On the night of the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, which is the New Year's Eve of the festive members, the Cao Mansion had already had the atmosphere of celebrating the festival just morning. Many servants ordered the maids and the old mother to clean the entire mansion a few days ago. When they woke up in the morning, Cao Yi was influenced by them and went to Wenshu Garden to clean it with a broom and dustpan. Half a month ago, he had already written a letter to his parents. Calculated the date and should be able to deliver it at this time.

As a person who came to this world, it can almost be said to be the second most common place. Manjushri Garden still has extraordinary emotional and commemorative significance for him. In this yard, Mrs. Gao sincerely worshiped the Buddha for more than a year, just to pray for blessings and blessings to Cao Yi, hoping that his son's "illness" would be cured. Moreover, during that period, Mrs. Gao did give Cao Yi meticulous care and care, and also rewarded Hongxiu to Cao Yi for her personal care.

After a while, Hongxiu also came to clean up together. As Mrs. Gao's personal maid, Hongxiu naturally had a deep relationship with Mrs. Gao, so she also came to clean up carefully and do her best. Although Wenshuyuan itself has arranged for the previous mother to clean up every month, and it looks very clean and not dirty. However, Cao Yi and Hongxiu were just eased their longing during the cleaning. Then Hongxiu also went to clean the house next to Qingzhao, which also showed that she also missed the sister who grew up with her since childhood.

Although the two of them communicated with each other, it has been almost three months since Qingzhao went to Xiongzhou with Mrs. Gao. The feeling of longing is actually fine in normal times. What I fear most is that when everyone or the environment is very lively, it will suddenly appear, which will form very obvious and more unforgettable. So after Hongxiu came out after cleaning Qingzhao's room, his eyes were still red. I guess he shed tears several times inside because he missed too much.

Cao Yi saw it and could only sigh at the deep sisterly love between Hongxiu and Qingzhao. Now it is not as developed as in later generations. Not to mention that you can make video or voice calls thousands of miles away, even instant messaging cannot be achieved. In this era, you can only communicate through letters that can only be sent for half a month, and sending letters back and forth. By the time you receive the reply, it is probably a month since you have already received it.

Today is New Year's Eve, and most people usually choose to stay at home for New Year's Eve dinner on that night. After all, this is a good day for family reunion. So Zuixianlou is not so busy today. Cao Yi, Hongxiu and others are even closer to Zuixianlou. Cao Yi had already told him that Zuixianlou was open to the public at noon. After the lunch market, he basically stopped entertaining customers. At night, it was a dinner for the entire Cao Mansion and Zuixianlou employees, so it was closed early.

It can be said that it has been hard for so long that they have been serving others. They have been taking lunch breaks all year round, and on the most important festival of the year, they naturally have to rest and relax for a while. Because all the people in the Zuixianlou sell themselves, it can be said that they are basically alone, or have a home but can't go back now.

After such a long time

When living together, everyone basically regards Zuixianlou as their home. Although their work is hard, compared to others, they are definitely high-paying people. Since Zuixianlou started to open, the old employees who have been there since the day of business now have almost five stagnant of money. In Zuixianlou, everyone's income is proportional to their efforts. The more they do, the better they do. In addition to basic salary, the more they will be evaluated for performance rewards. Now the annual expenditure of Dayanchao ordinary families is only about 1,500 yuan, so the people in Zuixianlou can basically be regarded as the white-collar class of this era. Although they do things that are service-oriented, they seem to be inferior to those of most people in terms of income.

After Cao Yi arrived at Zuixianlou, he first went to the kitchen kitchen and gave Hua Wenhuawu and Xiong Qing ten coins each. Because the business of Zuixianlou became more and more popular, and Cao Yi basically did not eat in Cao's mansion, and Mrs. Gao also went to Xiongzhou, so Xiong Qing had nothing to do in Cao's mansion. As for the daily diet of other servants, the chef below was responsible for it. So Hongxiu later asked Xiong Qing to come to Zuixianlou to do things. He and the three brothers of Hua Wenhuawu came to the shopkeeper of the kitchen kitchen.

Because today's New Year's Eve dinner, basically everyone can rest well and just sit and enjoy the food, but the group of people in the kitchen cannot rest with them. On New Year's Eve, they still have to cook and make delicious food for this dinner. So Cao Yi decided from the beginning that the year-end rewards for the kitchen kitchen will be a little more than others.

