After a while, my mother cooked the dumplings and brought them to the table.

Everyone poured a glass of wine, grandma and grandpa were in the right position, and Yan's mother and Yan Muqing were also sitting in their seats.

Father Yan shouted in the outhouse, "Mom has given you a New Year's greeting" After speaking, he knelt down in the north, kowtowed three times, and then said to his grandfather, "Dad has given you a New Year's greeting", and grandpa said "Don't knock, don't kowtow" in the house.

After knocking, I went back to the house.

Immediately afterwards, Yan Aiqing, according to his father's appearance, kowtowed to grandma, grandpa, father, mother and Yan Muqing for the New Year.

These things have been done since he was a child, until today, Yan Muqing doesn't know why he doesn't knock people directly, but wants to knock on the wall in the outhouse, the sound of firecrackers outside the house has not been interrupted overnight, and the people who got up earlier have already eaten dumplings and let off firecrackers, and those who got up later also began to set off firecrackers. The sound of firecrackers turned the originally peaceful morning into a lively one, and the beautiful fireworks also brightened the dark moment before dawn.

"Come, come, let's have a drink together as a family," Yan's mother proposed, holding a wine glass.

Everyone raised their wine glasses, and grandma, who didn't drink, also made an exception today and took a sip.

"Ah, it's so spicy" means that if you touch it a little bit with your lips, it's not spicy. My mother hurriedly sandwiched a dumpling for my grandmother, and after eating it, she eased up a little.

"However, after taking a sip, it feels much warmer," said Grandma after that energy had passed.

"Why don't you take another sip?" Yan Aiqing suggested to her grandmother a little naughtily.

"Me? I'll drink more," Grandma continued to eat the dumplings.

"What do you mean by drinking, that is, the wine has just moistened your lips," Yan Aiqing whispered.

"Let's eat, people will come to pay New Year's greetings in a while, we haven't finished eating yet, what's the matter?" Yan's father urged.

......

After eating, grandpa and grandpa went back to the house, Yan's father, Yan's mother and Yan Aiqing were dressed neatly, Yan's father took Yan Aiqing and the second uncle and cousins to get together, Yan's mother went to the uncle's house in the front yard to find the aunt and the second mother, and the three elders took their daughters-in-law around the village to pay New Year's greetings to the elderly.

As soon as Yan Muqing cleaned up the table, Xiao Hei in the courtyard began to call. Yan Muqing hurriedly walked out of the house, and saw that it was the eldest brother of the family who came over with a group of juniors in the family.

"Qingqing is at home" The eldest brother saw Yan Muqing come out of the kitchen and said hello.

"Big brother, sister-in-law has a good New Year" Yan Muqing closed the kitchen door, walked to the door of the living room, and lifted the heavy curtain for the big guy.

"Little aunt has a good New Year" is the son of the eldest brother's family, and he is very good. is eight years older than Yan Muqing, but there is no way, although Yan Muqing is young, where is the generation!

"Happy New Year, when will you come back, you have not seen you for a year" Yan Muqing greeted happily.

"Come, Xiaotang, my aunt will peel a piece of candy for you" Saying that, Yan Muqing took a piece of chocolate candy from the fruit bowl and handed it to Yan Xiaotang. This is the youngest son of the Wei family, who is six years old this year.

"Thank you, auntie" Xiaotang thanked him, his voice was loud and powerful, and when he saw this physique, he explained his health ruthlessly. It's completely opposite to the small source of Yan Yisheng's family.

"Let's all sit down for a while and drink some tea" Yan Muqing greeted a circle, and each person poured a glass of water, seven or eight people, and they were tired enough to choke after this circle. The key is that this is not the largest number of family members, there is also an old Liu family, if the juniors come out to pay New Year's greetings, there must be nearly twenty people.

The eldest brother and his family sat for a while, and then left for the next one.

On the morning of the first day of the new year, until more than eleven o'clock, Yan Muqing can be described as non-stop. This family hasn't left yet, and the next New Year's greeting will come, and some are coming in a hurry and going in a hurry. At first, the little black child called twice, but then he didn't come out of the nest directly, and he didn't bother to call.

Around noon, Yan Muqing saw that no one came, so he turned on the gas stove and began to cook dumplings again.

Grandpa is old, usually nothing to go out and walk in bed, today to cope with this half of the day, the spirit is really a little sluggish. After Yan Muqing cooked the dumplings, he didn't wait for his parents and Yan Aiqing to come back, so he brought the dumplings to his grandfather and grandparents to the house, and asked them to sleep quickly after eating.

"Grandma, grandpa, let's eat, go back to the house and lie down for a while after eating, are you tired?" Yan Muqing asked intimately, grandma also put a bowl of dumpling soup in her hand, and grandpa's bowl was also poured with laba vinegar.

"Alas, I'm old, my energy is insufficient, I feel that I can't support it after staying up for half a day, I have to sleep for a while after eating" Grandpa chatted with Yan Muqing while eating.

"Say what?" Grandma asked vaguely, and her ears were starting to be bad again.

"I said, let you finish eating, rest well, sleep for a while, and after a while, I will close the door of your house," Yan Muqing said loudly in her grandmother's ear.

