Chapter 124: New Year's Greetings
After eating the reunion dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone gathered around to watch the Spring Festival Gala and chatter.
At this time, the ratings of the Spring Festival Gala are still okay, and the people have not experienced so many variety shows and the impact of the Internet, and they are still relatively recognized for the Spring Festival Gala program. Of course, although they are sitting together to watch the Spring Festival Gala, in fact, few people are watching it seriously, and they are all chattering.
Besides, after eating, chattering, everyone has to go back to their respective homes to prepare for the New Year and other things.
The custom of Wuxian County is that you don't charge New Year's money after you work, and you generally become a person who needs to give New Year's money, of course, depending on people's families. This custom is different from the Pearl River Delta, there is that as long as you are not married, no matter how old you are, you can receive the New Year's money and profits, like several colleagues of Jiang Hui in the previous life, from the beginning of entering school to more than forty, every year during the Spring Festival, they go to their colleagues to tease the profits.
When he got home at night, Jiang Hui was a little dizzy, but fortunately he took a shower before eating, so he could go to bed at any time. Thinking about what Bai Xue was doing, he made a phone call.
After a while, the phone was connected, and Bai Xue's voice came from the receiver, "Honey, I just watched the Spring Festival Gala with my parents in the living room, and I quickly found an excuse to go back to the room when I saw your phone."
"Haha, with the bright eyes of my father-in-law and mother-in-law, they will definitely interrogate you who opened the phone in a while, even if you don't say it in your mouth, you can guess it in your heart," Jiang Hui said.
"Ah~ So what should I do, they don't support me to find a boyfriend so quickly, they still think that I will find it again in Haizhu after graduation", Bai Xue said.
"If you don't support it, it doesn't mean that you don't oppose it, you're already eighteen years old, and when they ask, they say they're friends first, and then I'll tell them the details later," Jiang Hui said.
"Well, you haven't called me a few times in the past few days, don't you miss me", Bai Xue said coquettishly.
"Baby, I call you every day, thinking about you all the time," Jiang Hui said.
"I'm thinking about it all the time, why is it only a phone call a day, is it that when I go back to my hometown, I see my beautiful female classmates who are childhood sweethearts and leave me behind?", Bai Xue said.
"Baby, you've read too many Qiong Yao novels, where are there so many female classmates from childhood sweethearts", Jiang Hui said.
"Isn't it fun for you to celebrate the New Year?" Bai Xue asked.
……
The two of them boiled the phone for more than half an hour, and the mobile phone began to get hot before reluctantly hanging up.
On Jiang Hui's side, his parents didn't specifically ask who they had been calling for so long. It's a different story on the snowy side.
Just when Bai Xue entered the house for more than ten minutes and didn't come out, Bai Xue's parents began to mumble.
"Who did you say called, and this girl wants to avoid us to answer it?"
"How do I know, nine times out of ten, which male classmate is the one."
"Xiaoxue won't be in love."
"I don't know, it's not strange, I'm already a college student."
"I said that my surname is Bai, why aren't you nervous at all, how many daughters do you have? Xiaoxue is still young and ignorant, what if someone cheats her?"
"People are not three-year-olds anymore, where do you have so much worry."
……
When Bai Xue answered the phone and walked out of the room, Bai Xue's parents continued to watch the Spring Festival Gala as if nothing happened.
"Xiaoxue, are you still used to going to college in the imperial capital?" asked, Bai Xue's mother.
"Mom, this is the first time you've asked me this question," Bai Xue said.
"Mom, isn't she worried about you, I heard that there are many more boys than girls in your school?" said Bai Xue's mother.
"Yes, the ratio of men to women is seven to one, but our profession is not so exaggerated," Bai Xue said.
"Isn't that a lot of boys pursuing you?", said Bai Xue's mother.
"Mom, when will there be fewer people chasing me", Bai Xue said.
……
Bai Xue's mother finally held back and didn't directly ask Bai Xue if she was talking about a boyfriend.
After twelve o'clock on Chinese New Year's Eve, until the next morning, the sound of firecrackers in Jiang Hui's ears basically did not stop. With the improvement of living standards, fireworks and firecrackers are becoming more and more crazy in rural areas during the Chinese New Year. When some large-scale fireworks are launched, the sound is really a bit shaking, and I don't dare to put them on the roof, otherwise it is easy to crack the roof. The number of firecrackers has risen from a few hundred to tens of thousands, and the next morning there are basically firecracker paper all over the door of every house.
These firecracker papers and the like will not be cleaned in the first year of junior high school, and they will not be cleaned until after the second year of junior high school.
This is because it is said that the first day of the first lunar month is the birthday of the broom, and the broom cannot be used on this day, otherwise it will sweep away the luck and wealth, and attract the "broom star" and cause bad luck. If you have to sweep the floor, you have to sweep it from the outside to the inside. In addition, garbage is generally not taken out on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Even if there is a mountain of garbage, it should not be taken out of the door, but should be gathered together, which is to think that taking out the things in the house is to bring out the blessings of the family.
Early in the morning of the first day of the new year, Jiang Hui was woken up by the New Year's greetings of several cousins, so he had to get up and follow everyone to pay New Year's greetings.
The New Year's custom of Jianghui Village is to take a representative of each family on the morning of the first day of the new year, of course, there can be more than one, and several relatives who are relatively close, from the head of the village to the end of the village, to the relatives and the old family New Year's greetings. Generally speaking, a few auspicious words are said to be completed with a cup of tea.
Although it is said to be a sightseeing tour, due to the many places to go, it will not end until more than ten o'clock after a New Year's greeting. After all, hundreds of years ago were a family, and many people in a village were somewhat related.
In the process of Jiang Hui greeting people for the New Year, Jiang Hui also received New Year's greeting calls from everyone in the school network, and even the high manager of Penguin took the initiative to talk to Jiang Hui on the phone to greet each other for the next year.
Jiang Hui also hurriedly called Dean He, Professor Chen and others to pay their respects. But at this time, everyone was busy, and it took a few times to get through, and they simply said a few words of blessing and hung up.
Since I have paid a New Year's greeting to Dean He, I must not give He Ling a call, and there is Bai Xue behind. After such a call, the phone is almost out of battery.
But there is no way, the more Jiang Hui's company grows in a few years, there will be more and more people who come to pay New Year's greetings and want to pay New Year's greetings.
After paying New Year's greetings in the morning, Jiang Hui hurried home for lunch. According to the customs in the village, it is necessary to eat fast on the morning of the first day of the new year, and for a person like Jiang Hui, who has no meat and is not happy, it is better not to eat fast, and simply wait until lunch to eat together.
At this point, even if the New Year's greetings are over, all that remains is the guest from the second day of the new year, and the Spring Festival begins to enter the mode of eating and drinking.