Chapter 23: The Gift
On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Yanni was still sleeping in a daze, when she heard her mother shouting, "Nier, get up for breakfast." ”
On the first day of the new year every year, everyone has to eat and drink a bowl of "shepherd's cabbage and tofu soup", which means "gathering wealth and getting rich".
Yanni lazily put on a coat over her pajamas, washed up a little, and went downstairs. After drinking the soup, Yanni continued to go to bed and lie down.
Now Yanni is discovering that the winters in the south are colder. In the north, there is still an ambiguous atmosphere indoors in winter, and it is as cold as indoor and outdoor in the south. Trembling, Yanni slipped into the bed and began to miss the heating in Beijing.
After tossing back and forth like this, Yanni couldn't sleep. I touched the book at the head of the bed and read two pages, but the sound of firecrackers outside was too noisy, and I put the book down again.
Yanni got up again, changed her clothes, and planned to go downstairs for a walk.
My father was preparing lunch, and at noon my uncle would come to the house for dinner, which was an old tradition every year. On the first day of the first lunar month, I had dinner at Yanni's house, at the second uncle's house in the evening, at the uncle's house at noon on the second day of the first month, and at my uncle's house for dinner.
My cousin has already come over and is looking for something to eat.
"On the first day of the new year, how did you act like a starving ghost reincarnated?" As soon as Yanni finished speaking, she was blinded by her mother.
"Don't say anything unlucky." Mother sternly warned.
"Haha, I'm scolded!" The cousin smiled gloatingly as he picked up a piece of sweet and sour pork ribs with his hand and put it in his mouth.
"That's mine, I ordered." Yanni is about to grab it.
"You can't let a little brother go." The father stepped in to stop it.
"Uncle is fine, sister is playing with me." My cousin stepped up and was a good guy at this time.
Yanni snorted unconvinced. Then he leaned into Tangbei's ear: "Is the store in the town open?" ”
The uncle's family lives in the town, so it would be most appropriate for Yanni to ask her cousin.
"It's only open in the afternoon, what are you going to buy? I bought it in the afternoon and brought it to you. "It's different to play with it since I was a child, except for gluttony, the others are quite well-behaved.
"I want to knit a scarf, it's too cold in Beijing in winter."
"Isn't there supposed to be ambiguity in Beijing?" The cousin ate another piece of ribs.
"It's indoors, so it's impossible to be outdoors."
"Oooh." The cousin found a cloth towel and wiped his hands: "Then you will go again tomorrow afternoon, the woolen shop is estimated to open tomorrow." ”
One after another, uncles, aunts, cousins and cousins also came. There was a room full of talking and laughing.
Yanni helped her mother set up the big round table, set up the dishes and chopsticks, and put the cold dishes on the table. Yanni suddenly thought of Zhao Lirong's sketch "Part-time Job Adventure" she saw last night, and couldn't help singing.
"What I do is, stir-fried pork and fish fillets with belly, fried pork ribs with vinegar kidneys, pineflower into egg white, jellyfish mixed with belly, four cold and four hot eight-dish dishes, white dry old wine, hot pot."
There was a burst of laughter on the side, and then they began to discuss the wonderful content of yesterday's Spring Festival Gala.
The cousin has been following Yanni like a little tail.
"Sister, have you fallen in love in college?"
"Why do you only care about this? Shouldn't you care about whether your sister eats well, sleeps well, plays well, and gets along well with her classmates in college? ”
"Do you still need me to care about it?" The cousin looked at Yanni with disdain: "Why don't you eat fragrant?" ”
"Then you should also care about my body, for example, Beijing is so cold, are you sick?"
"Just you? If I had asked, you'd have said I was expecting you to get sick! "My cousin has figured out Yanni's routine.
"You are reasonable, I will change your name to Xia Youliang." Yanni began to look for homophonic stalks: "Xia is reasonable, Xia is reasonable, blind is reasonable." ”
Yanni clapped her hands and said with a smile: "Okay, you will be blind and reasonable in the future." ”
The cousin looked at Yanni with an expression of laziness to pay attention to you, and said slowly: "You must be in love, you weren't so crazy before." ”
"Okay, yes." Yanni's eyes flickered: "Come, help my sister make a call." ”
Yanni picked up the microphone, dialed a string of numbers and handed it to her cousin: "You just said you were looking for Martin, and when you asked who you were, you said it was his classmate Du Bai." ”
The phone had already been answered: "I'm looking for Martin." The cousin said as he said, and then handed the phone to Yanni.
"Didn't you ask who you were?" Yanni covered the microphone and whispered to her cousin.
"He said he was Martin!" The cousin said lightly.
"Hey" Yanni carefully placed the microphone to her ear and confirmed softly.
"Yanni, I guessed you'd call." Martin's excited voice could be heard over there.
"You don't even ask who it is, so you can be sure that I called someone?" Yanni looked suspicious.
"On the first day of the Lunar New Year, there are a lot of people who pay New Year's greetings, but they are all looking for my grandfather and my parents, looking for me, and the voice is unfamiliar, who else will it be if it is not the person you are looking for." Martin made an honest analysis to Yanni.
"Seems to be the case." Yanni seemed to be talking to herself: "Alas, it doesn't matter, I called to tell you, I have a gift I have thought of, you can wait at home with peace of mind!" ”
"Isn't there a Happy New Year?" Martin thought, shouldn't the first sentence of the new year be Happy New Year?
"Happy New Year! Happy everybody! ”
"Happy New Year, dear!" Martin kissed the microphone after speaking.
"Are you home alone? So presumptuous? ”
"I was watching TV alone in the living room, my grandmother accompanied my grandfather for a walk, and my parents were reading in the study." Martin reported one by one.
"What gift?" Martin suddenly remembered what Yanni had just said about the gift.
"Confidentiality. You'll find out when I get to Beijing. Well, Happy New Year and goodbye. Yanni hung up the phone after speaking.
"Sister, I know what a gift." The cousin said this coldly behind him.
"You're smart." Yanni didn't want to discuss this topic with her cousin, so she turned around and went to the kitchen.
In the living room, everyone was already seated. There were exactly ten people in total, and a round table was filled. Yanni and her parents are busy below. My father cooked, my mother helped my father, and occasionally went to the stove to add two handfuls of firewood, and Yanni was responsible for bringing the dishes cooked by my father to the table.
The dinner table was very lively, some asked about their children's studies, some showed off their income last year, and some were asked when they would start a family. People of different ages have different anxieties and worries. Yanni watched the commotion silently.
Yanni went to a third-rate university, so naturally no one would ask her about her studies. If the age has not reached the marriageable standard, naturally he will not be urged to marry, and the income from work or something will have to wait until after graduation. Yanni sighed: "I only have two or three years of quiet life. ”
Then, naturally, Yanni thought of Martin again.
As soon as she finished lunch at her uncle's house on the second day of the Lunar New Year, Yanni couldn't wait to go to the store to buy a pound of wool, brown. Holding the yarn, I went home happily. When my mother saw it, she asked Yanni what she was doing? Yanni said that it was cold in Beijing, and she planned to knit a scarf.
Fortunately, my mother didn't look closely, otherwise she would have exposed the stuffing, but here are two scarf yarns.
This Spring Festival, Yanni is almost always accompanied by wool.
Before you know it, the winter break is almost over.