Sitting down in the pavilion, Du Zhongxiao said to Wang Pu: "Is there any good beef today?" If not, lamb is fine. One pot for cooking meat, and a few vegetarian dishes, put them together here, and I use some wine. ”

Wang Pu listened and whispered: "Jieshuai, there is naturally something in the butcher shop." Just one person, how much does it take? ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Let's have a plate first, and then a pot of wine." By the way, if the owner is fine, sit down and have a drink. ”

Wang Pu promised, turned around and left, and after a while, put the meat and hot pot on the table, and let a few cold dishes be served.

After pouring the wine and drinking three rounds, Wang Pu said: "Looking at the appearance of the festival handsome, it seems that he is in a bad mood, come to me to drink wine?" ”

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "You are wrong, I'm not in a bad mood, I just don't know what to do in the yamen." ”

Wang Pu said: "There is nothing to do left and right, it is better to say that the festival commander is here to listen, and the small ones should be more knowledgeable." ”

Du Zhongxiao has always regarded Wang Pu as an ordinary person, and he didn't mind, and said to him: "Since I entered the river meandering road last year, I have been unconsciously for a year. A few days ago, I didn't think that in the past two months, the weather has been cold, and there are not many things, so I can't help but think of my family. Alas, when I thought that my family came, I thought of many things, but I found that I couldn't ask about the situation at home, which was completely different from what I thought. ”

Speaking of this, Du Zhongxiao shook his head and drank a large glass of wine.

Wang Pu smiled when he heard this: "It turned out that Jieshuai's family came to see Jieshuai, isn't that a good thing?" In this weather, the wind is cold, and I should be drinking with others at home, talking about some things in my leisure time, why do you still come out to drink with me? ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "You are right, it is the time to drink and chat with your family." However, the family member who came was a woman, how could they talk? So that's where it's hard to go, you have to come out and drink. ”

When Wang Pu heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned for a while. With his experience, there is not even a maid in the family, and he really can't imagine the relationship between Xiaoqing and Du Zhongxiao's family. After thinking about it for a while, he couldn't think of words to persuade Du Zhongxiao, so he had to drink with him.

Du Zhongxiao shook his head, stopped talking, and only cared about drinking by himself. Before Xiaoqing came, if someone told Du Zhongxiao that he would encounter such a problem, Du Zhongxiao had to smack him in the face. I am a coach all the way, how can I be made a family discord by a little girl? After Xiaoqing arrived, Du Zhongxiao didn't know what to do, who to reason with?

After drinking for a while, Du Zhongxiao said to Wang Pu: "Don't talk about this, are there any rumors in the city recently?" ”

Wang Pu said: "Back to the festival, there is nothing. I just heard that this year's Chinese New Year, the capital wants to do a big job, and it is very lively. The marshal is the master of the road, I don't know if there is such a thing? ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "This year is the first year that Hequ Road has returned to the imperial court, and it is natural to do a good job of such a big festival as the New Year." However, what a big deal is also exaggerated. With such a cold, who wants to go out? ”

Wang Pu smiled: "Jie Shuai, you just don't understand the minds of the locals. It is precisely because of the cold that people usually go out less, and if they really have the opportunity to do a lot of things and be lively, they will come out to see a strange thing. You see, there are still ten days before the end of the year, and everyone in the city knows about you. ”

Du Zhongxiao listened and nodded: "I see." If it can really be lively, what is there for the lively New Year. This year, Hequ Road has abundant finances, and by the end of the year, there is still a lot of money that has not been spent, and it is also time to have a good New Year. ”

In order to stabilize prices, Du Zhongxiao could only issue as little currency as possible, and a large number of government workers distributed them in kind. This is especially true as people go to the field and the velocity of money decreases. At the end of the year, the Shuai Mansion can consider sending more currency out.

At present, the branch department has delegated the power to issue banknotes to all walks of life, and there is no unified national policy, which is very inconvenient. Some of the roads are better, most of them are more chaotic, and there is more inflation. Speaking of which, the degree branch has its own reasoning, paper money is in its infancy, the policy is not transparent, and it is better for all localities to familiarize themselves with it first. When you are familiar with it, and then it is issued by the whole country, everything will go much smoother.

Du Zhongxiao disagreed with these statements, but there was no way but to try to be as stable as possible on Hequ Road.

Speaking of the New Year, Wang Pu obviously talked a lot, and he didn't have a single experience, talking about the legends he heard from other people. What is the state which year and which year, once held an annual meeting, the prefect traveled with the people, and it has been lively from the New Year to the Shangyuan Festival. How is Hezhong Mansion there, what year and year was held, and it was lively throughout the New Year.

Du Zhongxiao smiled, listening to Wang Pu tell these stories, and estimated in his heart the projects that could be started during the Chinese New Year. In this era, listening to their lively talk is actually not much overhead. The government is nothing more than holding a lantern festival, setting off some fireworks, and inviting a few groups of people to come. Other projects, of course, are organized by the merchants in the city themselves. On such a Chinese New Year's Eve, they could have made a lot of money.

Listening to Wang Pu talking about the people's expectations, Du Zhongxiao temporarily forgot the embarrassment caused by Xiaoqing's arrival, and his mood was much better. Yes, the mountains and rivers are restored, everything is over, it is time to have a lively New Year. New year, new beginnings.

After eating a few plates of meat, Du Zhongxiao was in a good mood, so he asked his entourage to pay for it and walked out of the hotel.

It was late December, and there were not many pedestrians on the streets, but the malls were crowded. Not only people from the city, but also many people living in the countryside come here to buy New Year's goods. Everything is sold in this mall, and if you take a walk in it, you will be able to prepare the New Year's goods.

Taking advantage of the alcohol, Du Zhongxiao said: "There is nothing to do left and right, let's go around the mall." ”

After speaking, he strode towards the mall, and the entourage behind hurriedly followed.

When I entered the mall, I immediately felt a lot hotter. Du Zhongxiao said: "Is the business of this mall so good? It's so hot! ”

The attendant on one side said: "Jieshuai, there are many people here, but it may not be that the shopping mall is hot." ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "I think so." Okay, let's go to the back and see what's on sale outside. ”

The entourage had no choice but to follow Du Zhongxiao out of the back door of the mall and into the open-air market at the back.

Unlike the inside of the shopping mall, most of the goods sold outside are from the usual market, and many of them are private merchants who come to rent land. As soon as I got inside, I heard the voices of people, and the scene was very lively.

Du Zhongxiao walked in the crowd with his entourage, listening to the shouts of the crowd, and the words of the pedestrians around him, as if he had returned to the past, when he was organizing the camp in Suizhou. Now that I think about it, it was really easy back then. The people work hard to produce, and the yamen mainly trains soldiers, how can there be so many troubles?

Since arriving at Hequ Road, Du Zhongxiao has felt that there are not many locals here. Especially at the beginning of the year, there was a big chaos, many families fled, and the remaining people concentrated in a few places. A large number of Yingtian households arrived, and it felt that the locals basically did not see it. Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered here, he heard all kinds of cries, most of which were not fluent in Chinese, with a local accent, and Du Zhongxiao knew that he was wrong. Usually I don't see locals because I don't have money to make, but when I have money to make, all kinds of people gather here. Now in the mall, in addition to the Central Plains goods, there are all kinds of local goods.