After placing the order, Jiang Qi suddenly realized that he had lost money!
He lost a total of 9 yuan!
Get 10 yuan off when you spend over 10,000 yuan. This book is only 9,999 yuan, which is just one yuan away from the discount on purchases over 10,000 yuan!!
Conspiracy, this is definitely Xiaoka’s conspiracy!!!
After successfully placing the order, Jiang Qi suddenly felt a strong sense of regret. It felt like he had finished placing the order when ordering takeout, only to find out that this restaurant was over 20-4 and over 30-8, and he had just
The order is exactly 29 yuan.
Jiang Qi's expression gradually became distorted.
Jiang Pei, who noticed Jiang Qi's twisted expression, thought Jiang Qi had a stomachache and asked with concern: "Xiao Qi, what's wrong with you? Did you eat bad food in the morning and feel uncomfortable in your stomach?"
"It's nothing, I just bought something, and I realized that I didn't get the full discount after buying it." Jiang Qi said with a sad face, "By the way, do you know what to eat tonight?"
"I only know that my mother bought snow crabs, abalone, sea cucumbers, prawns, and a whole sheep. My grandpa helped buy local chickens and local pork in the countryside. Then last night he took my dad and I to the supermarket and bought a lot of them.
Quick-frozen vegetables, such as golden cakes and eight-treasure rice. My mother bought 10 boxes of eight-treasure rice! I feel like I may have to eat eight-treasure rice every day in the next period of time." Jiang Wanwan put on a mask of pain.
"The eight-treasure rice is so delicious, I wish I could eat it every day." Wen Luo, who loves sweets, complained about the eight-treasure rice, "I will eat a whole portion tonight!"
"The frozen rice pudding bought in the supermarket is not delicious at all." Jiang Wanwan curled her lips, "Sometimes it is not heated well, some places are soft, and some places are still hard. It looks pretty good, but it tastes too greasy.
Yes, the bean paste inside is sweet and greasy, and there is such a big piece on the outside. When mixed with the candied fruits on top, it is so sweet and greasy that it makes you want to vomit."
"The outermost layer of rice is fine, but why do you think there is so much bean paste in the middle of the eight-treasure rice? No one likes it. Every time they eat the eight-treasure rice, they always finish the outer rice, and the bean paste is left on the plate.
"
Wen Luo, a lover of rice pudding, had to admit that Jiang Wanwan was right. He thought about it and said, "Maybe it's because rice pudding is sweet. If there weren't so much bean paste in it, the rice outside would be tasteless."
"The main reason is that you have never eaten fresh food." Jiang Pei said with a smile, "There was a mother-in-law downstairs in the company where I worked before. She sold eight-treasure rice, freshly cooked and steamed, and each portion was a small bowl. If the sweet-scented osmanthus blooms,
During the season, the mother-in-law will chop the sweet-scented osmanthus and mix it into the bean paste filling. The bean paste filling is also fragrant with the sweet-scented osmanthus, and it’s not greasy at all.”
“It’s easy to gain weight if you eat it every day.”
Wen Luo showed a longing expression.
"I remember that the vegetable market used to sell cooked rice pudding." Jiang Bing said, "I still had it when I was in junior high school. When I was in elementary school, my mother took me to the vegetable market to buy it. I bought it and put it in a steamer when I was in elementary school.
Steam it for a few minutes and it's ready to eat. You can also ask the boss to steam a small portion and put it in a bag to eat directly."
"Where can there be freshly made rice dumplings nowadays?" Jiang Qi said, "Nowadays, if you want to eat bamboo tube rice dumplings, you have to try your luck at the entrance of various schools. Some schools may not have them at the entrance."
Wen Luo sighed: "I really want to eat freshly cooked eight-treasure rice."
"Don't think about it. If you work hard, you might still be able to do it yourself." Jiang Wanwan said ruthlessly.
Jiang Qi had some other ideas and quietly said to Jiang Bing: "C.C. has Chinese chefs and Western chefs. Sister, do you think C.C's Chinese chef can cook eight-treasure rice? How about I ask Yan Huaiyou and suggest that he launch a New Year's special eight-treasure rice set."
"
Jiang Bing:......
Jiang Bing imagined the situation of the script-killing shop selling rice pudding. By the way, he also imagined a group of aunts coming back from grocery shopping lining up in front of the script-killing shop, waiting to buy the freshly steamed rice pudding. It was absolutely fine.
