Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's New Year's Eve!
Early in the morning, before Song Yan'er and Xiao Yang even got out of bed, they were woken up by the old lady's shrewish roar!
"You have to admire the old lady's energy; she's even better than many young people!"
Song Yan'er complained as she got dressed!
Seriously, if it weren't for New Year's Eve, and if the kids weren't already up, Song Yan'er would have gone straight to her space to continue sleeping!
I can't let my kids say they're lazy!
Xiao Yang nodded in agreement upon hearing Song Yan'er's words.
"I don't know why, but my grandma has always seemed different from other grandmas since we were little! You could say she's like an empress dowager, but she never puts on airs in front of us younger generation! You could say she's unpretentious, but sometimes she can be incredibly eccentric! In short, you can never really figure her out!"
Song Yan'er glanced at Xiao Yang:
"I think the old lady is quite simple! I can tell what she's thinking just by looking at her!"
Xiao Yang...
"So you two are close, okay?!"
Song Yan'er...
Well, they won't even let people speak the truth anymore!
Song Yan'er and Xiao Yang quickly got dressed and went out!
"Yan'er, come here quickly! Today is New Year's Eve, my first New Year's Eve since leaving the palace! How can you be so calm? And get up so late?"
Song Yan'er looked puzzled:
"So, what does all this have to do with anything you're saying?"
old lady……
Okay, I got a little too excited and started rambling!
Song Yan'er looked around and thought, "Oh dear, it's only her and Xiao Yang who got up the latest!"
Even Xiao Kai, who was recuperating here, got up to help!
"I'm here! I promised my family this year that I would spend the New Year with you all! Hehe, you haven't written the Spring Festival couplets yet, have you? Xiao Yang, grind the ink, I'll write two!"
Xiao Yang's maternal grandfather hadn't even arrived yet when his booming voice came over, clearly indicating that he was in a very good mood!
"Grandpa, are you really going to celebrate the New Year with us?"
Xiao Yang was very excited because he hadn't spent Chinese New Year with his grandfather for many years! He missed him terribly!
"Yes, I've already talked to your grandma, and we'll come over to visit you this year. I miss you so much."
Xiao Yang didn't know what to say for a moment. These were truly the two people who had been the best to him in his life: his maternal grandparents!
Xiao Yang was truly grateful that they could still spend the New Year together. He could accept that the old lady was there all the time, but the old man, who also had a large family, had actually left them to come and keep him company this year. Xiao Yang didn't know how to describe his feelings!
Song Yan'er looked at Xiao Yang with doting eyes: He really is a simple-minded man!
To prevent Xiao Yang from remaining emotionally unstable for too long, Song Yan'er reminded him:
"Xiao Yang, Grandpa is going to write Spring Festival couplets. Bring the table out so the children can all see!"
"Yes, yes, write it outside, hurry up!"
Then a group of people surrounded the old man and watched him write Spring Festival couplets!
Xiao Yang skillfully laid the red paper on the table, and the old man picked up his brush, dipped it in ink, and began to write on the red paper! In one go, he finished writing half of the couplet!
On the red paper was written the words "Welcome the New Year and May You Have Good Fortune Every Year". The old man was the chief tutor, so his handwriting was excellent, strong and powerful, and the characters seemed to penetrate the paper!
The second line is also written: "Receiving great fortune, rising higher and higher step by step."
Horizontal scroll: Good fortune and happiness
Xiao Yang quickly placed the written Spring Festival couplets on the back of the chair next to him to dry!
"Xiao Yang, write a few 'Fu' characters!"
"Hey, you're only writing one picture? What, doesn't the neighbor need to put one up?"
The old lady watched as the old man stopped writing a piece and immediately asked him questions!
The old man had truly forgotten about what happened next door, and looked at the old woman with a smile:
"I'm getting old, and my wrist gets uncomfortable writing these few characters. Let me rest for a bit, then I'll write another one!"
The old lady rolled her eyes at the old man's blatant lying.
After all these years together, how could I not understand what you're thinking? If you've forgotten, you've forgotten. Why bring it up again?
But I'm in a good mood today, so I won't hold it against you!
After Xiao Yang finished writing several "Fu" characters, the old man wrote another one:
First line: May every year bring you good fortune and a hundred blessings.
Second line: May peace and good fortune be with you every year.
Horizontal scroll: A Bountiful Year
The old lady finally gave the old man a smile when she saw the couplet he had written for her!
Hmph, that's more like it. If I couldn't write well, I wouldn't be spending the New Year here!
The ink dried quickly, and Xiao Yang and Xiao Kai led a few kids to excitedly put up the couplets!
Song Yan'er and the old lady also entered the house, because Song's mother had also assigned them a task: cutting paper flowers for the windows!
Song Yan'er was initially strongly opposed, saying that she could help with cooking, but she really didn't know how to cut paper snowflakes, that kind of girly thing, how could Song Yan'er know how to do it!
However, Song's mother insisted that they should cut paper snowflakes every year during the Lunar New Year. She said that if the children grew up and Song Yan'er taught them how to cut paper snowflakes, it would be embarrassing if Song Yan'er didn't know how, since it's such a simple thing!
Anyway, Song Yan'er couldn't go against her mother's wishes, so she dragged the old lady along with her!
Song Yan'er was still thinking about what to cut when she saw that the old lady had already finished cutting one!
When Song Yan'er picked it up, wow, it was a chubby baby with its mouth wide open in a big laugh! The lifelike appearance made Song Yan'er quite fond of it!
"Grandma, you're amazing! This looks so beautiful!"
The old lady seemed to be recalling something:
“Back in the palace, the New Year was incredibly boring. It was all banquets. Occasionally, I would pretend to be sick and skip the banquets, and instead, I would cut paper-cuts in the Cining Palace. I felt that only when I was cutting paper-cuts could I calm down and stop thinking about other things, so I got better and better at it!”
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