Chapter 14 Chinese New Year
Fang Ran's father, Fang Mu, is the second oldest in the family, with an older brother and three younger sisters.
In my impression, since Fang Ran can remember, everyone will come back for the New Year every year.
It's just that the number of reunions varies every year, sometimes four families, sometimes five, and the three aunts will leave early the next morning after Chinese New Year's Eve dinner and return to their other home.
However, in recent years, the number of people who come back every year is relatively uniform, and the three aunts will basically come back, because grandma's health is getting worse and worse, and the chances of reunion in the future may become less and less.
And Fang Ran also knows that if grandma leaves, it may be difficult for this kind of big family to reunite for the New Year.
So he prepared this year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner very well, and bought the oven and hot pot online early, hoping to make this meal very rich and make everyone happy to have a good year.
However, this year's focus is not destined to be on how fragrant the rice is.
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At the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, after a round of toasting and red envelope distribution.
Fang Lin took the lead in asking, "Where does Fang Ran work, did he just graduate this year?"
Fang Lin is Fang Ran's uncle, and now he opens a hotel in Pengcheng, which is not big or small, and the business is okay.
In his early years, he was a chef himself, and at that time he was the head chef of a hotel in Jiangcheng, and he knew a few specialty dishes.
It is said that there are people from other places who come to eat his signature dishes.
Fang Ran has also eaten it, and it is indeed delicious.
However, Fang Lin is now older, and he doesn't cook anymore, but occasionally comes to do it with interest.
Fang Lin is a straightforward person, he is very good to children, and he used to cook shrimp balls for Fang Ran to eat.
So in the face of the uncle's question, Fang Ran immediately replied: "I first worked as a teacher in a training institution in Jiangcheng for a few months, and now I am ready to open a kindergarten in Nanmu Town.
What? Kindergarten Principal?
Fang Lin listened to the first half of the sentence well, but the latter was suddenly beyond his comprehension.
Except for Fang Ran's parents and grandmother at the table, everyone else also felt the same inexplicably.
They were all surprised, why did Fang Ran suddenly open a kindergarten in Nanmu Town?
So, Fang Ran's aunt Fang Li asked directly: "Fang Ran, didn't you study computers in college? Why are you going to open a kindergarten now? And it's in Nanmu Town?"
After asking, Fang Li also glanced at Wang Yun.
It seems to be asking her, why I don't know why Fang Ran wants to open a kindergarten.
Fang Li is the most educated among the brothers and sisters, and she is also the best now, working in a large company in Jiangcheng.
She usually contacts Wang Yun often, so she wonders why Fang Ran Kindergarten is about to open, but she only knows now.
But soon she also understood, it must have been Wang Yun who felt that Fang Ran was going to open a kindergarten in Nanmu Town, and it was not a face-saving thing, so she didn't tell her.
But Fang Li was still very strange, why did Wang Yun and Fang Mu agree to Fang Ran to open a kindergarten in Nanmu Town?
Are there any kids in the town now?
If you want to open it, it should be in Pengcheng?
Soon her question was answered.
Fang Ran said truthfully: "Auntie, it doesn't matter what you study in college, there are few of our classmates who are working in the right majors now."
And in Nanmu Town, it is because there is a lot of investment in kindergartens now, and I want to try it in Nanmu Town now, so it will not be a loss if it fails. ”
Fang Li nodded, Fang Ran's words made some sense, but she still felt that Fang Ran's imminent transformation into the head of the kindergarten was a bit sudden and impulsive.
But the confident and indifferent look on Fang Ran's face made her feel that he seemed to be very likely to succeed, and he was not an impulsive move.
So Fang Li didn't speak again for a while.
In fact, Fang Mu's thoughts at that time were the same, that is, he felt that Fang Ran had a strong sense of self-confidence, so he would support him to do this.
Fang Ran saw that this matter had passed like this, and immediately stopped talking.
He knew that the aunts and uncles would definitely ask, but he didn't expect it to be so easy to ask.
The others didn't ask any more questions, because the two remaining aunts were married in the countryside.
They can't give any advice on this kind of career problem.
However, when the topic turned to the anecdotes of their childhood and their memories of the past, they opened their mouths and joined the discussion.
Fang Ran and other older brothers and sisters of the same generation listened to it with relish.
Because the childhood of the older generation was not the same as theirs.
Farming, farming, digging stones, building houses......
Rich experience.
Maybe it's because the younger generation is about to grow up, so today the uncles and aunts told a lot of old stories at the dinner table.
Fang Ran also knew that Fang Mu went out to work after graduating from junior high school that year, mainly because his family had no money, and he wanted to go to school with Fang Lin to earn school tuition for his three younger sisters and reduce the burden on his family.
And the people who were able to be admitted to high school here back then were basically repeaters.
Fang Mu is confident that he will be admitted to high school if he repeats his studies for another year, but he doesn't want his younger sisters to stop studying in junior high school.
He also didn't want to put too much pressure on his parents, who were already in poor health.
Fortunately, Fang Mu later returned to Nanmu Town, studied on his own for more than half a year, and was admitted to the civil service among more than 100 people, and then came to the current point.
And the only thing that makes the Fang family brothers and sisters regret is that the old man left early, and he couldn't see the big family now, and the children who are mixing well now.
It is precisely because of the dedication of the two elder brothers since childhood that the Fang family's big family has been in close contact and harmonious for so many years, and there has never been any conflict, and it has always been a united family.
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After the meal, some adults went out to organize mahjong, and some gathered to chat.
Anyway, there is no scene of everyone sitting around the TV watching the Spring Festival Gala like before.
Fang Ran and his brothers and sisters sat next to the TV playing the Spring Festival Gala, knocking melon seeds, and swiping their mobile phones.
The only thing that made Fang Ran feel a pity was that the youngest sister was also in college.
There was no talent in sight, and he couldn't do anything to help.
can only wait until the eldest brother gets married and has children, and then he will help cultivate it.
Soon, the time came to 12 o'clock.
With the countdown on the TV set zeroing out, the new year is here.
In the room, various mobile phones rang one after another, either New Year's greetings or red envelopes.
Among them, Fang Ran's two cousins and cousins, who have been working for several years, have the most voices coming from their mobile phones.
Fang Ran and his two younger siblings who are still studying have less sound on their mobile phones.
Fang Ran also replied to a few, basically classmates.
If it's the kind of thing that looks like a group post, he'll reply with a "fun".
If it's the kind of thing that isn't sent in groups, he'll take it seriously.
And the result is that there is only one serious one, and that is sent by Lu Xiaoyu.
Because men usually don't send these things to each other, and Fang Ran doesn't have any friends of the opposite sex.
So he could only look at Lu Xiaoyu's message and think about what to do.
The blessing sent by Lu Xiaoyu is like this:
Happy New Year!
A few seconds later, Fang Ran replied:
Let's have fun!
After returning, Fang Ran refreshed the QQ space.
Sure enough, Wang Xinyi posted a new news.
A photograph of her eating with a group of children.
The following is accompanied by a happy new year.
Fang Ran, as usual, commented below: Let's have fun!