After chopping the pork and cabbage, Mrs. Ye took over and mixed the stuffing and seasoning, making a large bowl of dumpling stuffing.

On the other side, Ye Laosi, who was kneading the dough, also finished his work and put the dough into the basin.

Everyone brought dumpling fillings, noodles, rolling pins, rolling boards, covering curtains and other things to Old Lady Ye's room, and started making dumplings around the kang table.

Ye Laosi was responsible for rolling out the dough, and everyone else who knew how to do it came around to help wrap it.

While it’s still light, make more dumplings and put them outside to freeze. After all, we often eat dumplings during the New Year holidays.

Old Ye has a large family, so he can make dumplings very quickly.

After wrapping it with a curtain, Boss Ye took it out and put it outside to freeze.

After the last layer of dumplings is wrapped, the previous ones have already frozen solid, so they are poured into a jar that has been cleaned long ago.

As the dumplings were poured in one by one, the jar was soon filled.

The remaining curtains were left outside, waiting to be cooked and eaten at midnight today, when the old year turns to the new year.

After wrapping the dumplings, it was already getting dark.

Mrs. Ye left the task of cleaning up the mess to others and immediately returned to the kitchen to start preparing the New Year's Eve dinner.

New Year’s Eve dinner is the most important meal of the year.

However, it is difficult to eat fresh vegetables in the north in winter. Most families eat potatoes, cabbage and radishes in turn.

Mrs. Ye racked her brains and finally came up with ten dishes.

Fish and chicken are a must for the New Year's Eve dinner. In addition to braised fish and chicken stewed with mushrooms, Mrs. Ye also made stir-fried wild rabbit meat, pork with sauerkraut, braised roe deer meat, tiger skin elbow, scrambled eggs with leeks, pickled cabbage, stir-fried meat with bean sprouts and cold shredded radish.

After the dishes were served, Old Lady Ye was the first to raise her glass and said, "This year our family has gone through many difficult things that we never dared to imagine before.

"We have overcome many difficulties along the way, and now our lives are getting better and better.

"I really delayed you by staying outside the customs before.

"Now that we're back home, so close to the capital, it'll be convenient for you to display your talents. Our family will definitely be better and better in the future!"

After saying this, Old Lady Ye raised her wine cup and drank it all in one gulp.

Everyone joined in the drinking, even the children had their own cups, but the cups were not filled with wine, but with sweet water that Mrs. Ye had mixed for them.

The children all loved to drink, and after drinking it all, they quickly rushed to fill their cups.

They had a wonderful New Year's Eve dinner. Old Mrs. Ye drank a few more glasses of wine happily. She felt dizzy and lay down on the kang before she finished the meal.

The three sisters-in-law and the children soon finished their meals, leaving only the four brothers at the table, drinking and eating.

After dinner, the children were eager to go out to set off firecrackers.

The three sisters-in-law dressed the children, lit the lanterns with candles, and then took out firecrackers and handed them to Ye Changrui, saying, "You are the eldest brother, so keep an eye on your younger brothers and sisters."

"Okay!" Before Ye Changrui finished speaking, the other children rushed out impatiently.

The village was already very lively at this time. Almost all the young people and children from each family came out to set off firecrackers, and some older people were not afraid of the cold and came out to watch the fun.

It can be said that this is the busiest time in Rongxi Village since the beginning of winter.

Children gathered together and compared the lanterns, firecrackers and new clothes in their hands.

But when Ye Changrui brought his younger brothers and sisters over to join them, most people quietly kept their distance from them, and some even ran away without waiting for them to get close.

Ye Changrui didn't understand why, but he suddenly remembered that the twins had been bullied inexplicably in the village before.

What happened to the villagers?

Fortunately, Ye Xianglei came over quickly and said, "Come on, uncle will take you to set off fireworks!"

"Uncle!" Qingtian called sweetly.

Hearing Qingtian calling him clearly, Ye Xianglei felt a sense of inexplicable loss in his heart.

"Why don't you call me Xiao Su anymore?" He bent down and picked up Qingtian and asked.

"I called it wrong before, so I changed it!" Qingtian was confused. "Did I change it wrong?"

"That's right." Ye Xianglei didn't know what he was struggling with. He always felt that he was no longer the unique Xiao Su on Qingtian's side, but had become an ordinary uncle.

Ye Xianglei shook his head, not knowing what he was thinking about.

"Let's go set off firecrackers!" Ye Xianglei, holding Qingtian, led his five brothers straight to the threshing ground.

In winter, this is the best place to set off firecrackers. It is open and there are no houses around, so there is no need to worry about accidentally igniting other people's firewood piles.

When Ye Xianglei saw the firecrackers in the hands of the five Ye brothers, his eyes widened.

"These are the latest fireworks in Beijing this year. How could your family buy them?

“Oh, I heard a customer say this is beautiful!

"Oh my god, why are your parents so nice? They bought so many cannons for you, but my parents didn't buy some for me!"

Ye Changrui couldn't help but say, "Uncle, aren't these all New Year's goods prepared by the Qin family's servants?

"When Nian Nian was lost, everyone was so anxious that they didn't pay attention to what was inside. It was your family who helped us retrieve it!"

"That's right!" Ye Xianglei then remembered that when Young Master Qin asked what to buy for the New Year, Old Lady Ye directly said to buy some firecrackers that the children liked, but Ye Juan'er said to just buy a few strings of firecrackers.

Hanging firecrackers are the simplest firecrackers. Apart from making a loud noise, they have almost no other meaning.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading!