Year, the Tang Dynasty called it Yuanri, but Xiao Han thought it would be weird to call it Yuanri instead of Chinese New Year, so let’s call it Nian for the time being!
The Chinese New Year is an extremely special festival! No matter what era the Chinese have, there are always all kinds of inexplicable emotions involved in it.
When I was young, I was always looking forward to the Chinese New Year, maybe so that I could wear new clothes or have a good meal during the Chinese New Year.
When they are middle-aged, most people no longer look forward to the New Year, because it means they are one year older! The burden of life presses the hearts of young people to the depths bit by bit. At this time, the New Year is just to express gratitude to their parents.
Be filial, buy some gifts for your children, and create a scene in front of relatives and friends.
When I reach old age, I am afraid of the New Year, but also a little longing for it. One year has passed, and I am one step closer to death, but during the New Year, it is really gratifying to have the family reunited.
But no matter whether you look forward to it or resist it, it will always come. I have never heard of anyone being able to resist it. Even the gods say how many years they have practiced. It can be seen that the gods have nothing to do with time that is above everything else.
The Xiao Family Manor is undergoing a general cleaning today. The pavilions, corridors, stone steps and floors are all kept spotless. If Butler Lu hadn't stopped them, there would have been two hundred and fifty people who would have climbed to the roof and wiped the tiles!
In fact, the houses in Xiaojiazhuangzi are all new, so there is no need to clean them at all. However, the New Year's cleaning is not only to keep the house clean, but also to look forward to the new year.
Everyone in the house was busy, and Zi Yi and Xiao Xin were not idle either. They were cleaning the windows of Xiao Han's study, one on the left and the other on the right, each using a small stool.
Both of them are rare beauties with beautiful faces. Just stopping here adds a lot of color to this place. The young men passing by will take a sneak look at them if they don't.
Be careful if Ziyi and the others find out, the young man's face will immediately be as red as the lantern that was just hung up!
From this point of view, Xiao Han knew that the decision to keep these two beauties at home was the right one! If nothing else, just say that since they came to the Hou Mansion, everyone else in the house has been able to do more work out of thin air.
Put in some effort!
While cleaning the window, I saw that silly boy who was so absorbed in peeking at me that he fell to the steps! The basin of muddy water in his hand splashed the man on the floor from head to toe, and he was beaten.
The man who was mopping the floor was chasing him all over the yard! At this time, Ziyi and Xiaoxin were laughing so hard that they couldn't stand upright!
They both like this place, they really like it! The young man didn't lie to them back then, this place really is like a paradise.
Here, everyone is so kind, there will be no intrigues here, let alone any evil intentions!
In this big family, everyone is so real and full of life! The servants here are not like servants, but like sons of a good family, who are diligently maintaining this place as their own home.
And similarly, this big family treats everyone as one of its own, loves and tolerates them! Here, if you do something wrong, you will be kicked by the housekeeper at most. I have never heard of anyone doing anything for a trivial matter.
Convicted.
When Ziyi first arrived, she saw with her own eyes that an idiot knocked the fine West Lake inkstone to the ground and smashed it several times while cleaning the Marquis's study. She was scared to death at that time! She thought this idiot was going to be doomed, but he didn't
The Marquis who thought of reading just raised his eyelids and said: "Idiot, if you don't have eyesight to do some work, you won't be allowed to eat at night as a punishment!"
The servant was not scared to death as he imagined. After a serious apology, he cleaned up the broken pieces on the floor. He also had a frustrated look on his face, but if he listened carefully, he seemed to be saying: Improve the food today, and tonight’s meal will be better.
I can’t eat the chicken legs anymore…
Is this matter settled?!
Ziyi can’t believe it!
Doesn't the person who caused such a big disaster deserve to be beaten half to death? Doesn't the Marquis know the value of the inkstone?
