Chapter 170 Happy New Year

New Year's Eve came as promised, and the weather in Yanzhou plummeted, but it couldn't stop the strong atmosphere of the New Year.

The red line has been hung on the street for a long time. At a glance, it is red and very festive. At the end of the streets and alleys are the gorgeous flowers contributed by various families, and there are also a trail of golden and orange potted plants in front of some tall doors, which looks very dazzling.

Because the production of Shan Xiaowu is approaching, it is not convenient to travel back to Xiaoyao Villa for a long distance, so they plan to stay in Yanzhou for the Spring Festival this year.

Of course, Mrs. Shan is eager.

Even let people build a shed of charity early in the morning and do good deeds to accumulate blessings for the upcoming grandson. According to the usual practice in previous years, the gives for the festival are generally practical food such as rice and white flour. This year, in order to celebrate Shan Xiaowu's marriage and pregnancy, Mrs. Shan also specially asked people to add some warm quilts and cotton-padded clothes to the homeless poor families, and each family set up a catty of pork.

The single family is famous for its wealth and kindness in Yanzhou. As soon as Bushi's shed was set up, two long lines were automatically lined up in front of them. Most of them were old and weak women and children in front of them. Occasionally, a few good-looking young people want to come and fish in the queue, and let the onlookers with a full sense of justice rush to the back.

After living in Yanzhou for a long time, everyone knows the rules of giving alone, and everyone knows what to do.

After two consecutive days of giving, there were almost no people who came to make trouble. Everyone kept quiet and walked along the team. Everyone who received the relief products smiled on their faces. Fortunately, when they finally got better this year, they said auspicious words to Mr. Shan and Mrs. Shan, which was very happy.

Ben Lei has nothing to do and follows him as a porter. He said he was going to help, but he was busy showing his own electric eye charm, which made a group of big girls and little daughters-in-law turn around him for three days, making him smile every day, which was a spring breeze.

On the first day, Shan Xiaowu also followed. As a result, because she was pregnant and her resistance decreased, she stayed outside for less than an hour. When she went back, she had a little cold. As a result, she was not allowed to go out again the next day, so she had to stay in the house obediently and take good health.

On New Year's Eve, the big guys gathered in Shanfu and set up more than a dozen tables together with the maids. Everyone had a happy reunion dinner.

The next step is to set off firecrackers to welcome the old and the new, as well as pasting Spring Festival couplets and window flower paper-cuts, and then gather together to celebrate the New Year.

In the first half of the night, Shan Xiaowu was still very sober. She said enthusiastically that she must stay up all night to the end this year. As a result, not long after the Spring Festival couplets were posted, she was the only one in the room who slept dimly in her arms.

On the morning of the first day of the Chinese New Year, it was still bright. There was already a laughter of children playing outside, and there was also a crackling sound of cannons, which was very lively.

At the breakfast table, Shan Xiaowu was the first to receive the red envelope. When she opened it, it was a large silver ticket of 10,000 taels. She was so happy that she hugged his face without saying a word and kissed him fiercely. "Thank you, my father-in-law! Happy New Year!"

She was inseparable from her, reached out and touched her hair, with a smile on her face, "Happy New Year."

The emerald and Yao Xiang next to them watched the interaction between the couple, turned their heads red and covered their mouths and smiled secretly.

After being happy, Shan Xiaowu sat down again and took out a double line of gold and silver from the sleeve cage to show it. He could faintly see that it was a purse with a Tilian pattern. He was a little embarrassed to hand it over and said, "Son, this is for you."

When he took it, taking advantage of the gap he measured, Shan Xiaowu awkwardly explained, "This...he, it's the most successful one. Don't dislike it. When I practice well, I'll make a better one for you.

When she was a child, she didn't like needlework, and the female red kung fu didn't get home. This purse was still her busy work for more than half a month before she managed to succeed. It's naturally nothing compared with what's sold in the outside embroidery shop, but it's better than her heart in it.

Her father-in-law lacks nothing, and it's too tacky to send money, so after thinking about it, it's the most appropriate to send something made by yourself.

As soon as he raised his long eyebrows, he pulled her hands and spread them out. Seeing the small needle holes that were obviously pricked on the ten fingers, the thin lips immediately squeezed up unhappily.

With so many holes, is she sure she is doing embroidery instead of nails?

Put the purse in your arms and don't say anything. With a helpless expression, Yao Xiang took Jinchuangyao, carefully applied a layer on each of her ten fingers, looked up at her, and said faintly, "Don't make these things in the future. Just let them buy what you need."

