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Chapter 271 Whose annual gift is better?

General Jia's annual gift is just like the impression he left on people in the cave. If you don't pay attention, you wouldn't guess that he is a logistics general. He is still so low-key and practical.

In Mrs. Xu's eyes, even if there was a cart full of New Year's gifts, she could clearly explain what they were and what their status was in just one sentence.

Mrs. Xu thought to herself that General Yue Wei might as well read the gift list to her, so as not to read it in a precise manner, with no smile on his face and no rising or falling intonation. Some people thought he was here to read out the charges, not as a gift. Annual ceremony.

What a happy thing. If she were to read it, it would be:

The oysters were wrapped in ice and snow; the hairtail was as frozen as a knife; the scallops were all bright red; the squid was so frozen that they hugged each other; and the pomfret stood upright.

The two bags of large shrimps are really awesome, and four large baskets of dried kelp are taken away.

In the north, everything can be stewed, and everything can be frozen depending on the weather.

As the New Year's gifts appeared one after another, Mrs. Xu was a little touched. These gifts were carefully thought out. This was no longer a matter of the New Year's gifts themselves.

Isn't that right? Mrs. Xu doesn't know whether she needs to light incense and place it on the desk before she can accept the gift from a high official. Generations of people in the village have no experience in this area. I guess even Bai Xiucai here has no experience in this area. .

It’s not surprising that so many people uphold etiquette. Although Mrs. Xu didn’t dare to light incense and set up a case for fear of overstepping her rank and causing trouble for Jia Lai and Lu Yan, she had the courage to clasp her hands and tell General Yue Wei:

“It turns out that the best gift in the world is never something, but the unexpected warmth that you didn’t expect to receive.

I am grateful for meeting General Jia, and I am grateful for all the care I have given to Erdaohe Village and our family since I met him.

I am grateful to General Lu for his special love for my granddaughter, which gives us ordinary people the confidence to show off happily.

In our family and village, the first good luck and happiness in the new year comes from the two generals. Thanks to their great love, we will definitely cherish this joy throughout the whole year and convey it to General Wan Wangyue tens of millions. "

Yue Huwei felt that this grandma was very good at talking, so he praised the two generals' New Year's gifts equally, and combined the different New Year's gifts into one word. There was no comparison, only: joy.

But there is still a general whose annual ceremony has not been read out.

What if we knew it was a New Year's gift from the general. The General didn't even write a couplet to other people's homes, but sent a New Year's gift to an ordinary person's home. What should we say?

"Grandma, Miss Xu," Yue Guards directly called her by name, indicating that there was any inconvenience and that the two of them should talk close to each other.

When Mrs. Xu heard that there was also Huo Yunqian's annual gift: "..."

Sure enough, Mrs. Xu's first reaction was that she was a little confused. Now she couldn't even squeeze in any words to praise the general.

No, these boys who came to deliver the message, does your general know that you finally took out his New Year's gift? Can you be promoted like this?

Only after hearing Yue Huowei's last sentence did he realize, ah, it turned out to be Huo Yunqian who gave in.

Moreover, Huo Yunqian gave it to him without saying anything. Yue Huowei didn't know what the gift was, and he was not sure what it meant. When he was frowning and thinking about it, Jiubao reminded him, "Don't worry, mount up. No matter what you give, Miss Xu will do it." Can be seen at a glance.

Yue Huowei also came from a poor background, so to be on the safe side he was too meddlesome. He let someone close to him speak out of good intentions, hoping to find out who sent it directly.

Because it won’t be displayed in public, but don’t wait.

Xu Tianxin and Mrs. Xu were like peddlers, carrying the wooden box into the yard themselves, and they would never dare to neglect it.

Behind them, there are three people from the Xu family working together to hold another box, and that box contains fresh pomegranates.

Let’s not mention that yet.

It is only said that after General Yue Wei left, Xu Tianxin opened the box he was carrying and found out that in this box, which was carved with finely carved wood and decorated with beautiful mountains and rivers, there was actually a handful of celery placed alone in the leftmost partition. A handful of lotus seeds is not yet a lotus seed.

After all, there is a lotus on the lotus and a lotus root under the lotus. If you only send lotus seeds, it means that the couple is made in heaven.

