Today, maybe it's because it's snowing and it's extremely cold, or maybe it's because Liu Man'er got up earlier than ever, when she finished running, practicing arm strength and archery, and was about to go out for a walk around the horse, Fang Shi and the others got up one after another.

Fang Shi opened the door, just in time to see Liu Man'er going out again, so he couldn't help but remind, "Man'er, today is Chinese New Year's Eve, don't wander too far in the morning, come back early." ”

"Ah, is it Chinese New Year's Eve, so soon?" Liu Man'er patted her head after speaking, "Oops, I actually forgot that today is the Chinese New Year." ”

"What did you have in your head this day?" Fang shook his head and said, "Okay, you go, come back early." ”

"Forget it, if it's the New Year today, I won't go out." Liu Man'er said and turned back and walked into the house, went to the bathroom to take a bath, and changed into looser home clothes.

After washing, it was still early, Liu Man'er went to the study to write a notebook, Ye Feng and a few people read in the study in the morning, and Ye He and Cao'er also recited some poems seriously.

Liu Man'er thought that next year she would invite a female master to come to her home and teach them piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, now that she has money and a big heart, everyone likes her children to become better, not to entertain others, but to entertain herself.

She asked Ye He and Cao'er to learn this, she never thought about what she wanted them to learn, she just cultivated a little interest for the two girls, of course, she also asked their opinions, and the two little girls agreed shyly.

In their eyes, the piano is such an elegant thing, they didn't think to touch it at all, but now, Liu Man'er actually said that she wanted to ask someone to teach them to play the piano, which was something they couldn't ask for.

Speaking of the piano, Liu Man'er also thought of herself, in fact, she can also play the piano, she can play the lyre. I still remember that time in my previous life, the little girls from rich families were popular to learn piano and guzheng, but Liu Man'er was high-spirited, she knew that she started late, and the guzheng and piano must not be as good as others, so she found another way to learn the guqin.

When she thought of the piano, she suddenly thought of playing a song, but she searched the whole house, and she couldn't find even a single string. What's more, even if she has a piano, she doesn't dare to play it, she can't say that she can play the piano because she has listened to the people in the piano shop play it, and then she learned it herself, which is too fake.

It seems that it is really urgent to invite a master who can play the piano, not to mention, Ye Feng and Liu Fusheng should also learn the piano, the six arts of the gentleman, these are all required to be tested in the exam, although the piano skill does not account for a high proportion in the exam, just as a reference, but after learning well, at least they will not be ashamed in the exam, and they can also cultivate the kind of temperament that is as warm as jade.

It's just that it's useless to think about it now, this New Year, who will come to their own house to be a pianist, or think about the New Year, after breakfast, the time is still early, Liu Man'er organized everyone to do some activities that should be there for the New Year.

For example, cutting window flowers, or painting New Year's pictures.

In the morning, she first cut the window flowers, and Fang's was the master, teaching Liu Man'er and others to cut them, saying that Liu Man'er had never cut the window flowers before, and her skills in cutting window flowers were not even comparable to the grass and Ye He, and at first because the cut was too ugly, she was also laughed at by the two.

But she is a stupid person, such a thing as cutting window flowers is naturally difficult for her, after Fang's teaching twice, she will soon be able to cut out some simple window flowers, as for those more complicated window flowers, Liu Man'er can just follow Fang's cut directly, anyway, she never thought of making herself a master of paper-cutting.

When the aunt in charge of the kitchen came to ask Liu Man'er and others to eat, they were still fascinated by cutting window flowers, and an ordinary red paper was simply wiped by a pair of skillful hands, and it became a variety of small patterns, which was also interesting.

The red blessing characters, the round pigs, and the chubby carp, each of these window flowers symbolizes auspiciousness, and places the owner's hopes and high hopes for next year.

"It's time for New Year's dinner." After standing at the door for a while, Aunt Quan still knocked on the door to remind her.

"So fast." Liu Man'er raised her head, they didn't have a sense of time, and kept paying attention to the red paper in their hands.

"Yes, this winter, if you don't eat it, it's cold." Aunt Quan reminded gently.

"Okay, let's all eat then." Everyone put down the scissors one after another, and walked out of the door with some unfinished feelings, Liu Man'er handed a stack of paper-cuts on the table to Aunt Quan, and said, "Aunt Quan, after eating, you can ask someone to help me paste these paper-cuts." ”

"Hey, okay." Aunt Quan took the paper-cut and bowed down and walked out the door.

After eating at noon, the servants began to be busy posting window flowers, clearing the snow, and preparing the case that should be used for the sacrifice, now these trivial matters at home do not have to worry about Liu Man'er and others, and now there are enough servants, Liu Man'er and others are idle, so in the afternoon Liu Man'er took out some New Year's paintings and taught them to paint New Year's pictures.

