On the day of New Year's Eve, Liu Meiniang and Zhang Li got up very early to start preparing.

This is the first year that Liu Meiniang has traveled to another world, and Liu Meiniang is really infected by the atmosphere of the New Year.

The ingredients for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner had been prepared the night before.

After Liu Meiniang made a table of meals with Zhang Li in the morning, she began to change her clothes after returning to the room.

Of course, the New Year should be prosperous, and the clothes sewn by Zhang Li for Liu Meiniang include a set of pink, sleeves, and skirt embroidered with red peony flowers.

Because she drinks Lingquan water every day, Liu Meiniang's skin can be broken by blowing, and she looks beautiful without powder, like a poppy flower, which will suck people's souls at a glance.

So Liu Meiniang doesn't usually wear much makeup. But in the end of today's New Year, Liu Meiniang changed into new clothes, put on makeup with cosmetics made by herself, put on earrings made of rubies, and inserted a simple hosta on her head.

The face was coated with a faint rouge, and after melting, Liu Meiniang looked in the mirror and nodded with satisfaction.

After Liu Meiniang came out, Zhang Jihan was pasting couplets in the yard, Zhang Jirin was wearing a black dress embroidered with dark red patterns, with a belt around his waist, and the jade pendant that Liu Meiniang gave him last time was hung on it.

"Sister-in-law, do you think I'm good-looking?" Zhang Dandan ran out of the room wearing a small red padded jacket, and Zhang Li tied Zhang Dandan's hair with a red hairband.

Zhang Dandan's little face was flushed, and the hearts of those who saw it with big eyes were about to melt.

"Good-looking, Dandan is a little beauty." Liu Meiniang praised Zhang Dandan without hesitation.

"Sister-in-law, you look a little different today...... Zhang Dandan looked at Liu Meiniang and said in a daze.

"What's the difference?" Liu Meiniang pinched Zhang Dandan's nose.

"That's it...... It's just ......" Zhang Dandan didn't say it for a long time.

"Sister-in-law." Zhang Jihan had just hung up the lantern and came down from the ladder.

"Ji Han." Liu Meiniang nodded.

The moment Zhang Jihan saw Liu Meiniang, the roots of his ears turned a little red.

"Tongtong." Zhang Tongtong also walked over, and Zhang Jihan was also a little surprised when he saw Zhang Tongtong.

The looks of the Zhang family are not bad, Zhang Jirin is more calm, but Zhang Jihan prefers the appearance of his son.

Zhang Dandan has not grown yet, but Zhang Tongtong already has the shadow of a beauty, especially Zhang Tongtong has been wearing cold-colored clothes before, and today she is also wearing a water-red dress for the first time, and the lines of the whole person look a lot warmer.

Even Zhang Li wore dark red clothes.

"Mei Niang, am I too glamorous wearing this?" Zhang Li asked unnaturally.

"Where is it glamorous, not glamorous, you must look good in red." Liu Meiniang said with a smile.

"No, no, no, I'm a handful of old people, and what kind of red are you wearing." Zhang Li hurriedly waved his hand.

"Mother, don't say that, you're not old at all." Zhang Jihan walked up to Zhang Li's side and added.

"Poor mouth!" Zhang Li nodded Zhang Jihan's head.

The family had breakfast happily.

Zhang Jihan put up the couplets and hung the lanterns and set off a string of firecrackers in the yard.

The sound of crackling firecrackers can also be heard in the village, which sounds lively.

In the evening, Zhang Jihan lit a big bonfire in the courtyard, indicating that the new year was prosperous.

The customs of one place are still different from one place to another, when Liu Meiniang was celebrating the New Year with her grandparents in her hometown, her grandparents' house never lit a bonfire.

During the modern New Year, the family watched the Spring Festival Gala around the TV, but now few people watch the Spring Festival Gala, especially young people, even if they sit in front of the TV, they have been bowing their heads and playing with their mobile phones.

The New Year is becoming less and less flavorful. And Liu Meiniang experienced the feeling of the New Year's flavor here. Especially the beautiful window grilles pasted on the windows, which Liu Meiniang had never seen before.

The window grilles are all cut out by Zhang Li's family, and all the 12 zodiac signs are available.

To keep the New Year at night, Zhang Dandan is the youngest and can't stay up, so he doze off early. Liu Meiniang couldn't help but laugh when she looked at Zhang Dandan's dozing appearance.

"Ji Han, you take Dandan back to sleep." Liu Meiniang whispered.

"Let's let her sleep here, there will be fireworks at night, and I will wake up scared when I sleep alone." Zhang Li waved his hand, signaling that Zhang Jihan didn't have to take Zhang Dandan back.

"Dandan, get up and watch the fireworks." It was almost time, Zhang Tongtong crawled into Zhang Dandan's ear and whispered.

"Huh?" Zhang Dandan rubbed his hazy sleepy eyes.

"Shall you set off fireworks?" Liu Meiniang asked Zhang Dandan with a smile.

"Go, go, go." Zhang Dandan woke up suddenly. The drowsiness seems to be gone. Jumping out of the house.

Liu Meiniang and a few people also went out and set off fireworks in the yard.

The next morning, the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Zhang family got up early and sat down together for a reunion dinner.

The table is full of meals, and the winter meals are also placed, and some can be eaten at the next meal if they can't finish eating.

"Mei Niang, this is for you."

"Ji Han, Tongtong, Dandan, this is for the three of you." During the meal, Zhang Li took out four red envelopes from his arms and handed them to Liu Meiniang and the four of them.

