Coming to the Chinese New Year's Eve in a flash, the Li family village has been lively these days, one is that Li Mingli bought some land and hired people from the village to help turn over the land, and the other is that every household is busy preparing New Year goods, although the weather is cold, it can't stop everyone's New Year's heat, so people with big bags and small bags can be seen everywhere in the village.

Lijia Village is now famous in Qingshui Town, not only because of Li Mingren, a man who is a good man, but also because of one important point, Lijia Village has become rich.

Li Mingli was looking at the account books in the front yard, and in the past few days, he was either working again, or reading the various account books that Li Zhongyou had brought him.

Now I am settling the wages of the soap mill and the liquor. It's okay at the soap shop, just give it according to previous years. But on the side of the winery, Li Bao recruited a few people to help make wine, and now there are more people working in the winery, so you have to calculate it carefully.

In the past, Zhao Yunlan was dealing with these accounts, but this year it was Li Mingli's turn to deal with it himself, and the head of the daily calculation was big, but fortunately, Li Zhongyou could still help by his side, and Li Mingmei would also help take a look.

On the side of the main courtyard, several members of the Wang family were sitting and chatting.

"Why hasn't Xianggong arrived yet?" Wu Yi looked at the door several times, and it stands to reason that this time should have come.

Wang: "It should be soon, don't worry! ”

As he was talking, a carriage arrived in front of the Li family's mansion, and Li Zhongyou came up to greet him, "Second master! ”

"Well, two people are going to get the stuff off the car." Li Mingyi bought many New Year's goods and came back, although the Li family is now wealthy and the family lacks nothing, everyone is still very keen to buy various gifts for the family.

"Mother, mother, I'm back!"

Wu Yi was a little embarrassed when she heard the shouts from the front yard, who let Li Mingyi shout first?

Old man Li didn't hear the voice shouting himself, and shouted in the direction of Li Mingyi: "Why are you shouting so loudly?" ”

Li Mingyi came in: "Hehe, Dad, I bought you a dress, and when you wear it, others will look like the father of the old man." ”

The corner of Old Man Li's mouth was a little happy: "Hmph~ I don't wear it, and I am also the father of the old man." ”

Li Mingyi: "Yes, yes, yes!" With that, he walked in the direction of Wu Yi.

"Ouch, let's let my dad see, has our cow gained weight?" Li Mingyi took the Niu Niu in Wu Yi's arms and kept teasing, in fact, he was worried that Wu Yi would be tired after holding it for a long time, but Wu Yi had only hugged it for a while.

Wang looked at the family gathering together, and suddenly sighed: "Eh, I don't know how your eldest brother and sister-in-law are doing in the capital?" ”

On this side of the capital, Li Mingren is accompanying Zhao Yunlan to make dumplings, which are to be eaten on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve. In Lijia Village or Jinzhou City before, there was no custom of eating dumplings during the New Year.

"Lady, what are you doing here?" Li Mingren looked at Zhao Yunlan and put a copper coin into the dumpling and asked curiously.

"This is called good luck dumplings, whoever can eat them will have special luck next year, and I also learned from the lady next door." Zhao Yunlan thought, anyway, the aunt next door returned to her hometown a few days ago, and it is said that she will not come to the capital again.

"That's interesting!" Li Mingren's eyes blinked.

Zhao Yunlan: "Hehe, I don't know if I'm lucky or not, let's just have fun!" ”

At night, He Wen lit all the red lanterns hanging on the house, and the capital was already red.

"Hurry up, let's go to the imperial city and wait after eating the dumplings, and see our emperor." Zhao Yunlan was excited.

Li Mingren: "Don't worry, it will take a while!" At this time, the emperor should still be at the palace banquet. ”

"Then we can also go shopping, it's not lively tonight, you listen to this sound, you can hear the excitement on the street from afar."

Li Mingren smiled, and suddenly felt something in his mouth, and when he spit it out, he saw that it was a copper coin.

Zhao Yunlan: "Hahaha, you have eaten copper coins, you will definitely have good luck in the coming year, and you will definitely be able to pass the try." ”

Li Mingren: "Then I'll borrow the lady's auspicious words." ”

After a while, everyone in the family ate copper coins, and Zhao Yunlan had a lot of copper coins, so it was no surprise that everyone could eat them.

