Chapter 29: Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner
The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the last meal of the year, is also a reunion dinner.
When Pu Jia and her father came home, her mother Jiang Yuehua and her sister Pu Rou had already prepared several dishes, and they were waiting for Pu Jia and her father to come back and make dumplings.
Look at the table full of sumptuous dishes, braised pork, braised prawns, roasted eggplant, hot and sour shredded potatoes, cumin mutton, large plate of chicken. Of course, the Chinese New Year will not be without fish, boiled fish, sweet and sour fish. Pu Jia felt really hungry at this time, Jiang Yuehua had already cooked the dumplings and came over with a large plate of dumplings, looking at Pu Jia's saliva was about to stay, Jiang Yuehua smiled:
"Hurry up and wash your hands and start eating!"
Pu Jia listened to Ma Li and ran to the bathroom, washed his hands and came out, sat at the dining table, and waited for the whole family to arrive.
Pu Dad washed his hands and came over, and his brother Pu Ji was watching the gala, and he also came to sit down when he heard his mother's words.
Jiang Yuehua and her sister took the dishes and chopsticks and sat down, "Today is the last day of the year, I am very happy to see you all grow up!" After the New Year, Rourou began to intern, and Xiao Ji's job was stable. Jiajia is only in her first year of high school this year, and she is not very nervous about studying. ”
Jiang Yuehua said happily: "Xiao Ji, you go and bring the red wine, let's drink some, Jiajia also drink some, it's okay at your own house!" ”
"Hmm!" Pu Jia said.
Pu Ji stood up and took out the red wine and wine glasses in the cabinet, and poured a glass by himself.
"Alright, come on, let's have a toast first!" Jiang Yuehua drank it all after speaking.
Pu Ji and Pu Dad also drank it all, Pu Jia and Pu Rou had never drunk it before, just a small sip.
"Yes, your mother is right, parents want every child to live well, as long as we see you doing well, we will be happy." Dad Pu is also very relieved to see that his three children have grown up.
Thinking that family planning was stricter back then, Jiang Yuehua still wanted a daughter after giving birth to Puji. When Pu Ji was more than two years old, she finally became pregnant again, and Jiang Yuehua thought that it would be okay for both boys and girls, and there would be a companion between them.
A few months later, the child was born, and Jiang Yuehua gave birth to a girl as she wished, named Purou.
When Pu Rou was two years old, Jiang Yuehua was unexpectedly pregnant, although the child had just taken shape, but after all, it was the flesh on her body, Jiang Yuehua, who was already the mother of two children, was reluctant to beat it off, and finally gave birth.
When she gave birth to Pujia, it was the most nervous time for family planning, and she paid the fine several times for superbirth.
Pudad's company does not allow overbirth, so Pudad's decisively resigned and found a job with a salary that was not as good as the previous company's. Pu Dad has just arrived in the new company, and he is not familiar with everything, and he is careful in everything.
Those years were the most difficult time for their family, Jiang Yuehua was at home with three children, and Pu's father's salary managed the family's living expenses, and life was very tight.
As the child grew up, Jiang Yuehua began to do some manual work, and Pu's father's salary also increased, and life was better.
Therefore, seeing that the children are so old and the days are getting better and better, Jiang Yuehua and Pu's father are very deeply touched.
Thinking of the past, Jiang Yuehua's eyes moistened again. Every time she thinks of the past, Jiang Yuehua will always be sad, maybe she has always been angry that her father is not self-motivated, and it has something to do with the hard life in the past.
"Mom, why are you crying again during the Chinese New Year, you see how good our family is now, we have all grown up, and you and Dad will be happy in the future." Pu Rou looked at her mother and cried, she said.
"Yes, Mom, the hardships in the past have passed, and they will only get better and better in the future!" Pu Jia watched her mother cry, and she was also very uncomfortable.
"Mmmm, you're right, I'm happy when I look at you now. Downstairs, Aunt Wang often said that our two daughters were blessed with a son. Jiang Yuehua wiped her tears and said.
