From now until the Lantern Festival, unless something unexpected happens, he will basically not be working, so he will have a lot of time to play games with Lin Hexia. Except for visiting some people after the New Year, this will basically be the case.
He didn't know if Lin Hexia had the characteristics of a homebody before. Anyway, since they met, it seemed that she didn't like to go shopping very much, unless she had to go out.
The reason why he is not sure is just because he doesn't know if she is accommodating him because of his personality. After all, love can sometimes change a lot of things, and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between true and false.
The two young people stayed at home and were basically free with no one to control them. From February 1st to 4th, the two basically spent their time playing games.
Zhao Yi mainly experienced the feeling of his previous life, while Lin Hexia was really interested in it, especially when he saw that he had finally passed the gold rank and entered the platinum rank, the feeling of satisfaction was beyond words.
At first, she still played as a support, with Zhao Yi protecting her, so the pressure was not too great. However, later she felt that playing as a support was becoming more and more boring, so she just went to play mid lane.
The mid laner is a position that pays attention to support. He can provide timely support to the top and bottom lanes. Moreover, if he is next to Zhao Yi, he can also provide support if he is targeted.
We played like this until the day before the Chinese New Year, and stopped playing on the New Year's Day. After all, there were some things to deal with at home. The most important thing was of course the New Year's Eve dinner. In addition, there were also Spring Festival couplets that the doorkeepers had to post.
In his hometown, posting Spring Festival couplets and door gods are the work of men. If you are in a rural area, you also need to prepare for ancestor worship and other matters, which will be busy all day long, while women prepare the New Year's Eve dinner.
His home is too big and has too many doors, so it is impossible to put Spring Festival couplets and door gods on them all, so he only puts up Spring Festival couplets and door gods on the gate and back door of the yard.
Inside, I only posted Spring Festival couplets and door gods on all the doors of the villa where I lived, and left other places alone. Otherwise, it would be really tiring.
Both the Spring Festival couplets and the door god were bought from the supermarket. In fact, Zhao Yi's calligraphy is still OK, but he had to buy the door god anyway, so he made them together. There is no need to do it himself.
Even if this task was reduced a lot, it still took him a lot of time. During this period, Lin Hexia's main job was to prepare the dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner.
On the New Year's Day, all the domestic helpers at home were off, even the chef Lao Li, and half of the family's security personnel were off, leaving the remaining half at home.
The security personnel have their own accommodation with complete facilities. The ingredients Zhao Yi has will also be prepared for them. As for how to prepare them, they decide on their own.
These left-behind security personnel will not be depressed, because Zhao Yi will give them big red envelopes, and some single men are particularly willing to stay. After all, they make much more money during the New Year than usual.
Moreover, during the Chinese New Year, it is also the best time for their security work, because under normal circumstances, he and Lin Hexia will not go out until after the Chinese New Year to pay New Year greetings to some elders.
By the time he finished busying himself with the Spring Festival couplets for the door gods, it was already 4 p.m., and Lin Hexia spent almost a whole day preparing these ingredients.
Logically speaking, there is no need to prepare so many ingredients for a New Year's Eve dinner for two people, but according to the rules of his hometown, no matter how few people are celebrating the New Year, there must be a lot of food prepared.
If you can’t finish it, it won’t be wasted. Generally, you can save it and finish it on the first to third day of the Lunar New Year. Food in winter is more durable in storage and will not go bad if stored for a long time.
According to today's people's concept, if there is fresh food, why must we eat leftovers? This is the rule of our ancestors. It is mainly to seek good luck for the coming year, not really to eat.
Of course, his family is quite special. In this era, almost every family is a big family. Even if they make a lot of money, there will basically not be much left.
In these years, the domestic economy has developed rapidly, the living standards of the people have been greatly improved, and they can enjoy better material living conditions.
In the past life, during the Chinese New Year period, people could enjoy better material conditions. Their families were not particularly poor, and they would buy new clothes for their family members.
