Chapter 1274 Giving Out Red Envelopes

It was only three o'clock when Li Da and Zhou Yuehe got up and started preparing for the New Year's dinner.

At this point, it was already too late in the village. Many of the lights in the surrounding neighbors' homes had already been turned on.

Liu Xiaoli also got up and helped.

At half past three, someone in the village set off firecrackers, and then every family set off firecrackers. This was considered the official start of the new year.

"Ouch, I'm going to see if Guoguo has woken up from the explosion." Liu Xiaoli hurried upstairs.

"Yue He, tell Bazi to wake up. Are you still sleeping at this time?" Li Dacheng shouted.

"No need to scream, the firecrackers exploded, how can he still wake up?" Zhou Yuehe said with a smile.

Sure enough, no matter how good the sound insulation is, it can't block out the sound of firecrackers. Li Ba got up.

The girl was also woken up by the explosion. When she saw Li Ba getting up, she wanted to get up with her big belly, but Li Ba refused and asked her to sleep a little longer.

"I'll call you during dinner. Go to sleep." Li Ba warned and went out.

After coming downstairs, Li Dacheng saw it and shouted to Li Ba to open a financial gate quickly.

At this time, Guoguo's voice sounded from upstairs: "I'll drive, I'll drive, dad, you don't even wake me up? It's better for grandma."

Liu Xiaoli next to her smiled when she heard this.

"Okay, okay, if the fruit opens, daddy will blow up the firecrackers." Li Ba said quickly.

Next, Guoguo opened the door and shouted happily in a ceremonial manner: "Open the door to wealth, please invite the God of Wealth!"

Li Ba moved a large circle of firecrackers and spread them out in the front yard. Before lighting them, he turned around and shouted: "Guoguo, cover your ears."

"oh!"

Guoguo responded, quickly covered her little ears with her little hands, hid behind the door again, and then stretched out her little head to look outside.

With the crackling of firecrackers and the rising smoke, the New Year of the Liba family has begun.

"Bazi, add more charcoal, set the table, and light the stove."

Next, Zhou Yuehe began to instruct Li Ba to do this and that. The first thing was to add fire to the brazier in the living room.

"I got it, Mom."

The so-called fire of thirty and the lantern of fifteen means that when eating New Year's dinner, the fire in the brazier should be big and strong, so that it can prosper all year round.

"Guoguo, don't get too close to the fire."

Li Ba added a bunch of charcoal to it, and after telling Guoguo, he started to set up a round table and chairs next to it.

"Dad, let me help you."

Guoguo didn't want to warm up to the fire and got busy behind her father's butt, which then lowered her father's efficiency.

After the table was set, several stoves were placed on it. They were not electric stoves or fuel stoves, but bulky charcoal stoves.

After Li Ba put the charcoal in the brazier into the stove, Liu Xiaoli and Zhou Yuehe began to serve the food.

When it was almost five o'clock, a table full of dishes was set, and the whole living room was filled with fragrance.

"Bazi, go and wake up Qianqian." Zhou Yuehe said.

"I'll call you. Mom is the laziest and doesn't get up yet."

The little capable person Guoguo shouted and ran upstairs quickly.

"You're such a diligent little thing."

Liu Xiaoli joked and followed up.

After the girl comes down, the Li family's New Year's Eve dinner will begin.

The first thing to do is to offer sacrifices to the ancestors, so that the ancestors can eat first.

Li Ba also made this. Each bowl was filled with a little rice, accompanied by a little wine and drinks, and then he chanted:

"It's Chinese New Year, please come to the table for the ancestors of the Li family, ancestors of thousands of generations, ancestors of ten thousand generations, grandparents..."

While thinking about it, Li Ba recalled that when he was a child, when his grandma was still around, sometimes he would chant smoothly and his grandparents would shout out together, which would always attract his father's death stare. If it weren't for the Chinese New Year, he would inevitably get slapped and beaten.

"After the New Year's Eve dinner, I will take Guoguo to your grandparents' graves in the morning to send flowers. If it is inconvenient for Sissi, please don't go." At this time, Li Dacheng warned.

