On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Ju'an woke up early, and then began to get dressed, and woke up Dinah at the door of Dinah's room, and when the two of them walked downstairs together, they saw that their brother and sister-in-law also got up and took Ran Ran, and were about to go to Dad's house.

Ju An took Dinah and followed her brother and sister-in-law to the door of her father's house, and the eldest brother knocked on the door and asked, "Mom and Dad, are you up, let's come and kowtow."

Then I heard my father laughing inside and saying, "Get up, come in." My brother pushed the door and led everyone in.

When I went in, I saw that my father and mother had happily done it on the edge of the bed, Ran Ran was experienced, and knelt down with a plop, and her small mouth was like smearing honey: "Grandparents!" Happy New Year". Then with a bang, my mother hurriedly said worriedly: "Light! Tap, don't knock your head". The little guy knocked a few, then stretched out the little fat hand, the father smiled and took out the New Year's money from his pocket, handed it to the guy, and then the mother also handed the New Year's money to Ran Ran, and the little guy happily put the red envelope into his pocket.

Ju An hurriedly helped the eldest brother and sister-in-law find two mats, and then the eldest brother and sister-in-law knelt on the mat and began to kowtow to the mother. Dinah smiled and said: "It's okay, when I came, my father and mother told me to respect other people's traditions, so that we can respect each other's habits, and then we can live together harmoniously, just like my parents, know how to tolerate each other."

As soon as the words fell, the brother and sister-in-law had already received the New Year's money, and the mother smiled and said to Dinah: "Don't knock Dinah, let San'er knock for you."

Dinah smiled and said, "It's okay."

After Ju An heard this, he took Dina to kowtow to his father and mother a few times, said a word of blessing, and got two red envelopes, Ju An looked at his bag, there were only fifty yuan, and secretly glanced at Dinah, which was actually two hundred.

Then he shouted: "Dad, Mom, this was still 100 last year, how can it be changed to 50 this year, this inflation, why is it falling if the New Year's money doesn't rise."

When the eldest brother heard this, he hurriedly looked at the red envelope and said with a smile: "I'm also fifty, yes, how can I only be half of last year." After speaking, he looked at his sister-in-law and said, "This daughter-in-law has risen."

Ran Ran hurriedly took out the red envelope, looked at it with small eyes, and then took it back with a smile, stopped talking, the feelings of the grandson and daughter-in-law have risen, and the son's has fallen.

My mother said with a smile: "This year's economic crisis, it's good that you two can have it, don't complain." The eldest brother and Ju An, who listened, were stunned.

At this time, Ran Ran couldn't wait any longer, and said: "Second uncle and second aunt hurry up and go to the left, I still have to work hard to press the New Year's money."

Ju An had no choice but to sit down with Dinah, before he could sit down, Ran Ran had already kowtowed, and immediately after kowtowing, his little paws stretched out in front of Ju An's eyes, and Ju An handed over the prepared red envelope of one hundred dollars to Ran Ran: "This is me with Dinah."

Xiao Ranran took it, took out the money and looked at it for a long time, only knew a hundred, and then the eldest brother said: "The third brother, I gave too much, and it means to give a hundred yuan, and it is not good for the child to have more money."

Ju An shook his head and said with a smile: "It's good if you help save it, and it's also a sheet when Tongtong comes."

Ran Ran still didn't see how much this was at this time, scratching her ears and looking at her sister-in-law, her sister-in-law said with a smile: "That's American money, more than six red tickets for you, hurry up and thank you second uncle and aunt, this guy's little head has increased in price this year."

As soon as he heard that one was for six, the little guy knew about it, and hurriedly put it in his small pocket, and then kowtowed a few more to Ju An and Dinah.

Ju An said with a smile: "You little guy, how much is the kowtow wheel, how long do you give two more kowtows, and if you give less, you will kowtow less, why don't you kowtow to your father and mother."

The eldest brother said with a smile: "I didn't hold back when I just got to bed last night, I had already knocked over the bed, after I came back from you, Ran Ran was a lot more lively, no longer as timid as before, and now I am also active in class, but I am worried that it is too naughty."

The old mother pulled Ran Ran and hugged her in her arms and said: "The male baby's family, the skin is good, I used to be honest like a girl, and I can still skin your two brothers when I was young?" ”。

As soon as my father saw that my mother was about to open the conversation, he said: "What are you doing in front of your grandson for the New Year, okay, since everyone has kowtowed, go out and cook dumplings to eat."

The family had just come out of Dad's house, and Tongtong's voice came from outside the courtyard door: "Grandparents, Tongtong is here to kowtow."

At this moment, my mother said: "This family rushed over so early." Then I saw my sister and brother-in-law pulling Tongtong into the yard.

