Chapter 425 Chinese New Year (2
Yanming still has a grandson to accompany him. At least they can be reunited on New Year’s Eve, but Zhao Yixiong’s family is shrouded in gloom. The domestic servants prepare meals according to New Year’s Eve customs. Mr. Zhao, the old lady, and his wife There was no smile on Miss Zhao's face. She sacrificed her ancestors hastily and left the domestic servants to celebrate the festival by themselves. The old and the young sat at the dinner table and were speechless.
Zhao Li didn't know what the meal was, and he didn't eat it at all. The taste just filled my stomach. After dinner, I sat down to watch the news and saw the laughter and laughter everywhere on the TV. Compared with the lonely appearance of my house, I felt depressed and uncomfortable. I stopped watching the program and went back to the room with a cold face. The old man was in a very bad mood
. , Mrs. Zhao was not doing well either. Thinking that her son and grandson were still in the detention center,
she left dejectedly. Guo Furong had been trembling with fear. Only when her parents-in-law left did she dare to breathe and did not dare to stay in the hall, lest her parents-in-law say anything. She did not worry about her husband and son, and went back to her room with her daughter.
The Zhao family's New Year's Eve was worse than the ordinary days before.
The Zhao family's unhappiness had nothing to do with anyone else. There were lights and colorful decorations inside and outside the capital, and various programs were in full swing. The whole country Immersed in the joy of the festival, all ethnic groups sing and dance to celebrate the New Year together. There
are lion dances and other activities in big cities. There are no such activities in the countryside, but they also have their own traditional New Year's taste. Every household has New Year's Eve dinner around five o'clock. Meizijing
Village The villagers in the village have their New Year's dinner very early every year. Some families can visit each other after the New Year's dinner, and then go back to watch the New Year's Eve. The
Le family is also busy with the New Year's dinner early. After lunch, they start preparing, steaming and stewing. Stew, braise, and make various custom dishes.
Leba and Zhou Qiufeng cook traditional dishes, and Leyun is responsible for making seafood by herself, first making lobster, shellfish, and isinglass, and then sea cucumbers, crabs, and shark fins. , except for crabs, there are three to five portions of everything else. I eat one portion in the evening. Some are packaged and sealed. You can just open them and heat them when you eat them tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Otherwise, you have to make them temporarily every time, which is too troublesome. .
On the day of the Chinese New Year, we also have to offer sacrifices to ancestors and gods, and to receive the Kitchen God from the earth. Le’s father, Zhou Qiufeng, prepares traditional dishes, puts them on the table to worship the gods, receives the Kitchen God, and worships the ancestors. It takes at least half a day to go through the series of steps. More than an hour.
Firecrackers are set off during the New Year in the countryside, and firecrackers are set off to worship gods. The sound can be heard one after another, and can be heard far and near, and the atmosphere of the new year is also particularly strong.
You can have New Year's Eve dinner at any time after worshiping ancestors.
The Le family did not eat first, but packed up supplies, cleaned the eaves and main room, fed the pigs, waited for the chickens and ducks to come back to feed, and closed the backyard door and the main door.
When everything is ready, the family starts dinner. They use a hot pot as a base, put a stand in the pot to put the dishes on the plate, and change whatever they want to eat.
Le's father, Zhou Qiufeng, ate some traditional dishes first, and then the seafood cooked by the girl. They ate sea cucumbers first, which tasted very good. The couple were not afraid of the little cotton-padded jackets making fun of their ignorance, and they enjoyed the meal very much.
After eating a small plate of sea cucumbers, we switched to crabs. Because crabs are cold in nature, Le Yun did not allow her father and Aunt Feng to eat more. They only gave each of them a small piece to taste. The couple said: "..." It's so delicious. He was only allowed to taste a little bit, the little cotton-padded jacket was cheating his father and mother.
Zhou Qiufeng, the father of Le, who still felt unsatisfied, stared at his girl taking away the plate, feeling melancholy in his heart. The girl must have deliberately let them taste it, and then refused to eat it, letting them watch the food flow. saliva.
After scattering the crabs, Le Yun brought the isinglass to the pot and let her father and Aunt Feng eat slowly while she held the bowl and gnawed the crabs.
Le's father, Zhou Qiufeng, who was cheated by the girl, turned his eyes away from the crabs and tasted the third seafood dish. After taking a bite, he immediately forgot about his little resentment about not being able to eat crabs. The couple even had fish soup. Nothing was left, and the melon was divided. The fourth seafood course was fried clams with green peppers. It was fresh but not fishy, crispy and tough but not chewy. It was so delicious that it made you want to swallow your tongue.
After eating four seafood dishes, I was eighty percent full. I also had some green vegetables and traditional side dishes, and I was ninety percent full. I also had a very happy New Year's Eve dinner.
After the meal, I wash my hands, face and feet, and then serve fruits and melon seeds, squishing my own melon seeds and keeping up the New Year's Eve happily.
During the Chinese New Year, children all get red envelopes from adults. Le's father, Zhou Qiufeng, has not forgotten that incident. He also brought red envelopes when he served melon seeds to the table, and each person gave the girl a big envelope.
"Wow, there are two red envelopes this year. Having a father and a mother means happiness." Holding two thick red envelopes, Le Yun was very happy. She opened them anxiously and opened the first one and counted them: "Wow. , nine hundred and nine!" Then he opened another one and counted: "Wow, it's nine hundred and nine again."
The little cotton-padded jacket was holding the red envelope and laughed so hard that his father, Zhou Qiufeng, couldn't help laughing. Look at the girl, She has tens of millions and precious stones, but she acts like she has never seen money before. Who are you trying to deceive?
"Look how happy you are. Such a small amount of money is nothing compared to your worth." Dad Le was not afraid of making the girl cry and hit her.
