Chapter 253, New Year's greetings

Luo Jiang had already gotten up when he let go of the door cannon, and he was helping to dress his three nieces in the small room, and Luo's mother prepared a red tweed coat for Luo Jiang, with three golden flowers of the same style.

The three sisters, who usually need to wake up for school, woke up early today, Luo Ying and Luo Qi were busy dressing themselves, and Luo Jin's own clothes were crooked, so he could only let Luo Jiang wear them again.

"Auntie, we're alright." Luo Ying looked at Luo Jiang expectantly, since her little aunt said that she would take them door-to-door to visit the New Year this year, Luo Ying has been looking forward to the arrival of the first day of the Lunar New Year.

"Change your shoes and put your little bags on your back." Luo Jiang struggled to put on Luo Jin's children's shoes, and then went downstairs with three thousand gold.

"Jiangjiang, are you going to take them to New Year's greetings? No one in the village has worshiped for many years, so they may not be prepared! Luo's mother rubbed a hot towel to wipe the children's faces, and looked at the neighbors with a worried face, fortunately, they all opened the door.

"It's okay, let's just try to be auspicious, and we don't ask for anything." Luo Jiang waved her hand, from her memory to her graduation from the third year of junior high school, she was holding hands with children all over the village to greet the New Year in the early morning of the new year. Later, the friends grew up, but there were fewer and fewer children in the village, and gradually no one paid New Year's greetings. Now that the second child is open, there are many children aged five, six, seven or eight, she took Luo Ying's three sisters out for a walk today, and they will be noisy about going out to pay New Year's greetings in the future.

"Okay, then you can go." Luo's mother carried the basin into the house to dress and wash Grandma Luo, and she didn't care about the children here, anyway, there was an overage child watching it.

New Year's greetings should start from their own home, the ancestors are the largest, the first is to go to the hall to incense the ancestors. Luo Jiang lit four incense sticks, and after one of them, he took the children to make three sticks.

The second is to go to Grandma Luo's New Year's greetings, four girls in red clothes are standing at the door, Luo Jiang Nunu mouthed, signaling the boss to speak.

Luo Ying took a deep breath, as my aunt said yesterday, you must first pay New Year's greetings at the door, and wait for the master's house to open the door or invite them in before entering, otherwise it will offend the elders and ancestors.

"Grandma, we're here to greet the New Year!" Luo Jin couldn't wait to shout first, Luo Ying, who had been holding back for a long time, was almost choked by her own saliva, and led her sister into the house with a red face.

"Grandma, we have a New Year's greeting for you! I wish you good health and all the best! "To pay New Year's greetings to the elders, the three sisters are small and tough, and they can reach their feet when they bend down. Luo Jin found that the shoelaces were loose, and took the opportunity to tie them before straightening his waist.

Luo Jiang pulled Jin Hengsheng and stood behind to greet Grandma Luo, and the apron around his neck was not untied!

"Okay, come on, one for each person!" Grandma Luo happily handed over the red envelope and watched with a smile as Luo Jiang went out with a few small ones.

"Wait, Hengsheng, you go too. The clothes have pockets, the aunt brings you four packs of cigarettes, you shout with you, and hand over the cigarettes when you meet a man. Zhou Wuqing opened four packs of cigarettes and came out, stuffed them into Jin Hengsheng's pocket and felt that they didn't look good, and finally put them in Luo Jiang's backpack.

After sorting it out, Luo Jiang took one big and three small ones to pay New Year's greetings to his family one by one, and then three small ones to Luo Jiang and Jin Hengsheng to pay New Year's greetings. There is no need to give red envelopes between peers, Jin Hengsheng handed out a cigarette after arching his hand towards Luo Qing, and Luo Qing also took out one from his pocket with a smile, which was regarded as exchanging with each other.

After the family worshipped, they went out to greet others, Luo Ying led her sister to stand at the door to greet the neighbor in a decent way, and the man went out to greet him in surprise, and then Luo Jiang greeted him with a smile, and Jin Hengsheng followed and handed over cigarettes.

If the family has children, they will also ask Luo Jiang to help bring the children, New Year's greetings are a good tradition in the village, but they can't be broken, and they don't see children coming to visit the New Year on the first day of the new year, and they always feel that there is something missing.

