Whose little lady is so crazy?

Chapter 489 New Year Greetings
"There is enough firewood. Go wash your hands and get ready for lunch." Tianshu, who was burning firewood in front of the stove, said to him when he saw Aping bringing in some more firewood.

"Yeah." Ah Ping responded and went to fetch water to wash his hands.

Just now, taking advantage of the opportunity when everyone was in the kitchen, A Ping went to the firewood pile and opened today's New Year's red envelope. There were still two five-liang silver ingots and some loose silver, but the copper coins were more than last night's New Year's money. He counted them and found that there were sixty-six of them, which should mean good luck.

Aping felt that this red envelope should be the same as the New Year’s money last night, and the same amount as the six.

She is really rich and really generous!

Although I had no fixed place to live and was always on the road when following them, I never felt tired. I ate well, dressed well, and even camped on the roadside in the wild, the accommodation was very comfortable.

This also made Aping even more determined to follow them forever.

His life now is more comfortable than that of many young masters from wealthy families, so it doesn’t matter even if they don’t treat him as one of their own!
Moreover, the world is so big that if I leave them, I will really have nowhere to go.

It's not that he looked down on me, but he knew clearly that I would be nothing without them. And he was also certain of one thing, that is, if he left them, he would fall from the clouds into the mud, and he would never have such a good life again.

So, even if they don't treat him as one of their own, so what? All of this is bearable and tolerable!

This was also the answer he came to after weighing the pros and cons in his mind after what happened midnight last night.

After washing his hands, he turned around to help set the table and rushed to serve the dishes.

The other children saw A Ping like this, and they all thought at the same time that it was not appropriate to treat him like that last night. If they did not agree with him using Kaiyang's name, they should just say it to him in a more tactful way.

The table was soon filled with dishes. There were ten dishes. Tianxuan followed Hong Xiaoduo's style and called it perfect.

Among them are cold-mixed braised pig ear shreds, and three other dishes that are not freshly fried: pickled duck, pickled beef, and sausages.

That's right, Hong Xiaoduo mentioned it, and Tianxuan asked her to find a recipe, and he really made it. The key point is that the butcher didn't charge for the pig intestine casings, they were given away for free.

That thing is something that only poor people with tight financial circumstances would buy and eat. A pair of pig intestines only costs a few cents.

The reason why it was given to Tianxuan for free was that since he moved to this town, Tianxuan had been buying ingredients and pork from this meat stall, and the quantity was not small. He bought several kilograms of meat, several pig's trotters at a time, and half a rib. He was considered a big customer.

The stall owner was curious about why a young master who was so well-dressed would buy pig offal that only poor people would buy. However, he didn't dare to ask, thinking that maybe he was buying it to feed the servants in the mansion?

But, every time the young master came to buy something, there were no servants following him, and they carried their things by themselves.

The stall owner felt it was a pity because he knew that these young masters were from other places and that they were passing through here just before the Chinese New Year, so they rented Manager Yang's house for a short period of time. They would only spend the New Year here and would probably leave before the end of the first month of the year.

Oh, if a buyer like this could live here permanently, how great it would be for me to have such a stable big customer!
Lunch officially started. Hong Xiaoduo ate the sausage and gave Tianxuan a thumbs up while eating: "It's a pity that we are going south, and it's getting hotter and hotter. Otherwise, we could fill more sausages to take with us on the road."

After hearing what she said, Tianxuan swallowed the food in his mouth and said, "So when are we going to leave? I'll prepare some food for the journey.

If there are other things that need to be purchased, buy them back soon.”

Hearing this, everyone else looked towards her.

"Let's go on the ninth day. The weather will be bad and it will continue to rain. However, if you want to stay here for a while, that's fine. We'll wait until the weather is normal before setting off." Hong Xiaoduo said.

When I got up early, I checked the weather. The bracelet weather forecast system had been upgraded again by Old Man Luo. It could not only predict the local weather for a month, but also predict the weather in other areas within a radius of one thousand miles.

"We'll listen to you and leave on the ninth day." Tianshu looked at everyone and spoke.

It didn't matter when Quan Jinghuai and Feiyan set off, but Quan Jinghuai knew that she had other things to do when she left.

After setting the time for departure, Tianxuan ate while thinking about what food and ingredients he should prepare before leaving.

Tianshu was thinking about how much fodder and charcoal to buy.

Just after lunch, the bell in the yard rang.

"Are you here to ask about the fireworks we set off last night again?" Tianji muttered, stood up and trotted towards the courtyard gate.

Hong Xiaoduo wanted to help clean up the dishes, but Yuheng stopped her and asked her to walk around the yard.

After a short while, Tianji came back, followed by several servants.

Quan Jinghuai was about to blame him for bringing people in directly, but after seeing the leader among them, he looked at Hong Xiaoduo: "Your nephew is here to wish your aunt a happy new year." "Brother, stop joking with me." Hong Xiaoduo naturally saw who was coming.

Jiang Baize, with servants carrying things behind him.

When they got closer, before Hong Xiaoduo could say hello, Jiang Bai Ze lifted up the corner of his robe and knelt down: "Bai Ze is here to wish Aunt a happy New Year. I wish Aunt a healthy, peaceful and happy New Year."

After saying that, he kowtowed three times. He did it so fast that Hong Xiaoduo didn't have time to stop him.

