By Jia Xiuzhen

The winter this year was surprisingly cold.Jia's family has been busy day and night since it got the decree.Li Wan was secretly thinking that in such an extremely cold weather, everyone should be prepared to visit relatives, not to mention that it is easy to travel in this cold weather, but only when it comes to time, I am afraid that they will be frozen to death. I don't know whether the sage is here to give grace or to seek revenge.I have to say, Grandma has actually learned to figure out the edge of the holy will this time!

GUI Liu is proud of Li Wan's promise and benefits, and becomes more devoted to Daiyu.Furthermore, her primordial spirit was also transformed by grass and trees, and she belonged to the same origin as Daiyu, so they were easy to get close to each other.Seeing the cold weather now, she herself is not afraid of the cold and heat, and knowing that Daiyu is far from reaching such a level, she began to worry about Daiyu's daily life.

Nanny Xin felt relieved when she saw it, but this girl always said something: "I don't want a big cauldron, otherwise it would be great to refine a set of flame armor, but it wouldn't work. There are no flame feather beasts here. Where can I get that fire skin?" Come on! If you have the flame beads, you can do without the leather... Oh, I should go out and look for something again... No, it's useless if you have something, and you don't have a cauldron..."

Mother Xin was at a loss, and Mo Ge'er quarreled with her after hearing a few sentences: "Silly girl, what are you going to do with it? If you want to get a big one, go by yourself, don't tease the girl!"

Gui Liu cast a sideways glance at her: "Little girl doesn't understand anything, she doesn't even know anything, and she prefers to talk nonsense."

Mo Ge'er brought out the warm jade for Daiyu, "It's useless to talk about it! The girl has this, do you look at it? Nuanyu! It will be much warmer when you wear it!"

It's a pity that those pairs of Yanmai socks and Zijuan are only for Daiyu to grow up to be useless, so I don't know which box to put them in.

Gui Liu glanced at Nuanyu, quickly reached out to snatch it away, stroked it carefully, and said to Daiyu: "Young lady really has a lot of money."

Daiyu said happily: "I figured it out, you girl doesn't know anything from anyone else, you only know things from my sister-in-law. This is from my sister-in-law and me. Not only me, everyone in the house has it." of."

Gui Liu pursed her lips tightly, thought for a while and said, "Grandma is ordinary, but she can't tell that she is such a prodigal."

Daiyu laughed out loud.Gui Liu put the warm jade on Daiyu, and said to her in a low voice, "Miss, try to draw the faint aura around you when you practice kung fu into this jade."

Daiyu raised her head to look at her, and silently invoked the Qingming Jue, using her thoughts to attract each other, when she heard the sound of flowers blooming in a trance, it felt like warm spring in an instant, it was definitely not comparable to the heat of ordinary charcoal fire.

Ning Xin calmly took Qing Ming away, and then looked up at Guiliu again, before she had time to speak, she heard the girl say: "How is it? Girl, this is not an ordinary warm jade, it is called 'Rongyangchun', and it is the most gentle It’s divine. It’s not comparable to those ordinary stones that don’t freeze hands. There is only one, the melting sun like spring from this thing is a sense of spirituality, but it’s useless to the body. It’s good for a girl to use it naturally, rich and beautiful There is no worry about being exposed to the cold in the field. If it is given to an ordinary person who has no body training skills, I am afraid it will be a joke. He himself will not feel cold, but his hands and feet will be frozen to death. Sores."

She was talking here, while Daiyu was pondering over there, when Xue Yan took a box and opened it and said, "Sister Guiliu, take a look at this, isn't it a good thing?"

It was the set of Guanghan Jade. Guiliu took it over and looked at it, and said, "Miss, this is even more important. Any family that practices ice-cold ways will be willing to exchange it with you for three generations of family property. You can retreat and defend." , advance and attack, and the thin array on it is not an ordinary handwriting, even in the floating dust market, no two can have such a thing."

Just as she was talking, her expression froze, and she almost threw the set of Guanghan jade ornaments that she had just boasted to the sky on the ground. There is a piece of Xiuyu with blue patterns like star patterns, "This!...Huh?...Isn't this?..."

But seeing her concentrating on practicing her skills, she suddenly looked downcast and murmured in confusion: "No response? Could this be Lingyu? Could it be really Lingyu? No, no, how could there be no reaction at all?" Yes...but this iris star pattern is too similar..."

Xueyan took the set of Guanghan jade ornaments early in the morning and put them away first. Seeing her muttering to herself, she said: "Sister Weiliu, this is what our girl put under the pillow to sleep, what is it? Ah, where is the bazaar you mentioned? How close is it to Zhengyangmen? I'm going to let someone buy something."

