After returning from her grandmother's house, Yanni never stopped, and almost every day she was immersed in visiting relatives and couldn't extricate herself.

There are also two class reunions in between, one in junior high school and one in high school. Yanni finally realized that Martin was so busy, but she didn't know what she was busy with.

New Year 29, finally finished all the relatives who should go, lying in bed at night, Yanni began to sum up what to eat on Chinese New Year's Eve, and was thinking about it, the phone rang at home.

"Hey, who's coming?"

"Is Xia Yanni here?" A girl's voice.

"Who are you?" Yanni couldn't tell whose voice it was.

"I'm her classmate." The voice on the other side seemed to be a little nervous.

"Which classmate? Can't hear it. ”

"Brother, come on!" The girl seemed to hand over the phone to someone close to her.

"Hey," Yanni heard the voice of herself thinking about it day and night from the other side.

"Martin?" Yanni couldn't believe it. Say goodbye to the holidays.

"I knew you were the one who answered, so I wouldn't let my sister call me." Martin's tone was light and happy.

"I just had time to lie at home so quietly today, and I've been visiting relatives for the past few days." Yanni complains to Martin.

"I've been busy, and the band has been singing in a bar for the past few days, and it didn't end until the early hours of this morning, and I had dinner at my grandfather's place today." Martin briefly debriefed on the schedule for the past few days.

"Professor Tian? Help me say Happy New Year! ”

"I guess after asking Happy New Year, you will be exposed at my house." Martin tells Yanny about the consequences.

"Don't say it, don't say it, I'll bring a gift to Professor Tian when I start school." Yanni was frightened.

"Do you have any of my gifts?"

"I don't know, I'm not ready yet." Yanni is really unprepared, and there is really no gift in the countryside that can bring Martin, is it possible to bring Martin a local chicken?

"Okay, okay, you can come back early, I don't want a gift!" Martin doesn't miss a dogleg opportunity: "Martin, it's time to eat!" ”

A woman's voice came from Martin's phone: "Don't say anything, my mom called me to dinner!" Kiss me, I'm hanging. ”

"Mu~~ Let's go eat quickly!" Yanni kissed her very cooperatively.

Putting down the phone, Yanni ran to the kitchen. My father was frying meatballs on an earthen stove with a pot of marinated fish sticks on the side.

Every year, my father must make two Chinese New Year dishes are fried meatballs and fried braised fish. In particular, fried braised fish is a feature of my hometown, and Yanni has never seen it anywhere else.

The so-called fried braised fish is to cut the fish into strips, then marinate the ingredients for half an hour, and then stick the batter and put it in the pan to fry. This kind of fish can be stored for a certain period of time after it is fried, and when you want to eat it, you can take it out to cook soup and drink, and the outer layer of fried batter is scalded in the water, and then it brings out the fish aroma.

Can't think about it, Yanni is drooling when she thinks about it.

Yanni grabbed two meatballs and threw them into her mouth, so that she could solve the slander first.

Mother was lighting a fire in front of the stove when she saw Yanni coming: "Come, help me make the fire, I'll go and cook the rice." So Yanni took over her mother's job.

"How's it going at school?" Father fried meatballs while chatting with Yanni.

"It's fine." I didn't grow up with my parents since I was a child, and my relationship with my parents couldn't be as close as my grandmother's.

"You're still used to eating, aren't you?"

"Well, there is a lot of food in the north, which is just right for me."

"What about learning or something? Can you keep up? ”

"It's okay, I've learned a little better in professional courses, and I plan to get a tour guide certificate as soon as possible, and I can find a job when I come back." Yanni said this to give her father peace of mind.

"Well, that's how it should be, don't learn that you don't get anything in the end." After the meatballs were fried, my father began to fry the braised fish.

While the father and daughter were working, they chatted with each other.

The rice at my mother's side was already steamed, and she went to the field to pick up a cabbage and came back. In the evening, burn a pot of lamb tripe and add some chili peppers. Yan Ni Ji eats this dish every winter, sweats all over the body, and loves this dish the most in winter.

The dishes were ready, and the family gathered around the table for a quiet dinner.

The next day is the Chinese New Year's Eve, and when you get up in the morning, you have to do hygiene first, then paste couplets, and then worship your ancestors.

Before worshipping ancestors, you must first worship the gods and goddesses.

The mother prepared a whole piece of pork, a whole chicken, and some tofu or something, put it on a plate, took it to the field, and then lit a pile of grass and threw it in a handful of incense.

The fire was still burning, so my mother went to the stove and put fruit biscuits, then poured a small glass of wine and lit three sticks of incense. This is the god of the hearth. It is said that letting the god of the stove eat these sweet melons and fruits can "say good things to heaven".

Yanni had never paid attention to these things before, but this year she suddenly paid attention to them. In Yanni's impression, it seems that the small snack on the side of the stove prince seems to have never been broken.

When my mother had done this, she began to set up a table and a stool in the hall, and then set up four dishes, almost fish, meat, tofu, eggs, and so on, and then put on a large bowl of round rice, inserted a pair of chopsticks, set a few wine glasses, poured wine, and then lit two candles.

Yanni has been silently following her mother, watching her mother busy with this and that, it feels very interesting.

These are all procedures for worshipping ancestors, and Yanni has not been able to write them down one by one. I just thought it was interesting.

In fact, ancestor worship is not a superstition, but a way for family members to remember their ancestors. Yanni wasn't sure if she would do this after her parents were a hundred years old. But now that her parents are doing this, Yanni still agrees.

These things, as long as they are done properly, cannot be called superstition. It is possible that there is really another world, and the people in that world need the concern of the people of our world, and if there is no concern in our world, the people who may be in that world will disappear.

Yanni followed her father's instructions, kowtowed and counted the money...... Looking at all this, Yanni felt that this was the New Year.

After these procedures were completed in an orderly manner, we could finally have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together as a family.

My father's cooking has always been recognized by the whole family, and no matter who has a treat, my father will be in charge. Today's father's big table of dishes made Yanni enjoy it all at once.

"Dad, when you are old in the future, who will cook the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner?" Yanni sighed.

"In the future, you can find someone who can cook and marry!" Dad didn't lift his head.

After eating, Dad went to wash the dishes, Yanni and Mom washed early, went to bed in a quilt, and waited to watch the Spring Festival Gala.

"Look, what is this?" Mom pulled out a pair of small gloves from the bedside table.

"Wow, my gloves. As a child, I remember. Yanni happily put her hands on her hands and held her gloves wide.

"Yes, you knitted it yourself when you were a kid." Mom looked at Yanni lovingly.

"Hah!" Yanni suddenly smiled, Martin's gift was thought of this time.

Mom looked at Yanni and just wanted to ask her what she was laughing at, when the Spring Festival Gala began. My father's side also cleaned up. Yanni obediently went upstairs and went back to her room to watch TV.