In this era, the third day bathing ceremony emphasizes a sense of ritual. First, people worship the gods, then boil water for the third day bathing with mugwort and calamus. A group of people gather around a large bathtub and throw coins, red dates and longans into the basin.
Hua Jing stirred the tub with a stick. "One stir, two stirs, three stirs, and the older brother leads the younger brother. Seventy-year-old, eighty-year-old, crooked-haired, naughty, they're all here!"
Jiang Lingling helped her grandson undress and used a new towel to wash him. As she washed him, she chanted a blessing: "Wash your head first, and you will become a king; wash your shoulders, and you will become a high official; wash your waist last, and each generation will be higher than the last..."
I don't know who it was, but someone suddenly laughed out loud: "This kid, his penis is not small, and his balls are pretty big too!"
Lu Yiming was already a little embarrassed by being watched, and now he was finally furious and embarrassed. "Boss Su, you're torturing me! It's cold, tell them to hurry up!"
[Don't be upset, don't be upset, they are blessing you.]
[Huh! Your mother spread my legs to show them, is she showing off that she has a grandson?]
Su Yan was about to say something when she saw her mother-in-law Hua Min take her son, who had just taken a bath, from her mother's hands, wrapped in a blanket and rolling a red egg on his face. "Egg rolling face, face like egg skin, willow red like white, really love."
Su Yan couldn't help but remind her, "Mom, it's okay, the weather is a bit cold."
"Yeah, almost there."
At this time, Hua Jing came over with a bunch of green onions and tapped Lu Yiming's forehead a few times. "Be smart and study hard. When you grow up, you will get into university and become a high-ranking official."
After Hua Jing left, her aunt came over with a scale and fiddled with it. After they put Lu Yiming's clothes on, they started setting off firecrackers outside and sat down to have a feast.
The relatives hurriedly stuffed red envelopes into Lu Yiming's quilt and each said a word or two of blessing.
Su Yan didn't expect that Lu Ting's second aunt and her family would also come. Su Yan thought Huali would give something, but instead of giving a red envelope, she gave a pound of brown sugar.
I have never seen anyone more stingy than my second aunt. It’s better to have less contact with relatives like her in the future.
Lu Ting's two uncles, especially his eldest uncle, came from ordinary families. Their family also gave him a red envelope of 20 yuan, and even his aunt took 20 yuan as well.
Last time when grandpa had his birthday, they brought out a lot of things, and this time grandpa gave them a hundred yuan.
Su Yan's grandfather didn't have much money but he still gave 40 yuan. Her uncles and aunts bought clothes and shoes for the child. Her eldest and second brothers each gave 50 yuan, and her parents gave 100 yuan.
Although everyone was treated to a free third-day-old-winter celebration, all the relatives from both families who were supposed to pay paid, and those who had no money bought a lot of things for the children.
Su Yan was lying on the bed, quietly looking at her silly son, when suddenly the door was opened.
Lu Ting came in with a bowl of turtle soup and a bowl of rice in a basin.
"Yan Yan, this is the turtle soup I made especially for you."
"Thank you! Lu Ting, are fifteen tables enough?"
"There were so many people that the children had to stand up to eat. Fortunately, we prepared enough dishes."
Su Yan had looked at the menu before. There were eight big bowls in total, including braised pork, stewed pork ribs with potatoes, pork soup, braised fish cubes, lettuce and pork slices, braised lamb with carrots, and cabbage with vinegar.
Even if these are not enough, each person was given four red eggs and an apple, which should be enough, right?
"Yan Yan, the pig liver, pig lungs, and pig blood are used to make pig offal soup. We still have a pig head, a set of pig intestines, and four pig trotters left. I'll keep them for you."
"We didn't have chicken today. They didn't say anything, did they?"
"No, everyone is very satisfied. There are many guests today, and those comrades are good drinkers. There is not much rice wine left in the jar."
"Do you want to steam another vat during the Chinese New Year? It's cold in winter, so the fermentation time might be a bit long."
"Let's steam the rice wine after the New Year. Grandpa and grandma may have to stay at our house for a while."
"Okay, my grandfather and his family will probably stay at my mother's house for a couple of days. When they leave, you can bring them some food to eat, and catch a rabbit and a turtle to take back with them."
"Okay, I see. We have a lot of fried fish nuggets at home. Bring them a bag."
"Lu Ting, you've been busy all day, go eat!"
Lu Ting smiled as he looked at his sleeping son, "Yan Yan, I noticed our son's eyes look like yours."
"You also have double eyelids and big eyes. He obviously looks like you, but his skin is more like mine. It was very red on the first day and then gradually became white."
"Yeah, like you."
Lu Ting insisted on staying with Su Yan until the end of the meal before leaving, and as soon as he left, he was dragged away for a drink.
Hua Li smiled and said to Hua Min, "Big sister, congratulations! Lu Ting gave birth to a son on his first pregnancy. No wonder the banquet was even more lively than Dad's birthday. It must have cost a lot of money, right?"
"What are you talking about? I don't think you paid for Dad's birthday? My son is hosting a banquet, so what's wrong with spending some money?"
"Young people don't know what's going on. Don't you understand, sister? It's fine if you're just giving out red eggs, but why are you giving out apples? Those people don't have to spend a penny to drink here."
"Huali, you have nothing to do, right? You have so much free time that your children haven't even gotten married yet, and you don't even bother to care about them."
Hua Min really doesn't like her younger sister. She is too ambitious and likes to meddle in other people's affairs. She even meddles in other people's affairs involving her son. She and Lao Lu don't care about it. When will it be her turn as the second aunt to take care of it?
Around 9:30, Hua Jing walked over to Hua Min and whispered, "Big sister, when Second Sister left just now, she saw there were still apples in the basket, so she filled a bag and left. She also took a dozen of the remaining red eggs. I couldn't stop her."
"Is she crazy? Ting'er is going to give away those red eggs tomorrow, and many people haven't come yet."
"Second sister is really something. Not only did she only bring a pound of brown sugar when she came, but she also took away a bunch of things when she left. Luckily, Xiao Ting locked the kitchen door in advance, probably to prevent her."
"Don't talk about her. Next time she marries her daughter-in-law or daughter, I won't go."
Hua Jing was also very troubled. If her second sister didn't look like her mother, she would really suspect that she was someone else's child.
She didn't dare tell her eldest sister that her second sister had been encouraging her to secretly save money when buying groceries, and asked her to bring her children to eat for free. She asked for a salary increase after working for two months. Her second sister was simply shameless.
Hua Jing suspected that her second sister had nothing to do and wanted to steal her job, so she deliberately instigated her to do this.
Before going to bed, Su Yan listened to Lu Ting's talk about his second aunt's dirty deeds and sneered, "Lu Ting, why is your second aunt like this?"
"I don't know. I was just afraid that my son would take away all our meat and vegetables, so I locked the kitchen door and sent all the turtles, rabbits, and other things into the kitchen. Luckily, I had foresight, otherwise she would have taken them away."
Su Yan sighed, fortunately their Su family did not have such a top-notch person, and the Jiang family was also clean and innocent. Although they were a little poor, fortunately they all had good intentions.
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