Chapter 281: It's New Year
Mu Dong, who returned home, found that Zhang Jishun was in his own home, pushing cups and changing lamps with his father, calling him a brother. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Mu Dong also hurried to the table and accompanied Zhang Jishun for a drink.
During the banquet, Zhang Jishun said that the election of the Municipal People's Congress has been completed, and he and Mu Dong have been successfully elected, and they will participate in the Municipal People's Congress after the Spring Festival.
Zhang Jishun saw Mu Dong, took another drink, and said goodbye and left.
Mu Dong hurriedly hugged a box of liquor brought back from Quancheng, stuffed it into Zhang Jishun's car, and said sincerely: "Mr. Zhang, seeing that there is no time before the year, it is inconvenient for me to go to your house again, take this box of wine back and taste it." ”
Zhang Jishun didn't shirk, thanked him, and left happily.
Xiao Xiao looked at Zhang Jishun who was leaving, and said in a low voice: "Husband, this Mr. Zhang, I sent most of the car's things, it's too scary." There are several pig hind legs alone, and it is said that it is a wild boar. ”
Mu Dong laughed: "Okay, bring one tomorrow for my father-in-law and mother-in-law to try." ”
February 13, the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve.
Mu Dong drove away Fang Jiandong early in the morning and asked him to go home for the New Year and come back on the sixth day of the new year.
Fang Jiandong refused Mu Dong's proposal for an Audi A6 and drove Mu Dad's Golf away.
Then, Mu Dong drove the GMC, loaded a cart full of gifts, and took Xiao Xiao, Xin'er and Qiao Xiaomin to visit relatives and friends.
First of all, Li's father and Li's mother, this is a must go before the year, after unloading the gift, sit for a while, let Li's father and Li's mother and Xin'er get close for a while, the family left immediately, and agreed to come over in the second year of junior high school.
Then there is Mu Hong's house.
Mu Hong carried forward the unreasonable style and forced him to keep food. Took away all the keys to GMC.
Then, Mu Hong, Wang Yan and Wang Wen kept teasing Xin'er.
Xin'er also gave her aunt a lot of face, and she was always happy, not crying or making trouble.
Oops, this can make Mu Hongle bad, and he directly gave a big red envelope, 10,000.
Mu Dong prepared gifts for Wang Yan and Wang Wen this year, one person and one digital camera, and the two of them were so happy.
During the meal, everyone chatted, and Mu Dong learned that Wang Yan had started an internship at a bank in the island city. Wang Yan chose to major in finance at university, and the job in the bank is also the right one.
As for Wang Wen, she is now in her third year of high school and will take the college entrance examination soon. It's just that Wang Wen's grades are average, a bottle is less than half a bottle, and if she wants to get into a good university, I'm afraid it's a little difficult.
After lunch, it was already past one o'clock, Mu Dong hurriedly said goodbye and drove to the house of his second aunt Mu Cai.
After unloading the gift and sitting down briefly, it was only a quarter of an hour, and then Mu Dong left and returned to Mu Village.
Then I went to Second Uncle Mu's house, Third Uncle Mu's house, and Mu Jinqian's and Mu Huafeng's houses, all of which took off their gifts and sat down slightly.
Mu Jinqian was happy in his heart, Mu Dong, this guy, came to the house to give gifts, it was too face-saving. He also wrapped a red envelope for Xin'er, 1,000 yuan.
After this busy circle, when I got home, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.
Mu's mother had already started chopping the dumpling filling, Mu Xiaoxia was helping on the side, and Qiao Xiaomin hurried over to get busy.
Seeing Mu Dong coming back, Mu Ma ruthlessly drove Mu Xiaoxia away.
"Hurry home, you are still at your parents' house at this time, your parents-in-law will be unhappy. ”
Mu Xiaoxia stuck out her tongue and left as she said.
Mu Dong and Mu Dad, the second uncle and the third uncle, Da Dao and Da Long prepared paper money offerings and went to the New Year's grave.
