Chapter 254: Dumplings must be eaten during Chinese New Year
Fuyumi fell into deep thought for a moment.
This kid helped him many times, but he never took credit for it and was very kind to others. He never got angry when his sisters were messing around all day long. Even if he contradicted him sometimes and made him angry, he would just talk about the matter, talk about the truth, and also scold others.
, but never said threatening words such as "I quit", forcing myself to bow my head and apologize...
Even Haruna is convinced by this point alone. She feels that he is mature and stable, and has a very good character, which is not comparable to that of ordinary boys.
No matter from any point of view, my family owes him a lot. It’s the Chinese New Year, and it seems that I should really give him some face. Bring generous gifts and rush to his house to thank his parents. I can’t let people accuse my family of not knowing etiquette.
, being ungrateful, taking kindness for granted, and having no sense of shame at all - it is even better to go farther away, so that you can appear extra sincere, pay special attention to him, and make him extra proud.
Who should I send? The second sister? No, it will bring down the Beihara family. Now we want to thank the Beihara family for their help, not send someone to seek revenge; the third sister? She is too young, she feels that she is not taken seriously enough...
Not to mention Xiaosi, Xiaowu and Tailang, none of them can do it.
What if you go by yourself? What if you go home? If you are not at home during the Chinese New Year, you may not even have the roof when you come back!
Kitahara Xiuji also fell into deep thought.
He had promised to return to his hometown during the Bon Festival. Yoko was still there at the time. He considered using Yoko as a shield and taking her back with him. Yoko was so sweet and cute that she could easily win over the original owner.
Once the parents' attention is diverted, if you hang out there for three to five days and then come back with Yoko, then you will be considered successful.
It's just that now that Yoko has become the eldest daughter of the Kagura family, it's impossible for him to take her back to his hometown. So now listen to what Yuki means... Can't he take Yuki back?
It's just that Xueli's character is a bit uneasy. When she walked in the door, she knelt down and called out "Mom and Dad." I guess the original owner's parents had a heart attack.
She could easily cause tragedy... If you want to take her with you, you have to take Little Carrot Head with you. Only Little Carrot Head can control her.
If that doesn't work, just take all these carrot-headed salted eggs back? With such a big crowd and such a noisy crowd, I guess the original owner's parents won't have much time to take care of themselves. If they mess around for a few days and then send these salted eggs back, they can pass the test smoothly.
It's hard to understand the huge changes in more than half a year. Then if you stay outside for another year, it can barely be considered two years in total. It seems that the young man's personality has completely changed, so it can be justified, right?
He has always felt that from a basic human perspective, he owed something to the parents of the original owner. At least he lost his son. It was an accident and it would not cost him his life, but he should still try to make up for it, at least try not to hurt him.
Their relationship - mainly judging from their daily emails and phone calls, I feel that they are a simple farm couple, not bad people at all.
Of course, you have to be cruel and cruel to the bad guys, and beat them forever when you seize the opportunity, but to the good guys...
He wanted to conceal the truth, and it would be best to treat everything as if the original owner was still alive.
He thought for a while, made up his mind, and asked Fuyumi tentatively: "I have been disturbing your house for so long, do you want to come to my house to play during the New Year?"
Fuyumi looked up in surprise: "Me?"
This guy wants to take him home to meet his parents? This...isn't this appropriate? The family hasn't decided who will pay off the debt!
Kithara Shuji shook his head and said: "No, I mean all of you... If you don't mind, you can go to Tottori County together to see, there... there..."
He said that half of it was stuck, and he didn't know what Tottori Prefecture was like.
But Fuyumi breathed a sigh of relief and just asked hesitantly: "Is it appropriate for everyone to go to your house for the Chinese New Year?"
Kitahara Shuji planned to send an email to communicate with Tottori Prefecture later. He thought that he would not be rejected. He said directly: "There is nothing inappropriate. The main thing is to see if you can go."
"If they all go..." Fuyumi looked around and found that Yuki was nodding her head excitedly, and she couldn't wait. Haruna nodded slightly and agreed. Natsori Natsusa was also obviously interested, and Akitarou was still interested.
I am ignorant and have no idea about traveling far away. I just keep my head down and drink batter.
Fuyumi felt that it was not appropriate for the whole family to go to other people's homes during the Chinese New Year, but she also felt that during the Chinese New Year, she should express her gratitude and respect to the "great benefactor" Kitahara Shuji who helped her family. However, there was still a child in the family who was lying in the hospital.
The standing dad thought for a while and said, "Can we leave later? Let's spend the Chinese New Year with dad and mom at home first, and then visit your house again?"
That's fine. The whole family went out to express gratitude. This was, at least from a ceremonial point of view, a super standard, but Kitahara Shuji also deserved it - not everyone could be kind enough to take over this mess of their own, and not everyone could afford to support it.
In a large family, not everyone will take the initiative to give unilaterally without asking for anything.
Based on his kindness alone, the super standard etiquette is not excessive.
Kitahara Shuji thought this was a good idea, and he could just use this excuse to delay his return for a few days - it wasn't that he was impersonal, it was just that he really didn't know how to face the couple and felt super headache, showing a rare ostrich mentality.
He agreed immediately and said with a smile: "Of course, this is a matter of course. Then I will leave a few days later... Then shall I make cold food?"
The little carrot head helped him solve a big trouble. He immediately took the initiative and reciprocated the favor, preparing to go all out to make the Fuze family have a good and prosperous year.
Fuyumi had no objection at all. In front of her was a cheating chef who could make customers willingly get ripped off. It was perfect for him to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner.