Li Hua still felt the joy of the New Year for the first time, he experienced the death of his parents in the early years, then he fled the famine, and then his grandfather died, and it has been a long time since he had a decent year.

Although I went to the Hou Mansion later, in a place like the Hou Mansion with a deep mansion compound, who cares if people can have a happy New Year? Not to mention eating dumplings, one person can eat one dumpling, and there is not even dumpling soup left when it is late.

After eating, Li Hua, Ye Sheng, He Wen and the three men cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, which seems to be the unwritten rule of the Li family, and men are generally responsible for the work after the meal.

"Alright, we're all packed, let's go!" Zhao Yunlan patted her skirt, looking full of interest.

"Yes!" Everyone responded in unison, Li Hua walked in the front and carried a lantern to illuminate it, and He Wen Yesheng followed behind.

"Madam, do you want to wrap this fur collar?" Chunxiang walked to the side with Zhao Yunlan's fur collar.

Zhao Yunlan: "I'm not cold now, no." ”

He Hua is looking left and right, coming to the capital these days rarely come out at night, not to mention the lively days of this Chinese New Year's Eve.

A quarter of an hour later.

"There's a lantern riddle over there!" Zhao Yunlan pointed ahead and said, "Let's give it a try." ”

Li Mingren nodded, and after a while, there were two more lamps in his hand, and the lantern riddles in the capital were very simple, so that everyone could have fun.

"Wow, a big rock in your chest!" Zhao Yunlan saw the performance in front of her again, it was really a traditional project, Zhao Yunlan took a closer look at the big stone slab and it was indeed real.

"And juggling!" Zhao Yunlan wondered if this was the magic of the primitive Great Transformation of the Living Person, and Zhao Yunlan had already seen a little girl hidden in the box. The trick is to turn the boy into a girl. It's also a child, otherwise an adult shouldn't be able to get in.

"I want to try that steamed rice cake!" Zhao Yunlan looked at the steaming steamer in front of her and couldn't help but suck her saliva.

"Okay."

One night, except for Li Hua, who wanted to hold the lantern and protect the family, everyone else was stuffed with things in Zhao Yunlan's hands. What Li Mingren is carrying in his hand now is the rice cake that Zhao Yunlan has not finished.

"This imperial city looks so solemn!" Zhao Yunlan couldn't help but sigh, she had seen it from a distance before, and she had never seen it from a quiet distance.

At this time, the ministers who were invited to the banquet were coming out of the palace one after another. Of course, the common people could not see the nobles, but could only see the luxurious carriages of the officials driving away one by one.

Zhao Yunlan looked up from time to time, Li Mingren pointed to the position, and after a while, the emperor stood there praying for the blessings of all the people and congratulating the New Year. In other words, the emperor has to accompany the people to celebrate the New Year.

The people in the capital have gathered one after another, Zhao Yunlan waited a little cold, took the fur collar in Chunxiang's hand and surrounded it, I don't know how long he stood there, and the noise of the crowd suddenly increased.

I don't know who shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live!" "All of them bowed down together.

This is the first time Zhao Yunlan has worshiped a living person here, and she has knelt down to worship the Buddha in the temple before.

The emperor shouted and got up, and Zhao Yunlan got up and saw the emperor's appearance, which was still a little far away, only torches and lanterns illuminated at night, and he couldn't see it very clearly.

The emperor is old, but his figure is still quite burly, and the people still think that the emperor is still as wise and martial as before.

Only Gonggong An, who was beside the emperor, was worried about the emperor's body: "Your Majesty, put on this fur!" ”

The emperor waved his hand and signaled that he didn't need to.

The people downstairs in the city thought that the emperor was greeting below, and everyone became excited.

When the clock had passed, the emperor said, "May my people have a long and healthy new year." ”

After waiting for a while, the emperor was helped to leave. It's just that the people couldn't see clearly that the emperor was being supported, and everyone left after they were exhausted.

Zhao Yunlan and Li Mingren left the imperial city after the emperor finished his congratulations, and they also arrived home at this time.

"New Year, I wish you and me well!" After Zhao Yunlan finished speaking, she fell asleep on the bed.

(End of chapter)