When I came back from the grave, I quickly began to twist the yellow paper wrapped in peach strips and change it for the peach charm of the next year. By the time everything was done, twilight had fallen.
I can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Mu Dong felt that this busy time felt like a war.
At the beginning of the lanterns, the night is dark, and the Mu family's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner this year has become extremely warm because of Xin'er.
Mu's father and mother all changed into new clothes carefully prepared by Xiao Xiao, the two of them looked much younger, and Mu's mother also went to get a haircut in the morning, looking full of energy.
The table was full of dishes, and the family sat around and drank heartily.
Mu Dad, Mu Mom, Mu Dong, and the three of them drank white wine, and their own cellar melon dry wine, Qiao Xiaomin poured a little red wine under the persuasion of Mu Dong and Xiao Xiao, and Xiao Xiao made a glass of white water and pretended.
Mu Dad opened his mouth and said: "Xiaodong, Xiao Xiao, I am very happy this year, seeing that the life of our family is getting better and better." I also figured it out, after the Spring Festival, I will go to Quancheng with you. ”
Mu Dong was happy in his heart, his father was used to staying with his mother in Quancheng, and he was reluctant to part.
He hurriedly said: "Yes, Dad, you should have gone to Quancheng a long time ago, I am busy outside every day, don't you have to have a backbone at home!"
Xiao Xiao also said: "Dad, it's great that you can figure it out, Xin'er also likes to be held by you." ”
Mu Dad was proud in his heart and said: "Family, close to the bones, of course she likes me." But I have to advise the two of you, in a few years, you two will have to have another one, and I don't care about boys and girls, in short, I can't let Xin'er be too single. ”
Xiao Xiao paused suddenly.
Mu Ma glared: "Are you confused? ”
Mu Dong hurriedly said: "Mom and Dad, don't say it, there is gossip now, and the two-child policy will be released soon, and when the time comes, we will definitely have another one." ”
Mu's father and mother looked happy, and asked in unison, "Really?"
Mu Dong said: "Of course it's true. You can rest assured, even if the country does not liberalize the policy for a short time, Xiao Xiao and I will have another child in a few years. As for Xiao Xiao's job, it doesn't matter if you want it or not, if the state wants to collect a fine, we'll just pay it, right, daughter-in-law?"
Xiao Xiao blushed a little, and sneered: "You talk a lot!"
Mu's father and Mu's mother saw that their daughter-in-law agreed!
The two of them were overjoyed, and they raised their glasses again and again, but Mu Dong persuaded them. This is the New Year's Day, you can't drink too much. Qiao Xiaomin and Xiao Xiao watched from the side, hehe, Zhile.
At the end of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Mu's father and Mu's mother took out red envelopes from their pockets and distributed them on the spot.
Mu Dong, Xiao Xiao, Xin'er, and Qiao Xiaomin, each received two red envelopes, each of which contained 1,000 yuan.
Everyone happily took it, Qiao Xiaomin opened it and looked at it, was startled, and hurriedly said, "Uncle and aunt, this is too much!"
Mu Dong said: "Not much, Xiaomin, put it away, it will be your bonus this year." ”
Qiao Xiaomin was much more generous this time, she said sweetly: "Uncle and aunt, you are both elders, let me kowtow to you." ”
After speaking, he fell to his knees and slammed his head.
Mu's father and mother were so panicked that they hurriedly helped them up, and Mu's mother said, "Xiaomin, you can't help it." ”
Qiao Xiaomin said solemnly: "Uncle and aunt, it is a custom to kowtow to the elders during the New Year, and it is definitely not okay in normal times, you can afford it." ”
After speaking, he slowly got up.
Mu Dong noticed Qiao Xiaomin's kneeling and standing up, nodded again and again, and secretly agreed, this is a tutor, when her parents were alive, they should have specially taught her the etiquette of kowtowing.
The dumbest kowtow is to get down on both knees together, which is neither beautiful nor safe.
The correct kowtow posture is to take one foot forward, then kneel down with the other leg, and then retract the step and kneel.
