In the book, she became the daughter of a vicious villain who died early

Lin Shiyu just listened to it as a story and didn't take it to heart.

Once the heroine Lin Shijie died, the plot of the book took an unpredictable turn.

Today's people and scenery are real, not fiction.

Reality is uncontrollable. There is no need to waste too much energy trying to control everyone's whereabouts. That would be too tiring.

She doesn't have that ability either.

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This New Year, the entire Yamada Village was more lively than ever before.

Last year, the weather was good and the harvest was bumper.

Last year, every household had an additional source of income.

It is a rare thing that everyone finally wears new clothes in the new year, instead of the poor New Year where everyone shouts "new clothes for the New Year" every year but in the end there is only one more meat dish on the table.

After midnight, the sound of firecrackers rang out one after another.

When the sun rises in the morning, every household brings their own chicken, pork and fish to the temple to worship the gods.

The kitchen god, family temple, public temple, ancestral hall and finally the household god.

Every time you arrive at a place, you need to burn incense, paper and set off firecrackers.

The sky was filled with fireworks and laughter.

There was no scolding, no crying, and no crying faces on this day.

New year, new atmosphere, and laughter from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

"Eat a piece of candy, sweeten your heart, and make the year sweet from the beginning to the end."

Liu imitated what Old Lady Lin did in previous years and stuffed a candy into the mouth of everyone in the family early in the morning.

After eating the candy, she had to start getting busy, killing chickens and fish and preparing the New Year's Eve dinner.

The men cleaned the house, put up couplets and changed the ashes in the incense burner.

After everything was ready, Zhang took the pomelo leaves, peach leaves, mugwort... that she had prepared long ago and put them into a big pot to boil water for everyone to take a bath.

After taking a bath comes one of the happiest parts for children – putting on new clothes.

By the time everyone has put on their new clothes, the procession to worship the gods will have almost reached the public temple, where everyone will perform a unified worship.

Every household will bring small firecrackers, and someone will string all the firecrackers together into a long string to burn.

This year, the sound of firecrackers in Yamada Village lasted much longer than those in several nearby villages, which surprised the people in the nearby villages.

That village with mixed surnames has become capable and is doing better than their village with only one surname.

After the worship around the fire is completed, everyone goes back to their homes to worship their family gods, and then it is time for the New Year’s Eve dinner.

After dinner, children from each family took small cloth bags and went to other families in the village to ask for red envelopes.

At this time, the villagers would prepare some delicious food or copper coins for these children.

In previous years, everyone was poor and the most they prepared were snacks like beans and peanuts grown at home. This year, everyone has income, and many families have also prepared copper coins for their children.

Although it was only a penny, it was enough to make the children so happy that they lost their minds.

Lin Shiyu ran behind Lin Boyu holding a small cloth bag specially made by her mother. Before she reached half of the villagers' homes, the bag was already full.

When people in the village saw her coming to ask for lucky money, they gave her extra, which made the children around her very envious.

Lin Shiyu was extremely excited as it was her first time experiencing this traditional New Year.

I was so excited the whole day that I was so tired that I fell asleep before dark. I didn't even get up to stay up until the New Year.

It is not appropriate to kill animals on the first day of the new year.

They have to eat vegetarian food in the morning and can only eat meat after worshiping the gods at noon. The meat they eat is the meat prepared the day before.

After lunch, relatives and friends greet each other.

The second day of the Chinese New Year is the day to go back to my parents’ home.

There had been no one visiting Liu's family for a long time, so Liu took her children back to Mrs. Lin's family's home, which was also Uncle Lin's home.

Lin Shiyi also went with them.

She had been adopted by Lin Anji, so logically she should have followed Mrs. Sun to the Sun family. However, she knew her own limitations and did not go with her. Instead, she followed Old Madam Lin to Uncle Lin's house.

Uncle Lin’s family has many people, but... it’s not lively.

Except for Uncle Lin's youngest son who looks kinder, the other sons are almost exactly like Uncle Lin.

He is the kind of person who scares people the moment they meet him, and his grandchildren look almost like Uncle Lin.

The female relatives are fine, but most of them have gone back to their parents' homes today, so there are many missing female relatives.

Originally, several of Mrs. Lin’s nephews were going to follow their daughter-in-law back to her parents’ home, but when they learned that Lin Anru was coming back home, they did not go with them.

For this reason, these people specially prepared generous gifts for their daughters-in-law to take back to their parents' home.

The adults seemed to have endless topics to talk about, and they kept chatting from the time they entered the door until they were about to go home.

Children have it much easier, they just eat and play. When they are tired of playing and want to go home, they can get red envelopes.

Before they got home, the three children had opened the red envelope and put the copper coins inside into their pockets.

Along the way, as the steps swayed, the copper coins jingled, which was very pleasant to hear.

"Put them all in place. If they fall and hit my foot, I won't give them back to you."

Seeing them laughing so hard that their teeth were showing, Lin Anru couldn't help but remind them and make fun of them.

Children nowadays are so lucky. The red envelopes they receive during the Chinese New Year are more than what they received in the ten years since they were children.

Lin Shiyu ignored his reminder and even shook the money in her pocket a little more.

She just likes to hear the sound of money colliding.

Lin Boyu and Lin Shiyi are just the opposite. This money is their hard-earned private money, and they would cry to death if it was lost.

So the two of them kept their hands on their pockets until they got home, for fear that the coins would fall out.

The third day of the new year.

The rich people's Spring Festival activities have just begun, while the poor families have already started working.

In Yamada Village, except for a few families with many relatives who needed to visit them, the rest of the people went to pick herbs.

In a few days, spring plowing will begin and the days of making money will come to an end. How can the villagers, who are already afraid of poverty, give up this time to make money?

While the villagers of Yamada Village were busy, the villagers from the surrounding villages who were unaware of the situation became puzzled. Why didn’t anyone from Yamada Village come to play this year?

They also wanted to make more money from the people of Yamada Village.

In the past, villagers from the surrounding areas would gather together to gamble and have fun during these days every year, but this year there were fewer people from Yamada Village, so it was hard not to attract attention.

The people in Yamada Village were unaware that they were being targeted by outsiders. They were so busy that they even forgot to eat. Who would think of gambling to win a few peanuts and sunflower seeds?

The villagers are busy, and Liu is even busier.

In addition to the daily work of handling herbs, she also had to take time to make clothes for Lin Anru and the things he needed for the exam.

Lin Anru had obtained the qualification of a Tongsheng more than ten years ago, and he no longer needed to take the county examination in February or the prefectural examination in April.

He only needs to take part in the college examination after the provincial examination.

The academy examination is also held in April, just a few days later than the provincial examination.

It's only the first month of the year now, and there seems to be plenty of free time to prepare until April.