Housekeeper of the Hundred Blossom Palace

It's New Year's Eve tonight.

New Year's Eve is the last New Year's Eve in Japan. In this country, we return to our hometown to celebrate the New Year with our families, and gather around a meal while we talk.

On that night, the cafeteria was filled with lively voices.

Thus shall the women of the palace, who cannot return to their families, talk with their brethren, and drink the spirit of the land of hope.

It seems that most people stay up all night on this day and spend the night drinking until the bells ring at the beginning of the year.

In the corner of such a booze, Rain Sister [Yumei] was also added.

However, Rain's sister is not looking for alcohol, but a meal to create a reunion.

"It's a luxury to be able to eat♪delicious fish."

The little fish was fried whole in oil, and Rain's sister was wearing it on her head.

This is a river fish, but even though it is not usual for a fish to enter the mouth of the lower palace lady, this is probably the luxury of New Year's Eve.

Mina [Maina], who sits in front of Rain's sister, nods, "Yeah, yeah."

”The fish are coming around all day long because they're behaving like me”

I see.

While nodding, Rain's sister shatters the fried fish to the point where it can be eaten into small bones.

Like New Year's Eve in Japan, there are promised dishes to eat on New Year's Eve in this country.

It seems that what is eaten by the homeland of the palace women will also change, and each table is lined with various dishes from such places.

Among them, fish, so-called water dumplings called water dumplings, and rice cakes like Japanese mochi rice cakes are grateful dishes that can get lucky.

They say that fish are prosperous, dumplings are wealthy, and rice cakes are good fortune for a year.

In addition, it is customary in some regions to eat noodles in the hope of living longer, like the Japanese New Year's Eve soba.

All of these things are unique in the place where people gather from various towns called Hundred Flowers Palace.

I'm sure the fishermen who catch the river fish are very busy.

After all, it is a city with a large population, so if everyone in the city, not only the Hundred Flowers Palace, thinks, "I want to eat some fish on New Year's Eve," it must be that there is not enough fish to catch.

Could it be that the greats are eating the fish of the sea? In winter, it seems that it is easier to transport seafood products, and dried fish come in.

Besides, it's not just the food that's fun.

Outside the cafeteria, there are red lanterns along the road and underneath the building to decorate the Chinese New Year.

Walking outside, the red light is lit up and you can feel the fantasy atmosphere.

There is also a red paper altercation called "Chunlian" on the doorstep, which is also decorated with things like gate pines in Japan, and it is fun to walk while reading and comparing them.

This is the first time in the world that a Chinese New Year is celebrated so vastly.

The Chinese New Year I tasted on a trip to China in my previous life would have been much more lively, but that's it, this is it.

--Good, we're spending New Year's Eve together.

My sister Rain has no particularly pleasant memories of New Year's Eve so far.

After spending her childhood, the temple did not have the habit of making it particularly busy during the Spring Festival, and since it was a New Year's Eve spent alone after leaving the temple, it was still lacking in excitement.

In other words, this is the first New Year's Eve in the world to be surrounded by people like this.

"Fufu, maybe I can't sleep because I'm having fun!"

"Haha! That's why everyone stays in the cafeteria forever."

Come on, have some water dumplings, too. "

Rain's sister has this exchange with Mina.

Little Sister

Yang [Yang] called out.