She gave birth to three daughters in a row, and was kicked out by her mother-in-law who favored boys

Thirty years old.

I was woken up by the sound of firecrackers in the village again. I couldn't be lazy and lie on the kang today. I got up early to burn incense to the imperial edict placed in the main hall and the Jade Emperor and God, and then started today's busy day.

They were going to have dumplings for lunch. Zhao Dong chopped the meat, Zhao Bei washed the vegetables, Zhao Nan cut the vegetables, Old Yang and Li Xin peeled onions, and Wen Wuyan kneaded the dough.

As for Gu Qingqing and Wen Shengxi, one was responsible for verbal commands while the other was responsible for running errands back and forth.

It's easier to get things done with more people. By noon, less than six or seven hundred dumplings were made. There were pork and cabbage, lard and sour beans, minced meat, and vermicelli made from cabbage. They made everything you could think of.

Of course you can’t finish eating so much, so if you can’t finish it, just rinse it in water, put it anywhere and wait for it to freeze naturally before storing it.

On the other side, after the dumplings came out of the pot in the kitchen, Wen Wuyan and Gu Qingqing worshipped various gods, then called the children in the family, and they knelt down towards the east together.

What to worship?

The children had no idea at all and just followed their parents.

They had just finished dinner, so there was no need to prepare dinner so early. Besides, there was plenty of meat and meatballs ready at home. The group of people had nothing to do, so they played Landlord with thin bamboo cards according to what Gu Qingqing taught them.

As a result, after playing for a while, Wu Shan came with several older people from the village. Without Gu Qingqing's greeting, the children in the family hurriedly took out peanuts, melon seeds and candies to entertain the guests during the New Year.

Then he poured some hot tea.

"Wuyan, what are your plans for the archway tomorrow morning?" Wu Shan asked as soon as he came in.

"What's the plan?" Wen Wuyan repeated it and looked at Gu Qingqing. Seeing that she was not quite clear about the purpose of the village chief's visit, he turned around and told her about their family's plan for tomorrow morning.

All you have to do is take the offerings from home and place them there early in the morning, then burn incense there and that's it.

Wu Shan nodded after hearing this and said happily, "Yeah, that's about right. I came here just to tell you that the villagers will come with us tomorrow morning. After all, it is a memorial archway located on the territory of our Niutou Village. If everyone comes together to worship, maybe our village can even get a top scholar."

"Everyone is willing to come? That's a good thing. Let's go together tomorrow." Wen Wuyan had no objection. If they wanted to go together, they could go together.

Wu Shan and the others sat here for a while, chatted for a few minutes, and then got up and left.

Wen Wuyan looked at the time and asked, "Hang the lanterns?"

A group of people, with their chattering children, went to see the lanterns hanging.

The two largest ones were hung on the archway, and the next one was outside their own door. This year they had money, so they bought a lot of small lanterns and hung them on the door with hanging flowers and in the corridor, waiting to light the candles after dark.

Zhao Dong and the others helped to prepare the meal. No matter how Wen Wuyan and Gu Qingqing tried to persuade them to stay, they still refused to eat here. Last year, the brothers did not eat their New Year's Eve dinner at Wuyan's place, and they would not eat here this year either.

After they left, Wen Wuyan took the lead, Old Yangtou was the assistant, and the others helped around, busying themselves with the family reunion dinner in the evening. Because the weather was cold, there were relatively fewer dishes this year. There was only a symbolic fish sent by the Shen family, some braised dishes, and the pork skin jelly that the children loved to eat.

The rest are pork ribs hot pot, mushroom chicken hot pot, braised lamb chops hot pot, etc.

There are quite a few side dishes, including homemade meatballs, sliced ​​lamb, tenderloin, etc.

Wash and cut cabbage, lotus root slices, winter vegetables, white radish, potato chips, winter bamboo shoots, fungus, soaked mushrooms, etc.

This year's warm group meal is mainly based on hot pot.

A meal full of laughter.

