When Chu Qiao walked out of the house, he found that it was only one night, but the whole old mansion seemed to have a new look, red lanterns were hanging everywhere, gilded Spring Festival couplets were also posted everywhere, and the servants were all dressed in red new clothes. The whole old house was festive.

The ancestral hall of the Shang family is at the back of the old mansion. When Shang Fangyan arrived at the ancestral hall with Chu Qiao, all the people in the family with status and status had already arrived, including the old lady and Bai Mao, who seemed to be waiting for their arrival.

Chu Qiao couldn't help but feel a little nervous when she looked at the hundreds of people from the Shang family who were all dressed very exquisitely in front of her, such a grand shrine event had rarely been seen on TV before, but now she was personally experiencing how not to be nervous.

Shang Fangyan pulled Chu Qiao to the front row, behind them were the old lady, Bai Yun and Shang Fangxu, and the third row was the second master, the second lady and the third master, the third lady, and Shang Yu, Shang Zi, Shang Rui, and Shang Rong. By the time he reached the seventh row, Chu Qiao couldn't tell who was who, in short, they were lined up in the back according to their different statuses, and the various sacrifices in the hands of the servants were even more staggering, looking around, the grandeur of the scene was unimaginable to Chu Qiao.

"Let's get started."

With Shang Fangyan's order, the noisy sound of firecrackers sounded, and then Shang Fangyan led Chu Qiao to enter the ancestral hall full of the ancestral seats of the Shang family ancestors under the command of the chief manager. The people behind followed in turn.

When all the people entered the ancestral hall, the servants brought hot water and towels for everyone to clean their hands and clothes, and after Shang Fangyan and Chu Qiao finished cleaning their hands, the servants all withdrew, and the chief steward ordered to start paying tribute.

The servants came in with all kinds of tributes, and after all the tributes were neatly arranged, the butlers and servants delivered the lit incense to the people, and everyone began to bow down to the ancestors with the command of the chief steward.

After kneeling and kowtowing three times, the incense in everyone's hands was inserted into the big incense burner in turn, and then Shang Fangyan began to serve wine to the ancestors.

Because Shang Fangyan had already talked to Chu Qiao before coming, so she didn't have to be nervous, she just followed what he did, and he would remind her in a whisper on the side.

Therefore, although the whole sacrificial ceremony was very cumbersome, Chu Qiao did not make any mistakes, and he was not nervous at all, but there was a little novelty.

It is already three hours after the completion of the entire ritual process, but the completion of the ritual does not mean that the event is over, on the contrary, the event to welcome the New Year actually begins.

All the clansmen gathered for lunch and then began the New Year's celebrations. Shang Fangyan, as the head of the family, naturally has to go through the motions everywhere, just like the old lady's eightieth birthday last time, Shang Fangyan took Chu Qiao around and returned to their own yard when night had fallen, Chu Qiao returned to the house and looked at the various large and small gift boxes and stacks of red envelopes in the house and couldn't help but be surprised.

If you open a few of them, they will be filled with ornaments made of gold, jade or jadeite, which are of great value.

"Are these all New Year's gifts for me?" Chu Qiao couldn't help but ask with a smile.

Shang Fangyan smiled, took off her shoes for Chu Qiao, put her feet on her thighs, and said softly while massaging her feet. "Of course it's not for you."

Chu Qiao lazily lay on the chaise longue with a shallow smile on his face, and glanced at Shang Fangyan, "It's not for me, it's for whom?" ”

Shang Fangyan couldn't help but reach out and gently pinch the bridge of Chu Qiao's delicate little nose, and said with a three-point smile, "It's all for other women in the old mansion." ”

Chu Qiao looked at Shang Fangyan with blinking eyes, looking puzzled, "Why?" ”

Shang Fangyan looked at Chu Qiao's playful and cute little appearance and chuckled, and explained, "I have taken over the entire family now, although some rules are cumbersome, they can't be changed all at once, according to the rules, except for my grandmother and mother on the first day of the new year, everyone else in the family is going to come to us to pay New Year's greetings, and you are my new wife, and it is the first time to spend the New Year in the old mansion, so for the female relatives who come to us to pay New Year's greetings, they have to give us some greeting gifts." ”

Chu Qiao nodded, I see.

Since she was a child, she only gave New Year's greetings to others, but now that she is married to Shang Fangyan, everything is really different, and the entire Shang family's clansmen have to come to her to pay New Year's greetings, and she has to pretend to be a local tyrant to give every female family a gift.

"And who are these red envelopes for?" Chu Qiao asked again. Estimated to be happy.

"For the children and the servants."

Hearing Shang Fangyan's answer so relaxed, Chu Qiao pouted and asked with a pitiful expression, "Then do I have any New Year's gifts and red envelopes?" ”

Shang Fangyan smiled, locking Chu Qiao's clear eyes full of temptation, and his voice was low and with a hint of demagogy, "Yes! ”

Chu Qiao squinted at Shang Fangyan and stretched out his hand suspiciously, "Then give it to me now." ”

Shang Fangyan smiled, deceived himself, and the ambiguous breath squirted on Chu Qiao's neck, and said angrily, "I'll give you all of myself, okay?" ”

Chu Qiao picked up Shang Fangyan's face and scolded him fiercely, this guy is getting more and more hateful, "It's not good." ”

"Why?"