"Okay, let's eat quickly, it's cold later, let's have some fun for the New Year." Pu Dad said.
"yes. After dinner, let's watch the Spring Festival Gala, are you keeping the New Year this year? Pu Ji also said.
"Are you keeping?" Pu Jia asked.
"Shou, I don't plan to sleep this year!" Pu Ji said.
"I'll accompany you, I'm afraid I'll be sleepy before twelve o'clock in a while." After Pu Jia finished speaking, she took the vegetables and started eating, she was really hungry.
"I won't accompany you, I want to sleep!" Pu Rou said.
"Sister, don't sleep, let's be together. It's just this day a year, okay? "Pu Jia and her sister are coquettish.
"Okay, okay, you talk normally, I have goosebumps." Pu Rou shook her body and rubbed her shoulders.
Pu Jia only showed the appearance of a young girl in front of her family, and she would never be seen so lively and naughty outside.
Pu Jia doesn't talk to her sister anymore, she just eats all the time, and she can completely satisfy her mouth every year in the few days of the New Year, of course, she can't let it go.
Don't look at Pu Jia is very thin, but she eats a lot, probably still growing her body, so even if she eats a lot, she has never been fat.
Jiang Yuehua and his wife looked at their three children and smiled with satisfaction.
After all the Pu Jia family had eaten, Pu Jia and her sister helped her mother put away the dishes and chopsticks, and the family sat on the sofa to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
Jingle Bell ...... The phone next to the sofa rang, and Pu Jia happened to sit next to the phone, reaching out to pick up the phone.
"Hello?"
"Hey, is it Pu Jia? I'm Lin Jing! ”
Lin Jing had eaten, and when she was bored, she called Pu Jia.
Pu Jia also heard Lin Jing's voice.
"Lin Jing! Happy New Year! Pu Jia said into the phone.
"Hehe, Happy New Year!" Lin Jing also said.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm watching the Spring Festival Gala at home, and it's not fun to go out so cold." Lin Jing held the phone to her ear in one hand, and played with the pillow on her lap with the other.
"I also watch the Spring Festival Gala at home, isn't it like this every year!" Pu Jia also felt a little bored.
"I heard that there will be an event in the downtown square this year, and there will be a lot of fireworks, all kinds of fireworks." Lin Jing remembered what she heard her cousin say during the day.
"Really? When is this still going for you? Even the bus is gone, right? When Pu Jia heard that there were a lot of fireworks, he said happily, and then thought that there might be no bus and he was depressed.
"Who said no, the bus doesn't get off work tonight, it's there all night." Lin Jing also heard the excitement in Pu Jia's tone.
"Are you going then?" Pu Jia asked.
"I want to go, I'm not going to sleep tonight anyway. Are you going? Lin Jing asked.
"Do I have to ask my mom to call me?" Pu Jia said.
"Then you ask, just call me later!" Lin Jing said and hung up the phone.
Pu Jia put down the phone.
"Who?" Jiang Yuehua asked.
"Lin Jing, she said that fireworks will be set off in the downtown square, and asked me if I would go?" Pu Jia first tested her mother's reaction.
"Oh!" Jiang Yuehua didn't react when she heard it.
"There's an event in the downtown square today, I know! Xiao Man asked me if I was going today. "Xiao Man, Pu Ji's girlfriend. His full name is Zhang Man.
Pu Jia heard his brother say this, there is hope!
"Brother, let's go together! You call your sister-in-law, what a romantic thing to watch fireworks! ”
As soon as Pu Rou heard Pu Jia say that watching fireworks was romantic, she thought of Shaoyang.
"Brother, why don't we go together! I want to see it too! ”
Jiang Yuehua heard that she could let her son and girlfriend cultivate a relationship, of course she was very happy: "Xiao Ji, you just take the two of them with you, it doesn't matter if you come back late, call Xiao Man and take Xiao Man with you." ”
When Pu Ji heard this, he called Zhang Man, and Zhang Man also agreed to go together.
