On the night before Chinese New Year's Eve, Yun Niang asked Yun Yang to buy a dozen red pieces of paper on the street, write blessing characters on them, and wrap them into red packets ready to be sent out on Chinese New Year's Eve.

On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, because of the large number of people in the family, the people in the house were not able to worship the ancestors one by one, so they had to set up sacrifices in the middle of the courtyard and only worship heaven and earth.

"Alright, let's all get up and eat first. Otherwise, the food will be cold. ”

Yun Niang looked at the people kneeling in the courtyard and asked everyone to get up and eat first.

"Okay, okay, let's get up first!"

A group of people helped each other up and moved into the living room, surrounded by charcoal burning in iron basins. Warmed up the whole living room.

On the table, New Year's food was prepared, chicken, duck and fish were complete, and a jar of fine spirits was prepared.

Seeing that no one moved the chopsticks on the table, Yun Niang was the first to pick up the wine glass on the table and toast everyone at the table.

"Uncle Wu, Second Uncle Wu, Third Uncle Wu, and Second Uncle, Yun Niang toasts you."

"Girl, if you can't drink, drink less, but don't get drunk."

"Don't worry, second uncle, Yun Niang knows the measure."

"Well, okay, let's move the chopsticks, don't let the good things made by the two girls go to waste."

As soon as Wu Tian's voice fell, the big guys all started eating, the men on the table under the cups drank wine, and the children also ate happily.

It's as if all the sad things that happened this year are gone.

After the meal, Yun Niang helped Yinhua put away the food on the table and gathered with everyone in the living room.

Yun Niang closed the door of the living room, opened only one window, and moved all the red-hot carbon around to the middle of the room, and everyone sat in a circle and talked together.

After feeling the temperature of the house, Yun Niang specially asked Yun Yang to carry Wang Dazhuang to the living room with everyone, because Wang Dazhuang couldn't stand the cold, so he ate in his own house when he ate.

And Uncle Wu's health became worse and worse during this time, and after eating, Wu Zhong returned to the room to take care of Uncle Wu.

Yun Niang also went to see Uncle Wu's physical condition during the period, and found that Uncle Wu's condition was getting worse and worse.

So at the dinner table, everyone's mood was not so good.

As time passed, Yun Niang took out the red envelope she had wrapped yesterday.

"Xiaohua, come to my sister's side, this is for you."

"What is this?"

Yun Niang handed the red envelope to a small flower, looked at the little flower and looked at the red envelope suspiciously, and smiled.

"This is the New Year's money for Xiaohua, if you press it under the pillow when you sleep tonight, then those bad things can't get close to Xiaohua's body."

As soon as the big guys heard Yun Niang's words, they all looked at Yun Niang strangely, they just boiled an egg for the child when they were young, where is the New Year's money, and now when they hear Yun Niang's words, everyone is interested in listening.

"What's bad?"

"I heard the people of Qicheng say, the legend is that there is a little demon called "Zhen", especially like to come out on the night of the New Year, to touch the child's head in other people's homes, then the child who has been touched is easy to get sick and feverish, so people are afraid of Chong, there is a family old to have a child, afraid that Chong will find their own children, so take out eight copper coins for the child to play, after the child plays asleep, the two of them put the eight copper wallets on red paper under the child's pillow, and then that night, Chong really went to which house, when he was ready to touch the child's head, Suddenly, there was a red light, and as soon as Chong saw it, he fled in fright. ”

"Ah, it's horrible."

"Don't be afraid, Sister Xiaohua, there is a dog's brother, and when that monster really comes, I'll beat it away."

"Brother Dogan is the most powerful."

"Hehe, don't talk big, dog, this is for you from your cousin."

"Hehe, I've got it all! Thank you cousin. ”

"Gold, Tiger, Cloud Cultivation, Silver Flower, Breeze.."

Yun Niang handed out a red envelope every time she read someone's name, and when she waited for Qingfeng, she made Qingfeng stunned and looked at Yun Niang in the firelight stupidly.

"Take it!"

Yun Niang stuffed one for Qingfeng, and continued to send it over next to another, even Yun Yang and Wang Xiucai had it, and in the end, Yun Niang also left one for herself.

After getting the red envelope, the children swept away the silence just now, and everyone took the red envelope to compare with each other.

And Wu Tian, who drank the wine, looked at the happy appearance of the dogs, chattered around Yun Niang, and asked Yun Niang to tell them those strange stories, with a smile on their faces.

It's been a long time since I've seen the kids like this.

It was late at night, and the big guy was still in good spirits, and the sound of firecrackers from outside the courtyard crackled everyone in the house.

"What is it? Let's go out and see. ”

"I'll go too."

"Slow down, don't fall."

Hearing the sound from outside the hospital, the dog was the first to run out excitedly, and then the younger ones followed.

When she heard the sound of firecrackers, Yun Niang knew that Qicheng would still light firecrackers on Chinese New Year's Eve, which she had not seen when she was in Qingshui County before.

Yun Niang was also very curious about the ancient firecrackers, and after greeting Wang Dazhuang and others, she walked out of the door.

Seeing that there were no dogs in the inner courtyard, Yun Niang had no choice but to leave the inner courtyard.

"Look, what's that, it's screaming"

"It's bamboo, they're burning bamboo."

As soon as she walked to the door, Yun Niang heard a voice from outside the courtyard, and looked at the adults outside the door of a family in front of the corridor, and threw some bamboo poles into the burning red fire, and suddenly the crackling sound came from the fire.

Looking at such primitive firecrackers, Yun Niang remembered that there were no fireworks in this era.

Half a ring, watching the family take a look at their group of children, waved their hand to them and entered the house, and Yun Niang took the dog and they into the house.

"Alright, let's go back, don't catch a cold."

"Cousin, do you see, that bamboo is really loud."

"Well, yes, sister, Xiaohua likes to hear the sound of bamboo, why haven't we heard it before."

"It's called firecrackers, and it is specially lit by Qicheng people to celebrate the New Year during the New Year, and there may be no such custom in our village!"

"Miss knows so much!"

"That's right, my sister can do anything!"

After the group talked about the noisy entry into the house, Yun Niang looked at the time when the hour had passed, and let the dogs go to sleep.

In the middle of the night, Yun Niang, who listened to Yinhua and the two of them who had fallen asleep, couldn't sleep for some reason, thinking that she might be the reason for drinking that glass of wine, got up and walked to the table, poured a glass of water and drank it.

The cold lines slid down her throat into her stomach, shocking Yun Niang's already sleepy spirit and waking her up even more.

Putting on her coat, Yun Niang opened the door and walked to the door.