When Xie Changchen and Gu Beiwang came to the hot spring courtyard again, they were already in Chinese New Year's Eve.

Two days ago, Mei Berry took advantage of the sunny weather to send Tianya to send her down the mountain.

The rest stayed in the Zhuangzi, and Mei Berry was a little presumptuous and said that he would take everyone to celebrate the New Year together.

So, as soon as Xie Changchen and Gu Beiwang entered the gate of the courtyard, a mellow black shadow flew towards Xie Changchen and them with a high-pitched weird cry.

Suddenly, Jia Qi, who was guarding Xie Changchen's side, didn't even look at what it was, so he threw a dart out directly.

A dead pheasant was nailed to the pillar of the hallway, and it was then that everyone could see what it was.

"My chicken!"

When Tian Qi came over with his servants, he saw that the pheasant he was chasing had died, and he couldn't help shouting.

"How did you catch the chickens in the front yard?"

Tian Qi, who had always thought that people were small and big, mature and well-behaved, appeared in front of Xie Changchen so lively, and Xie Changchen was still a little puzzled.

Looking at Tian Qi's waist with an apron that didn't fit the size, the smile on his face when the servant who was still smiling with Tian Qi just now saw him instantly faded away.

Xie Changchen was a little depressed in his heart.

"The task given to me by Meiberry, the chicken for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner made me ready. I heard that there was a pheasant in the mountains, so I laid a trap and caught it back, but I didn't have the experience to let it fly away. ”

Facing Xie Changchen's cold face, Tian Qi immediately restrained the expression on his face, and he didn't dare to gasp.

It took him a long time before he heard a sentence above his head: "Then you still don't take this chicken?" ”

"Oh oh oh!"

Tian Qi was like being amnestied, and hurriedly left with chickens and people, looking at Tian Qi's fleeing back, Xie Changchen only felt that he hadn't gone up the mountain for a long time, as if everything had become different.

And the steward who greeted Xie Changchen and them just now also kept wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.

Sure enough, the good life during this time was too comfortable, and they almost forgot the real master.

"Recently...... What are they all doing in Zhuangzi? ”

When it came to the end of the year, Xie Changchen didn't even have time to read the news of the plum berries in the other garden.

If it weren't for the fact that Xue Lao specially sent someone to give a final notice yesterday, they would have to come back before the year.

Only then did they realize that it was twenty-nine.

If you don't come again today, it is estimated that the next time you see Xue Lao, the other party will explode again, and the two of them will not be able to get any benefits at that time.

"Write Spring Festival couplets, paste Spring Festival couplets, and make delicious ......"

The steward said, peeking at his master, seeing that the other party did not have any displeasure, and he had the audacity to talk to Xie Chang about their whereabouts of Xue Lao and Mei Berry.

When he bypassed the entrance and walked to the courtyard of the front hall, Xie Changchen had already seen Xue Lao directing Mei Youqian to post couplets.

There was also a pile of crooked lanterns with the word "Fu" on them.

"It's crooked, alas, it's low, you have a little foot~"

Xue Lao commanded for a long time, and Mei Youqian was completely pasted.

After that, the two also admired the Spring Festival couplets pasted on the pillar at the door for a while.

"Godfather, your handwriting is so beautiful~"

"That's it! You don't look at who wrote it~"

"Ahem, ahem!"

Xie Changchen stood not far away and coughed lightly a few times, interrupting the praise of the old man and the young pair.

Xue Lao turned around and found that they were coming, and there was no impatience and nagging on his face that Xie Changchen had imagined.

This time, Xue Lao didn't get angry, nor did he blame the two of them for coming so late.

Just raised his eyes and looked at the two of them, nodded lightly, stretched out his hand and pointed at Xie Changchen and Gu Beiwang, "It's just right, you follow me to hang the lantern." You, go with Ah Qian to post Spring Festival couplets. ”

Xie Changchen: ?

Gu Beiwang: ?

As soon as Mei Youqian heard that someone had posted the Spring Festival couplets, he was happy, and hurriedly stuffed the Spring Festival couplets placed in the corridor directly into Xie Changchen's arms, without giving him any intention of refusing.

"Hey, hey, hey, I'm brushing the paste."

Saying that, Mei Youqian smiled and picked up the paste on the side, urging Xie Changchen to go next door.

