Chapter Eighty-Three: Family Gatherings
There are many traditional festivals in China, especially around the New Year, there are small years, Chinese New Year's Eve, and Lantern Festival, which can be described as lively! Among them, the small year is the front station of the Spring Festival, on this day the Chinese people worship the god of the stove, eat the stove sugar, set off the cannon, pray for the blessing of the gods, so lively.
Dawn went home to take a shower and changed into the Hanfu that Li Meimei customized from the No. 8 store in Xining Chinatown, and walked out of the room heroically, quite like an ancient nobleman.
"Hurry up and get in the car!" Lai Mei Mei urged Dawn in the car. Dawn quickened his pace, sat on Li Meimei's newly bought Cayenne Hybrid, and found the back of an acquaintance in the passenger seat.
"Hey! Dawn! Cao Feng turned back to greet Liming.
"Huh! Brother Feng, are you hitchhiking? Liming was very puzzled why Cao Feng got into his sister's car, if he remembered correctly, it seemed that Cao Feng's home and his own home were in the opposite direction, maybe he was hitchhiking to go out on a business trip, Liming thought in his heart.
"Uh" what did Cao Feng say! It's hard to say that you went to your grandparents' house to meet your grandparents! It's so shy and embarrassing.
Li Meimei has been in contact with Cao Feng for so long, she knows him very well, although she usually looks very arrogant, she has no scruples, but when she encounters this situation, his shyness will be committed, and when Liming was not at home, he was nervous and speechless when he first came to the house. As a new young woman in the 21st century, adhering to the principle of being bold and able to catch Kaizi and boldly surrender to her younger brother, she did not hesitate to speak: "Cao Feng followed the car to see her grandparents." ”
"Wow! Brother Feng is mighty! There is a tigress at home, do you dare to go out for a massage? "Dawn is talking nonsense.
"What? You're saying it again! Li Meimei stepped on the clutch brake and looked back at Dawn viciously.
"Nope! I said that the family has a good wife and mother, and it is all reliable to eat and drink. Liming hurriedly changed his words, he didn't want Li Meimei to run from the front to the back and beat him.
Li Meimei ignored Liming and continued to drive. Dawn was also in a panic along the way, and it happened that Cao Feng was there, and he teased:
"Brother Feng, meet for the first time, Wishing you prosperity!"
Cao Feng was prepared, took out a red envelope from his briefcase and stretched it back. Dawn took it, it felt quite thick, and he thought it was really generous, so he said:
"Brother Feng, give birth to a noble son early."
The red envelope will be sent again.
"Brother Feng, give birth early! Oh! No, happy newlyweds. ”
This time the red envelope was gone, in exchange for a slap from Li Meimei, Liming covered her head and rolled on the back seat, as if she was in pain. The couple in front of them knew Dawn so well, most of them were pretending, one was driving seriously, and the other was seriously looking at today's stock market. After a while, Liming saw that no one paid attention to him, straightened up and approached Cao Feng to talk again, but he didn't ask about the red envelope, but talked about family routines, asking when the two would be together, and when the two would get married, just like parents meeting.
Finally, the car drove to the front of the old house, and the dawn chattered for a long time along the way, and Li Meimei's ears were calloused.
As an old scholar in Xining City, and the old man's concept is relatively traditional, he must attach great importance to this kind of festival. No, there is a breath of New Year's Eve before the New Year. Couplets, posts, you name it. Li Meimei and Cao Feng were stepping on the cannon paper in front, and Dawn was singing the wedding march in the back, shaking, shaking! The sound of the chase sounded again, and Dawn fled while shouting for help, and the yard was filled with dust
With a "squeak", the door of the living room opened, and Aunt Li was busy in the kitchen, when she heard the shouts of the two people outside, she ran out to check the situation before she had time to wipe her hands.
The two sisters and brothers are also laughing and playing like ten-year-old children, she is especially hot, especially Li Meimei, whose boyfriend is by her side, actually shows this childish appearance, how do people look at it. She covered her old face and beckoned Li Meimei:
"Meimei, such a big person, he still fights with his brother like a child, what kind of system, come over quickly."
Li Meimei was twisting Liming's ears, it was a cool crooked, but she was called by her mother, so she had to give up, reluctantly looked at Liming's ears, went in to help, and gave him a mischievous smile when she passed by Cao Feng, and Cao Feng also winked at her.
Watching Li Meimei walk away, Liming rubbed her aching ears and asked Cao Feng: "Brother Feng!" My sister is so fierce, how do you like her! ”
"Fierce? It's not fierce! So cute. Cao Feng replied with some doubts.
"Unreasonable!" Dawn said a word, walked straight past Cao Feng, and went into the living room.
Cao Feng saw that there was no one around, and followed his footsteps into the living room.
In the hall, two old men and Uncle Li sat on the sofa to talk about things, Liming and Cao Feng couldn't interject, so they planned to go to the kitchen to help Li Meimei, but the kitchen couldn't accommodate so many people, Li Meimei drove Liming out of the kitchen, leaving Cao Feng.