She wants to eat.
Jiang Bing nodded solemnly: "I think this is a good idea!"
At this moment, there was a knock on the door.
Jiang Wanwan jumped up and asked loudly: "Who is it?"
The eldest aunt in the kitchen was also alerted, and she stuck her head out and asked, "Have any of you ordered takeout? If so, help me order takeout from the supermarket. Buy some drinks. The rice wine and juice at home may not be enough."
A group of people looked at each other, obviously no one ordered takeout.
Jiang Wanwan walked to the door.
"Hello, is Mr. Jiang Qi here? Your express delivery!" the courier shouted outside the door.
Jiang Qi:???
Everyone:???
"Why did you fill in your uncle's delivery address as your delivery address?" Jiang Bing was confused.
"I didn't..." Jiang Qi just wanted to deny it, but suddenly realized that this express delivery was most likely the "New Year's Eve Dinner" he had just ordered.
What speed is this?
Has it been 30 minutes since he placed the order?
This is a flash gift!
"I bought the express delivery before. Isn't it special to deliver during the Chinese New Year? The express delivery called me yesterday and told me that it might be delivered today. He asked me if I was at home, so I asked him to deliver it directly to my uncle's house." Jiang Qi started.
Make up nonsense.
This nonsense successfully fooled everyone. After all, no one had received express delivery on New Year's Eve.
Jiang Wanwan opened the door.
At the door was a courier boy and a huge box on the ground, half a person tall, with a big red fragile items label on it.
"Hello, please ask Mr. Jiang Qi to come out and sign for it." The courier boy said with a smile.
Jiang Qi quickly came out to sign for the express delivery.
The courier boy said enthusiastically: "Your courier is quite heavy. Let me help you move it in."
"Okay, thank you." Jiang Qi said, "It's really hard on you to deliver express during the Chinese New Year."
"No hard work, no hard work. This is my last order. After delivery, I will get off work and go home to celebrate the New Year!" The courier boy said cheerfully, helping Jiang Qi place the half-person-high courier box firmly in the living room, happily I went home from get off work to celebrate the New Year.
The whole family gathered over.
Even the aunt and Jiang Xiaohong who were busy in the kitchen came over with spatulas and kitchen knives. Because Jiang Xiaohong came over with the kitchen knife in a really menacing manner, Wen Luo, who was not prepared at all, was so frightened that he jumped up.
The first reaction was that his mother saw him playing with his mobile phone and came over with a kitchen knife to chop his mobile phone.
"Xiao Qi, what are you buying? Why is it such a big box?" Jiang Xiaohong squeezed to the edge of the express delivery with the kitchen knife in her hand and looked up and down. In stark contrast, she couldn't squeeze in at the outermost circle, so she could only
Jiang Xiaoliang watched from a distance.
"Um...I...this...should be the exclusive book I bought years ago!" Jiang Qidao began to educate the elders at home on the normal book buying process, "There are many exclusive and city-limited books in the script sales.
None of them are in stock, and I may not have finished writing them when I order them for takeout. So these books are usually ordered by paying first and then waiting for the seller to ship them. We don’t know exactly when the sellers will ship them.”
"So I don't know exactly what kind of book this is. After all, I bought a lot of them years ago." Jiang Qi tried hard to explain why this damn "New Year's Eve Dinner" was delivered on New Year's Eve.
It will be delivered immediately after placing the order, and it will be delivered to where the person is.
"Oh." Everyone suddenly realized.
Under everyone's gaze, Jiang Qi felt inexplicably stressed and said: "Then I...dismantle the express delivery?"
"Tear it down, break it down!"
Jiang Qi opened the express delivery.
What's inside is very simple.
tableware.
Very normal household tableware, no fancy shapes, no colorful white porcelain plates, white porcelain bowls, wooden chopsticks. Because they are fragile items, they are tightly wrapped in foam, which is why this express delivery is so big
.
Jiang Qi took out all the tableware and counted it, and found that there were 40 sets of tableware, 27 plates and a box the size of a safe.
It is boxy and heavy. There are three big characters printed on the box - New Year's Eve Dinner.
""New Year's Eve Dinner"? Brother Jiang Qi, is the exclusive name of this new one you bought called "New Year's Eve Dinner"?" Jiang Wanwan was shocked when she saw this box, "What a fitting name. This release is intentional, it must be
I’ll let you get the goods on New Year’s Eve.”