"Mom and Dad, why don't you go with us? Go romantic and romantic. Pu Jia said to his parents.
"We're not going, we've never been romantic in our lives, and now we're old and romantic!" Jiang Yuehua said and glared at Pu Dad.
"Alright then, here we go!" Pu Jia said and called Lin Jing and told Lin Jing where to meet.
The three brothers and sisters put on padded jackets and scarves and went out together.
The commissary in the community downstairs has not yet closed, and when Pu Rou walked to the commissary, she leaned in Pu Jia's ear and said, "You are waiting for me at the gate of the community!" ”
Pu Jia listened and gave her sister a strange look. Pu Rou pointed to the phone in the commissary, Pu Jia understood, this is to call people together.
As soon as Pu Jia and her brother walked to the gate of the community, Pu Rou ran and caught up from behind.
"Did you hit it?" Pu Jia asked when she saw that her sister caught up so quickly.
"Well, let's go!"
Pu Ji didn't care what Pu Rou was doing just now, so he went to the bus station together.
Dong Zhanyang's house, mother Huang Wen and father Professor Dong are already dressed neatly, and Huang Wen is holding her husband's arm and standing at the entrance.
"Xuxu, can you hurry up?" Huang Wen urged her eldest son.
"Oops, what's the hurry? Isn't Yang Yang still coming out? Dong Zhanxu came out of his room slowly.
"Yang Yangdu has already gone to the basement to drive." Huang Wen saw that her eldest son came out, so she opened the door and went out together.
Dong Zhanyang's father is a professor, and the treatment is still good, so their family has already bought a car.
"When Yang Yang will drive, why don't I know?" Dong Zhanxu followed behind and closed the door.
Huang Wen and her husband and son walked to the elevator and waited for the elevator!
"Yang Yang learned it some time ago, and he will wait until next year to get an adult to get a driver's license. You know how to read books all day long, and you can also get a driver's license when you have time, when our family goes out for a road trip. "Huang Wen is a person who knows how to live.
Ding, the elevator door opened, and they walked in.
"I'm so busy that I don't have time to get my driver's license! Yang Yang just took the test! ”
Huang Wen looked at this son who only knew how to study, and really didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
Professor Dong patted his wife's hand and said, "Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, they have grown up, let's not care too much, let them grow up by themselves." I wasn't like that when I was young, and I still have such a good wife. ”
Huang Wen heard her husband say this in front of her son, and she was a little embarrassed: "What do you say?" That's because you've met me, and if you had someone else, you'd have been pissed off by your nerd. ”
"Haha, yes!" Professor Dong also thought it was funny when he remembered that Huang Wen had been chasing him all the time.
Walking out of the elevator, Dong Zhanyang had already parked the car downstairs and waited. Seeing his parents and brother coming down, he took the initiative to sit in the back seat of the car.
Although Dong Zhanyang already knows how to drive, after all, he doesn't have a driver's license and can't drive on the road.
Professor Dong got into the car and sat in the driver's seat, Huang Wen sat in the co-pilot, Dong Zhanxu sat in the back seat with his younger brother, and Professor Dong drove out of the community.
Downtown Square
Pu Jia and her sister Pu Rou, and her brother Pu Ji just got off the bus and saw a sea of people in the square.
"There are so many people who come to see the fireworks today!" Pu Jia sighed.
"Jiajia, I'm going over there, and I'll gather at the bus stop after watching the fireworks." Pu Rou said.
Pu Jia knew that her sister had made an appointment, so she thought it should be Shaoyang.
"Okay, here you go! I also went to find Lin Jing. ”
Pu Jia watched Pu Rou walk away, so he asked Pu Ji:
"Brother, where is Sister Xiaoman? Where do you go to find her? ”
"I told her to meet at the fountain, will you go?" Pu Ji asked Pu Jia.
"I'm not going, I'm going to find Lin Jing, so don't you want to be your light bulb?" After Pu Jia finished speaking, he went to find Lin Jing, and Pu Ji also went to Zhang Man.