Chapter 163: Where the Heart Wants
Gu Qin's hand touched Gu Yao's hand, and it was so carefully touched that he didn't know it.
Except for Gu Yao, who sensed her small movements, no one else noticed Gu Qin's actions, Gu Yao's heartstrings suddenly tightened, and she frowned, but she didn't say anything.
Gu Qin's hand was straighter, Gu Yao was also wearing a long coat and trousers, her hand reached into Gu Yao's trouser pocket, and a small note fell from the cuff of her loose shirt.
Although the movements were extremely subtle and careful, Gu Yao still noticed it.
Gu Qin used another force to hug Gu Yao's body tighter, her mouth was very close to her ear, breathing in her ear, and said, "Give it to Fang Mowei." ”
"Hmm." Gu Yao nodded lightly, deserving to be silent.
Gu Qin cried and cried, and finally became weak, slowly stopped sobbing, let go of Gu Yao, and said, "Don't worry, I will also take good care of myself, and wait for you to come back to see me." ”
"Good, silly girl." Gu Yao said again, smiling with a bleak beauty, reaching out and stroking a trace of messy hair on Gu Qin's forehead, and caressed it to the side.
Long Xiao suddenly approached them, still holding a water cup in his hand, standing awe-inspiring and righteous, and coldly urging Gu Yao, "Miss Gu, you can go." ”
Long Xiao's face was unhappy, his words were murderous, and he was very dissatisfied with Gu Qin's crying, so he was also dissatisfied with her.
Gu Yao naturally didn't say anything, the bodyguard blindfolded her again, and then led her downstairs and went out.
After getting into a car, the car starts and sps away.
The car window was closed tightly, and she couldn't hear the sound of the outside environment, Gu Yao calmed down and felt meditative.
About an hour later, the car stopped in front of a building in the bustling downtown of Manila.
When Gu Yao got out of the car, the door was slammed shut, and then he walked away.
Gu Yao indifferently looked in the direction where the car left. racking his brains to reminisce......
The two bodyguards drove the car around the building for most of the circle before finally driving in the direction they wanted.
As soon as Gu Yao left, Gu Qin walked back to his room like a walking corpse. Ignoring the existence of Long Xiao at all. Long Xiao Wenwen's face was even more murderous, and his five fingers pinched the water cup very hard. It seems to be pinched to deform it.
But he didn't say anything to Gu Qin, he looked at Jieli, and Jieli immediately walked to his side and asked, "What are the instructions of the helper?" ”
Long Xiao asked, "Has the Fang family made any big moves recently?" ”
Duan Li thought about it for a while and said, "It doesn't seem to be, Fang Tianzhe has been staying in City C safely, three points and one line." Fang Mowei is also leisurely in the countryside with Cheng Xiaorui. ”
"Hmph......" The corners of Long Xiao's mouth twitched, and he suddenly let go. The glass in his hand fell to the ground with a bang.
The glass shattered, and the tea flowed silently on the dark red sandalwood floor.
Duan Li looked down at the ground, his eyebrows twitched, there was a kind of frightened fear, and he asked tremblingly: "Help, help the master......"
Long Xiao sighed again, his deep eyes narrowed, his head raised behind his back, and he said coldly: "Fang Mowei." His happy little days will not last long. The more he cares about that Cheng Xiaorui, I Long Xiao just let him die in the hands of Cheng Xiaorui. ”
The severed expression remained the same, but lowered his head lower. said: "My subordinates will do their best to help the helper realize his wish as soon as possible. ”
Long Xiao wiped his lips again and was silent......
The years have passed like a white horse, and the vicissitudes of life have crawled all over the face. When the migratory birds of the south once flew in, the grass on the riverbank once again put on new clothes. The sun rises and the moon sets, the stars shift, spring, summer, autumn and winter, and another year flies away.
Tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve.
In the whole New Year's Festival, the 29th day of the lunar month can be said to be the busiest day, in addition to preparing for various food and clothing offerings in the New Year's Festival. There is also an extremely important activity, which is to go to the grave to invite ancestors. Therefore, the annual rumor says, "The twenty-ninth day of the lunar month." Go to the grave and ask the ancestors to make a big offering".
The worship of ancestors has a long history in China. Death is not only an important sign of filial piety. It is also a virtue of respecting the elderly. Therefore, every festival, we must pay tribute to our ancestors, which is not only a kind of consolation to our ancestors, but also a sign of gratitude and thoughts to our ancestors.
The Spring Festival is a big festival, and the ceremony of going to the grave to invite ancestors is particularly solemn and important. The time to visit the ancestors is that most areas invite ancestors in the early morning of the 29th, and a few areas invite ancestors from the afternoon to dusk of the Chinese New Year's Eve.
As for the posting of New Year's pictures, Spring Festival couplets, window grilles and all kinds of Spring Festival posters, they were all completed yesterday.
Early in the morning, my grandfather was already carrying a big red bag, full of it, and in addition to taking a firewood knife, ready to go up the mountain to worship his ancestors.
The reason why I still carry a firewood knife is for no other reason, the mountains are lush in summer, and there are few human tracks, many dead branches and miscellaneous trees, thorns and vines block the road, and it is inconvenient to enter and exit.
Fang Mowei and Cheng Xiaorui also wanted to follow. Grandpa agreed, although they were not Gu family, and it would not be in the way to go and see if they had nothing to do.
