside a few years ago and was rescued by the Lu family.The reason why the Marquis of Yongyi treated the Lu family so courteously, and even the Second Young Master personally delivered the gift, could it be because the Lu family also saved the life of the Second Young Master Song?Besides, they earned a lot of money for the Yongyihou's mansion, so what's wrong with giving some New Year's gifts.

The news spread throughout the capital, and even the person in the imperial city knew about it.

(End of this chapter)