I don’t know who brought the duck into the casino first, but inexplicably, more and more customers are ordering duck in the casino.
So the manager of the gambling house came to the duck shop and signed a supply contract with the duck shop.
With this supply contract in place, Duck Shop's business has reached a new level.
Fortunately, the Han family and the Xin family helped raise the ducks in advance, so the supply was not a problem, but the manpower was really insufficient and more people had to be recruited.
However, as business boomed, Li Ershan became busier and busier.
If this continues, I don’t know when this kid will get married.
worry.
Before going to bed, Li Qiao did not tell Tao Zhu about his conversation with Sheng Hong today as before, because he was afraid of scaring Tao Zhu.
It's really scary that Sheng Hong comes here so unexpectedly.
But why did Sheng Hong ask this question?
Sheng Hong clearly praised the third prince, and the various actions of the third prince were indeed very good. What did Sheng Hong mean?
This kind of problem must be solved by the Seventh Prince.
However, the Seventh Prince is busier than usual. It's the end of the year, and each case should be tried and sentenced. He wants the innocent people to go home and have a good year, and he also wants to make sure that the guilty people whose hands are stained cannot live this life. Year.
The Seventh Prince was busy, and so was Li Qiao. The Chinese New Year was about to begin. Officials from all over the country who were qualified to hand in zhezi sent greetings to Sheng Hong and gave him some New Year gifts.
Previously, heavy snow had blocked the road and Zhezi was stuck on the road. Now that the snow has melted a little, these Zhezi have all entered Beijing.
In addition, each yamen must conduct a summary of this year's work and then submit it to Sheng Hong for review.
As Sheng Hong's ghostwriter, Li Qiao immediately went into overtime mode after the snowstorm, and had to approve a lot of papers every day.
After entering the twelfth lunar month, officials can ask for leave. If they don't want to ask for leave, then the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month will also officially be a holiday.
In previous years, Sheng Hong would wait for the officials to take a few bachelors to deal with these problems slowly after they went on vacation. The annual leave was only one month.
But now, he was too lazy to look at those brochures that were full of flowers but had nothing but flattery, so he passed them all on to Li Qiao.
He didn't bother to read the work summaries of each yamen. After all, wasn't that all this year?
Leave it to Li Aiqing for approval.
He even said that sometimes when he was tired, he would ask Li Qiao to go through the performance list of Dasheng officials handed over to him by the Ministry of Personnel and extract the most surprising ones.
Li Qiao's workload increased sharply.
It's dark when I go out every morning, and it's still dark when I come home.
None of the donkeys in the production team are used like this!
What made him even more tired was that after Laba, Sheng Hong received more than a dozen invitations to establish a prince.
The lowest level of Shangzhezi is also a fifth-grade official, not only the capital officials, but also the prefects in charge of a prefecture from other places.
Li Qiao understood that these dozen or so envelopes were just a test.
After Sheng Hong recovered from his illness last time, someone submitted a document hoping to establish a prince. At that time, Sheng Hong just suppressed the document and did not approve it.
In addition, the third prince and the fifth prince were fighting fiercely at that time, so the matter was dropped.
Now that the fifth prince is finished, the third prince's reputation is getting stronger due to disaster relief. At this time, Shangzhezi asks to establish a prince. This is to speak for the third prince.
The third prince had a wave of blood and wanted to see the reward immediately. The third prince couldn't even wait for this New Year.
In the next year, there will definitely be a large number of ministers who will give Sheng Hong the title of crown prince. Recently, the third prince has been very active, with constant banquets and banquets. He wishes he could have all the civil and military officials in the court in his arms.
Thinking of Sheng Hong's behavior of praising the third prince in public in the morning court, Li Qiao felt a little anxious.
The seventh prince forced the third prince to take over the task of disaster relief because he wanted the third prince to make a mistake in making money after hemorrhage. Will the third prince make a mistake? The third prince did not bleed heavily this time...
On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, all officials officially have a holiday.
But Li Qiao didn't have a holiday, and he hadn't finished processing the discounts Sheng Hong had pushed to him.
Even after the holidays, he still went out early and came back late. Even a blind person could see Li Qiao's importance in front of Sheng Hong.
Tao Zhu receives many messages every day, either wanting to visit and give New Year gifts, or inviting him and Li Qiao to a banquet.
Tao Zhu simply called Zhao Shen home and asked Zhao Shen to help deal with this. Zhao Shen was smart and best suited to do this.
Zhao Shen was very happy to get this job. His Uncle Zhu finally reused him!
In fact, he was very happy when his Uncle Zhu said he would open another hotpot restaurant and manage it under his control. Now, his happiness has doubled.
Because of the interpersonal relationship with the foreign government, this job can only be done by the housekeeper and the housekeeper next to Mrs. Zhao in the Zhao family.
Now that Uncle Zhu has asked him to take charge of this, he is starting to trust him and treating him as a family member.
Very good!
To be honest, before he was only asked to be in charge of the dim sum shop, he felt a little uncomfortable. Even if he married Xia Xia, his Uncle Qiao and Uncle Zhu would not trust him.
This would be uncomfortable for anyone.
