Chapter 71: Spring Festival
Lunar New Year’s Eve.
The start of a new year is coming, marking his first year after coming to the Dajing Dynasty.
Before Yin Chengfeng returned to the imperial city, he brought them their New Year’s gifts, first-class spring tea, porcelain, cloud brocades, bird’s nest, ginseng… He was quite generous, with more than half a year’s dividends, which amounted to more than ten thousand taels.
It seems that the sales of white sugar are very high.
The New Year’s Eve reunion banquet at Wei Cheng’s family was prepared by all the family members themselves. Compared with buying from outside, making it themself has more of the New Year’s flavor.
Aunt Mao and the servants underneath her were the ones put in charge of the banquet, and Wei Cheng brought his wife, Wei Hu, Wei Yi, and the others to prepare the miscellaneous things.
During the Chinese New Year, they need to prepare melon seeds, peanuts, candies, hemp balls, fried spring rolls, rice cakes… They have to buy melon seeds and peanuts but they made the other New Year’s goods by themselves.
Spring Festival couplets…
Zhou Yuan smiled and asked, “Husband, do you want to write the Spring Festival couplets yourself?”
“Uh, no need.” Wei Cheng blushed, “We’ll just buy—”
His calligraphy is like that of ghost-like characters, which is good for exorcising evil spirits and driving away beasts!
Zhou Yuan covered his mouth and smiled, Wei Cheng smiled indulgently, knowing that his wife was teasing him.
“Master can’t write Spring Festival couplets, I can write, let me do it.” Wei Hu put on a heroic posture- there was red paper, pen, and ink on the table next to him, he dipped the banknotes with ink and splashed the red paper…
Everyone waited in great expectation—
After the pen stopped moving, Wei Hu held up the couplet, and said loudly in satisfaction, “Okay, it’s finished, let someone paste it!”
Zhou Yuan: “……”
Wei Cheng: “……”
Wei Lei: “…”
Everyone:”……..”
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Wei Cheng: “…The characters written by calligraphers are calligraphy, and the characters written by you are ghost symbols. Can you compare them?!”
If he really sticks these on the wall, his face will be lost for the next year!
The others covered their mouths and laughed.
Steward Mao finished laughing and said, “You don’t need to buy any, the old slave has already bought some in advance.” The red paper, pen, and ink prepared were just in case someone wanted to write their own.
“It’s Uncle Mao who has the foresight.” Xiao-Liu smiled and said, “If Wei Hu’s Spring Festival couplets are posted, we won’t need to go past New Year’s Eve, we’ll go ahead and prepare for misfortune.”
“That’s right, Miss Xiao-Liu is right.” Qiaoxi smiled.
Wei Shi: “Uncle Mao, where are the Spring Festival couplets? My brother and I will post them.”
Posting the Spring Festival couplets written by Wei Hu was very unnecessary.
Uncle Mao’s grandson, Xiao-An said, “Uncle Wei Hu’s writing is so ugly.”
The others couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Wei Hu put on a tiger face: “…”
Wei Cheng smiled, “Actually, it’s not impossible to post…”
Looking at Wei Cheng unanimously, Zhou Yuan opened his mouth in a small circle, and the others were stunned. Master, think twice, do you want to hang up the couplet written by Wei Hu?
Wei Hu was happy, because the master still had vision, and then hurriedly asked, “Master, where should I post this, I will post them where you say I should.”
The crowd waited—
With a smile in his eyes, Wei Cheng said slowly, “Then stick it to the door of Wei Hu’s room.”
HAHAHA!!
Everyone burst into laughter, and joyous laughter spread in the front hall—!
Wei Hu: Master, you are playing with me!
Under the darkness of night, lights and lanterns were lighting up the night.
No matter the servants or the masters of the Wei family, they sat together at the New Year’s Eve banquet. The delicious food is rich and the whole family is happy!
Every household in Nanshan County was doing the same, Aunt Yang’s family in the suburbs, Yang Dashan and He Fan’s family who were once poor and couldn’t afford rice grains, and other poor families can eat a meal with meat on New Year’s Eve since they work in the workshop. After a meal of meat, the whole family sat around under the candlelight, smiling, having their dinner happily and contentedly.