"Ah, okay" Grandma held the bowl, her somewhat crooked fingers dragged the edge of the bowl, and Yan Muqing sandwiched five dumplings into the bowl. The bottom of the bowl was a little hot from the hot dumplings, Yan Muqing originally wanted her grandmother to put the bowl on the table, but her grandmother said that it was okay and it was not hot. Could it be that people are getting old and their pain nerves are sluggish? After grandma finished eating five dumplings and the gap between the dumpling soup, Yan Muqing touched her grandma's palm, no wonder she was not afraid of being hot, a thick layer of calluses in her palms was a little hard, and she could make a slight sound with a slight stroke of her fingers.

Alas, these are all achievements left by youth!

"Grandma, do you still want to eat?" Grandma's age is old, you can't clip a lot of it to her at once, the dead noodles of the dumpling skin, the mother and the noodles are not perhaps, and the hard time is the most, if you eat so much at once, the old man's stomach may not be able to stand it.

"Eat a little more" Grandma drank two mouthfuls of dumpling soup, put down the bowl again, and watched intently as Yan Muqing put dumplings into her bowl, not knowing what to say in her mouth.

Yan Muqing didn't dare to add more, this time he sandwiched three.

While I was eating, there was another noise in the courtyard, and it was the "crunch" of the gate.

Yan Muqing looked out through the glass, it was Yan's father and Yan Aiqing who came back.

After serving her grandfather and eating dumplings, Yan Muqing took the dishes and chopsticks out.

"Yo, you're all eating?" Yan Aiqing looked at the chopsticks in Yan Muqing's hand and asked.

"I cooked some dumplings for my grandfather, let them eat first, let them sleep for a while, I haven't been idle for a long time, I'm a little tired" After speaking, he put the dishes and chopsticks into the sink, washed them and put them in the cupboard.

"Hungry or not? Do you cook dumplings now? When will Mom come back? Yan Muqing asked three questions in a row.

"Hungry, cook, come back immediately" Yan Aiqing answered Yan Muqing's questions one by one with a clove of oranges in her mouth.

"Alas, sister, what do you think this is?" As she spoke, she took it out of her pocket, held it in her hand, and looked at Yan Muqing mysteriously, which made Yan Muqing a little nervous, for fear that he would take out something she was afraid of.

"Hurry up, I'll take a look" Yan Muqing turned on the gas stove and boiled the water again. Looking at Yan Aiqing's nervousness, he wanted to hit him twice, and urged impatiently.

"Dangdangdang" opened his hand, and five one-dollar coins lay flat in his palm.

"Cut, what should I say? I have half a jar of coins in my piggy bank, if you want to go back, I'll deduct two for you" After speaking, Yan Muqing took out the uncooked dumplings from the back room.

"What do you know, this is my New Year's money" Yan Aiqing was so scared, it really made people want to kick it.

"Who gave it"

"Hey, that fat aunt"

"Ao, it turned out to be her, that is, she gave five yuan" Yan Muqing was really a little envious, she hadn't gotten the New Year's money for many years, and now she just sent it to others.

"It's been a few years on the bed, and I'm still so fat," Yan Aiqing said with some emotion.

This fat aunt is still good to Yan Aiqing, and she will give him New Year's money every year, don't look at the five yuan now, I think it is less, and the fat aunt has always given five yuan when I was a child. At that time, it was the closest relative who only gave ten yuan, and these five yuan was also a lot of income for Xiaoyan Aiqing. Every year, he compares Yan Muqing with five yuan of New Year's money.

"It's hard to prove that weight loss, keep your figure well" Yan Muqing patted Yan Aiqing's shoulder.

"That's what's wrong with you, let me lose weight during the New Year, and you've eaten all the delicious food? I won't be fooled by you" Yan Aiqing took a cold dumpling, threw it into her mouth, and ate it in two bites, it seemed that she was really hungry.

"Your Brain Circuit"

The sister and brother were chatting, and Yan's mother also came back.

"It's all cooked, I knew you would cook it for a while" It is rare to get rid of the trivial chores of housework, and these few days are also the most relaxing moments for Yan's mother.

"It's never too late to play after eating, it's ready to cook soon, Yan Aiqing put it on the table," Yan Muqing instructed his younger brother.

"Okay, shopkeeper, please," he said.

Yan Muqing turned her head and glared at him, "Nerves"

After lunch, Yan Muqing walked around the yard for a while. At this time, the sound of firecrackers is not as much as last night and when I got up in the morning, and the sound is sparse. Busy for more than half a month, just for this morning, this is much lighter than the New Year's flavor of the hour. At that time, I always felt that the freshness of the New Year could last for a long time, until the beginning of school, and I was always immersed in the joy of the New Year, and it took a few days to relax in the unscrupulous winter vacation. Now, before I have time to savor it, the year is almost over.

When I was young, there were too many things I looked forward to during the New Year, such as new clothes, such as eating dumplings, such as New Year's money, such as my daughter's flowers, and my boy's cannon...

And now the living conditions are better, I have the ability to earn money, and it is a matter of minutes to buy new clothes, dumplings can be wrapped when I want to eat, not to mention the New Year's money, I have passed the age of receiving the New Year's money, and I have to give the juniors in the family New Year's money every year...

Perhaps the biggest expectation at this time of year is only the word reunion!