Han Xiufeng didn't know that his wife was pregnant from her hometown, but only knew that the main thing that was a foolish guild could not be done in vain. He wanted to build a guild to gain a good reputation, but also to renovate the guild and earn some money by renovating the guild.

These days I was very busy. First, I asked neighbors to find craftsmen. When I found craftsmen and negotiated wages, I asked craftsmen to list the materials that needed to be prepared in advance. Then I searched for the market conditions of various materials in the capital. Then I picked up the sketches drawn by the foreman for Master Ji and Master Jiang to see.

Several fellow townsmen in Beijing had no objection, so they drew another one, and together with several newly written letters, they entrusted the ticket number to their father-in-law who was far away in Ba County, and asked their father-in-law to send one of the letters and the sketches of the guild hall to Chaijia Lane for Mr. Gu to take a look...

Be busy with this and that, time passes quickly, and in a blink of an eye it is the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month.

There are folk songs in Beijing:

Wife, don’t be slandered, Laba is the New Year;

A few days after Laba porridge, Lili Lala twenty-three;

Twenty-three sugar melon sticks, twenty-four days to sweep the house;

Twenty-five to make tofu, and twenty-six to cut the flesh;

Twenty-seven slaughtered chickens, twenty-eight handfuls of noodles;

Steam steamed buns for 29, and spend the night on 30...

Following the customs of the countryside, Pan Er asked Datou to kill the six chickens he bought a few days ago yesterday. Early this morning, he asked He Juren and Liu Juren's three family members to help knead the dough. After making up and covering it, he took them to the neighbors' house to borrow tables, chairs, benches, pots and pans. After eating, he was busy decorating the yard.

You have to celebrate the New Year when you go out. Isn’t the New Year just to celebrate the joy, let alone there are distinguished guests at night.

Not only was He Juren and Liu Juren not angry because Pan Er ordered their family, they also took a pen and helped Han Xiufeng write the word "Fu" and couplets. After writing it, they helped post it, in the door, on the wardrobe, and on the water tank... as long as they can paste the word "Fu" in the place where they can be posted, which means that the word "Fu" is here.

The yard is full of red lanterns, and the court is pasted with "looking up and seeing happiness" inside the house, outside the house is pasted with "looking away and seeing happiness" and other spring stickers such as "all courtyards are shining".

There were two Eight Immortals tables in the main hall, and a screen I bought a few days ago was placed near the door. Because there was a custom of listing barriers in the living room during the New Year in Beijing. If you put a screen on the main hall, you can call it "Jintang"!

The incense table was cleaned up and placed in the Nine Halls for offerings.

There are honey offerings in Chengtang, sets of cakes in Chengtang, fresh noodles in the flower cake, fruits in Chengtang, dried fruits in Chengtang. Eight pieces of flower cakes, rice cakes, New Year’s rice, vegetarian hand-made (dumplings), vegetarian stir-fry... When everyone arrives in the evening, Ji Hanlin will lead everyone to worship the gods. This is called a group worship.

Storekeeper Wen and Storekeeper Chu and other Sichuan merchants in Beijing came to help after lunch. They obviously had nothing to do, but they were very busy. The tables, chairs and benches were wiped cleanly. They also brought a rag from time to time to wipe a few times, and then found various reasons to get close to Master Fei Er and Juren and others.

The wine is the old cellar of "Wen Yongsheng", and there are more than a dozen jars of tea piled up in the corner of the main hall. They also brought the tea leaves, and they were also good borneols, and even the tea sets were brought together. Han Xiufeng only had to worry about the dishes at night.

Although we have to follow the local customs, this place is the Chongqing Guild Hall after all, and it must be the hometown cuisine at night.

For this purpose, I also consulted Fei Erye and Liu Juren, and finally decided to add eight bowls of "kill chicken", "kill duck", "kill goose", "kill elbow", "steamed ribs", "baked white", "baked crispy meat" and "braised fish", plus fried bean sprouts and fried leeks that are more expensive than meat.

There are four cold dishes, namely beef sauce, elbow sauce, peanuts and jellyfish and shredded radish.

There are two soups, namely the tendon chowder soup and the tofu soup.

The wife of the shopkeeper Chu and his two daughters were cooking together. The three of them couldn't even get involved in the big head. Han Xiufeng looked at the top prize room that was temporarily converted into the kitchen. Seeing that there was nothing to worry about, he simply returned to the main hall to drink tea with Master Fei and the others to set up the gantry formation.

