New Year's Eve is the time when all families worship their ancestors.

Jiang Zhixia naturally does not need to worship his ancestors.

However, after reporting to Zhixia, Uncle He's family, separated a place in the east wing where he lived, hung the family tree brought from his hometown, and set up a small altar with various fruit and snacks, without restraining men and women. Uncle He and Aunt Zhang took Xiaoman and kowtowed to their ancestors.

Uncle He complained to his ancestors with tears in his eyes--the incense of this family has been cut off from his generation.

After Uncle He's family finished worshiping their ancestors, they quickly left the room to work.

You have to chop the firewood you need to use for the whole half month, cut the meat you need to use for the evening, and choose all the vegetables. You have to clean the house and throw away all the garbage. Because on the first day of the Lunar New Year, you cannot throw out the garbage. Otherwise, you will throw out your wealth.

Chu Tiankuo finished worshiping his ancestors in his house and came to Zhixia's house to knock on the door. Zhixia was changing clothes for work and preparing the ingredients and ingredients needed for cooking in the afternoon with Aunt Zhang and Xiaoman in the kitchen.

Seeing that Chu Tiankuo was coming, Zhixia quickly washed his hands and wanted to let him go to the Grand Hall to have tea. He heard him say, "I'll help."

Jiang Zhixia looked at him in surprise and asked uncertainly: "Do you want to go into the kitchen to help cook?"

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that a gentleman is away from the kitchen. Although the original meaning of this sentence is that a gentleman has a kind heart and cannot bear to see killing, so he must stay away from the kitchen. However, for some reason, it became that a man could not enter the kitchen, and a gentleman was ashamed of the kitchen, otherwise he would lose his masculinity.

When Chu Tiankuo saw Jiang Zhixia's surprised look, he couldn't help but bend the corners of his lips.

Zhixia feels like the flowers in spring suddenly bloom. It’s really fatal. It’s true that people shouldn’t laugh easily, it’s easy to kill people.

"Yes. I'll come in and help you. I'm not from a wealthy family. I don't know anything." Chu Tiankuo said hurriedly.

"Then you set the fire for me. I just want to blanch the ribs in water." Jiang Zhixia saw that someone was willing to help, so she ignored it. Aunt Zhang happened to go out to help Uncle He, so she handed the flint to Chu Tiankuo.

Chu Tiankuo picked up the flint, skillfully fired, and threw the straw into the stove. After throwing it, he stuffed the firewood into the stove. As a result, a burst of smoke came out of the stove, and the fire was extinguished.

"Oh, do you really know how to work?" Jiang Zhixia asked in confusion, "How can you light it if you don't set up the firewood first?"

Chu Tiankuo heard this and felt a little embarrassed.

He was indeed not from a wealthy family, but when he followed Chu Xiong to the military camp, Chu Xiong was already a captain and had a bunch of soldiers under him, so he didn't need to do anything.

"I can. Don't be anxious." Chu Tiankuo said bluntly. He tried to recall how others had seen before to make fire. Then he hollowed the firewood, put flammable straw on it, and then fired it with flintstone, threw the straw into the stove, and the fire started to rush.

"Haha, it seems that I made a mistake just now." Jiang Zhixia smiled cheerfully when she saw that she became angry.

Chu Tiankuo stared blankly at Jiang Zhixia who was laughing.

When Jiang Zhixia saw Chu Tiankuo looking at her blankly, she couldn't help but wipe her cheeks and asked in confusion: "Is there any dust on my face?"

"There is here." Chu Tiankuo couldn't help but lit up Zhixia's right cheek, and then lowered his head guiltily.

Jiang Zhixia wiped her face casually with her sleeves. After thinking about it, she still had to work later. She would inevitably get dust, so she simply ignored it.

Then, Zhixia put the ribs into cold water, added some wine, and started blanching.

At noon, after a simple meal, everyone continued to prepare New Year's dishes.

Braised fish, braised pork ribs, smoked chicken, salted duck, roasted venison, copper-sided stove and so on all started to make one by one.

At the beginning of the Youth hour, the sky was just getting dark, and a large table full of vegetables was already on the square table in the reception hall. The study doors on both sides were closed and the door was closed. The thick curtains blocked the cold wind outside. Several charcoal basins were placed in the room, and several small carbon stoves were placed on the square table, with small copper pots on it, steaming hot. Although it was winter, the room was warm.

Uncle He, Aunt Zhang and Xiaoman stood next to the table in fear.

"Girls, wait in the kitchen. Just eat here with Uncle Chu." Uncle He said with his hands down. Usually, when the girl treats them well, they are already very content. Now that there are foreign guests, how can they serve the table with their master and foreign guests?

When Chu Tiankuo heard Uncle He's words, he looked at Jiang Zhixia with anticipation. He originally thought he could spend the New Year's Eve with Zhixia alone, but who knew that Zhixia said he would celebrate the New Year together, regardless of the master and servant, and it would be more lively.

Zhixia's words made him feel sad. If he had known this, he would have asked someone to walk through the back door and exchange Chu Mufeng for the New Year together.

"On weekdays, you should follow the rules. Today is the Chinese New Year, and everyone is gathering together to make fun of you. Brother Chu, don't you mind?" Jiang Zhixia asked with bright eyes at Chu Tiankuo.

Chu Tiankuo nodded involuntarily.

"Look, Brother Chu doesn't mind. Now, I don't know whether it's master or servant, and I'll spend the New Year's Eve together. If you want to follow the rules, I'll talk about it tomorrow."

Seeing Chu Tiankuo nodding, Zhixia became even more excited. This is the first time she celebrates the New Year with her own freedom. No matter what, it is necessary to be lively.

So, Jiang Zhixia and Chu Tiankuo sat in the main seats, Uncle He, Aunt Zhang and Xiaoman sat down on both sides and the lower heads respectively. Aunt Zhang sat next to Zhixia to serve Zhixia. Uncle He sat next to Chu Tiankuo and came to drink with Chu Tiankuo.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Uncle He opened a jar of good wine brought by Chu Tiankuo, Jiang Zhixia stretched out the wine glass, "I'm happy today, pour some for me."

Everyone looked at Jiang Zhixia in surprise.

"Can you drink?" Chu Tiankuo asked with concern.

"I drank it a long time ago, but now I don't know. I'll pour me some first and taste it." Jiang Zhixia smiled.

In her previous life, her alcohol content was not high, but she was relatively good. She had drunk a little white wine and could drink a bottle of red wine, but she never counted the beer. Because she didn't want to get drunk outside, she didn't know how much she could drink.

I have never drunk wine in this life.

However, the degree of this wine is probably not much higher.

Seeing that Jiang Zhixia was so in high spirits, it was hard for everyone to discourage her, so they poured her a small cup.

That's a cup, just one sip. Even if you drink it, it's usually okay.

After everyone raised their glasses together, Jiang Zhixia tasted it first and found that it was the spicy taste of white wine, and she couldn't taste it any, so she drank it in one sip.

This made Chu Tiankuo next to him fail to stop him, so he could only shake his head helplessly.

"Okay, let's drink this. Today is New Year's Eve, and we are going to stay up to the New Year." Chu Tiankuo stopped Jiang Zhixia from reaching out to the wine pot again and said softly: "We are just drinking softly today. If you want to drink, I will give you a few jars of flower wine and fruit wine another day. That sweet one is suitable for women to drink."

Jiang Zhixia thought about it and said that his first free New Year's Eve was really not easy to drink and was drunk.

She also wants to stay up to the New Year. In the palace, she wants to stay up to the New Year, but unfortunately she had to get up early the next day and really didn't have the energy.
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