On Chinese New Year's Day, Chinese people tend to stay at home. No shops are open on the streets, and even taxis are few and far between. It looks quite deserted.

Of course, if the family is reunited at this time, then of course it won't feel lonely at all. Yuan Yuanyuan is now alone at home.

Actually, this sounds quite miserable, but she was not in any unhappy mood today. It is unlikely that she really did not feel lonely, but Yuan Yuanyuan was used to being alone.

Yuan Yuanyuan stood at the door early in the morning, tore down last year's couplet with the word "Fu" on it, and replaced it with the couplet and the word "Fu" that were given to her as a gift when she went to the bank to deposit money last month, with the watermark of "China Construction Bank" on the bottom.

She fiddled with it for a long time, using the couplet to suppress the watermark on the word "Fu", and the banner to suppress the watermark on the couplet, and folded the top and bottom of the banner. Finally, when she looked at it from a distance, there was no watermark at all, perfect.

Yuan Yuanyuan stood at the door and gave herself a slap, expressing her admiration and pride in her artistic talents.

The refrigerator was filled with stuff. It was the fullest it had ever been since I met her.

There were leeks on the stove. Yuanyuan had washed them early in the morning and then put them in an iron steamer to drain.

What are leeks in winter... They are a luxury, everyone. Yuan Yuanyuan bought them in the past three days, and they cost twelve yuan per pound, almost the same price as pork. If I buy them today, the price will probably go up to thirty yuan.

The garbage refrigerator in her house was very small. It was the one in the landlord's house. It was estimated to be used for more than ten years. The cooling effect was very poor. Yuan Yuanyuan hung various things that needed to be frozen, such as raw meat and frozen tofu, outside the window in plastic bags. So when she suddenly looked outside her kitchen window, she saw a bunch of unidentified objects hanging.

After Yuan Yuanyuan finished pasting the couplets, she lay down on the bed. She slept soundly, as if she wanted to make up for the sleep she had lost in the past year.

It was not until about five o'clock in the evening that she was awakened by the messy noises outside. She leaned over the window and looked out. It turned out that a group of little monsters were gathered downstairs, chattering and chattering, as if they were going out to play together.

Yuan Yuanyuan rubbed her eyes and leaned against the window sleepily, feeling like she was going to fall apart from sleep. She looked at the group of little monsters below with a somewhat dazed expression.

Each of these little monsters is smaller than the other and they all look very cute. Yuan Yuanyuan rarely sees so many little monsters gathered together. Most of them are hiding somewhere. They seem to be discussing where to go. I don't know why the New Year is so exciting. Compared with them, Yuan Yuanyuan is quite different.

Yuan Yuanyuan shook her head and looked at the dark sky. It was a cloudy day today, and it was freezing cold. There was no one on the street, but there were many monsters on the street. She realized from the first New Year after becoming a half-demon that the monsters didn't seem to have much awareness of staying at home during the New Year.

A monster Yuan Yuanyuan knew passed by her window. He turned around and saw Yuan Yuanyuan lying on the window. He greeted her and said, "Hey? You haven't left yet. What are you doing at home?"

"I... don't have anything to do. I might go out for a while." Yuan Yuanyuan said.

This monster wasn't very familiar with Yuan Yuanyuan, so he just said hello and left. Yuan Yuanyuan usually hardly spoke to him, so she was quite uncomfortable seeing him suddenly talking to her. She probably thought it was a bit strange for a monster like her to stay at home like a dormant person during the New Year.

She was afraid that some monsters would talk to her. It was New Year's Day, and Yuan Yuanyuan still wanted to live a human life. So she turned around, drew the curtains, turned on the TV, and waited for the party while making dumplings.

It seems like the monsters are quite active today... Do you want to go out and take a look?

When Yuan Yuanyuan was making dumplings, her cell phone suddenly rang. The ringtone was not her usual one. Her phone was a knockoff with the legendary dual-SIM dual-standby function. This card was probably the one she didn't use often.

Not many people knew about that card. Yuan Yuanyuan wiped her hands and looked at her phone. It was indeed sent by Tang Shi.

