When he arrived at New Year's Eve, Qi Yun went to the vestibule early in the morning and came back with a red cloth bag.

When it was laid on the table, there was a banging sound inside.

Ye Jiao had just finished her hairpin and specially selected the jade hairpin that Qi Yun gave her. She was patting rouge on her cheek. When she heard the sound, she turned her head to look at it, and saw the red cloth bag on the table at a glance.

Putting the rouge box on the table, Ye Jiao got up and walked to Qi Yun, helped him hang up his fur clothes, and asked curiously, "Xianggong, what is this?"

While untying the knot on the cloth bag, Qi Yun said, "the profit from the shop this year." With that, he spread out his cloth bag.

Inside, there was a pile of small silver ingots huddled together, as well as seven or eight strings of copper coins.

Ye Jiao's eyes widened slightly. Although she was not a money buff, this was the first time she had seen so much silver when she was an adult of Little Ginseng.

Looking at Qi Yun, Ye Jiao pointed to the pile of small silver ingots: "how much is this?"

Qi Yun smiled and sat her down, and then said, "one hundred and fifty-two-two-eight dollars."

One hundred and fifty-two taels.

When Qi Yun saw that she froze, Qi Yun explained, "in our family, no matter whether it is the shop or Zhuangzi, when we get the money, what we give to the family is a quota, and no matter how much of the rest is our own profit." The business of the wine shop is good. If you make more money this year, you will naturally get more money. "

In fact, the modesty that Qi Yun said can be counted as a balance of payments at best, and those who really made money only had less than three months to make money.

In three months, when he was able to run such a large industry, it was not to blame that the manager of Song took Qi Yun as the god of wealth.

Ye Jiao reached out and pulled the small silver ingots and looked at Qi Yun.

The man looked calm and smiled, as if waiting for his wife's praise.

The next second, she heard Ye Jiao say, "Xianggong, did you bring back these ten jin of things by yourself?" Whether it is heavy, whether it is tired or not, whether the arm hurts or not. " With that, the little ginseng reached out and touched Qi Yun's arm and rubbed it for him.

This made Qi Yun a little confused.

If others know that they have got a hundred pieces of silver, they are afraid it is too late to be happy, but the first concern of their own wife is whether they are tired or not.

But when he thought of this, Qi Yun laughed again.

This is Jiao Niang, always warm so that people's heart is hot.

However, Qi Yun would not tell her that he really could not carry it back, and he was held by iron all the way.

The man changed the subject: "now bring some cash back, thinking that after a while when the street is lively, there will be a lot of fun and beautiful things, some silver is also easy to buy."

With that, Qi Huan pulled down the hand that Ye Jiao was holding her arm for himself. he was not tired and was reluctant to work hard to his wife.

Ye Jiao looked at him and asked, "if you don't take silver, what do you use for silver?"

"Silver ticket." With that, Qi Yun took out a silver ticket and handed it to Ye Jiao.

This silver note is a 52, also an income, but did not change into cash, but a thin piece of paper, rectangular, with a lot of words and several chapters, with 52 written correctly in the middle.

Ye Jiao held it in her hand and felt gently and thin.

In my memory, there has never been a silver ticket. Ordinary people live in poverty. It would be nice to save one or two silver coins a year, and there is no need for a silver ticket at all.

This was the first time I had heard of the word, and it was also the first time I had seen a silver ticket. She looked at Qi Yun and said, "Don't worry, I'll put it away for you."

Qi Yun touched her sideburns and said with a smile, "you have to put all these away. I'm afraid the small box last time was not big enough. Put it in a bigger one."

Ye Jiao glanced at the small pile of silver spindles and nodded proudly.

Then she smiled at Qi Yun and said, "my husband is really good."

That's what Qi Yun always wanted to hear, but now he heard it. Contentedly, he put Ye Jiao into his arms and touched her forehead with his lips: "Thank you."

Ye Jiao looked up at him and said, "what are you thanking me for?"

Qi Yun whispered, "Thank you for taking care of the money for me," and then Qi Yun paused. "if you earn the money back, it will be like a stone. You have to bother your wife to spend it for me."

Ye Jiao smiled and nodded as if she had been given an important task: "Don't worry, Xianggong, I will work hard."

Then Ye Jiao saw Qi Yun burying her face in her neck and seemed to be smiling.