The four of them bypassed Merlin, crossed the lakeside trail, and then stepped onto the mountain trail. It's a little easier to walk here than in the past few years, the grass is not high, and there are traces of trampling. The vines are crisscrossed with branches, but most of them have been cleared, and the roadside is littered with withered yellow branches.
So the four of them didn't encounter too many obstacles along the way, and as they walked up the mountainside a little bit, they encountered more animals.
Now that spring is beginning and the atmosphere is warming, many animals begin to come out to dry their bones at noon, especially the hibernating grass snakes, four-legged snakes, and the sound from the grass from time to time.
Fang Mowei was startled from time to time, Cheng Xiaorui walked side by side with him, and he also hugged her from time to time, making her closer to him, for fear that she would be bitten by snakes and stinged by insects. Scorpions, centipedes, poisonous snakes, spiders, and deadly poisons are not much, but these guys give you a bite casually, and they will make you hurt for a few days.
Grandpa was not surprised, he walked quietly all the way, he didn't say anything, and soon they also found several tombstones of the Gu family's ancestors.
The tombstone is old, there is still a lot of dead grass growing around the tomb, and the handwriting engraved on the tombstone is not very conspicuous. In fact, my grandfather hasn't come here to worship all these years, but this time I came back purely because Cheng Xiaorui and Fang Mowei came, and they celebrated the New Year here, so my grandfather also took the New Year seriously.
Grandpa put down the bag in his hand, took out yellow paper, fragrance, firecrackers, and walked to the tombstone.
Fang Mowei and Cheng Xiaorui stood aside and watched.
My grandfather divided the yellow paper into three parts, lit them in front of the three tombstones, and then lit a small firecracker, knelt down in front of the grave and bowed three times.
After returning home from the ancestors, my grandparents began to get busy again, and they had to prepare several big dishes for the first and fifth days of the Lunar New Year, although their family did not have many guests to come during the Spring Festival. Cheng Xiaorui and Fang Mowei helped them out.
As long as the day is busy, it will pass quickly. After the sun set, after dinner, Fang Mowei and Cheng Xiaorui sat and watched TV for a while, and then went back to their rooms to sleep.
On the evening of the thirtieth day of the lunar month, they had to keep the New Year, and they all decided to keep their spirits and keep the New Year tomorrow.
There is also a heavy dà custom during the Spring Festival, which has also been inherited by the Chinese people for thousands of years, that is, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, also known as the reunion dinner, is a family gathering for dinner.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, no matter how far apart or busy with work, people always want to return to their homes and have a reunion Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. Sometimes when he can't go home, his family always leaves a seat for him and a pair of chopsticks to reunite with him. This Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, also known as a family party, is a family banquet that people attach great importance to.
As the saying goes, hit a thousand, scold ten thousand, and have a meal at thirty nights. According to folk traditions, the food of Chinese New Year's Eve is very particular, usually with wontons, dumplings, long noodles, Lantern Festival, etc.
Moreover, there are many famous restaurants for Chinese New Year's Eve dinners, and the north and south are different and have their own particularities. Northerners are accustomed to eating dumplings during the New Year, which means to take the old and new dumplings alternately, and because the white-flour dumplings are shaped like silver ingots, a pot is served on the table to symbolize the New Year's fortune, and the ingots roll in. When making dumplings, some people also wrap a few coins after sterilization with boiling water, saying that whoever eats them first will earn more money.
It is said that the custom of eating dumplings was handed down from the Han Dynasty.
It is rumored that Zhang Zhongjing, a physician of the Han Dynasty, saw that the ears of the poor were frozen and rotten in the cold winter, so he made a kind of "dispelling cold and delicate ear soup" to treat frostbite for the poor.
Zhang Zhongjing used mutton, chili peppers and some medicinal herbs to dispel cold and warmth, wrapped the dough into an ear-like delicate ear, cooked it in a pot, and distributed it to the poor to eat. Since then, people have followed suit and it has been passed down to this day.
Eating wontons on the New Year is to take the meaning of its beginning.
The weather on Chinese New Year's Eve is a sunny day, and the sun shines like gold on people's bodies, making people feel warm and comfortable.
In the morning, my grandparents began to cook the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, preparing six dishes, stewed pork knuckle, steamed carp, stir-fried local chicken, sour and spicy phoenix feet, lamb hot pot, and stir-fried meat with bamboo shoots.
In many places, some non-staple foods are also paired with non-staple foods when eating New Year's dinner, so as to please have an auspicious mouth. For example, eating jujube represents early spring, eating persimmons represents good luck, eating almonds represents happiness, eating tofu represents family portraits, eating three fresh vegetables represents Sanyang Kaitai, eating peanuts represents immortality, and eating rice cakes represents a higher year than a year.
Fang Mowei and Cheng Xiaorui got up late, and when their grandmother was cooking, they suddenly found that there was some missing starch, so they called the two of them to go to the market town to buy it again, so that they would have to go out shopping again before the fifth day of the new year.
The little couple simply ate some breakfast, and then slipped into the town, and the town is very lively today. People come and go, and the river is endless. Because traditionally, it is not advisable to spend money on things in the first and second and third years of junior high school, so everyone comes out to make up for the missing things that are needed.
In particular, the vegetable market is particularly lively, all kinds of fruit stalls, vegetable stalls, the flow of people, compared to the vegetable market in the city, these stalls sell vegetables are just picked from their own garden, some of them are also with dirt, water and spirit, the price is also very cheap.
Fang Mowei and Cheng Xiaorui quickly bought an appropriate amount of starch, and went home with laughter and laughter along the way...... (To be continued) R861