On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Ju An woke up early, started to get dressed, and went to the door of Dinah's room to wake up Dinah. When they walked downstairs together, they saw his brother and sister-in-law getting up and taking Ran Ran with them.
, was about to go to dad's house.
Ju An took Dinah and followed his brother and sister-in-law to the door of his father's house. The eldest brother knocked on the door and asked: "Mom and dad, are you up? We are here to kowtow."
Then I heard my father smiling inside and saying, "Get up, come in." Then my brother opened the door and took everyone in.
When he went in, he saw his father and mother happily sitting beside the bed. Now that Ran Ran was experienced, she knelt down with a plop and said with her mouth as if it were covered with honey: "Grandpa and grandma! Happy New Year.
". Then there was a bang, and my mother quickly said worriedly: "Be gentle! Be gentle, don't knock your head." The little guy kowtowed a few times, then stretched out his little fat hand, and the dad smiled and took it from his pocket.
I took out the New Year's money from my pocket and handed it to the guy. Then my mother also handed the New Year's money to Ran Ran. The little guy happily put the red envelope into the bag.
Ju An quickly helped his eldest brother and sister-in-law find two mats. Then his eldest brother and sister-in-law knelt on the mats and kowtowed to their mother. Taking advantage of this time, Ju An said to Dinah: "Are you used to it? I don't like it."
You don’t have to kowtow.”,
Dinah smiled and said: "It doesn't matter. When I came here, my father and mother told me to respect other people's traditions, so that we can respect each other's habits, and then we can live together harmoniously, just like my parents did.
Know how to tolerate each other.”
As soon as she finished speaking, her brother and sister-in-law had already received the New Year's money. My mother smiled and said to Dinah: "Dina, stop kowtowing. Let San'er kowtow for you."
Dinah smiled and said: "It's okay."
After hearing this, Ju An took Dinah to kowtow to his father and mother a few times, said some blessings, and received two red envelopes. Ju An looked in his bag. There was only fifty yuan, secretly.
I took a look inside Dinah and saw it was two hundred.
Then he yelled: "Dad, Mom, last year it was still one hundred, why did it change to fifty this year? There is inflation. Why did the New Year's money fall if it doesn't rise?"
When the eldest brother heard this, he quickly looked at the red envelope and said with a smile: "I am also fifty, yes, it is only half of last year." After saying that, he looked at his sister-in-law and said, "This wife has already increased her salary."
Ran Ran quickly took out the red envelope, looked at it with her small eyes, and then took it back with a smile, and stopped talking. The feelings of her grandson and daughters-in-law have risen, and that of her son has fallen.
My mother said with a smile: "This year's economic crisis, it will be great for you two, don't complain." The eldest brother and Ju An were stunned.
At this time, Ran Ran couldn't wait any longer and said: "Second uncle and second aunt, hurry up and go down, I still have to pay for the new year's money."
Ju An had no choice but to sit down with Dinah. Before he could sit still, Ran Ran kowtowed. Immediately after kowtowing, his little paws reached out to Ju An's eyes. Ju An handed over the prepared red envelope of one hundred dollars to Ran Ran.
Past: "This is me and Dinah together".
Xiao Ranran took it and took out the money and looked at it for a long time. He only knew one hundred yuan, and then the eldest brother said: "Third brother, it's too much. Just give me a hundred yuan. The child has more money."
not good".
Ju An shook his head and said with a smile: "Just help me save it, and I will get one when Tongtong comes."
At this time, Ran Ran still didn't see how much this was. She scratched her head and looked at her sister-in-law, who smiled and said: "That is American money. One of them can be exchanged for more than six of your red bills. Thank you uncle and aunt quickly. This guy
The price of the little head has increased this year."
As soon as he heard that one card was exchanged for six, the little guy knew it and quickly put it into his small pocket, and then kowtowed a few times to Ju An and Dinah.
Ju An smiled and said: "You little guy, how much does it cost to kowtow for one person? If you give me as long as you want, I will kowtow two more. If you give me less, I will kowtow two less. Why don't you kowtow to your father and mother?"
The eldest brother smiled and said: "I couldn't hold it back as soon as I went to bed last night. I had already knelt on the bed. After I came back from your place, Ran Ran became more lively and no longer as timid as before. Now I am more active in speaking in class.
I'm just worried that I'm being too naughty."
My mother pulled Ran Ran into her arms and said, "Boys, it would be better if you are a little more solid. I used to be as honest as a girl. How can I still be as skinny as you two brothers when you were young?".
When my father saw that his mother was about to start talking, he said: "Why are you bringing this up during the Chinese New Year in front of your grandson? Well, since everyone has kowtowed too much, go out and cook dumplings to eat."
The whole family had just come out of dad's house, and Tongtong's voice came from outside the courtyard door: "Grandpa and grandma, Tongtong is here to kowtow."
At this time, my mother said: "This family has come here so early." Then she saw her sister and brother-in-law pulling Tongtong into the yard.