What are you laughing at?

Before the little ginseng had time to ask, he heard someone outside calling them to go to the front yard.

Today is New Year's Eve. According to custom, the whole family should get together to make dumplings.

In the past, the food of the Qi family was given to the cook, but today is different. The noodles and stuffing for dumplings are prepared early in the front courtyard room, waiting for everyone to wrap them themselves.

The biggest difference between this year and previous years is that there are three more people making dumplings.

Qi Yun's condition improved, and Ye Jiao came in. Although the small stone was young, he could squeeze a few of them decently, allowing Liu to smile from ear to ear while watching.

Ordinary Liu is the most dignified and calm one, but any mother does not pray for the health of her children and the addition of children and grandchildren?

When Liu makes dumplings, he has to look up at his son and daughter-in-law. The more he looks at it, the more he feels that it is not enough.

Even later, Liu burst into tears, especially remembering that at this time in previous years, she had to worry about Qi Yun's illness, for fear that the cold wind would take away her beloved son. Compared with the present lively, it was really heaven and earth.

Fortunately, Liu turned her back and wiped her tears with her untouched wrist. She was still smiling when she turned back, and no one noticed that she had already cried.

The joy of making dumplings is that the day when the family gets together and talks and laughs is over.

When the wrapped dumplings were brought down to boil, the small stone was holding a piece of dough and kneading it.

It was said that he was making dumplings, but after all, the child was not strong enough. He felt bored when he pinched two of them, so Fang took a piece of dough and rubbed it for him to play with.

Small stone obediently stood on the chair, chubby hands holding the dough, playing for a long time did not feel bored.

Ye Jiao could not help asking, "Stone, what are you pinching?"

The stone looked at Ye Jiao and replied in a milky voice, "Pen."

Ye Jiao looked at the noodles that had been rubbed into long strips and was surprised: "pinch a pen?"

"well, pinch a pen and write." Stone said while trying to shape his dough pen, looking particularly focused.

Qi Ming listened to one side, immediately generally seriously praised the stone: "Stone, you like reading this is very good, why not let the little uncle teach you to read and read in the future?"

Stone looked at him and shook his head: "I don't."

Qi Ming was stupefied: "Why?"

The stone rubbed the noodles in his hand again, and his voice was soft: "the little uncle is so small that the stone wants to learn words from adults."

Qi Ming belongs to a young and mature man. when he was in college, he went to school with a group of people who were much older than him, but now he was said to be young by a child who was less than two years old. Qi Ming immediately said, "where am I small?" After the New year, I will be fifteen! "

Who knows, when Liu heard this, he could not help saying, "Yes, Sanlang fifteen, it's time to get engaged."

Qi Ming choked and turned to Liu and said, "Mother, I don't want to.". "

"the little uncle is small, so much shorter than his father and second uncle." The voice of the stone was childish, but it made Qi Ming bulge his face.

Ye Jiao looked interesting and leaned over and said, "that stone, is it good for my aunt to teach you how to write?"

Qi Ming would like to say, second sister-in-law, your words really can not teach people ah.

Who knows, Shi unexpectedly promised: "good!"

Qi Ming was suddenly confused: "Why can she, I can't."

Stone replied bluntly, "the second aunt is prettier than you."

Qi Ming:.

Ye Jiao doesn't really want to teach him, and she also knows that it's better not to mislead children with her circle words.

But Ye Jiao liked the stone and kissed it on the cheek, coaxing the stone to rub the dough even harder.

But without waiting for Ye Jiao to tease the stone again, she felt a tightness around her waist.

When I turned around, I saw that my husband had silently collected himself in the past.

Ye Jiao could not help saying in a low voice, "Xianggong, what's the matter?"

Qi Yun said nothing, but bowed his head slightly and said nothing.

Ye Jiao looked around and found that in the hall now, in addition to herself and Qi Yun, there were small stones dedicated to rubbing dough and Qi Ming, who stared at them.

However, after Qi Ming received a stare from Qi Yun, he knowingly did not open his eyes.

Ye Jiao gently stood on tiptoe and Peck on Qi Yun's face.

Qi Yun was satisfied.

Then I heard Ye Jiao ask in some doubt, "Xianggong, do you have something to leave?"

