It was already New Year's Eve. The two pigs that were killed were given away except for the ones kept for the family. Cao Xiangnan went to the compound and came back. The family was busy. There were quite a few people eating at home tonight. They were all family members, so everyone was more casual.

Since moving out and living here, they have celebrated the New Year and other festivals with Cao Gang and his family. There are many people and it is lively. Aning and Xuanxuan were also invited to his house to celebrate the New Year. Wang Dahu, Liu Baishu, Gan Weilin and other men also came together. The adults in the family plus a group of children made it quite a lot of people.

It has been so long since Wei Qi left, and there has been no news since then. Seeing that Liu Baishu and the others were not in a hurry, and Wei Qi had said when he left that he would come back, and would definitely come back after finishing his work, Cao Xiangnan felt that he was worrying too much, and just waited for him to come back.

He told Liu Guizhong and his family not to cook separately today, and just cook and eat together here. Liu Guizhong felt that they were servants of the master's family, and it was impossible for servants to eat at the same table with the master, so he felt it was not appropriate to go, but the master insisted that his whole family go, and later he could not refuse, so he had to agree.

Today, a pig was killed and there was pork, and a sheep was killed early to prepare a whole roasted sheep.

The family also had things sent by some familiar people in the village, including a piece of meat, a fish, and a basket of eggs. The gift was not about the value but the personality and thought.

When Cao Xiangnan came back from outside, the lamb was already roasted in the yard. "Oh, it's really good." He walked over. The lamb had just been roasted not long ago. It would take some time to roast it.

Wang Dahu was in charge of watching the fire outside. The spices were all ready at home. He drooled when he saw the tender lamb on the rack. "Don't worry, you will eat the lamb later. I guarantee it will be delicious."

Cao Xiangnan nodded and hummed. He had seen others roast whole lamb in his previous life. He gave some suggestions on how to roast the lamb more deliciously. As for how to roast it, he had never tried it. He knew how to roast lamb skewers. It was the same principle as roasting skewers.

But since Wang Dahu said to leave it to him, he just waited to eat the meat.

When he saw Wanfeng after entering the house, he glanced left and right and then went over to kiss his wife, who glared at him.

"Not proper, there are so many people at home." Qi Wanfeng's face was red, but he was not really angry, he was just a little embarrassed.

Fortunately, everyone was busy at the moment, and the children ran to the room to play, so no one saw them.

"Haha, no one will see it, so what if someone sees it? You are my wife!" Cao Xiangnan was righteous. What's wrong with him kissing his wife? Is it a crime? But he also knew that his wife was shy, so he checked in advance and kissed her.

Qi Wanfeng could only glare at her.

"I sent the things to the compound. Dad wanted us to go there to eat, but I said we would cook our own food and not go there." Cao Xiangnan was reluctant to let Wanfeng and the children go there to suffer grievances. He did not even let Wanfeng and the children go to the compound.

Cao Xiangnan would not tell this man at home about the bad people and things there.

"Yeah." Qi Wanfeng also understood how good her husband was to him. Knowing that he did not like to go back there, he had never let him go there. Her husband handled everything there. It was Qi Wanfeng's luck to marry such a husband!

The past is the past, and their lives will only get better and better in the future.

People in Nanyang City also failed to come back for the New Year. Sun Ji went to Nanyang on the second day after his wedding and has not come back since. The letter he sent arrived the day before yesterday, saying that he could not leave because of business and would come back after the New Year.

Sun Ji's family is also very upset now. Sun Ji married a wife and threw her away and never came back. He was happy not to come back, but the boy he married was not a worry-free person either. He brought his whole family from his mother's family to his husband's family, and he seemed to want to live here for a long time.

It was also before the Lunar New Year that Sun Yanshan came to him and asked him haltingly if he needed any help, saying that he wanted to arrange a job for the two brothers from his mother's family. Cao Xiangnan did not agree at the time, but only asked Sun Yanshan to bring the people to him. He also made it clear that he would not keep idle people here, and all those who were lazy and gluttonous would be kicked out. He did not even arrange for his brothers to work here, let alone the people from Sun Ji's wife's family. How many levels of distance were there between them?

Cao Xiangnan did not have much time to pay attention to the affairs of the village. It was only after Sun Yanshan came to him and asked about the family that he knew about Sun Ji's family.

The brother that Sun Ji married was originally a brother from Sun Amo's family, so they were still relatives. This person was not polite at all when he moved in, and really treated the Sun family as his own family. It was also said that if the Sun family had delicious food, the family would eat it all without any hesitation, and did not leave a single bite for the two elders of the Sun family.

Cao Xiangnan knew that Sun Ji was not at home, and his family would help take care of him. Before winter, he asked someone to prepare enough food for Sun Yanshan. But now I heard that Sun Yanshan was still looking for acquaintances in the village to buy food, saying that the food at home was almost eaten up.

Knowing that there were many people at Sun Yanshan's place, he asked the Liu family boy to bring meat to Sun Yanshan and brought a little more.

Every family has its own problems. As an outsider, it was difficult for him to intervene that Sun Yanshan did not drive the people away. He could only wait until Sun Ji came back after the New Year to see how he would deal with it.