Embroidered purse can puncture ten fingers. If you let her make a dress, it's hard to guarantee that she won't cut off her fingers and put them on clothes as decorations - it's too dangerous.

"...don't you like it?"

Seeing that he was inseparable, his face was black all the time, and Shan Xiaowu's jubilant heart immediately cooled down. His head was down, and the expression on his face was as depressed as he was.

For the first time in my life, I worked so hard to make handicrafts, but I was disliked as soon as I sent it out, which was too devastating.

After a pause, she knew that she was thinking crooked, and now she was both angry and funny. She sighed, "I don't mean to dislike it at all - as long as you do it yourself, I like it."

Shan Xiaowu had a mouth, but before she said half a word, she raised her sore hand, and her beautiful and deep eyes stared at her, "But don't make me worry anymore, huh?"

A woman who was very easy to coax raised her eyebrows and thought crookedly for a while, and then hesitated and nodded, "...Okay, I'll try my best."

As long as you don't dislike her poor craftsmanship, you can do anything!

After breakfast, the couple sent red envelopes to everyone in Linfeng Garden, and took them out to pay a New Year call to Shanfu.

Because it is the first day of the New Year, Yanzhou is not interested in doing business on this day. After working for a year, everyone has to have a good rest on this day. Three or five people gathered together, walking around relatives and greeting each other for a good New Year.

There are gongs and drums on the street, and the team of dragon and lion dances and dances with the people dressed as the God of Wealth to pay New Year's greetings to each family along the way. After getting money, they sprinkle a handful of huskling rice, which symbolizes the harvest, to the house, to symbolize the abundance of the next year.

People who went out also went home. The sound of cars and horses' hoofs resounded all over the streets and alleys, and they heard children's frolic and auspicious New Year's greetings in their ears. It can be said to be lively and jubilant.

As soon as I arrived at the gate of Shanfu, I met a group of small radish heads in the big courtyard. According to the customs of previous years, they were preparing to pay a New Year call.

Shan Xiaowu greeted and brought the little radish heads into the house. One person gave them a red envelope and a large handful of candy, and asked them to stay for lunch. After the little radish heads responded with great interest, they obediently found a place to stay obediently. The girls were led by maids to see the flowers, while some outgoing and lively boys insisted on learning a few tricks from Zhanyue as their teachers. Several older people went to the kitchen to help and let Mrs. Shan stop them with a smile.

What she means is that during the Spring Festival, children only need to be happy and responsible for playing. Naturally, adults have to do housework, and they don't have to worry about it.

Shan Xiaowu naturally stood on the united front with her mother. In the end, she was sent to take care of the silly little babies.

Near lunchtime, there are more and more guests in the single house.

There are not many relatives, but a lot of friends from Shan's father's business, and there are some rich officials who have not seen much, most of whom are for Shan Jinlin, a famous imperial historian.

On the first day of the lunar new year, it is a rare time for Mr. Shan, who has always been used to being stingy, to be generous. In order to win the good intentions of the family and the money brought by the market. On this day, there are usually more than 20 tables in the house, and the door of the house is open. As long as you come to pay a New Year call, no matter who comes to the table, you can have a meal.

Because there are so many people, after the first meal, most of them will automatically stay to help the kitchen, wash the dishes and clean up the table so that the next group of people can come to the table on time, just like eating a running water mat.

That's why the single family has been in Yanzhou for so many years, and the good reputation accumulated is that it can't be installed in several warehouses.

Thanks to the good reputation of the Shan family for doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, coupled with the personality of being uneven from the bottom, Shan Xiaowu is also a well-known kind-hearted lady in Yanzhou City.

Even if she is married and is about to become a mother, in the eyes of the older generation in Yanzhou City, she is still a loving junior. After this day, she can be said to be soft to receive red envelopes - of course, she also gave generously to red envelopes herself.

If she does this, she should not be in vain with the title of a time-traveling woman, right?

I went out for a walk. I was so tired that I couldn't lift my feet at dusk. When I returned to Linfeng Garden, Lang Xie and the little donkey Heizi immediately greeted her attentively and rubbed her feet. I don't know how much the two have stolen. The food crumbs on their mouths are piled up on the hem of Shan Xiaowu's skirt. It looks yellow, yellow, green and green, which makes Shan Xiaowu angry and funny.

It was asked to get the pair of 'Dragon Brothers and Donkeys' back to the backyard. Shan Xiaowu slowly let the jade help back to the room. After taking a shower, she climbed up ** and immediately fell asleep, so that she knew that the next day that someone had been sent to the Black Wind Village.