Feiyan and the others who heard the noise came out to see what was going on. They knew that day that the young master of the Jiang family had acknowledged Xiaoduo as his aunt, but they did not think there was anything wrong with it.

But now I see that a man who looks a few years older than my master is kneeling down and kowtowing to my mother who just turned 18 this year? This is a bit, a bit... something!
What's more, they all knew that their mother hated people kneeling the most, so even when they wished her a happy new year, they would just bow.

Look at her expression now, as if she has a toothache!
"Mr. Jiang, what are you doing? Your father is not with you, so there is no need to do this." Hong Xiaoduo said helplessly.

Jiang Bai Ze stood up, straightened his robe, and said with a gentle smile: "Bai Ze didn't kneel in front of his father that day. He just acknowledged his aunt, that's it.

Auntie, you don’t know that after returning home that day, my father added your name to the family tree.”

"What, you added me to your family tree? Can you add people to a family tree at will like that?" Hong Xiaoduo was shocked.

"This is the family tree of our branch, and my father can make the decision. Even if you, aunt, do not approve of this relationship in your heart, we father and son take it seriously." Jiang Bai Ze said seriously.

Oh my God, Hong Xiaoduo held her forehead in her hand speechlessly. In her opinion, it was enough to accept the other party's thank-you gift. Did Mr. Jiang have to be so grand?
"Here are the New Year's red envelopes that my father asked me to bring for my younger brothers and sisters." After Jiang Bai Ze finished speaking, he waved behind him and the servant came forward and put down the things in his hand.

He opened a gift box, which was filled with big red brocade bags.

"It's a rare opportunity to spend the New Year here. Even if I want to pay New Year's greetings in the future, I don't know if I will have the chance again." Seeing that Hong Xiaoduo didn't say anything, Jiang Baize said cautiously.

Since they said so, Hong Xiaoduo couldn't refuse.

"Come here and thank..." She called the children, but she didn't know how to ask them to call Jiang Baize, "Mr. Jiang"?
Hearing this, Tianshu led his brothers and sisters forward and saluted Jiang Bai Ze: "Thank you, Uncle Jiang, thank you, Brother Bai Ze."

With Tianshu taking the lead, the other children followed suit and expressed their gratitude in unison.

Jiang Baize greeted them happily and handed each of them a heavy brocade bag.

Hong Xiaoduo glanced at Tianshu and thought, okay, I still call him brother after all!

After giving out New Year red envelopes to the children, Jiang Bai Ze did not stay for long. When he said goodbye, Fei Yan whispered in Hong Xiao Duo's ear, "People are here to wish you a happy new year, and as an aunt, why don't you give them red envelopes?"

And you gave him a red envelope? Are you really acting like an aunt?

"Please wait a moment and bring something to your father for me." Hong Xiaoduo had to speak.

After returning to the house and entering the space, he thought that Mr. Jiang liked tea, so he took a few more cans of famous tea. But he didn't know what Jiang Bai Ze liked, and his family was not short of gold and silver. After scanning the storage cabinet in the space, he found a gift box and put a few chocolates, some snow meringues, some egg tarts, and Snickers in it. When he was about to leave the space, he saw the Rubik's Cube, reached out and took it, and wrote the gameplay instructions with a pen, and put it in the gift box.

He came out with things in his hands: "Your father likes tea, and I don't have anything else good, these are for him."

After thanking him, Jiang Bai Ze took it and handed it to the servant.

"I haven't prepared anything. There are snacks and a small toy in here. It's for you." Hong Xiaoduo said as she handed over the gift box.

As an elder and "aunt", it should be appropriate for me to give snacks, desserts and toys to the younger generation!
Huh? He actually gave me a gift? Jiang Bai Ze was a little surprised. He took it and thanked him. The servant behind him hurriedly reached out to take it for him, but his master didn't intend to hand it to anyone. The servant blinked and took his hand back.

Tianshu sent the guests away on behalf of Hong Xiaoduo. In the courtyard, Hong Xiaoduo watched Yaoguang take the lead in unpacking the brocade bag, taking out the things inside, and shook her head helplessly.

In the brocade bags of several children were ten silver ingots weighing ten taels each, and a pendant as black as ink.

Although Hong Xiaoduo didn't know much about jade, Feiyan did, and said it was the best black jade. This jade has a calm and elegant color, fine texture, hard texture and is not easy to wear. A piece of this texture would cost at least a thousand taels of silver.

After hearing Feiyan's words, Hong Xiaoduo did the math and found out that the other party had given nearly eight thousand taels just for paying New Year's greetings. What a generous gift!
I just gave them tea, some dim sum, desserts and snacks, plus a Rubik's Cube. Isn't that a bit too stingy?

Feiyan was thinking, where did Xiaoduo put the things in her hand when she came out of the room just now? How come she didn't see them when she went in to clean every day?

Outside in the carriage on the way back home, Jiang Bai Ze held the gift box and smiled all the time. This little "aunt" that his father had asked him to recognize actually treated him as a junior and gave him snacks. Gadgets?
However, after receiving this return gift, he felt very strange. From childhood to adulthood, no "elder" had ever given him a gift. He wanted to open it and take a look, but after thinking about it, he held back and decided to take a look at it slowly after returning home...