Qi Yun was slightly stupefied: "where am I going?"

Ye Jiao biased his head: "then why do you want me to kiss you?" Don't you have to do this only before you separate?

At this moment, Qi Erlang realized what it means to lift a stone at his feet.

Fortunately, at this time, everyone went back to the hall one after another, and the dumplings were steaming hot out of the pot.

When the dumplings were served in the evening, the family sat around the round table. Qi Fu smiled and said, "Stone, do you know the story of Nian Beast?"

Xiao Shi is just over one year old, ignorant, full of dumplings, smelling the aroma of dumplings, and just shaking his head blankly after listening to his grandfather's words.

Qi Fu immediately told him the myths and legends of Nian Beast, and when he talked about how terrible Nian Beast was, the small stone shook for a moment.

Seeing this, Liu immediately stretched out his hand and secretly pinched Qi's father's loin: "how old are you, and you still frighten the children."

Qi Fu has always been particularly dignified in front of his son, but in front of Liu, he is obedient. Although he is pinched in pain, he still smiles: "OK, listen to you, I won't say."

The small stone was sitting in Fang's arms, looked left and right, and stared at Ye Jiao.

He already liked Ye Jiao, but now he leaned over and asked Ye Jiao softly: "second Auntie, aren't you afraid?"

Ye Jiao blinked: "Nian Beast, not afraid."

The little stone immediately glared round his eyes, which looked like two small black grapes.

He stretched out two small fleshy hands and shook, trying to make himself look fierce: "that's a big monster, very scared, ow!"

Ye Jiao was amused by him. Not only Ye Jiao, but all the adults laughed.

It's just that others look at the small stones cute, while Ye Jiao thinks of the birds, beasts, flowers, birds, insects and fish that have become fine birds, birds, insects and fish that they have been getting along with all the time.

When it comes to grotesque shape, Ye Jiao has seen with her own eyes the strange appearance of a fox head, a human body and a big tail when a little fox does not transform a person completely.

She could not help touching the head of the small stone, thinking to herself that if she saw too many things, she would not be afraid.

But sometimes it is just because have seen more than a thousand years that feel how precious the present day is.

Ye Jiao looked at the dumplings again and thought sincerely that it was really good to eat dumplings.

She doesn't want to eat dirt anymore.

At this time, Qi Fu first took the chopsticks, Liu also picked up the chopsticks, and the others picked up the chopsticks to pick up the dumplings in front of him.

Bai Sheng is so slippery that he can't see what the stuffing is inside from the outside. He can only know it when he bites it open.

And in this, there are a lot of tricks in the bag, all in order to win a lottery tonight.

Of all the people, Ye Jiao is probably the only one who wants to eat it the most.

She has not eaten, this is the first time, naturally curious.

Ye Jiao clamped one, went to her mouth and blew, felt the temperature with her lips, and opened her mouth to bite off half of it.

The next moment, she frowned slightly and felt a strange sweetness in her mouth.

The tongue was rolled and Ye Jiao spit out a jujube core.

On one side, Mrs. Liu's eyes were very responsive and quick, and immediately said in a loud voice, "the second young lady will give birth to a noble son early in the new year!"

As soon as these words came out, he directly let Qi Yun cover his mouth and coughed twice, while Ye Jiao suddenly looked on her face.

It turns out that eating jujube means giving birth to an early child?

Who gives birth to, and I give birth to?

However, the taste of this dumpling is really a little bad. Ye Jiao poked Qi Yun and said in a low voice, "Xianggong, can you not eat it?"

On hearing this, Qi Yun stopped coughing immediately.

Where can not eat?

You must eat!

Qi Yun originally wanted her to put up with it, but then he thought that this is the mouthful that Niao Niang likes, and what is not delicious is bound to be uncomfortable.

According to theory, you can't eat dumplings separately, but Qi Yun looked at the half of the red dates left in the dumplings and was reluctant to injure his own mistress after all.

Qi Yun pointed to his bowl: "give it to me."

Ye Jiao did not put it in his bowl, but put the remaining half of the dumplings directly to Qi Yun's mouth. Qi Yun was stupefied for a moment, glanced at their own family as if watching a good show, and ate with red ears.

Ye Jiao did not feel that she had done anything rare, and excitedly went to pick up the second dumpling.

As a result, it tastes strange again.

