Chapter 240: Each person's New Year preparations

Chapter 240: Each person's New Year preparations

After opening the box and seeing a large stack of 10-gold-pound notes inside, Xio was stunned and even stopped breathing. After a long while, she tried to suppress her excitement and waved her hands, saying, "Fors, did you see that? It's 1,000 gold pounds!"

Fors was attracted by the voice and came over. After seeing the 1,000 gold pounds in the box, she said with envy, "So much money, Xio, you didn't sell yourself to Mr. Hasta, did you?"

"What are you talking about? I earned this money through my own efforts!"

Xiu looked proud and told Fors about her cooperation with Hasta.

She thought that giving her at most one or two hundred gold pounds would be a lot, but she didn't expect it to be 1,000 gold pounds!

When she spread the news before, she also took the opportunity to sell a lot of information and earned about 80 gold pounds. Now it's another huge sum of money.

She was so excited that she didn't know how to spend the money. She would definitely not be able to sleep tonight.

"It's obvious that Mr. Hasta felt sorry for you and deliberately gave you some work to do."

"Hehe, you can continue to envy, this is 1,000 gold pounds, which is equivalent to the total royalties of your entire book, right?"

"..."

Fors did not answer. The royalties for her book were not that much, usually between a few hundred gold pounds, and she had never received more than 1,000 gold pounds.

Xiu smiled with narrowed eyes, patted his chest and said: "Don't worry, I won't forget you, all the expenses for this year's New Year will be covered by me!"

"Really?"

"Of course it's true, I plan to take out 100 gold pounds to have a rich New Year."

The two of them have always been frugal in the New Year.

If they earn more this year, they will spend more money to have a good New Year. If they earn less money, they will buy some food and stay at home, watching others wear new clothes and go out to play.

In the past, Fors paid more money. Xio had very little savings and always wanted to be promoted, so she didn't dare to spend it casually.

"I've always planned to buy a new skirt."

"How can one skirt be enough? At least three sets of New Year clothes are needed!"

Xiu generously said that she would cover all the expenses, just as a New Year's gift to Fors.

"What are we waiting for? Let's go out and buy now!"

"Let's go. No need to save money for me today!"

Xiu led Fors out happily.

On the other side, as the New Year was approaching, Leonard, who could finally take a break, listened to his teammates discussing how to celebrate the New Year. He quietly walked aside and did not participate in this topic.

He has always been alone. When he was in Tingen, he could spend the New Year with the captain. After all, neither of them had a family, so they just stayed at the Night Watcher's base to celebrate the New Year together.

But this year, he came to Backlund.

Although Klein was also traveling with him, Klein's brother and sister would come to Backlund from Tingen to celebrate the New Year in two days.

During this period, Klein had been busy with the decoration of the new house. He seemed to attach great importance to and look forward to the New Year.

Although Klein had invited him to celebrate the New Year together, he was embarrassed to disturb their family reunion. After all, they hadn't seen each other for almost half a year, and they must have a lot to talk about.

"Alas, old man, I can only celebrate this year with you."

"Hehe, if you hadn't refused at the beginning, you could have had a new family a long time ago."

"... Old man, can you please stop mentioning her? I'm really afraid of meeting her again."

"New Year, I remember that this festival has become more and more important because of Roselle. He seems to like this festival very much."

"Is it related to Emperor Roselle?"

"During his reign, there would be many interesting activities every New Year, and even required the factory to give employees a full seven-day holiday so that they could also celebrate the New Year."

Leonard listened to the old man telling the history of the past, and for a while he didn't feel so lonely.

West District.

After finishing a day's work, Klein returned to his newly rented house in the South District of the Bridge.

This is also a townhouse with a structure of three bedrooms and two living rooms, and is equipped with three bathrooms. It is slightly smaller than the house rented in Tingen.

There is no other way. The house prices in Backlund are too high. The rent for the same house is about 1.5 times that of Tingen.

Although he has some extra income during this period, it is not enough to pay for the purchase of a new house. He can only rent it for the time being. Before the Chinese New Year next year, he should be able to save enough money to buy a new house.

