new year
Although it is nice to entertain themselves, the little monsters still prefer to play with humans. After all, they have smart ideas and more tricks.
"Are you going out like this?" Aunt Shi felt a little worried as she saw them all sticking up their ears or wagging their tails.
"It's okay, Auntie. It's New Year's Day today, so no one will care about these things. They'll just think they're funny." Li Xingzang looked at the pitiful appearance of the monsters and spoke up. "Wu Fei will go too. Everyone knows he likes wearing tiger ears, so they say they're friends."
"Okay, don't cause any trouble." Aunt Shi sighed. Instead of worrying about them, it would be better to worry about humans.
Although Snow City has regulations on the management of fireworks and firecrackers, it is Chinese New Year after all, so the municipal government has still specially designated an area for everyone to have fun. The most crowded area is probably People's Square.
"Swish-bang!" As soon as I arrived here, I saw a family lighting fireworks. Countless flowers bloomed in the air. My ears vibrated and my eyes lit up.
"Let's do it here." Yu Sishi searched for a while and found an open space that could accommodate so many of them.
"Come on, it's time to distribute the fireworks." Li Xingzang drove out a pickup truck specifically, and the back compartment was filled with fireworks. As she walked along, people who didn't know her would have thought she was selling goods.
The little monsters stood in a line with their chests puffed out, facing the envious gazes of the children around them, just like kindergarten children.
They discussed it and decided to set off fireworks together, sometimes one after another, creating a lot of fun. If we were to choose the best fireworks team today, it would definitely be Baishan Bathhouse and Lao Li's Restaurant.
Time passed slowly, and the big screen in People's Square also broadcast the Spring Festival Gala live. Everyone present tacitly stopped setting off fireworks and waited for the countdown.
A huge red clock appeared on the big screen. "Ten, nine, eight... three, two, one! Ding-ding-ding-ding-" The New Year's bell rang, and the cheers of the crowd resounded throughout the square. Countless fluorescent lights leaped up together, "Happy New Year!"
"Happy New Year, Officer Yu." Li Xingzang smiled and looked at Yu Shishi beside him.
"Happy New Year, Boss Li." Yu Sishi looked at her tenderly. In the palm of his hand in his pocket, a furry little white dog was lying there.
The bustling atmosphere of People's Square couldn't reach the depths of the mountains. In the biting cold, a languid young man, flashlight in hand, entered the cave.
"It's New Year's Day today, so I brought you some delicious food!" The loud voice woke up the red wolf in the cave. "Clatter-clatter", the sound of chains colliding was heard, and A walked out from inside.
"How is it?" The young man looked at her with a smile.
"What on earth do you want to do?" A stared at him viciously.
"Hey? Don't look at me like that. After all, I saved you. Otherwise, if you fell into the hands of your colleagues, they would just eat you as a tonic." The young man waved his hand, seeming dissatisfied with her ungrateful attitude.
"Heh—" A rolled his eyes in disdain, "If you hadn't intervened, they would have been the ones to take advantage of the situation."
"Don't brag like that," the young man rebuked her mercilessly. "Eat this quickly! I bought this from the best restaurant in Xuecheng. They're closed during the New Year."
"How can you pack if you don't open the door?" A asked him with a sneer.
"What do you care about me?" The young man was annoyed by her cold attitude. "Do you want to eat it or not? If not, I'll feed it to other small animals!"
A confronted him for a while, then lowered his head.
"Hey! That's right! Whether you want revenge or escape, don't you have to eat enough?" The young man ignored her suddenly alert expression after her thoughts were exposed, "Happy New Year, big dog." He rubbed the red wolf's head and walked down the mountain in a cool manner.
A looked at him in confusion in the cave. She really didn't know what this guy was up to. But no matter what happened to him, one thing was right. She had to recover her health first before she could find the Chou in Snow City. Whether it was Sirius or someone in the organization who wanted to take advantage of the situation, she would not let him go!
"The first month of the lunar year is the New Year~ the first day of the New Year~" Li Long hummed a duet as he walked slowly into the hotel.
"Wow, you look in a good mood, Boss Li." Li Xingzang had just walked down from upstairs when he saw Li Long biting a spring roll.
"Congratulations, Boss Li." Li Long shook the sharp claws on his hands and stuck the glutinous rice balls, spring rolls and other things on them like eating Cheetos.
"It must have been hard being on duty last night?" Li Xingzang entered the kitchen and brought out the pigs, cows and sheep.
"What are you doing? Are you doing this because you need help from me?" Li Long felt a little creepy when he saw that she had everything ready.
"What do you mean? Can't I just reward you for your hard work? Who do you think I am?" Li Xingzang glared and raised his voice. Li Long felt that he seemed to be a little mean.
"Well... okay, I'll accept your offering." Li Long carefully picked up the pig's trotter and just took a bite when he heard Li Xingzang say, "Well..."
"See! I told you that you have no good intentions!" Li Long put down the pig's trotter, pointed at her and started scolding her.