"That's different. This was given by my father and new mother. It's very meaningful." Le Yun held the red envelope and said: "Humph, there is a father who is jealous that his girl has a red envelope but he doesn't have a red envelope. He is jealous. Such a big man And I envy my own girl for her future."
"I can't even envy her? When the little cotton-padded jacket has grown up, she has become overbearing and unreasonable." Dad Le touched his nose and accused the child of being overbearing and unreasonable.
"I'm just domineering. Who told me I'm your girl? I have to hide the red envelope so that no one will see me jealous." Le Yun raised her head proudly, holding a red envelope in one hand, and jumped up happily to give it to her. Keep the red envelope in the bedroom.
"I don't even show you, is this still my little cotton-padded jacket?" The child grabbed the red envelope and ran away, and Le's father pretended to be sad.
Zhou Qiufeng watched happily. The father and daughter bickered every day, which was a lot of fun.
Leaving her father behind, Le Yun rushed back to the bedroom, put away the red envelope, took out the red envelope she had prepared earlier, jumped into the kitchen with her arms in her arms, and gave the red envelope to her elder: "Kiss Dad, I'll give you a red envelope." ", don't be jealous of your girl's red envelope. Aunt Feng will have good luck. This is my brother's. Aunt Feng will help keep it. Don't give it to dad. Dad may be jealous of his son and want to hide the red envelope." Le Dad
. Zhou Qiufeng was dumbfounded as she held the red envelope stuffed by her child. It was not a red envelope, it was clearly a red brick!
Zhou Qiufeng had quick hands and folded the red paper to look at it. When she saw it, she couldn't help but be stunned again, a full ten times! From the looks of it, you can tell that ten thousand yuan is withdrawn from the bank, and ten yuan is one hundred thousand!
"This..., Lele, this is too much." She slowly folded the red paper as it was. Judging from the thickness of the red envelope, Yueqing's was as thick as hers, so it should be the same amount, for the unborn baby. The red envelope is slightly thinner, probably worth tens of thousands.
"Lele, you keep the money. Your Aunt Feng and I have earned enough money." Lele's father was excited and sad. He gave such a thick red envelope because he was afraid that they would have no money to use, so he stuffed the money in this way. give them.
"What's yours belongs to you. What I honor you is another matter. If you don't accept it, I'll go to the bank to transfer the account in a few days. Anyway, I know the deposit and withdrawal number at home." "You little bastard, when did you peek
? Pass the bankbook?" Le's father glared. He is obviously a caring little cotton-padded jacket, but why sometimes he always makes people feel distressed one second and makes them want to fall out with him the next second.
"When I was in junior high school, you took me to withdraw money. I read the passbook account number once." "You read
it once in junior high school and still remember it?" What is good about memory?
"Of course. Your sweet little cotton-padded jacket has an extraordinary memory and almost has a photographic memory. Therefore, don't let others see the passwords you set up. If others see it, they can't help but keep it in their mind. One day you make your girl angry. If you don't, I will steal your bankbook, take all your money, and change your mobile phone password so that you can't unlock it yourself." Zhou Qiufeng laughed so hard that
Le's father stared at the child who was openly threatening him, and held it in for a minute. Then he stiffened his neck and squeezed out: "...It's terrible, are you still reasonable?"
"I am reasonable to begin with. It is not my fault that I made all the mistakes. I am my parents' caring little cotton-padded jacket, how could I be wrong? "
The girl was so proud that her little tail almost went up to the sky. Le's father was immediately defeated: "Little cotton-padded jacket, you won again!" "
Brother Le, you have never lost in a fight with Lele. There is no shame in losing to your own girl." Zhou Qiufeng poured cold water on her own man.
"Honey, I feel bad when I lose. Please don't add insult to injury." Dad Le begged his wife pitifully.
"Okay, bring the red envelope."
"Here." Dad Le handed the red envelope to the housekeeper without hesitation.
"For the sake of your sense of humor, I will try my best not to expose you all day tomorrow, so as not to hurt your heart." Zhou Qiufeng carried three bricks and sent them to the room for collection.
Dad Le rubbed the back of his head naively. Tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year. He won’t be visiting relatives or paying New Year greetings. There are no guests at home, so it’s okay if he doesn’t give me face. Please give him face when there are guests.
Dad suddenly changed into a strict wife-control rhythm. Le Yun laughed so hard that her face cramped. She was afraid that her laughter would damage her father's image of a great and loving father, so she went out to move tables and tools and prepare to make dumplings.
Set out the tools, use the coffee table as a surface to knead the dough, roll out the dough, and make dumplings.
Zhou Qiufeng collected the red envelopes and came back to help with Dad Le. They were responsible for stuffing stuffing and putting it on the steamer. The couple couldn't match the speed of the girl rolling out the dough. Zhou Qiufeng secretly blushed. She used to be a famous fast player, but now she was beaten by her own girl. After a comparison, this is the back wave of the Yangtze River rushing against the front waves. The front waves were pushed by the girl's back wave and they all lay on the beach.
Dad Le said he was very calm. He had already seen how fast the little cotton-padded jacket was at work. He was not only proud, but also proud. Such an excellent jacket was his girl, so she had so much face.
During the Chinese New Year, people should stay up past twelve o'clock to welcome the arrival of a new day.
Across the country, in cities and villages, people watching the New Year's Eve are watching the program and waiting for the midnight. The motherland is dancing with fireworks everywhere, and the whole world is celebrating.
At the end of twelve o'clock, countless people brought out fireworks and set them up, counting down silently. When the clock passed the last second of 15 years, the whole country welcomed the New Year. The sky was filled with colorful fireworks, spelling out dazzling characters, representing the ten years. The beautiful wishes of the 400 million Chinese people for the New Year.
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