"Senior, I'm back."
Liu Zheng knocked on the stone stele and shouted.
"Only the two of us are celebrating the New Year. How did you manage to bring back such an enormous haul?"
Feng Jizi emerged and was startled by the mountain of New Year's goods.
"Even two people should have a proper New Year. Besides, Senior has worked at Du Kang Liquor Shop for so many years. You must have some colleagues you're close to, right? Invite them over to celebrate with us. It'll be livelier that way."
He said with a smile.
"I never expected your thoughts to align so perfectly with mine, little friend. But even if we invite others, there's no need for so much."
Feng Jizi shook his head.
"If we can't finish it today, we'll use it tomorrow. We can celebrate New Year every day. All right, all right, Senior, stop nagging and help me pack this stuff away. Take me inside."
Liu Zheng said carelessly.
"You brat, you're truly lazy."
Feng Jizi laughed and scolded him, then waved his sleeve and stored both the New Year's goods and Liu Zheng away.
When Liu Zheng was released again, he was already in that bamboo grove from last time.
Only, this time there was more than bamboo before him. There was also a two-story little building constructed from bamboo.
"This is the small building where I live. This bamboo grove and everything within it count as my employee housing area."
Feng Jizi explained.
"Your living conditions are far better than mine."
Liu Zheng said enviously.
Forget a building—he did not even have a bed of his own.
Though it was not as if he really needed one.
"We have no freedom here to begin with. If we did not even receive this small amount of