This year's New Year is particularly early. After the first snowfall, the New Year's look is on the way.

Since my previous life, I have been relatively light on New Year's festivals and other festivals, not because I don't like festivals, but because of the limitations of practical conditions. In my previous life, my world was nothing more than me and Uncle Suzuki, and it was still the two of us who didn't spend the holidays.

And in our line, the New Year's Festival celebration is the most "business peak", sometimes he has a task, sometimes I have a task, and there are fewer people during the New Year's holiday...... Therefore, I have always been a little resistant to festivals, especially the Spring Festival.

But this life is different, I have so many friends and relatives around me, and every New Year's Festival is very lively, which makes people like this feeling again. So it's still the same sentence, the environment changes people's hearts and human nature, and the environment is a person's best teacher.

Uncle Yan Lei, Ye Gong, Uncle Ye, and of course, Yan Zhu, who has grown up a lot, made a special boat from Nanyang to Dongying, in order to spend this Spring Festival together! I was very moved, so the required item became Ye Gong's favorite drinking......

Toei also celebrates the Spring Festival, which is called "New Year's Month" here. However, the Spring Festival customs of Dongying can be divided into two periods - before the Meiji Restoration, Dongying, like the Central Plains, celebrated the traditional Spring Festival and adopted the traditional lunar calendar of the Central Plains; However, after the Meiji Restoration, Dongying was completely westernized, and although it still maintained the habit of "celebrating the Spring Festival", it abandoned the traditional lunar calendar and set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first month of the Gregorian calendar, that is, New Year's Day.

So there is a joke in modern Dongying, saying that women are like Christmas, and they will get married after twenty-five; Men are like the Spring Festival, and it doesn't matter if it's over thirty. It is the modern Dongying Spring Festival customs.

However, at this time in the Ming Dynasty, Dongying was no different from the Central Plains in the tradition of the Spring Festival, and still used the traditional lunar calendar, which also made his uncle and uncle and Ye Gong feel more cordial.

On the day of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, in Dongying, the day before Chinese New Year's Eve is called "Da Hao Day", and Kite, Lan and several girls with Qinglian and Yuhe ran out to buy early in the morning, saying that they wanted to spend the New Year solidly, and when they came back at noon, they actually bought several large bags of things!

I was very curious, and when I went over to look through the package, I found that there were three things in it - the first, food; second, semi-finished food products; Third, food raw materials......

So I fell into a deep silence, foodies really know no borders, no dynasty! From this purchase, I can see through the past and present lives of these girls!

In the evening, I was teaching a few relatives to play mahjong, and they served bowls of soba noodles at a low price, so that we must eat them all!

While eating noodles, Ye Gong asked with a smile, why soba noodles? This kind of noodles doesn't seem to be eaten very often.

After sucking a noodle and eating the whole noodle in her mouth, the kite muttered vaguely: "The reason why I eat soba noodles is because soba noodles are thin and long, and in the local culture, they represent a long stream of water and health and longevity, and we all hope that the elders can live as long as soba noodles." ”

Ye Gong laughed when he heard this, and Uncle Ye thought it was funny, so he asked, "Is there any other reason?" ”

The kite had already swallowed all the noodles at this time, cleared his throat and replied, "Uncle, there is naturally a reason!" ”

As he spoke, the kite picked up a noodle with chopsticks, and with a slight force, the soba broke. She squinted her eyes and smiled and said, "Because the soba noodles are easy to break, the elders all say that they hope to be able to stop the hardships and troubles of the year on the day of the Great Dawn Day, and not bring them to the New Year." Another point is to hope that we young people will be like buckwheat, which has tenacious vitality, is not afraid of barrenness, wind and rain, and thrives. ”

Uncle Ye smiled and nodded, and let out a long sigh.

Lan smiled and said, "Elders, this soba must be eaten before midnight!" If you can't finish it, it is said that it will affect the next year's gold luck! That's not going to work! ”

Hearing this, several elders immediately smiled and said, "That's not good!" If you lose gold luck, you will lose Qilan's silver! Let's eat more! ”

As he spoke, he was eating noodles and looked at Kite and Lan with a smile.