They took action immediately after breakfast. Kitahara Shuji first sent an email to politely ask Tottori Prefecture if he could go back a few days later because he wanted to take Fuyumi and the others to visit his home. There was quite a surprise there, so he happily agreed.
Then he felt more confident and felt more at ease. He got into the kitchen and immediately played the role of a housewife.
Fuyumi took the coolie type follower, that is, Yuki out to clean up the New Year's goods, Haruna took the summer weaving and summer gauze cleaning, but in fact there is not much to clean. Kitahara Shuji has lived in Fukuzawa's house for three or four months, even under the floor
All the ashes accumulated over time have been collected.
Suzuki Noki, who had just woken up, was also given a brush, and she and Akitarou began to brush the corners of the furniture together.
Fukuzawa has a large family and usually spends a lot of money, but something is really going on at home, and there are many people who can work. Although it is later than the average family to prepare for the New Year, the whole family is much more efficient than an average family with just one housewife.
Everything was done smoothly before the end of the year.
Fuyumi prepared a lot of gift boxes and delivered them to the street in advance. It was regarded as completing the New Year's visit to the neighborhood. She also rearranged the Buddhist altar for her mother before New Year's Eve, lit incense and candles, and put out sumptuous food - for her mother.
Look, everyone is living a good life and eating well, don’t worry about the other world - and then he leads the whole family to the hospital to celebrate the New Year with his father.
It was said that they were celebrating the New Year together, but in fact it was just a collective visit. Naotaka Fukuzawa could not eat or drink now, and could only rely on infusions to survive. Hideji Kitahara took the initiative to give two caregivers five times their holiday salary, so that they could take turns accompanying them during the New Year.
He took care of Naotaka Fukuzawa and left his phone number so that he could contact him in time if anything went wrong when taking away the salted eggs from Fukuzawa’s family.
Tottori Prefecture is said to be far away because it is remote, but it actually only takes two hours by express train. Counting other roads and road traffic, it takes half a day at most. If something happens, you can run back in time... Mainly because Japan is so small.
, it takes half a day to go anywhere from Guanzhong.
Fuyumi reported the recent situation at home to her father, and told her that the whole family would rush to Kitahara's house to say thank you. She hesitated whether to bring her father home for New Year's Eve. She was not sure, so she asked Kitahara Hideji, who was not too sure either.
Dare - just in case something unexpected happens during the move, or the condition suddenly changes at home, there is no doctor or equipment, and he doesn't dare to try the [Medical Skills] that is almost lv10 with the carrot-headed dad. It's really useful.
No one can take responsibility for losing his life.
So Fuyumi and the others could only take turns talking to their father, and that was the end of the New Year together. They went back home to prepare to finish the New Year's Eve and celebrate the New Year with their mother. Fuyumi directed Xueli to move the TV to the public activity room, and then waited
I was watching the Red and White Song Gala on NHK TV, where singers from the red and white teams compete against each other. It is similar in nature to the Spring Festival Gala in China. It is a program that you must listen to during the Chinese New Year in Japan without watching it.
Suzuki Noki has a home of her own, a mansion of more than 120 acres, but she refuses to go back no matter what. She shamelessly stays at Fukuzawa's house, huddled in the kotatsu and waiting to eat ready-made food - kotatsu is
The dining table was originally covered with a quilt and put on a board, and two electric heaters were inserted under it. Japan's Guanzhong is not cold enough to require central heating like in northern China. In winter, heating depends entirely on this thing.
She really didn't think of herself as an outsider. She looked very cold when she was huddled there motionless. She only used her mouth to direct Fuyumi to adjust the angle of the TV. The reason was that she had a bad cervical spine and couldn't tilt her head for a long time, but she didn't want the light in the TV to be too dazzling and affect her.
When she was eating, Fuyumi insisted on placing the TV 55 degrees directly in front of her.
Fuyumi didn't care about her life or death at all - seeing that no one in your family would let you stay here to celebrate the New Year, do you really think you are a living ancestor? Fuyumi was not polite and pointed the TV at Suzuki Noki, deliberately trying to kill her, but Suzuki Noki complained
After a few words, he huddled in the kotatsu like a sick cat and looked at it comfortably - the short winter melon has been dissatisfied all day long, but he is actually a fool!
Japan has to eat "New Year's Soba" during Chinese New Year, which is similar to Chinese New Year's obligatory eating dumplings. Without this thing, it is not Chinese New Year. For example, as recorded in the article "A Bowl of Clear Soba Soba" in the Chinese language textbook,
"On this day at the end of every year, local people in Hokkaido go to noodle shops to eat a bowl of soba noodles to celebrate the festival."
Although the place is wrong and the era is different, the poor people at that time could not grind buckwheat flour at home, but the nature of Guanzhong has not changed in modern Japan, and they still have to eat buckwheat noodles.
Chef Kitahara Shutsuji completely respects the customs of the Fukuzawa family. Each person has a bowl of thin New Year soba noodles, which is a good luck and bless the whole family with continuous blessings, health and longevity, and he also cooks it according to Yukiri's requirements.
"Miscellaneous cooking", because their mother used to cook it during the Chinese New Year. Finally, they served a giant luxurious cold food platter, which was placed in the middle of the table and was three stories high, like a small tower.
Of course, this is his first year studying in Japan... Although it is not the Spring Festival in the lunar calendar, it can still be regarded as the Chinese New Year!
So he didn't forget to make himself dumplings, which was a big plate of steaming hot dumplings.
Northerners must eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year. Not to mention in Japan, they would have to eat them even on Mars!