Reborn Country Overlord

Chapter 397 New Year's Eve
"New Year's Eve! New Year's Eve!" With the sound of firecrackers everywhere, the cheers of children can be heard everywhere, and crowds and groups set off all kinds of fireworks and firecrackers in the open space.

It's the New Year's Eve at this time, and it's time for every family to reunite and eat New Year's dinner.Most people don't go out very much, they just sit at home chatting and watching TV, and they don't move around until after the New Year's Eve.

"This kind of fireworks is still beautiful, and the sound is not too loud." As the night darkened on the New Year's Eve, fireworks began to be set off all over the town.It's just because there are more and more birds here, and now the fireworks in the town have begun to be controlled.

Fireworks that are louder are not allowed to be set off, only those that do not make a loud noise are allowed to be set off.Firecrackers are not under control, because the sound of such things is much quieter.

These things are not the scope of Zhang Tao's concern, so he didn't pay much attention to these things, he just listened to his mother and the others lament about these things, and then smiled.

If there are no firecrackers and fireworks to decorate the Chinese New Year, the taste of the New Year will be much lighter, and this will be the case in the future cities.But the loud fireworks went on and on and a little bit louder, which is just right now.

Zhang Tao is now past the age of playing fireworks and firecrackers, and there are no children at home who need to play with him.Several of his cousins ​​have children at home, but they returned to their home to prepare for the New Year after they came over to give a gift a year ago.

Compared with the previous life, Zhang Tao's family now has a lot of relatives, and there are many relatives who give gifts before the year and pay New Year's greetings after the year.The family of the aunt and second aunt who should have broken off with Zhang Tao's family is still in contact with Zhang Tao's family, and they run very frequently.

Although Zhang Tao's father and Zheng Hu didn't come over to give gifts a few years ago, they will come together to pay New Year's greetings in a few days after the next year, and now they run very frequently.The poor have no close relatives in the downtown area, but the rich have distant relatives in the mountains.

Some things are constantly changing after Zhang Tao's rebirth, and some things are still the same as before.Zhang Tao himself can't tell whether he is used to the result of this change, or because he has really let go.

On the evening of New Year's Eve, Zhang Tao's house is no different from the previous New Year's Eve.After the family sat together and had a hearty reunion dinner, the elders gave each of the younger ones a red envelope, which was lucky money.

After giving the red envelopes, they sit in the lobby and watch TV, or a few young people play cards together.This is called keeping the year old, and when it is close to twelve o'clock, firecrackers are set off to close the door of wealth and the door.

You can't go out during this time, and you can't go out until the firecrackers are fired to welcome the God of Wealth.Zhang Tao's parents don't do this work now, and leave it all to Zhang Tao and his brothers. Some traditional things are now taking over.

They went back to their room to sleep after ten o'clock. The Spring Festival Gala didn't appeal to them much, and they were used to going to bed early.As for Zhang Tao's grandparents, they went to bed earlier, and went to bed after sitting down after the reunion dinner.

A few young people watched the Spring Festival Gala while playing mahjong around the fire.When it was almost twelve o'clock, brothers Zhang Tao and Zhang Yong stopped their activities, washed their hands and faces together, and took the firecrackers they had prepared earlier to set off at the door.

At this time, the firecrackers in other places around were also ringing, as if they had made an appointment, and the crackling sounded non-stop.

After setting off the firecrackers, Zhang Tao and the others stopped playing mahjong, closed the door and went back to the room to sleep.Tomorrow morning we have to get up very early to set off firecrackers at the Caimen, and the village will have to celebrate the New Year together, so we can't go to bed too late.

When the whole family got up early in the morning the next day, they bowed to each other and said some blessings for the next year. Several young people received a circle of red envelopes.This is just a custom. In fact, Zhang Tao and the five of them are rich, and no one is short of the red envelope.

After the family had breakfast, it was time for the village to pick greens.Someone over there started shouting with a loudspeaker, "All the men, women and children of the village gather at the ancestral hall together! Go up the mountain to collect money at nine o'clock on time!"

After blowing and blowing, each owner will use three incense sticks and a handful of paper money to go to the ancestral hall to worship the gods, and then put a few strings of firecrackers, and then go to the back mountain to pick a few evergreen branches and go home.

It is customary for the whole village to pay New Year's greetings after going out to collect money.However, New Year's greetings on the first day of the first two years are no longer run by the village, and even Wangjiawan next door is now connected together.

Young people from the two villages began to visit each other for New Year's greetings on the first day of the new year. After the New Year's greetings, they would find acquaintances to play cards and mahjong together. This day they did not have to go to other places to visit.

On the first day of the lunar new year, except that there is no need to go out to pay New Year's greetings, the garbage in the houses of all the surrounding villages will not be thrown out, but will be packed together, and the garbage will be dumped out after the temple fair paper boat passes by the next day.

It means that the paper boat will take away all the bad things, and the family will be free from disasters and illnesses, and happy and happy.These are old customs and have been preserved.