The New Year's painting is Liu Man'er let the printing workshop print, as long as some color is smeared on the line, Liu Man'er printed some auspicious patterns such as flowers blooming rich, happy branches, etc., taking advantage of this New Year's to let people take it to sell, she herself also took some of each, everyone gathered in a group, according to their own preferences to paint different colors, but also has a special fun.

After smearing the two New Year's paintings, the sky also darkened, and everyone chatted for a while, still doing their own things, although it was the New Year, but for Liu Man'er, there was enough time to play today, and it was time to go to work.

Fang Shi hugged Rourou, and by the way, he went to see how these servants had prepared this sacrificial thing, and the rest of the people had studied and studied, and the embroidery of embroidery had never had a day of slackness.

At night, it was dark, and red lanterns were hung everywhere in the yard, and after a while, the carriage sounded, and Han Shixin picked up Aunt Han and Han Fang and Han Ping from the countryside.

Now Han Shixin is the most relied on person under Liu Man'er, and it is indeed a bit inappropriate to let his wife and children farm in the countryside, in order to show his importance to their family, Liu Man'er bought a new family and asked them to go to the countryside to help him look after the house.

However, this new servant didn't understand anything after all, Aunt Han taught them at home, Uncle Han was also busy on weekdays, and he didn't pick up their mother and son, and now he took advantage of this New Year's time to bring them to the county town, and he will still take care of the life of Liu Man'er's family in the future.

After all, the new Korean family is the first person to buy a house for Liu Man'er, and the status is still different compared to other servants, when eating at night, Liu Man'er let their family eat together for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, after eating, everyone began to move fireworks out.

This fireworks is still a precious thing nowadays, and it took a lot of money to buy two boxes back, if it was according to Liu Man'er's thoughts, she was reluctant to spend this money, after all, she was tired of seeing fireworks.

But thinking that Fang Shi and the others had never seen fireworks, she still gritted her teeth and bought two boxes, and one box of fireworks cost ten taels of silver, and she couldn't buy it even if she had money!

When the bright fireworks bloomed in the air, Liu Man'er was a little painful, just two boxes of fireworks were finished in just a few minutes, twenty taels of silver were gone, this is not fireworks, it is money, but everyone else is holding their breath and looking up at the sky, for fear of missing any bit of scenery in front of them.

After the fireworks ended, Ye He and the others couldn't help but exclaim: Wow, it's so beautiful! ”

Liu Man'er heard the cheers in her ears, and when she saw the surprised and happy expressions on everyone's faces, she felt that everything was worth it, anyway, this money, if you earn it, you can spend it, and it can make everyone happy, so why not.

After watching the fireworks, Liu Man'er let people take out a lot of sky lanterns, this sky lantern is Kong Ming lantern, Liu Man'er spread these lights and placed them in the yard, each person picked up a long candle, when the lights were lit, the sky lanterns were rising, like shining stars, but also very beautiful.

"It's so pretty." Ye He and Cao'er, the two little girls, looked up at the sky, their eyes didn't blink, they had let go of this sky lantern before, but there were not many of them, this time Liu Man'er prepared a lot of them, and the dim lights flashed in the sky, as if calling for someone to return home.

The snowy night was cold, but everyone was in high spirits, and it was not until the sky lantern disappeared that everyone reluctantly went to the house.

It's a little late, if it's in the countryside, you should eat some melon seeds, kill time, adults are waiting to welcome the God of Wealth, and children should go to bed.

But in this county town is different, Liu Man'er has long inquired, in Fengyang County, Chinese New Year's Eve is very lively, on this day, the whole city is not curfew, and the people go outside the city to see the lanterns.

I've also heard of lantern flowers, but I've never seen them, and the Fang family is similar to her, a countryman, where have I ever seen a lantern flower.

When Liu Man'er mentioned that she wanted to go to see the lanterns, everyone strongly agreed, even if Fang Shi, who felt that it was a little inappropriate to go out at night, couldn't resist everyone's expectations and agreed.

Everyone went back to the room to change their clothes, put on thick cotton jackets, put on a cape with a fur collar, and brought a hand stove.

Originally, she wanted to take Rourou with her, but thinking that this was an annual event in the county, there would be a lot of people, and she would have to take care of Ye Tianchen and the others at that time, and she would have to take care of Rourou, I was afraid that it would be a little difficult, so she could only be put at home and entrusted to a servant to take care of her.

Because she was afraid of getting lost, Liu Man'er prepared a long hemp rope, which she tied to everyone's wrists, leaving some length in the middle for movement.

"Okay, this rope is just an insurance, when we all go to see the lanterns, we must hold hands, Tianchen, you have to hold your mother's hand tightly, you know?" Liu Man'er told Ye Tianchen carefully.

"Well, don't worry, mother." Ye Tianchen nodded, for fear that Liu Man'er would not let him go, but he agreed quickly and behaved very well-behaved.