【Tang Shi: Boss! Happy New Year! 】

Yuan Yuanyuan smiled when she saw the message and replied, "What are you doing?"

[Tang Shi: Looking at the gifts! There are so many! They are piled up like a mountain! Right in the square in front of my house!]

Yuan Yuanyuan asked, [You went out too? Was it fun?]

[Tang Shi: It’s fun. My dad and I were walking around the square. Usually there are a lot of offerings here. Some big monsters can’t be seen, so the small monsters like to write their names and pile them up here. The square is full of them.]

[The square in front of our house? ]

【Tang Shi: Yes, that one.】

Yuan Yuanyuan thought, "Oh, I never realized that the small square at the door has such a powerful function. It looks quite old at ordinary times."

She looked at the MMS that Tang Shi had sent her. The square was covered with "small hills" and little monsters everywhere. If she hadn't confirmed that today was New Year's Day, it would have looked just like the Lantern Festival.

Yuan Yuanyuan shook her head and threw down her phone. She finally understood what these little monsters were doing. They probably went to gather together.

While the show was on, Yuan Yuanyuan went to cook dumplings. According to her family's custom, they don't put money in dumplings, but put sugar in them. She made ten dumplings and put a piece of sugar in one of them. She ate them herself and then lay on the bed to browse her phone.

As she was brushing her teeth, she suddenly lay on the bed and felt like something was wrong.

This feeling is very confusing, but she can't tell exactly what it is. To be honest, it's like she felt like she had forgotten what she did as soon as she walked out the door.

Usually in this situation, Yuan Yuanyuan forgot to bring her keys or wallet.

What did I forget... Yuan Yuanyuan thought about it for a long time but couldn't remember it. She didn't take it seriously and forgot about it as soon as she turned around.

Even though it is Chinese New Year today, the cartoonists did not forget to update. However, except for a few unpublished updates, I guess they were all drawn in advance.

Yuan Yuanyuan turned on all the lights in the house around 11 o'clock. The lights had to be turned on during the New Year, and the ghosts and monsters were afraid of light and dared not come in. Although it always felt a bit strange to say this, Yuan Yuanyuan still turned on the lights according to her childhood habit.

She looked at her phone. She had been chatting with Jixiang Yu and the others for the past two hours. Jixiang Yu was telling them about the scene during their family's Chinese New Year this year.

[Group leader: There are still quite a lot of people coming this year, but not as many as last year. We had some problems at the end of this year. We had a fight with Taoist priests and many monsters died.]

【Black and Red: Didn’t you guys go with us to fight? 】

[Group leader: Why should I go along to fight? I will probably be defeated if I go up to them.]

Yuan Yuanyuan and Heihongse scolded Fat Cat for a long time. They knew that this guy had said in the group that he wanted to go to Africa alone to escape. Fat Cat did not get angry and let them talk openly. Yuan Yuanyuan did not know whether all the disciples of the big family were like him, but she knew that if they were all like this, then the big family would probably be destroyed.

[Group leader: Our family here still has to repay the little monsters... I saw that they called several people out. I guess it's the same as last year, they are here to help with the medical treatment.]

[Black and Red: There is a family here that gives gold every year... but it's a little too little. If you go too late, you won't be able to grab it. Do the noble families in your area give away anything? If they do, you can go and take a look.]

Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the conversation on her phone and suddenly realized that she had missed out on 100 million.

These noble families are just like feudal landlords, they actually give out gifts during the New Year... Although this reminds people of the "porridge distribution" in TV dramas, Yuan Yuanyuan still wants to take advantage of it.

[Quanquan: Are you all so rich? ! ! ! By the way, will there be a noble family that publishes a book on witchcraft? ! ! ]

[Group leader: ...What? ]

After he said this, Yuan Yuanyuan knew that she might have asked the wrong question. She estimated that during the Chinese New Year, people usually gave gifts related to money, and there were relatively few gifts related to knowledge, such as books on witchcraft.

She stuck out her tongue, said no more, and lay down to play dead, pretending not to notice the fat cat and black and red's various complaints about her ignorance.