In addition to Xiong Qing, Huawen and Huawu, each of the three chefs, Xiong Qing, Huawen and Huawu, basically everyone in the kitchen has a year-end reward of three coins. This naturally made these people grateful and boasted about it. They would definitely prepare an absolutely delicious New Year's Eve banquet for the young master and many brothers and sisters. Cao Yi naturally would not slam their enthusiasm. He nodded with a smile and said, "Then tonight, the dinner for all the brothers and sisters will depend on you!" Everyone agreed in unison, full of momentum.

As for the rewards from others, Cao Yi planned to wait until the dinner starts, so that the atmosphere can be more lively. This time, there were more than 80 people coming to Cao's mansion, and Zuixianlou itself had more than 200 people. The two places combined totaled more than 300. The year-end rewards this year would have been at least 30% less than the current ones, but because of the fines from Cuiweilou and Qingyuanlou contributed 20,000 taels of silver, the year-end bonus also increased. The dinner had almost more than 30 tables, and the first floor of the West Building would definitely not be able to be placed. In the end, there was no way to put it on the first floor of the East Building, where the space was the largest, and all the tables could be put together, which would be more lively.

As night fell, various fireworks and firecrackers began to be set off everywhere in Jiangning City. With the light of fire, Zuixianlou and Cao's own dinner also began in a lively manner. During this period, Cao Yi naturally said a few words of blessings and encouragement, and then announced the start of the event. Of course, in the speech, he also announced that in order to thank everyone for their hard work this year, he decided to give them a reward of two cents of money each. I hope that everyone will continue to maintain it in the coming year, work hard, and strive to get more monthly money and more rewards.

This remark naturally brought the atmosphere to a climax. Everyone was noisy thanking Cao Yi for his generous and generousness. Cao Yi himself also liked the atmosphere of having fun with the people and having fun together, so he planned to add some more ingredients to the dinner and announced loudly.

"Tonight is New Year's Eve, and the whole family is usually a good meal for reunion. Tonight, we were on site, and the people who worked hard to cook for us in the kitchen kitchen, had a total of about 300 people. I am very happy, which shows that we are a big family with more than 300 people. Today, we have the fate to get together, work hard together, overcome various difficulties together, and achieve success together."

Cao Yi looked around the dark people below and said excitedly: "To be honest, tonight is indeed a rare opportunity to relax. Perhaps after tonight, most people will continue to face all kinds of hardships and troubles. So we must have a happy night tonight, be willing to perform talents in everything, and show the show to cheer everyone up. As long as everyone is recognized, I will reward you all. If you go up and show applause, each person will receive one hundred dollars, and each person will receive five hundred dollars!"

As Cao Yi announced this reward policy, he basically thought he had some skills. He had talented people on stage to perform, either dancing, or orchestral, singing, or performing martial arts routines such as sword dance, which made the dinner very lively for a while. Even Tan Yun and Musk Yue and others went to perform the show, because they were from the Golden Wind Tower, singing and dancing were naturally no problem. They were all very good at it, which naturally caused the audience to cheer. Cao Yi also said that if there was applause, there would be 100 yuan, and if there was a cheer, the whole audience would be rewarded with 500 yuan, so that everyone would find Hongxiu to receive the reward.

In the end, even Jin'er and Yu Youwei couldn't resist everyone's persuasion, and everyone performed it all, so it can be said that they were only two of them, so the master and servant went on stage to perform the zither and sound of Yu Youwei's performance alone, which naturally caused crazy cheers from the audience. Yu Youwei was a fresh courtesan after all. During the previous courtesan competition, people in Cao's mansion might not have seen it, but the people in the Zuixian Tower had witnessed Yu Youwei's magical talent on the spot. Although they were both with Jin'er, they also cooperated with each other, perfectly and received a lot of applause. Even after they stepped down, Cao Yi smiled and said to Yu Youwei and Jin'er, "The show you performed is the best so far, very good, so there are many rewards, and each person will be rewarded with a consistent amount of money!"

Hongxiu and Jin'er hurriedly covered their mouths to thank him. Just now, they all walked and nodded and bowed to thank everyone for their cheers. Especially Yu Youwei, she was very happy at this moment. On the one hand, she was just forced to perform in front of everyone, and she was always resisting in her heart. Now there is no pressure, purely because she herself wants to perform a wonderful performance to help the fun, so it is the kind of emotional pouring from the heart. If you want to make everyone happy with a better interpretation, the program will naturally be better.
Chapter completed!