139. The eldest sister Zhou Fanghui
"Happy New Year, grandma!"
Zhou Fangyuan shouted loudly.
"Good good ......"
Grandma opened the security door with a smile and let Zhou Fangyuan in. Zhou Fangyuan was holding six gift boxes in both hands, although each one was not heavy, but three in one hand still had some weight. The main thing is that the rope of the gift box is very thin, and it is very hand-strangled in the hand.
After entering the door, Zhou Fangyuan changed his slippers at the door.
"Happy New Year, brother!"
Zhou Fanghui ran to Zhou Fangyuan and said playfully.
"You're okay too. β
Zhou Fangyuan smiled and touched his sister's head.
In fact, among the brothers and sisters, he has the best relationship with this big sister, the two are close in age, and they have studied together in the same school for three years in elementary school, and the two have been together all day long in those three years, playing any game together, which has cultivated a very deep brother and sister relationship.
As for my aunt's younger sister, although the age gap is not big, only five years apart, the relationship between the two is very average. It's not that it's bad, but it's that compared to the relationship with this big sister's time, it's a little alienated in comparison.
This situation is caused by the fact that, on the one hand, every time it is the New Year's holiday, my aunt has to go to my uncle's place for the New Year, and I don't see each other much on weekdays, so I can't be as close as Zhou Fanghui. Another reason is that the second sister Yu Jiamin was very naughty when she was a child, and she loved to cry, basically as long as she was a little uncomfortable, she would tear her throat and howl, Zhou Fangyuan was annoyed and said a few words to the second sister. The little guy still holds a grudge, he hasn't talked to Zhou Fangyuan for a long time, and Zhou Fangyuan is also happy, so the relationship between the two is relatively average.
As for the third sister who said that she would be born next year, and the little sister of the second uncle's family who would not be born in another three years, it was purely because the age gap was too big. Zhou Fangyuan will be eighteen years old next year, and twenty years old in three years, and he will be more than a round away from his two younger sisters, of course, he can't play together.
Well, the gossip is far away again, in short, Zhou Fangyuan has the best relationship with this big sister. It doesn't matter what the future will be, the important thing is that now this big sister still likes to stick to him.
Zhou Fangyuan put down the things at hand, and then entered the house, first greeting his grandfather for the New Year, and the old man laughed so much that his beard was trembling.
Then he gave New Year's greetings to the second uncle's family and the third uncle's family, and everyone responded enthusiastically.
"Brother, come here, I'll show you my new clothes. β
Just to pay tribute to his old age, Zhou Fanghui dragged Zhou Fangyuan to the master bedroom, Zhou Fangyuan looked at the eldest sister's happy appearance, and he was also very happy in his heart. This is the New Year, this is the time for family reunion, this scene may not be seen much in the future. Especially after their generation of children grows up and their grandmothers and grandfathers are getting weaker, the atmosphere of the New Year will become weaker and weaker.
So cherish the present and cherish the good time in front of you, this is a kind of realization that Zhou Fangyuan suddenly rose.
As for saying that Zhou Fanghui wants to show him new clothes, this is also normal. Except for Zhou Fangyuan, the children of the Zhou family are not bad-looking, and the people in the family are also willing to dress them up beautifully, so every year during the Chinese New Year, there are two or three sets of new clothes to buy. And what is the favorite thing for a little girl to do when she has a beautiful new dress?
Zhou Fanghui changed one after another in front of Zhou Fangyuan, like a butterfly, constantly showing her beauty. Zhou Fangyuan was also patient, sitting on the sofa and looking at his happy sister with a smile, only hoping that this moment of time could really stop.
After Zhou's father and Zhou's mother dealt with the neighbors below, they came up to pay New Year's greetings again.
After the New Year, Zhou's mother took off her coat to help cook, and the concubines were the main laborers of the New Year's dinner.
Dad Zhou turned around and went into the second bedroom and chatted with the old man and his two younger brothers.
The layout of grandma's house is very old-fashioned, there is no living room at the entrance, only a small foyer. On the left hand is the master bedroom, but the area is relatively small, and grandma and grandpa usually live here. On the right hand side is the second bedroom, but it is very large, and it is also the main room for family dinners. The front is the kitchen, and the area of the kitchen is quite large, anyway, it is larger than the kitchen of many houses of more than 100 square meters in later generations.
But the bathroom is very small, only four or five square meters in size, and a fist is a little bigger, and a toilet and a washbasin will take up almost the space.
Zhou Fangyuan stayed in the master bedroom and played poker with his eldest sister.
They play a game called pulling trains, a deck of poker shuffles the order, and then randomly divides into two stacks, one person and one half, and guesses the punches first. The way to play the cards is very simple, is to draw from the top of the poker in the hand one by one, two people take turns to put the cards, the poker face up, you can see the number on the line, the back card pressed the front card. When there is a repeat of the number, from the last one pressed down to the previous one, all the pokers, including the middle, will be taken away by the person who dropped the last card.