Yuan Yuanyuan was lying on her back, looking at her cell phone, flipping through it, when she suddenly remembered something.

By the way...she herself is from a noble family, although she is the only one in her family.

Hmm... Yuan Yuanyuan was confused for three seconds. It seemed... she didn't need to give anything to others, right? After all, she herself had nothing.

Oh... so giving and receiving gifts is really a science... Whether it's human society or monster society, it's so troublesome and I don't understand it at all.

When Yuan Yuanyuan was struggling with the issue of gift giving and receiving, Fat Cat and Black and Red finally changed the topic. The reason was that Fat Cat suddenly said, "Tonight's Monster Record might be more interesting. I think he might draw something unexpected... I wonder if it's the same as what I think."

【Black and red: Something unexpected?】

[Group leader: Yes, it’s the sixth day of the Lunar New Year… I think I might draw it, but I don’t know what it will look like.]

[Black and Red: You mean that… I might draw it, but not necessarily now. Wouldn’t it be a bit provocative to draw it now?]

[Quanquan:...What? What? What are you guys talking about that I don't understand? ]

[Group leader: We are talking about the first Night Parade of One Hundred Demons organized by the Blood Jade Demon Army. ]

[Black and Red: If he wants to paint, then he probably can't get around this. Isn't it the right time recently? I think he might paint, but isn't it a good idea to paint these days? ]

Yuan Yuanyuan watched the two of them talking in words she could not understand at all. They often did this, and would leave Yuan Yuanyuan alone in the middle of a conversation. Yuan Yuanyuan had to make jokes to explain things to them.

But on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year...is this the first Night Parade of One Hundred Demons of the Blood Jade Demon Army? Will they also hold a Night Parade of One Hundred Demons?

Yuan Yuanyuan never really understood the principle behind the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons. When she first became a half-demon, she thought that only some extremely powerful monsters could do it. But gradually, as she got to know more about the monster world, she realized that not everyone can become a powerful monster.

She had thought that this must be led by a great monster, but for an army... can there be a term like "One Hundred Demons Night Parade"? It was still quite novel.

Every time this happened, Yuan Yuanyuan would realize that she was a complete novice in the demon world. She sighed and decided to watch "Demon Chronicles" tonight as if she were watching Conan since Fat Cat had predicted it.

At midnight, when the clock on TV rang, Yuan Yuanyuan opened the comic and read the plot.

As soon as she opened it, Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the cover for several seconds. Today's cover... is particularly different.

This is almost as good as New Year pictures.

The painting shows a bunch of messy monsters put together, basically all in Q version, which looks particularly festive. Yuan Yuanyuan thinks this may be the cutest painting that Ji Qiu has ever drawn.

I guess this is also to cater to the festive atmosphere.

Because of this "New Year picture", Yuan Yuanyuan's nervous mood suddenly relaxed. She even wanted to laugh. She didn't expect Ji Qiu to be so cute at this time.

With this feeling, Yuan Yuanyuan opened the comic, and the moment she opened it, the smile on her face suddenly froze.

There is a person in the painting, standing at the door, quietly pasting couplets.

The words on the couplet he posted looked strangely familiar, although the texture was completely different... but the content was the same. It was "Celebrate the festival with joy, and welcome the new year with lights and decorations", with "Family happiness" written across it...

…

Yuan Yuanyuan wanted to put the comic book away instantly, but she suppressed her anger and calmed herself down.

Calm down, calm down. So what did I do today?

Pasting couplets, making dumplings, eating dumplings, looking at mobile phones...

What is there to draw?

Suddenly, a huge firework shot up into the sky outside and exploded right in front of Yuan Yuanyuan's window. I don't know who was so desperate to set off a firework in the city.

Yuan Yuanyuan turned over her phone, looked at the picture in the comic, and her eyes turned dead.

The fireworks outside the window seemed to be celebrating.

The street was brightly lit, and several houses across the street had lit up colored lights.

It seemed that the only color left in the world was red. This color was very festive, and people had been using it to celebrate the New Year since a long time ago.

…

Ah, Happy New Year.