The family gathered around the brazier, drinking tea, eating snacks, warming themselves by the fire and chatting. After Lu Yiming had eaten and drunk his fill, he leaned on Su Yan's arms and fell asleep. When Su Yan brought the child back to the room, Lu Ting also followed her back to the room.

Su Yan asked, "Why don't you chat with your dad anymore?"

"I want to keep you busy in the space for a while. This New Year has been really boring."

They were busy before the Chinese New Year, and the space was indeed a mess. There were still many things that had not been sorted out. Now they didn't want to sleep, so they decided to tidy up the space together.

"These herbs can be kept forever, but if I don't sell these dried fruits, they won't get infested with insects, right?"

"They won't spoil. Look at some preserved eggs in the kitchen. They've been there for five or six years without the shells drying out. This shows that these foods won't spoil. Dried fruits can be stored for two or three years without any problems."

"That's good. It's just a pity that there are still some unpicked fruits on the tree. We can't finish them all."

"If you can't finish it, you can feed it to the cows. The cows are pregnant again. I really want to taste what a cow raised on fruit tastes like."

Originally there were only two cows in the space. Since they started giving birth, they gave birth to one calf every year. Now there are two calves in the space, plus the cow and her son, a total of three calves.

"Yan Yan, the first calf seems to be a cow, and it seems to be in estrus. Could it be that it is having an affair with its mother?"

"Isn't inbreeding normal in the animal world? The young bull is growing up soon, so let's kill this old bull by the end of next year."

"Okay, we'll kill the cow next year."

After feeding the pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks, Su Yan took Lu Ting to collect livestock manure to compost in the fields, and then went to the greenhouse orchid garden to pick all the blooming flowers such as Clivia, Phalaenopsis, Cymbidium, and Cymbidium.

Now is the seedling raising stage, and all their flowers must be picked to maintain the nutrients of the seedlings. Next year, its seedlings and divisions will be stronger.

If well cared for, some orchids can live for twenty to thirty years. If Su Yan wants to grow high-quality orchids, she has to do some of the work herself.

"Yan Yan, it's such a shame to pick such beautiful flowers like this."

"Don't feel sorry. If you take good care of orchids, you'll earn money in the future. If you like, we can get some branches for flower arrangements later."

"I vaguely remember that my great-grandfather seemed to like growing flowers."

"Do you remember your childhood?"

"I can't remember anything before I was three, but everything from when I was four or five is still in my head."

The two of them were busy in the flower garden for almost two hours. Su Yan picked up a bunch of cymbidium orchids with stems using scissors and placed them in the vase on the dining table.

Knowing that Lu Ting liked to eat tangerines, cherries and lychees, he took out some fresh tangerines and lychees from the warehouse.

Lu Ting leaned back on the sofa. "It's too cold outside. The space changes with the seasons, but the changes are not very significant."

Of course, in her previous life, she was from the south where the winters were very warm, otherwise how could there be so many tropical fruits grown in this space.

Su Yan peeled a tangerine and handed it to him. "Well, it's comfortable to spend the winter in space. You don't have to worry about your teeth getting cold when you eat fruit."

"Hey, Yanyan has a bridal chamber where she can eat whatever she wants in winter. Unfortunately, our little brat doesn't have such a good appetite and can only eat some common fruits in the winter."

"What else can I do? Do you still want to feed your son fresh lychees? Aren't you afraid that he will tell everyone?"

If she took out fruits like lychees, durian and cherries for her son to eat, the boy would immediately take these fruits to share with Lu Yilan. Even if he was her son, she had to be careful of him.

"This kid is happier than 99.99% of the kids out there. Let's not talk about him. Yanyan, I'll take you to Taobao to find a bargain tonight."

"Taobao bargain?"

"Yes, this morning I took Dad to visit our courtyard. On the way back, we ran into a few people from the House Search Office pulling two carts full of boxes into the Li Mansion on West Street."

"Whose mansion is the Li Mansion?"

"The ancestral home of a certain university president was sealed off two months ago. It seems to be in the hands of the director of the West Street Cutting Tail Society now."

"Director of the Cutting Tail Society, can they just occupy other people's ancestral homes?"

"No, that director used the Li Mansion as a target, and now that mansion has become their office. All the things that were confiscated during the house search have been brought to this mansion."

After hearing what Lu Ting said, Su Yan wanted to go over and empty the Li Mansion immediately.

"Yan Yan, it's getting late. It's time for our son to wake up. If he keeps sleeping, he won't be able to fall asleep at night."

"Well, let's go out. You take him to the bathroom and wash his face to wake him up. I'll go prepare the New Year's Eve dinner with my mother-in-law."

"Okay, I'll come over and help you later."

The couple left the space, and when Su Yan returned to the kitchen, her mother-in-law had already started preparing the dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner.

For lunch, Lu Ting had a mutton hotpot with four main dishes. In the evening, he prepared eight large dishes, including braised soft-shelled turtle, husband and wife lung slices, pan-fried yellow croaker, taro spareribs, steamed pork with rice flour, sweet and sour pork tenderloin, stewed chicken with mushrooms, and stir-fried celery and lilies.

Hua Min originally planned to heat up the leftover dishes from lunch and then make three or four more dishes. Lu Ting said that there should be eight dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner, and the Lu family would surely prosper in the coming year.

Most of the dishes were brought back by the son, who cooked them however he said. They lived alone in the courtyard, and no one dared to come in even when the door was closed.

Lu Fengnian had no objection, so Hua Min naturally didn't say anything. Besides, she didn't have to cook the dinner, at most she could help.

The New Year’s Eve dinner didn’t end until eight o’clock. On New Year’s Eve, everyone sat around the brazier and chatted.

Hua Min was knitting a new sweater for Lu Yilan. Seeing that her mother-in-law was knitting well, Su Yan said, "Mom, I still have three pounds of wool. Can you help Yiming knit a sweater vest and a coat?"

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