"Mother, what are you doing here?" Liu Meiniang couldn't cry or laugh, she was already an adult, how could she still get the New Year's money.

"It's the New Year, you always have to give the New Year's money, you take it quickly." Zhang Li stuffed into the arms of several people.

Liu Meiniang pinched it and found that there were a lot of them inside.

"Mother, I don't want it, you take it back." Liu Meiniang pushed the red envelope to Zhang Li's.

"Take it." Zhang Li said angrily.

"Thank you, mother." Liu Meiniang couldn't refuse, so she had to accept it.

Liu Meiniang will save most of the money she usually earns and take out part of the money as her usual expenses.

Give Zhang Li and Zhang Jihan some silver from time to time. But Zhang Li didn't spend it, but saved the silver, and over time, he also saved a considerable amount of money.

After eating, Zhang Jihan went to the village to pay New Year's greetings. Most of the people in the village can get a little bit of kinship, and the basket Zhang Jirin is carrying in his hand with some melons and fruits snacks as gifts for New Year's greetings.

Liu Meiniang also took the time to go to an old house and gave red envelopes to Gao Yong and others, which also contained a lot of them, which attracted frequent thanks.

What I didn't expect was that there would be so many people coming to their house this year to pay New Year's greetings.

People who can have a little to do with everything poured into the Zhang family compound on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year.

"Auntie, we're giving you a New Year's greeting." There were people coming and going in the courtyard, and some people came to Zhang's house for the first time, and they were shocked to see the construction inside Zhang's house. They didn't expect that Zhang's house would be built so beautifully.

I am more determined to have a relationship with the Zhang family.

Liu Meiniang and Zhang Li also left early to prepare, and each red envelope contained 20 yuan, and everyone who came to pay New Year's greetings would give a red envelope.

Twenty is already a lot, and one or two articles are usually too much for New Year's greetings. Some people don't even give red envelopes.

However, there are still greedy people who start talking as soon as they go out from the courtyard of the Zhang family.

"How much money is in yours?" A ten-year-old boy asked.

"Twenty Wen, what about you?" Another tiger-headed boy replied.

"Me too, this Zhang family is too searching, living in such a good house, give us twenty wen." The boy said with a look of disdain.

"Twenty is a lot." The tiger-headed child muttered.

"Hmph, stingy guys, drink cold water, they live in such a nice house, it's true!" The ten-year-old cursed, and before leaving, he plucked a chrysanthemum that had bloomed in the garden.

Liu Meiniang, who was standing at the door of the hall, frowned when she looked at this scene, whose child was that Liu Meiniang probably had a bottom in her heart.

The child is definitely inseparable from the education at home, Liu Meiniang's family has money, is it difficult to give it to others? What logic.

Zhang Jirin is also celebrating the New Year here, but although the New Year in the barracks is lively, it is very difficult.

After the battle of Chuzhou ended that day, King Chun fled back to the border of Beirong with the rest of his soldiers and did not go to Youzhou. Zhang Jirin temporarily stayed in Nie Yuan's barracks and celebrated the New Year with everyone.

The barracks are full of old men, everyone drinks and eats meat together, noisy, but it also has a unique flavor.

"Ji Rin, tomorrow you go and point out the hairy boys under me, they have a lot of problems." Lao Xie drank a bowl of wine, patted Zhang Jirin's shoulder and said.

"Okay." Zhang Jirin also drank a big bowl of wine proudly.

In the evening, when everyone sat around the bonfire to roast mutton, Nie Changfeng and Zhang Jirin drank a little too much.

Nie Changfeng hooked Zhang Jirin's shoulders and said vaguely.

"Zhang Jirin, why didn't you know you earlier?" Nie Changfeng's face was slightly drunk, and he was a little drunk.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Jirin smiled. Nie Changfeng has a big personality, but he is actually a little childish.

"I've always been alone, I don't have any friends, those fox friends in the capital, don't count, if I had known you earlier, I'd ...... Alas. Nie Changfeng raised his head and poured a sip of wine.

Some people feel that they hate to see each other as soon as they meet.

"It's not too late to get to know. Isn't it? Zhang Jilin turned his head and said with a smile. Why not?

When he was at home, his younger brothers and sisters at home, and the burden of the family were on him, so how could he have time to make friends.

A few people who knew each other in the village, and when they reached the age when they should get married, they all became families, and began to circle around the family, saying that it was friendship, or more precisely, neighbors.

After coming to the barracks, he was bent on getting ahead, and he rushed to the front every time he fought, and he had a few friends around him, but they all died one after another.

Zhang Jilin felt a bitterness in his heart, and he also took a sip of wine.

"Hahaha, do it!" Nie Changfeng picked up the bowl and touched a cup with Zhang Jirin.

After three rounds of drinking, Zhang Jilin thought of Liu Meiniang, and the corners of her mouth hooked up a wry smile, a maverick woman like her, if he didn't say goodbye, she would definitely be very angry.

Goodbye, I don't know when it is, but Zhang Jirin knows that he will be able to see him again soon.

After getting drunk, Nie Changfeng talked about a friend of his surnamed Xue in Beijing.

said that the friend seemed to be a hanger, a gentleman, but in fact, he was also persecuted by his family, and there was no way, and later he went out to do business, and finally made a name for himself.

Zhang Jirin frowned, he always felt that the person Nie Changfeng said seemed familiar, but because he drank a little too much, Zhang Jirin didn't think about it.