If parents pamper their children, they will also buy some fireworks and gadgets, but such things are still relatively rare, especially in rural areas. He has never played with them since he was a child, so he can only watch other children playing.
In addition to new clothes, you can naturally eat meat. In fact, you will also buy some during traditional festivals, but the amount is usually not large and you will not be able to eat enough.
Although there may not be a lot of meat during the New Year, it is at least much richer than during other festivals. This is the festival where most meat is eaten throughout the year.
As for the New Year's money, he has never seen it since he was a child. He has seen the neighbor's children getting New Year's money, but it was only a few cents, one or two yuan at most. This was in the 1990s.
In his family, the New Year is naturally celebrated according to his family's customs. Lin Hexia actually doesn't know much about his New Year customs. She has never lived in Jiangxi.
Moreover, although the majority of the population in Jiangxi is Han, there are still differences in the customs and habits of different places. Just like their accents, the pronunciation is different from ten miles apart. This is not just talk, it is a reality.
He still remembered that when he was in high school, the classmate sitting next to him came from a relatively remote town below. As a result, he couldn't understand what he said. He had to distinguish carefully to understand what he meant.
At that time, there was not much Mandarin teaching. That is to say, the Chinese teacher could speak Mandarin during class, and his usual communication was all in his hometown dialect, so he did not develop the habit of speaking Mandarin.
In order to understand what this deskmate said, it took me more than half a month to gradually become familiar with his accent and be able to understand what he said more fluently.
At that time, children were different from today. They basically spoke Mandarin since childhood. He clearly remembered that when he was in college, he made many jokes.
When I got to college, I always had to use Mandarin to communicate with people. I realized that it was easy to speak and I could communicate in Mandarin which was not very fluent. However, when I spoke, I just spoke in my hometown dialect, which made the other person stunned for a while.
I remember that I was shopping in the commercial street in the university. I started to speak Mandarin well, but without even realizing it, I suddenly started speaking in my hometown dialect. The other person couldn’t understand and kept looking at me.
It wasn't until someone next to me reminded me that I realized that I was speaking in my hometown dialect. At that time, I felt particularly embarrassed. It took me a month to fully adapt to this process.
In fact, all the ingredients have been pre-ordered. Zhao Yi wrote the list and handed it over to the special procurement department of Shangtong Trading Company for purchase. There is no need to worry too much at all.
It's just that how to handle some ingredients is very particular, so before handling the ingredients, Zhao Yi gave special instructions to Lin Hexia and told Lin Hexia how to handle them.
Although Lin Hexia is not immune to Yang Chun Shui, she is not very proficient. She can make some home-cooked dishes, but for things like New Year's Eve dinner, she still has to be a little particular.
After Zhao Yi finished his work, Lin Hexia had almost finished processing, and it was already four or five o'clock. If it was in his hometown in the countryside, this time should be when all the men in the village went to worship their ancestors.
The prepared pig head meat and carp, as well as eggs and wine, are brought to the ancestral hall and the earth temple for worship, and then it is the turn of each household to have a banquet. This is the rule.
And in other places, people usually worship at the Tutu Temple first, and then go to the ancestral hall to enjoy the ancestors. In rural areas, the status of the Tutu Temple is still very high, even ranking in front of the ancestors.
Because people in rural areas rely on the land for food, I hope that the land father-in-law and mother-in-law can bless the weather in the coming year and let everyone live a good year in peace. This rule has been passed down, even if they no longer rely on the land for food, it has not changed.
There are not so many details in the city, and there is no need to set off firecrackers before the New Year's Eve dinner. Lin Hexia saw Zhao Yi coming and said, "Let's see if there is anything else that hasn't been done?"
Zhao looked while tying his apron. In fact, he just glanced at it. All the ingredients were well cooked and the ingredients were complete. He said: "That's it. You have been busy for a day. You can go to the sofa in the living room to rest. The rest Just leave it to me."
"You've been busy all day, haven't you? Besides, you took a break at noon, so you're not very tired." Lin Hexia said.