"I think so too." Jiang Qi also felt the same and opened the box.
What's in this box is even simpler.
It's all original.
It's not a book that is bound like a normal book. It uses a lever to clamp several pieces of paper together like files or test papers when reading. It's very simple. It even looks a bit like a pirated copy. It's full of cheapness.
The essence of breath.
It is indeed a low-priced book limited to the New Year's Eve. You can see from the book that it has a cheap atmosphere everywhere.
There were so many character books that it was hard to tell how many there were. The elders who came to watch the fun saw that the legendary script was just like this and did not have as many bells and whistles as they imagined, so they dispersed and started playing chess.
Chess, cooking and cooking, only the juniors are left gathered around the box.
"Holy crap, how many character books are there? Why are there so many character books? Each book is quite thick." Jiang Wanwan was shocked when she saw the densely packed character books. She started counting, and when she reached more than 20, she felt numb.
"Who in our store is going to look at this book? How many days does it take to read it?" Jiang Wanwan counted back several times for fear of making a mistake, "There are 40 character books, and it's not the A or B books, it's 40
Character books for different characters!”
"Does this have to be played in the venue of "Red Tears"? Can a normal room be opened with 40 people? Brother Jiang Qi, what type of book did you buy? It's the same random number of people as in "MasterChef Competition"
The kind?"
"Maybe." Jiang Qi said that he didn't know how to open this book. He only knew the name of this book.
Jiang Bing took out the character book named Zhou Chuan at the top and flipped through it: "Wow, what a shoddy texture. It turns out that there are clamped character books these days. I thought this kind of clamped book was only available.
Only two or three years old copies will be available.”
"Is this bad?" Jiang Pei didn't quite understand.
"It's... very economical." Jiang Bing explained simply, "To save costs, the book Jiang Qi bought is exclusive. Exclusive books usually cost four to five thousand, and cheaper ones cost more than three thousand. Think about it.
If you spend a thousand yuan to buy a bunch of these, you will know how evil this publisher is."
Jiang Bing glanced at the cover, Card Game Studio.
"The books from this studio are more expensive. My brother is crazy when he comes across the books from this studio. He has bought all the books from this studio. Some are very good and some are not, just like Sister Peipei.
The horror book you saw on the hot search that scared the trafficker into unconsciousness and surrendered was produced by this studio. For 100,000 yuan, my brother was the only one in the country who bought it."
Jiang Pei:???
Jiang Pei didn't understand, but Jiang Pei was shocked.
Jiang Pei felt that she should re-examine his cousin.
She originally only thought that Jiang Bingjiang was the most prodigal among the Jiang family. After all, he opened one store and then another one, opening it every year and failing every year. But now it seems that Jiang Qi is better than his master. After years of exposure and influence,
Jiang Qi is not bad either.
Jiang Qi:……
"I'll go to the guest room and read the book." Jiang Qi picked up the box, "Anyway, I have nothing to do. There is no food for lunch today, so we have to wait until the evening to have New Year's Eve dinner together."
"I'll come out on my own when it's almost done, so you don't have to look for me."
Jiang Pei expressed her understanding. She also needs silence when working and doesn't like anyone to disturb her.
"Don't worry, we won't disturb you." Jiang Pei said with a smile.
Jiang Qi walked into the guest room holding a box of books.
The decoration of the guest room at Jiang Wanwan's house is relatively simple. It was originally Jiang Wanwan's study. After buying a bed and putting it in, it became a guest room. The desk was custom-made by a carpenter more than ten years ago. The entire wall and bookcase are integrated into a huge desk.
, it could accommodate four children, Jiang Wanwan, Jiang Qi, Jiang Bing and Wen Luo, to do their homework at the same time.
Such a large desk is more than enough for reading books.
Jiang Qi took out 40 thick character books and looked at each character book. He found that most of the people in these character books had the surname Zhou, Zhou Xing, Zhou Chuan, Zhou Boyuan, Zhou Li, etc. Judging from the names, they should
It's a family.
Is this a super big family with 40 people?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! How many tables should be opened for these 40 people to gather around for New Year’s Eve dinner?
Not only does this book have many characters and is thick, but the host manual is also ridiculously thick. Those who know it are a happy book, but those who don’t know think it is a mystery book. However, the host manual is bound normally and is not held up with a clip.
Jiang Qi picked through a bunch of character books and finally fell in love with Zhou Yuan.
