Well, Yang Hua'an's business is undoubtedly a bad omen for everyone.

But what can be done?

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They could only comfort each other and take a lot of medicine, hoping that next year, the whole family would enjoy "sweetness after bitterness."

Yang Ruqing and Luofeng Tang waited in the old house for a short while. Because Yang Huazhong was thinking about the fact that Chang Geng and Niu were still coming over, everyone left first.

After the three-room left, everyone else dispersed as well.

Upon returning home, Yang Ruqing told Sun Shi about Yang Huainan. Sun Shi was also quite worried.

“Your uncle was always in good health, plump and well. He had no illnesses.”

"I hope this time, everything will be alright." Mrs. Sun said.

Yang Ruqing nodded.

Wealth and honor are determined by fate, while life and death are in Heaven's hands.

Everyone's kind expectations are always good, but how the specific results will turn out, Heaven has its own arrangements.

Soon, Chang Geng and the others all arrived.

And the medicinal herb collectors and transportation teams from the village also came to pay New Year's greetings to Yang Huazhong and Sun Shi.

These people are now all under Yang Ruqing's command. Let me know if you have any other text you'd like translated! ?

He made a living by selling medicine and transporting goods.

And often, these wages from work are more than what they earn by working diligently on their fields for an entire year.

Especially this year, with the floods and the plague, there's been no harvest in the fields.

Those households in the village who were not in the medicine-gathering team or the transportation team had a very difficult time and relied on eating relief grain to survive.

And although the families of the medicine-gathering team and transportation team members were also affected by the disaster, they had no worries about food, clothing, or shelter, as they had savings. Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate!

Everyone tasted the sweetness and luckily followed Yang Ruqing, so before the New Year's Day they had already planned to come to her house to pay New Year's greetings and show filial piety.

I was originally going to pay New Year's greetings at Yang Ruqing and Luo Fengtang's new house.

But considering that both Tuoba Xian and Yan Huai'an lived there, and Madam Xian was a person who enjoyed quietude.

Since it's not good to disturb them, they agreed to come to Yang Huazhong's place to celebrate the New Year.

Yang Ruqing and Luofeng Tang were the most filial, they both saw it with their own eyes.

Coming to pay New Year's greetings to Yang Huazhong and the Sun family was also a way of making peace with Yang Ruqing and Luo Fengtang.

As soon as Yang Ruqing and others returned, the large group for New Year greetings arrived right after.

The topic of Yang Hua'an was suddenly dropped, and the family quickly busied themselves, ushering everyone to sit down, offering tea, and serving snacks...

Yang Ruqing and Sun sat in a moon-shaped hot tub, warming themselves by the fire. Their legs were covered with a large piece of clothing, and their whole bodies felt warm and cozy.

By my ear, listening to everyone chattering away, talking about these rural matters.

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In summary, it is nothing more than a summary of the harvest from past years and expectations for next year's harvest.

I hope the elderly at home are in good health.

Looking forward to the children growing up a year older and becoming more sensible.

More importantly, is to encourage each other. While we are young and still have the strength, let's give it our all.

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Earn more money, build a house, and raise chickens, ducks, pigs, and cows.

The large red candles on the stand illuminated the room as bright as day. Let me know if you have other text you'd like me to translate!

The room was filled with laughter and applause.

As the saying goes:

A night of pleasantries has passed, and two years have hastened the guest's sideburns.

Though children do not sleep, they keep each other company at night, laughing and having fun.

The sound of firecrackers gradually came from near the Land Temple at the south end of the village, continuing until the early morning hours. Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate! ?

Yang Huazhong said: "Judging by the time, it's time to 'open the door' and 'go to Tianfang'!"

Then everyone dispersed, each going about their own preparations.

Here, Yang Ruoqing and Luo Fengtang also hurried back to their homes.

The locksmith stood at the doorway, a string of firecrackers already in his hand.

"You're just in time, it's time to 'open the door'!" Luo Tiejiang greeted Luo Fengtang.

“Tang Ya Zi, you are the master of this house, you come to light the firecracker.”

Then, Luofeng Tang lit the firecrackers with her own hands.

Yang Ruqing, Tuo Ba Xian, and Wang Cuilian all covered their ears and stood aside, smiling.

Looking at those fireworks, they exploded like a shower of flowers.

Beside his ear, the sound of exploding shells was deafening.

Between breaths, there was the smell of gunpowder and sulfur.

Before my eyes, are the familiar faces of loved ones.

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My heart is filled with a sense of security and sweetness.

This is the Lunar New Year.

It's so good to have the New Year!

After happily opening the door, Luó Tiéjiàng and Luó Fēngtáng went to the Land Temple at the southern end of the village to burn incense.

At home, Yang Ruqing and Wang Cuilian went to the backyard to cook dumplings for the New Year's Eve dinner.

I couldn't sleep all night.

On the first day of the first lunar month in the morning.

Yang Ruqing, following the local customs, cooked a large pot of eggs with brine.

Then, there is chicken soup stir-fried rice.

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Dumplings filled with meat and vegetable.

After a family happily ate and drank their fill, drowsiness set in.

The blacksmith, Luo, looked at the young couple who had been up all night and chuckled, “On this New Year's Day, everyone is staying home to catch up on sleep instead of visiting relatives.”

"After breakfast, you two better go back to your room and sleep!"

Back in their own house in the backyard, the two took a bath together.

Warm water soaked the tired body, Yang Ruqing felt that every cell in her body was stretching as much as possible in the water, breathing freely...

It's so comfortable!

Behind, a broad hand patted over.

Yang Ruqing lay on the edge of the bathtub, her eyes half-closed like a lazy cat.

Even without looking back, she knew that someone was lurking behind her.

"What do you want to do?" she asked with a smile.

Luo Fengtang had already come closer.

His warm chest pressed tightly against her back, the bodies underwater also pressed closely behind her.

"You know what I want to do, Qing'er," he said. Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate! ?

"Hee hee, I really don't know..." she said.

He chuckled softly and buried his face in her shoulder, kissing it.

"Let us perform the rites of a married couple." he said.

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“Hmm…” She hesitated.

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"I didn't sleep all night. Aren't you tired?" she asked.

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Regardless of whether he was tired or not, she was exhausted and couldn't think straight.

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Hearing her question, Luofeng Tang said, "Not tired."

"No matter how tired I am, this matter cannot be left behind."

"This is our first New Year's together, my husband will definitely perform well and make you, my wife, very satisfied..."

In the bathtub, water splashed everywhere.

...something inappropriate for children is happening...

When the clouds disperse and the rain stops, the golden gongs signal the end of the day, and the soldiers return to their camp.

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Both of them had a thoroughly delightful experience of the pleasure that comes with setting things on fire.

Having changed into clean, soft clothes, he held her and lay back down in the bed.

Outside the window, one can occasionally hear the laughter of children playing on the main road, as well as the occasional burst of firecrackers.

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Inside, curtains hung in layers upon layers.

The two of them slept in each other's arms.

Time may pass, but in the end, things are not that far apart.

But it's just this day-to-day companionship.

She nestled in his arms, breathing in the familiar scent of him.

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Solidity, it just comes naturally.

May the years be kind to you, and I wish you a lifetime of togetherness until your hair turns white.

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