His mind went blank. He didn't even remember when the stupid servant left. He only remembered that the Marquis saw him and muttered: "We can't let those clumsy people do this kind of work. You two will do it in the future."
Clean up this place, girls, you will always be more careful than those bastards!"
The Marquis gave the order, and Ziyi subconsciously nodded in agreement. It wasn't until she returned to her residence after finishing her work that she suddenly woke up!
Isn't it true that only the closest people can approach the head of the house's study? Does he want to...
Thinking about it, I blushed with embarrassment. I grabbed Xiao Xin, who had just come back, and told her about this new arrangement. Poor Xiao Xin was so ignorant that she didn't understand the meaning of a study room in a wealthy family. She even cheered and finally didn't need it.
I went to the backyard to serve food! It was so painful to see that I couldn’t eat it!
Early the next morning, the newly appointed Xiao Xin dragged Ziyi to the study. Xiao Han hadn't gotten up yet, so the study was deserted and he had to light the stove first.
Poor Ziyi was worried and didn't know what she was thinking. When Xiaoxin went out to get the coal, she started the fire as if there was a fire, making the whole room filled with thick smoke!
The people working outside accidentally saw smoke coming out of the study window from the cracks in the window. They were shocked and shouted, "There is a flood, put out the fire!" and so on!
Then he hurriedly rushed in with buckets and sandbags. Fortunately, at the critical moment, Zi Yi, who was choking and running out, tried his best to stop him. Otherwise, Xiao Han's newly renovated study would have been completely destroyed during the Chinese New Year!
If there is anyone in this family who has the most thorough knowledge of big and small matters, it is none other than Butler Lu! There used to be an old Cao who could compare, but since Lao Cao went to take charge of the industrial zone, all the big and small things in the family have fallen to Butler Lu.
For one person, although things are complicated, Butler Lu always enjoys them and handles big and small things smoothly!
After dinner in the morning, I was just chatting leisurely with the fat cook when I heard a commotion in the front yard! With the Chinese New Year approaching and such an incident happening, Butler Lu was naturally in a hurry. He couldn't care less about the fat cook and lifted up his front table.
I rushed to the study room!
"What are you doing! What are you doing! It's Chinese New Year! What are you doing!"
"Steward Lu, I'm sorry, the wood was a little wet when we lit the fire..."
"It's hard to dry the wood if it's a little wet! At this time of year, I won't use my brain..."
Butler Lu was about to curse, but suddenly he saw Ziyi was uncharacteristically dressed today, wearing several layers of bulging clothes, standing there timidly, and a flash of inspiration suddenly dawned on him, and he suddenly understood how this girl who was always cautious could make such a stupid mistake.
The anger immediately dissipated.
"Ahem...forget it, it's Chinese New Year! Please be careful, the sky is dry and things are dry, water and fire are merciless, no one should be careless about me! Okay, don't be stunned, go ahead and do whatever you need to do, everyone.
Stay here, wait until the Marquis comes back and I won’t kick you one by one!”
Instructing the servants around him to open the windows for fresh air, and then carry away the buckets and other sundries scattered on the floor, Butler Lu shook his head and continued to work on his own business, leaving his purple clothes with a big painted face and two pieces in his hands free.
Mei Xiaoxin looked at each other.
Little girl, you are just thinking nonsense, who do you think my Lord Marquis is?! That’s what Butler Lu thought.
It's just that he seems to have forgotten that when these two beauties lived in the house, he felt like a formidable enemy! He wished that Xiao Han would follow him as soon as he returned to the house, for fear that something scandalous would be spread!
It was also after that period of time that Butler Lu was surprised to find that the Marquis had no interest in these two people at all. Although he had some admiration for these two people when he met them, they were all based on emotion rather than courtesy!
He didn't understand that Xiao Han was deeply influenced by the monogamy of later generations! The so-called red flag at home does not fall, and the colorful flags flutter outside. It's okay to have sex, but if there is a chance, that's another matter.
