In the blink of an eye, it was the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the time of Xiao Nian.
Xiao Nian is also considered the beginning of the busy New Year season. From this time, people start to prepare for the New Year's goods, cleaning their houses, offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God, and gearing up for the upcoming New Year.
Every household in Yangmei Town began to get busy.
Women stayed at home to clean up the dirt in their houses. The children who loved to play were, under the orders of their elders, reluctantly joining the cleanup process.
However, their playful nature soon took over, and they started to find fun in the work, turning it into play and laughter.
Men went to the town market to buy New Year's goods.
Although Yangmei Town was just a small remote town, there were still more than a dozen villages nearby.
