Lin Mai and Grandma Fang prepare the New Year's dinner together for the first day of the Chinese New Year.
There were a lot of leftovers from the New Year’s Eve dinner last night, but I couldn’t eat anything left over from the New Year’s Eve dinner. I could only put it in the backyard to cool down and put it on it with a large cover.
The New Year’s dinner was ready, and Grandpa Fang and his grandchildren also cut the bamboo back.
Grandma Fang asked everyone to serve them while they were hot, and asked everyone to finish all the dishes, otherwise they would have leftovers.
Considering that the two old men were old and had poor teeth, Lin Mai’s meat and vegetables were all soft and juicy, Grandpa Fang had a great time eating them again.
He also pointed at Fang Zhuoran with chopsticks: "If you want a wife, you have to find someone who has a good cooking skills and can eat well every day."
Fang Zhuoran smiled and said nothing.
I was afraid that there were more leftovers, Lin Mai only made five dishes and one soup for the New Year's Eve, which means six or six great things.
Everyone worked together to sweep all the six dishes, and Fang Zhuoran rushed to wash the bowl.
When he came out, he saw Grandpa Fang use bamboo to make a piggy bank for Doudou, and Lin Mai and his daughter watched.
Grandpa Fang is so old that it is very difficult to cut bamboo with a knife.
Fang Zhuoran walked over and squatted down, took the knife and bamboo from Grandpa Fang's hand: "I'll do it."
This is the first time Lin Mai has seen bamboo use as a piggy bank.
The production is very simple. Cut a bamboo joint with bottoms at both ends from the bamboo that is thick with a bowl, and then dig a small hole above the bamboo joint. The bamboo piggy bank is done.
Lin Mai looked at it and laughed: "This is not a piggy bank, this is obviously a Pixiu, and you can't take it out after the money is in your stomach."
Because the piggy bank made by Zhujie has no money withdrawal, and if you want to withdraw the money, you can only chop the piggy bank, so Lin Mai said so.
Doudou didn't understand what Pixiu was, so she couldn't wait to fold her three one-yuan bills into small pieces and wanted to stuff them into the opening.
Lin Mai grabbed her little hand and said, "If you put this money in, you can't take it out. You can only wait until the piggy bank is full before you can split it with a knife. Do you still put it in it?"
Doudou thought for a while, and said angrily: "Let it go!" She wanted to put those three bills in again.
Fang Zhuoran gently pulled the three bills from her hand: "Piggy bank is used to save change. If you store banknotes, you are afraid that the banknotes will be eaten away by insects."
Doudou looked at the three bills in his hand and pouted, "But I don't have change..."
"Let's use these three dollars to exchange for change with others."
Fang Zhuoran put the three dollars in Doudou's pocket: "Wait until eight o'clock, will uncle take you to the supply and marketing cooperative to exchange change?"
Doudou nodded hesitantly.
On the first day of the New Year, not only do their own family members have to pay New Year greetings to each other, but neighbors also have to go to other people's homes to pay New Year greetings and say a few auspicious words.
Grandma Fang was hosting neighbors who came to pay New Year's greetings at home, while Grandpa Fang wore a new dress that Lin Mai bought for him and took Doudou out to pay New Year's greetings.
When the neighbors came to Fang's house to pay New Year's greetings, they were all a little surprised to see Lin Mai celebrate the New Year at Fang's house, but no one asked the reason.
Lin Mai didn't care about the inquiring eyes of the neighbors at all. He poured tea and water for them generously and appropriately, and grabbed snacks for the children who came with the New Year's greetings.
A few villagers praised Grandma Fang for her good tweed coat and asked with a smile: "What did your eldest grandson buy?"
Grandma Fang glanced at Fang Zhuoran, who helped entertain guests in disgust: "How could he, a big man, buy me such beautiful clothes? It was Maizi who bought me."
Everyone praised her strangely for a few words and then said goodbye and left.
