Outside the window, the east wind blooms thousands of flowers at night, and the world is as bright as daytime.

Looking from afar, the banks of Suzhou River are full of people.

In the gap between the fireworks, under the radiance are faces with infinite joy, as if everyone is immersed in it and cannot extricate themselves.

However, Li Zhigang, who stood in the attic and looked at this beautiful scenery from afar, had a gloomy expression on his face, and was full of thoughts.

"New policy, Kaihai, Suzhou, Finance and Taxation..."

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The wine and food on the table were already cold, and he still hadn't moved.

Dongdongdongdongdongdong!

Someone knocked on the door behind him.

Li Zhigang frowned unhappy and said softly, "Didn't I say that you don't need to serve you. You have been busy for a year. Let's have fun in the New Year!"

He thought it was his close friend who came to ask about his well-being, but he didn't expect that a hearty laugh came from outside the door in the next second, "Yixing, it's really hard for you to ask!"

In an instant, Li Zhigang smiled and turned around and said, "Shaoying? Please come in quickly!"

After the words came, Liu Guan, the left Senator of the Zhejiang Provincial Governor who acted as the governor of Suzhou Prefecture, came in from outside with a food box.

"It's the New Year, why are you not here to accompany the family at home?" Li Zhigang smiled and said, "Sit down, it's cold outside?"

Liu looked at the cold dishes and wine on the table and sighed slightly, "You are just stubborn. You will be sent to invite you a few days ago and go to my house to celebrate the festival together. You are fine, you just won't go!"

As he said that, he glared and said, "Why do you look down on me, Mr. Liu?"

"Where are there!" Li Zhigang quickly smiled, "Don't you know me yet? I'm..."

"You need to be thin-skinned!" Liu Guan said bluntly, "You can be thin-skinned with others, why are you polite to me?" He said, sighing, "I pity my old mother, I have been preparing since the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month and I am looking forward to you going!"

"This..." Li Zhigang's heart felt warm and sour, "It's not right. Even if I don't go, I should go to visit my aunt in person!" As he said, apologizing, "The reason I didn't go is because I think... your family is a family of old and young people, and you can't let go of it if I go, and I will cause trouble for you!"

"My mother, my wife and children are all looking forward to you!" Liu Guan said, opening the food box in his hand, and then taking out a three-layer tray from it.

On the tray are all small dumplings in the shape of white ingots.

"I told my mother that you are from Songjiang and don't eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year. But my mother said that you don't eat dumplings because you have never eaten delicious dumplings!" Liu Guan smiled, "This is made by my mother with her own hand, with leeks and pork filling. This year came late, but it happened to catch up with the leeks, which are the most delicious!"

"Because I was afraid that the road would be cold and not delicious, my mother specifically asked me to bring the baby here!" As she said that, Liu Guan turned to the public and said, "There is no one!"

"The villain is here!" Li Zhigang's personal companion appeared at the door.

"Then go to the stove and cook it!" Liu Guan smiled, "Can you southerners cook dumplings?"

"The villain can do it!" The person followed with a smile and went out with a smile.

Liu Guan continued to keep his hands on, "My mother also told me to bring you some of the sauce from home. Look, the smoked pig's trotters are known as a target for making money in our hometown. They are also freshly out of the pot, and they are chewy when eaten cold!"

He kept holding the things and kept talking, "Mother knew you were spending the New Year alone. She said that there was no one left for the New Year, so let me come and accompany you! Alas! You!"

What he brought was not worth mentioning from the food and food that had already been cold on the table in Li Zhigang's house.

Maybe a box of things is not as valuable as a plate of Longjing shrimps on the table.

But at this moment, the enthusiasm in Li Zhigang's heart was boiling as if it was burning.

"This made me..." Li Zhigang moved, "Shaoying, thank you!"

"If you want to thank me, thank my mother. I don't bother with you!" Liu Guan smiled, "I didn't bring the wine. I know you have a good flower sculpture, take it out!"

"Come here!" Li Zhigang said loudly to the outside world, "Shaoxing Huang for thirty years! Add a few more hot dishes."

He shouted, and the faces of the Li family followers outside the door finally brought a bit of New Year's celebration and started working hard.

Soon, the cold wine and dishes were removed and replaced with new ones.

Add red dates and shredded ginger to the rice wine and scald it in hot water.

"This is the first glass of wine!" Liu Guan poured them all over and raised his glass and said, "I don't respect the future, I don't respect you and me. I only respect my mother at home, and I will live a prosperous life and prolong my life!"

"Okay, okay!" Li Zhigang smiled and clinked glasses with Liuguan, and drank it all in one go.

"The second cup!" Liu Guan said to him again, "I respect you again, and you will be healthy and blessed!"

"Thank you for yourselves!" Li Zhigang was moved and raised his head and drank it all over again.

"One cup of love and two cups of emotion, three cups of wine, real brother!" Liu Guan said with a smile again.

"Haha!" Li Zhigang laughed, "Okay, although this is straightforward, it should be a blunt and done!"

After three glasses of wine, the person who was outside had already cooked the dumplings.

"Hurry, while it's hot! You have to eat hot dumplings!" Liu Guan said with a smile.

Li Zhigang picked up one and put it in his mouth. After chewing it for a while, he suddenly frowned.

Because his teeth bite hard, it hurts a little. With his education, he cannot spit it out directly on the dining table, so he was a little stiff.

"What?" Liu Guan said hurriedly, "But you have eaten? Spit it out!"

Li Zhigang vomited it slowly, but it was a delicate lottery that was only as big as a little fingernail.

"Hey, your luck!" Liu Guan laughed, "You only have this money in a hundred dumplings, and you can eat it!" As he said, he clapped his hands, "Yixing, your luck is really strong!"

Although Li Zhigang is from the south, he also knows the custom of the north, which is to put coins into the dumplings during the Spring Festival to indicate a good omen for next year.

But at this moment, when he looked at the coin, there was not much joy on his face, but it seemed to touch his heart.

"What's wrong? I'm frowning during the Chinese New Year!" Liu Guan asked, "But for the new policy? Or is it difficult for these wealthy families in Suzhou to deal with?"

Since Li Zhi first came to Suzhou, he felt quite as if he had enough strength but had no place to use it.

No matter what Li Zhigang wanted to investigate, the officials and gentry in Suzhou were extremely cooperative. Even the deficits in taxes and grains that had been paid over the years were always favored.

Not only did they take the initiative to make up for payment, but they were also overdue.

This made Li Zhigang even unable to catch someone's braid.

What made him even more troubled was the way those people gave him money.

He doesn't like money. To be precise, if his family has money, he doesn't like making money.

But every morning, his servant opened the gate of the imperial envoy's headquarters and could see valuable gifts outside, and no one knew who gave them it.

Moreover, in recent days, officials who have retired from third and fourth ranks have voted for him, and famous teachers and scholars all over the world have also voted for his writing.

Without saying anything, they just said that they would invite you to drink tea and discuss the articles of saints.

From this we can see that the gap between the wealthy families in Suzhou and other places is the same.

Officials and gentry in other places, as long as their interests are touched, they will jump up and yell. In Suzhou, if you want others, you will give it. Not only will you give it to the New Year, but you will also give it to it happily.

Just in line with that sentence, it is not a problem that can be solved with money.

But this is not where Li Zhigang's heart is.

But...

"Oh!" Li Zhigang sighed, put down his wine glass, shook his head, "What's so difficult about the new policy? What I worry about is not this!" Then, he picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

"Drink slowly, and you're intoxicating!" Liu Guan said, "Since it's not the new policy, what is it? Open the sea?"
Chapter completed!