Chapter 699: Chinese New Year's Eve
Kou Bing, who was sitting next to Fang Yang, saw him bite into half of the dumplings with sharp eyes, and immediately said with a smile:
"Yang Yang is lucky! I've eaten the red date and chestnut filling! It seems that Xiaohua is about to be a 'milk' and a 'milk'......"
Kou Bingxin's words immediately attracted everyone's attention, and the old lady and Han Xuehua were even brighter-eyed, smiling from ear to ear.
Fang Yang chuckled in his heart, and suddenly felt a bad feeling.
The dumplings are wrapped in red dates and chestnuts, which means that they take the homonym of "early lizi", and contain good wishes for early birth.
Generally speaking, only one or two of the dumplings in the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner are filled with this kind of filling, and they were coincidentally eaten by Fang Yang, and he avoided this topic! Now it's a reminder to everyone.
It is a sign that you are going to "give birth to a noble son early", how convincing!
Sure enough, the old lady immediately began to nag Fang Yang's lifelong events, and Han Xuehua also nodded her head again and again on the side, and helped knock on the side from time to time. There are also Gu Lin, Kou Bingxin and other 'female' and 'sexual' elders who also followed.
Everyone's gist is nothing more than hoping that Fang Yang will get married as soon as possible, and seeing that he is about to graduate from college, he can consider the issue of lifelong events.
Fang Yang couldn't help but have one head and two big.
Seeing Fang Yang's painful expression, Finn asked very curiously:
"Fang, what are you talking about? Why do you look like you don't want to live? ”
Fang Yang listened to the nagging of the 'female' and 'sexual' elders, and explained the situation he was facing to Finn in a low voice in German. After listening to this, Finn widened his eyes exaggeratedly and asked:
"Oh my God, you're only in your twenties, and your family can't wait to get you married? Why is that? ”
To a Westerner like Finn, who admires freedom, this is incredible. Finn was also in a relationship with his 'girlfriend' for many years, and did not marry until he was about thirty years old, when their children were already two years old, which is also very common in the West.
"The old people in Huaxia hope that their children will get married and have children as soon as possible......," Fang Yang shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly.
"It's incredible......" Finn muttered.
However, hearing the meaning of dumplings introduced by Fang Yang, Fin's curiosity also grew, he had eaten several dumplings just now, all of them were ordinary pig 'meat' cabbage filling, so he looked at the few dumplings left on his plate, closed his eyes like a 'lottery' and forked one with the fork prepared for him by the special 'door', dipped it in vinegar in a similar way, and put it into his mouth with great anticipation......
The old lady and Han Xuehua and the others continued to nag, Han Lingfei just sat on the side with a smile and ate dumplings, looking at Fang Yang's deflated appearance, he couldn't help but be a little funny, since he met Fang Yang, Han Lingfei had hardly seen Fang Yang so helpless, he had always been full of confidence, as if nothing could stump him.
In fact, this is also true.
Fang Yang's political talent and keen 'nature' impressed Han Lingfei again and again. Han Lingfei didn't dare to underestimate him at all, and many times Han Lingfei even 'communicated' with this nephew with an equal mentality.
But everyone has a weakness, and now it seems that the nagging of the old lady and others is undoubtedly Fang Yang's weakness......
Fang Yang didn't dare to talk back, so he had to deal with it vaguely.
At this moment, a weak voice rang out:
Fang ...... I...... Did I get the 'lucky dumplings'? Why is this in it? ”
Although Finn spoke German, he raised his hand high, which immediately attracted everyone's attention, and he saw Finn holding a coin in his hand with a blank expression.
The full table fell silent all of a sudden, and then Fang Yang laughed, stretched out his hand to hold Finn and said:
"Finn, I can't believe that this only dumpling has been eaten by you! You're sure to have good luck next year! ”
"Really? Why are your 'lucky dumplings' all edible, but mine can't? Finn asked blankly.
Fang Yang translated Finn's words to everyone, and the Han family immediately let out a burst of good-natured laughter. Fang Yang then explained to Finn the allusion of the coin wrapped in the dumpling.
When Finn heard that there was only this coin in all the dumplings tonight, and that it had such a good meaning, he grinned happily.
The Han family is a relatively old-fashioned family, and attaches great importance to these New Year's customs, and everyone is a little envious of Finn being able to eat coin dumplings, and for a while, the old lady forgot to continue to talk about Fang Yang, and Fang Yang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The family had a happy Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and Fang Yang enjoyed this long-lost feeling of home.
Even the wealthy 'family' also has parents who are short, there are firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tea, and the activities of the Han family for the New Year are not much different from those of ordinary people, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, watching the 'Spring Festival' evening, and the family sits and chats.
In the old man's room, among the children of the younger generation, Han Wenhai served as Fang Hongda's secretary in Southeast Province, and he would definitely not be able to come back at this time, and Han Junfei and Kou Bingxin's child Han Wenshan was 'messing around' with a group of stubborn ghosts in the capital all day long, and what he was most afraid of was this kind of occasion where the elders gathered, and counting his words would make his ears calloused.
