During the Great Zhou Dynasty, the New Year celebrations were actually very tiring. There were either various grand ceremonies or banquets. As the future queen, Bai Ruozhen could not escape those banquets. She had to go to the palace to attend the palace banquet on New Year's Eve, and on the first day she had to go to the palace to pay New Year's greetings to the queen and the queen mother. On the second day her mother went back to her parents' home, and she also went back to the palace. From the third day to the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, she spent almost every day at banquets.
It was very tiring, and being a future queen was even more tiring. But after becoming the queen, she could finally just wait in the palace for others to pay them an audience. However, before the New Year, she inexplicably traveled through time.
So angry.
What she didn't expect was that in this strange era, people don't set off firecrackers during the Chinese New Year. If her family hadn't prepared delicious food, she wouldn't even think it was the Chinese New Year.
Bai Ruozhen naturally didn't dare ask, so he scratched the original owner's head and found out that they had not set off firecrackers during the New Year for seven or eight years. They said it was to break feudal superstitions and not to burn incense and worship Buddha. If anyone was caught burning incense and worshiping Buddha, they would be paraded through the streets with a sign hanging on their head and criticized.
Thinking of the number of times wealthy families burned incense and worshipped Buddha during the Great Zhou Dynasty and the importance they attached to the Buddha, Bai Ruozhen felt ashamed. It was a good thing that they didn't travel here, otherwise they would all be labeled as bourgeois.
Well, Bai Ruozhen learned this word from looking through the original owner's memory. The rich people were labeled as bourgeoisie, and the remaining good people were proletarians, which is what the saying "paupers" means, the kind who can't even support their sons.
On New Year's Eve, Li Qiulan locked the door tightly, secretly burned paper and incense, and even dragged the children along to kowtow to the Buddha. Bai Ruozhen, having learned from her past life, had no objection to kowtow to the Buddha, and even thought that if she kowtowed quickly, perhaps the Buddha would, in recognition of her sincerity, send her back to the Great Zhou.
Although the Great Zhou was not very good, it was where she grew up. There were her parents, brothers, and her unconsummated husband, the emperor. She had originally had the grand dream of giving birth to a son and reaching the pinnacle of life, but she did not expect to be exiled here.
Alas, things in this world are unpredictable. Bodhisattva, please send her back.
But all this seemed a bit strange to the Bai family, because before Bai Ruozhen fell on his head, she strongly disapproved of Li Qiulan's feudal superstitions! If Li Qiulan wasn't her biological mother and loved her very much, she would probably do something like killing her own relatives for the sake of justice.
Bai Jiansheng and Li Qiulan looked at each other and had the same idea in their minds: Could it be that Ruzhen’s fall really damaged his brain?
They were just skeptical, but Bai Ruoxin curled her lips and said, "Bai Ruozhen, did you fall and become stupid? Didn't you hate it most when your mother burned paper and kowtowed?"
Although Bai Ruoxin's words were harsh, they expressed the doubts in everyone's mind. Even Bai Jiansheng and Li Qiulan tacitly did not scold Bai Ruoxin.
Bai Ruozhen calmly got up from the ground and looked at Li Qiulan anxiously, "Mom, I just think that I was blessed by God to be alive after the fall. I didn't know how to respect God and the Buddha before, but now I think it was God and the Buddha who blessed me, so I kowtowed with you." She looked at Bai Ruoxin very sadly as she spoke, "Sister, do you really have to tell me everything about how I fell? And I'm not stupid."
As soon as she finished speaking, Bai Ruoxin's face suddenly turned ugly. "How do I understand now? Explain clearly. It was you who insisted on carrying the food. Did I force you?"
"You didn't force me to carry the food, but you turned around and left with the food book. If I didn't carry it, would I just throw the food on the ground?" Bai Ruozhen looked at her aggrievedly. "The road was already very slippery with snow. Not only did you not help me, you even poked me with your finger. If you hadn't poked me, would I have fallen?"
"You're talking nonsense." Bai Ruoxin glared at her and scolded her, "Go back to the countryside right now and never come back in this life."
"Bai Ruoxin, shut up!" Li Qiulan said angrily, "You can't even let me have peace during New Year's Day."
She was so regretful that she didn't stop him. It's not easy for a family to celebrate the New Year together.
Bai Ruoxin was like a victorious rooster. Although he kept his mouth shut, he held his neck high with great pride.
Even if Bai Ruozhen is given in, she will be gone in four days anyway, and the house will not be hers by then. So let Bai Ruozhen go to the countryside to suffer.
Bai Ruozhen was too lazy to pay attention to Bai Ruoxin. In her opinion, Bai Ruoxin was just a fool of very low level. There was no technical skills required to compete with her. She would get beaten up if she was just given a few pointers. Now her parents were extremely disappointed with this elder sister. Bai Liqiang, the big fool, had come to his senses now. He could already foresee what would happen to Bai Ruoxin after she left home.
Haha, she really couldn't feel any sympathy for Bai Ruoxin. It would be better to let Bai Ruoxin go to the countryside as well, and then be assigned to a remote area to feel the consequences of her own viciousness.
Of course, Bai Ruozhen only said this in her heart, but she said that they were like a family, sisters and brothers.
On New Year's Eve, the Bai family had their best meal of the year. They bought half a chicken, made dumplings with meat scraps, and two fish. The family enjoyed the meal with great joy. Bai Ruoxin was so focused on eating that she didn't bother to make trouble. It was a rare peaceful meal.
She stayed at home on the first day of the New Year. On the second day, Bai Ruozhen followed Li Qiulan to her parents' home. After being looked down upon by many people, she stayed there for a whole morning and then came back. She did not go out on the third and fourth days of the New Year either. She stayed at home and watched Li Qiulan pack her luggage for her.
The night before leaving, Li Qiulan held Bai Ruozhen and cried for a long time. She also gave her instructions for a long time and told her to sew all the money into her cotton-padded jacket before letting her go to bed.
Just as she was about to go back to the house, she was stopped by Bai Lishan. Bai Ruozhen looked at her brother who was almost invisible at home and asked, "Lishan, what's wrong with you, second sister?"
Bai Lishan nodded.
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