After eating the soba noodles, Ye Gong twisted his beard and smiled: "Qilan! ”

I groaned and said, "Here it is!" Ye Gong, you speak! ”

Ye Gong squinted his eyes and smiled: "If you want to say that you are not a small child, when I was your age, your uncle was about to be born!" Why aren't you anxious about your own business? If you want me to say, these two girls in front of you are good, what are you still picking? ”

As soon as these words came out, several of us were stunned, I once sent a letter to Ye Gong and them when they were engaged, but then these things changed, who knows what the situation is now? I didn't know how to answer, and Kite and Lan also blushed and didn't speak, and the atmosphere was embarrassing for a while, not up or down!

Qinglian looked at it from the side, her eyes rolled slightly, and she suddenly said unrelentingly: "Ye Gong, you only saw the handsome little girl from the family, but you forgot me?" Then I don't! What am I missing from others? ”

Yuhe heard it on the side, well, it makes sense, it should be for the young master to solve the trick, and then coaxed: "And I still have me!" My mother-in-law said that I have a big ass and am easy to raise, Ye Gong, you can't forget me! ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone burst out laughing!

Zhang Youxi watched from the side, snorted and laughed: "I really don't know what you like about this stupid melon?" One by one, I wish I could marry him, stupid! If it were me, I would have to find the best man in the world to marry! ”

When the kite heard her say that I was gone, she was very unhappy, and pouted and asked, "You say, what is the best man in the world?" ”

Zhang Youxi couldn't speak, and everyone laughed again.

Kite and Lan took the opportunity to stir up the New Year's money. Ye Gongyi was happy and forgot what happened just now, and took out the red envelope with a smile and sealed the New Year's money for everyone.

I didn't dare look at the kite, but I could feel her burning gaze. So I turned my head to look at Qinglian and cast a grateful glance at her. Qinglian looked at me, then at the kite, glanced at Lan, and finally at me again, making a slight sigh.

I also sighed slightly in my heart, in fact, the most inexplicable thing in this matter is me! I don't even know where my fiancée is at this time, and if I say anything like solving a lifelong event, it's all in the air!

In fact, it stands to reason that on my last trip to the Ming Dynasty, with the attitude and practice given to me by Huamei, I could have let go of it and not accommodate her, but I always felt that people should have a beginning and an end. And it is understandable that she was suddenly cataclysmic and emotional. I'm waiting for news from her, even if I live up to the feelings of the kite for this, I hope that at least there will be an explanation, a result, and something else.

For a while, my heart was in a mess, but fortunately they didn't give me too many opportunities to sigh and think wildly, and the lively red envelope ceremony interrupted my thoughts.

In Dongying, the New Year's money is called "New Year's Jade", but in fact, in the Fan Huaxia cultural circle, everyone's attention is almost the same. In traditional culture, people have three souls and seven spirits, and people believe that children have incomplete souls and are easily injured by evil spirits. In order to drive away evil spirits, promote righteousness, and ensure the healthy growth of children, adults removed the New Year's sacrificial offerings and distributed them to the children, which gradually evolved into New Year's money.

Ye Gongbao gave us a few New Year's money for ten taels, mainly because there were too many people - the first, second and third floors of the entire Sun Ji Noodle Restaurant were all full of banquets, we were on the third floor, including my henchmen, the lower floor was all kinds of manpower, and the bottom floor was all kinds of guys.

I originally made the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with the idea that everyone is happy, but I didn't expect that there were so many people, and this red envelope would not be easy to distribute! It is also not appropriate to favor one over the other, so you can only compress the number of units......

The other elders also expressed their hearts, and according to the rules, it is necessary to kowtow to receive the New Year's money. I have no problem kowtowing with the two brothers who do not regret it, but as a result, a few of them have to be together, and the nine ghosts and political filial piety next to them are not happy to see it, and they want to come. So I came and went, and the guys on the entire floor gathered next to me and gave a big gift to a few elders!