Lin Mai helped Grandma Fang send the person out of the door. When she turned around and entered the house, Fengxue brought the comments from the neighbors into her ears.
"Maizi is not simple. She has the will to try to please Mr. Fang and his couple in different ways. She doesn't go back to her home during the Chinese New Year. It's probably because of the old couple's family property."
"Who said Mr. Fang is not in harmony with his son and daughter, so he asked someone to take advantage of the loopholes~"
After welcoming and seeing off several waves of neighbors, a voice that made the owner and Lin Mai disgusted him sounded outside the door: "Mr. Fang, Mr. Fang, I'm here to greet you!"
Then the empty door was pushed open, and Aunt Wu walked in with several grandchildren and wind and snow.
As soon as he came in, he saw Lin Mai. He couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and said sarcastically: "Oh! Xiaolin, you are running fast. You came to greet Old Lady Fang early in the morning. How much red envelope did you receive?"
Grandma Fang didn't even sting her with a slight smirk: "Maizi didn't come to me early in the morning to greet me, but my wife and I invited her to celebrate the New Year at my house."
She looked at Aunt Wu’s grandsons with a deep sense: “Maizi is not the kind of person who loves to be greedy for cheapness. Not only does she not accept my red envelopes, she also bought down jackets for our old couple a few days ago, and during the Chinese New Year, she bought a new set of clothes for us.”
She pulled the tweed jacket on her body: "This is the new clothes Maizi bought for me, the tweed fabric, the down jacket I wore before the New Year, you probably haven't heard of it."
With a series of sarcasm, Aunt Wu couldn't hold on her face and didn't even drink tea. She took a few grandchildren and left in shame.
Grandma Fang snorted coldly. She had long been disgusted with Aunt Wu and took advantage of wherever she went.
Neighbors greet each other for New Year's greetings. If there are children, the owner will give the children snacks.
Other neighbors took their children to pay New Year's greetings, and only one child was brought, but she was only a group of children, for fear of losing the benefits.
After a while, Tieniu's mother came to Grandma Fang's house to greet her with a gift in her hand.
Tieniu's mother was also quite surprised when she saw Lin Mai. She didn't expect Lin Mai to celebrate the New Year at Fang's house.
Grandma Fang was also surprised that Tieniu's family did not live in the town, so it was not considered a neighbor and was not used to pay New Year's greetings from her family. She had never been here last year, but this year it was Tieniu's mother.
Even if I was coming, it should be Tieniu. Tieniu's mother stayed at home to entertain the villagers who came to pay New Year's greetings.
Grandma Fang greeted her with a smile: "Tieniu Mom, why are you here? Just ask your son to come and pay New Year's greetings."
Tieniu's mother smiled at Lin Mai and put the two bottles of wine and two packets of brown sugar in her hand on the dining table:
"I want to take advantage of the opportunity to greet New Year's greetings and thank the aunt and uncle. Without you, my mother and son would not have earned a lot of money with Maizi before the New Year."
Grandma Fang waved her hand very proudly: "My fellow villagers in the country, I'm just a little busy, I'm not interested in giving gifts!"
Tienniu's mother rubbed her hands and said, "This is my little wish. Auntie, you must accept it."
Seeing that Lin Mai and Fang Zhuoran were greeting other guests, they lowered their voices and said, "Auntie, I have something to tell you alone."
Seeing her solemn look, Grandma Fang greeted other neighbors who came to pay New Year's greetings and took Tieniu's mother into her room.
The two sat down on the edge of the bed, and Grandma Fang asked with concern: "What's the matter?"
I was wondering if their family had encountered difficulties, so I asked for a New Year to come.
Tieniu's mother hesitated and then said, "I, I'm here to ask you to always match my son."
Grandma Fang was stunned: "Who is your son interested in?"
Tienniu's mother thrust into the door: "It's Maizi, I, I want Maizi to marry my son, aunt, do you think it's okay?"