There is a saying that if Zhou Yuan comes to play with this, Jiang Qi will have to give her a discount.
Not for anything else, just for this special fate.
Jiang Qi first took a photo of the cover of Zhou Yuan's character book and sent it to Zhou Yuan, then silently opened the book.
‘Your name is Zhou Yuan, and you are a North drifter whose life is not very satisfactory.
…’
It is said that life is not satisfactory, but in fact Miss Zhou Yuan in this script is a normal migrant worker from Beipiao.
I graduated from an ordinary university. I am not an only child. I have an older brother and a younger sister at home. I have a stable boyfriend who is also a migrant worker. I work as an English teacher in a tutoring institution. My work is relatively leisurely. I go to work at 12 noon and finish get off work at 9 pm every day. , you can sleep in, but the price is that the salary is not very high, and you can barely make ends meet by renting a house with your boyfriend.
If there is any difference between Miss Zhou Yuan and other migrant workers, it would probably be that her family is very large.
Shockingly big!
She herself has an older brother and a younger sister, and there are five people in her family, which is larger than a normal family of three or four.
In addition, she also has grandparents, 4 aunts, 3 uncles and 2 uncles. Some of these uncles and aunts are older and unmarried, and some have three children like hers. All the relatives including her add up to
There are 42 names!
Jiang Qi guessed that these 40 characters should be among the 42 people, and the remaining two should be important NPCs with names.
The character book is thick because the first act is very long. For no other reason than because there are too many people in the family, so many uncles, aunts, cousins, some have good relationships, some have bad relationships, and some have bad relationships.
We have played together since we were young and we only get to see each other once during the Chinese New Year.
Just talking about the relationships between these characters lasted 23 pages, which made Jiang Qi dizzy. After the first scene, he couldn't even tell who was who.
"What kind of bad book is this!" After reading the first scene, Jiang Qi closed the book and complained mercilessly, "There are so many and complicated relationships between the characters. It is a family ethics drama! Everyone will remember it while watching it.
I can't help but let others say who has a grudge against whom, who has been admitted to a prestigious university, who has found a good job, who likes to show off, and who is petty."
"What are you writing? Is this for people to read? How can you play it if you can't figure out the relationship between the characters?"
Jiang Qi wanted to read it again, but after thinking about it, he decided not to do it. Why did he read it so carefully without opening the book? Professional matters should be left to professionals. Let's show this book to Liu Lan first after the holiday.
Whether it can be changed or not can be hidden like "Eat Your Heart".
I just hope this instinct draws a card as useful as Stone Pot.
At this time, the stone pot is still bubbling dutifully in the braised meat shop!
Jiang Qi then watched the second act.
After experiencing a complicated relationship between characters, Zhou Yuan, an ordinary migrant worker, began to show her evil side as the protagonist of the script.
Zhou Yuan has been having a very hard time this year.
I feel frustrated everywhere at work. At the end of the year, a lot of bonuses have been deducted. The year-end bonus is a quarter less than last year. The most important thing is that the annual leave is only three days.
In order not to lose face in front of relatives and friends during the Chinese New Year, Zhou Yuan, who had an empty wallet, bought a fake brand name and bought a bunch of New Year gifts. With the mentality that she could not lose during the Chinese New Year, as the Chinese New Year is equal to a class reunion, she made up this story.
I started on the train home with a bunch of lies about how good my life was this year, how good my career and love were, and how much I was respected by my leaders.
Jiang Qi looked at the task of this scene.
'Your mission:
1. The Chinese New Year is the most important thing for your Zhou family. If you lose, don’t lose. You must know that there are many good people among your cousins. You can’t lose on such an important occasion. Fake brand name
Also brag about your real reputation. Be sure to show off to your relatives at home how great your year has been.
2. Hide your poor little vest and don’t let others find out that you are lying.’
Jiang Qi:……
Very good, it has the flavor of a ruthless book.
Jiang Qi turned to the next page.
‘Today is New Year’s Eve, and you have arrived at the entrance of the village where your grandparents live. You are very nervous because you know that you are the last to arrive, and your relatives will definitely ask you why you came back so late this year.
But it doesn't matter, you have already made up the reason.
You took a deep breath and took the first step home.’
With a flash of white light, Jiang Qi entered his memory.
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When Jiang Qi came to his senses, he was standing on the country road.
There are many elegantly built houses around. It doesn’t look like a village, but more like a villa area. The surrounding environment is also very good, the roads are very smooth, there is not much garbage on the road, and every household has planted flowers, grass and small trees.