Ye Gong and his uncle and uncle are happy, they are old, and they just like to be lively. After kowtowing and continuing to eat and drink tea, Ye Gongfang was too excited, and his emotions were still a little difficult to calm down at this time, and he didn't know what to think, so he suddenly said: "I don't know where the third child is now?" What do you think? It's a pity that the dick can't be seen anymore! ”

After speaking, his expression suddenly calmed down.

I only heard these two sentences, and when I saw him sad, I felt very uncomfortable. But the Chinese New Year must not make the old people sad themselves. So I said with a straight face: "Ye Gong, the second uncle and ancestor have been extremely popular and vertical and horizontal in his life, and it can be said that he has no regrets." As for the length of human life, it is determined by heaven and cannot be demanded. So you don't have to feel sorry for the second uncle, tomorrow, I will burn more incense for the second uncle and tell him more about the current situation! ”

Ye Gong nodded silently. I said again: "As for the third uncle, I think he is very good like this!" ”

Ye Gongqi said: "Oh! What do you mean by that? ”

I smiled and said, "Although I have not met the third uncle for a long time, I deeply feel his heartiness and open-mindedness. In his opinion, as long as the heart is at home, wherever he goes, he is happy! Moreover, the third uncle ancestor is in good health, and he must be healthy! Maybe one day when he gets tired, he'll come back to you! I want to see that he has been thinking about you all the time! ”

Ye Gong's eyes were red with excitement and asked, "Really?" Is he still thinking about me? ”

I nodded, "Yes!" Seeing Lishuang, the third uncle is like seeing a relative! ”

Ye Gong nodded and was excited for a while, and then asked, "What about the frost?" Show me again! ”

I was silent for a while, and then said, "Ye Gong, I handed it over to my fiancée for safekeeping." ”

Ye Gong nodded and said, "Well, it's the girl of the Li family!" I heard them say, a good girl! It's just why didn't she come to celebrate the New Year together? ”

I shook my head, sighed, and told me everything about the situation. When Ye Gong heard this, he also sighed, and said in a sigh for a while: "The little girl's family, suffering such a catastrophe, is indeed difficult to settle. You might as well let her go around! But you still have to always care, don't let the girl's family run wild outside! ”

I couldn't laugh or cry, I didn't even know where she went, and it wasn't modern, just a phone call at any time. But he nodded his head and said yes.

Ye Gong said again: "I think these two Dongying girls are not bad, I really think about you everywhere, if one day...... Actually, I don't really think that much importance is attached to races! ”

I nodded, silent. Ye Gong sighed, patted me on the shoulder, and was just about to speak, when suddenly a continuous bell rang outside!

In Dongying, the temple bell is ringed on Chinese New Year's Eve, a total of one hundred and eight times. It is said that this is derived from the phrase "Hearing the bell, clearing the troubles" in the Buddhist scriptures. Buddhist teachings believe that there are one hundred and eight kinds of human afflictions, so the New Year's bell should be struck one hundred and eight times to eliminate all people's afflictions.

Ye Gong stopped speaking for a while, listening to the bell outside, thoughtfully. Because each time the bell is struck, it is necessary to wait for the last bell to be completely quiet, so it takes about half an hour, or an hour, to ring one hundred and eight times. It is said that when the bell is ringed, it is struck one hundred and seven times before midnight on Chinese New Year's Eve, and the remaining one is struck after midnight, so that you can no longer be disturbed by the old troubles of the past year and welcome the new year without worry.

Sure enough, at midnight at about eleven o'clock, the bell began to ring, and at this stage, everyone was quietly drinking tea, thinking about their own thoughts, or silently reviewing the situation of the year, or praying for the coming year. In this way, until midnight, when the last bell rang, Ye Gong picked up the wine glass and congratulated everyone on the New Year, and suddenly the building was full of jubilation!

When the wine was dry, I put down the glass, and my eyes inadvertently swept over the kite, but I saw that she was staring at me blankly. So I gave her a smile, but I sighed silently in my heart......