The first New Year's Eve when Xu Ping returned home was busy. Now the Xu family is no longer the time when Xu Ping left home to Yongzhou. The family is big and the business is big, and all kinds of miscellaneous things are asked and you will pass.

New Year's Day is the day to visit relatives and friends. Xu Ping breathed out and finally could hide out for a quiet day and throw all the family affairs to his parents and Lin Suniang.

Early in the morning, Xu Ping cleaned up and stopped working. Liu Xiaoyi prepared a horse and prepared to go into the city to visit his colleagues and friends.

Just as he walked into the yard, Zhang Sanniang called Xu Ping, walked up, took out a small red cloth and handed it to Xu Ping, and said, "Dalang, your identity is no longer as good as before. You must give rewards when you see people. You can bring these money with you."

Xu Ping smiled and said, "I naturally brought money with me, enough to deal with it."

Zhang Sanniang stuffed the small red cloth bag into Xu Ping's hand: "Now we are a wealthy family. When we meet some people, how can we take out a few copper coins? This is given to us by the emperor last time. Twenty coins and twenty silver coins, you can give it to others as appropriate. For example, in the Li family, if you come up to pay New Year's greetings, you can't take a handful of copper coins, it's so bad!"

When Xu Ping heard that it was money and silver, he thought about it and then took it down. It was indeed not appropriate for some wealthy families to take out a few copper coins, and three or five gold and silver coins seemed much more impressive.

At this time, some gold and silver coins were cast every year in the palace, the same shape as ordinary copper coins, used for festival rewards. Of course, the palace was rich and powerful, and sometimes they used gold and silver coins as ordinary copper coins. For example, when the ceremonial guards left the palace to sprinkle money at the onlookers, they would throw gold and silver coins together all over the sky. The eunuchs and palace maids in the palace came out to buy things, and sometimes they would use gold and silver coins as ordinary copper coins in a mess. Those who picked up or received such gold and silver coins would make a fortune.

During the New Year, the palace will also reward the family of close ministers with some gold and silver. The gold and silver shops and exchange shops in the capital also have this kind of gold and silver exchange, which is not uncommon for wealthy families.

After taking the gold, silver and money, Xu Ping and Liu Xiaoyi got on the horse, bid farewell to their family, and took Wanshengmen to enter Kaifeng City.

There were fewer people at Wanshengmen. As soon as they boarded the avenue by the Bian River, the crowds suddenly became crowded. When they arrived near Zhouqiao, they were already out of water.

Kaifeng City started from the first day of the first day of the New Year and lasted for three days. There were all kinds of small stalls on both sides of the road, from food to toys for children, almost all of which were bought by the piao, and there were almost no serious business. During the New Year, no matter the rich or poor, they would indulge themselves, and almost everyone was surrounded by people.

Xu Ping and Liu Xiaoyi had to get off the horse and walk, and moved forward in the crowd with difficulty. They wanted to go to Li Yonghe's house first, and then meet their colleagues in the capital after the New Year. Li Yonghe's house lived not far from Xiangguo Temple, which was the most lively place in the capital. Today, many people gathered here, and there were crowds of people everywhere.

After a short distance of this, Xu Ping's Liu Xiaoyi squeezed for almost an hour, finally passed Xiangguo Temple, turned down the avenue by the Bian River, and walked around the small road for a while before he could reach Li Yonghe's mansion.

The two contributions he went to Dangxiang, Huling, and Li Yonghe had been promoted to the Chongyi envoy and Hezhou envoy, and he had been appointed as the governor of Yao County. He just waited for the time he was promoted to the chief governor of Yao County and then he would become the ranks of noble officials. Everyone knows that this is the emperor's compensation for Li Yonghe's suffering in his first half of his life. Li Yonghe himself was also cautious and was very smooth all the way. Now his duty in the capital is to act in the business of the Imperial City Company, in charge of the chores of the chores of the marriage and the soldiers, and he had guidance from the old courtyard, which was quite organized.

Now Li Yonghe is not the little military officer who mentioned the story of Jingcang pasture, nor is he a hardworking boy in the paper shop. As the national uncle, I don’t know how many people come to curry favor with the festival. Although there are basically no civil officials here, the relatives of the royal family and military officials in Kaifeng City, whoever have any connection with the Li family, will come to the door.

The relationship between the Xu family and the Li family was extraordinary. When the servant guarding the door saw Xu Ping coming, he hurriedly came up and led his horse, leading him straight to the inner house.

The nobles and children waiting outside the door watched Xu Ping enter the door with eager eyes, and all envious. The poor and humble friends are naturally incomparable to others. Who would have let themselves not have the luck of the Xu family at the beginning?

Li Yonghe returned to Beijing the night before New Year's Eve. At this time, he was talking to the royal family prince who was visiting in the front hall. Xu Ping couldn't go to get together, so he had to go to Li Zhang's place first.

After entering Li Zhang's courtyard, Ying'er was basking in the sun with Heihu outside. When she saw Xu Ping coming in, she hurried over to greet her.

Xu Ping took out five pieces of money given by Zhang Sanniang from his arms, stuffed it into Heihu's hand, touched his head and said, "This child is so horny and has a big head. He must be a general when he grows up."

Ying'er is Lin Su Niang's personal female entourage. She has always regarded the Xu family and the Lin family as her parents' home. She is not very polite. She asked Heihu to accept it and pulled her to thank Xu Ping.

Not long after, Li Zhang heard Xu Ping's arrival and hurried back to his yard from the front.

After saying a few words in the scene, Ying'er took Heihu to the side to play, leaving behind two brothers.

When he sat down in the hall, Li Zhang said, "Brother, you have to be careful recently. Someone will do you badly!"

Xu Ping was confused for a moment and asked, "Why did this be said? What happened?"

"Did someone from Yongzhou come to your mansion to deliver something?"

"Not bad. It's just a few fruits and some local products. My family has calculated the money for them. This is all the wishes of the locals. I missed my kindness there back then, and I won't accept it if I was not good."

When local officials are in office, if the local people are grateful, they will ask someone to bring things to their parents during the New Year holidays, and even send some local products to them. This is the convention of this era. Xu Ping also specially calculated the money for them, which is much more conscientious than many ministers in the court today. Somehow Li Zhang asked about this.

Li Zhang said: "Brother also knows that our Guanmen and Tongjinsi are closely adjacent to each other in the Chuigong Hall, and the news in the officialdom is more informative than others. A few years ago, because my brother received a gift from Yongzhou, a censor wrote a letter to impeach you."

Xu Ping was stunned: "Just because of this, I impeached me? How many ministers in the court have confiscated the filial piety from the places! My family has deliberately calculated the money and the accounts are clear!"

"Oh, what's the use of saying this? Is it true that someone is going to check this kind of small matter? No one checks it. It's the same whether your family counts money or not. Anyway, you'll just pass the memorial to you so that you can be careful in the future."

Xu Ping looked at Li Zhang and thought for a while before saying, "In this way, this memorial is simply disgusting me? I didn't offend anyone in the court, how could anyone do this?"

Li Zhang smiled bitterly: "Brother thinks you didn't offend others, so others don't think so. The memorial to impeach the censors before the New Year has been approved. The three of them each seized one official position. Liu Huan removed his post from his post and went to another state to be a magistrate. The censors' officials think that you are making a big deal and deliberately putting in trouble. How could they be willing to be willing? If you don't offend others, you will also make enemies if others offend you."
Chapter completed!