Alpine pasture

Chapter 157

On the morning of the first day of the new year, Ju An woke up early, then began to put on clothes, and woke up Dina at the door of Dina's room. When the two walked downstairs together, they saw that brother and sister-in-law also got up and brought Ran Ran. , I was about to go to my father's house.

Ju An took Dinah and followed her brother and sister-in-law to the door of her father's house. The elder brother knocked on the door and asked, "Mom and Dad, are you up? We're here to kowtow."

Then I heard my dad say with a smile inside: "Get up, let's all come in."Then my brother pushed the door and led everyone in.

When I went in, I saw that my father and mother were already on the edge of the bed happily. Ran Ran was experienced. She knelt down with a plop, and said with a small mouth as if she was wiping honey: "Grandpa and Grandma! Happy New Year. ".Then with a thud, my mother said worriedly: "Take it! Take it easy, don't knock your head."The little guy knocked a few times, and then stretched out his little fat hand. Dad took out the lucky money from his pocket with a smile, handed it to the guy, followed by his mother and handed the lucky money to Ran Ran, the little guy was overjoyed Put the red envelope in the pocket.

Ju An quickly helped the eldest brother and sister-in-law find two mats, and then the eldest brother and sister-in-law knelt on the mats and started to kowtow to the mother. Taking advantage of this effort, Ju An said to Dinah, "I'm not used to it, I don't like it. You don't have to kowtow." ,

Dinah smiled and said: "It's okay, when I came here, my father and mother told me to respect other people's traditions, so that they can respect each other's habits, and then they can live together harmoniously, just like my parents. know how to tolerate each other.”

As soon as the words fell, the brother and sister-in-law had already received the lucky money, and the mother smiled and said to Dinah: "Dinah, stop kowtow, let San'er kowtow for you."

Dinah smiled and said, "It's alright."

After hearing this, Ju An took Dinah to kowtow to his father and mother a few times, said a word of blessing, and got two red envelopes. Ju An checked his bag, only 50 yuan, and secretly took a look at it. After looking at Dinah, it turned out to be two hundred.

Then he shouted: "Dad, Mom, last year it was still [-], why is it changed to [-] this year, this inflation, the New Year's money does not rise, why does it still fall?"

When the big brother heard it, he quickly looked at the red envelope and said with a smile, "I'm also fifty, yes, why is it only half of last year's".After finishing speaking, I looked at my sister-in-law and said, "This daughter-in-law has gone up."

Ran Ran quickly took out the red envelope, looked at it with small eyes, and then took it back with a smile, and stopped talking. The feelings of grandsons and daughters-in-law have risen, and sons have fallen.

Mom said with a smile: "This year's economic crisis, it would be good for the two of you to have it, don't complain."The elder brother and Ju An who listened were stunned.

At this time, Ran Ran couldn't wait any longer, and said, "Second Uncle and Second Aunt, hurry up and lower left, I still have to pay for the New Year's money."

Ju An had no choice but to sit down with Dinah. Before she could sit firmly, Ran Ran had already kowtowed. After kowtowing, her small paws reached out to Ju An's eyes. Ju An handed over the prepared [-]-dollar red envelope to Ran Ran. Past: "This is me and Dinah".

Xiao Ranran took it, took out the money and looked at it for a long time, and only knew one hundred, and then the elder brother said: "My third child, I gave too much, just give me 100 yuan, and I will do it. If the child has too much money, don't you?" it is good".

Ju An shook his head and said with a smile, "You can help me save it, and I'll have one when Tongtong arrives."

Ran Ran still didn't see how much it was at this time, she scratched her ears and scratched her cheeks and looked at her sister-in-law, who said with a smile, "That's American money, and it's more than six red notes for each one. Hurry up and thank the second uncle and aunt, this guy. The price of the little head has gone up this year."

As soon as he heard that one card was exchanged for six, the little guy knew it now, and quickly put it into his small pocket, and then kowtowed to Ju An and Dina a few times.

Ju An said with a smile: "You little guy, how much is a kowtow? How much is a kowtow? If you give it more, you can kowtow two more times. If you give less, you can kowtow two less. Why don't you kowtow to your parents and your mother?"

The eldest brother said with a smile: "Last night I just went to bed and couldn't hold back. I had already knocked on the bed. After coming back from you, Ran Ran is much more lively and no longer as timid as before, and now I am also active in speaking in class. It's too skinny to worry."

My mother pulled Ran Ran into her arms and said, "The boy's family, the skin is better. I used to be like a girl. Can I still skin the two of you when you were young?".

When my father saw that my mother was about to open the conversation, he said, "Why do you mention this in front of your grandson during the New Year's Eve? Well, since everyone has kowtowed, let's go out and cook dumplings to eat."

The family had just come out of Dad's house, and a bright voice came from outside the yard door: "Grandpa, Grandma, Tongtong has come to kowtow."

