Rebirth of the poor elder sister-in-law

Chapter 232 New Year's Eve
Today, maybe it was because of the extraordinarily cold snow, or maybe it was because Liu Man'er got up earlier than usual. When she finished running, practiced her arm strength, and archery, and was about to harness her horse and go for a walk, Fang and the others Only then did they get up one after another.

Fang opened the door, just in time to see Liu Man'er was about to go out again, so she couldn't help reminding, "Man'er, today is New Year's Eve, don't walk too far in the morning, come back early."

"Ah, is it New Year's Eve, so soon?" Liu Man'er slapped her head after finishing speaking, "Oh, I actually forgot that today is Chinese New Year."

"What have you put in your head this day." Fang shook her head and said, "Okay, you can go, come back early."

"Forget it, I won't go out during the Chinese New Year today." Liu Man'er turned around and walked into the house as she said that. She went to the bathroom to take a bath, and then changed into looser home clothes.

It was still early after washing, Liu Man'er went to the study to write a conversation book, Ye Feng and the others were reading in the morning in the study, Ye He and Cao'er also recited some poems earnestly.

Liu Man'er thought about inviting a female wife to come to her home next year to teach them piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Now that she has money, her heart is also big. Everyone likes their children to become better, not for entertaining others, but only for entertaining themselves .

She asked Ye He and Cao'er to learn this. She never thought about what they would learn. She just cultivated a little interest for the two girls. Of course, she also asked their opinions. The two girls are shy. agreed.

In their eyes, the piano is such an elegant thing, they never thought of touching it, but now, Liu Man'er actually said that she would ask someone to teach them how to play the piano, which is something she couldn't wish for at all.

Speaking of the qin, Liu Man'er also thought of herself. In fact, she also knows how to play the qin, she can play the lyre.I still remember that in the previous life, it was popular for girls from rich families to learn the piano and guzheng, but Liu Maner was high-minded. She knew that since she started late, the guzheng and piano must not be as good as others, so she found a new way to learn the guqin.

Thinking of the piano, she suddenly wanted to play a song, but she searched the whole house, but she couldn't find even a single string.What's more, even if there was a piano, she didn't dare to play it. She couldn't say that she knew how to play the piano because someone from the piano shop played it before, and then she learned it by herself. This is too fake.

It seems that it is really imminent to hire a master who can play the piano. What's more, Ye Feng and Liu Fusheng should also learn the piano. The proportion of art in the exam is not high, it is only used as a reference, but after learning it well, at least they will not be ashamed in the exam, and they can also cultivate their gentle and jade-like temperament.

It's just that it's useless to even think about it now. For those who are celebrating the New Year, who will come to their own home to be a luthier? They should still think about the New Year. After breakfast, it was still early, so Liu Man'er organized everyone to do some things that should be done during the New Year. activity.

For example, cutting window grilles, or painting New Year pictures.

In the morning, the window grilles were cut first, and Fang was the master, teaching Liu Man'er and others to cut. It is said that Liu Man'er had never cut window grilles before, and her skill in cutting window grilles was not even comparable to that of Cao'er and Ye He. At first, because the cuts were too ugly, She was also laughed at by the two of them.

But she is a stupid person, and things like cutting window grilles are naturally not difficult for her. After Fang's teaching twice, she will soon be able to cut some simple window grilles. As for those more complicated window grilles, Liu Man'er Just follow Fang's cutting, anyway, she never thought of making herself a master of paper cutting.

When Aunt Quan, who was in charge of the back kitchen, came to ask Liu Man'er and the others to eat, they were still fascinated by cutting the window grilles. A piece of ordinary red paper was simply clicked and rubbed by a pair of skillful hands, and it became a variety of things. All kinds of small patterns are also interesting.

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

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

"So fast." Liu Man'er raised her head, none of them had a sense of time, and kept focusing on the red paper in their hands.

"That's right, it's winter, if you don't eat it, it will be cold." Aunt Quan gently reminded.

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

"Hey, good." Aunt Quan took the paper-cut and walked out the door.

After lunch at noon, the servants began to busy themselves with putting up window grilles, sweeping snow, and preparing tables for sacrifices. Now Liu Man'er and the others don't have to worry about these household chores. Now that there are enough servants, Liu Man'er and the others are After free time, Liu Man'er took out some New Year pictures in the afternoon and taught them to paint New Year pictures.

