They finished their brunch and Yuan Ge cleaned up the dishes while Rong Qiuchen chatted with Vivi the little robot.
"Childe Yuan, Brother Puppet said that today is the 26th day of the lunar December, just the right time to kill the pigs, prepare the meat to celebrate the Spring Festival and go out to do the New Year's shopping. Do you have any servants at the house to help you with these tasks?"
"We are the only two living, breathing human beings in this house to celebrate the New Year together. Vivi the robot, your 'puppet brother', could be considered half human. So who else can you expect to do the shopping and prepare these things you mentioned in the traditional way? Let's just go to the supermarket and buy whatever you want to eat. That'll do."
"New Year is the most important festival of the year, how can it be taken lightly? In the old days in the Jingyu Troupe, the most fun we had all year was preparing for the New Year celebrations."