After hearing what she said, Zhao Yi stopped talking. His kitchen was quite large. In addition to the most advanced Polaris kitchen utensils, there was also a large iron pot that imitated a wood stove.
This time, I plan to use a large iron pot to cook New Year's Eve dinner. The taste is much better than using a gas stove. Anyway, Zhao Yi feels that the authentic hometown flavor still needs a large iron pot.
Fortunately, his large iron pot has been improved and does not require burning firewood. Moreover, burning firewood is now prohibited here. At most, it can only burn briquettes. As for natural gas, not every household uses it.
Because there are currently no related facilities for pipeline natural gas, especially in old cities, briquettes are mainly used, and the gas used in gas stoves is bottled.
His large iron pot is not an ordinary product, but it incorporates a lot of high technology. Even if it is made without using firewood, it can still produce the same taste.
This was already done when he was designing it. The technical difficulty is not high, but most people will not use it in this regard. It is simply a waste of intellectual resources.
This New Year's Eve dinner, a total of 12 dishes were prepared, and they were mainly hard dishes and supplemented by vegetables. This is why Lin Hexia took so long to prepare them.
Zhao Yi was responsible for cooking, while Lin Hexia watched from the side. Occasionally, he would help prepare the utensils for the dishes. In less than an hour, all the work was completed.
When all the dishes were served, looking at the table full of dishes, but only the two of them were eating, it seemed that the taste of the New Year had faded a lot. Lin Hexia saw that his mood was a little low, so she quickly picked up the cup and poured it for him. Full of wine.
Lin Hexia is still good at drinking white wine, but because Zhao Yi doesn't like the taste of white wine, he still drank fruit wine this time.
"Every festive season, I miss my loved ones even more, and sometimes the mood comes suddenly." Zhao Yi said with a smile while holding the wine glass.
"It's okay. This is human nature. I'm not here with you!" Lin Hexia said.
"That's right, you are enough. Come, let's drink to the new year, may the country be prosperous and may everything go well!" Zhao Yi picked up the cup, touched it lightly with the wine glass held by Lin Hexia, and said.
Fortunately, it was just a momentary feeling, and it basically returned to normal later on. The two of them were eating food and talking about some private words, and they were having a good time.
The New Year's Eve dinner lasted until about 8 o'clock. The two of them couldn't eat anymore, so they had to leave. Zhao Yi was responsible for putting the remaining meals in the crisper, while Lin Hexia was responsible for clearing the table.
According to the rules of his hometown, people are not allowed to walk around before the doors open on New Year's Eve. Only after 12 o'clock and after the doors are opened and firecrackers are set off, can people visit the house casually.
So he also planned to live this way. In addition to calling Zhou Zhigang and his wife and Zhou Jinyu and Zhou Jinjue's family to wish them a happy New Year, he also called Lin Hexia's parents to wish them a happy New Year.
Then the two of them leaned on the sofa, hugged each other, and watched the Spring Festival Gala. Although I watched it every year, I felt that there was nothing new, but if I didn't watch it, I felt like something was missing.
After 12 o'clock, Zhao Yi prepared a large circle of firecrackers according to the original custom, but the gunpowder used in it was specially developed by him before.
Officially, because of this kind of firecrackers, which are non-polluting and not easy to cause fires, they are allowed to be set off in the capital, completely restoring the flavor of the Chinese New Year. However, they are only allowed to be set off on New Year's Eve and the Lantern Festival.
After all, cities are different from rural areas. If firecrackers or fireworks are set off every now and then, it will cause serious sound pollution. They are only allowed to be set off during specified festivals.
In fact, the city government also prepared a grand fireworks show. It happened to be during this time period. When he opened the door to set off firecrackers, the night sky outside was already dyed white by the fireworks in the sky.
Under his conditions, he could actually hold such a fireworks show, but he felt it was completely unnecessary. It was more appropriate for the government to do this kind of thing. As an individual, there was no need to be so public.