"You were mine."

Shang Fangyan chuckled, his lips fell, his kiss was hot and hot, and with the brilliant fireworks outside the window, the scenery inside the house was infinitely beautiful.

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In the past, everyone watched the party around the TV during the New Year at home, but no one in the Shang family gathered in front of the TV, and the old and young in the entire old house would go to the theater to watch the vigil and gossip, although Chu Qiao was not interested in various dramas, but because Shang Fangyan was always with him, and Shang Fangxu and Shang Zi were always talking and laughing by their side, and the old lady and Bai Yun were watching and chatting with other people and couldn't take care of Chu Qiao, so Chu Qiao was also happy.

When the New Year's bell was about to ring, a new round of fireworks festival began, and the children led by Shang Fangxu begged for red envelopes for the elders in the theater, but after coming back from a circle, the servants who followed Shang Fangxu were holding countless red envelopes, and Chu Qiao of course also consciously gave red envelopes to the children, anyway, these red envelopes were not taken out of her own money, they were prepared by Shang Fangyan in advance, and she didn't feel distressed about how much she gave.

"Daddy, where's your red envelope?" Shang Fangxu looked at Shang Fangyan, who was sitting upright without any self-consciousness, and asked.

Shang Fangyan glanced at the group of children standing in front of him led by Shang Fangxu, raised his eyebrows and said, "Didn't Chu Qiao give it to you?" ”

Shang Fangxu pursed his lips, "That was given by Xiao Qiao, not by you." ”

Shang Fangyan raised his lips and smiled, turned his head sideways to look at Chu Qiao, who was looking at him at this time, and couldn't help but tighten his hand around Chu Qiao's waist, and said with a smile, "Chu Qiao represents me, so what she gives is what I give." ”

Shang Fangyan's voice just fell, and Chu Qiao and Shang Fangxu leaned at Shang Fangyan in unison, Okay, Daddy, you are really slamming the door.

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The vigil lasted until one o'clock in the morning, and everyone dispersed one after another, and went back to their respective courtyards to rest, and when they returned to the courtyard, Shang Fangxu asked people to carry his sack of red envelopes and threw them in front of Chu Qiao, and said with a proud face, "Xiao Qiao, these red envelopes are all for you." ”

Chu Qiao said with a look of surprise and amusement, "These are the fruits of your labor after working all night, okay for me?" ”

"There's nothing wrong with it, it's useless to respond to me asking for these red envelopes, I just want to give them to you, that's why I asked for them." Shang Fangxu said disdainfully about the sack of red envelopes.

Chu Qiao smiled, "Then I'll keep it for you for the time being, and then come back to me when you think of it when you think of it?" ”

Shang Fangxu thought for a moment, and said with a proud face, "Okay, you can do it, I'm going to sleep anyway, I'm so sleepy." ”

Chu Qiao nodded and hurriedly waited for the little young master to sleep.

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When he returned to his room, Chu Qiao looked at Shang Fangxu's sack of red envelopes and felt a little distressed, and looked at Shang Fangyan with a tangled expression and said, "Shang Fangyan, what should I do with Xiao Xu's red envelope?" Do you want to open an account for him? ”

Shang Fangyan took off his coat and said lightly, "Since he gave it to you, then you can watch it, and let it be." ”

This little money for the little money sent to the children, how could his father and son of the Shang family care.

Chu Qiao raised his eyebrows, and took out a red envelope from Shang Fangyan at random and opened it to take a look.

omg!

The red envelope was not filled with a large bill, but a check with six zeros on the back.

Okay, Chu Qiao really wants to cry, can she say that she doesn't want to keep it for Shang Fangxu?

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The next day, before dawn, Chu Qiao was woken up by the sound of Xuantian's firecrackers, and rubbed in Shang Fangyan's arms, she was really sleepy, and she didn't want to get up at all, but when she thought that today was the first day of the Lunar New Year, all the clansmen of the Shang family would gather together early in the morning to have breakfast and worship their ancestors, and then she would go to the old lady and Bai Yun's courtyard to pay New Year's greetings, so she didn't feel sleepy at all.

Shang Fangyan couldn't help but smile when he looked at Chu Qiao, who suddenly opened his eyes, kissed her eyebrows, and asked, "Have you been woken up?" ”

"Hmm~" Chu Qiao nodded lazily, his voice like cotton wool.

Shang Fangyan raised his hand to brush away the broken hair on Chu Qiao's forehead, and said dotingly, "It's only half past four in the morning, you can sleep for a while." ”

When Chu Qiao heard that it was only half past four in the morning, he immediately fell asleep in Shang Fangyan's arms again, but he opened his eyes in less than a minute.

"I'd better get up, the early birds get worms."

Shang Fangyan nodded, there were too many rules for the New Year in the old mansion, and it was impossible for him to change these rules just because Chu Qiao was alone, so he could only work hard for Chu Qiao.

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