Chapter 70: The New Year

It turned out that when the time came, fireworks were lit in the government office, and the whole city got the letter, and fireworks and firecrackers were burned. Nalan hurriedly woke up Eruri and Hajilan, hurriedly dressed them, arranged their hair, and took them to the front yard to worship their ancestors. First, Qi Shi took Eruribai, and then Nalan brought Qibuchen and Hajilan to worship. When a set of rules is done, someone is asked to carry out a pot and put it on the table, and the dumplings in the pot are tumbling on the water.

Before he could pick up the chopsticks, Nalan gave Qi Shi a look, Qi Shi understood, sat down upright, touched the mustache on his chin, and asked in a loud voice, "Is the little day up?" Eruri, Qibchen and Hajlan all laughed, and Nalan held back his laughter and replied, "Get up." ”

Qi Shi smiled: "I will also be the master of the family today." After laughing easily, Qi Shiyi picked up Erluli, put him on the cabinet by the door, and said, "Son, jump a few times." "Eruri has done it for the first two years, how can I not know? He jumped three times with a grin, refused to ask his father to hug him, and slipped off the ground by himself. The whole family gathered around the table and waited to eat dumplings.

The family ate hot dumplings, and the harmonious atmosphere was even infected by Hajran. Since she crossed over, she always felt a layer away from her current new mother, brother and sister. And now E-Niang loves herself, and the lovely little brother has also brought Hajlan a lot of happy times, and the well-behaved and quiet sister has taken care of herself modestly, and her heart is long, Hajlan gradually accepted the new family and gradually integrated into this new identity.

A family of five was happily eating dumplings, and suddenly, with a "knock", Qi Shi's whole body stiffened and stopped chopsticks. It turned out that he had eaten the small copper coin wrapped in the dumplings, and Nalan was busy pouring tea for him, and said; "Congratulations to my lord, there will be great blessings in the coming year." Qi Shiyuan was startled, and when he saw that it was a copper coin, he was also very happy, and when he heard this, he hurriedly replied: "Madame is happy." Asked which dumplings had "filling", Nalan pointed out a few specially marked, Qi Shi clipped, carefully fed Eruri, asked him to spit out the copper coin, handed it to Nalan to help his son put it in his pocket, and then clamped two more to feed Qi Buchen and Hajilan respectively.

After eating the dumplings, the family said some more gossip, and the sky began to turn white. Qi Shi picked up Hajlan, who was asleep, and sent her back to her room.

By the first day of the next day, the whole family got up early.

Mama Gefohe had already changed Hajlan's new clothes, combed her hair, and brought her an auspicious gold collar, and led her to the hall. Tables, chairs and cushions had already been set up in the hall, and the three siblings kowtowed to their parents according to the instructions of others.

Although it was very unpleasant for Hajlan to kneel down for someone, and it was even more depressing to think that he would have to kneel often in the future, it was also a happy thing to be able to get the New Year's money from his parents after the ceremony. Hajlan watched Nalan tie a small silver orange around her wrist, and she was happy. But when she turned around, she was startled in her heart, thinking that it was possible that she had been pretending to be a child for a long time, and she had even become psychologically the same as a child?

Qi Shi hugged Hajlan and brought them to the table for breakfast. There is a ** dim sum meal on the table, in addition to snacks such as shaqima and rice cakes, there are fried puppets made of potatoes, noodles and sesame oil, auspicious and festive dumplings, thick soup stewed three treasures and other foods with Chahar characteristics, and a few bowls of steaming goat's milk, which looks very rich. Qi Shi would put Hajlan and Qi Buchen far away on the plate in front of them, and whispered, "Taste it slowly." Nalan was on the sidelines to take care of his son, constantly telling him to eat slowly. Later, she sighed: "I know you have to go out to play today, and I won't stop you, but you eat slowly, don't choke." Eruri smirked for a while, and sure enough, he ate slowly. Qi Shi laughed at Nalan's being "busy" and said, "Boy, what are you doing with this?" ”

Sure enough, before Eruli finished eating, another child came to tell him to go out. He couldn't sit still, so he took two snacks and ran, and Nalan only told him to walk slower. Hajlan wants to go out and take a look, he has been through it for so long, and he has never seen what the smell of the New Year on the street outside was like during the ancient Chinese New Year, so curious! However, looking at the quiet Qi Buchen next to him, he had no choice but to extinguish this thought, alas......