See if he can buy a small villa in one step.

A house that belongs to you completely is really comfortable to live in.

After visiting the house several times, Klein listed the things that need to be purchased on paper.

In two days, Benson and Melissa will come to Backlund. He has to decorate the room for them, which can be regarded as a small surprise for them.

In addition to decorating the room, he also has to prepare some New Year goods. How can he not prepare some food for the New Year?

As for spending money?

Isn’t it for the beauty of the New Year to work hard for a whole year?

Money is saved for use at this time.

"Right now, Backlund's daytime temperature is generally around -7 to -8 degrees Celsius, and it's a bit colder at night. We must prepare a new set of warm clothes for Melissa. This must be done before she arrives in Backlund, otherwise she will definitely use all kinds of excuses to refuse."

"Benson will need a new set of formal clothes when he comes to Backlund and passes the civil service exam. He will also need a tie, a pocket watch, and a cane."

"As for myself... I can also buy a set of more casual clothes. After all, buying summer clothes in winter will save a lot of money."

"In terms of food, beef, fish, and pork are still the main meats. You can also prepare a few special dishes of Backlund for Benson and Melissa to taste."

"During the New Year, you can also take them to Queens for a stroll. It is the most lively place in Backlund during the New Year."

Klein unconsciously revealed a smile at the corner of his mouth. Celebrating the New Year really makes people feel unreal.

Fortunately, I have a home here and my relatives are with me to celebrate the New Year.

...

Count Hall's house.

Audrey looked at the busy maids and felt an indescribable feeling in her heart.

After this New Year, she will truly become an adult.

In the aristocratic circle, once a noble lady becomes an adult, her family will soon arrange a marriage for her, and then she will get married in two or three years.

Whenever she thought of this question, she was a little resistant to growing up.

But adulthood seems to have a magical power that makes people always yearn for it.

Although they are only one year apart, adults and minors are different in many ways.

Generally, after adulthood, parents will not restrict their private lives too strictly, and will give them more freedom. In many things, they will no longer prohibit this or that, but will let them try more and get familiar with the new rules of adults as soon as possible.

Even on the issue of men and women, parents have begun to learn to turn a blind eye, and some parents even encourage them to get in touch with more outstanding young nobles.

Once the two have a crush on each other, they will weigh the family conditions of both parties and start to arrange a lifetime marriage when they feel it is appropriate.

These are the personal experiences of some other noble ladies when she attended the tea party.

Obviously, they complained a lot in their words, but their faces were full of smiles.

It can be seen that they are not very resistant to adulthood, but are willing to accept their new identity.

Audrey, who was a little worried, sighed as she looked at Susie, who was resting on the ground as usual.

Susie's days were sometimes enviable. She seemed to have no worries. It made no difference to her whether it was the New Year or other festivals.

How many bones she could eat this year, and the same would be true next year.

Perhaps the only problem she needed to worry about was how much delicious food her stomach could hold during the New Year.

"Woof?"

Feeling the gaze from Audrey, Susie raised her head slightly and glanced at Audrey.

"It's okay, you continue to sleep."

Susie buried her head again and began to close her eyes to think about the problem.

This year, it was different from previous years. In previous years, it was really sleeping when it lay on the ground, but now, it lay down with its eyes closed, but its mind was constantly running.

It was thinking about some big life problems that transcended dog life, such as where did dogs come from and where should they go?

Who is it?

What kind of existence is a dog, and how is it different from humans?

What kind of dog life goals should a dog who has learned to think set?

There are too many questions worth thinking about, and he also wants to ask Audrey for answers to these questions.

But he knows that he has surpassed Audrey by a lot in reading.

After all, he reads some of the works of Emperor Roselle every day to learn the knowledge and spirit in them.

And Audrey has to learn some things she doesn't like very much every day, such as dancing, social etiquette, instrumental music, painting, languages ​​of various countries, and even political history.

In this comparison, he feels that he is much happier than Audrey.

As for this year's New Year's gift, he has already thought about it. He wants a complete set of Emperor Roselle's works on thought.