Chapter 215: Chinese New Year is all about eating
Yun Chengfu found it funny. He had never heard of a river clam spitting out pearls on its own.
However, Yun Chenglu, Yun Hua and Yun Yue standing next to them were no longer surprised.
Baoya stretched out her short, white and tender little fingers and tapped on the clam shell.
Then he said, "Bang Bang, Bang Bang, spit out the pearls! Otherwise I'll pry you open and make soup with you!"
Yun Chengfu: ...
It would be strange if clams could understand!
Sure enough, the clam shell was tightly closed, with no intention of opening at all.
Baoya was not at all flustered. She continued to tap rhythmically on the clam shell with her little fingers: "Three, two... one!"
As soon as the word "一" came out, the clam shell opened with a "click"!
Big round purple pearls popped out one by one.
Yun Chengfu, who was squatting next to him, rubbed his eyes hard.
Yun Chenglu patted his shoulder and said with some pride, "It's amazing, isn't it? You'll get used to it."
But Yun Chengfu is neither Yunhua nor Yunyue, so he can just watch the fun.
He reached out and poked the soft flesh of the clam, wanting to see what was so special about it.
Yun Chenglu recalled his own experience of being pinched and shouted slowly, "Brother, stop!"
Click!
Yun Chengfu's face darkened.
His finger was pinched!
Baoya: ...
Yunhua: ...
Yunyue: ...
"Bangbang, let go! Let go quickly!" Baoya tapped on the clam shell with her little fingers, looking anxious.
The river clam actually let go of Yun Chengfu quickly.
“Puff! Hahahaha!”
"Hahaha!"
Yunhua and Yunyue couldn't help laughing.
Yunyue said, "This river clam must be doing this on purpose! It specifically picks on boys! My eldest and second brothers have both been pinched!"
Yunhua thought about it and it seemed to be true.
But the girls didn't do anything naughty and reach out to poke it.
Yun Chengfu blew on his hands, his face still serious, and said to Baoya, "Did you train this river clam specifically?"
Otherwise, why would he be so obedient?
Baoya was an honest child. She shook her head and said, "No. But I think they must be afraid of being cooked. So I just scared them and they became obedient."
Then you are really a smart girl, Yun Chengfu thought.
…
After dinner in the evening, the family went to bed early.
The next day is New Year’s Eve. I have to get up early, change into new clothes, wear flowers, put up Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters, and prepare lunch and New Year’s Eve dinner.
That night, Baoya tossed and turned for half the night and couldn't fall asleep.
She had spent the previous two years in the Chen family's firewood room. Apart from being able to eat two more pieces of fat meat than usual, the New Year's Day was no different from any other time in her opinion.
But this year is different. She can spend a joyful and happy New Year with her whole family.
The new clothes were neatly folded and placed at the foot of the bed, the lace and the festive new hairpins were placed on the desk, and there were also the new shoes that He Chunxiu had made for her, embroidered with her favorite little rabbit...
She was tossing and turning, unable to sleep, when there was a knock on the door.
The sound was very soft, just two knocks.
Then Yunyue's low voice rang out: "Baoya! Let me in quickly, I can't sleep, I want to talk to you!"
Baoya couldn't sleep either, so she jumped up, ran out of bed barefoot and opened the door.
When the door opened, Yunyue was seen wearing underwear and holding two furry little rabbits in her arms.
Yunhua was there too, holding a little rabbit in her arms, standing behind Yunyue.
"Third sister, fourth sister, come in quickly!" Baoya smiled with her starry eyes and let the two in.
The three little girls squeezed on one bed, hugged the little rabbit, and chatted together.
I don't know how much time passed before I fell into a drowsy sleep. The little rabbits in my arms ran away and started jumping around in the house.
The next morning, Baoya was the first to wake up. The three little rabbits had already jumped onto the windowsill and eaten up all the chrysanthemums in her pot.
The mulberry paper on the table that had not been cleared away in time was also gnawed into pieces; the wool pen on the pen holder was also gnawed out.
Baoya looked at Yunhua and Yunyue who were sleeping soundly on her left and right, and kicked each of them awake.
"Third sister, fourth sister, hurry up and get up! The little rabbits have all run away!"
Yunhua and Yunyue were startled and also got up.
Yunhua: "Where? Where did you go?!"
Yunyue: "Isn't it here?"
Baoya pointed at the three little rabbits scattered on the windowsill and the table, and the three little girls quickly took action, put on their clothes, and caught the rabbits!
I didn’t expect that the first thing I did when I woke up in the morning on New Year’s Day was to catch rabbits.
After much difficulty, all three little rabbits were caught and sent back to the fence in Yunyue's room.
The three little girls helped each other to comb their hair and put on bright red flowers in their hair. Each one looked more beautiful than the other.
By the time the three of them came downstairs, Yun Chengfu and Yun Chenglu had already pasted couplets and the word "Fu" all over the yard.
When Baoya walked out of the front yard, she saw Yun Chengfu wearing a plum-dyed dark-patterned long gown. He stood upright with his hands behind his back, looking like a little teacher, and was directing Yun Chenglu to post the couplets on the front door.
"A little to the left, um... too much, a little down..."
Yun Chenglu stood on a small stool, leaning over and gesturing here and there: "Brother, it's still not working?"
"Finally, move one millimeter to the right." Yun Chengfu made the decision.
Yun Chenglu: ...
Did he think his elder brother was a little too precise?
As if knowing what he was thinking, Yun Chengfu explained, "This is for the main door. The facade must be straight. I don't have such high requirements for the courtyard."
Yun Chenglu pouted secretly.
But forget it! Just now when he was putting up the couplets on the mill, Yun Chengfu asked him to move it half an inch! God knows how he would move it!
Baoya and the other three little girls laughed at Yun Chengfu and Yun Chenglu.
The eldest and second brothers are so funny!
As they were watching, He Chunxiu brought a shallow fried cake and stuffed it into Baoya's arms, letting the three little girls hold it and eat it as breakfast.
After eating the fried cakes, Wang Cailian came over to bring them another crunchy box with another small amount of fried cakes, saying that she wanted them to have a taste.
The three little girls continued to eat and watched Yun Chengfu and Yun Chenglu finish pasting the couplets and the word "Fu".
After Yun Chengfu and Yun Chenglu put up the couplets, they went to hang firecrackers to be set off in the evening.
The three little girls continued to watch, and Li Rongyue and Zhao Zhilan came over one by one to give them rice cakes and sesame candies.
When it was time for lunch, Baoya, Yunhua and Yunyue burped together in front of the pork elbows, stewed meat, roast chicken and spare ribs on the table.
Zhao Zhilan: ...
"What? You're full even though you haven't eaten yet?"
Baoya: "It's all my mother's fault for stuffing me with a shallow fried cake early in the morning!"
He Chunxiu smiled and said, "A piece of fried cake is not much. With your appetite, it's just enough to fill your teeth."
Yunyue said, "Then my aunt stuffed us with a shallow creaky box."
Yunhua also said: "And my mother and grandma, one stuffed rice cakes, the other stuffed sesame candy... burp!"
Wang Cailian: ...
Li Rongyue: ...
"Okay, then you have to try it." Zhao Zhilan said.
So Yunhua and Yunyue tasted every dish.
After burping a few times, Baoya felt hungry again when she saw the table full of fish and meat, so she ate as much as she could.
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