There are threads in the lotus root, and the threads are continuous, which is homophonic to the word "missing". Just sending lotus seeds also means that although we are not together, we miss you very much.

There is also a word called Lianzi Youxin, which gives the whole lotus seed a hint of intention.

Therefore, if you get married here, red dates, peanuts, longans, and lotus seeds will be sprinkled on the wedding bed, which means you will have a baby early. Xu Tianxin thought that General Huo was afraid of causing the above misunderstanding, so he was afraid that she would be sentimental when she was underage... Hey, if you think too much, you would not be sentimental towards anyone else. But what does it mean to just send a lotus seed heart?

Glancing at Celery, I understand.

This is to teach her to be studious and diligent, and not to let down Mr. Huo's painstaking teachings to her.

Then you will understand if you look at the gifts in the middle partition. There is a complete set of pens, inks, paper and inkstones.

The piece of ink among them made Xu Tianxin so fond of it that he even made the ink into the shape of a piano. There was also a bag of tips on the outside of the ink, just like a piano cover.

In fact, Xu Tianxin doesn't have the eyesight to see that compared to Qinmo and the Wowo inkstone shaped like a small ingot, the Hu pen, which is slightly inconspicuous, has a reputation for purity.

Xu Tianxin opened the book, a herbal encyclopedia, an agricultural book?

Then she opened the small box placed separately on the far right partition. It was really a box within a box, and she paid more attention to packaging than she did.

Xu Tianxin was stunned for a moment when he opened it, and Mrs. Xu didn't expect it to be a copper axe. It's not an ornament, it's not something to hang around the neck, it's just the kind of ax that is really suitable for girls to use for work, and it will still be there even after people leave.

So my family, Xu Tianxin really wants to say to my family: "If you travel back in time to ancient times, if you can't dress like a lady and you don't make money from embroidery, you don't have to worry about learning embroidery. It's enough if you can simply sew it on. In ancient times, we It’s the one with the hoe.”

Xu Tianxin laughed at Huo Yunqian's new year rituals.

She wanted to complain bitterly: How dare you criticize her for not being diligent enough and not writing about her experiences? I hope she can work in the fields with both hands in the new year?

She didn't intentionally write down her experience. She just couldn't write her thoughts after reading it.

Because her biggest feeling after reading it was, My great general, do you know that you have a problem with reading? Although you don't leave a word on the book and the book looks brand new, you will often look at the page you are interested in, and you will lightly scratch the blank space of the page with your fingernail.

Coincidentally, she also has this bad habit of using small movements when reading and thinking.

So am I going to tell you that after reading this, I, Xu Tianxin, have already guessed that your next step is to explore for coal? I'm afraid you won't have a good New Year's Eve.

Among Huo Yunqian's New Year's gifts, what really moved Xu Tianxin was the pomegranate.

She could tell by the containers it was packed in that it was not easy to transport the pomegranates all the way.

Under the fire cage, hemp bamboo, sea mud and loess compartments are placed with charcoal fire buried in a kind of ash, and then a container like a mud altar is placed in the bamboo fire cage as an inner container. It will not be burned and will not It was too hot, and the inner tank of the clay pot was separated. The specific principle needed to be disassembled and studied by her second uncle.

In short, not many fresh pomegranates could be transported in total.

Mrs. Xu also told her granddaughter that there was a group of guests who couldn't keep an eye on them like babies. It wasn't much, guessing it was only four baskets. She didn't expect to give her family a share.

What Xu Tianxin didn't know was that the pomegranates were picked in Huo Yunqian's own yard in the mansion.

……

At this time, Mrs. Xu was trying to persuade Yue Wei and the other eight people to stay for dinner for the fourth time.

The meal was almost ready, but General Yue Wei still got on his horse.

But what Huo Yunqian, Jia Lai and Lu Yan's personal guards didn't expect was that a group of half-grown children actually caught up with them on skis. Led by Miss Xu, they stuffed them with hot pork liver and blood that had just been cooked. Intestines and other food.

"Eat it while it's hot, otherwise it will taste fishy."

Yue Huowei looked back specifically to see several oilcloth sheds standing in the snow.

(End of this chapter)