Shu, it can be seen that the people in this village are generally quite wealthy.
The sky is still quite bright. Considering that the time in the script world is New Year's Eve, Jiang Qi estimates that it is about noon now.
Zhou Yuan was standing next to Jiang Qi, dragging her suitcase and carrying the wine and supplements she spent a huge amount of money on. She bought these for her grandparents.
Zhou Yuan slowly walked towards the self-built house in the shape of a three-story villa in front of her, a feeling of jealousy spreading in the air.
Push the door and come in.
"Oh, Yuanyuan is back!"
"Yuanyuan, you are finally back. If your parents hadn't said you would definitely come back this year, we would have thought you wouldn't be back to celebrate the New Year this year! Your eldest cousin came back just after the New Year, and he came back specifically to spend the New Year with your grandpa."
"Is it cold outside? Go back to your room and put your luggage away first. You and Panpan will stay here this year."
"you……"
Amid the friendly or showy greetings from relatives, Zhou Yuan dragged her suitcase upstairs, while Jiang Qi stayed downstairs to look at the large family.
To be honest, there were far fewer people than he thought.
When I read the book, there were a total of 42 named relatives.
When he walked to the door, Jiang Qi was still muttering to himself. This three-story villa looked quite big, but it didn't look like it could accommodate 42 people.
As soon as the results came in, there were not 42 people at all.
Jiang Qi counted them carefully and judged their identities based on their conversations with each other, and determined that there were only 15 people in the house.
They are the grandparents, the eldest uncle's family of three, the second uncle's family of three, the third uncle's family of five (Zhou Yuan's family), the brother-in-law (a bachelor) and his aunt.
Just a very normal family.
The eldest aunt in this family likes to show off, and the eldest cousin seems to have made a lot of money doing business outside. As a bachelor in his 40s, grandma still seems to have not given up on the idea of ​​letting him find a wife, and has been following her.
He was whispering to him, tell him that you are such a big man, it is time to find a wife, even if you don't have children, it would be nice to have someone to spend time with.
My brother-in-law probably didn't like his mother's talk very much, and he ignored her from beginning to end.
The aunt who came back to celebrate the New Year alone had a story to tell. Everyone wanted to know the story about her. However, my aunt was a person who was blocked by soldiers and flooded by water and soil. If you want to find me, I will go to work and run away from things.
I slipped into the kitchen early to help my second aunt cook.
When Zhou Yuan finished packing, the show-off party downstairs had already begun.
The eldest aunt is showing off the new gold bracelet her son bought for her.
It was a large gold bracelet with exquisite workmanship and brilliant gold. It was very heavy at first glance. The gold bracelet was so heavy that my eldest aunt could not even lift her wrist.
"Look at this gold bracelet. Xiaoyu insisted on buying it for me. I just passed by the gold store and looked at it a few more times. I am such a frugal person. The price of gold is so expensive now. How much does this gold bracelet cost?
?”
"I told Xiaoyu at that time not to buy it, not to buy it, but he insisted on buying it for me, saying that he was making money anyway. Now that life is getting better, I can buy it if I like it, as a sign of his filial piety as a son."
"Oh, those words really touched my heart. I was deceived by him at that time. You don't know how heavy this bracelet is. It feels really uncomfortable to wear it on your hand. But after all, it is Xiaoyu's heart.
Yeah, you still have to wear it." The eldest aunt said with great joy, and the expressions on her face were very rich. She was heartbroken, embarrassed, and happy at other times. Her acting skills were terrible.
It was so bad that neither her husband nor her son (Zhou Yu) had the eyes to see it.
The expression on Zhou Yuan's face was also indescribable. She wanted to open her mouth to brag about her fraudulent results this year, but she thought about it and gave it up.
The grandma was the only one in the family who was fooled. The old lady said with a smile: "Okay, Xiaoyu is such a good boy and has a filial heart. This bracelet is so beautiful. It fits Huijuan's hand just right."
Maybe it was because the old lady's muttering voice was too low, and the words of the only person in the audience who were cheering were not heard by the eldest aunt. As a result, the eldest aunt could only continue to perform alone, playing hard, and the old lady on the side nodded her head.
He looked proud, and it was written all over his face that my grandson was so proud.
Finally, the second uncle's daughter couldn't stand listening any more and began to brag on her own, trying to suppress the eldest aunt's bragging.
