ocean hunter

Chapter 209 New Year's Eve
The trumpets on the stage played harder, and the guests greeted the bride and groom with cheers.

Lu Xiaolu was leading the cart, Xue Li was behind, hugging the dog with one hand and pushing it with the other, and walked past the door, which was out of tune with the lively scene in front of him.

It was a journey of more than ten miles, and so many things were carried, which made both of them very tired.

After returning home to rest for a while, get some food to eat, Lu Xiaolu is going to burn paper.

"Shirley, are you going?"

Shirley was taken aback: "Can I go?"

Generally, no outsiders go to the matter of burning paper to worship.

Lu Xiaolu nodded: "Yes."

The exhaustion on Xue Li's face was swept away, and she stood up quickly, a little excited: "Wait for me, I'll touch up my makeup."

"Ah."

Leaving Xiao Hei at home, Lu Xiaolu took Xue Li, two big bags of paper money, and a sickle for mowing grass, and went to the cemetery together.

Two hours later, looking at the uncle's family who were still drinking, Lu Xiaolu looked a little annoyed. Tomorrow is the Chinese New Year, and this family even forgot to burn paper.

Forget it, leave him alone, let's do what you love.

The wedding banquet is also over, and there should be a banquet for relatives and friends tomorrow, but there is something wrong with the date chosen by his family, tomorrow is New Year's Eve.

Many people said that his family was stingy and just wanted to save this meal, but Qingchao's family complained that they were wronged. This day was set by my husband, and it was a good day a year ago.

After the new year, it will take a long time, so I can only choose this day. For this reason, my mother-in-law has done a lot of ideological work. After all, it will be the Chinese New Year tomorrow, but my daughter is married.

For such a big event as marriage, how could they go to such lengths to save a meal.

There is still a row of seats tonight. There is a family out of the village, and the son and daughter-in-law serve tea, which is also a change of mouth.

Those relatives and friends all went to the loudspeaker to order songs and send blessings, and Lu Xiaolu heard his uncle's name.

The performing arts troupe sang from just after dark until ten o'clock in the evening, and then there was an hour of fireworks, which were presented by the groom's friends.

Lu Xiaolu and Xue Li leaned on the bed and watched TV together, as if they were watching a pantomime show, even the earphones couldn't resist the sound from outside.

Fortunately, after ten o'clock, the village finally returned to calm. Lu Xiaolu replaced Xue Li's warm water bag with hot water before falling asleep.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, Lu Xiaolu and Xueli woke up early, so they couldn't sleep in late that day.

"It's snowing! Donkey Oppa." Shirley jumped up as soon as she came out of the house, exclaiming in surprise.

"Hehe, I saw it." Lu Xiaolu felt a little cold in the middle of the night, and thought the window was not closed properly. When he got up and looked, he found that it was snowing. Unexpectedly, it was quite heavy. In the yard, on the roof of the pot house It's a thick layer.

The two walked out the door, looking around, the whole world turned white.

But now is not the time to play in the snow, they still have things to do.

Lu Xiaolu made some noodles and boiled them into a paste, Xue Li also took a shovel and cleaned up all the couplets left over from last year.

"Come on, hand me the Spring Festival couplets, decorate the lanterns and festoons to welcome the new year, and celebrate the festive season happily. I will test you, which one is the Shanghai couplet?"

Lu Xiaolu stood on the chair, his face was full of joy, this was the first time he was so happy during Chinese New Year.

Shirley curled her lips: "I'm not stupid, of course it's the Chinese New Year with lanterns and festoons, you said it yourself."

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There are four couplets in total, one for the gate, one for the pot house, one for the main room, and one for the bedroom.

Lu Xiaolu posted two pictures, and Xue Li posted two pictures.

After finishing, Shirley looked at her masterpiece with great satisfaction: "Donkey Oppa, what are you going to do next?"

"Um, let me think about it." Lu Xiaolu rolled his eyes and thought, before, he would just stay at home after pasting up Spring Festival couplets, waiting for lunch to cook.

"By the way, I have to sweep the floor, clean the windows, and clean it up. I can't do it for a living starting tomorrow."

"Ah? Why?"

"That's called sweeping away all the wealth."

"Oh." Shirley took out his small notebook again and took notes.

Xueli swept the floor and cleaned the windows, while Lu Xiaolu shoveled all the snow out of the yard, otherwise it would be difficult to handle when it froze.

The two were very busy, during this period, Meng Lin came to the door, handed Lu Xiaolu a cigarette, and chatted for a while before going back.

Then Er Chong also came, but seeing Lu Xiaolu working, he also ran away.

After tidying up the house and yard, Lu Xiaolu took out all the vegetables he bought before going, including the bacon.

"Which one would Shirley want to eat? Choose by yourself."

Although evening is the official New Year's Eve dinner, people here always think that lunch is the most important, so Lu Xiaolu naturally couldn't avoid it, and planned to show off at noon.

In the end, don't choose at all, just have a little bit of the same.

Chicken, duck, fish, eggs, beef and mutton, etc.

Lu Xiaolu put on her apron and started chopping vegetables, while Xue Li took out the dishes from the cupboard that hadn't been used for a long time and washed them.

The main reason is that there are too many dishes and not enough plates.

"Donkey Oppa, can you light the fire?"

"Okay, let's light the fire."

It was only ten o'clock, and the chimney of Lu Xiaolu's house started to smoke.

Shirley adds firewood, Lu Xiaolu stir-fries, there are a lot of tough dishes today, his family only has one pot, and they can only stew them one by one, and then put them on the pot to steam at the same time.

"Donkey Oppa, it smells so good!" Shirley drooled crazily.

"Don't worry, have you seen this dish?"

"Well, I see, braised fish."

"This is called more than every year. You can't eat this dish today. You can't eat it until the first day of the new year, that is, tomorrow."

"oh oh."

Xue Li made the fire very lively, and Lu Xiaolu's dishes were finally finished before twelve o'clock.

Lu Xiaolu hurriedly placed the bundle of 5000-gun firecrackers on the open space at the door, paved it, and lit another cigarette.

Taking a deep breath, he leaned over the cigarette butt.

Hearing a sound of "呲", the fuse was ignited, Lu Xiaolu turned around and pulled Xue Li and ran away, not forgetting to slip Xiao Hei in too.

"Crackling!"

In the village, everyone was dumbfounded, who is this, playing cards so out of line, what time is it, and they set off firecrackers.

On New Year's Eve, everyone wants to grab the first prize, and the first person to set off firecrackers means that the coming year will be smooth for the whole year.

"Dinner, Shirley."

"okay."

The small square table in the main room was full of plates and bowls, four plates and four bowls, exactly eight dishes.

Today is the Chinese New Year, wine must be drunk, and there is still leftovers from the Erguotou I drank last time, which is just right.

Even Xiao Hei is Chinese New Year today, except for fish, Lu Xiaolu gave him some of every dish, and what he ate was so refreshing that his little tail turned into a windmill.

"Come on, Shirley, have a drink."

"Well, done!"

For those who celebrate the New Year, there is nothing wrong anyway, and both of them open their mouths to drink, and sleep when they are drunk.

(End of this chapter)