The next day is New Year's Day.

According to custom, Liu Tangxi and Wei Hanzhou should wake up early, cook, eat, celebrate the New Year, etc.

Even if they didn't have to go to pay New Year's greetings, they still had to get up early.

But, Liu Tangxi got drunk last night, and Wei Hanzhou tormented her until very late, so when she woke up, it was already bright outside and it was almost the 9th hour.

Liu Tangxi rarely wakes up so late.

Although she occasionally gets up late, she will wake up in the middle and then go back to sleep.

After waking up, my head didn't hurt, but my body was aching a lot, just like I had climbed the mountain yesterday.

Seeing that it was getting late, Liu Tangxi got a little anxious and sat up quickly. However, before he could sit up straight, he lay down again because he felt uncomfortable.

And when she lay back, she fell into a warm embrace.

"woke up?"

Liu Tangxi was shocked and asked, "Why haven't you gotten up yet?"

She was really sleepy and thought she was the only one who got up late. She didn't expect that Wei Hanzhou, a man who was always self-disciplined, was still in bed.

"Um."

Seeing that Wei Hanzhou didn't get up, Liu Tangxi relaxed a lot. It was better for two people to be lazy than for her to be lazy alone.

Resting her head on Wei Hanzhou's arm, Liu Tangxi found a comfortable position and hugged Wei Hanzhou's waist.

"Wei Hanzhou, you actually slept in on the first day of the new year. Be careful or I'll tell mom." Liu Tangxi took the initiative.

Wei Hanzhou said, "Okay, ma'am, don't forget to tell me that you got up late too."

"Hmph, who is the reason why I get up late? It's all your fault!" Liu Tangxi was dissatisfied.

Hearing this, Wei Hanzhou smiled slightly and put his hand on Liu Tangxi's waist, stroking it a few times.

Liu Tangxi couldn't help but shudder.

"Well, it's my husband's fault." Wei Hanzhou honestly admitted his mistake.

"It's your fault. You are so greedy and have no self-control. You also made me wake up so late on the first day of the New Year..." Liu Tangxi began to accuse Wei Hanzhou.

When Liu Tangxi had almost finished speaking, Wei Hanzhou interrupted and said, "Come to think of it, my wife is not wrong either."

Liu Tangxi was talking about Wei Hanzhou proudly. When she heard this, she raised her head from Wei Hanzhou's arms and looked over. Her eyes were full of doubt and dissatisfaction, as if she would get angry if Wei Hanzhou's answer did not satisfy her.

"It's all because my wife is so charming that I couldn't help myself." Wei Hanzhou said.

Liu Tangxi wanted to be angry, but when he heard this, he couldn't help but laughed.

Then she moved closer to Wei Hanzhou and pecked his lips.

"That's what a human being says."

Wei Hanzhou had been hugging Liu Tangxi for a while. He was already feeling itchy, and after being teased by Liu Tangxi like this, he couldn't control himself anymore and bent down to kiss her.

Then, the voices of talking stopped in the room, and some other movements were heard.

When Nanny Cheng heard that the two masters had woken up, she wanted to wait outside to serve them, but as she listened, there was no movement inside, so she knew what had happened.

I looked up at the sun and thought, I'm afraid I won't be able to have breakfast today.

By the time Wei Hanzhou and Liu Tangxi got up, it was almost noon.

Fortunately, they live alone and have no elderly people at home, otherwise, if they acted like this on the first day of the New Year, they would definitely be criticized.

After waking up, Liu Tangxi's face was red and her eyes were bright, as if they had been washed with water.

Today, she was wearing a new bright red dress, which made her look even more delicate and eye-catching.

Wei Hanzhou was wearing a royal blue robe, which was made for him by Liu Tangxi recently. He looked very energetic.

Although she was a little tired, Liu Tangxi was in a very good mood and happily went to the kitchen to cook dumplings.

By the time it was done cooking, it was already noon.

On the first day of the new year, they had breakfast and lunch together.

In the afternoon, Wei Hanzhou did not go to read. The two of them sat on the couch, chatting about random things. As they chatted, they fell asleep again.

When I woke up in the afternoon, it started snowing outside.