The village turned down, and the New Year's greeting team in front of Luo Jiang expanded rapidly, and later there were nearly 20 people. After the three sisters of Luo Ying finished worshipping the New Year, they naturally put down their things to rest at the door of the house, and Luo Jiang had to take these children around again, because some children only worshiped a few families.

Jin Hengsheng handed the backpack full of loose cigarettes to Luo's father, turned around and went to chase Luo Jiang again. When the villagers saw Luo Jiang, they were relieved to let the children go out to pay New Year's greetings, but Luo Jiang was only one person, and it was still difficult to manage more than a dozen children.

When they encountered a mud pit, Luo Jiang and Jin Hengsheng hugged them one by one, and some children couldn't carry their small schoolbags in their hands. Children come to visit the New Year, and the host usually gives a red envelope, and then Yipeng peanuts, melon seeds, candy or something, and there can be several catties on the side of the village.

The Chinese New Year can't let people work in vain, so the captains Luo Jiang and Jin Hengsheng also got a bunch of lollipops, and only eliminated two of them all the way after eating them in their mouths.

It was already past eight o'clock when they got home, and as soon as Luo Jiang and Jin Hengsheng entered the door, Luo's father announced that the meal would be opened. The children have been exercising for more than an hour, and their stomachs have already turned upside down, and looking at their little mouths with oil, they must have gone to the kitchen to touch something and eat.

Breakfast was very grand, and his family also set a big table, and the leftover fish from last night was also served, and Luo Haojiang added another fresh one on top.

When the table was removed, yesterday's fish was eaten, and today's fish was left, and this way of eating was until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

At eleven o'clock, Luo Wujiang's family arrived, and Grandma Luo's smile was faint, it seemed that the eldest son went to his father-in-law's house to pay New Year's greetings first. On the first day of the new year, he worships his own parents, although there are reasons for the eldest daughter-in-law to make trouble, but Luo Wujiang can also repair the house to his father-in-law's village, and the first day of the new year is not to pay New Year's greetings to the old lady, this is to treat himself as a son-in-law.

Luo Wujiang and the others left after lunch, and Grandma Luo went to the hall to put incense on the pillars, and after chattering for a while, she returned to sit by the brazier.

During the Chinese New Year, there were ancestors who enjoyed meals at home, so three meals a day were meals, Jin Hengsheng and Luo Jiang only ate two meals for many years, and breakfast was either steamed buns or noodles, and there was rarely time to eat. For two days in a row, both of them had accumulated food, and they could only go out for a walk after dinner, or skip rope at home with their children.

The second day of junior high school is the day when a large number of relatives come to Luo Jiang's house to pay New Year's greetings to Grandma Luo, Luo Haojiang set up a large round table with 6 chapters, and when he got up in the morning, he made hard vegetables into half-cooked and put them in the steamer, and he only needed to fry vegetables for lunch.

Jin Hengsheng stayed in the kitchen as a man with a lot of eyes, cooking was adding firewood, and serving food after the pot was served, which was well received by the majority of relatives and friends.

The third day of the new year is the day when the Luo family goes out to pay New Year's greetings, Luo Jiang's grandparents have passed away, and the uncle also died of illness the year before last, so there is no need to stay too long. In the morning, Luo Qing drove Jin Hengsheng's car to his grandmother's house, had a meal at his second uncle and aunt's house, and came back in the evening.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Jin Hengsheng and Luo Jiang drove back to Hangzhou, there were a lot of cars on the highway, Luo Jiang's palms were full of cold sweat, and he only drove 20 kilometers and replaced Jin Hengsheng.

After leaving the province, the traffic flow was smaller, Luo Jiang drove for three hours this time, and waited for Jin Hengsheng to finish a simple lunch before changing the guard. There were only two people in the car, Luo Jiang and Jin Hengsheng, and lunch was casual, Luo's mother steamed sweet potato baba, ground two large cups of soy milk, and snacks such as dried sweet potatoes, cat ears, and twist flowers, just eat some to fill your stomach.

Entering the territory of Hangzhou, the traffic jam began again, and Luo Jiang and the two arrived home at ten o'clock in the evening and stayed directly on Jin Hengsheng's side.

While Luo Jiang was taking a bath, Jin Hengsheng steamed the rice and went out to pick up Luo Xiaoqi in the store, he hadn't seen him for a few days, Jiang Jiang must have missed it very much.