"Junjie, Shizhen, I'm not afraid of you making fun of you. This is the first time I've been in the capital for the past few years." Mr. Fei looked at the offerings on the incense table and turned around and smiled: "This is all blessings for entrusting your will, and the light of entrusting your will!"

"Zhixing, Shizhen and I are also blessed by you, hahaha." He Heng couldn't help but smile.

"Second Master, Mr. He, don't say that. I am the chief official of the guild, and these are all my affairs. If you have to thank me, then thank the shopkeepers. If it weren't for the generous donation of the shopkeepers, my good wife would be unable to cook without rice, and I would not be able to handle it even if I wanted to."

"Master Han, you are so arrogant. Being able to celebrate the New Year with a few masters is a blessing for us to cultivate in eight lifetimes."

"Yes, yes, it's time to respect you. Second Master, Mr. He, Mr. Liu, please use tea."

Han Xiufeng did not take money and did not do anything, and Sichuan merchants such as Shopkeeper Wen were so happy that they were full of joy.

Just as he was having a lot of fun, Juren Liu suddenly asked, "Zhixing, you haven't seen Mr. Qian. Mr. Ji and the others may be there later. Why did Mr. Qian not come back now?"

"If you don't say that, I almost forgot about it. Where did Mr. Qian go?" Han Xiufeng subconsciously looked into the west wing.

Han Xiufeng has been busy renovating the guild hall outside these days. I don’t know what Qian Junchen is doing these days. Master Fei and two juren stayed in the guild hall to study the books of sages every day. He knew a little bit, and hesitated for a moment and said calmly: “I went to the provincial hall to borrow books the day before yesterday. I accidentally saw him entering the Longmen Inn next to the provincial hall. I heard that Xingzhi lived there, and it was probably because I was going to find Xingzhi.”

He Heng didn't have so much scruples, so he suddenly said: "He always runs to Longmen Inn these days, and is very close to Ren Xingzhi."

Although I haven't known each other for a long time, Han Xiufeng knew Qian Junchen's character very well. He thought that there would be nothing good for him to get so close to the Ren brothers, and secretly reminded Zixiang to be careful in the future and be careful.

When talking about Ren He, Liu Shanyang couldn't help asking: "Zhixing, it's a party tonight. Logically speaking, as long as you are a fellow Chongqing fellow must invite you, have you invited you?"

Han Xiufeng recovered and hurriedly said, "Mr. Liu, I, Han Zhixing, have a clear distinction between public and private affairs, how could I not invite you? I had already asked Changsheng to send him the invitation. Not only did he invite him, but he even invited his younger brother to resent him."

"Just invite it, it's his business whether to come or not."

"I guess he won't come." He Heng pondered.

"Not necessarily!" Liu Shanyang looked at Han Xiufeng and turned around and said, "Junjie, we didn't know him the first day. You don't know what his temper is. He is arrogant and arrogant! If he doesn't come, he will feel guilty. I bet he will definitely come."

Mr. Fei is old and many of them are very open-minded and can't help but persuade: "You should resolve enemies and not make friends. Besides, no matter what, you are a fellow villager. If you come here later, can you not give him a look in my face? It's better to give him a step and ask him if he wants to move back."

In terms of being cheesy, these juren who only know how to study the books of sages are not rivals to Han Xiufeng.

Han Xiufeng thought that the more arrogant the person is, the less he would not move back. If he really wanted to move back, it means that Ren He would definitely take revenge if he was resentful. He thought that he might as well take the opportunity of a group visit to test it, and said as if nothing had happened: "Second Master, you always know what kind of person I am. He drove their brothers away that day because he was angry. You always keep a hundred hearts. If he really came later, I will treat him with courtesy."

"Okay, this is how a man should be like this!" Master Fei Er looked back at He Heng and Liu Shanyang, held the teacup and smiled: "Jun Jie, Xingzhi, there are some things that are difficult to speak, Xingzhi is even more embarrassed to say. Let's find an opportunity to talk to them in the evening to help them resolve their past grudges."

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PS:Ps: Explain that the Longmen Inn and the Yuelai Inn in this chapter are not about gaining popularity, but that the inns were not named many and all of them were particular. Longmen Inn means that the carp jumped over the Dragon Gate. It is a store dedicated to receiving officials, especially the top scholars. Ordinary peddlers are not qualified to live.
Chapter completed!