Fight the Giants

  Chapter 457 and Ji

  The two sit face to face.

   Mu Yan stared at her, feeling that she had grown a lot. It's no longer the skinny and unfeminine appearance when I was a child, with a strong girly look between the eyebrows, and a femininity that can't be concealed by men's clothes.

  Huo Xi also stared at him.

  This stingy young master has grown into a mature man without knowing it. There was no trace of the stingy look he used to bargain with her on his face anymore. In front of him was a scorching jade-like appearance of a noble son from a family.

  The two looked at each other for a long while, but in the end Huo Xi couldn't resist his gaze, so he looked away first.

   Pushing the box I brought to him, "This is the dividend for this year."

  I earned a little more this year, and the 20% I gave out was naturally too much, which made her feel pained: "Can you charge less?" She couldn't help but ask.

  Guangfengshui has been going smoothly for the past two years. Is 20% of the stock a little too much?

   "I can't." Seeing that she didn't push it straightforwardly, Mu Yan asked for the box.

  Huo Xi was so angry that he ground his teeth. This noble son is still so stingy!

  Seeing that Huo Xi's eyes were about to breathe fire, the corners of Mu Yan's mouth just wanted to raise, but before he could move, he suppressed it. He also opened the box in front of her, took out the bank notes, and counted them one by one in front of her.

   I didn't see it, my flesh hurts. It was all her hard-earned money.

  Huo Xi lowered his head and poured himself a cup of tea, leaning to the side, and didn't look at him, just lowered his head and sipped the tea. angry. I'm afraid she will lose it or something! Pay off! Tsk.

  Mu Yan raised her eyes and glanced at her, feeling very happy, counting especially slowly, unexpectedly counting with fun. "You've made a lot of money this year. It seems that you are already in the position of a big business in the capital." The wealthy merchants in the south of the Yangtze River now have a place in Guangfengshui.

  Hearing what he said, Huo Xi was in a happy mood and raised his eyebrows lightly: "That's because I managed it well."

   Yes, you are doing well.

  You are now a wealthy businessman in the south of the Yangtze River, and outsiders still look like a small family with two shops. I feel a little bully when I step on the door. Who would have thought that the little lady in front of her would have quietly gained her current status.

  Mu Yan raised her eyes and looked at her again. A few years ago, she ran away in embarrassment in the forest with her infant brother in her arms, it seemed like it was just yesterday.

   Count out a few banknotes and push them to her.

  Huo Xi's eyes lit up: "Short bonus?" So good?

   "Thinking too much. The 20% bonus can't be less. This is the person who bought the boat." After Mu Yan finished speaking, Huo Xi gave him a hard look, quickly took the bank note, and stuffed it into his sleeve.

  Mu Yan twitched at the corner of his mouth. Zhang Fu wanted to know that his eldest daughter was such a money stringer, but he didn't know whether it was distressed or disgusted.

   "Since the two of us are going to Dongyang together, we can't pay for the boat alone." Guangfengshui returned all the money paid by the other three families, and Langguang Pavilion naturally had to pay this part of the money.

   "Don't worry about the manpower. The Shengshui Escort has trained many people in the past two years, and all of them are good players. There will be no shortage of boatmen, sailors, and guards."

   Bickering is quarreling, but for the ability of the other party, Huo Xi still recognizes and is grateful.

  Nodded: "Okay, if there is anything that Guangfengshui needs to do, you can ask Dui Ba to discuss it with my uncle and Shopkeeper Shen." The two companies are in partnership, and he cannot be allowed to contribute.

"rest assured."

   After sitting for a while, there was nothing to talk about, Huo Xi wanted to get up. But the other party was still sitting upright.

  Huo Xi glanced at the other party, a little puzzled, which time he didn't get up first? As soon as the matter was finished, without exchanging a few words of greetings, the people left in a hurry, like a dog chasing after them.

   What happened today? The tea has been refilled several times.

  Mu Yan stroked the cup, leaned back on the chair, and looked at the box under the table. Several times I wanted to hug her and send her off, I opened my mouth several times, and then closed it several times.