Nalan returned to his seat and continued to eat breakfast, looking at Qi Buchen and Hajilan, who were eating breakfast quietly and well-behaved, and smiled slightly. Nalan only stared at her daughter for a few moments, then put her attention back, looking at the few plates of dim sum on the table, she said with a guilty face: "I only have these plates of dim sum, which is too shabby compared to when we were in Beijing." ”

Qi Shi put down his chopsticks when he heard this, and said with a smile: "How can this be blamed on Madame?" How can Chahar's products be compared to the city of Beijing? Besides, you can't prepare such Chahar dim sum in Beijing. What's more, this is already very good, how much can we eat for breakfast for five of us? ”

Nalan still felt uncomfortable: "Even so, but for the New Year, there are only these few dim sums, which are not good-looking!" ”

Qi Shi smiled and said, "Madam, these are already very good. ”

After a while, breakfast was finished, and Nalan asked someone to clean up the dishes, and Qi Shi thought about Hajilan's little eyes when Eruri went out, so he was ready to take Qi Buchen and Hajilan to the streets. Hajlan's eyes narrowed into a curved line when he heard that Amma was going to take them out into the streets, and the corners of Qi Buchen's mouth turned up slightly to express her joy implicitly.

Qi Shi took Qi Buchen and Hajlan out of the house, ready to take a stroll in the nearby streets and alleys first. Although the weather is cold, it can't stop the joy of the New Year: the red balloons on the treetops, the red lanterns under the eaves, the fiery firecracker crumbs on the ground, and the "poured blessings" and red spring couplets posted at the doors of nearby households, as well as the red envelopes from the New Year's greetings held by the children who walked by, look at the smiling faces, listen to the overflowing laughter and laughter of every household, and the sound of "crackling" firecrackers in the streets and alleys, all of which witnessed the joy brought by the New Year to Chahar City.

After shopping for a while, Qi Shi took his two daughters to a very lively place in the city. As soon as he walked in, Hajlan felt as if he had entered a temple fair, with people side by side, crowds of people, a festive and peaceful scene. Look, the strings of big sugar gourds bent over with laughter; Listen, the little rattling windmill laughs from ear to ear; The person who pinched the dough here pinched a Monkey King; The candy man over there blew a little lamb...... All sorts of fun and interesting things have appeared. Ah, Hajlan looked at the most lively place, looked at Ama with puzzled eyes, and Qi Shi smiled slightly. Qi Shi's personal retinue Acton said with a look of adoration on the side: "Gege, Lord Dutong is very powerful!" Here's the thing......"

After listening to Actun's speech, Qibchen and Hajlan couldn't help but give Amma 32 likes! Chahar in winter, the snow is thick and sticky, in the slope of the slope of the soil is really walked by people to look very slippery, in some places the snow is stepped on by the water and freeze, children love to pull out of the house all kinds of climbing plows, or simply a smooth plank, pick up the slope from the highest place to slide down, this kind of game is actually very dangerous, the slope is deep and the slope is shallow, no one controls it, the natural site is generally uneven, there is a piece of granite in the middle of the pestle, and the children play without a spectrum, Adults can't follow all day long, and every year children are injured because of this. Before this year, Qi Shi organized his soldiers to carve the snow and ice into some snow sculptures and build some ice sculptures, which not only practiced the craft but also added some fun to the boring barracks life, and also made ice slides to prevent playful children from sliding and climbing plows in unsafe places. He sent his own soldiers to collect ice, and the special people broke it into large ice bricks, and built them on top of the frozen ground to form ice slides of different slopes and heights.

I saw the animals of the ice and snow sculptures, the octagonal pavilion, the jade screen, the ice calligraphy, the frozen tree hanging, etc., one by one, it is estimated that this year is better than in previous years, there are eight immortals in the hollow, Guanyin and other figures, quite a thin layer, you can put a candle on the cover, but you can't see the scenery of the ice lantern during the day. This place is not only for children, but also for adults. At most, ordinary people's homes are poor stick lamps, and the ice covers frozen out of iron buckets cannot be carved or carved, even if the rich people alone cannot afford this kind of project, they naturally want to take this opportunity to have a good look at this unique ice and snow garden. And the place of the ice slide is the children's world, only to see twelve ice slides, there are a lot of people playing, each ice slide put the plow at least five or six children lined up, just from the slow slope to stop a roll and stand up, drag the plow to rush up is not a few, fortunately there is a small soldier at each slide to maintain order, so as not to crash together due to the front and back.

Qi Shi's father and daughter walked around, and just happened to meet Eruri who was playing with his friends on the ice slide, and Hajilan was also carried by Erluli and sat on the plow twice. When I was tired of playing, I was sweating hot, and I went to buy sugar gourds to eat, and bought interesting noodles on the stall...... It wasn't until dinner time that they went home together.