allonlinenovel Chapter 155 Zhong Yunfeng's Little Thoughts
Chapter 155 Zhong Yunfeng's Little Thoughts
On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Lian took Wulang and Erniu back to her parents' home early in the morning. As Lian's parents' home was in a neighboring county and the journey was far, and Ye Changyan had prepared rich new year gifts for his maternal grandparents, Mr. Cai asked Mr. Lin to drive the horse-drawn carriage to send Lian and her children back.
In Yuzhou Prefecture, the second day of the Chinese New Year is usually the day to return to one's parents' home, and people generally do not visit other relatives on this day.
Ye Changyan and Ye Xiaozheng went to the old house. As soon as Ye Changyan and his son arrived at the old house, their aunt Ye Xiaolian and uncle Sun Youde came back with their two cousins.
My eldest aunt's family brought a lot of New Year's gifts, big bags and small boxes, and moved them into the old house.
However, Ye Changyan discovered that the attitude of everyone in the old house towards his aunt's family did not seem as warm as before. Even the old lady who had always doted on Ye Xiaolian had changed her attitude.
The eldest aunt's family greeted Ye Changyan and his son politely, and did not seem to take the change in attitude of everyone in the old house too seriously.
Ye Xiaolian also gave New Year's money to Ye Changyan and other nephews and nieces, as well as Wulang and Erniu.
As Ye Xiaolian began to distribute New Year's money, the eldest aunt Xu and the second aunt Liu also took out red envelopes and handed them to Ye Changyan, and Wulang and Erniu also got some.
When the old lady saw Ye Changyan happily accepting the red envelopes from Xu and Liu, she smiled and took out the red envelopes she had prepared in advance to give New Year's money to all the grandchildren and granddaughters present.
Ye Changyan took the three red envelopes from the old lady and weighed them. Just like in previous years, each red envelope should contain twenty dollars.
"Old lady, I have something to say in advance. Dalang, Erlang, Da Niu, Yiming and Yitong, you are all of marriageable age. If you get married this year, I will not give you New Year's money next year."
The old lady spoke seriously, but everyone nodded with smiles on their faces.
"I've prepared a gift for each of my granddaughters-in-law, and I've also prepared some gifts for my granddaughter-in-law. I've also prepared a dowry for each of my granddaughters-in-law. When you all grow up, I look forward to having great-grandchildren soon, and to having more children for the old Ye family. When I meet your grandfather in the future, I'll have something to report to him."
Everyone in the Ye family nodded after hearing the old lady's words, except Ye Xiaolian, who looked a little embarrassed.
When Da Niu and Si Lang came to Ye Xiaolian to borrow money, Ye Xiaolian only lent them ten taels of silver on the grounds that she needed to prepare a betrothal gift for Sun Yiming and a dowry for Sun Yitong. The old lady felt uncomfortable about this matter.
With the help of Xu and Da Niu, Liu managed to prepare two tables of fairly sumptuous meals. As soon as Ye Changyan and his son left the table, Ye Xiaolian found an opportunity to join them.
"Sanlang, I heard that the candies from this processing workshop are very popular in the city. I wonder if you can talk to Mr. Zhong and give the marketing rights in Wanshou County to your uncle. Although your uncle's shop is not very big, it sells a wide range of goods."
Seeing Ye Xiaolian excitedly promoting his grocery store to him, Ye Changyan admired Ye Xiaolian's keen business sense and daring style of thinking and doing.
Seeing that Ye Xiaolian had a good plan and was thinking of using his relationship with Zhong Yunfeng to make connections for him, Ye Changyan could only say that she was a little too fanciful.
"Aunt, the candies produced by Boss Zhong's processing workshop are already in short supply through Zhong's Goods Store. I don't think Boss Zhong has any plans to increase sales channels in the short term. But since aunt mentioned this, I will mention it to Boss Zhong after the New Year."
Ye Xiaolian didn't seem to hear the rejection in Ye Changyan's words, and nodded with a smile on her face.
In the following days, Ye Changyan and Wulang took the prepared gifts to deliver New Year gifts to some close relatives and friends. Naturally, the Ye family also welcomed many guests who came to give New Year gifts.
On the fifth day of the New Year, Zhong Yunfeng's carriage drove straight from the city to Ye's farm.
"Chang Yan, Wu Lang, hurry up, come and help me move the things."
Zhong Yunfeng jumped off the carriage, pushed open the gate of Ye’s courtyard and shouted inside.
Fang Xiaotong came to the carriage first and walked towards the yard carrying several large boxes of gifts. Ye Changyan came to the door and was surprised to see that the carriage was full of gifts.
"How many houses are you going to visit to deliver New Year gifts? This horse carriage is almost being used as an ox cart."
"These are all New Year gifts for your family. Some were prepared by my father, some were prepared by me, and Huang Huamin also brought a lot."
Zhong Yunfeng took the gift box from the coachman Lao Huang and handed it to Wu Lang while explaining to Ye Changyan.
"Isn't this a bit too much? Could it be that you packed one copy of everything on the counter of your Zhong's Store?"
"Okay, stop making a fuss here and move your things into the house."
Liang Jingcheng saw Wu Lang and Fang Xiaotong running into the house with gifts, so he came out to help.
The group was busy for a while before they finished moving all the things in the carriage.
Each gift was wrapped very tightly, and I don’t know how Zhong Yunfeng distinguished them from each other.
It didn't take long for Zhong Yunfeng to divide the gifts into several piles and then introduce them one by one.
"Huang Huamin asked me to bring this pile over."
Zhong Yunfeng pointed to a small pile of beautifully wrapped gifts in front of him and said, then pointed to another pile of gifts and said.
"This pile was prepared by my father. Most of them are things from the family store. Although they are not expensive, they are all practical things."
"How could you let your father spend so much money?"
Ye Xiaozheng saw that Zhong Dingyi had prepared quite a few New Year gifts. Just from the packaging, he could tell that many of them were things that were commonly used at home.
"Uncle, you are being too polite. Come on, the rest are the gifts I prepared for everyone."
As he spoke, Zhong Yunfeng pointed at the pile of gifts in front of him and searched among them with excitement. Then he picked up two boxes and handed them to Mr. Cai.
"Mr. Cai, this is a gift that I prepared for you. It's just a token of my appreciation. Please don't despise it."
"Hahaha, I have a gift too, but it's you who's spending the money, kid."
Seeing Mr. Cai smiling, Zhong Yunfeng picked up two more boxes and handed them to Ye Xiaozheng.
"Uncle, this is a gift for you, a box of wild ginseng and a box of donkey-hide gelatin cake. I wish you good health in the new year."
I saw Zhong Yunfeng distributing gifts there with an excited look on his face.
Zhong Yunfeng prepared exquisite study accessories for Ye Changyan and Wulang, and a sandalwood-framed folding fan for Liang Jingcheng.
A box of warm South China pearls and a silver bracelet made by Shengjing Yuxianglou were prepared for Lian.
Zhong Yunfeng distributed the gifts around, but everyone saw that the remaining gifts were still piled up like a small mountain, and they all looked at Zhong Yunfeng with some confusion.
Zhong Yunfeng's face turned red, and he pointed at the mountain-like gift with a slightly embarrassed look and said to Erniu.
"These are all prepared for you. I don't know what you like, so I picked out some things that the ladies in the city like and prepared some. I hope you like them."
Everyone looked at Zhong Yunfeng and then at Erniu in surprise.