Chapter 48
January 30, 2014, New Year’s Eve.
Every household is preparing for the New Year.
Father Lin and Uncle Lin meant that it would be more lively for the two families to be together, so the two families celebrated the New Year together. Therefore, at 29:00, the four of them went to buy various New Year goods.
Lin Nanzhi and his mother also had a day off yesterday and returned home today to help.
They are not needed for cooking because Father Lin is the chef and Uncle Lin helps with the side dishes.
The house needs to be cleaned during the Chinese New Year. In many places, it is done on the 24th day, but the custom here is to clean on New Year's Eve. Therefore, Lin's mother, Aunt Lin and Lin Nanxuan are responsible for cleaning the three houses.
Lin Nanye and Lin Nanzhi took Lin Nanmeng and Lin Nanting from Uncle Lin's family to decorate the house, put up blessing characters, spring couplets, and hung red lanterns. Lin Nanxun was in charge of taking care of the children.
There were window grilles on the doors and windows of the house, a big red lantern was hung at the door, and small red lanterns were hung on the trees, making the house look very prosperous.
Father Lin and Uncle Lin prepared a table full of food. Father Lin went outside to set off a string of firecrackers. Lin Nanxun and Lin Nanting waited until the firecrackers stopped and immediately went to look for the firecrackers that had not exploded yet, saving them for later play.
According to Wumeng customs, people here need to worship gods and offer sacrifices to ancestors from New Year's Eve to the seventh day of the New Year.
The gods don't need too much, just a portion of rice, a portion of meat, a cup of tea, a cup of wine and a plate of fruit, three kneelings and nine kowtows, and they are sent out for free and welcomed in late.
The offering, that is, the food, must be prepared first, and people are not allowed to pick up their chopsticks first. The ancestors' bowls, chopsticks and stools are placed in place. Father Lin mutters something to himself, and it takes more than ten seconds before people can put away the food and sit down to eat.
The New Year’s Eve dinner must be eaten early, and you must try to be the first one to arrive to get a good start. It also needs to be eaten for a long time, implying that there will be food to eat throughout the year.
The Lin family's meal lasted from 5:30 in the afternoon to 7:00. It was mainly Father Lin and Uncle Lin chatting. The two of them held a bottle of beer and talked about one family and another. Mother Lin and Aunt Lin sat together and talked about family matters. Only a group of children couldn't sit still and started playing with the fireworks and firecrackers they bought.
Lin Nanzhi looked at the fairy wand in his hand, took a photo with his mobile phone and sent it to Wen Jiunian, but Wen Jiunian did not reply.
The fireworks started only after Mr. Lin and his father had finished eating.
Maybe the Lin family started it, as several other families also set off fireworks. There was a constant crackling sound in the sky and the fireworks were gorgeous and dazzling. Lin Nanzhi pointed his cell phone at the fireworks, took a short video and sent it to Wen Jiunian.
This time Wen Jiunian replied immediately.
Wen Jiunian: [It’s beautiful, it’s snowing!]
Lin Nanzhi hadn't noticed it yet. It was only after seeing this message that he looked up at the sky. Against the black sky, he could clearly see traces of white snowflakes falling.
So is this what attention is?
Wen Jiunian: [It rarely snows in the capital. It’s hard to see snow. You have snow there. I’m jealous.]
Lin Nanzhi suddenly remembered that this was indeed the case.
The Internet is not so advanced yet. After two years, when the Internet becomes popular, you can see the north and south of the motherland without leaving your home. People from all over the country will discuss together. Everyone will find that there is a big difference between the north and the south, especially when it snows.
There is a lot of snow in the north, and people in the south act as if they have never seen the world before when they see snow.
Lin Nanzhi's home is in Nan Province, located in the southwest. She can see snow every year, but she doesn't know if it's because the weather has become warmer in recent years or what. She remembers that when she was a child, heavy snow came in winter. When she was in school, the snow reached her waist and the tiles of the house were frozen. The largest ice cones were several meters long and as thick as wrists.