When getting up, lift the foot that you took before, then half get up, retract the raised foot, and then stand up completely.
During the whole process, whether you kneel down or get up, one foot is still in place.
Qiao Xiaomin's movements of kneeling and getting up completely meet this standard, and it is very good-looking.
After simply cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, everyone sat around to watch the Spring Festival Gala together.
Mu's father and mother looked at it for a while and got tired and went to the bedroom to rest. Xin'er ate and drank to her heart's content, and also slept sweetly.
Mu Dong ran for a day and was also a little tired, so he rested with Xiao Xiao.
In the empty living room, on the wide sofa, only Qiao Xiaomin was left, she turned down the volume of the TV, turned off the lights in the living room, and watched the TV quietly.
The tears finally couldn't be held back, and slowly slipped down his face......
Just after midnight, the sound of firecrackers sounded in all directions, waking up the sleeping people, and even Xin'er cried.
Qiao Xiaomin jumped up from the sofa, rushed into the baby's room, picked up Xin'er, and whispered comfort.
Xiao Xiao also rushed over, took Xin'er, and began to breastfeed.
The sweet milk finally quieted Xin'er, drank a few sips, and fell asleep again.
Mu Dong got up and looked at it, gave up the plan to set off firecrackers at zero o'clock, and planned to set them off at five or six o'clock in the morning. He took out his mobile phone and began to send New Year's messages to relatives and friends.
Soon, the New Year's greeting messages sent by others to Mu Dong also poured in one after another, and after Mu Dong finished sending them, he turned off the phone directly.
Everyone tossed for a while, went to bed, and continued to rest.
At 6 o'clock in the morning, when it was still dark, Mu's father and mother got up and began to be busy making dumplings, making glutinous rice balls, and boiling peach strips of water.
Then everyone got up one after another, and Mu Dong went to the roof of the building and lit a long firecracker.
In the roar, the doors and windows in the baby room were closed, and Xiao Xiao wrapped Xin'er in three layers and three layers outside, and carefully hugged her in his arms.
Fortunately, Xin'er was woken up, but she didn't cry, she just turned her head into Xiao Xiao's arms and began to look for food.
Xiao Xiao couldn't cry or laugh, and muttered to himself, little guy, foodie!
After the firecrackers are set off, the dumplings and dumplings are cooked, and the Mu family burns paper money in the courtyard together, offering dumplings, rice balls, fruits and liquor, and worships the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth.
Qiao Xiaomin was sensible and quietly hid in the house. She is not from the Mu family, and she cannot participate in this activity.
After the worship was completed, everyone entered the house, Mu Dong hugged Xin'er, and together with Xiao Xiao, kowtowed to Mu's father and mother, and was so happy that Mu's father and mother couldn't see their teeth.
Then, everyone carefully washed their faces with piping hot peach strip water, and then served to the table for the first vegetarian dumplings of the new year.
Qiao Xiaomin originally wanted to hide, but she was pulled to the table by Mu Ma.
"Silly boy, what are you hiding after eating?" said Mu Ma.
Just after eating, Mu Daodao, Lin Xiaoyuan, Mu Xiaohui and Mu Dalong came to Mu Dong's house together.
Mu Dong Xiaoxiao and everyone kowtowed to Mu Dad and Mu Ma again.
After that, Mu Dong took the lead, and the group went to kowtow to Mu's second uncle and second aunt, and Mu's third uncle and third aunt in turn. After that, the women went home. Mu Dong, Mu Daodao and Mu Dalong went to kowtow to several respected elders in the village, including Mu Jinqian.
Mu Jinqian was very happy, pulled the three of them into the house and sat down, and forced each of them to drink a small glass of wine before letting the three of them leave.
The morning passed in the visit and kowtow.
During this period, Mu Dong kept receiving New Year's calls, and he was a little tired of coping. Of course, Boss Mu is not exempt from vulgarity, big guys like Liu Jingyun, Cai Guoliang, Li Liqun, and Zhang Zhenyi, he also has to call to bless him.