My sister smiled and said: "Early in the morning, this girl Tongtong started to make a fuss, saying that she was coming over. Her grandfather told her that her aunt was coming to give her the New Year's money. She didn't even attract him to live there. She knew how to do the math, and said that there were two uncles here.
"There is only one aunt there, but there are many here."
Everyone in the family laughed when they heard this.
Now the family sat down in the main room again, waiting for the elder sister and brother-in-law to kowtow to their parents. After the elder sister got the red envelope, she looked inside and was about to raise an objection when Ju An said: "Don't complain.
Now, my eldest brother and I are both fifty, so our values have dropped."
My sister looked at her brother-in-law's red envelope and said, "This man's red envelope is more than what I gave him. He, the only outsider in this family, has more red envelopes than our own family members. It's not fair!".
The whole family laughed again when they heard this. The brother-in-law laughed and said, "So many of you are our own family, but I, as an outsider, stand out. Of course I have to give more."
Following the eldest brother, the couple and Juan Dina waited for Tongtong to come over, kowtow and give her lucky money.
After Tongtong finished kowtowing, Ju An handed over the red envelope. Tongtong took out all the red envelopes he received in his pocket, put them in his sister's hand, and then said seriously: "Mom, please keep it for me. Don't worry."
I remember all the corruption.”
Ju An saw this scene from the side and praised: "Tongtong is pretty good. She knows how to keep the New Year's money for her mother. She is much more sensible."
"She is still a little young and has no concept of money. She will know how to keep it when she is a year or two older. When Ran Ran was little, she would give it to her mother to keep whatever she had. Now she keeps it by herself. She is much smarter.
"Yes," the elder brother said with a smile.
Then the two little guys held hands and started playing in the yard. The mother took her sisters into the kitchen to cook dumplings, and the father took Ju An and others to watch the two children playing in the yard.
Waiting to eat dumplings.
After the dumplings were cooked and everyone happily finished the first dumpling meal of the New Year, the family gathered around the Eight Immortals Table and played a traditional game, Mahjong!
This time the four people in the battle were dad, Ju An, brother-in-law, and the rest were watching. Ju An started to teach Dinah how to play while playing by himself. Then Dinah started to read out from time to time. After two rounds, Ju An
No nonsense.
After two laps, the female compatriots entered the battle. The male compatriots watched from the side. Ju An followed Dinah, watching and giving instructions. Dinah played two big cards in a row, and Ju An made money.
Brought it back again.
After the first day of the Lunar New Year, we started to visit relatives. But this year, all the relatives came to Ju An's house first to see his foreign wife. The whole family, Ju Anguang has fifteen or sixteen aunts and cousins on his mother's side and his father's side.
My aunts and cousins were all too far away, so we were not very active in leaving. Gradually, the relationship became much weaker than with my mother.
The tone of visiting relatives is almost the same, including eating, drinking, playing mahjong, and then the new year's money for the little ones. Ju An and Dinah don't have children yet, so they can only collect money from their elders, but the money for a dozen little carrots still has to be paid.
Produced by myself.
So a circle of relatives came down, and Ju An and his childless cousins became money-spreading boys. However, the whole family gathered together and had three tables to eat, which was very lively. Dinah especially liked this.
He was having a great time, and he said to Ju An from time to time: "Your New Year is more lively than our Christmas. It is so festive, and so many relatives are together. It is really hard to have such a harmonious relationship."
good".
"This is still the case. If in the early days, we had to go to our hometown to celebrate the New Year with the entire extended family, the standard procedure would be complicated. I still listen to what my grandma said before. In the past, our extended family celebrated the New Year in the countryside.
, the clan leader brought the ancestors to worship their ancestors and so on. I heard her old man say that when two or three hundred people came to kowtow in the ancestral hall, it was a big scene. However, now the ancestral hall at home has long been destroyed and turned into a cowshed.
Nowadays, it’s just relatives eating around each other, it’s not really a scene anymore,” Ju An said with a smile. Dinah was fascinated when she heard this, and even said it was a pity that she couldn’t experience the real Chinese tradition.
Ju An and Dinah stayed at home until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year before heading back to the ranch. Ju An's stomach wouldn't be able to bear it if he didn't move. He couldn't drink in the first place. For a group of relatives, you can have a few drinks and I can have a few.
A bunch of them were either civil servants or working in hospitals, or running small businesses, and they were all very good drinkers, which made Ju An drunk and uncomfortable every day.
On the other hand, Dinah lived a very comfortable life. No one let her drink. She ate here and there every day. From time to time, she picked up her mobile phone to take photos, and took photos with some of her cousins and aunts in Ju'an.
My life was quite moist. If Ju An hadn't forced me to do so, I would have wanted to stay at home for a few more days before leaving.
On the morning of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Ju An took Dinah on a car heading to Jiangnan. When they arrived in Jiangnan City, they said hello to Wu Ming. Without stopping at all, they flew straight to Los Angeles with Dinah.
The journey took more than 20 hours of dusty flight before we returned to the ranch in Montana. (To be continued!~!
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