Looking at the snow covering the ground, Liu Tangxi pulled Wei Hanzhou to the small garden to make a snowman.

While two people were having fun here, there was another big battle going on on the other side of the wall.

It wasn't the first time Liu Tangxi had heard this. The neighbors quarreled almost every other day. It was okay in the main courtyard, so she couldn't hear it. But once she got to the small garden, she could hear it clearly.

But she didn't expect that the neighbors would start quarreling on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

The argument was about the fact that Huang Fucheng stayed in the room of his concubine, Li, last night, and his first wife was unhappy.

Huang Fucheng said that they would stay at his wife's place tonight, but his concubine Li was unwilling to do so. She thought that they should stay at her place on the first day of the new year because they had to go back to her parents' home, the Shaoqing Mansion of the Dali Temple, on the second day.

The first wife thinks that they should go to her parents' home first tomorrow.

The two sides quarreled and even seemed to start fighting.

All in all, it was very lively.

"You see, marrying too many wives is not a good thing. You should never learn from Huang Fucheng in the future."

Wei Hanzhou was fixing the snowman's hair. He looked at his wife, who was squatting beside him with a hand warmer in her arms, and said, "You are enough for me. I will never do that."

Liu Tangxi said: "It's better not to do this."

After Wei Hanzhou finished making the snowman, Liu Tangxi instructed him to go to the kitchen to get some carrots and put a nose on the snowman. Two carrot slices were used as the snowman's eyes.

Seeing Wei Hanzhou making a snowman seriously, Liu Tangxi really regretted that she didn't have a mobile phone, otherwise, she could have taken a picture of Wei Hanzhou like this. Not to mention posting it online, it would be good to leave it for the children to see in the future.

Just as she was daydreaming, Wei Hanzhou stood up, turned around, and asked her, "What else do you want to do?"

Liu Tangxi looked at the snowman he had built, handed him the hand warmer, and said, "No need, it's very well done."

After saying that, she stood on tiptoe and kissed Wei Hanzhou on the cheek.

Wei Hanzhou returned the hand warmer to Liu Tangxi, looked at her red face and ears from the cold, and said, "Let's go back to the house."

"good."

After returning to the room, Liu Tangxi saw the account book on the table in the inner room.

She had planned to tell Wei Hanzhou last night, but she drank a little wine and accidentally got drunk, so she didn't have time to say it.

It's still some time before dinner, so it's a good time to talk.

After picking up the account book from the table, Liu Tangxi walked towards Wei Hanzhou.

“Guess how much money I made this year?”

Wei Hanzhou glanced at the thick account book, then at Liu Tangxi's expression, and said, "I'm sure my lady will be very satisfied."

Liu Tangxi nodded heavily and said proudly, "Of course."

After saying this, without Wei Hanzhou's answer, he took the account book and started talking.

Actually, she took over these shops and farms in the summer, and it has been about half a year now.

In the past six months, she has earned more than 10,000 taels of silver.

Naturally, her farm made the most money, followed by her dried fruit shop and her flower shop.

There is also a shop selling fresh fruits. Although there are no apples, she will bring some fruits from other places to her shop. These fruits have all been touched by her, so they are naturally delicious.

Liu Tangxi excitedly told Wei Hanzhou all of these. She also talked about her plans for the coming year. After the spring, she would plant things on the other two farms, one for flowers and one for medicinal herbs. As for her largest farm, she would plant fruit trees on the mountain.

Wei Hanzhou was naturally happy and gave Liu Tangxi a lot of useful suggestions.

As the two were talking, it got dark and Liu Tangxi went to cook.

That's how the days go by.

Wei Hanzhou has holidays until the 15th.

During the Chinese New Year, people visit relatives.

However, apart from a visit to Marquis Huai'en's Mansion and Liu Tangxi's uncle, General Shengyuan's Mansion, the two did not visit any other residences.

Until the sixth day of the New Year, the two of them stayed at home, either sitting on the couch reading together, or Wei Hanzhou teaching Liu Tangxi how to write.

Liu Tangxi might really have no talent for writing. After Wei Hanzhou finished teaching her, she forgot everything as soon as she turned around.

She could only write well if Wei Hanzhou held her hand.