Mo Ge'er said from the side: "Xueyan, why don't you talk to her! She is like this, she is always talking nonsense to make the girl happy. You have to take everything she says seriously and keep it until Time can't even find the north!"

He bickered a few times, but Daiyu remembered the "spirit-hunting" incident that day, thinking that the reason GUI Liu was talking about was not because of this image, or it was because of the miracle that day.It's just that it's hard to say this, Daiyu has a thin skin, how could she say, "I put that jade on my navel, and when I practiced, I felt like 'swish' sucking that stone into my stomach!" Such words Come?I had no choice but to hang my head in silence, even if it was so, my face was still pink.

Guiliu thought about it for a long time, but no matter how she tried to test the jade shell, she still didn't respond at all, so she had no choice but to give up.Thinking that it was because of my shallow knowledge that I didn't know the truth.Thinking about it again, if it was really a piece of spirit jade, it might be snatched away by someone early in the morning to raise the fairy grass and the god tree, so why would it be left for nothing.

But Daiyu felt sorry and said, "Well, well, Sister Liu'er, if you like this piece of sapphire, you can take it. Now I don't need that sleep aid very much."

Gui Liu was pleasantly surprised: "Really?"

Daiyu nodded quickly: "You don't want to ask for monthly money, so you can just use this to top up."

Guiliu was overjoyed, and hurriedly put the spirit jade shell into her personal storage pouch, and followed her to pay her respects to Daiyu, "Thank you, miss!"

Daiyu was startled and quickly helped her up.

Mo Ge'er curled her lips at the side, thinking that Guitou Liu is really ignorant, so a piece of variegated jade is so happy!But she also knows that she doesn't do business all day long, and she is embarrassed to take the monthly money, so she is somewhat self-aware.Thinking of this, I feel that Guiliu is not too hopeless.

Li Wan spends his days with a simple heart, but the world is like this, once you have stretched out your hand, there is no reason to take it back.Fortunately, there are still several commercial firms all over the world, and it is a great good to just spread money.

After the first snowfall, Madam Xu and the others went to the village to pull things one after another.Fortunately, the situation has improved in the past two years, and Li Wan's rent has been set at an extremely low level, so everyone's food is full and they have nothing to worry about.Just worrying about the sadness of the cold winter, the small trees and big timber felled during the reclamation of the back mountain this year were divided into piles according to good and bad, cut off and put into the kiln, and burned for several months with charcoal.In addition, the coal mines in Xishan are now in the hands of the inner court, and there are no more disputes about the flooding and other investigations in the early years. There are a total of more than [-] large and small places inside and outside the city to trade coal.Mammy Xu didn't pass through the hands of the Four Seas Trading Company again, and asked the manager of Zhuangzi to bring people to buy it, and bought tens of thousands of catties of coal and cinders for preparation.

Yan Jun and Peng Qiao led people to repair the upper houses in the villa. Today, they turned to the added courtyard at the back. There are several large and small courtyards here where merchants came to stay. The first one in the west is the Sun's house.It used to be a very remote place, but since the village started to move in whole households one after another, Madam Xu made the decision to arrange them all here.Old Yutou, Mr. Yu, and even Dr. Su's family have become neighbors.

Sun's family is living a prosperous life now. When they came out of his yard and walked forward, they saw Dr. Su coming out of the back door of his house holding a purple clay pot, saw Yan Jun and said with a smile: "Everyone has worked hard, hard work!"

Yan Jun smiled: "Why isn't the old man basking in the sun in the front yard today, instead of running backwards."

Peng Qiao said: "I haven't looked at the courtyard yet, Jun'er, go and have a look. I'll go to Mr. Yu's house ahead."

Yan Jun agreed to take three or five people to Dr. Su's house.Along the way, Dr. Su glanced at him from time to time, Yan Jun smiled and said, "Mr., is there something wrong with me?"

Doctor Su smiled, thought for a while, and pulled Yan Jun to the corner of the front yard where he usually basks in the sun, looked around again, and asked, "Boss Zhuang, tell me exactly what you want, your wife Is it gone?"

Yan Jun was taken aback for a moment, no one else knew about his divorce, he only told Nanny Xu, others only said that she went after her old mother, but now the saying of "gone" makes people confused, so he hesitated : "The old gentleman can just call me by my name, but why did the gentleman say that?"

Dr. Su said, "Do you have words?"

Yan Jun said: "Yes, Wan Ting."

Dr. Su smiled and said: "Then I will call you Wan Ting. To tell you the truth, I studied medicine by myself, and I also learned Yi, and I have a little understanding of physiognomy. You used to have a good face, but you were killed by your wife. Elephant. You want to wait for a turn, but you know that after the destiny. Looking at your face today, it is quite different from before. After careful inspection, it is a change that caused the wife's misfortune to be eliminated early, so I asked this question."

