The good business in the store continued until the New Year's Eve. After Li Mo closed the shop's door on the night of the New Year's Eve, she announced to everyone that the shop was officially closed.
Everyone is happy, after so many days of busy work, they can finally have a good rest and welcome the arrival of the New Year.
On the twenty-eighth day of the new year, Meizi and Tiezi drove over from the village with Xiaoshu, and the family officially gathered together. Then, like all ordinary families, everyone began to prepare for the New Year.
Song Dashan took Tie Zi to the market to buy chicken, duck and fish for the New Year, as well as couplet firecrackers and so on.
Sister-in-law Qin took Aunt Wu and Da Ni to clean the house inside and out, and then removed all the sheets and quilt covers in each room and washed them clean.
Li Mo and Mei Zi went into the kitchen, preparing food for the New Year.
The family has been busy for two days, and by the night of the New Year's Eve, all the preparations have been completed.
On the morning of the New Year's Eve, before Li Mo woke up, the others were already busy preparing for today's New Year's Eve dinner. As a pregnant woman with national treasure status, she was naturally rejected by everyone. Kindness, and then had to go and play with the three little ones at home.
The three little guys were also infected with the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year, and they were so happy that they played happily together when they got up early in the morning.
Seeing Li Mo walking towards them, Xiao Bao quickly got off the wooden horse, ran up to Li Mo, hugged Li Mo's leg, and asked her stomach: "Sister, are you awake? "
Ever since he knew that Li Mo had a baby in her belly, Little Treasure has always been very interested in Li Mo's belly, always wanting to touch it and have a look, but the clothes he wears in winter are thick and he can't see anything, but he She is still very motivated, the first thing she does when she wakes up every morning is to find Li Mo and the little sister in Li Mo's stomach.
In the past, Li Mo got up very early, and Xiao Bao could find a suitable one, but since Li Mo became pregnant, she was always lethargic, and could sleep more than two hours more than before, so now when Xiao Bao came to her, she would always be caught by Song. Dashan stopped him, and told him, "My sister is still sleeping in mother's belly. I can't greet you until my sister wakes up. You have to wait patiently for my sister to wake up."
Hearing what Song Dashan said, Xiaobao nodded quickly, and went to play obediently, and when Li Mo woke up, he would run over and talk to the younger sister in his stomach.
As for Xiao Bao's determination that the baby in her belly was his younger sister, Li Mo told Xiao Bao at first, "The baby in Mother's belly may also be a younger brother. How do you know it's my younger sister?"
Xiaobao blinked and said to Li Mo: "But I want a younger sister, and Xiaoshu is a younger brother. So mother, please give me a younger sister."
In Xiaobao's world, all he knows are boys, and there are younger brothers or older brothers around him, so she especially wants a little sister.
Seeing that Xiaobao wanted a sister so much, Li Mo stopped talking, and Xiaobao called the child in her belly a younger sister, maybe she would really have a younger sister after screaming, anyway, she liked her daughter quite a lot, The son already has Xiaobao, and it is just right to have another daughter, both sons and daughters.
Li Mo walked to the chair placed in the yard and sat down so that Xiao Bao could talk to her stomach.
Xiao Bao earnestly chatted with the little life in Li Mo's womb, and she answered Xiao Bao's questions for this one in her womb from time to time, and the mother and child could play like this for a long time without getting bored.
Soon it was time for the New Year’s Eve dinner. This year’s New Year’s Eve dinner was very richly prepared, with everything from chicken, duck and fish to everyone’s favorite dishes. The whole family sat around the table to a full capacity.
After Song Dashan went out to set off firecrackers, the family officially started.
Li Mo couldn't drink, so she replaced the wine with tea, and first stood up and toasted everyone, "Everyone has worked hard, especially in the past few days, everyone was busy, thank you for your hard work for our shop, I will replace it with tea." Let’s have a toast to everyone, and wish us a safe and happy new year and all our wishes come true.”
Everyone stood up one after another, raised their glasses and drank a toast.
Li Mo took out three red envelopes from her pocket, and gave them to the three little guys first, "Come on, here is the lucky money for you, I wish you more and more wisdom and health in the new year."
The eyes of the three little guys lit up, and after receiving the red envelopes, they bowed to Li Mo decently to express their gratitude.
After giving the lucky money to the little ones, Li Mo took out five more red envelopes and gave them to Meizi Tiezi, Sister-in-law Qin, Aunt Wu and Da Ni respectively.