This afternoon, after practicing for half an hour, Liu Tangxi still couldn't write the horizontal curved hook stroke well.

"I won't write anymore!" Liu Tangxi threw the pen aside angrily.

She doesn't have to take the imperial examination or become an official, so why should she waste her energy practicing calligraphy? There are many other ways to do this kind of work.

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Wei Hanzhou frowning.

Liu Tangxi pursed her lips, regretting that she was too impulsive just now.

"My husband, I really don't want to write anymore."

Wei Hanzhou glanced at her.

Liu Tangxi felt wronged: "My hand hurts, look, it's all red."

Liu Tangxi pointed at his hand and said.

Wei Hanzhou sighed slightly.

This is not the first or second time she has made this excuse.

Liu Tangxi noticed that Wei Hanzhou's attitude had softened, so she hugged him and kissed him.

Wei Hanzhou could not resist this and soon surrendered. As for the matter of practicing calligraphy, it was put aside.

Liu Tangxi felt that she couldn't stay at home every day, lest Wei Hanzhou force her to practice calligraphy again.

Fortunately, starting from the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the shops outside began to open one after another, and Liu Tangxi could go to inspect the shops again.

After hearing this, Wei Hanzhou went out with her.

Liu Tangxi went to the dried fruit shop to check on the candied haws, so Wei Hanzhou went to the teahouse opposite and sat waiting for her.

"Happy New Year, Brother Hanzhou."

"Happy New Year, Prince."

"Hanzhou has gained weight." The prince said after looking at Wei Hanzhou.

Wei Hanzhou said, "I had nothing to do during the holiday, so I ate too much at home. I'm sorry to have embarrassed the prince."

Xie Congli smiled and said, "What are you talking about? It's good to be fat. Madam Wei's cooking is delicious, it's hard for Han Zhou not to be fat. After my mother had the meal that Madam Wei made that day, she couldn't forget it. My younger sister also wanted to go to Madam Wei, but my mother forced her to go visit relatives."

"The princess is in love."

After exchanging a few pleasantries, the two men got down to business.

Right at the beginning, Xie Congli said something shocking: "...At the first day of the palace banquet, the legitimate daughter of the Weizhen Marquis's Mansion expressed her love to the Third Prince in the Yu Garden, but was humiliated by the Third Prince. After the Emperor learned of this, he called the Third Prince over and wanted him to marry the legitimate daughter of the Weizhen Marquis's Mansion. The Third Prince did not seem to refuse."

It is common knowledge that the Third Prince has liked Liu Lu'an for many years. Although Emperor You disagreed at first, he gradually acquiesced.

But now, she suddenly intends to let the third prince marry a girl from another family.

After hearing this, Wei Hanzhou didn't show any surprise on his face.

In the dream, the daughter of the marquis also entered the Third Prince's palace, but she was not the principal wife, but a concubine.

At that time, the crown prince was about to be deposed and was a discarded son, and the emperor wanted the third prince to ascend the throne. Therefore, in order to stabilize the military generals, Emperor You wanted the third prince to marry the legitimate daughter of the military general Wei Zhenhou Mansion.

Later, she and... and Liu Tangxi in her dream competed for the favor of the Third Prince in the palace, fighting to the death.

By the time the third prince ascended the throne, neither of these two had a good ending; one died and the other went crazy.

After Xie Congli finished speaking, he kept looking at Wei Hanzhou. Seeing that there was no surprise on his face, but instead some other emotions, he was very surprised.

"What does Han Zhou think about this?" Xie Congli asked.

Wei Hanzhou's thoughts drifted back from a very far place. He stroked the teacup in his hand and said, "The emperor was not very satisfied with the status of the second young lady of the Huai En Marquis's mansion. This move was not only to win over the military generals for the third prince, but also to choose a noble wife for the third prince."

Xie Congli nodded in agreement.

…

Liu Tangxi was also talking excitedly with the shopkeeper at this moment.

"The wine shop on Yunxia Road has been completed. According to your request, the layout is exactly the same as ours. The plaque at the door is also the same, except that there are four small characters "Yunxia Road Store" written in the lower right corner."

Liu Tangxi nodded and said, "Yeah, not bad. I'll go check it out in a few days. We plan to open it on the 16th."

