The day after Xiao Bai left was Lunar New Year's Eve. Chen Miao spent this New Year at Elder Uncle's house.
Unlike previous years, this New Year was lively because Xiang Shang and the others had brought their families to Tianmen County.
Chen Miao also took the opportunity to meet everyone else's families.
For their first meeting, Chen Miao made a batch of protective Peachwood Talismans and gave them to everyone.
In addition, over the New Year holiday, Xiang Shang's and Li Zi's families discussed their wedding and chose an auspicious date: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month!
Good things came in pairs. His older cousin Chen Muqing and Shao Qidong also planned to marry on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month.
Chen Miao, who had little experience with such things, attended two important weddings in succession, serving as a groomsman at one and barring the door at the other.
Being a groomsman hadn't struck him as particularly interesting, but Chen Miao found barring the door rather fun.
How to put it? Chen Miao opened the door a crack and leaned against it. Outside, seven or eight groomsmen strained until their faces turned red, yet couldn't widen the gap at all. In the end, they could only keep stuffing red envelopes through it.
As the one who had contributed the most, Chen Miao naturally received quite a few red envelopes. When he opened them afterward, however, they contained either five or ten yuan, with the largest holding twenty.
It wasn't much, but Chen Miao thoroughly enjoyed counting the money.
Both weddings went smoothly.
After witnessing his childhood friend's and his cousin's marriages, Chen Miao suddenly felt that all his tireless efforts lately had not been in vain.
For the sake of this peaceful life, Chen Miao