The adults didn't expect that they also had red envelopes, and they were a little confused, not knowing whether they should accept it or not.
Li Mo stuffed the red envelopes into their hands, and said: "Don't refuse, this is not the New Year's money, this is the year-end reward of our shop, you have worked hard for the business of the shop, this is my heart for you, I will accept it Let’s go, from now on, every year.”
Seeing what Li Mo said, Mei Zi accepted it first, "Then sister-in-law, I will accept it, don't worry, I will definitely plant flowers for you, so that you can earn a lot."
Seeing that Meizi accepted it, the others also accepted it one after another, and promised Li Mo that they would do a good job in the future, especially Aunt Wu and Da Ni, who never expected that the people who bought them would be so kind to servants like them, It is much better than the life at home before. The life now is better than I dared to imagine before. How could they not work hard? They cherish such a life too much.
Li Mo waved his hand to ask everyone to sit down, "Everyone sit down and eat, eat a good meal today, it's Chinese New Year, I just want to get fatter."
Everyone laughed, stopped talking, and raised their chopsticks to eat.
The sound of firecrackers outside was one after another, and in the bustle, the family in the shop was happy.
Song Dashan and Meizi have completely cut off contact with the rest of the Song family, Tiezi also has no father and mother, Qin's sister-in-law has nothing to do with her tiger son, and Wu Auntie and Dani are even more so. So the whole family has no relatives to leave, and this year, they will spend the whole time in the shop.
So, Li Mo taught everyone how to play poker, and planned to have a good time during the New Year.
Playing cards are very simple. After Li Mo taught them a few times, everyone knew how to play. Therefore, Li Mo and Song Dashan's family, Meizi and Tiezi's family, Wu Auntie and Dani's family, and Qin's sister-in-law's family just formed a table and played. Fight the Landlords.
Landlords who don't play for money always feel that they lose their taste, so Li Mo suggested that for those who play for money, play in a smaller amount to make it lively.
Everyone had some money in their hands, and they all agreed with Li Mo's proposal, one penny per card.
So, the whole family spent a lively day at the poker table. As a veteran, Li Mo won a little while the other three lost. However, despite the loss, everyone's interest remained undiminished, and they suggested Fight again tomorrow.
After playing cards for three days in a row, Li Mo didn't want to play any more. She felt that it was too boring to keep playing the same thing. The way people play in their spare time is too poor, so they think poker is fun, just like those women who like to stay in the lounge and play cards.
Li Mo suddenly felt that she should enrich the entertainment items at home and in the leisure room, not only to make the family have more fun, but also to make the guests who come to her shop more fun, and like to play in the leisure room.
So, Li Mo began to think about what kind of modern recreational activities can be played here.
The first thing that comes to mind is playing chess. Playing chess is a very common way of entertainment for people in this era, but people here are all playing Go and chess. Some people know how to play chess and go, especially women, let alone how to play it.
Therefore, she can teach everyone some simple board games, like backgammon and checkers, which even children can learn, and they are also very fun. At the same time, these can also be placed in the leisure room for everyone to play and entertain to pass the time.
There is a chess set at home, which was bought by Li Mo to teach Xiaobao how to play chess, but now it can be used to teach everyone how to play backgammon.
Backgammon is very simple, it only took Li Mo a quarter of an hour to teach everyone, even the three children learned it, and Xiaobao fell in love with playing it, even Dani was no match for him when he played.
Seeing that the children at home were also immersed in the game, Li Mo was also happy to see them having fun, so she taught the children a simple poker game: picking bamboo poles.
One person takes half of the poker cards, and then arranges them one by one on the table. When they encounter the same cards, they can take them back to their home as their own cards. This game is very simple, and the raw materials only need playing cards, but it is fun and easy to be liked by children.
Sure enough, the three children in the family liked to play very much, and even the eldest child, Dani, followed behind and had a great time playing.
In this way, the family played cards, played chess, picked up bamboo poles, men, women, old and young went into battle, happily carrying out family entertainment activities, and spent every day in laughter.
Leisure days always go by so fast. The family spent the whole Spring Festival sleeping, eating and playing. Not only did they have fun, but everyone’s face grew some meat. It can be called the most comfortable year.
On the eleventh day of the first lunar month, Li Mo stopped playing and started making preparations before opening the shop.
Last year, the balm was almost sold out, so I had to make new ones, and I had to send hundreds of boxes to Yueniang. Now is the season when plum blossoms and spring azaleas are in full bloom, Li Mo plans to add a plum blossom and spring azalea flavored balm to sell.