"Oh, aunt, don't look at that gold bracelet of yours. If the gold bracelet is too heavy and uncomfortable on your wrist, please take it off first. Don't worry about your wrists as you are celebrating the New Year. Look at my new silver necklace.
, diamond-encrusted, brand-name goods. If you like it, I will tell my cousin the brand and ask him to go to the jewelry store and buy you the same model."
The expression on the eldest aunt's face froze, and she realized that her home court had been taken away. Jiang Qi thought she was going to fight back, but he didn't expect the eldest aunt to readily give up the stage to the second uncle's daughter.
"Oh, this necklace is really nice. Your grandma will definitely like it. Panpan, please tell your grandma what's good about this necklace. Your grandma has never seen any diamonds in her life. Our family doesn't like to buy diamond jewelry."
Zhou Pan:……
Zhou Pan's hand holding the cheap crystal imitation diamond necklace trembled slightly.
Yes, her so-called diamond necklace looks like it is made of cheap crystal. Even if Jiang Qi has not read Zhou Pan’s book, he can tell that her necklace is fake. This shows how fake this necklace is. What a fake it is.
The silver necklace is probably made of plastic, the kind that can float in water.
"Yes, Panpan, let me tell grandma what kind of diamond necklace this is. Grandma has only had one silver necklace in her life, which was a dowry when she got married. Grandma has never seen anything like this diamond before!" Grandma was excited.
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Grandma's excitement was answered by Zhou Pan's silence.
Zhou Pan looked at the necklace in his hand and thought for a while: "Hey, these diamond products are all the same, even if they are pretty and shiny, there are no different styles. In fact, they are not expensive, only more than 30,000 yuan.
I bought the money with my year-end bonus."
"Our company's performance this year has been great. In addition, I have worked hard and diligently, and I have earned six months of annual income, which is over 100,000 yuan! By the way, Yuanyuan, how much did you earn at the end of this year? I heard that you
I got a lot in the middle of this year.”
Zhou Yuan, who was suddenly cueed, quickly entered combat mode, waved her hands, and said in a tone that it was nothing: "It's not as much as you, Sister Panpan, so it's only 80,000 or 90,000. But our company has given out a lot of gifts, so I
I brought them all back, such as bird's nests, sea cucumbers, deer antlers, ginseng oral liquid, etc. I didn't need them, so I brought them all back to my grandparents."
"Oh, so many good things have been distributed! Yuanyuan, what does your company do? Is it specialized in this kind of health care product business? Is this product good? Can it be eaten? Will it cause any disease?
Come on? Auntie, you are not too talkative. Many of the health care products these days are fake and mixed with some messy things. Not only are the elderly not healthy after taking them, they will also make them sick. "
Zhou Yuan:……
"Well...our boss likes to make these things, so he likes to distribute them. Auntie, please rest assured that these things are valuable. It took me...a lot of effort and my colleagues to exchange them for the best products. There will definitely be no problem." Zhou
Yuan just patted her chest to make sure.
"That's good, that's good. The eldest aunt is just asking a few more questions, and she definitely doesn't mean to say anything bad about you." The eldest aunt said with a smile.
A group of people started a bragging meeting.
Grandma was listening happily. Grandpa was not interested in the show off of his children and grandchildren. He sat on the sofa and watched TV. A group of people were surrounding the old lady and playing with her eyes closed. The old lady listened enthusiastically for a long time.
Suddenly I remembered something and ran back to my room.
A group of people continued to blow.
After a while, the old lady came down, holding a stack of red envelopes in her hand. Each red envelope was small and thin, looked the same, and had no name written on it.
The old lady walked up to Zhou Yuan and handed out the red envelope with a smile: "Here, Yuanyuan, this is the red envelope grandma gave you. Our family Yuanyuan has grown up and is promising and making money. You buy supplements for grandma, and grandma will give you lucky money."
"
Zhou Yuan was stunned for a moment when she saw the red envelope. She focused on the red envelope without looking at her grandma, as if she was trying to make sure whether the red envelope was for her.
Soon, Zhou Yuan readily accepted the red envelope and showed a big smile: "Thank you grandma, happy new year grandma!"
"Happy New Year Yuanyuan." Grandma smiled and handed out a red envelope to the next granddaughter.
Basically, everyone's reaction to receiving red envelopes is similar to Zhou Yuan's. Everyone accepts red envelopes readily, from junior to junior parents. This may be the tradition of the Zhou family, no matter how old they are, they all receive red envelopes.