She ran around with her stomach for a day, and she was really tired.

On the first day of the lunar new year, I will give New Year's greetings to my parents, and on the second day of the lunar new year, I will go back to my mother's house as usual. In the final analysis, I still want to go to Shanfu.

Fortunately, Mrs. Dan knew that she had worked hard to walk around. After lunch, she asked her to go home and rest first, so she didn't have to go out again.

Because Linfeng Garden is on the outskirts of the city, people nearby only know that the beautiful house belongs to Shan Xiaowu, but no one comes to disturb them. Shan Xiaowu was very happy and quiet. When he came back from Shanfu, he gathered a table with Feicui Benlei and took the dried five-spice peanuts as a chip to play with the national essence as a pastime.

There is also a basket of kiwis on the side of the card table. Everyone has a table, digging and eating with a small spoon while playing cards.

"Madam, this kiwi is really fun. It's hairy and tastes good. It must be delicious to squeeze it into juice. Yao Xiang stared at the kiwi fruit in his hand, calculating how many it would take to squeeze out a glass of juice, and did not forget to play a card in his hand, "Nine tubes."

"Touch! Don't rob anyone from me!" Ben Lei shouted, hurriedly fished back the card, and then quickly played another card, "Fifty thousand!"

"Fifty thousand? Wait, wait!" This time, it was the jadeite's turn to be excited, "It's pasted! One color! Give me the money!"

"Shit luck..." Shan Xiaowu looked at a bad card in his hand, and his face was immediately half black, but he did not forget to respond to Yaoxiang, "Kiwi juice is the best to add some honey. Eating it often can not only prevent diseases, but also strengthen the body. Kiwi pulp is rich in vitamin C, which can enhance the body's resistance, which she is right.

"Ah, it can also prevent diseases!" Qiqiao ate it with a delicate spoon of pulp. After thinking about it, he suggested to Shan Xiaowu, "Madam, let's get some back and plant it in the village."

In this way, you can eat it at any time.

"No problem," Shan Xiaowu nodded. She also had the idea. "Next time I see my godfather, I'll ask him to give me some seedlings, and we'll take them back to Zhuangzi to plant."

Kiwi is only available in the back mountains of Heifengzhai. Now there is no one on the market at all. If you want to plant it, you can only transplant saplings there.

What they are eating now is still sent by Da Biao and Er Huzi yesterday. If it hadn't been for the fact that the two of them were in a hurry to go back to the stockade to accompany their wife, and that she had been unable to move now, she would have really wanted to go back and have a look with her.

Counting the time, she hasn't been to the stockade for more than a year. I usually only rely on letters and gifts, and I don't know what kind of situation it is now.

Thinking of this, when he went to bed at night, Shan Xiaowu suggested that he should either go back to see the familiar environment first, or wait for her to finish her confinement and go back together.

After thinking about it, maybe it was the timidity of his hometown, and he finally decided to adopt the second plan.

Take your wife to the door to give a big surprise to your father who hasn't seen you for more than ten years. Go back with a man and have tears when you see your fellow villagers. It may even be compared with the situation of a misunderstanding... It's the first situation that looks more harmonious and happy.

After solving the problem of not being able to leave her mother's house, Shan Xiaowu suddenly thought of another thing that had troubled her for a long time when she was drowsy.

"Fare, have you decided what to name your baby?"

He leaned his head into his shoulder socket. Shan Xiaowu touched the round belly with his hand and frowned high - it's not good to get a good name!

If it's okay for a daughter, it's cute to call her Tingting casually. But if you are born with a handle...

Is it possible to call it a baby? This is very straightforward, which can be used by both men and women. But the fact that both husband and wife can accept it does not mean that their son will be willing to put such a feminine name on his head.

Why don't you click directly and call it your son?

Pooh! This is even more deadly! Although, it's still a little cute...

"Don't worry, I've thought about it."

He calmly pushed Shan Xiaowu's twisted facial features back to the original position with his fingers one by one, and at the same time, he hugged her and lay down.

"Yeah? So fast!" Shan Xiaowu immediately came to his senses and turned his head to climb on his shoulder to ask for the truth. "What's your name? What's your name?" Tell me!"

"It's late at night. Go to bed first." Blow out the candle on the table with a wave of his hand. At the same time, he reached out and put her into his arms, put his chin against her head, and laughed mischievously, "I'll tell you later."

"... stingy!"