"I got it, Dad."

Li Ba responded and removed the bowl, chopsticks and wine glass.

After dinner, we chatted and ate. From time to time, firecrackers exploded in the distance, and the sky gradually grew brighter.

When it was almost nine o'clock, Li Ba picked up two snakeskin bags of firecrackers, weighing one hundred and fifty or sixty kilograms, and took the fruit with him to send fire to his ancestors.

When passing by his neighbor Uncle Lin's house, Li Ba called out, took a few handfuls of their straw, tied it up and carried it away together.

"Dad, what are you doing with this?"

"Dad, what is sending fire?"

"Dad, where do our ancestors live? Don't they live in our house?"

Guoguo was jumping up and down behind, and a question popped up from time to time.

"Bazi, are you going to send fire?"

From time to time on the road, we met people from the village who were also going to deliver fires. Some were going the same way, and some were going different ways.

Going around and around the country road, Li Ba gradually followed a large group of people, including his cousins ​​and two unmarried cousins, all holding firecrackers and straw handles.

"Guoguo, my aunt will hold you."

Li Xiangyun forcefully picked up Guoguo.

"Auntie, I want to go by myself."

The little girl has a lot of energy and is squirming around unhappily.

"No, the road here is narrow. What should I do if I fall into a ditch?"

"I can walk, I'm awesome!"

One insisted on hugging, the other refused to hug, and the commotion broke out, adding some excitement to the team.

After walking around for twenty minutes, we came to a small river. The ancestral grave of Li Ba's family is here, a small island extending by the river.

There are more than twenty sets of graves buried here, not only the ancestral graves of the Li Ba family, but also those of other families.

There are eight groups of graves in Li Ba's family, including those of his grandparents and uncles. Li Ba and others took out the sickles they brought and began to clear the weeds on the graves.

With more people and greater strength, it was finished in a short time, and then the fire was sent, and the descendants kowtowed to their ancestors, and finally exploded firecrackers.

After returning home, Li Ba drove his car, took Guoguo with him, and asked a few cousins ​​who were fine to go shopping in the town.

I bought a large cartload of New Year gifts and a cartload of fireworks and the like, and made two trips back and forth.

On the evening of the 30th, Li Ba’s family ate dumplings.

In fact, Li Ba doesn’t like to eat dumplings in his hometown, but he has loved eating them since he was a child, so every year during the Chinese New Year, he would eat a meal of dumplings like in the north.

After eating the dumplings, Zhou Yuehe cleared the table, Liu Xiaoli helped put a large table of snacks and fruits, Li Dacheng added enough charcoal to the brazier, and the family watched the Spring Festival Gala and began to watch the New Year.

"Here, let's give out the lucky money!"

At this time, Li Ba came out with a smile and a few bundles of cash, looking like a nouveau riche.

"Husband, just give me a red envelope and it will be nice. Why do you take so much cash?" The girl fell down laughing, covering her stomach but not daring to laugh.

"That's not possible. How can the red envelopes be meaningful? They must be in place and each person will be given a bundle."

Li Ba smiled and handed out a bundle of 100,000 yuan to each person.

Zhou Yuehe looked disgusted, pushed the money in front of Li Ba, and said, "Bazi, this is the red envelope I gave Guoguo, you can keep it for her."

"This is mine." Li Dacheng also pushed it over.

"Mine." The girl poked Li Ba with her chin and said.

"And mine."

Liu Xiaoli also smiled and pushed the money over.

"Oh, I have money, I'm going to buy cannons, buy them all!" Guoguo cheered.

"Okay, Guoguo, let's go to town tomorrow and buy all the cannon balls so that other children will have nothing to play with."

Li Ba said to Guo Guo with a smile.

"Uh-huh!"

Guoguo was very interested in this fucking suggestion, and her little head was nodding.

"Sooner or later, Guoguo will be led astray by you."

The girl pushed Li Ba angrily.

"It's already a little crooked." Liu Xiaoli sighed.

"Haha..." Several people laughed.