The whole Cen Mansion is busy with some matters for the New Year, Cen Xiyan seems to stay in the Jinglan Pavilion every day, and the door is not out of the door, in fact, she is not idle.

After the new year, Cen Xiyan quietly went to Shiquan and Liuxiangzhai again, arranged some things for the end of the year, and told the moon and Tao Niang that they could report to Ning Zhiyuan or discuss with him if they had something.

Busy and busy, finally reached the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

On this morning, there was a little green snow in the sky, it didn't fall much, and the weather was a little colder than before, but this kind of weather did not affect the atmosphere of the New Year at all.

When they got up early in the morning, Jingshuang and Yingxue took new clothes for Cen Xiyan to change into, and chose suitable headwear and accessories to help her groom up.

Although Cen Xiyan doesn't like the color of red and purple, she has to celebrate the New Year, and she has no choice but to wear it.

Jingshuang is a careful girl, knowing that her young lady is a concubine, in order to avoid others finding faults, the new clothes prepared for her are not red, but a set of silver-red jacket skirts, with silver thread hemming and outlining patterns, collars, sleeves, etc., but also inlaid with white rabbit fur.

Cen Xiyan changed into this dress, which looked festive and elegant, and it was a little more playful and smart, which was very in line with Cen Xiyan's age and temperament.

Dressed neatly and cleaned up, Cen Xiyan looked in the mirror, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart, although her appearance is very similar to her previous life, but if she looks closely, she is still more beautiful and dazzling than her previous life, perhaps, is it because she is the same age as a flower now? Hey, it's good to be young......

For breakfast today, Cen Xiyan did not fire alone in Jinglan Pavilion, and Cen Xiqin did not come over to eat.

Cen Xiyan took Jingshuang and Yingxue, two personal big girls, and went to the eldest lady Li first to ask Li for peace. At Li's place, I met Cen Xiqin, who also went to ask Li for peace.

Li let the two sisters sit down and gossiped with them for a while.

After a while, Cen Xihan and Cen Xitong also came over and saluted the Li family.

Cen Xihan and Cen Xitong are the concubines of the big house, and the Li family is the mother-in-law, although they both have their own biological mothers, strictly speaking, only the Li family can be regarded as their mothers. On such a major festival as the New Year, of course they have to come to greet the Li family.

The Li family was indifferent to these two concubines, not close, and not too harsh, and when they saluted, they didn't say anything, just nodded and let them get up, and then took these girls to Furong Garden to see Mrs. Cen.

When I arrived at Furong Garden, there were already a lot of people gathered, and most of the masters of all sides and courtyards had arrived.

After the Li family greeted Cen Lao Taijun and Cen Biao, he went to his seat to sit down, and the young masters, young misses, and young masters of Cen Mansion began to salute the elders one by one.

Everyone was busy surviving, and a lot of time had passed, so Mrs. Cen turned her head and instructed a few big girls around her, "Send a message to the kitchen and set the meal." ”

"Yes, old lady." The eldest girl Chuntao agreed, and hurriedly went to pass the word.

Cen Biao, Li, Cen Lan, and the old lady's favorite little great-grandson Cen Mingyu accompanied Mrs. Cen to dinner at the main table.

The other young masters and young ladies in Cen's Mansion were divided into men's and women's seats, and they ate separately.

Today is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and Aunt Feng, who usually doesn't come to Old Lady Cen much, as well as Aunt Han and Aunt Zhou, who have not been born and raised, and the two concubines in the second room, Aunt Lu and Aunt Dou, also came to Furong Garden.

The concubines in these two rooms, headed by the Zhao family, opened another seat at the end, which can be regarded as having a reunion dinner with everyone in the Cen family.

Chinese New Year's Eve is the most valued festival, and the larger the family, the more important the etiquette on this day. Therefore, the Cen family's breakfast on this day was also very regular, and the food was exquisite, except for the slight sound of bowls and spoons bumping, there was no other sound.

Cen Xiyan secretly rejoiced, fortunately, before leaving Jinglan Pavilion, she ate two pieces of pastries given to her by Yingxue and cushioned her stomach, otherwise such a family banquet would be too much of a loss.

After breakfast, the old lady asked his subordinates to paste Spring Festival couplets and hang lanterns, and the men began to prepare for the ancestors.

The ladies and ladies were fine, so they all sat around Mrs. Cen, laughing and having fun.

Cen Xiqin was an idle person, so he took out Galaha and beckoned Cen Xiyan to play together.

This galaha is made of the kneecaps of sheep, pigs and other livestock, and is a toy that is played with with a millet pocket.

This kind of toy, in Cen Xiyan's cognition, was popular to play with this kind of thing in the Northeast girls in her previous life, and it is said that it only began to exist in the Jin Dynasty, but in this time and space, there are already such toys in this era, and they are also passed down from the Northeast region.

Sheng'an's geographical location in the eastern part of the country is also northern, the nobles of the capital, in recent years, it is also popular to play this kind of galaha, not to mention the New Year, every family has to slaughter sheep, kill pigs, livestock kneecaps are more, play this little girl is more.

Moreover, playing galaha can liven up the atmosphere, and it is perfect for playing with this toy during a lively festival like the Chinese New Year.

"Sixth sister, let's play together, we have to bring the color head!" Cen Xiqin smiled at Cen Xiyan. After that, she asked her eldest maid Xiaoyi for a purse of broken silver and threw it on the table.

She is a master of playing Galaha, she can't win against the sixth sister with anything else, play Galaha, she must taste the feeling of winning the sixth sister!

When Cen Xiyan heard this, he smiled slightly, and said, "Okay." After that, he also asked Jingshuang to take a bag of broken silver and put it on the table.

Seeing this, Mrs. Cen suddenly became interested, asked Xia He to take a pair of jade pendants, and said with a smile: "Whoever wins the two of you sisters will be rewarded for this pendant." ”

The eldest lady Li smiled and took out a silver ticket of one hundred taels, which also served as a lottery head.

Cen Xiqin's eyes rolled, and he smiled and proposed: "It's better to do this, let's just start a gamble!" How about a grandmother sitting in the bank? ”

Although "gambling" is not something to mess with, it is nothing to play with relatives now that the Chinese New Year is over.

Mrs. Cen didn't hesitate much, and agreed to Cen Xiqin's proposal.

Seeing that Mrs. Cen agreed, everyone was also interested, and they bet one after another, and even some favored maids and mothers-in-law were also allowed to bet, and for a while, the atmosphere in the room was unprecedentedly lively!

Most people know that Cen Xiqin is very good at playing Galaha, and they all press Cen Xiqin to win, and there are a few people who crush Cen Xiyan to win.

Cen Xifen saw that everyone's attention in the room was on Cen Xiqin and Cen Xiyan, and she was jealous in her heart, and her face was very unpleasant.

Cen Xihan also looked at Cen Xiyan's shallow smile was very eye-catching, but he controlled the emotions in his heart and did not show it.