Shen Xiaoxiao took Chen Jinjun through the streets and alleys, and finally arrived at an alley.
"Where is this?" Chen Jinjun asked curiously.
"This is the courtyard that we all raised money to buy in Yongzhou. We won't have to squeeze in that inn in the future."
Shen Xiaoxiao took Chen Jinjun inside and saw Wu Jiang and Nie Shi posting Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures outside the door. In the yard, dozens of shopkeepers were wrapping dumplings around a long stone table.
Chen Jinjun looked around curiously: "When and why didn't you mention it to me?"
"It was my idea. You were busy a while ago, so I couldn't tell you anything because I was afraid you would be distracted."
Yu Ce rolled up his sleeves, holding the dough he had just made in his hand, and said to Chen Jinjun with joy in his eyes.
"Such a big yard is enough for you to work for four months in vain." Chen Jinjun shook his head helplessly.
"Wherever I go, settling down is more important than anything else." The shopkeeper holding dumplings on the side also smiled with wrinkles on his face.
"My boss, this is a happy event, and everyone is very happy about it." Su Miaomiao came over and winked at Chen Jinjun.
Chen Jinjun looked at the joyful faces of everyone in the room and couldn't help but smile and nod: "Yes, this is a great event."
Su Niang, who was busy making dumplings with Yu Ce, was also happy.
Chen Jinjun sighed for a while: "It's been four months. Fortunately, we have gained a foothold in Yongzhou."
Shopkeeper Ning, who was writing the word "福" on red paper with a brush dipped in ink, was joking with everyone while writing: "My boss is very capable, so he can eat well wherever he goes."
Shen Xiaoxiao cracked melon seeds: "I don't know who it is, but my boss was in a meeting in the council hall at that time, and I insisted on questioning my boss."
This made shopkeeper Ning blush: "I... I'm just asking for stability. Who knows that the water in Yongzhou is not deeper than the capital city."
Shen Xiaoxiao had no intention of letting him go: "Otherwise, if I say that you scholars are indecisive, you are not as good as me. I immediately made up my mind to come to Yongzhou with my boss."
Shopkeeper Ning glared at her angrily: "What I do is called looking at the overall situation, but what you do is full of passion. It's different."
Yu Ce hurriedly came out to smooth things over: "You two made your own decisions after all. Wu Jiang and I were directly chased by the old man at home, and we arrived in Yongzhou without understanding anything."
Su Miaomiao also said at the side: "I was also pushed here by my godmother. She said that she could take care of me for a while, but she couldn't take care of me for the rest of my life. It was better for me to go out with my boss and have a career than to live under my wings in the capital all my life. "
When she said this, Chen Jinjun sighed with emotion: "Shopkeeper Su, I have always admired her. She has never married in her life, just to pass on her craftsmanship."
After Nie Shi and Wu Jiang finished posting the door gods, they returned to the courtyard to pick up the blessing character that shopkeeper Ning had just written and left to dry.
While stirring the paste in the bowl, Nie Shi said with a nostalgic look: "My mother-in-law always told me that when shopkeeper Su was young, in order to avoid being married off by his parents, he went straight to the street to find a barber. The master shaved his head into pigtails, which made the old couple sigh all day long."
Chen Jinjun also heard about this matter and nodded: "So when I was wearing men's clothing, the old man wouldn't let me have a men's hairstyle, just because I saw the decisive look of shopkeeper Su back then."
Su Miaomiao nodded heavily: "My godmother has always told me that what she envied most was her boss. I was still young at the time and didn't understand why she envied her boss who was the same age as me. Now that I have grown up, I understand. Already."
"Doing whatever you want to do is really more luxurious than glory and wealth." Shen Xiaoxiao looked at the snowflakes falling outside the house and felt inspired for a moment.
Wu Jiang raised the red paper in his hand and hit Nie Shi with his elbow: "Let's go and stick up the doors of every room."
A group of people sat around a long table, chatting and laughing about the past.
There are snowflakes falling on the charcoal fire nearby, and the charcoal makes a crackling sound. A table of hot dishes, a glass of warm wine, and a few friends of life and death sitting around a table, talking drunkenly, can be regarded as a great blessing in this life.