It still snows now, but it only snows around the Chinese New Year period, and the snow is not heavy. At most, it will be white for a few days, and then it will melt after a few days. Then all you can see are snowflakes, and it will never pile up again.
Lin: [You can come and play when you have time.]
Wen: [Okay.]
Wen: [【Picture】/New Year's Eve Dinner]
Lin: [Very voluptuous, and handsome!]
Wen: [That’s right, don’t you see who I am!]
Lin: [Narcissism/dog-headed disdain gif.]
Wen: [Sponge Baby crying gif.]
Lin Nanzhi couldn't help but smile, put away his phone, looked at the fairy wand in his hand, and wondered what he was thinking.
Ding ding...
My QQ friends sent me all kinds of blessings. When I clicked on them, I found that few of them were from me. Most of them were sent to groups, and the blessings from several people were exactly the same.
Lin Nanzhi shook his head and saw the group blessing push on the interface. After thinking about it, he clicked on it, deleted the original blessing, edited a paragraph himself, and then chose to send it to his friends.
You can only choose 200 people each time, and send a different message each time. After sending it three times to send all the friends' blessings, Lin Nanzhi put away his phone and went to take a shower.
We all send it to the group, no one will complain!
After taking a shower, they did not leave Uncle Lin's house, but sat at home, eating some nuts together to celebrate the New Year. When they saw Lin Nanzhi coming down, several people handed over red envelopes.
Lin Nanzhi pretended to push it a few times and then put it in his pocket.
There is no need to send red envelopes because she is still a minor and does not need them.
The whole family sat together to celebrate the New Year. Lin Nan didn't know whether others were there or not, but she was writing a novel in her room all night. She wanted to take a nap, but when she saw that it was already light outside, she thought that she couldn't sleep in today, so she didn't sleep and went downstairs directly after washing up.
In the living room downstairs, Aunt Lin and her cousins were not there, nor were Lin Nanxun and Lin Nanxuan. After all, one of them had to take care of a child, and it was normal for the child to not be there to celebrate the New Year.
Lin's mother is not here either. I guess she went back to the next door.
Only Father Lin and Uncle Lin were there. The two of them were lying on the sofa, their slippers scattered here and there, and their blankets had fallen to the ground. Fortunately, it wasn't too cold at home.
She tiptoed over, picked up the blanket and covered the two of them with it, but the floor was covered with melon seeds, nuts and fruit peels, making the blanket dirty. She had no choice but to put it aside, turn on the air conditioner, and go to the kitchen to cook.
She doesn't make anything complicated for breakfast. She simply cooks some eight-treasure porridge, fries eggs and sausages, toasts some bread, heats up some milk, and adds spiritual spring water to the milk and the eight-treasure porridge to boost her energy.
Suddenly, she thought of something.
There are many rules to follow on the first day of the Lunar New Year. You cannot sweep the floor or pour water in the morning, otherwise you will send away your family's fortune. You cannot use a knife, otherwise the new year will be very unlucky and full of ups and downs.
It is also said that we cannot eat meat and fish, because we eat them all year round. Not eating them today represents not eating them for the whole year, which can accumulate merits.
So she had to put down the eggs and sausages and just made eight-treasure porridge and milk. It was a bit boring but there was nothing she could do about it.
Just as they sat down, Lin's mother and aunt Lin and a few others came. Perhaps they heard their conversation, so Lin's father and his wife were also woken up. The two families sat together and had breakfast.
After breakfast, Lin Nanzhi returned to the room and found it was snowing outside. He pushed open the floor-to-ceiling window and walked out, only to find that the entire forest was covered in white, with the ground covered with white snow.
Shivering at the cold wind, I quickly put on my new clothes, a bright red down jacket, and a knitted hat of the same style. Then I went downstairs and started making a snowman with a small shovel.
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