"Yes, ma'am."

"When the time comes, you can go to Yunxia Road to look after it for a month. I will leave this to the second in-charge."

"good."

"We can start working on the shop at the city gate. Once the shop at Yunxia Road is open, we can also open the shop at the city gate."

"I was just about to tell you. I plan to have someone go to the city gate on the eighth day of the first lunar month to start tidying it up. Although the shop there is larger, the layout is different from these two, so it might take longer."

"Well, okay, just go ahead and do it. I know what I'm doing."

"Yes, ma'am."

After talking for a while, when Liu Tangxi came out, Wei Hanzhou had already returned and was standing aside watching the master making candied haws.

"You're back."

"Um."

"Let's go and take a look at Yunxia Street."

"good."

A few days later, when Liu Tangxi returned to the Marquis' Mansion, he heard Yin say that the girl who dominated the Marquis' Mansion might become the Third Prince's consort.

Yin was very happy when talking about this.

In her opinion, as long as Liu Luan doesn't ride on her head or her daughter's head, it will be fine.

She is happy when Liu Luan is in trouble.

Liu Tangxi pondered it in her mind. She remembered that this girl seemed to have entered the Third Prince's mansion in the end, and the means she used were not very glorious.

However, she is not the principal wife.

The queen is still Liu Yanan.

"Mom, don't be too happy too soon. Some things are hard to talk about."

Yin said, "Why is it difficult to say? The prince brought this matter to the emperor, and the emperor mentioned it himself."

"But doesn't the Third Prince like the Second Sister?"

"Oh, it would have been fine in the past, but now the Crown Prince is on equal footing with him, and there is also the Prince Jian. It will not be so easy for the Third Prince to ascend the throne. Can he do it without finding some powerful Yue family?"

Liu Tangxi ate a slice of orange and said, "Isn't our family quite powerful? It's OK to marry the second sister."

"You are wrong. Our mansion does have some power, but it is not outstanding in either civil or military affairs. Now the emperor wants to take the power of the military commanders away from Prince Jin. Our mansion is not as good as the Weizhen Marquis's mansion."

Liu Tangxi was stunned for a moment.

After thinking about it carefully, I felt that what Yin said made sense.

However, these had nothing to do with her, so she just listened and moved on.

In the blink of an eye, the sixteenth day arrived, and Wei Hanzhou began his life of going out early and returning late again, while Liu Tangxi was also busy going to see the opening of the Yunxia Street branch.

However, no matter how busy he was, Liu Tangxi did not forget to urge Wei Hanzhou to write to Wei Laosan and others, asking them when everything was ready and when they would come.

Wei Hanzhou calculated the date and decided not to lie to her this time. He wrote a letter to Wei Laosan that day.

It was already February when Wei Lao San received the letter.

The family land has been sold, the apple trees on the hill have also been sold, and the hawthorn land and trees have been sold together.

The pigs at home were also sold, as were a few chickens.

They planned to take the remaining chickens to the capital. Chickens raised at home were better than those bought from outside and could provide nourishment for the body.

They planned to wait until spring to set off for the capital, so that the hawthorns stored at home could be used up. All in all, there was less than a month left.

That day, Wei Lao San and Li went to sell candied haws.

As the trip to the capital was approaching, the children were carefree and thought it was a good thing to go to the prosperous capital. There were delicious food, fun things to do, and people they wanted to meet. They were very happy every day, and they were calculating when they could go to the capital.

The adults were mixed.

There is excitement about going to the capital, but also uncertainty about the future.

It is no small matter for the third brother Wei's family to go to the capital.

Even though no one in their family said anything at first and they didn't let the children go out and tell others about it, this matter couldn't be hidden. Since Mr. Wei spread the news that he wanted to sell the land and trees three years ago, everyone noticed something was wrong.

Wei Lao San also kept it a secret at first, but after receiving his son's letter, thinking that everyone would know it sooner or later, Wei Lao San told the truth to his brothers.

The news that their family was going to the capital spread like wildfire.

Others just let it go and were mostly envious.

Wei Lao San's brothers had many more thoughts in their minds.

The author has something to say: The Wei family will go to Beijing in the next chapter. ,,