Xie Changchen turned his head, and saw that Gu Beiwang was still holding a bamboo pole with a hook in one hand by Xue Lao, and he had the intention of working immediately.

"These ...... Wouldn't it be nice if someone else did it? ”

Xie Changchen was a little depressed, and a little at a loss, not knowing what to do.

"Hey, you kid, you have lived this year by yourself, what are you bothering others with these preparations? The Chinese New Year is all about enjoying the process of preparing everything yourself! ”

Mei Youqian said and talked to Mei Youqian about what they had done for the New Year in the past few days.

Even what made Xie Changchen feel unbelievable was that Mei Youqian and his wife also took their subordinates to the market.

Well, a fantastic experience.

Inexplicably, after listening to Mei Youqian's words, Xie Changchen couldn't help but work with Mei Youqian.

He Wei Meili was busy steaming the plum berries in the kitchen early in the morning, and when she came over with white flour to call for lunch, she happened to meet Xie Changchen.

After the red and glamorous couplet, his hands and face were all over the paper, and Xie Changchen didn't seem to notice his abnormality.

"Poof!"

So, they laughed at each other, and then realized that they didn't seem to be much better_(3"∠)_

I have to wash my face after eating.

However, because the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was arranged in the evening, two meat buns for one person were sent away at noon.

Seeing that everyone was busy again after lunch, preparing for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the evening, Xie Changchen and Gu Beiwang looked like they were bound and didn't know what else to do, and Elder Xue almost didn't look at it.

"The New Year is going to have the smell of the New Year, what are you doing so cringe?"

"It's been a New Year in years."

In the past, when the father-in-law was still alive, on the night of the thirtieth day, the father-in-law who came out of the palace would secretly take him to the secret room to put incense on the tablet of his biological parents, say something, and keep the New Year.

That's a year later.

Later, his father-in-law left, and Xie Changchen was busy waiting for him to remember, and it was already the first day of the Lunar New Year.

And he often stays with several tablets on the first day of the new year.

Give them incense, candles, burn paper, kneel and sit on the futon, empty your head and say whatever you think, and if you can't remember, you just sit there quietly and be silent.

He didn't expect that the Chinese New Year would be coming this year.

Xie Changchen thought in his heart whether to go back and give them incense tonight.

Xie Changchen, who was thinking about this, didn't expect that his words would be like a knife for Xue Lao.

When Xue Lao heard Xie Changchen say this, he suddenly felt guilty, and felt that he had lived a lot of age, and as a result, he still had some nonsense.

And Gu Beiwang and Xie Changchen are about the same, and they haven't had the New Year for many years.

However, he still remembers that when he was a child, he spent the New Year in the imperial capital with his grandmother and mother.

Because my father has been at the border all the year round, many of the things that need men in the family are replaced by him, from the ignorance and helplessness at the beginning, to the fact that he can worship the ancestors in the ancestral hall alone and sing eulogies.

Later, when his younger brother was a little older, he took his younger brother to do these things.

Later, it was he, his father and a group of soldiers who looked at the vast snowy night and celebrated the New Year at the border.

Until he became a first, no one called him to celebrate the New Year together......

suddenly realized that he was actually going to celebrate the New Year again, and the memories of the past struck again, and the smile on the corner of Gu Beiwang's mouth faded a little.

This year, he should go to Yanpingguan to accompany his grandmother.

Speaking of which, he hadn't seen his grandmother for a long time.

It's just that I don't know if my grandmother will cry directly when she sees herself like Brother Tuan......

Xue Lao looked at these two boys, and glanced at Mei Youqian, who was squatting in the corner eating steamed buns and drinking chicken soup, and did not interject from beginning to end, and thought for a while, then he seemed to have made a decision and said: "When you finish eating in the evening, you let Ah Qian take you to the intersection." ”

"Huh?"

Hearing that he was mentioned, Mei Youqian looked up at Xue Lao in a daze, Xue Lao's goatee trembled, and said, "What did you take me for last year, you take them there tonight." ”

"Last year, godfather, didn't you chase me and scold me in two alleys at night?"

Xue Lao: ?

Xie Changchen: ?

Gu Beiwang: ?

Hahahaha, do any treasures know what Mei Youqian is going to do?

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