"Sisi, it's so chaotic out there right now, you have to be careful and never do anything alone."
Li Sisi looked at Li Nian's worried expression, smiled, and comforted her, "Don't worry, I will take good care of myself. Just stay home and take care of the baby. Don't go out for the time being. If you want to go out, wait until the snow melts. I'll let Bai Ying and Qianye accompany you."
Li Nian hadn't planned to go out recently, so she murmured, "Okay."
The snow in Dong'an City came quickly and violently, but it dragged on for more than half a month when it left.
As the Chinese New Year is approaching, Li Sisi is getting busier and busier, but the family still hasn't bought any New Year's goods.
Since Li Sisi was busy, she asked the Shen siblings to accompany Li Nian to the street to buy New Year's goods.
It just so happened that Li Nian's family had a carriage, so Shen Qianye drove the carriage and bought New Year's goods for both families at once.
A snowfall cleared away many wandering refugees in the city.
The government found an open space and set up simple tents to house the surviving refugees.
Some refugees who have more money than they need rent a house or stay in an inn.
The inns in the city were almost full, so Aunt Pei took the opportunity to rent out the side yard of her house.
As the New Year approaches, the streets are lined with all kinds of New Year's goods stalls, and the dazzling array of novel items is dazzling.
Passersby, wearing thick clothes, walked around the stalls with joy on their faces, carefully selecting the items they liked.
Because there were too many people on the street, Shen Qianye parked the carriage at a street corner with less traffic and strolled around on foot with Shen Baiying and Li Nian.
The customs of celebrating the New Year in this world are different from those in Li Nian and her friends' world. Instead of posting couplets, they put up New Year pictures.
It is not the cute doll in the New Year pictures, nor is it the ferocious god, but a kind of beast that looks like nothing.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Li Nian also bought the same New Year pictures as the Shen family and posted them on the door the night before the New Year.
There is also a custom that on the second day of the New Year, neighbors will walk through the streets and alleys and sit at each house for a while. When they leave, the host will give them a small bag of food.
So they need to prepare more snacks.
Fortunately, there was Shen Qianye, a coolie, otherwise she really couldn't carry so many things by herself.
Shen Baiying was not interested in New Year's goods, and was only focused on looking at those exquisite and beautiful ornaments along the way.
"Niannian, look how beautiful this is!"
Li Nian looked at the crabapple silk flower in her hand and was about to reply when a surprised voice suddenly rang out: "Sister Baiying, Brother Qianye!"
Lin Hongsang, wearing a dark red dress, ran over from the shop next door and happily took Shen Baiying's hand: "Are you also here to buy New Year's goods?"
"Yes! I didn't expect to meet you here, what a coincidence." Shen Baiying's face was full of joy at meeting an acquaintance.
"It means we are destined to be together!" Lin Hongsang said, her eyes drifting towards Shen Qianye, and when she saw Li Nian, her eyebrows frowned.
It was fleeting, like an illusion.
She smiled at Li Nian and greeted her, "Hey, isn't this Miss Nian Nian? Are you here to buy New Year's goods too?"
Li Nian smiled politely: "Yes."
“Since we’ve met, let’s go shopping together?” When she asked this, she looked at Shen Baiying, and then looked at Shen Qianye intentionally or unintentionally.
He didn't even give Li Nian any glance.
Lin Hongsang's facial features are relatively neutral, and the clothes he wears are relatively simple, making him look cool and handsome.
If Lin Hongsang hadn't caused trouble for no apparent reason last time, Li Nian would definitely have had a good impression of her.
In fact, as long as she doesn't cause trouble, she doesn't mind having one more person shopping. After all, she and Bai Ying seem to have a very good relationship.
Shen Baiying happily agreed: "Okay!"
So, the three-person team became a four-person team.
Chen Baiying dragged Lin Hongsang around looking around the whole time. Li Nian walked slowly, so she always lagged behind the two of them.
Shen Qianye slowed down his pace and followed Li Nian not too far away.
Occasionally, when Li Nian saw something good and wanted to buy it, he would automatically come forward to help hold it.
Lin Hongsang never expected that she wanted to take the opportunity to get closer to Shen Qianye, but was pulled by Shen Baiying and refused to let go. She felt more and more unhappy as she walked around.
She pulled Shen Baiying, pointed to the shop in front and said, "I'm a little tired, how about we go to that shop to rest?"
Shen Baiying was not tired at all, but since everyone was out playing together, she naturally couldn't just take care of herself, so she turned around and asked, "Niannian, second brother, do you want to go to the shop in front to rest for a while?"
Shen Qianye lowered his head and looked around: “Nian Nian, are you tired? Do you want to take a rest?”
Seeing that everyone seemed to want to take a break, Li Nian nodded and said, "Okay, it's almost lunch time."
The four of them walked towards a restaurant.
As soon as I entered the restaurant, I unexpectedly met Shen Qianye’s friends again. It seems that the heavy snow some time ago delayed many people from buying New Year’s goods.
Now that the snow has melted, everyone can't wait to go out and shop.
After a while, the food was served on the table.
When a few young people get together, they must have some fun, with wine and food on the table.
Lin Hongsang suddenly picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks and put it into Li Nian's bowl, saying with a smile: "Miss Nian Nian, I was wrong about what happened before, please don't take it to heart!"
Li Nian looked at the meat in the bowl and frowned slightly. Lin Hongsang didn't use the serving chopsticks!
She didn't like Lin Hongsang, and therefore didn't like her using the chopsticks she had used to eat to pick up meat for her.
However, due to the Shen family's face, she did not show it very obviously, and only said softly: "It's all over, it's okay."
Lin Hongsang smiled and praised, "Oh, Miss Nian Nian is so generous!" She picked up the wine jug beside her and filled a glass for herself. "I'll drink three glasses of wine as an apology. I hope you can forgive me."
Li Nian was surprised by her frank admission of guilt. Northwest wine is strong. Lin Hongsang drank the entire glass in one gulp, then prepared to pour a second.
She hurriedly stopped him: "No, no need to punish yourself with three cups..."
Before she finished her words, Lin Hongsang drank another glass of wine. When she poured the third glass, she handed it to Li Nian.
"I know you southern girls can't hold your liquor, so just have one drink." Lin Hongsang's tone remained cheerful. "After you have this last drink, let's put aside our past unpleasantness and be good friends from now on. How about that?"
Li Nian was stunned. Didn't they say she had to drink three cups as punishment? Why did they want her to drink the last one?
Although she doesn't drink, she knows that there is no such thing in the drinking culture, right?
Maybe the customs here are different from those in their world?
"Sorry, I'm pregnant and can't drink."
After these words were spoken, it was Lin Hongsang's turn to be stunned.
What did she say? She's pregnant?
Lin Hongsang almost blurted out: "Whose?"
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