Little ginseng is helpless, she really just want to eat a dumpling, delicious meat toot dumplings, how to eat are strange things!

After looking at it this time, found that there was slipping brown sugar coming out of it.

Mrs. Liu also said, "the new year for the second wife is sweet and sweet!"

The lottery is good, but the dumplings are not delicious.

Ye Jiao did not say a word, and then fed the remaining half to Qi Yun. She only felt unlucky that she could not even eat a delicious dumpling.

However, in the eyes of others, Ye Jiao is blessed with great luck.

Liu and Qi Fu looked at each other and saw the smile in each other's eyes. Qi Zhao and Fang just looked at the couple's interesting relationship. After all, Qi Yun was always cold and said little, not even a smiling face.

How did it turn out?

No matter how hard the stone is, there will be a soft day in the end.

Only Qi Ming and Xiao Shi, persevering in eating dumplings, hoping to eat some lottery, just like playing games, the children always like this very much.

But when Ye Jiao picked up the third dumpling, she didn't bite it down for a long time.

Before is jujube, later is brown sugar, this is still normal thing, what if bite out a strange how to do?

After thinking about it, Ye Jiao wanted to put it back on the plate, but heard Qi Yun whisper, "what's picked up can't be put back."

Ye Jiao immediately put her hand back and did not eat it, but stared at it and worried.

When Qi Yun saw that she reached out the bowl quietly, Ye Jiao immediately put the dumplings into his bowl, which made Qi Yun feel amused.

It seems that the usual joy here is not as comfortable as eating a good meal of dumplings.

Just thinking, Qi Yun picked up the dumpling and put it in his mouth.

"well."

Qi Yun also frowned and took off what he had bitten by his teeth.

It's a copper coin.

"the second young master will make a lot of money in the new year!" Mrs. Liu's words were particularly loud and responsive to the situation.

Now that Qi Yun is in business, all he wants is to make a lot of money.

However, Qi Yun looked at Ye Jiao and thought that it was probably decided one day that everything he had now began from the day his wife got married.

The left hand reached out and gently grabbed Ye Jiao's left hand and pinched it.

Ye Jiao looked down at the hands of the two people and looked at him doubtfully.

Then I heard Qi Yun whisper, "there will be no lottery for the dumplings in the second round later. If you don't want to eat the lottery, just wait."

Ye Jiao smiled and nodded.

Then, one after another, lottery dumplings were found, and a meal and Hele passed by.

When dinner is over, each family will first go back to their own yard to keep watch for the new year, and they will have to get through the son all the time.

Qi Yun had something to discuss with Qi Zhaoqiming, so he let Ye Jiao go back first.

This is something to be done every year, and the three brothers will spend half an hour or so getting together to chat about the past year and greet each other, especially for Qi Ming, when Qi Yun is taking an exam to teach him his homework.

Ye Jiao didn't ask any more questions, went back to the house, sat on the soft couch, shook her calves, and suddenly felt a little bored.

It was probably the first time that she was alone in the room when it was dark.

Although she knew that Qi Yun would be back soon, Ye Jiao felt a little uncomfortable after only a brief parting.

If don't know what's going on, feel empty.

Little ginseng doesn't understand this, so it's called loneliness. She just thinks, "did she forget to kiss him when she just left?"

Be sure to make it up when Xianggong comes back later.

Nothing happened around, and there was no Rest. Ye Jiao stood up and was ready to go to the bookshelf to find a book to read.

Then she saw the book she had put on the shelf before.

It was a gift from Dong, wrapped in blue cloth. She didn't seem to have opened it since Dong gave it to herself.

If I hadn't seen you now, I'm afraid the little ginseng would have forgotten about it.

Reaching out, he took the blue cloth bag off the shelf and opened it neatly.

Feeling a little dark, Ye Jiao took a pair of scissors and gently cut off the wick of the candle on the table, and the light became much brighter.

Ye Jiao then sat down and looked at the words on the cover.

"six Strange Flowers", how to grow flowers?

The little ginseng's green fingertips opened the pages of the book, slightly turned a few pages, and tilted his head in some doubt.

As a gift, the book is extremely well bound and the paper is excellent. The words and pictures in it are vivid, so it can be seen that it is a good book.

But. Why don't the people in here wear clothes?