As long as there are duplicate cards, this is the case, regardless of who played the previous card, only look at the ownership of the last card. People who often collect cards, of course, will have more and more cards in their hands, and the cards they collect are placed at the bottom of the hand, ensuring that it will not be easy to appear such a routine again. And the person who doesn't collect his cards often will have fewer and fewer cards in his hand.
This game is very simple, almost no brains, and it's nice to use it to grind time. In the end, whoever has all the cards in his hand will lose.
Zhou Fangyuan vaguely remembered that he often won in his last life, and often lost his sister so much that he didn't want to play with him, he was quite happy at that time, but now that he thinks back, he was really naΓ―ve back then.
Now sitting together again, how many years have this scene been separated? It seems that since Huihui was in the second year of junior high school, the two have rarely played together, if calculated according to the age in memory, they haven't played like this for at least 20 years. Revisiting the warm scenes of the past, Zhou Fangyuan's mood has obviously changed. In his last life, he sought his own happiness, and even if it was a small game, he wanted to win. But now he wants to see his sister happy, so he obviously has some water. Sometimes, even if there is a duplicate card, he will not collect it.
In fact, this game is like this, sometimes there are too many cards, after pulling out a long string, it is inevitable that you will not notice that your cards have appeared in a pair with the previous one, and you can already collect. Zhou Fangyuan deliberately "didn't see it", and then Huihui found out and didn't say anything, and after she became a pair, she immediately took back the card quickly.
Every now and then, Zhou Fangyuan would scream, and then all kinds of regretful expressions.
Of course, he doesn't lose all the time, and occasionally he wins once or twice to ensure that he will not be eliminated quickly, and at the same time ensure that his behavior of releasing water will not be seen by the other party.
The two had a lot of fun, and Zhou Fangyuan quietly controlled the rhythm, and they didn't finish playing a handful of cards for more than half an hour.
Until grandma came over and called them to eat, Zhou Fangyuan still had more than a dozen cards in his hand, and Huihui had a thick stack of cards in his hand. Obviously, she won, Zhou Fangyuan threw the cards, and twisted his head to the side in shame, "Don't play, don't play." β
With that, he got up and left.
Behind her, Huihui rolled up on the bed, giggling.
Grandma watched from the side, and when Zhou Fangyuan walked to his side, she reached out and touched Zhou Fangyuan's head, giving him a stolen approving look.
The old man has been in the family for a lifetime, and he has never seen anything like this, of course, he can see that Zhou Fangyuan is releasing water, and grandma is very happy about the mature performance of the eldest grandson.
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After the New Year, you have to eat Chinese New Year's Eve.
However, the Zhou family's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was not in the evening, but at noon.
The main thing is that eating too much at night is indeed quite a burden on the body, especially the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is often meaty and oily, young people don't matter, grandparents are so old, eat a stomach of oil for dinner, is it afraid that the old people can digest it or how to drop?
So since last year, the Zhou family has changed the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner to noon.
Before eating, Zhou's father and three brothers went downstairs to set off firecrackers, which is also a traditional show. This year's firecrackers were bought by the third uncle, and he came forward to buy these things, all of them were at cost price, and the people who sold firecrackers didn't dare to make his money. As a result, the third uncle bought more than 2,000 yuan of firecrackers, all of which were piled up in the small room downstairs, piling up half of the room.
Zhou Fangyuan took Huihui to watch the firecrackers, but his main job was to protect the little guy.
After a while, the sound of crackling firecrackers sounded, and from time to time there was the sound of two kicks. And this is just the beginning, as other people's homes continue to prepare for development, more and more people go downstairs to set off firecrackers, and finally the sound of firecrackers has almost covered the entire family home, and if you want to speak, you have to shout in your ear.
The sound of explosions was accompanied by countless pieces of rubble and confetti, the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder, and the smoke almost obscured people's vision.
Fortunately, when Zhou's father parked the carport, he parked under the village carport. The roof of the village carport is a simple iron sheet, which sticks out more than half a meter away, which can help to cover it somewhat.
After setting off the firecrackers, Zhou Fangyuan took Huihui home, the two took off their coats and shoes, and hurriedly ran to wash their hands.
When Zhou Fangyuan washed his hands and arrived at the dining table, the table was already full of all kinds of delicious food. As I said before, the people of Beitong love to eat, even if they eat at their own home, they also pay attention to the color and fragrance, not to mention that today is such an important day as Chinese New Year's Eve, and the three daughters-in-law have all shown their best level.
Zhou's mother is good at stir-frying and stewing, so she is in charge of the big dishes in the house.
The second aunt Guo Minyu is good at mixing cold dishes, and all the cold dishes are handled by herself.
The third aunt Wanaihua has a high level of meat filling, so she made today's dumpling filling, and she is also responsible for cutting and cutting vegetables to prepare seasonings or something.
When Zhou Fangyuan brought Huihui to the table, the table was already full of dishes. Fupin Chinese