Not only them but also the homeless workers who work in the workshop and take the workshop as their home. There were more than a dozen or twenty people who could cook and sit around for the reunion dinner together. Everyone smiled happily.
There was a tall and thin man next to the ger and his son. The man’s eyes reflected the image of the ger and the ger also had him in his eyes.
The tall and thin man was the ger’s husband, and he came here with the cargo ship. On the day the ger delivered the goods to the grocery store, Wei Cheng asked him to wait at the door of the grocery store. When the tall and thin man appeared, the ger burst into tears. The ger’s heart burst as he rushed over quickly, crying, “A-Tie!”
The tall and thin man He Datie was stunned, his body stiffened and he looked at this ger who threw himself into his arms and cried. Despite the throbbing pain he still felt, he clumsily comforted the other, “Don’t, don’t cry, I, I am here!”
From the day they met again, He Datie didn’t fully recover his memory, but he vaguely recalled some scenes. He remembered the time when he and his ger were married… Hearing that his Fulang was kicked out by his family along with his son, almost starving and freezing to death on the street, He Datie was furious and heartbroken. He hugged his husband and son tightly, feeling their existence, that day he remembered the scene of the child’s birth—
He Datie did not recover all his memories, but he knew that the ger beside him was his husband, and the boy beside him was his son.
He did not choose to return to his hometown. He chose to settle down in Nanshan County with his husband and child. For the others who fell into the sea, the ger told them their identities. They had family members, wives, and children.
He Datie said, “I am thankful to Boss Wei for reuniting our family.”
“Yes, thanks to the boss, we can all have enough to eat, and don’t have to suffer from cold and hunger outside.”
“We have to work hard to repay Boss Wei.”
“Yes, we will work harder next year!”
Refugees set up shelters outside the grocery store.
Outside the open space of the shed, several large pots were set up, and the big pots cooked a big pot of rice, with minced meat, dried shrimp, and vegetables in it, and a big pot of bone soup was boiled next to it, and the soup was boiling—
Some refugees are cooking rice and soup, some refugees are sitting around the fire, smiling under the light of the fire, and they are all waiting for the New Year’s Eve dinner—
This New Year’s Eve dinner was the best they had ever had!
At Qinghe Village.
The Zhou family’s reunion dinner was eaten in silence by the adults, while the children ate with joy.
Zhou Yuan’s second sister-in-law, Zhou Yang, and his third sister-in-law, Zhou Wang returned to the Zhou Family’s house during the Chinese New Year, and they both bowed their heads and ate quietly.
Everyone in the family was here, except Mrs. Li.
Shitou is an old child, he is already aware of matters in the family. He knows that his mother has done something wrong and cannot go back to the Zhou Family’s house, so he was sad and ate in silence.
Zhou Yong picks up vegetables for his son.
Father Zhou and Mother Zhou looked at their grandson, and couldn’t help but sigh in their hearts. The adult’s fault must be borne by the child, they do not know what Mrs. Li would feel if she saw the consequences of her actions on her son.
And far away in the Li Family’s Village.
The Li family didn’t see the Zhou family coming to give them their New Year’s gift, let alone pick her up, so they felt a little bit discontented in their hearts. Li Shi could no longer hide it, so she had to tell them that was kicked out by the Zhou family and couldn’t go back.
The Li family cursed, cursed the Zhou family, and cursed their own daughter.
In the past, they would have gone directly to the Zhou family to settle accounts with them, but the Zhou family was backed by Wei Cheng, so they dared not, and even if they reconciled, they would not be able to benefit from them, so the result would still be the same.
Things became even worse for Mrs. Li in the Li family!
She didn’t have anything to eat the New Year’s Eve dinner, and while every family was having a family reunion dinner, she hugged herself in the corner of the woodshed and cried.
If that had not happened, would she be eating and living well in the Zhou Family’s house?
Why does her family treat her like this?
What did she do wrong!?
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With such terrible ‘family’ no wonder she also wasn’t a good person
Thank You for the new chapter ٩(*ゝڡ◕๑)۶♥
Thanks for the chapter!
Yay they reunited 💚