After my second baby learned to walk, more than half of December had passed.
There are still about ten days until the Chinese New Year, and it’s time to prepare New Year’s goods.
Yuancheng was larger and more prosperous than any city they had been to before.
As the year draws to a close, there are more people on the streets and red lanterns are hung on the streets.
The white snow scene and the fiery red lanterns complement each other perfectly.
Especially at night when the street lights are on.
There is an atmosphere of 'I searched for him among the crowd for hundreds of times, and when I turned around, I found him standing in the dim light'.
Chinese New Year is the most important event of the year.
In Fenglai Country, on the first day of every new year, every household will worship gods and ancestors, ward off evil spirits and pray for a good harvest.
This year is especially disaster-prone, but by the end of the year, all natural disasters have been resolved.
In order to show the merits of the new emperor, on the first day of the new year, the emperor would go to the Altar of Heaven to offer sacrifices to the gods and the ancestral temples.
Of course, ordinary people just listened to the news and didn't care much about it.
Lu Changge remembers exactly what to buy for the New Year.
It was still snowing outside, and the snow on the ground had already reached the calf level.
The weather was too cold, so Lu Changge refused Tuanzi's request to go shopping for New Year's goods with him.
After getting dressed, Lu Changge drove away in his carriage.
Li Tugen and Li Xiaomin also went with him. When Lu Changge went out, they were already waiting outside.
Lu Changge went out to buy New Year's goods, while Su Qingyun, his father and his son stayed in the house.
Tuanzi and Erbao were playing games, and Su Qingyun was sitting beside them reading a storybook.
Not long after, there was a knock on the door.
"Uncle, is daddy back?" Tuanzi also heard the knock on the door and looked at his father and asked.
"No." Su Qingyun shook his head.
When Lu Changge came back, he would open the door directly without knocking.
The knocking stopped for a while, then started again soon after, with the intervals between the knocks becoming regular.
"Uncle, who is it?" Tuanzi asked curiously.
"I don't know. Father, please go out and take a look. Tuanzi, please stay in the house and look after your brother."
"Okay." Tuanzi nodded.
After putting on his clothes and shoes, and putting on a cloak before going out, Su Qingyun opened the door and walked out.
Dahei and Erhei, who were lying in the den, came out as soon as they heard the knock on the door.
Seeing the second master coming out of the house, he shook off the snow on his back and followed him.
The knocking continued. Su Qingyun walked towards the door and asked loudly, "Who is it?"
As soon as Su Qingyun finished speaking, a child's voice was heard outside the door.
"It's me! It's Jinbao! Uncle Lu, open the door quickly!"
Hearing Jin Bao's voice, Su Qingyun breathed a sigh of relief. He wondered who it was.
Su Qingyun walked over quickly and opened the door.
As soon as the door opened, he saw Jin Bao and his eunuch, as well as the cold guard standing beside them.
"Uncle Lu!" Seeing that it was Uncle Lu who opened the door, Jin Bao smiled even more happily.
"It's so cold, did you come here on foot?" Su Qingyun looked outside and saw no carriage.
"No, I live next door." Jin Bao pointed to the courtyard house with two entrances on the right and said with a smile.
This alley is considered an old residential area in the inner city of Yuancheng.
The scale of the siheyuan is limited to simple one-story and two-story styles, and the larger ones are in the streets on the other side.
"My uncle is coming to visit later, so I came here in advance."
"Uncle Lu, is Tuanzi at home?" Jinbao asked again, tilting his head to look inside the door.
"Yes," Su Qingyun turned aside to let them in, "It's cold outside, come in first."
…
So, when Lu Changge came back from buying New Year's goods, he heard laughter coming from the greenhouse.
One of the children's voices sounded a little familiar.
Lu Changge put down his things and walked in, and saw Jinbao and Tuanzi having a great time.
Lu Changge: “…”
Why is this guy here again?
"Uncle Lu, you're back!" Jin Bao saw Uncle Lu open the door and walk in, and waved his little hand to greet him.
Feng Xunyuan, who was sitting nearby drinking hot tea, saw this and put down the teacup in her hand and nodded at him.
"Daddy, you're back!" Tuanzi also shouted.
Seeing his brother shouting, Erbao was not to be outdone, "Daddy!"
Erbao shouted and tried to walk over with his short legs, but was stopped by Su Qingyun.
"Uncle Lu, can I eat here at noon? I heard from Tuanzi that we are going to have hot pot at noon, so I asked my uncle to prepare a lot of meat so that we can have a full meal!" Jinbao smiled happily.
I don't feel embarrassed at all to take the initiative to eat at someone else's house.
Hearing Jin Bao being so rude, Lu Changge was speechless.
