It was early in the morning, just as the sky was getting light.
While Song Ruan was in a daze, she felt Yang Bin putting on clothes beside the bed.
"What time is it now?"
Song Ruan opened her sleepy eyes and looked outside through the window. It was still dark.
After Yang Bin put on the last coat, he came over to help her pull the quilt up a little.
"It's still early and it's cold outside. You should sleep a little longer in bed."
On New Year's Eve, you need to get up early.
Because in addition to making breakfast and pasting couplets, they also have to kill chickens, cook rice, and then take these foods to worship their ancestors.
Moreover, these things must be completed before noon, so basically everyone will get up early in the day to get busy.
Song Ruan obviously knew it as well, and rubbed his eyes and was about to get up.
"I want to get up with you. It's so cold!"
As soon as Song Ruan turned over the quilt, she shivered with cold.
Yang Bin quickly pulled up the quilt and wrapped her up: "I said it's cold."
Song Ruan pulled at the thick quilt and finally managed to get her head out from inside.
"You know it's cold, why don't you hurry up and get some clothes for your wife?! Hurry up, I'm determined to get up early today."
Seeing that she insisted, Yang Bin ruffled her soft hair, then took her clothes and put them into the quilt.
"Then wait until your clothes are warm enough before putting them on. I'll go get some hot water for you to wash your face."
"Oh, okay~" Song Ruan yawned and hid back under the quilt.
After Yang Bin left, she didn't fall asleep, but looked at the ceiling with her mind wandering.
This was the first time she spent the New Year away from home, and after the New Year, everyone seemed to be going their separate ways.
When Yang Bin came in with hot water, he found that his wife was in a bad mood.
"What's wrong?" Yang Bin put down the basin and walked towards her.
Song Ruan quickly pulled the quilt aside and jumped into his arms.
Yang Bin was startled and quickly held her butt to prevent her from falling.
"Why are you suddenly unhappy?"
"No, it's just that this is the first time I'm not at home for the New Year, and I feel a little weird."
"If you miss home, why don't we go back later? It's close anyway, and we'll be there soon."
"It's not that. It's just that I seem to have just realized that I'm married and away from home. Maybe it's because we're so close, I didn't realize it before...Okay, let's not talk about this anymore, let's get out of here."
Song Ruan's mood changed from moment to moment, and after she said that, the sentimentality she had just shown disappeared.
After getting dressed and washing up, they went to the kitchen together.
Yang Bin was responsible for killing the chicken, and Song Ruan was responsible for cooking.
After a while, Yang's mother and Yang Moer also got up.
As soon as Yang's mother arrived, she took over the work in the kitchen, and the three of them had to go out to put up the couplets.
Yang Bin was pasting on a high stool, Yang Moer was holding the stool from below, and Song Ruan was helping by applying glue.
"Today, our family must be the first one in the village to post spring couplets!"
Yang Moer held on to the stool and looked around, and found that her family was the most advanced among the neighbors.
"That's not necessarily true. At my home... um, my parents and my brother and sister-in-law's home, they have a lot of manpower and they are usually the first to arrive." Song Ruan said.
Yang Bin looked down at his wife, narrowed his eyes, and said to Yang Moer.
"There are still a few blessing characters missing from the couplets, just let me do it. Mo'er, isn't it your favorite place to go to freeze persimmons during the Chinese New Year? Take your sister-in-law with you to have some fun."
Yang Moer's eyes lit up: "Okay, okay!"
After saying that, she stopped holding the stool and pulled Song Ruan into the house to get persimmons.
"Sister-in-law, let's put it here to freeze."
Yang Moer had experience and found a place that was both cool and ventilated.
"Oh, what should we do next?" Song Ruan asked, looking at the basket of persimmons.
"The next step is to place the persimmons one by one. But be careful not to put them too close together, let alone stack them together. Otherwise, the ice shells on the outside will stick together."
Song Ruan responded with a "OK" and imitated Yang Moer, slowly getting ready with her.
Yang Moer looked at them and swallowed: "Sister-in-law, have you ever eaten frozen persimmons?"
"No, my mother thinks it's too cold to eat it frozen." Song Ruan shook her head.
"It's a little cold, but it's delicious. When it's frozen into ice, it's like eating a popsicle, but it's even better than a popsicle. It's shaky, icy, and sweet. And eating ice in winter makes you feel cool from head to toe, which is really satisfying."
Yang Moer's description made Song Ruan look forward to it.
But it took a long time to prepare the frozen persimmons, so after they had arranged them, they were called to have breakfast.
In the afternoon, the family started making dumplings.
They planned to make two kinds of dumplings: one with leek and pork filling, and one with pork and corn filling.
A lot of dumplings need to be made on this day. Except for the ones to be eaten today, the rest will be frozen, and then you can cook a little every day when you want to eat them.
Because there are so many things to wrap, it takes a lot of time. In addition to wrapping, you also need to roll out the dough, chop the meat, and cut the leeks.
So by the time they finished making the dumplings, it was already dark outside.
After cooking the dumplings and the New Year’s Eve dinner, everyone went to take a shower, change clothes, and prepare to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.
The staple food for the New Year’s Eve dinner is dumplings.
"I ate the coin!"
Song Ruan narrowed her eyes and took out the coin she had just bitten.
"Eating dumplings will definitely bring good luck in the new year." Yang's mother smiled happily.
"Sister-in-law is so lucky!" Yang Moer said happily.
Song Ruan and Yang Bin looked at each other, then looked away.
She said seriously, "Then I don't want to enjoy this good fortune alone. I hope this good fortune can bring peace and safety to my family members."
Soon, we will all be separated.
And we are far away from each other, so we may not see each other many times throughout the year, so I pray that we stay safe.
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