Yan Jun knew that this doctor had two abilities and was not an ordinary person, so he didn't hide it from him anymore, so he said: "I don't want to hide it from you sir, the boy's wife was divorced the day before yesterday, but I didn't tell outsiders about it."

Dr. Su rolled his eyes and said, "But because of the lost property in the workshop that made a lot of noise earlier?"

Yan Jun blushed: "You can't hide anything from Mister."

Dr. Su shook his head and sighed: "The people here are so strange, but I don't know where the feng shui is. It makes people think hard." He added, "Wan Ting, although you are destined to have no official salary, you are a person with a long life and good fortune. Originally, your wife’s misfortune had to be postponed until the age of 48, but now you have to resolve it early. It’s just that there is a definite number in this world. Since you have abandoned this destined person, it is bound to be a vacant wife. Drinking tea with my old man is a good thing for me."

Yan Jun didn't take it seriously when he heard it, and said with a smile: "Why is the old gentleman always alone?"

Dr. Su replied with a smile: "Although you are a disaster, you still exist, but I am pitiful. I am gone from the beginning. What can I do?"

While the two of them were talking, Dr. Su's house had been seen one by one, and Zhuang Ding came up and said, "Boss Zhuang, there are no problems with the houses here, they can be kept."

Yan Jun nodded, saluted Dr. Su and said, "I still have to go to another house. I'll have a few drinks with my husband tomorrow when I'm free." Dr. Su laughed and sent several people out.

This winter was really extremely cold, most of the water in Jia's garden was frozen solid, but luckily there were still some streams of running water still alive.In order to prepare for the family visits, the New Year has also passed indiscriminately, but the New Year's wine is much more lively than previous years, which is really a headache.

Daiyu resigned from Jia Mu years ago, and the family went to take care of ancestor worship and heaven.The Lin family now has a complete family business. Although the master is few and the servants are still there, and Lin Ruhai has brought Daiyu back to the ancestral house in Suzhou and explained all the important matters, it is obvious that he intends to "female to replace the father", and it is difficult for a If the elders of the family say right and wrong, they have to agree.

In this way, this year is naturally more and more boring in Baoyu's eyes, and Sister Feng also teased him: "I thought that your sister Lin would be able to live in our house from now on, but I didn't expect that."

Baoyu hurriedly said, "Sister Feng must not say such things again. My sister will inevitably be paranoid when she hears it." Sister Feng smiled.

Before Daiyu returned home, she also thought that she would be unaccompanied by that time, facing the courtyard empty, and she was afraid that she would be too sad.Unexpectedly, as soon as they got home, a group of maids gathered around, busy showing off the decorations everywhere.

Manager Rong brought in piles of big bills again, firstly the harvests of the various farms of the Lin family in this year, and then the income of each shop, and several joint ventures with other people's shares, and even more. New Year's Fresh from here.After this share is over, in the future, according to the above-mentioned accounts, dividends and other regulations will be set for the managers and shopkeepers in various places, and additional rewards will be given to those who have worked hard.

Such examples are not arbitrary. Some Zhuangzi reported the damage, so they had to go to the mansion of that place to report to see if what they said was true.If the harvest is exceptionally good, it is necessary to find out the reason, and then see if there is any management know-how that can be extended to other farms in the coming year.There are also several servants in the house, the increase and decrease of the population must also be verified, and the annual reward of the year must also be determined.

Where is there space to mourn the spring and the autumn?I was so tired that I fell asleep every day.

Nanny Xin turned off the lamp for Daiyu, and told GUI Liu, who was on watch at night, to come out but didn't go back to her room, she put on her big clothes and went to the room in charge of Rong.

Manager Rong was reconciling accounts under the lamp, when he saw her come in, he smiled and said, "It's so cold today, I'm used to living in the south and I can't think of a way to be cold, yet you still come here?"

Nanny Xin served new tea to Master Rong, and then said: "You are still the same, and you are cold, what are you busy with at night, your eyes are blurred." Rong Zhang smiled and said: "Don't play sloppy with me. .Miss, can you rest now?"

Nanny Xin nodded: "Sister Rong, don't the housekeeper usually look at these things with you? So now all the brains are handed over to the girl? Our girl is a character who came out of Qingfengxiaoyue, don't give it to me." Kidnapping is vulgar!"

Manager Rong laughed and said: "What do you know! If it weren't for this, at this time, the girl has such a temperament that she doesn't know how long she will stand in the cold window! You see, she is so energetic now, and she looks neat. "

Sister Xin said: "It's winter time to rest, she is weak, I'm afraid all these things will make her tired, but that's good."