Of course, he didn't refuse in the end, after all, the meat they brought was quite fresh.
They also brought a lot of New Year's goods, including chicken, duck, fish, eggs, pork, mutton, cattle, and geese.
There are also candies, cakes, and clothing fabrics.
The most important thing is that there was a small box full of gold ingots.
Seeing this, Lu Changge looked at Feng Xunyuan, "What does this mean?"
"This is a small gift from my brother, saying he wants to thank Brother Lu for his help." Feng Xunyuan explained.
He added: "Brother also said that Brother Lu would understand after hearing it."
I do understand.
The emperor guessed who was secretly helping on the battlefield.
Of course, Lu Changge had no intention of hiding it.
At this moment, the system, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke.
【Ding—The mixed storybook world has been integrated, and the storybook world has successfully advanced to a small world.
The host will receive a random New Year gift package, which will be opened ten days later. 】
Ten days later, it was the first day of the new year.
[System automatically leaves a message: The system is currently absorbing energy and is expected to be unbound from the host in ten days.]
Seeing this, Lu Changge raised his eyebrows.
Absorbing energy... Maybe when he is released, he can ask the system to help him upgrade his supernatural power level.
After all, everything has to be untied from the system, so the more you can take advantage of the system, the better.
The next day at noon, after having lunch at Uncle Lu's house, Jinbao said goodbye to them.
After all, Jinbao and his uncle are members of the royal family, and as the year is coming to an end, they have to hurry back.
After Jinbao and his friends left, someone came to visit the house again in the afternoon.
This time, Lu Changge did not go out, but walked over and opened the door.
After listening to the visitor's explanation, Lu Changge walked aside and asked them to move the things in.
This time I came to visit and give New Year's goods to Doctor Xu's residence in the Imperial City.
Doctor Xu's sons specially sent Lu Changge some New Year gifts to express their gratitude for his care for their old father.
There is also a thousand ounces of silver.
Lu Changge did not refuse and accepted it directly.
The person who came to deliver the gift on behalf of the Xu family was a middle-aged butler. After chatting with Lu Changge for a few words, he said goodbye.
Lu Changge saw them off and then closed the door.
"Husband, what should we do with these things?" Su Qingyun was standing in the warehouse and asked when she saw her husband coming in.
"Pick one and put the rest in the storage container."
Of course, silver is safest in a storage device.
Lu Changge asked his daughter-in-law to put all non-food items into storage containers.
The Lu Changge family didn't know many people to begin with, and after Jin Bao and Old Doctor Xu's families gave their gifts, no one came to visit them anymore.
Next, we started cleaning, pasting up spring couplets, window decorations and hanging red lanterns.
It was snowing outside, and Lu Changge didn't let his wife and Tuanzi and the others go out. Instead, he called Da Teng and Er Teng to help clean up the area.
Soon, New Year's Eve arrived.
With the help of Da Teng and Er Teng, the New Year’s Eve dinner was quickly prepared.
The food was moved into the warm room. Tuanzi and Erbao were lying on the kang playing with night pearls.
Seeing his father coming in with something, Tuanzi jumped off the kang.
"Daddy, can we eat now?"
"right."
"Great!" Tuanzi clapped his hands and jumped up and down to cheer.
Cold weather is suitable for eating hot pot.
After placing all the ingredients on the table, Lu Changge went out to prepare a sumptuous dinner for Dahei and Erhei, and then went into the house.
As soon as I sat down, I heard the sound of fireworks going up into the sky outside, and the flickering lights were reflected on the window paper.
"Daddy, what's that noise outside?" Tuanzi asked while looking out the window, his lips puffing out.
"Those are fireworks. Daddy will let you set them off after dinner."
"good!"
"Okay... some meat." Erbao on the side signaled his dad to give him some meat.
The New Year’s Eve dinner lasts from 7pm to 10:30pm.
Su Qingyun, his son and his two sons had eaten so much that their stomachs were bulging. They lay on the kang and didn't want to move. Only Lu Changge was still sitting there eating.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, Tuanzi and Erbao had already fallen asleep, and Lu Changge was full.
At exactly twelve o'clock in the evening, the sound of fireworks rang out outside. By this time, Su Qingyun was already feeling a little drowsy.
"Wife, Happy New Year." Lu Changge whispered in Su Qingyun's ear.
"Happy New Year...husband." Su Qingyun muttered, and then fell asleep.
When Lu Changge heard this, he smiled silently, then hugged him, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Outside, the sound of fireworks rose one after another, welcoming the arrival of the new year.
The author has something to say:
This article is officially over here! Sprinkle flowers~
Here, I also wish all the little angels a happy new year, happiness to your family, good luck in everything, and a prosperous new year.
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