In the kitchen, Cao Xiangnan was in charge of cooking tonight's dishes. Cao Gang and Liu Baishu were helping him. Xiangzi and Kangkang were squatting in front of the stove to set the fire. They refused to listen when he asked them to go play and insisted on staying in the kitchen to help.

Flour was being used to make dumplings in the room. He ordered his fat boy to keep an eye on the naughty boy Xiao Baoer, otherwise he would not have a share of mutton tonight, and then left with a sly smile on his face. Cao Xiangnan absolutely believed that his fat boy would keep an eye on the naughty boy Xiao Baoer. Cao Ruile was the only one in the family who could handle Xiao Baoer.

Dad, is it really okay for you to do this? ! I'm just a little over a year old and you're asking me to take care of my younger brother! Cao Ruile was speechless. In order to eat the roasted whole lamb, he could only take care of his younger brother who was two months younger than him.

Qi Wanfeng, Aning and Sun Bailian were responsible for making dumplings tonight. The method was taught by Cao Xiangnan, and they are now quite good at making them. Sun Bailian looked at what Wanfeng and Aning made, and then at what he made himself. He suddenly wanted to secretly hide what he made.

At this time, every household is preparing the New Year's Eve dinner.

Some families in the village will also kill a chicken and buy a piece of meat to add a bite of food to the family. In previous years, few people in the village would be willing to kill a chicken for the New Year. At most, they would buy a piece of meat. In years with poor harvests, there would only be some wild vegetables on the New Year's dinner table without even a hint of meat.

This person has been busy all year, just for this day when the whole family can sit down and have a good meal.

When it got dark, the roasted mutton outside began to emit fragrance. Cao Xiangnan took some time out of his busy schedule to take a look. He walked over to smell the fragrance and saw that it was almost done. As

night fell, the lights in the house were turned on, and a table of New Year's Eve dinner was ready.

A roasted whole lamb was placed in the middle, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Cao Xiangnan took a bite and tried it. It tasted really good. He stewed the braised pork, made from the best piece of pork belly from a pig, with fat and lean pieces interlaced and shiny. He

killed a big rooster. Cao Xiangnan remembered that when he was young, his grandmother would kill a chicken during the Chinese New Year. There was a custom of killing chickens during the Chinese New Year in their place, so after coming here, he would kill a chicken every Chinese New Year. There must be fish during the Chinese New Year, and there will be surplus every year. In addition, whatever is available at home is cooked, and it can be added together to form a dish. During the Chinese New Year, perfection is important.

When the dishes were served on the table, he called everyone to come and sit down. It was cold that day, and the dishes would get cold quickly if they were not eaten.

"Today is a festival, let's all have a drink. It doesn't matter if you get drunk, you can just sleep on the floor in my house." Cao Xiangnan opened a jar of white wine and a bottle of red wine for Wanfeng and his brothers. Sun Bailian was pregnant and couldn't drink, so only Wanfeng and Aning from his family were left to drink.

"Okay! It's great, I've been waiting for you to say that." Wang Dahu was not a polite person.

Liu Baishu beside him smiled, he knew that Cao Xiangnan's alcohol tolerance was the worst among them.

In fact, it was true. With Cao Xiangnan's alcohol tolerance, he would fall down before others, and the result was really like this. After two glasses of wine, his whole face was red.

The happiest people were the group of children in the family, and their mouths were full of oil after eating. Even Xiao Bao'er, who was usually the most restless, ate the meat mouthful by mouthful today, and drank half a bowl of porridge afterwards. He nodded his head when he felt sleepy, which made everyone very happy.

After dinner, Cao Xiangnan was almost drunk. He remembered to ask Wang Dahu and the others to stay at his house for one night, but they did not agree and went out in the cold wind. Fortunately, he picked a lantern for them to carry. He

went back to the room and lay on the bed without even taking off his shoes. When Cao Xiangnan was about to fall asleep, the door of the room was opened from the outside, and his wife came in with hot water.

"Get up, wipe your face, and wash your feet before going to bed." Qi Wanfeng found it funny to see her husband lying on the bed. He obviously had a poor alcohol tolerance, but he always got drunk.

He went over with a towel to wipe his husband's face, and his hand was grabbed by his husband.

Cao Xiangnan smiled foolishly when he saw his wife. Seeing his husband smiling foolishly, Qi Wanfeng knew that his husband was drunk. When his husband came over to kiss him, Qi Wanfeng quickly pushed him away and said, "Stop making trouble, there are people outside."

Aunt Liu and his brother were still outside helping to pack things!

"No matter." Drunk people are willful and insist on kissing their daughter-in-law.

Qi Wanfeng couldn't push his husband away, or he didn't want to push his husband away at all, so he half-heartedly let his husband do what he wanted. The children at home had gone to bed a long time ago, Xiaobaoer was sleepy early, and Lele went to bed with him, so he didn't have to worry about the children.

The two kissed and looked at each other face to face.

"Husband, can we have another child?" Qi Wanfeng smelled the alcohol on her husband's body, raised her head and kissed her husband's lips, and asked.

"Okay, I'll give it to you if you want it!" After saying this, the drunk man ate his wife without any courtesy.

The person outside cleaned up the things on the table and quietly closed the door and went out.

On this New Year's Eve, the house was full of love and affection.