The five-year cold winter of Dashang has come to an end with the second snowfall.

The Lu family is busier than other families every New Year.

In Jiangjiaba, the two daughters' families are sending New Year's gifts, and the Lu family is also sending New Year's gifts. There are also businesses the size of Jiangjiaba, which used to be adjacent to the wild dock.

In previous years, Qiu's family started to get busy halfway through 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 what should be given away, and marinated what should be pickled.

The Lu family’s New Year gifts are pretty much the same every year, including rice cakes, steamed buns, pork, and home-made sausages.

If the Chen family and the Ding family are related by marriage, they will also add live chickens and ducks as red envelopes for the children.

This year, because they were going to the capital to celebrate the New Year, the Lu family slaughtered the pigs and gave each family only a piece of meat. The rest was pickled and brought to the capital.

This year, Qiu does not need to steam steamed buns and rice cakes to give away. She only needs to eat them at home and give some to the Li family. She is not as busy as in previous years.

They had just arrived in the capital, and even if they wanted to be as busy as in previous years, they couldn't spare time.

On the twenty-sixth, the Li family was invited to a warm-house wine. On the twenty-eighth, the Tang family sent a cart full of New Year gifts. Four pieces of silk and satin, four pieces of cotton, four boxes of snacks, a pair of live chickens, a pair of live ducks, and half a fan of pork.

Two boxes of tea, half a basket of lotus roots, a basket of vegetables, two jars of Suzhou rice wine, and two jars of Dukang.

This is the annual gift given by the Tang family every year since they found out that it was the Lu family who saved Tang Qi in the first place.

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

Just after the Tang family left, Song Yunfei and his servants drove a car to deliver New Year gifts in person.

The New Year's gift he gave represented only himself, and he paid for it out of his own pocket.

Unlike the Tang family, Song Yunfei's New Year's gifts are somewhat arbitrary. What he gives depends on what he encounters while shopping in the past two days.

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

It's just that unlike in previous years, there were only a few boxes of snacks. This year, they were much closer. Song Yunfei bought at least five or six stores, each with several boxes, a total of 20 or 30 boxes of snacks. Lu Quan and Qiu were dumbfounded.

Not to mention a box of gadgets bought for Xiao Wu, including bamboo dragonflies, kites, spinning tops, nine-ring rings...

It's a mess, a whole box full of them.

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

When Song Yunfei unloaded from 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 slaughtered whole pigs,

Even Lu Sheige shook his head and sighed.

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

Lu Sheige frowned and didn't feel happy: "You gave me too much."

If the carriage hadn't driven directly into the house, no one outside would know what he was delivering, and if others saw it, they wouldn't know what to think.

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

Lu Sheige reminded: "No need, my family is just a commoner. You, a young master from the Marquis Mansion, personally send New Year's gifts to my family. What will others think if they know?"

Song Yunfei was slightly startled: "But didn't the Zhenguo Duke's Office also send it to your home?"

Others don’t give as much as you do!

Lu Xiangge wanted to complain, but he could only hold back: "That's because my father saved Duke Zhen Guo back then."

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

The Lu family did save him, so that seems to be correct.

Lu Sheige endured it for a long time before driving Song Yunfei out. Forget it, he would still find another way to give him some real money when the time comes.

Even though Song Yunfei is the son of the Hou family and has a salary of his own, he is really not as rich as Lu Sheige.

Although Song Yunfei sends New Year's gifts to the Lu family every year, he pays for them personally. However, the Lu family can't just eat and drink for free. Every year, Lu Shege will ask shopkeeper Li to make more New Year's gifts for the Song family.

At that time, we were far apart, so the things Song Yunfei sent were not so exaggerated. They were just some food and drinks, and things he bought specially for Lu Sheige.

Shopkeeper Li must give the Song family a New Year's gift every year, and then help the Lu family give a New Year's gift. Although it is rich, it is quite satisfactory.

The Song family is a wealthy family in Beijing, and countless people send New Year's gifts to them every year. The Lu family's New Year's gifts are sent to the Song family, and probably only Song Yunfei knows why the Lu family comes to give New Year's gifts.

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

The Song family does not know how many such annual gifts they receive every year. Some of them can be delivered to the master, while some are only registered and then sent to the warehouse without even the master knowing.

Song Yunfei brought the annual gifts given by the Lu family into his yard every year. He used the ones he could use and gave them away if he couldn't.

Although he is not as popular with his mother as his eldest brothers and sisters, he still holds a fourth-grade official position.

In recent years, Song Yunfei's own father also took in two concubines and gave birth to children. Compared with his brothers and sisters who were born as concubines, 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 together every year to deliver New Year gifts.

The gifts were pretty much the same, neither good nor bad. However, the New Year gifts from these two families could not be stored in the treasury and had to be sent to the second son's yard.

There are obviously so many valuable things, but the second young master is also surprised that he only collects things from these two families, and no one else can take a look.

Everyone in the mansion knows that the two young masters, Jixianglou and Ruyifang, are protected by the second young master. The owner seems to have come from his hometown town, and he is probably acquainted with the second young master, so he received his protection.

After Song Yunfei's family had all 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, as well as the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion and Yiyong Hou's Mansion.

Contact. Today, both houses actually sent boxing gifts to the Lu family, which shows that this relationship is extraordinary.

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

This person was neither close nor far away, and he also knew Xiaosi's identity. Lu Quan and his wife were actually very wary of his dealings.

Fortunately, Song Yunfei also knew that it would be inconvenient to stay at the Lu family for a long time, so he left with his servant in the car without even drinking a cup of tea after delivering the things.

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

Before the New Year, the Lu family's family fortune had also been completely wiped out by someone who wanted to do it.

In the eyes of others, his family's sudden wealth in recent years must be due to the influence of the Yiyong Hou Mansion. Another possibility is that the Lu family is from the Yiyong Hou Mansion, including those shops in the capital that belong to the Lu family.

It was probably purchased outside by the Yiyong Hou Mansion, but it was apparently run by the Lu family.

There is also shopkeeper Li Guangming who owns a restaurant and teahouse. This person probably hugged the thigh of Yiyong Houfu together with the Lu family.

As for the Duke of Zhen’s Mansion, I heard that the Duke of Zhen was in trouble in the countryside a few years ago and was saved by the Lu family. The reason why the Yongyi Marquis’ Mansion treated the Lu family so politely, and even the second son personally sent them a gift, could it be because of the Lu family?

Did my family save the life of the second son of the Song Dynasty? Besides, I earned a lot of money for the Yongyi Marquis Mansion, so what's the point of giving him some New Year's gifts?

This news spread throughout the capital, and even the man in the imperial city knew about it.
Chapter completed!