The first day of the new year comes after the 30th. Before dawn, the sound of firecrackers can be heard outside. It seems that everyone is using the sound of firecrackers to tell the neighbors how early they have gotten up. Of course, Grandpa He also got up early to set off firecrackers in the yard.

Zhao Yilu woke Fan Hua up softly, "Wife, get up. Don't sleep in today. Grandpa and grandma always say that the earlier you get up on the first day of the new year, the more energetic you will be in the whole year. They should be waiting for you now. Let's get up quickly and go to greet them and eat dumplings."

Fan Hua looked at the watch. It was five minutes to five in the morning. It was really early!

But they still got up obediently, following the local customs and not letting the old man wait for them.

Just as Zhao Yilu said, when the two of them were dressed and came to the main hall, the four old people were already sitting neatly on the chairs. Zhao Yilu pulled Fan Hua and followed He Siyan to kneel down and wish the four old people a happy new year.

In her previous life, Fan Hua had only seen short videos of the shocking scene of people kneeling down to greet the New Year in a certain province with a strong sense of etiquette. This was her first time to experience it in person. She was a little dazed as she kowtowed along with Zhao Yilu's movements and said auspicious words.

He Siyan: "I wish grandpa, grandma, grandma and grandpa peace, longevity and health!"

Zhao Yilu: "I wish grandpa, grandma, grandma and grandpa all the best and happiness!"

Fan Hua: "I wish my grandpa, grandma, grandma and grandpa a healthy and prosperous new year!"

The four old men all smiled and said, "Good! Good! Good!"

After paying New Year's greetings, Fan Hua directly received four big red envelopes. Not only her, but also Zhao Yilu and He Siyan received some. Fan Hua roughly felt around and found that there was definitely a lot of money inside!

Fan Youcheng, who was standing aside, consciously included himself in the ranks of the younger generation. After the three others finished their greetings, he followed Zhao Yilu's example and wished a happy new year to the elders. As expected, he also received four red envelopes. He was so excited that he almost cried. He is twenty-one years old this year and has not received lucky money for many years. It's great. The joy of the New Year in his childhood is back!

After Fan Youcheng finished his greetings, it was the turn of the Yuanxiao brother and sister who were wearing red flowered jackets. Zhao Yilu and Fan each took one of them and came in front of the four elderly people, teaching them to put their hands together and bow to the four elderly people to wish them a happy new year. The two little dumplings followed suit and bowed a few times to show their respect.

The four old men on the chairs immediately smiled so hard that their teeth were showing, and they stuffed big red envelopes into the hands of Yuanxiao and his sister one by one.

The two little kids were a little unhappy at first because they were woken up by their grandmother so early in the morning, but when they saw something wrapped in red paper in their hands, they felt it was very novel. They looked at it from left to right, and their bad mood had disappeared long ago.

Later, Zhao Yilu brought the two little ones to pay New Year's greetings to He Siyan and Fan Youcheng. The two little ones had two more big red envelopes in their hands. Together with the red envelopes prepared by their biological parents, Zhao Yilu and Fan Hua, the two little guys got a lot of money this morning!

No wonder children like the Chinese New Year. Who wouldn’t like it?

After the whole family had eaten dumplings happily, it was just getting light in the morning and each family was busy visiting each other to wish each other a happy new year. However, the He family and the Zhao family had few relatives, so Fan Hua and her friends had nothing else to do except to visit their neighbors to wish them a happy new year.

He Zhengxiang came from the countryside and lost contact with his family during the war years. After liberation, he returned to his hometown to look for his relatives but could not find them.

Zhao Xubai had only one younger brother, who committed suicide during the Wenhui Revolution, and his family had long since disappeared.

Wang Guifen and Sun Simin were married daughters. After their parents died, they had less contact with other people in their natal family. During the years of the Wenhui Revolution, they completely lost contact.

As for He Siyan and Zhao Yilu, they originally had a little aunt, but she was weak when she was young and died of illness when she was seven or eight years old. Their mother, Zhao Mengyun, gave birth to this one daughter because their grandmother, Sun Simin, had always been in poor health, so they had no other relatives.

Zhao Yilu and his younger brothers quickly visited all the relatives and friends they needed to visit, and then sat together leisurely peeling and eating fried peanuts.

Zhao Yilu looked at the festive lanterns and firecrackers all over the yard, took out his camera, and suggested, "Let's take a big group photo!"

Everyone thought this was a good suggestion, so the whole family dressed neatly and came to the yard, asking Fan Youcheng to help take an extremely precious group photo.

Fan Youcheng's photography skills are quite good now, and he took many group photos for everyone, but the ones who appeared the most were undoubtedly Yuanxiao and his sister. No matter whether it was a group photo with their grandparents or their grandparents, the two little guys were like mascots and they had to appear in the photo.

After taking the group photo, it was only nine o'clock in the morning and still early for lunch, so the family decided to go to the temple fair. Because the government introduced several policies to encourage and support individual industrial and commercial households after the Gregorian New Year this year, the temple fair in Beijing, which had been dormant for more than ten years, became lively again this year.

Fan Hua wrapped the two little balls tightly, and Zhao Yilu and Fan Youcheng each carried one on their shoulders.

Zhao Xubai took out a wheelchair and pushed Sun Simin, He Zhengxiang held the hand of his old wife Wang Guifen, Fan Hua followed Zhao Yilu and Fan Youcheng in front, He Siyan followed a few old people in the back, and the whole family, men, women, and children, set off towards the temple fair in a mighty manner.