Liu Man'er asked the printing house to print the New Year pictures. All you need to do is to smear some colors on it. Liu Man'er printed some auspicious patterns such as flowers blooming and wealth, happiness on the branches, etc., and she took advantage of the Chinese New Year to sell them. She also took every one of them. After a while, everyone gathers together and paints different colors according to their own preferences, which is quite interesting.

After painting the two New Year pictures, the sky darkened, and everyone chatted for a while, still going about their own things. Although it was Chinese New Year, for Liu Man'er, there was enough time for playing today. Time to go to work.

Holding Rourou in her arms, Fang stopped by to see how the servants were preparing the sacrificial offerings. The others were studying and embroidering, never slacking off for a single day.

It was dark at night, and there were red lanterns hanging everywhere in the yard. After a while, the sound of cars and horses, Han Shixin brought Aunt Han and Han Fang and Han Ping from the countryside.

Now Han Shixin is the most important person under Liu Man'er's subordinates, and it is indeed a bit inappropriate to let his wife and children farm in the countryside. House.

But the new servants didn't know anything when they first arrived, so Aunt Han taught them at home. Uncle Han was also busy on weekdays and never picked up their mother and child. Now, taking advantage of the Chinese New Year, he brings them to the county town In the future, he will still take care of the life of Liu Man'er's family. It just so happens that Han Shixin is also in the county town, so they can reunite their family and save their family from being separated.

After all, the Korean-style new family is the first house servant Liu Maner bought, and their status is still different compared with other servants. When eating at night, Liu Maner asked their family to have a New Year’s Eve dinner together. After the meal, everyone started to move out fireworks. .

These fireworks are still a precious item nowadays, Han Shixin spent a lot of money to buy two boxes back, if Liu Man'er thought according to what she thought, she would not be willing to spend this money, after all, she was tired of watching fireworks.

But thinking that Fang and the others had never seen fireworks, she still gritted her teeth and bought two boxes. A box of fireworks cost ten taels of silver, and she couldn't buy them with money!

"When the bright fireworks bloomed in the sky, Liu Man'er was a little bit pained. It took only a few minutes to finish the two boxes of fireworks, and the 20 taels of silver were gone. It wasn't fireworks, it was money, but everyone else was holding their breath. Concentrating, looking up at the sky, for fear of missing any scene in front of you.

After the fireworks were over, Ye He and the others couldn't help but marvel: Wow, it's so beautiful! "

Liu Man'er heard the cheers beside her ears, and turned her head to see the surprised and joyful expressions on everyone's faces, she felt that everything was worth it, anyway, the money is spent after earning it, it can make everyone happy, Why not do it.

After watching the fireworks, Liu Man'er asked people to take out many sky lanterns. These sky lanterns are Kongming lanterns. Liu Man'er unfolded these lights and placed them in the yard. Each person took a long candle. The lights are rising slowly, like sparkling stars, which is also very beautiful.

"It's so beautiful." The two little girls, Ye He and Cao'er, looked up at the sky without blinking their eyes. They had let off this sky lantern before, but there were not many of them. This time, Liu Man'er had prepared a lot of dim yellow lights. Twinkling in the sky, as if calling away people to return home.

The snowy night was cold, but everyone was in good spirits, until the sky lantern disappeared, everyone reluctantly walked into the house.

It's getting late, if you're in the country, you should eat some melon seeds to pass the time, the adults are waiting to welcome the God of Wealth, and the children should go to bed.

But it was different in this county, Liu Man'er had already inquired about it. In Fengyang County, the eve was very lively. On this day, there was no curfew in the whole city, and the common people went outside the city to watch the lanterns.

Liu Man'er has heard of the lantern flower, but she has never seen it. Fang is similar to her, a countryman, where has he seen the lantern flower?

When Liu Man'er mentioned that she wanted to see the lantern display, everyone strongly agreed with her. Even Fang, who thought it was inappropriate to go out at night, couldn't hold back everyone's expectations and agreed.

Everyone went back to their room to change their clothes, put on thick padded jackets, cloaks with fur collars, and a hand stove. Before leaving, Liu Man'er looked at Rou Rou who was sleeping soundly in the cradle, and kissed her lightly on the forehead.

Originally, she wanted to take Rourou with her, but thinking that this is an annual event in the county, there must be a lot of people, and she would have to take care of Ye Tianchen and the others, as well as take care of Rourou, I'm afraid it would be a bit difficult , so she can only be left at home and entrusted to a servant to look after her.

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

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

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

(End of this chapter)