Master Rong shook his head and said: "Tell me about you! Yaoguangtang really only cares about nurturing the whole way, what the loving mother Duobaier said is what you are like! Think about it, the girl was born like this, and she was born like that. She has been raised in the palm of her hand like a pearl since she was a child. But the world is difficult now, and she collapsed the day she raised her like a delicate flower.

If according to your idea, you and I, plus those few, make her a small garden, and let her live the same way as before, it is absurd.Things are right and people are wrong, how can one be fake?For the current plan, we had to find another way.

Don't look at the girl's weak body, but she has a strong temper.You can tell just by looking at Mr. Gu when he was in Yangzhou for a few days.The word "person" is nothing more than relying on each other, or being a person who depends on others, or being depended on by others.The girl has been a delicate flower for these years, in the future, I'm afraid she will have to learn to be her own world.

You only know the maintenance of being surrounded, but you don't know another way to make people tough, which is called 'carrying'."Women are strong as mothers" and "poor households" and "poor children take charge early" are roughly the same.

What I am doing now is to let the girl know that although she is a daughter and has lost her parents, she is still the support of hundreds of thousands of people in this world.If there is something wrong with the girl, these people will experience a change again, or they will have to find another way out, or they will be sold to other places, and even those farms with the surname "Lin" for several generations will no longer be able to talk about "the past".

You are such a delicate and thoughtful girl, she naturally knows what I mean.If this is not the case, if she is determined to be lazy or has no intentions, what method do you think I can use to force her to submit? "

Only then did Xin Momo understand: "So that's the case. No wonder when I persuaded her, she only smiled but didn't speak, but she knew the meaning of your painstaking efforts."

Rong Zhang said: "This is also the precious place of this little daughter's family. If you are not strong enough, even if you ask me to come, you will not be able to support a fool."

But Mother Xin said: "But it makes people feel distressed."

Master Rong sneered: "Which one is easy in the world? Which one is the one that you can feel comfortable with every day? As long as you live, you have to choose a way to live. Isn't this what people want?" Sister Xin sighed, Drink tea without saying a word.

Upstairs on the embroidered building, Guiliu was talking nonsense to Daiyu again, "Girl, I got rid of those junks!"

Daiyu smiled and asked, "What are you doing again?"

Guiliu said: "I am a boy of good fortune. That day I went to the street with the steward, and saw a few people who had frozen to death. I asked the steward, and the steward said that it was because of the cold weather and no money to buy winter clothes." I thought, isn't that money just the things I picked up last time? I asked the manager how much it would take to allow one person to survive the winter.

It didn't cost a lot to be in charge of the affairs, but this winter was very cold, and it coincided with the large-scale construction projects in various places in the capital, which raised the prices of many things.Now it seems that one person needs seven or eight taels of silver to get through this winter.

When I turned around, I smashed all those pears from last time, half of them in twos and ones. At night, I turned into a human form and went to the street to find the shivering people who had no money to spend the winter and gave them to them one by one.In this way, it is all divided. "

Daiyu suddenly said: "A while ago in the mansion, I heard people say that near the Tzu Chi Hall on the East Street, there are gods who have given away a lot of gold and silver. I got some more, saying that I want someone to melt it and cast a statue. But it turned out to be you girl?!"

Gui Liu said: "Hey? Those people don't take the money to buy clothes and steamed buns quickly, and wait for someone to change them?"

Daiyu shook her head and said, "How do I know this, but I just heard people talking about it when I went to say hello. You girl, if you want to save them, why don't you just buy things for them? They are poor and helpless people. Taking gold and silver locks to buy and sell things, and one who is not good is still regarded as a thief, isn't it a crime?"

Guiliu shook her head and said, "I just want to make room, and I'm too lazy to run too far to throw these things away. Why bother?" Daiyu said, "How can I be so lazy when I want to do good?"

Gui Liu shook his head: "What is good? The way of heaven is natural. Could it be that the way of heaven is wrong and I need to make up for it? Everyone is reincarnated as a human being. Could it be that when he was reincarnated, he didn't know where he went and what he did? Who said It must be good to be alive, but it must be bad to die? Oh girl, the theory of right and wrong is the most ridiculous, if you fall into this trap, it will be difficult for you to practice in the future."

Daiyu was so messed up by her words that she could barely catch her breath, and she finally said after a long time: "Your words are really scoundrels."

Gui Liu giggled and said, "I'm a practitioner, and I don't know how to pluck a hair to benefit the world. What do you think, girl?"

Daiyu was silent, just thinking about the "divine silver" Mrs. Wang piously asked for, to cast a portrait of a boy of good fortune, but this deity looks like this. For some reason, she always feels that the taste is hard to describe in words.