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At this time, my aunt was the only one in the kitchen.
Grandma walked into the kitchen grabbing the last red envelope.
Auntie is cutting vegetables in the kitchen.
"Fangfang, this is the red envelope mom gave you." Grandma stood behind Zhou Fang and handed the red envelope to Zhou Fang. Zhou Fang didn't react at all and just continued to cut vegetables.
Grandma smiled and stuffed the red envelope into Zhou Fang's pocket, and said with a smile: "You kid, you are so embarrassed."
Zhou Fang, who had a red envelope stuffed in her pocket, turned around in shock, and then smiled helplessly: "Mom, you stuffed me a red envelope again. I've told you so many times that you don't need to give me a red envelope now that I'm such an old person."
"You have to give it to everyone, no matter how old you are." Grandma said with a smile, "And to Zhuangzhuang. Now that you are divorced, it's not easy to bring Zhuangzhuang back for the New Year. Mom understands, but as a grandma, I have to give Zhuangzhuang a red envelope, right?"
"It's the same for you kid. You've been like this since you were a kid. If you don't want to talk about something, you just pretend not to hear it. I'm your mother. Is there anything I can't tell you? I asked you why Zhuangzhuang didn't come back with you this year.
During the Chinese New Year, you pretended not to hear me again. If I hadn't listened to what the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law said, I wouldn't have known you were divorced."
"What's wrong with divorce? Tell your mom. Are you worried that your mom will push you to find someone like she did your brother? Is mom like that? Mom is pushing your brother to find another one because he usually doesn't have a decent person.
Xing, mom just urged him to find a partner, not to have children."
"You guys..." Grandma began to chatter to Zhou Fang, while Zhou Fang was quietly cutting vegetables beside her.
Just as he was talking, the eldest aunt came in.
"Xiaofang, Mom just handed out red envelopes outside, have you got them?" The eldest aunt came in to wash her hands and looked at the glutinous rice she was soaking, "Is this glutinous rice almost ready?"
Jiang Qi, who always felt that there was something strange about this family, frowned.
From the moment he started bragging, Jiang Qi felt that this family was a bit weird.
Everyone was bragging, and everyone could tell that the other was bragging, and they would occasionally ridicule each other for bragging, but Jiang Qi could feel that there was no hostility between them.
Especially the eldest aunt. The eldest aunt looks like she has taken a villain's script, but the more she looks at it, the more she seems to be really heartless.
My aunt's reaction just now was even more strange.
The old lady is in the kitchen, why doesn't she seem to see her?
"Cough cough cough cough." Zhou Fang coughed violently several times, startling both the aunt and the old lady.
The old lady quickly said: "Fangfang, are you okay? Did you choke on something?"
The old lady patted Zhou Fang on the back.
"It's okay, Mom, please stop filming." Zhou Fang said, "Mom, it's time to make the rice pudding, right? How about we go out first and you cook the rice pudding in the kitchen?"
The eldest aunt was stunned for a moment and then echoed: "Yes, Mom, it seems it's time to make rice with eight treasures."
The old lady nodded: "Okay, leave it to me."
After that, the old lady opened the refrigerator and started looking for something.
Zhou Fang and her eldest aunt took a look at the refrigerator, looked at each other and walked out.
"Why didn't you tell me Mom was in there?" the eldest aunt complained in a low voice.
"How should I tell you? You said that as soon as you came in, and you almost scared me to death." Zhou Fang said angrily, "Fortunately, I reacted quickly and didn't let mom find out."
"Yes, yes, fortunately you responded quickly."
Jiang Qi:?
This family... can't they see the old lady?
Jiang Qi thought about what he felt was wrong just now, and suddenly felt that everything that was wrong had an answer.
Why did the old lady talk to her younger son, but the younger son ignored him? Why did the old lady give Zhou Yuan a red envelope, and Zhou Yuan had to stare at the red envelope for a few seconds before she smiled and accepted it. Why was everyone there?
Bragging hard, never leaving the old lady behind when bragging, and when the other party was bragging too far, she would step on her twice to cover her.
Because this old lady may be a ghost, a ghost who doesn't realize that she is a ghost.
The family cannot see her or hear her voice, but they can feel her and see what she is holding. For others, giving out red envelopes is like a stack of red envelopes floating in the air, and suddenly taking one out and handing it to yourself.