Unlike the fun at Chen Jinjun's side, the New Year's Eve dinner in the military camp was naturally not so relaxed and happy.
Huo Tingyu and Ji Li sat on the pavilion of the military camp and looked at the soldiers below holding firewood with happy faces.
As night fell, bonfires were lit in the military camp, and the cooks cooked a lot of meat.
Huo Tingyu was not in the mood to eat, so he sat beside the fire and stared at the fire in a daze.
Lin Ting saw that Huo Tingyu hadn't eaten a bite, so he patted Ji Li and motioned for him to look at Huo Tingyu.
"What's wrong, Marshal?" Lin Ting asked Ji Li curiously.
Ji Li glared at Huo Tingyu angrily: "What else can I do? I'm trapped by love."
These words aroused Lin Ting's interest, and he leaned over with a playful smile: "Brother, tell me what's going on."
"Go, go, don't ask around." Yili waved his hand with a look of disgust.
"No, maybe if you tell me, I know exactly how to help the commander?" Lin Ting bared his teeth and bumped Ji Li's shoulder with his shoulder, "Brother, do you think what I said makes sense?"
Ji Li glared at him helplessly: "Do you know where I found the handsome man?"
Lin Ting shook his head: "I only know that the commander-in-chief came late today."
"I found him on top of the watchtower of the Huo family." Ji Li pulled off a piece of meat and took another sip of wine. "Our commander-in-chief is a bitter and resentful man. I don't know how long he has been standing there. There are snowflakes on his body." There was a thick layer floating on it.”
"Then why is he standing there?" Lin Ting said he didn't understand.
"Do you know the Chen Dong family that made a fuss before and was well known throughout the city?" Ji Li said to Lin Ting gossiping.
"You know, didn't our commander leave the girl hanging in front of the Huo Mansion for three days? What does it have to do with it?"
Lin Ting looked at Huo Tingyu and then at Ji Li.
"Our commander-in-chief is most likely attracted to his younger brother and sister who have not worshiped him." Ji Li said with certainty on his face.
"If you like it, just pursue it. There's no need to worship." Lin Ting felt that there was nothing wrong in this.
Ji Li shook his head quickly: "No, we may think it's nothing, but outsiders won't think so."
"Think about it, in the eyes of others, the Chen Dong family is the widow of Master Ping Yan, and our commander is their uncle. How could he do such a thing to his younger siblings?"
Ji Li approached Lin Ting and whispered: "Our commander-in-chief values these things the most. What do you want him to think?"
"Then the commander-in-chief doesn't have unrequited love?" Lin Ting asked Ji Li in disbelief with his eyes widened.
Ji Li nodded: "No, I guess he can't accept it himself."
Saying that, Ji Li sighed again.
It has to be said that Ji Li is indeed an old comrade who has known Huo Tingyu for so many years, and he has seen through all the entanglements in Huo Tingyu's heart.
Lin Ting bit his chopsticks and hesitated: "In that case, wouldn't this Dong Chen's family be a disaster for the commander-in-chief?"
Ji Li slapped his thigh: "Yes, it's really a disaster."
Lin Ting frowned: "It's nothing. The Chen Dong family are not the real brothers and sisters of the Marshal. Young Master Pingyan is gone. After all, a living person cannot be imprisoned by the dead."
Lin Ting came back from abroad and had been learning about guns and ammunition abroad. After seeing the openness of foreigners, he felt that there was no obstacle to Huo Tingyu's relationship.
But in the final analysis, this matter is still a matter for Huo Tingyu's own engineering department to go into his own heart.
"How about... I go talk to the commander?"
Ji Li frowned and looked at him: "You go and tell me? What did you say?"
"This matter is simple and simple. It's just the commander himself who can't get over the hurdle in his heart. If I say it, it wouldn't be a big deal if we put it abroad. If we really like each other, we can be together."
Lin Ting explained to Ji Li seriously.
Ji Li was chewing the ribs in his hand and hesitated a little after hearing Lin Ting's words.
As Huo Tingyu's brother for so many years, he naturally couldn't stand Huo Tingyu's appearance of being trapped in love.