If this is really done, many people will probably want to find out who is so wealthy. You must know that each of these fireworks is not cheap and cannot be afforded by ordinary people.
As the city government's fireworks show begins, it seems that fireworks and firecrackers are being set off throughout the entire process, covering the entire city in a sea of sound and light. If you shoot it above the city, you can see a very shocking picture.
Fortunately, even if so many fireworks are set off, they will not cause air pollution, but urban sanitation workers will face a heavy task tomorrow.
Although water is produced after the new gunpowder is set off, the gunpowder is packaged in the traditional way, so a large amount of paper scraps will still be produced and need to be cleaned up in time, otherwise the sewers may be blocked when it rains.
Originally, after opening the door and setting off the firecrackers, I planned to go back to sleep. Although according to the custom in my hometown, I need to stay up late, that is, stay around the stove until dawn. However, this habit gradually disappeared and everyone stayed at around 1 o'clock. I went back to bed and went to bed.
But after washing up, I found that I couldn't fall asleep lying on my bed because the sound of fireworks and firecrackers outside never stopped. Unless I was very sleepy, it would be difficult to fall asleep with such loud noise.
Like him, Lin and Xia were lying on the bed tossing and turning, unable to sleep at all. Seeing such a scene, the two of them could only get up and prepare to play a few games.
Lin Hexia is now comfortable playing the platinum round. She even tries to play different positions and plays more heroes. The main reason is to find the hero that suits her best, which is commonly known as the natal hero.
There are too many heroes in the game. There are 108 heroes. Playing each one once takes a lot of time, and some heroes need to be played many times before they can find the feeling and gain new insights.
Zhao Yi is relatively simple. If Lin Hexia plays top lane, he will play jungle, so that he can support the top lane in time. Otherwise, it will be difficult to support her if she plays bottom lane.
If she plays the middle lane, then he can go to any lane. Usually he plays the bottom lane and cooperates with the artificial intelligence to play the bottom lane. It is actually very interesting. The artificial intelligence and he have to figure out each other's comfortable playing style.
However, while playing, he felt that in this game, you can not only make money by selling heroes and skins, but also by selling artificial intelligence sparring partners.
In other words, artificial intelligence ranks below gold are free and open to everyone, but if you want to play with artificial intelligence of higher ranks, you need to become a member.
Membership does not need to be expensive. It can be calculated according to the monthly subscription fee of ordinary online games. In this way, you can make more money, because this is a value-added service and requires a lot of computer computing power.
He feels that the money he makes from this service in the future is likely to be similar to the money he makes from selling characters and skins, because his fees for characters and skins are not very high.
But then I thought about it, doing this may cause strong dissatisfaction among players. It is better to divide the sparring into two parts. One part is a sparring that relies on ordinary algorithms, which is similar to the human-machine in the previous life.
The other part is the artificial intelligence sparring that can only be enjoyed by members. In this case, it can be said to the outside world that artificial intelligence consumes too much computing power and costs too much, and requires additional payment, so that player acceptance is relatively high.
Otherwise, anyone who knows the industry will be able to see that no matter what level they are, the computing power consumed by artificial intelligence sparring is basically the same. Why do some charge fees while others are free? This is not good for high-level players. fair.
And generally speaking, low-level players account for the majority, while high-end players are in the minority. If you follow the previous charges, you may not receive much money.
In fact, from a cost perspective, artificial intelligence sparring obviously costs more than selling characters and skins, and it is also a continuing cost. It is completely justified to charge for this service.
In fact, there is a lot of psychological pressure for novices to play against others, especially when they encounter teammates who are quick to talk dirty, which can simply ruin their mood, causing them to suddenly not want to play anymore despite originally wanting to play.
If this service is launched, it will definitely become a paradise for novices and a place to hone their skills. When you feel that your strength has reached a certain level, you can play against real people.
However, whether this will lead to real-person battles or a sharp reduction in the number of people in the rankings, Zhao Yi thinks it will not. Although the artificial intelligence is very good, playing against real people still has a very different experience. (End of chapter)