"Happy New Year, aunt and uncle! Gong Xi Fa Cai!" In the evening, Zhang Tao picked up a box of fruit and drinks, and then drove to his little uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings.

"It's the same for you, and you need to find a good partner." Aunt Zhang Tao replied with a smile when she saw Zhang Tao coming, and only the elders like them would say other blessings at this time, and the other young people have changed now. .

The phrase "Gong Xi Fa Cai" has become a common New Year's greeting. In the past, different blessings were spoken to different people, but now I'm too lazy to bother. It's good to have the meaning.

"Xiaotao is still a little early in finding a partner. The new year should be mainly about postgraduate entrance examination and doctoral examination." Uncle Zhang Tao also came out of the room at this time, and laughed after hearing what his wife said.

In the eyes of these elders, it is natural to hope that their relatives and younger generations can read as many books as possible, and it is a good wish to take the postgraduate entrance examination for a doctorate.

"It's getting late, I'll be 20 years old after the Chinese New Year. You also need to take the postgraduate entrance examination for a doctorate, and you need a date, too!" Seeing Zhang Tao's embarrassed look, Zhang Tao's aunt immediately added another sentence with a smile, making Zhang Tao even more embarrassed up.

It seems that as soon as high school is over, the elders around see young people saying New Year's greetings, and the topic of finding a partner is basically indispensable.In their eyes, children become adults as soon as they finish high school, and they have to hurry up and find a partner.

I will have dinner at my aunt's house, and then I will stay overnight, and I will attend the temple fair here early tomorrow morning.Otherwise, the two families are so close, there is no need to stay overnight when they come to pay New Year's greetings.

Zhang Tao's little uncle's house is much more luxuriously decorated than Zhang Tao's house, and his little uncle's house has earned a lot of money over the years.In addition to buying some houses in some cities as real estate, the decoration of the houses in the countryside is also very expensive, and there is no need to be shy.

This place will be used as a place to live as a family in the future, so it is natural to try to make it comfortable.There are no politicians in his family, the money is earned by himself, and the origin is very clean, so there is no need to worry about making the house too luxurious and being envied by others.

In fact, the nearby houses are basically like this. Zhang Tao's house was the first to build a house, but after these years, his house is not as good as the surrounding houses in terms of decoration.Because Zhang Tao's mother has become the top leader in the town, there are some things that need to be avoided.

Moreover, from time to time, the leaders of various parties in the family will come to look at it. If the decoration is too good, in case the leader looks unhappy and insists on tossing about this matter, even if the money from Zhang Tao's family is clean, it will not be too late. Will be tossed and choked.

But at this time, there are still many such leaders.In the eyes of those leaders, everything is based on their hobbies, and everything is based on their butts.As for what happened to others, they didn't care about it at all.

When Zhang Tao's family came over, his aunt's family had other relatives, and these were also people who came to help the temple fair.They didn't go back after eating, they were all waiting for the temple fair tomorrow morning.

These grown-ups are all card players, and they play cards after dinner.On the contrary, no one watched the TV, and a few younger children played cartoons on the remote control.

There are two brothers and sisters, He Ming, a male dragon lantern and a female dragon lantern.They are also getting older, a junior high school student and a high school student, naturally they will not watch cartoons with those children, but just watch the adults play cards.

The development of thousands of things in the world always seems to be slowly moving closer to the established track. Even if Zhang Tao changes some things, some things still develop towards Zhang Tao's memory.

For example, the way of playing the cards here is the same as Zhang Tao's previous memory.Originally, a game that could only be played by three people, now a new trick has been created for four people to play.

There used to be four people, but only three people played one-number hole cards.Now it's four people playing together, who don't need to count the cards, but the number of cards drawn is less.

The first person to draw cards gets fifteen cards, and the one behind gets one less.There is no need to win cards with more than ten hus like before, only six hus is enough here.

The price of the six-hu and above-one-hu will be raised once, and the world will still be red and black together.If the reserve price is high, the winning or losing is huge, and you can lose a lot in a single game.

Just like the game that Zhang Tao is seeing now, with the reserve price of five yuan, Zhang Tao's little uncle lost almost one thousand in one card, and he paid three people's money by himself.

"Damn it! Why did I fire the cannon again? It's only been a few games, and the 1000 yuan is gone."

For Zhang Tao's little uncle, it is nothing to lose this little money, and it is a loss to his relatives.It's just that he couldn't stand his unlucky luck, he lost continuously, and he was very depressed when he lost.

"Come on! Xiaotao, help Uncle play a few games, and use your luck as the God of Wealth to save Uncle face. I'll go to the bathroom to solve the problem."

Seeing Zhang Tao sitting on the side looking very bored, Zhang Tao's little uncle immediately remembered how amazing his nephew was.He quickly found an excuse, asked Zhang Tao to help him play a few games, and went to escape by himself.

(End of this chapter)