Dawn muttered "There is a husband who forgets his brother", found a free place, turned on the computer and swallowed melon seeds. He was bored with Xining City News, and found that there was nothing good to see on the homepage, so he clicked to the life section, I don't know if it was because of the old computer, the web page has been refreshing, but it doesn't come out. Just when he was upset, his aunt shouted to eat, he put a stool downstairs to eat, and at the moment he left the room, the web page was successfully refreshed, and the title was written with a very eye-catching news: At noon, a woman was disfigured in a car accident, suspected of being a student of Xining High School, and the cause of the accident was being investigated. In the picture, the woman is fixed on the hospital bed, her whole body is wrapped in bandages, but Du Peng on the table is a little conspicuous, if Liming is here, he will definitely recognize this as his birthday gift to Xiaoxue
Downstairs, the family sat around the round table, according to the convention, the old man should fall into the northern position, but today he didn't, very casually arranged for everyone to sit down, and he sat down firmly by the old woman.
The old man rolled up his sleeves, took out his chopsticks, pointed to the dishes, and said to everyone, "Come on, everyone, move the chopsticks quickly."
After speaking, he sandwiched a piece of chicken leg to Cao Feng, Cao Feng was flattered, and hurriedly said that he didn't need to, but the old man was so reluctant that he just stuffed the palm-sized chicken leg to Cao Feng, and Cao Feng had no choice but to thank him. A chicken leg filled the small bowl, and Cao Feng was embarrassed to swallow, drinking Coke dryly to quench his thirst.
Li Meimei got up and took out a bowl from the kitchen, which relieved Cao Feng's embarrassment. He ate the dish slowly and methodically, and put the chicken leg towards Li Meimei. The two old men watched the actions of the two, appreciated them in their hearts, and persuaded everyone to eat more vegetables.
During the banquet, the two old men asked about the basic situation in Cao Feng's house, and Cao Feng answered truthfully. The two old men nodded with satisfaction, especially grandma, this grandson-in-law is young and successful, in his early 25s, he won the outstanding young entrepreneur in Xining City, and the length is okay, judging from the performance of Li Meimei just now, he cares about Li Meimei very much, everything is so perfect, and grandma is very happy.
After dinner, Grandpa wiped his mouth with a tissue and looked at Dawn with a smile. Liming felt his grandfather's gaze, and he bit the chicken leg on his mouth and asked, "Grandpa, what do you see me doing, don't eat."
"Grandpa is full!"
"Oh!" Liming didn't want to report his grades, not that they were too bad, but they weren't very good anyway, and they couldn't meet his grandfather's standards, so he only replied "Oh! ”
"Shouldn't you talk about your grades?" Grandpa asked, holding his chin in both hands.
Everyone looked over, and Liming knew that he couldn't escape this time, so he picked up the tissue next to him to wipe his hands, took out the report card from his bag and handed it over. Grandpa took the report card, and grandma leaned over to read it together.
Dawn was a little apprehensive in her heart, waiting for her grandfather's anger. Unexpectedly, grandpa nodded with satisfaction and handed the report card back.
In fact, it's normal, let a person with no foundation learn from scratch, and it is not bad to get the thirty in the class. Grandpa also knows that he can't force it, he has lived for so many years, he has never seen anything, and he has to eat things slowly, and he can digest them one bite at a time.
Dawn touched his head, took the report card, and continued to work hard.
Grandpa didn't let him eat at ease, and asked, "When will the provincial team recruit new people?"
After Liming answered, his grandfather asked him if he was interested in going to the Beijing Ducks, and Liming looked up at his grandfather suspiciously, and asked, "Why are you going over there?"
"There's not enough strength over there!"
Dawn was speechless for a while, he was going to go if he was not strong enough, he was either stupid or stupid, he raised his head and refused his grandfather's question.
Grandpa saw that his grandson did not agree, and he did not force it, he didn't really want Dawn to stay away from him, and what old man would want his grandson to go away! If it weren't for the old friend of the Beijing Duck team to intercede by himself, he would not have this kind of thought, of course, this is equivalent to not asking, anyway, he is so bad, he is such a hooligan.
The dinner finally ended with Dawn sweeping through the thousands of troops and eating up the entire table, and the grandfather looked at his grandson's starving ghost and couldn't help but joke that his aunt didn't give Dawn enough to eat, and the aunt knocked Dawn's head with her hand to make Dawn pay attention to etiquette. Dawn muttered: "I don't have enough to eat at home!" Pay attention to etiquette, why are you hungry. One sentence caused everyone to laugh.
After dinner, a large family went to the roof of the building to set off fireworks, and returned to the computer room to watch the news in the boredom of dawn. The computer is in standby, and the response is slow, and the crazy dawn slaps the host hard, "Card!" "The computer lit up, and Dawn was startled.
"If you don't shoot, you can't do it! It seems that you are just as masochistic as your brother-in-law. ”
Dawn looked at the news on the screen with a muttering to himself, how did he look at this girl more and more like Xiaoxue, when his eyes swept over Du Peng, he jumped up, went upstairs like crazy and asked the old lady to get the car keys, and rushed all the way to the city hospital.