The weather is getting colder and colder, but the atmosphere in the imperial capital is getting more and more enthusiastic, because it is going to be the New Year here.

On December 15th, the students of Imperial Capital University left the campus because they had finally waited for their annual holiday, the annual vacation.

Compared to the students on Earth, the students on the other side of the planet are more miserable, they only have one vacation a year, starting on December 15 and ending on January 15 of the following year, a period of 30 days.

It's better now that there are trains and airships, and before there were only animal cars, stopping and swaying along the way, and some students were even going to start school before they got home.

This not only limits the time students can spend with their families, but also limits the geographical scope of the university's student enrollment, many of whom are too far away from home, including many outstanding students.

After the students left, the school was much empty, and even the librarians had less work, and it was almost the same if they didn't work for two or three hours, because they also had the New Year.

It's just that I can't go home, I can only live here, and this is also something that can't be helped.

Fortunately, there are many faculty and staff who stay on campus at this time of year, and everyone can have fun.

Dong Chen found that the preparations for the New Year here are similar to those on the earth, but here is very unified, there is only this one, unlike on the earth, there are several because of the difference in country, race, and culture, and the Spring Festival, New Year's Day, Christmas, etc., are all similar festivals.

I don't know if it's because he is a native of China and has stayed in China for the longest time, according to his observation, he feels that this place is more like the Spring Festival in China, and he also prepares a lot of food, and then relatives and friends are ready to visit the door, and listen to those librarians who say that they also want to pay New Year's greetings and give "red envelopes" to juniors.

This custom has been passed down from the very beginning, and they have to pray at 0:00 in the morning in the church to ask for forgiveness from the god of technology, which originated from the original "expulsion incident".

After spending seven hours in the church, I went home to worship my ancestors and thank them for their struggle.

Then there is the city full of New Year's greetings to the elders, thank the elders for their contributions to the family, thank the elders for their nurturing grace, and then the elders give "red envelopes".

In fact, it is a coin, with any face value, which is a blessing, a kind of support, support, and help growth for juniors.

"The family has money, which can support you to grow up, grow up quickly, and then contribute to the process of building the family."

The whole process will last until noon on the 1st, a full 12 hours, and then you will eat the first meal of the new year to show your future.

Although there are slight differences in the habits of various races such as humans, elves, dwarves, and barbarians, the process on the first day of the new year is basically the same.

Dong Chen doesn't feel anything about this, there are no elders here, he doesn't have to pay New Year's greetings to anyone, and there are no juniors, so he doesn't have to accept other people's New Year's greetings.

Fortunately, this is the case, otherwise he is more than 20 years old on the surface and more than 200 years old in reality, which is really not easy to do.

If it was in Black Rock City, Shibel and the others would still come to pay New Year's greetings, but they were not relatives, so they wouldn't need that set, but another.

At most, he himself went to see Mehya and Andorf, brought some gifts, and said good for the New Year, and if he could, he would go to the Boulder Tribe to see the Great Elder.

It's just that here, Dong Chen found that it was a little not lively enough, although he was invited by Jin Shanshan to get together with them, but when it was time for the real New Year, they were still busy going their separate ways, and Dong Chen could only be with the faculty and staff.

This is actually okay, the imperial capital is still very lively at this time, there are all kinds of performances, there is no shortage of aristocratic balls, and there are lights inside and outside the house, and according to Jin Shanshi, they said, this year with bright biogas lamps and magical gramophones, the atmosphere of the New Year is much better than in previous years.

However, Dong Chen still felt a little too quiet.

Although there were many places on the earth that banned fireworks and firecrackers in China before, there are still many small cities, towns, villages and so on that can be set off, and even for many people, listening to the sound during the New Year is also the only New Year's atmosphere.

But the other side of the planet, which did not invent gunpowder, must lack this kind of voice, which is also a pity for Dong Chen.

You must know that on the earth, when other countries regarded the initial gunpowder as an important weapon, Huaguo began to light the skill tree of fireworks in ancient times, thinking about how to play.

Later, when the Chinese New Year fireworks were set off, especially at night, as long as any small city was chosen, it could play the effect of night fighter air raids.

The fire emitted by rapid-fire fireworks is like a tracer bullet in an anti-aircraft machine gun, and the bright light goes straight into the sky, and according to the different rate of fire, you can also imagine that the models of anti-aircraft machine guns are different, such as metal storms, 730 close defense guns, 1130 close defense guns, ordinary anti-aircraft machine guns, etc.

There are also two kicks, hemp thunder, salute shells, with hand-welded steel "barrels", and even some cattle people will make "semi-automatic ammunition changing devices", which are properly anti-aircraft guns.

Such videos are put on the Internet, and many people will speculate that this is another war in such and such a place, the other side sent fighter planes to bomb at night, and then the anti-aircraft fire on the ground was fully fired, and finally all kinds of bricks started from tactics, strategy, national forms, humanistic morality, etc., and made up a tragic war picture.

But in fact, people just set off a cannon for the New Year.

Nothing more.

Of course, it's actually quite good-looking, especially with the air defense alarm, and after turning the screen green, the viewing effect is better.

This festive scene is definitely invisible here, there is no legend of the beast here, there is no need to drive away firecrackers, Dong Chen does not plan to invent gunpowder for such a trivial matter, and the matter of gunpowder will wait until his own territory.

However, on the evening of the thirtieth day, Dong Chen still found some bamboo, burned it in the bonfire, and listened to the most primitive "crackling" firecrackers.

When others asked, Dong Chen said that it was his hometown customs, because the geographical isolation of this world is too powerful, every place has its own customs, so others will not delve into it, except for a few people who know that Dong Chen is from the "New World", most people only know that Dong Chen is from Black Rock City.

On the 30th night, they didn't have the Spring Festival Gala to watch, no Weibo to swipe, and no dumplings to eat, but they could watch the performance around the bonfire, and then barbecue and eat it over the bonfire.

There is no orchestra in the school, and the teachers and staff in their school can get a party, don't look at the usual teachers and staff are polite, in fact, they are all well hidden and versatile.

But obviously, there are not many people watching the performance around Dong Chen's bonfire, because Dong Chen's baked things are too fragrant, and they are all waiting to eat it.

So Dong Chen's talent is - ancestral barbecue.

even finally seduced the other people by the fire, and then Dong Chen inexplicably won the first prize of this year's talent show, and also won a beautiful steel small commemorative medal.

Being able to eat such delicious food before fasting at 12 o'clock doesn't know if it's happiness or distress.

In the end, he followed the team to the main church of the Science and Technology God Sect next to him for seven hours, and Dong Chen's first year on the other side of the planet had passed.