"What's the matter?" This time he changed it to a leg of lamb. Knowing that she really had something to ask him, he ate it with more peace of mind.
"I might have to go to the capital on the fifteenth or two days."
"Well, then?"
Li Xingzang rubbed his hands together and said, "I'm going to take the exam, so this isn't... hehe..."
"Is that all?" Li Long was a little bit incredulous, "Do you still need to worship me for the exam?" This girl didn't give him and Lao Bai much trouble in her studies, so why did she think of worshiping God this time?
"That being said, I, your eldest daughter, have always been at the top of the class in exams, but it is a national exam after all, so we still have to show some respect."
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the patron saint is worshipped with the Tailao ritual, which is quite grand.
Li Long laughed and said, "Okay, no problem."
Li Xingzang flatteringly passed the roasted whole lamb forward. Li Long was just thinking of praising her for being sensible and well-behaved when he heard someone else's voice coming from upstairs, "Happy New Year, Boss Li."
It's time to wear new clothes on the first day of the new year. Li Long looked at his red knitted shirt, then at Li Xingzang's high-necked red sweater, and curled his lips. "Which Boss Li are you talking about?"
"Of course it's you." Even with a flattering smile, Yu Sishi didn't seem greasy at all, but rather had a touch of charm. "Boss Li was stationed in the Northeast last night. I admire you very much."
"Hmph!" Li Long rolled his eyes. "Don't just say it. If you really admire me, you should come next time."
"If you trust me!" Yu Shishi said seriously.
Li Long carried the three animals back to the bath center. Yu Sishi looked at Li Xingzang beside him and asked, "Boss Li, what are your plans for today?"
Li Xingzang looked back in confusion, "What plans can we have for New Year's Day? Just lie down!"
Yu Sishi was a little surprised. Ever since she met Li Xingzang, she had never had a moment of free time. She was either opening a shop or going out to save him.
"I can rest too, okay?" Li Xingzang was speechless. Yu Sishi looked curiously at He Yishu and Wei Chunhua who went to the backyard to pick up a lot of messy materials, and followed behind to join in the fun.
"What are these for?" Yu Shishi picked up a pair of heavy chopsticks with the images of white mountains and black waters carved into them.
"Giving back to the fans." Li Xingzang opened the material packages one by one. "Although we gave away a batch of New Year's goods in the raffle before, that was only a small part. If we gave away all the food, some people might not receive it in time, which would be a waste. So I decided to order a batch of cultural and creative products to see how the response is."
"Wow, Boss Li is very creative!" Yu Sishi applauded, "But... these ingredients are not ordinary, right?" He stroked the logo on the chopsticks, a small red house in the mountains and rivers. If you look closely, you can see the word "restaurant" on it.
"Officer Yu has a good eye." Li Xingzang gave a thumbs-up. "Not only the materials, but I also specially asked Grandma and Brother Long for blessings. These cultural relics are all blessed with magical powers."
"Boss Li is really generous." Yu Shishi was amazed. He did this job and naturally knew how difficult it was to obtain the blessings of the gods. The price humans were willing to pay to get their favor was unimaginable, and the things they could do were often beyond their expectations.
Li Xingzang, the child favored by the gods.
"Sincerity is the most important thing." Wei Chunhua's hands deftly twirled the wool. "When my son was little, he was very fussy and cried in the middle of the night. I saw so many doctors but none of them helped. Then a relative told me we should try an external doctor."
"My wife never believed in this, but I really had no other choice, so I went to find the fox fairy through someone's introduction. To be honest..." Wei Chunhua recalled, her eyes revealing awe. Several people thought she had seen the appearance of a fairy and looked at her curiously.
"That immortal is incredible. Where is his home?"
"Where?" Deep mountains and old forests, Taoist temples?
"It's next to the county government office! There's even a portrait of the chairman hanging on the door!"
Wow, this skill is quite advanced!
"Later, my son got better."
"That's all?" He Yishu pressed. "What else?" Wei Chunhua looked at her amusedly. "I wasn't a ghost at the time. I just did whatever I was told to do. I just burned some paper and muttered a few words. I was half-believing and half-doubting, but he stopped crying afterward anyway."
"At the time, I thought, maybe it was because I was sincere. I made a wish to the immortal, saying that as long as my son could get better and I couldn't be reborn after death, it would be fine. You know what, that immortal was really powerful!"
Several people were silent. Although they were not normal people, it was New Year's Day after all, and they always felt sad when talking about it.
"I wish my mother was like you." He Yishu suddenly said with his head down.
"When I was a kid, I would just take some medicine if I could get better, and if not, I would just endure it. I remember one time when I had a really bad fever and wanted my mother to hold me to sleep, but she said I was a grown-up girl, so she just held me for a bit, and she slept with my younger brother in her arms that night."
"Later..." Li Xingzang and Yu Shishi suddenly looked up, one of them pressed down her rapidly growing claws, and the other slammed her down on the table.
He Yishu struggled a few times, but suddenly lost all strength. He looked at Li Xingzang in front of him with a sad look in his eyes, "Boss, I remember now."
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