Nantianmen Project: Starting from Love Apartment

On New Year's Eve, sunlight shines into the room through the window.

Xiao Jie opened his eyes early because he had a lot of things to do today, so he got up early.

Pasting couplets, blessing characters, and window decorations are all important parts of traditional customs, which can add a festive atmosphere to the New Year. In addition, there is a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner that needs to be carefully prepared. Of course, setting off firecrackers is also indispensable, which will be a symbol of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new.

Xiao Jie first came to his cousin Xiao Chen's room and unceremoniously pulled him out of the warm bed.

"What?" Xiao Chen, with sleepy eyes, looked blankly at Xiao Jie who suddenly broke in, obviously he was not awake yet.

"Get up and work! Why are you asking? Hurry up, there are a lot of things to do today." Xiao Jie replied in a firm tone.

After saying that, Xiao Jie turned around and walked out of the room, came to Xiao Ruyan's door, and knocked gently. However, there was no response from inside. He shook his head helplessly and had to take out his cell phone to call Xiao Ruyan.

"Hello?" After a while, Xiao Ruyan's slightly lazy voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Get up, it's time to work, hurry up!" Xiao Jie urged.

"Oh." Xiao Ruyan simply responded and hung up the phone.

Xiao Jie put his phone in his pocket and walked to the yard.

At this time, two young cousins ​​were standing by the sink, brushing their teeth seriously with cute smiles on their faces.

After a while, Xiao Chen and Xiao Ruyan came out of the room with messy hair and sleepy eyes. They each picked up their toothbrush and cup, slowly walked to the two little cousins, and started brushing their teeth together. Their movements were uniform and their expressions were very similar.

Not long after, they finished washing and became refreshed. Then, they came to Xiao Jie and asked, "Cousin, what should we do next?"

Xiao Jie smiled and replied, "You two can go and paste the couplets, blessing characters and window decorations. These things are all over there, and there is also glue and brushes next to them."

As he spoke, he pointed to the couplets, blessing characters, window decorations in a red bag on the table, as well as the paste and brushes next to them.

After hearing this, the two nodded, then turned to their younger brothers who were playing nearby and shouted, "Brothers, come and help with the work!"

"I'm coming!"

Hearing the shout, the two little cousins ​​responded excitedly and then ran over quickly.

"Sister, what are we going to do?" Xiao Ruyan's younger brother asked curiously.

"Let's go put up the couplets."

Xiao Ruyan replied with a smile, and gently took her brother's hand and walked to the table where the couplets were placed.

Seeing this, Xiao Chen and his brother hurriedly followed.

After the two left, Xiao Jie picked up the firecrackers and walked happily towards an open place, preparing to set off firecrackers to welcome the arrival of the New Year.

He first shouted: "Let's set off firecrackers!"

Then, after everyone had covered their ears tightly, he carefully lit the lighter and ignited the fuse. Afterwards, he quickly threw the firecracker away, covered his ears, and ran in the direction of the crowd.

As soon as the firecrackers hit the ground, they immediately exploded. In an instant, a deafening crackling sound rang out at the scene.

Everyone had joy on their faces and smiled as they watched the lively scene before them.

Soon

The firecrackers burned out and the scene was filled with the smell of gunpowder.

"Happy New Year!"

With the sound of "Happy New Year", everyone started their day's work.

Xiao Jie was cooking dumplings in the kitchen, Xiao Chen and Xiao Ruyan were pasting couplets with their two cousins, and the adults were cleaning.

quickly

The four people who were going to put up the couplets have already finished.

They picked up rags and joined the cleaning process.

With everyone's concerted efforts, the house was cleaned thoroughly.

At this time, Xiao Jie's dumplings were also cooked.

"Let's eat glutinous rice balls."

He walked out of the kitchen and shouted to everyone.

"Coming."

Two little kids ran over happily.

"Slower."

Xiao Jie looked at them running over and said.

"Have you washed your hands?" Xiao Jie asked.

"It's washed, we'll help them wash." Xiao Chen and Xiao Ruyan followed behind them and said.

"Just wash it, otherwise you will get hand, foot and mouth disease." Xiao Jie said.

"Cousin, I want to eat dumplings." The two little cousins ​​hugged Xiao Jie's thighs and said.

"Okay, okay, then let your cousin go first, otherwise how can I give you dumplings?" Xiao Jie said, looking down at the two little guys lovingly.

"it is good."

The two little guys let Xiao Jie go. Xiao Jie walked to the kitchen, picked up the bowls they used for eating, scooped some glutinous rice balls for them, and then walked out of the kitchen with two bowls of glutinous rice balls.

"Come with your cousin." Xiao Jie said to his two little cousins.

"it is good."

The two of them immediately followed Xiao Jie and walked into the house.

Xiao Jie put two bowls of glutinous rice balls on the table, then touched their heads and told them, "Eat slowly, be careful of the heat, do you hear me?"

"I heard it." The two little cousins ​​nodded obediently.

"Go eat." Xiao Jie said with satisfaction.

After hearing what Xiao Jie said, the two little cousins ​​immediately sat down on the chairs happily and blew carefully at the glutinous rice balls in the bowl, trying to make them cool down faster.

Xiao Jie left with peace of mind only after he saw that his two little cousins ​​were not in a hurry to eat.

Xiao Jie walked out of the room and saw Xiao Chen and Xiao Ruyan squatting on the ground eating. He asked in confusion, "Why don't you eat at the dining table?"

"There's an indescribable feeling when squatting on the ground to eat," said Xiao Ruyan.

"And it's cool outside." Xiao Chen agreed.

"Weird."

Xiao Jie muttered something, then walked into the kitchen, scooped a bowl for himself, then took a stool and came to their side, sitting on it to eat.

The two of them looked at Xiao Jie in unison.

"Why are you looking at me?" Xiao Jie asked puzzledly.

"Why didn't I think of moving a stool to sit on?" Xiao Chen said with sudden realization, then put the bowl on the ground and ran to get a stool.

"Help me get one." Xiao Ruyan shouted.

"Take it yourself." Xiao Chen responded.

Although he told her to get it herself, he still honestly brought over two stools.

"Xiao Chenzi, thank you." Xiao Ruyan said thank you happily, then took the stool, put it behind her, and sat down to eat.

Then the three of them sat in front of the dog and started eating the dumplings, occasionally throwing some bones to the dog.

Why are there bones? Because Xiao Jie added some chicken, dried shrimps, radishes, etc. into the glutinous rice balls, so there are bones.

The three of them ate bowl after bowl. After finishing, they washed the dishes and then sat comfortably in the yard, basking in the sun and chatting.