Chapter 122 New Year
122 New Year
People have to stay up all night on New Year's Eve, but here the whole family just needs to keep the lights on until after midnight, and there is no need to stay up until dawn.
The whole family gathered together to chat and played cards.
The cards at that time were the long strips that Shen Yiyi couldn't understand, but she was lucky. She drew the cards while Qin Lie played cards. It was not tiring for a man and a woman to work together.
"Third sister-in-law, you are so lucky. How come every card you draw is so good?" Qin Hong said.
Shen Yiyi smiled and said, "This is the benefit for new players. It is the luck that only new players can have. It is also the favor of the gambling god."
"What gambling god? It's you who's pregnant. That's called good luck." Mother Qin said angrily.
Jiang Xiangyi curled her lips inwardly after hearing this. It was like she was in heaven just because she was pregnant!
Shen Yiyi smiled. No matter whether it was a benefit for newbies or good luck, it was all good luck and she liked it.
The whole family played until after eleven o'clock. Shen Yiyi and Qin Lie and his wife worked together to kill everyone.
At twelve o'clock, Qin Lie, Qin Feng and others came out to light firecrackers.
Not only their family, but also the neighbors set off firecrackers, and even millions of families across the country set off firecrackers at this time.
The crackling sound of firecrackers represents bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, and driving away the Nian monster.
This was the first time Shen Yiyi had experienced such a festive New Year. Since it was directly banned in later generations, such scenes were particularly fresh and enthusiastic.
When I sleep, I feel especially good.
Qin Lie felt it and asked softly, "Are you happy for the New Year?"
"I'm happy." Shen Yiyi smiled, "This year's New Year is really lively, which is great."
Qin Lie knew how much he had wronged his wife by leaving her alone at home for the New Year in previous years, so he leaned over and kissed her, "Wife, I will spend every year with you from now on."
"Until we grow old together?" Shen Yiyi looked at him.
"Until we grow old together." Qin Lie was very emotional.
I have seen some ancient sayings in some books before, some of which said, "I will never regret even if my clothes become looser and looser, and I will become haggard for her."
Some are called 'I wish to win the heart of one person and stay with him/her till we are old'.
There is also a saying, 'You have never felt lovesickness in your life, but once you feel it, you will suffer from it.'
When he read it before, he thought it was too sticky. Does it really exist?
But now that he has a daughter-in-law he loves, he realized that these ancient poems were actually written from the heart of others.
He is not good at reciting poems. He is a rough man. He just wants to hold his wife's hand for the rest of his life and live like this forever. No matter how many storms or difficulties there are in the future, he will never leave her.
He thought he was a rough man who didn't know how to be gentle and considerate, but Shen Yiyi understood how good this man of hers was at flirting.
What's so good about central air conditioning? It's the tenderness of a tough guy that is fatal, okay?
The kind that can directly drown a person.
After the lively New Year's Eve, they have to eat vegetarian food on the first day of the New Year. Even the oil used for cooking and frying tofu has to be peanut oil, soybean oil or the like.
But there was no need to worry about not eating enough, because in addition to vegetables and tofu, Qin's mother also prepared sweet porridge, rice cakes, chestnut cakes, brown sugar steamed cakes, sweet potato vermicelli, and even radish balls.
These radish balls are fried in peanut oil, and even the vegetarian ones are particularly fragrant. Shen Yiyi can make a big bowl by herself.
But in fact, Qin's mother wanted her to forget it. They just needed to follow the rules and she didn't need to do that. She could just eat as usual. She was pregnant and the Bodhisattva would not blame her.
However, Shen Yiyi still followed the custom.
And I didn't control myself last night and ate too much of the goose stewed in the iron pot!
So it’s good to eat vegetarian food and get rid of the fat today.
In fact, I didn’t know how much oil was in making that big bowl of fried radish balls, but I really couldn’t resist it, it was so delicious!
And I don't just eat these. I also eat apples, bananas, oranges, boiled peanuts, melon seeds, pine nuts, sugar-roasted chestnuts, and other snacks. I really can't get hungry when my mouth is full all day long.
The sight of that swollen mouth made Qin's mother happy, but it also made her want to control herself a little.
Of course, it’s okay to eat these, but you have to be careful not to eat too much meat.
In sharp contrast to Shen Yiyi's appetite for twins is of course Jiang Xiangyi.
According to Qin's mother, the cat eats more than she does. She doesn't know what she wants to eat. She doesn't eat meat or eggs. She just eats instant noodles with milk all day long.
What good is that thing? Can it compare to the meat and eggs at home? It makes her feel as if her family has treated her badly!
And if she hadn't seen her eldest son and granddaughter, her third son and his wife, her youngest daughter and her husband all enjoying their meals, she would have wondered if she had ruined the New Year's Eve dinner!
But it was New Year's Day and Qin's mother didn't say anything, as she didn't want to bring bad luck.
Anyway, she found everything about her eldest daughter-in-law annoying, and there was nothing about her that satisfied her from beginning to end.
Even his temperament is very artificial and shy.
She also couldn't understand what was wrong with her eldest son to find such a daughter-in-law.
She was pretty, but could good looks be eaten? Ever since they came back and behaved like refugees, she knew Jiang Xiangyi had definitely not prepared anything good for them.
Look at the third child this time. Yiyi is still pregnant, but how healthy is the third child? He looks energetic and you can tell at a glance that he is loved by his wife.
It's good to be good-looking, but you also have to live your life properly!
Especially since the eldest brother is a technical researcher and needs to use his brain, we have to prepare something good for him to eat!
But the same old saying still applies: you have to accept the wife you choose, she doesn't care.
Qin's mother was actually right.
Qin Feng and his daughter Qin Ningning really didn't have anything delicious to eat.
Qin Feng often eats at work, and as for Qin Ningning, it can be seen from the fact that she doesn't even look at instant noodles, which are considered the best in the eyes of other children, that she eats a lot.
On the contrary, she particularly liked Qin's mother's fried meatballs, and she also liked radish meatballs, and many other dishes.
Conquered by the delicious food, I slowly started to get closer to Qin's mother in the past two days.
As she gets older, she knows that her grandmother loves her. Whatever she wants to eat, her grandmother will cook it for her as long as she asks. It is difficult for her not to be close to her grandmother.
From Qin Feng's point of view, his wife is not a bad person, but the two words she likes most are "weight loss".
I say it every day, like a slogan.
She doesn't care much about food and drink. She cares more about small expenses such as buying bags, clothes, doing her hair, dressing herself up, taking a bus, buying drinks, watching movies and eating out.
Therefore, the father and daughter could forget about having any delicious food. They could only enjoy the taste of home after they came back.
Even if he restrained himself, he showed some signs of lack of food and drink.