My sister said with a smile: "Early in the morning, Tongtong's girl began to make trouble, saying that she was coming over, and his grandfather told her that her aunt was going to come to give the New Year's money and was not attracted to live, and she would count it, saying that there are two uncles here, and there is only one aunt there, and there are many here."

Everyone in the audience laughed.

Now the family sat down in the hall again, first waiting for my sister and brother-in-law to kowtow to my parents, and when my sister got the red envelope, she looked inside, and just wanted to raise an objection, Ju An said: "Don't complain, my eldest brother and I are both fifty, and our worth has fallen."

My sister glanced at her brother-in-law's red envelopes and said, "This person has more red envelopes than me, and the only outsider in this family has more than our own family, which is not fair!" ”。

The family laughed again, and the brother-in-law said with a smile next to him: "So many of you are your own family, and I, an outsider, are prominent, of course I have to give more."

followed the eldest brother and Ju Andina, and waited for Tongtong to come over and kowtow to give the New Year's money.

Waiting for Tongtong to finish kowtowing, Ju An handed over the red envelope, Tongtong took out all the red envelopes received in his pocket, put them in his sister's hand, and then said seriously: "Mom help me keep it, don't be corrupt, I remember it."

Ju An praised when he saw this scene next to him: "Tongtong is not bad, I know that I know how to collect the New Year's money for my mother, which is much more sensible."

"She's still a little younger, and now she doesn't have any concept of money, and when she is a year or two older, she knows that she has it, and when she was a child, she used to give it to her mother when she was young, but now she keeps it by herself, and she is much smarter," the eldest brother said with a smile.

Then the two little guys held hands and went to the yard to play, the mother took her sister into the kitchen to cook dumplings, and the father took Ju'an to watch the two children fight in the yard, and the people waited to eat dumplings.

After the dumplings were cooked, everyone finished eating the first dumpling of the new year, and the family played a traditional game around the Eight Immortals table, mahjong!.

This time it was the father Ju An, the eldest brother and the brother-in-law, the rest of the onlookers, Ju An began to teach Dina to play while playing by himself, and then Dina began to read it out from time to time, and as a result, after two laps, Ju An did not have a handful.

After watching the two laps, he replaced the female compatriots into battle, the male compatriots watched from the side, Ju An followed behind Dina to watch and point, Dina Hu made two big cards in a row, and got Ju An's money back.

After the first day of junior high school, I began to go to relatives, but this year, the relatives all went to Ju'an's house first, to see the foreign daughter-in-law, the whole family, Ju Anguang's mother's aunt and cousins are fifteen or sixteen, and the aunts and cousins on Dad's side are too far away, everyone is not very active, and gradually the relationship is much weaker than that of my mother.

The tone of going to relatives is similar, eating, drinking, playing mahjong, and then there is the New Year's money of the little babies, Ju An and Dinah have no children, so they can only collect money from the elders, but the money for the dozen or so little radish heads still has to be paid by themselves.

So a circle of relatives turned down, Ju An and the cousins who had no children became scattered wealth boys, but the whole relatives gathered together, and had to open three tables for dinner, but it was very lively, Dinah liked this atmosphere very much, and had a lot of fun, and said to Ju An from time to time: "Your New Year is more lively than our Christmas, it is too festive atmosphere, and so many relatives are together, the relationship is so harmonious is really good."

"This is still at this time, if in the early days, we have to go to our hometown to celebrate the New Year with the whole big family, that set of standard procedures is called complicated, I still listen to my grandmother before, in the past, our big family in the countryside celebrated the New Year, the patriarch took the ancestors or something, I heard her old man say, when the light into the ancestral hall kowtow is two or three hundred people, that scene is big, but now the ancestral hall at home has long been destroyed, changed into a cowshed. Now it's relatives eating around, it's not a big scene," Ju An said with a smile. Dina listened to it for a while, and even said that it was a pity that she could not see the real Chinese tradition.

Ju An and Dina have been staying at home for the fifth day of junior high school, and then they left to go back to the ranch, and if they don't move their bodies, Ju An's stomach will be unbearable, and they can't drink in the first place.

But Dina is full of comfort, no one lets her drink, every day is to eat here and there, from time to time to pick up the mobile phone to take a photo, and take a photo with some of Ju'an's little cousins and aunts, it is quite moisturizing. If it weren't for the deadlift, I would have wanted to stay at home for a few more days before leaving.

On the morning of the fifth day of the new year, Ju An took Dina to the car to Jiangnan, and when he arrived in Jiangnan City, he said hello to Wu Ming, and without stopping at all, he and Dinah flew directly to Los Angeles.

It took more than 20 hours of flying all the way back to the ranch in Montana.

(To be continued)