That's why I was stunned for a few seconds to judge whether this was for me.
So whenever the old lady does something or takes something, everyone's eyes are focused on the items, not the old lady.
Even the bragging may have been done specifically to the old lady, because judging from the reactions of the whole family, it seemed that only the old lady took everyone's bragging seriously.
The old lady is making rice pudding in the kitchen.
The rice pudding can be very simple or complex. The rice pudding made by the old lady is obviously a very complicated version.
Jiang Qi watched the old lady put the soaked glutinous rice into the rice cooker and began to steam the glutinous rice, and then took the lotus seeds, red dates, kumquat preserves, longan meat, honey cherries, honey winter melon, barley rice, melon seeds and other fruit ingredients.
Take it out and put it into small bowls.
While steaming the rice, the old lady patiently removed the pits and chopped all kinds of dates, chopped the dried osmanthus, added some sugar and honey, and mixed it into the prepared bean paste filling.
The rest of the ingredients were either chopped, shredded, or cut in half. There were not many but many varieties. The old lady handled these ingredients patiently one by one, waiting for the glutinous rice to be steamed.
After the glutinous rice was steamed, the old lady mixed sugar and lard into the steamed glutinous rice. Then she took out fifteen bowls, first spread a layer of lard in the bowls, and then she processed the ones she had prepared
The ingredients are piled on the bottom of the bowl one by one, layer by layer and circle by circle, all the way to the middle.
After the ingredients on the bottom layer were arranged, the old lady spread a layer of steamed glutinous rice, filled it with bean paste filling, and spread the last layer of glutinous rice on the bottom. This was done for every bowl until fifteen bowls were completed.
After completing these steps, the old lady began to steam glutinous rice. Although the house was built very modernly, there was an earthen stove in the kitchen and the pot was big enough to steam fifteen bowls of rice at a time.
While the rice was steaming, the old lady used a normal-sized pot on another stove to cook the remaining vegetables.
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As the eight-treasure rice comes out of the pot, all the dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner have been completed. The whole family is seated, and the large round table is filled with sumptuous dishes. The old lady goes back and forth to the kitchen and restaurant to serve the eight-treasure rice to everyone.
Bowls of eight-treasure rice were served in front of everyone.
Until the last bowl is served, which is my own bowl.
The old lady sat down with her bowl of eight-treasure rice and said with a smile: "I find that over the years, more and more people have come back together."
"Everyone came back last year to celebrate the New Year. It's great that everyone is back today." The old lady said with a smile. When she noticed that no one moved their chopsticks, she urged, "Let's all eat, Yuanyuan, Panpan, Xiaozhuan,
Eat vegetables.”
"The eight-treasure rice is still hot now, so you can eat it later." The old lady said this, but she took a chopstick of the eight-treasure rice first.
The white glutinous rice is stuck with black bean paste, wrapped with green plums, white lotus seeds and red dates, and it's a mouthful.
The old lady opened her mouth wide and wanted to wrap it up in one gulp, but found that she couldn't.
She can't eat.
The old lady was stunned.
She looked at her hands, the chopsticks in her hands, the glutinous rice on the chopsticks, and then at the family members on the table who all looked at her in unison, as if she understood something.
"So... am I already dead?" the old lady murmured, "Yes, I am dead. I died two months ago. How could I forget it?"
"No wonder everyone ignores me. I thought I was too old and annoyed you."
The old lady smiled and looked at her daughter who was staring in her direction but unable to stare at her and could not help but start crying.
"It's really hard for you to have to work so hard to act with me."
The old lady's body began to gradually become transparent.
Now, everyone can see her.
"Mom." Zhou Fang cried, "Mom, are you leaving?"
The eldest aunt also began to wipe her tears.
"Mom is leaving." The old lady said with a smile, "Seeing that you are doing well, I can rest assured that I will be reincarnated."
"Before I left, I always regretted that I couldn't make it to the New Year's Eve and cook eight-treasure rice for everyone. How could the ones bought outside be as delicious as the ones I made myself? It's fine now, and the last regret is over. I
You can leave with peace of mind.”
"Grandma." Zhou Yuan wanted to catch grandma, but it was in vain.
"Yuanyuan, I'm sorry, grandma can't take the supplements you brought for grandma."
"Old man, I'm leaving. Please help me take good care of everyone."
"Um."
The old lady became more and more transparent until she disappeared.
Chapter completed!