   Until Huo Xi got up to leave, the box was still lying under his desk.

   Mu Yan was a little annoyed, and kicked it deeper into the table.

   Not knowing whether he was angry with himself or what, he strode out of the private room holding the box given by Huo Xi with a stern face.

  Throwing the box to Kan Er, the three masters and servants arrived at the door of the tea shop, and were about to straddle their horses to leave. They paused again and ordered Li Yi: "Take back the box under the table inside."

  After returning to the private room, he lifted the tablecloth, and saw the box that the young master kept in his arms all the way, lying there quietly. This... the young master didn't send it out?

   Still, Mrs. Huo doesn't want it? Did Mrs. Huo refuse?

   Li Yi couldn't help feeling distressed. His young master, for so many years, has never liked anyone, and his heart has never been opened.

   Now that I finally got the hang of it, have you been rejected?

As the new year was approaching, Huo Xi, Yang Shi and Qin Huaiyu wandered around the city for a few days, prepared all the necessities for the New Year, arranged everything in the city, distributed welfare and rewards to the female workers and craftsmen in the workshop, closed the workshop, brought Several families went back to Zhuangzi for the New Year.

  Shushu was on holiday a few days ago. Mu Jie was also taken back to the Mu family. When he left, he took Huo Nian and An An's hands reluctantly.

  Several children held hands and talked a lot, and made an appointment to meet again next year. Mu Jie took a lot of food that Yang made for him, and several sets of clothes inside and outside, and returned to Mu Mansion.

  Mr. Yang and others feel sorry for him because he lost his mother at a young age, and they dote on him extremely on weekdays.

  Even the servants in the family like him and regard him as the little master of the family. The clothes Yang made for Huo Nian and An An would definitely make a suit for him as well. The three brothers wore the same clothes.

   And when the Mu Mansion sent him something, it would also prepare a copy for Huo Nian and Huo An.

   Although the children are reluctant to part with each other during the Chinese New Year, they also know that they have to go back to their respective homes.

  On Zhuangzi, several families spent a lively New Year's Eve together. Now that Qin Changzhi married his granddaughter to Yang Fu, he no longer had any scruples to bring his grandson with the Huo family to celebrate the New Year at Zhuangzi. Now the two families are even closer.

  After New Year's Eve, it will be the first day of the first month of the eighth year of Yongkang.

  Huo Xi's fifteenth birthday.

   This year she reached the age of Ji. At first, she thought it was like in previous years, her mother let her sleep until she woke up naturally, and then waited for her to wake up and brought her a big bowl of longevity noodles, gave her a lucky red envelope, and it was over.

   Unexpectedly, last night watching the new year, I was still asleep in bed early in the morning, and was woken up by my mother.

   She was so dazed that she couldn't keep her eyes open, so Yang Shi and Mama Mama washed her hair, washed her hair, and put on a new dress.

  Huo Xi usually wears men's clothes when he goes out, but he also wears skirts when he is at home. I will wear skirts during the Chinese New Year, so I don't care. I just think today's skirt is very beautiful. Can't help but take another look.

   After washing up, I went to the hall and saw people sitting in the hall. Everyone looked at her with a smile, and was a little puzzled. How did they get together this early in the morning? It's not time to eat yet.

   Unexpectedly, in a daze, she was forced to kneel on the red carpet in the hall, and worshiped the unknown gods in all directions.

   Then Mama Mama said a few words very solemnly, and then she knew that she had passed, her mother and Ma Mama quietly made a small ceremony for her.

  Huo Xi suddenly felt a little sad, his eyes flushed.

  I thought she had left that house, and these boudoir rituals were far away from her, but she didn't expect that her mother and Mama Ma didn't wrong her.

  Mr. Yang and Huo Erhuai made preparations early without telling her. They invited everyone to watch the ceremony early in the morning. Mama Mama solemnly tied her hair and gave her a jade hairpin.

   That's it, Huo Xi and Ji are gone.

  (end of this chapter)