There are so many plum trees in Meihuashu Village, you can see them everywhere, and there are also spring cuckoos in the back mountain, so Li Mo arranged for Meizi and Tiezi to say: "Meizi, I'm going to trouble you and Tiezi, please go back to the village and tell us about it, just say that our shop will collect it." The price of plum blossoms and spring azaleas is the same as that of sweet-scented osmanthus, we will go back to the village to collect them in two days, and then make a new flavor of balm."
Meizi replied crisply, "Sister-in-law, it's time for Tie Zi and I to go back to the village to take care of the flower garden. I'll tell the people in the village about it when we get back."
Speaking of the flower garden, Li Mo thought of the flowers in the flower garden. The types of flowers that can be planted last autumn were limited, and there were not many flowers in the flower garden. There were a lot of vacant spaces, and I just waited for spring to come with a variety of different kinds of flowers. Time to plant flowers.
Li Mo said: "Meizi, spring is coming soon, many flowers can be sown, you can ask the gardener who instructed us before to see what flowers can be planted, and then I will buy the flower seeds from the town, and ask the chief Bong will bring you back."
Meizi said: "I have plowed the land for planting flowers in advance and fertilized them. Just buy the seeds and come back and plant them." At this point, Meizi remembered the flowers she planted last year, and became excited, "Sister-in-law, the flower seeds we planted last year, there are some It will bloom in the spring of this year, and then there will be more varieties of balm, and there will be no need to go to the village and the back mountain to pick it in the future."
Li Mo was also very happy when she heard that last year when she was building a flower garden, her purpose was to make more balms with different flavors. Now it's finally the harvest season, and with the addition of new flower seeds planted this year, I believe that in the future, they will be able to produce more fragrant balms. There is no need to worry about the source of balm, there are different types of balm sold throughout the year.
The next day, Meizi and Tiezi returned to the village with the reluctant little tree, Li Mo took others to make beauty products for the opening at home; Song Dashan went to the street to buy leisure rooms for sale snacks.
After two days of preparation, and almost everything needed for the opening was ready, Song Dashan drove the donkey cart back to the village to collect flowers.
The last time I went to the village to collect sweet-scented osmanthus, this time everyone in the village knew that Song Dashan was coming to collect flowers again, so they ran to the village and the back mountain to pick flowers, so when Song Dashan came back to the shop, it was full of flowers again .
Taking advantage of the freshness of the flowers, Li Mo organized the whole family to make balm, and made hundreds of boxes in two days, half of which were sent to Yueniang's shop.
At this time, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has passed, the year has passed, and the shop has opened again.
On the first day of opening, many regular customers came to the door, seeing Li Mo, they had endless things to say.
"Your shop is the latest to open. Some of them opened on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year."
"I can't do anything about getting a beauty treatment during the Chinese New Year. I've been waiting for your house to open. I've been waiting for half a month."
"I felt that my skin was much better a year ago, but after the new year, I ate too much greasy food and suddenly grew a lot of things. Hurry up and come to your house to get rid of it."
"..."
All the guests pulled Li Mo to talk non-stop, and Li Mo answered one by one with a smile.
When it was almost time for people to arrive, Li Mo clapped her hands and said to everyone: "Today our shop officially opened in the new year. To celebrate the new year, our shop held an opening event. Three days before the opening, everyone in my shop Those who spend more than 40 Wen will receive a box of balm for free."
In the shop, a box of balm was sold for eight cents, that is to say, eight cents were given away. This news aroused the interest of the people present, and there were many discussions.
Li Mo continued: "And I want to tell you a good news, we have two new flavors of balm in our store, one is plum blossom and the other is rhododendron. You can try them for free today, and You can choose the balm given as a gift.”
As soon as this remark came out, the hearts of the guests were attracted again.
Someone in the crowd asked: "Can the money for beauty and make-up be counted in the forty Wen?"
Many women who want to do beauty treatment want to ask this question.
Li Mo nodded, "It doesn't matter, whether it's buying rouge powder or makeup, as long as you spend more than 40 Wen at one time, you can get a box of balm."
Although most of the people who can come to Li Mo's store are not short of money, but they are still very happy to have something as a gift, don't want it for nothing.
And those who are not very rich are even more tempted.
So, right now, some women picked out rouge and gouache in the store, and they planned to buy them together today, and they had to make up forty coins.