Zhang sighed silently. It seemed that her second son had made up his mind to go into business in the future.
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Just as Zhang said, half a month before the Chinese New Year, it started snowing heavily and all work on the construction site stopped.
The old man has said that everyone should have a good New Year this year and the work on the construction site can be temporarily suspended. It is time to take a break after being tired for half a year.
The villagers did not dare to sleep deeply at night, for fear that the snow would fall heavily in the middle of the night and collapse their houses.
The village school also started to have holidays, which made the children very happy.
Early in the morning, the adults began to sweep the snow piled on the roof, and the children also had new toys, rolling snowballs and having snowball fights, having a lot of fun.
The adults in the family did not stop them. It was a rare occasion for the children to be happy. They usually had no time to play in school. They could just change their clothes if they got wet. Anyway, they had made two new cotton-padded jackets for the children this year.
However, Xu Wenwu and his brothers who were studying in the town were not so lucky. They were still taken to the town college by Kuiwu every day.
For this, Xiaowu complained a few words about how unfair it was.
After being severely scolded by the old man, he shrank his neck and dared not speak.
Yaya and Zhier also wanted to go out and play in the snow, but their mother said that they were still young and it would be bad if they caught a cold if their clothes got wet.
Now the two little guys are standing at the gate, looking eagerly at the children playing happily outside.
Qibao walked over and said, "You two little rascals, do you want to play?"
Yaya nodded with sparkling eyes and said, "I do."
Zhier was also nodding his head like a chick pecking at rice.
"But let's do something different from them. How about we build a snowman?" Qibao said.
"Miss, what does a snowman look like?" Yaya asked curiously.
"Come, I'll take you to do it together." Qibao led the two little kids with radish heads to the yard.
Looking at Uncle Fu who was shoveling snow, he said, "Uncle Fu, give me the shovel."
Uncle Fu handed the shovel in his hand to Qibao without hesitation and asked, "Miss, what do you want to do? I will help you."
Qibao asked, "Uncle Fu, have you ever built a snowman?"
Uncle Fu shook his head and said, "How about you, sister, teach me, and I'll be able to pile it up next time."
So the old man and three children were busy in the yard. Seeing this, the old man also wanted to play with his granddaughter, so another person joined in.
Wang laughed and scolded, "This damn old man, he wants to play with the children's games, he has no shame."
From time to time, the childish and innocent laughter of Zhier and Yaya can be heard in the yard.
Qibao also found some things to replace the snowman's eyes, nose and mouth.
"Miss, you are so awesome!" Yaya clapped her hands and said with a red face.
The old man said, "I'll build one myself for you to see."
He took the shovel from Qibao's hand and started piling.
"Grandpa Xu, yours is so ugly. Not as pretty as Sister Qibao's." Zhier said with his hand covering his mouth.
"Hey! You think it's ugly? Look, I'll make a better-looking one." The old man said with interest.
The women were preparing things needed for the New Year in the house. This year's couplets would be written by the eldest brother, so all they had to do was prepare the red paper.
Pastries also need to be prepared in advance.
The white wolf no longer runs into the mountains and stays at Xu's house because it is warm there.
The old man had just booked another large round table in town a few days ago. This year, in addition to the two in-laws, there were also He Jie and his mother from the school, as well as the twelve guards, dozens of people! And a bunch of servants, so the two tables at home couldn't accommodate them at all.
Just three days before the Chinese New Year, Master Qian returned with Kuiwu's four brothers.
The old man was a little surprised and said with a smile, "Boss Qian, you're finally back. You've been gone for three or four months and haven't even written a letter. Everyone is still thinking about you!"
"Old man, you don't know, this trip of ours has been full of twists and turns!" said Boss Qian.
"What's going on? Come into the house and warm up, and tell me slowly!" said the old man.
After they entered the house, Zhier saw Boss Qian and shouted "Dad!" in surprise, then ran towards Boss Qian with his short legs.
Boss Qian also smiled and bent down to pick up his youngest son, saying, "Zhi'er, I haven't seen you for so long. You've gained a lot of weight. Do you miss your dad?"
"have!"
When Mrs. Qian saw her husband come back, a smile appeared on her face.
Wang said, "It's good that you're back! We can all put our worries to rest."
The second brother also happily hugged Kuiwu and greeted each other.
After everyone had been served, he sat down in front of the fire.
The old man asked, "Boss Qian, what did you mean by that? Are you in trouble?"
Boss Qian said, "We did run into some trouble. When we first arrived in Qingyun City, we weren't familiar with the environment there, so it wasn't easy to find a suitable shop. After asking around, we finally found a suitable shop that was quite large and in the city center with lots of people."
The old man said, "Isn't that great? This location is indeed suitable for doing business!"
Boss Qian said, "Yes, I had my eye on this place at the time, but the location is good, so the prices of some shops are high. The shop owner asked for nearly 20,000 taels of silver!"
"Hiss! Is this shop so expensive? The biggest one in our town can only be bought for a few thousand taels!" Wang said in surprise.
"This town is incomparable to the city. Although the asking price is a bit high, I saw that the area is quite large, and there is no other suitable shop. I was ready to bite the bullet and buy it, but a man named Chen Hu intervened."
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