Only Xia Xia, a person with a mind as simple as a stream, could not see that his Uncle Zhu and Uncle Qiao were on guard against him.
Xia Xia couldn't tell, so he naturally wouldn't talk too much to sow discord. At least, after getting married, Xia Xia, a husband, truly treated him as a family member, and he was no longer like a rootless duckweed like before.
He has a home and a family.
It's already much better than before.
Now! That's even better!
Zhao Shen was happy when Tao Zhu planned to let him take charge of the branch of the hot pot shop, but he couldn't explain the reason to Li Xia Ming, so he could only toss Li Xia hard on the kang.
With his daily efforts, on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, when Xu Yingchenhua, Meng Yue, and Zhuang Wen all gathered at Li Qiao's house to drink, Li Xia suddenly vomited.
The doctor was called to see that Li Xia was pregnant.
The month was still young, only a month and a half, but Li Xia had a strong reaction and vomited when he smelled the greasy smell.
Li Xia is pregnant, plus Zheng Qianqian, it's a double blessing.
Shen Hua was so envious. He looked at Li Qiao, Tao Zhu and his two little cubs in parent-child clothes, and then at Zheng Qianqian, Li Dashan and Li Xiaorui's family of three. When he got home, he couldn't help but lead Xu Ying to the kang.
Stop working hard every night, work hard during the day!
By the way, to get rid of the bad luck of being in jail last year, it’s best to get pregnant today!
Xu Ying was a little dumbfounded, but she followed him. After some tenderness, the room became dark, Xu Ying got off the kang, lit a candle, and asked someone to bring hot water.
Shen Hua was lying on the hot kang, feeling lazily all over. He felt that the kang was a little hot, so he exposed his hands and feet and only used the quilt to cover his upper body.
Xu Ying turned around and saw him like this, and hurriedly walked over: "Be careful of catching a cold."
As he said this, he was about to cover him with the quilt.
Shen Hua was blushing all over. He turned over, rolled up the quilt and moved away: "I'm hot!"
"It will be uncomfortable if you catch a cold." Xu Ying simply got on the kang and wanted him to lie down.
Seeing this, Shen Hua suddenly pouted: "We will definitely change to a bigger house this year, and then we will also build a greenhouse."
If you are in a conservatory, you won't have to worry about catching a cold.
"Okay." Xu Ying hugged him with a smile, kissed his lips, and then moved him to the middle of the kang. She covered him with a quilt and said, "Brother Li is also going to change his house. You and Brother Zhu should spend more time together." Let’s go and visit together, so that we can live close to each other again.”
"Yeah!" Shen Hua responded solemnly.
This year someone is coming from Sanliu Village, and the house on the fourth floor of Brother Zhu's house is not enough to live in, so they have to move to a bigger house.
He raised his head to look at Xu Ying. From this angle, he could only see Xu Ying's chin, but his cousin's chin was also extremely beautiful!
He raised his hand and scratched Xu Ying's chin lightly, and said curiously: "When you came out of the study just now, I saw you frowning slightly. What's wrong?"
Xu Ying had already arranged the bedding for him. After hearing this, she first tucked his exposed arms back into the bedding, then hugged him across the bedding and said, "Yesterday we received a message from the third prince. He invited me to have a drink at Yunxiao Tower the day after tomorrow. I thought he only invited a few people from our bank, but it turns out he also invited Brother Wen and Brother Meng."
He was a fifth-rank official in an unpopular yamen, and he was not worthy of the third prince giving him a seat alone, so he thought that the third prince invited their entire dining room.
It turned out not to be.
The third prince had a separate table this time, and it was for Li Qiao.
"Furthermore, Li Di has been sharing the Lord's worries in the palace a few years ago. He ran to the palace frequently and caught Li Di and said many things. Not only did he invite Li Di to have a drink, but he also said that he had a lot of fields and shops. , if Brother Li wants to buy it, he can sell it at any time."
"...Why is Meng Yue here? Meng Yue and the Seventh Prince are close."
Shen Hua blinked his eyes, his red face full of confusion.
"But who wants Meng Yue to have a good relationship with Li Di? We have to try to win them over."
Xu Ying sighed slightly.
trouble.
Although he is not interested in promotion, if the third prince really becomes the prince, then the three of them will have to live in the hands of the third prince from now on.
There was also Li Qiao. Although Li Qiao had received the holy will, he could only smile at the third prince at this time. He did not dare to offend him or refuse him completely.
Now the four of them, country bumpkins from a small place, could only count on the Seventh Prince.
well.
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This New Year is the seventh New Year since Li Qiao traveled through time~
Chapter 166 Trivial matters of the Li family, Tao Zhu’s life plan to help the weak
Li Qiao's attitude towards the third prince was very simple:
Dragging.
The seventh prince's attitude towards the third prince is similar to that towards the fifth prince. It can be seen that the third prince is also cannon fodder. If that is the case, then let's hold him back.
Let’s see if the third prince can put on a big show when he gets to work after the new year.
As for the worries of Meng Yue, Zhuang Wen, and Xu Ying, he couldn't hint at anything. He could only make the same sad face as these three people, hoping that the seventh prince would give him some advice.