After dinner, when Wen Wuyan said that he wanted to go to the archway and hang red lanterns at home, the children were so happy that they all followed him.

After eating early, Gu Qingqing said to Li Xin, "Daxin, go to the kitchen and boil two pots of hot water. The whole family will take a bath later."

"Okay, aunt." Now the family is used to taking a bath every few days, and they are adept at doing these things.

"Xinxin, go check the charcoal basin in your outer room. If the room is not hot enough, add a few more pieces of charcoal."

The remaining few people made dumplings with copper coins to be eaten tomorrow morning.

When the dumplings were wrapped, Li Xin came running over and said that the water was ready. Gu Qingqing instructed Wen Wuyan to put a bathtub outside the east wing, and then Gu Qingqing and Shengxi helped the three sisters take a bath.

After absorbing the water on their hair with a rough cloth, several people put their heads above the charcoal basin, hoping to dry their hair quickly.

"We have to get up early tomorrow. Shengxi, take the sisters to bed early. I will put the new clothes next to your pillows at the party. I will turn off the lights for you when I leave." Gu Qingqing didn't expect them to stay up all night, so after sending the four of them to bed, she simply wiped herself in the hot air from outside.

Listening to the sound of his daughter getting dressed in her room, Wen Wuyan asked quietly outside the door, "Is Qingqing okay?"

Then a voice came from the room: "Wait for me a moment."

After Gu Qingqing came out, Wen Wuyan went in and brought out the water in a bucket, then moved the bathtub out. Then he carefully cleaned up the water on the floor in the outer room before leaving.

Gu Qingqing waited until the children fell asleep before preparing the clothes they would wear on New Year's Day and placed them in their room.

Then he took out four cloth bags, containing five taels of silver each for the three daughters and ten taels for Shengxi.

Similarly, Li Xin also had some, but it was Wen Wuyan who put it there, and it was also ten taels.

She originally wanted to stay up all night to celebrate the New Year, but after a while her eyelids started to flutter and neither of them gave in.

She didn't even know that Wen Wuyan got up twice at night to check on the lamp that was left burning.

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At dawn the next day, the Wen family opened the door and took the offerings and incense sticks to the archway outside.

The children in the house got up when they heard the noise, especially when they found out that the New Year's money on their clothes was worth several taels of silver. Their joyful voices almost blew the roof off.

After Gu Qingqing and Wen Shengxi combed the children's hair, they took them to the archway.

Their family members were in front and the villagers were behind. They burned incense, kowtowed and prayed together.

In the past, people in the village would visit each household to wish each other a happy new year, but this time, everyone gathered outside the village early in the morning.

Some people were quick to do so and paid their respects on the spot; for some families whose elders were not present, others had no choice but to go to their homes and wish them a happy new year first.

After the work at the memorial archway was done, Gu Qingqing and her group went home first. After arriving home, they paid their respects to the imperial edict again. Then Wen Wuyan and Gu Qingqing accepted New Year greetings from their children.

At the same time, each child earned fifty cents from her.

"Go, pay New Year's greetings to Grandpa Yang, and then follow your father to pay New Year's greetings to several families in the village." Gu Qingqing sent the naughty kids at home out to play.

"Sister, you stay home alone. I'll be back soon." Wen Shengxi said to Gu Qingqing.

"Go!"

Almost immediately after they left, Zhao Jianghe, Zhao Sijiao, Zhao Qiceng, and the Danju and Green Forest brothers arrived. As soon as they entered the door, they shouted, "Grandpa Yang, we're here to wish you a happy new year!"

"Aunt, we have just wished Uncle a Happy New Year. Wish Aunt a Happy New Year!"

"Okay, okay, happy New Year to you too. Here, this is a New Year red envelope for you!" Gu Qingqing said as she gave each of them a package wrapped in red paper. After opening it, there were twenty copper coins inside.

The children didn't expect to get copper coins. They happily shouted "Happy New Year" to Gu Qingqing before running away in a swarm.