After Lin Yizhen turned the wine glass around in her hand, she used her consciousness to call Xiaoyu out and asked her to have dinner with her.
Xiaoyu saw that Lin Yizhen was in a low mood and knew that she was thinking about the past again.
Without saying anything, he sat down opposite Lin Yizhen. He poured himself a glass of wine, raised the glass and said to Lin Yizhen, "Master, Xiaoyu will always be with you."
"Thank you, Xiaoyu." Lin Yizhen also raised her wine glass and clinked it with Xiaoyu's.
Xiaoyu is a spirit and doesn't need to eat, but she always sits at the table to accompany Lin Yizhen.
Today, Lin Yizhen drank a lot of wine.
Xiaoyu tried to persuade her but it was no use, so she finally gave up and watched her get drunk, lying on the table, crying and laughing.
Only when Lin Yizhen was tired of crying did they drag her into the space and let Xianghe and the others serve her.
She cleared the table of leftovers outside the space before returning to rest. Although she hadn't drunk any alcohol, she felt a little dizzy from the smell of alcohol and needed to go for a rest.
That night, Lin Yizhen slept very soundly and had a severe headache.
When she woke up in a daze, her head still hurt.
Lin Yizhen rubbed her head which still ached a little, and when she saw the watch on the bedside table, she suddenly sat up from the bed.
It’s nine o’clock. I’m going to die. How can I sleep so late?
Lin Yizhen slapped her forehead suddenly. She shouldn't have drunk so much last night.
Sure enough, drinking will cause trouble. I’d better not drink next time.
After Lin Yizhen got up, she quickly put on her clothes and left the space. She had to go out quickly to open the door and welcome the God of Wealth, and she also had to hurry and wash up.
Don’t wait for the children in the village to come and wish you a happy new year. If they see you with disheveled hair, you will be laughed at.
After Lin Yizhen left the space, she took out all the candies, melon seeds, peanuts, fried fruits, etc. that she had bought and placed them on the table.
Then, I started to wash up, and finally opened the gate and set off firecrackers.
After finishing all these things, Lin Yizhen went to the kitchen to cook dumplings and glutinous rice balls.
Lin Yizhen was a southerner in both her past and present lives, but she was an educated youth in the north.
So, she cooked some glutinous rice balls and dumplings.
These things had been prepared long ago by the puppets in the space, and she only had to be responsible for cooking them.
This is not a problem for Lin Yizhen.
After she cooked the dumplings and before she could take them out of the pot, she heard a noise outside the yard. It seemed that the children from the village were coming over to celebrate the New Year.
Lin Yizhen quickly put down the bowl and spoon and went to the main room to wait.
She had just sat down in the main hall when she saw several children around twelve or thirteen years old walking in from outside the yard with a group of children a few years older.
Each of these children put on their best clothes.
Even if the clothes are not new, at least they are clean and have the fewest patches.
The clothes they wear have one thing in common, that is, whether it is a top or pants, there are a lot of pockets.
These are used to hold things. When children come out to pay New Year's greetings, the villagers will give them things.
Some were candies, some were homemade peanuts or sunflower seeds, and some were homemade pastries. No matter what it was, every family would give a little, the only difference being the amount.
When Lin Yizhen saw the children coming, she smiled and invited them into the house.
I gave the children who came over to me two candies to line up.
There were quite a few children, and if they each gave two candies, the candy on the table would be almost gone. But Lin Yizhen didn't feel bad, she also gave each child two more oil fruits.
These children like to eat this sweet oily fruit very much, and basically eat it as soon as they get it.
After all, these oily fruits are not packaged. If you hold them in your hands all the time, the sugar on the outside will melt easily. If you put them in your pocket, you are afraid that the sugar will stick to your pocket.
So, it’s best to eat it directly.
After the children ate all the oily fruits they were given, they lined up and followed the older children to leave Lin Yizhen's house.
After Lin Yizhen sent away the children who came to pay New Year's greetings, she hurried to the kitchen to get the dumplings.
She had been planning to make dumplings, but now it was too late. She had to eat quickly and go pay New Year's greetings to Ahuapo and the village chief.
I got up late to begin with, and it would be bad if I went out later.
But don’t rush to wish people a happy new year while they are eating, that would be even more embarrassing.
So, Lin Yizhen has to hurry up.
Lin Yizhen ordered eighteen glutinous rice balls, six in each bowl, for a total of three bowls. She placed two of the bowls in front of the incense burner on the table to offer to the Buddha, and ate the glutinous rice balls in the other bowl herself.
However, Lin Yizhen only ate two dumplings.
The other four are kept as pressure bowls, which means there is surplus food in the house.
After eating the glutinous rice balls, Lin Yizhen looked in the mirror in her room again. Finding nothing wrong, she went out to pay her respects.
According to age and seniority, Lin Yizhen went to Ahua's house first.
Arriving at Ahua's mother-in-law's house, she saw the gate was wide open. After walking in, Lin Yizhen called out loudly, "Grandma, Happy New Year! I'm here to wish you a happy new year."
Hearing Lin Yizhen's voice, Ahuapo ran out of the kitchen.
She smiled and said to Lin Yizhen, "Lin Zhiqing, Happy New Year! Come and sit down, grandma will give you some candy."
"Grandma, please stop busying yourself. I'm here to wish you a happy new year today. Please sit down." As she said that, Lin Yizhen helped Grandma Ahua sit down.
Then, he knelt down on the ground and kowtowed three times to Ahua Po.
Ahua Po was startled when she heard the sound of Lin Yizhen's head hitting the ground.
He quickly stepped forward to help Lin Yizhen up and said, "How can you be so honest, kid? Just kneel down and pretend, there's no need to kowtow so hard.
Look, his forehead is all red from the bumps."
Seeing the red mark on Lin Yizhen's head, Ahua Po felt a little distressed, and she asked Lin Yizhen to wait here for a while.
He went to the room to get the ointment and came over to apply it to Lin Yizhen. As he applied it, he said, "Don't do this in the future. It's not customary to kowtow to greet the New Year in our country now."
After hearing what Ahua Po said, Lin Yizhen finally remembered.
Right now, Longguo is in the process of eliminating the "Four Olds" campaign, and these things are no longer popular. If those with bad intentions find out, they might actually report it.
It seems that I need to pay more attention in the future.
This is not the Dajing Dynasty anymore, so kowtow and kneeling are not accepted.
After Lin Yizhen wished Hua Po a happy new year, she talked to A Hua Po for a while.
Then, he went to the village chief's house to wish him and Aunt Zhuang a happy new year.
She met the other children of the village chief, but Lin Yizhen didn't recognize them. She didn't say hello, and judging by the village chief's expression, she didn't seem to want to introduce them.
It seems that someone here is not liked by the village chief.
However, this matter had nothing to do with her. After she came to pay New Year's greetings to the village head and his wife, she left and went to visit several other families.
However, what surprised Lin Yizhen was.
When I went to the last house to pay New Year's greetings, I heard a quarrel coming from the side.
Lin Yizhen asked the hostess of the house curiously, "Sister Ping, who lives next to you? Why are they arguing on New Year's Day?"
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