So Han Wenshan, who hung up an idle post in the Ministry of Agriculture and didn't work for a few days throughout the year, was actually "on duty" on Chinese New Year's Eve, in fact, to put it bluntly, he hid and went quietly, otherwise who would dare to let Han Ershao be on duty for the New Year? People haven't been to work for a month or two, and no one asks.
Kou Bingxin has nothing to do with this son, and he has to explain in front of the old lady when he comes over today, there is no way, his own son! If you don't protect your mother, who will protect you?
In this way, only Fang Yang is here for the children of the third generation. And because of Fang Yang's childhood experience, the old lady loved this grandson very much, so she kept shushing and asking for warmth during the banquet, and kept putting vegetables into Fang Yang's bowl.
After eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the family came to the main hall of the middle courtyard, and the old lady sat in the middle, took out a stack of red envelopes from her arms, and began to distribute the money.
Everyone present is the old lady's junior, and everyone has a share of the red envelope, including Finn, and the old lady has prepared the red envelope in advance.
Don't look at Han Lingfei, Gu Lin, Kou Bingxin and others outside are either regional-level leaders or department-level cadres, but they are all sitting in front of the old lady.
When they received the red envelope, they also relied on the customs of the old capital, knelt down respectfully and kowtowed, and then took the red envelope with both hands.
"Yang Yang, come, get the New Year's money...... soon it was Fang Yang's turn, the old lady said with a smile.
Fang Yang hurriedly stepped forward and knelt on his knees, kowtowed respectfully three times, and said in his mouth:
"Grandma, I wish you a blessed New Year! In good shape! ”
"Okay, good ......" The old lady accepted this gift with a smile, and then personally helped Fang Yang up and stuffed a big red envelope into Fang Yang's hand.
"Thank you, 'Milk', 'Milk'!" Fang Yang said with a smile.
The old lady took out the last red envelope, and Fang Yang said:
"Yangyang, you can help me translate ......"
"Oh, okay."
The old lady kindly said to Finn:
"Mr. Finn, this is New Year's money for you. But you don't have to kowtow, I know you Westerners don't have that habit. ”
Finn was watching with interest the scene of the New Year's money, and it was undoubtedly a very new experience for him. When Fang Yang finished translating Grandma's words, Finn shook his head again and again and said:
"No, no, Fang, since I have arrived in China, I should follow the customs! And your grandmother is also my elder, and it's okay for me to kowtow to her according to the customs of the Chinese people. ”
After saying that, he did the same, came to the mat and knelt down on his knees, and kowtowed congratulatorily. The old lady was startled and hurriedly asked:
"Yangyang, didn't you translate my words to him?"
Fang Yang smiled bitterly and said:
"Can I not translate? I can't help ...... if he has to."
After speaking, Fang Yang repeated Finn's words and showed it to the old lady. The old lady couldn't help but smile a little, and her gaze at Finn, who was kowtowing, became more kind.
After Finn kowtowed, he said "Wishing you prosperity" as usual, because he only had this sentence......
The old lady also nodded with a smile and said:
"Okay, well, I also wish you a great New Year!"
After speaking, the old lady handed the red envelope to Finn. Finn took the festive red envelope, happy as a child, looking left and right and reluctant to open it.
At this time, Chen's mother walked in and said:
"Old lady, the outside is ready, you can go to step on the New Year......"
"Okay, let's go, let's go together!" The old lady said happily.
The group hugged her out of the main hall and walked through the moon between the two courtyards to the front yard. I saw that the ground was already covered with sesame straw, and it was winding through the entire courtyard from the shadow wall of the big gate.
Stepping on the New Year, also known as stepping on the year, is also an old custom in the capital. The sesame straw is thrown from the 'door' to the house, and people step on it and crackle, which has the beautiful meaning of driving away evil spirits and avoiding evil spirits.
The family laughed and stepped on it, and suddenly the laughter in the yard was mixed with the crackling sound of sesame straw being trampled.
The one who stepped on the most joyfully in the crowd was Finn, and while he was stepping hard, he also asked Fang Yang what was so particular about this. Fang Yang also understood Fein's thirst for knowledge, and happily introduced the custom of stepping on the year with him.
After all, the old lady is old, and after a while, she went back to the house to rest under the support of Han Xuehua, but the younger generations, including Han Lingfei and others, can't sleep, they must keep the New Year, which also has the meaning of praying for the old man and wishing the old man health and longevity, so every year Han Lingfei will keep watch until after the midnight bell rings.
Brothers, sisters, and sisters-in-law sat around the fireplace and pulled the family together. And Fang Yang took the enthusiastic Finn out to set off firecrackers.
Knowing that Fang Yang was coming back, the old lady specially asked someone to prepare a lot of fireworks and firecrackers, all of which were piled up in the ear room in the front yard.
The two came to the 'gate' with a large number of firecrackers, and began to set off firecrackers like children, and colorful fireworks lit up the night sky of the capital. In the nearby streets and alleys, the sound of firecrackers and children's laughter are also endless, one after another, and the 'intercourse' weaves a Chinese New Year's Eve happy chapter...... - 47627 + dsuaahhh + 20589875 - >