Cheng Huaijin paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "Then let me tell you my expectations for the future! I hope that my family members can all be safe and healthy, with fewer worries and more happiness. I hope that the friendly exchanges between Da Zhou and Xi Di can continue. I also hope that when I take Yun Ge'er back to Xi Di in the future, he can adapt smoothly and grow up healthily."
He doesn't talk about the past, he only talks about the future.
The Gu family all expressed that his wish would definitely come true.
After Cheng Huaijin came Gu Xin, then Gu En, Gu Si, Gu Yingxue, and Gu Ren.
Not long after Gu Ren finished speaking, he couldn't hold on any longer and fell asleep on the table. Uncle Gu asked the servant to carry him back to his room to sleep.
Gu Shouxin asked the other children, and they said they could still persevere.
So everyone continued chatting, talking about everything under the sun.
At exactly 5:00 AM, Gu En and Cheng Huaijin went outside to set off firecrackers at the main gate.
It is set off once at midnight and once at dawn.
After the firecrackers were finished, Grandpa Gu and Grandma Gu got up.
Grandma Gu went to the kitchen to make glutinous rice balls, and Grandpa Gu helped her.
They make it every year. There's a custom in Sanchakou Village that you eat tangyuan (sweet rice balls) on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, so that the whole year can be filled with family reunion.
The cook helped with the fire, while the two elderly people did everything else themselves.
There were quite a few people in the Gu family, so Grandpa Gu put three copper coins inside the glutinous rice balls, scalding them with boiling water before putting them in.
Once cooked, each person gets a bowl and can choose their own.
Unfortunately, Gu Xin ate three again.
She ate three, and her bowl was full of coins without any filling. She was a little upset: "Grandpa, when you used to make two, I could at least get one with a filling! Now that you make three, I can't even get one with a filling!"
Grandpa Gu laughed heartily: "That means you're lucky! If you want one with a filling, have another one! But you can only have one, don't eat too many, they're hard to digest!"
Gu Xin ate another one as expected.
After eating the glutinous rice balls and exchanging blessings, the people who had been keeping watch went to catch up on their sleep.
After returning to her room, Cai Xiaolian said to Gu Shouxin, "It seems that only after Xinxin gets married will other people be able to eat the glutinous rice balls and coins that our family makes on the first day of the lunar new year."
Gu Shouxin smiled and said, "That's right, their Xinxin's luck is truly unmatched."
The couple lay down, closed their eyes, and started catching up on sleep.
They slept straight through until noon, and the little ones were already calling their parents to get up for lunch.
Yun Ge'er was the happiest because this year he could wake his uncle up for lunch, even though he was alone.
He called out to his uncle, and then he wanted to take his uncle along to call out to Aunt Xue'er to have lunch together. That way, he would be calling out to two people, just like Xiao Qi and Xiao Ba. Although they weren't his parents, Yun Ge'er was still very happy.
After catching up on sleep all morning, everyone was in pretty good spirits.
After lunch, the family took a car to Xiangguo Temple to burn incense.
Normally, it doesn't take long to get from Beijing to Xiangguo Temple, but today, being the first day of the lunar month, there were an unusually large number of people going there. Fortunately, they had lunch before leaving, so they avoided the morning traffic jam, but it still took them an hour to get there.
The Peng family, the Xue family, the Kangwang Mansion, Grandma Xiao, Grandpa Zhou, Lu Zheng, and Lu Xue are already at Xiangguo Temple. They arrived in the morning and even had lunch there.
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