2020揄拍自拍

Chapter 531

Either way, they weren’t going to make any clothes for the time being.

Lin Lan naturally agreed to it as she asked him to go to the brigade to help distribute the items. Plus, since women had to accompany their husbands to attend prayers for their family ancestors as well, they were definitely going to be busy.

On the 29th, there was a huge sale once again and it was the last time for the people to buy some New Year’s goods. A year of busy work was honestly done just for the dignity of the few days of the Chinese New Year. Everyone had reputations to uphold while they worshipped ancestors and visited relatives, so both the rich and the poor had to make preparations.

Snacks and candies were a must because there was a need to use them to coax the children when visiting relatives. There wasn’t such a thing as buying ‘too many firecrackers’ as well. In fact, more than a dozen was basically the standard to make sure that everyone could actually have fun with them.

All kinds of tickets were accumulated and everyone bought everything they saw to make sure that the tickets wouldn’t expire.

Most of the time, children enjoyed going to the market today since they were able to buy some snacks for a penny or two.

Lin Lan also let the children in her family go, but no one was really that curious except for Sanwang.

Since they have already been to the County’s market before, coupled with the fact that the snacks here couldn’t even dream of comparing with the ones that were sold there, what’s so interesting to see?

It was a strangely cold day, so they might as well help their mother at home with the New Year preparations.

When Lin Lan and Erwang were steaming pastry buns at home, Han Qingping personally came to give her some Chinese couplets. Except for those who had funerals recently, every household had to post red couplets on the window grilles and the doors. Plus, some decor was appreciated here and there, making it incredibly festive.

These were all necessary rituals for Chinese New Year; should they be missing, the family would not be considered to be celebrating the festive season and would be mocked. Living together in villages in the countryside, most of the people usually wouldn’t be able to stand all the finger pointing, so they couldn’t be careless.

The educated youths in the village who were well-off will ask for leave to return to the city for the New Year and those who are not able to would stay here.

Han Qingping brought an educated youth who was good at brush calligraphy writing to write the couplets. Members only had to pay for the brush, ink and red paper.

Lin Lan wiped her hands and took the couplet, looked at it and said happily, “Thank you teacher, we were just going to get one written for us,” She took out some money for Han Qingping and placed some peanuts and eggs in a straw basket for him.

Han Qingping hastily declined, “The brigade already gave flour and eggs.”

“This is from us. As a teacher taking care of so many kids, it must have been tiring,” The duo Sanwang and Dawang must have especially made Han Qingping worry a lot.

Han Qingping asked about Sanwang’s drunken singing, which was a really famous story that spreaded throughout the whole village. After all, the howling that resembled ghosts or wolves, all done in the middle of the night, was so unpleasant that everyone had heard it.

Truly, what a pain.