All of a sudden, my mother said, "This family has come over so early in the morning."Then I saw my sister and brother-in-law pulling Tongtong into the yard.

The elder sister said with a smile: "Early in the morning, this girl, Tongtong, started to make a fuss, saying that she was coming over. His grandfather told her that her aunt was coming to give her New Year's money, but she was not attracted to live there. , there is only one aunt there, there are many here."

Everyone who heard it laughed.

Now the family sat down in the main room again, waiting for my sister and brother-in-law to kowtow to my parents, and when my sister got the red envelope and looked inside, just about to raise an objection, Ju An said, "Don't complain. Now, my eldest brother and I are both fifty, and our worth has dropped."

My sister glanced at my brother-in-law's red envelope and said, "This person has more red envelopes than I gave, and the only outsider in this family has more red envelopes than our own family. It's not fair!".

The family who heard it laughed again, and my brother-in-law laughed and said, "So many of you are from your own family, but I am an outsider who stands out. Of course, I need to give more."

Following the eldest brother and his wife and Ju Andina, they waited for Tongtong to come and kowtow and give the New Year's money.

After waiting for Tongtong to kowtow, Ju An handed over the red envelopes, Tongtong took out all the red envelopes she received in her pocket, put them in her sister's hands, and said solemnly, "Mom, keep them for me, don't. Corruption, I remember it."

Seeing this scene next to him, Ju An praised him: "Tongtong is not bad. It's a lot more sensible to know that she has given the New Year's money to her mother."

"She's still a little younger and doesn't have the concept of money now. When she's a year or two older, she'll know that she has it. In the past, when Ran Ran was young, she would give it to her mother if she had anything, but now she keeps it herself, she's smarter "Yes," the elder brother said with a smile.

Then the two little guys held hands and went to the yard to play. The mother took her sister into the kitchen to cook dumplings, and the father took Ju An and the others in the yard to watch the two children fight. Waiting for the dumplings.

After the dumplings were cooked, everyone happily finished the first dumplings of the New Year, and the family played the traditional game Mahjong around the Baxian Table! .

This time, it was my father Ju An, elder brother and brother-in-law. The rest were watching. Ju An started to teach Dinah to play while playing by herself. Then Dinah began to read it from time to time. As a result, after two laps, Ju An No fooling around.

After watching two laps, the female compatriots went into battle, the male compatriots watched, and Ju An followed behind Dinah while watching and pointing. Got it back again.

After the first day of the new year, I began to visit relatives, but this year, all relatives first went to Ju An's house to see foreign daughters-in-law. The whole family, Ju Anguang's mother's aunts and cousins ​​were fifteen or sixteen, and father's side. My aunts and cousins ​​were all too far away, so everyone was not very active, and gradually the relationship became much weaker than that of my mother's side.

The tone of visiting relatives is the same, eating, drinking, playing mahjong, and then the new year money for the little ones. Ju An and Dina have no children, so they can only collect money from their elders, but they still have to pay for a dozen or so radishes. out by myself.

So the circle of relatives turned around, and Ju An and the cousins ​​who had no children all became children of money. However, the whole relatives gathered together and had to open three tables for dinner. It was very lively. Dinah especially liked this kind of The atmosphere was a lot of fun, and from time to time he said to Ju An: "Your New Year's is more lively than our Christmas, it's so festive, and with so many relatives together, it's really hard to have such a harmonious relationship. it is good".

"It's still at this moment. If we had to go to our hometown to celebrate the New Year with the whole big family in the early days, the standard procedure would be called complicated. I still heard what my grandma said before. In the past, our big family in the countryside celebrated the New Year. , the patriarch brought the ancestors to worship ancestors. I heard from her old man that there were two or three hundred people when they entered the ancestral hall and kowtowed. It's just relatives eating around, it's not really a scene," Ju An said with a smile.Dinah was fascinated when she heard it, and even said it was a pity that she hadn't been able to see the real Chinese tradition.

Ju An and Dinah have been staying at home for the fifth day of the new year, and then they left for the ranch. Ju An's stomach will not be able to bear it if they don't stay there. They can't drink alcohol in the first place. A bunch of people who are not civil servants or work in the hospital, or are doing a small business, they are especially able to drink, making Ju An drunk every day, and it is very uncomfortable.

On the other hand, Dinah had a very comfortable life. No one asked her to drink. Every day, she ate here and there. Every now and then, she picked up her mobile phone to take a picture, and took a picture with some of Ju'an's little cousins ​​and aunts. It's been quite moisturizing.If it wasn't for Ju An's hard pull, he would still want to stay at home for a few more days before leaving.

On the morning of the fifth day of the fifth day, Ju An took Dinah into the car heading for Jiangnan, and greeted Wu Ming when they arrived in Jiangnan City. Without stopping at all, they flew directly to Los Angeles with Dinah.

It took more than 20 hours of flying and dusty travel all the way before returning to the ranch in Montana.

(End of this chapter)