Chapter 500 Chinese New Year

Author: Qi Chu Jiu

Chapter 500 Chinese New Year

My dear Zhou Chengzhe has successfully become a teacher and learns new knowledge from An Ning every day.

Anna has not gone back for the time being. The focus of her life is on Bao Bao alone. The two of them are staying at An Ning's house for the time being, waiting for the Chinese New Year.

In addition to teaching her children every day, An Ning would also give regular lessons to Li Chengze. Three days before the New Year, Li Chengze finally set off to go home. After celebrating the New Year in his hometown, he was about to leave for abroad.

The separation between master and disciple was without any worries and full of positive energy.

An Ning: Remember, if you can't beat him, run away and go home to find the master.

Li Chengze: Master, I will never embarrass you.

Tranquility: Don’t worry about it, just live well.

Li Chengze: Master, I just went out to study, not to go to the battlefield.

An Ning: It’s all the same, let’s go.

Li Chengze embarked on the last journey before leaving the country with the advice of running away if he couldn't fight and staying alive.

After seeing off Li Chengze, the An family took a complete vacation.

After the baby offered incense to his husband, he followed Anna back to the capital to celebrate the New Year with his grandparents and others.

Anna and her son left, and all that was left was their own family.

Cleaning up, preparing food for the Chinese New Year, and making a lot of sticky bean buns.

On the day when she was making sticky bean buns, An Ning was in charge of pasting millet leaves on them. At first, she was still thinking about counting, but when the count reached more than five hundred, An Ning stopped counting.

Why bother?

Can't you make life simpler?

That night, An Ning lay on the hot kang that had been steaming all day, enduring the pain in her arms and staying warm all night.

As the Chinese New Year approaches, there is no time when the Kang at An Ning’s house isn’t not warm.

Especially the area at the end of the kang was burnt. It was the first time An Ning saw a kang burned like this, and she hurriedly told Lin Cuihua.

Lin Cuihua came in and took a brief look.

"It's okay. I'll change it in the spring. It's a waste to change it now."

After saying this, Lin Cuihua went out, leaving An Ning alone staring at the black circle on the bed in a daze.

She was thinking: If I put a raw egg in it, would it be cooked?

If she falls asleep at night, how cooked can she cook it?

The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and the move to settle down is getting bigger and bigger.

The An family's living standard is definitely the highest in the village. The An family does not need to hide the fact that they are rich, but they will not deliberately show it off.

This year, due to the land allocation and working in Anjia, the income of the villagers in the village has increased significantly.

For the matter of killing pigs alone, there are five in the whole village, which shows the improvement of living standards.

The An family killed a pig early, and before the Chinese New Year, another deer was sent from Jiangxia next door.

Meat is definitely enough.

As for vegetables, they can be managed in greenhouses.

On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Uncle An's family came to Anning's house to celebrate the New Year, and An Ercheng's family of four from the county also came back.

This time, no one caused trouble.

An Ercheng's daughter An Jingjing has been cleaning the toilet for half a year, and she no longer has the crazy jealousy she once had.

I heard from Du Guijuan that Jingjing cleaned toilets during the day and went to night school at night to learn to be a nurse.

After all, they are a family, and as long as they all live their lives properly, no one will deliberately embarrass them.

This day is the first time Anjia and He Meimei have dinner together.

On the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, which is also the 30th day of the New Year, people from the An family go to Uncle An's house for dinner. This is an annual custom.

There are no elders in the An family. Uncle An is the eldest elder and he is in charge of the family.

Lin Cuihua, Du Guijuan, Auntie Niang and others were busy working in the kitchen.

In the house, children of all sizes gathered together to play poker.

An Ning was strictly prohibited from leaving the game and could only watch the game from the outside.

There are two venues for playing poker. One group is full of adults, and the other group has only one adult, An Guoming.

"Wow——so awesome!"

"Won again!"

"Second uncle, why are you so powerful!"

The sighs of several children made An Guoming pretend to say: "It's all about strength, it's all about strength."

An Ning turned sideways and saw An Guoming holding one hand behind his back and quickly stuffing two cards into his waistband.

She held back her laughter.

No wonder he wins everything, he really has a "winning" heart.

An Ning didn't expose it, so just let these children worship him.

"Stop playing around, go to the ground, move around, and set the table for dinner."

The auntie shouted in the kitchen, and the people in the room speeded up their hands, and a card fell with a loud sound. If there was a two in the hand, they would jump to the sky.

One by one, they were fooling around and shouting loudly, and finally the battle ended with a small Po San'er.

With more people, we have greater strength, so we can clean it up in three strokes, five divided by two.

Set the table, serve the food, and pour the wine.

The three tables were full, and everyone's bowls were filled with wine or drinks. Uncle An stood up with the bowls in his hands.

"The first bowl is to honor the ancestors of our Lao An family."

"Respect the ancestors."

Everyone raised their glasses and the first bowl of wine was poured on the ground.

"The second bowl, I wish you peace."

An Ning stood up suddenly, especially because she was afraid of pouring the wine on the ground as everyone was used to. She still remembered the place her uncle had left for her in her ancestral grave.

Fortunately, everyone drank this bowl.

Uncle An finally poured another bowl, raised his glass again and said: "A tree has big branches, and a family has big branches, but no matter what, our roots are the same. Just don't forget it. Work hard next year, and it will be even better than this year."

"cheers!"

"cheers!"

Everyone toasted, and Uncle An took his seat and invited everyone to eat.

After eating and drinking for more than an hour, the Chinese New Year dinner was finally over.

An Ning's family returned to their home, and An Ercheng's family stayed at Uncle An's house. They were returning to the county town on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

That night, the An family and the Jiang family set off firecrackers and fireworks together, attracting many children to watch.

On New Year's Eve, fireworks are in the sky and the snowy scenery is reflected.

After midnight, Jiang Xia, who moved quietly, stood next to An Ning and said: "Happy New Year."

"Huh? Happy New Year."

An Ning smiles on her face, it's a new year.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the old and young in the village began to go from house to house to pay New Year greetings. If there were elders in the family, they really couldn't go anywhere on this day, so they just sat at home and waited for others to come to pay their respects.

The An Ning family is no exception.

The younger generation, including Hei Dan'er, set out early in the morning before dawn to pay New Year's greetings to the elders who have settled down in the village.

On this day, kneel down and get up, get up and kneel down again.

After An Ning returned home, she felt a little pain in her knees.

After the first day of the Lunar New Year, it’s the second day of the Lunar New Year, which is also the day to return to your parents’ home.

At An Ning's house, the eldest sister-in-law and her natal family have long been cut off from each other. In addition, the An family is too powerful now and they don't dare to come over to make trouble. The eldest sister-in-law enjoys it very much.

As for Lin Cuihua, she never mentioned anything about Grandma An Ning's house.

So on the second day of the Lunar New Year, the An family was extremely quiet.

At ten o'clock in the morning, there was a knock on the door of An's house. An Guoming, who lived in the front yard, went to open the door, but he didn't recognize the person standing at the door.

"Who are you looking for?"

"This is the An family... An Sancheng and Lin Cuihua's home, right?"
Chapter completed!