Ever since little Mantou started growing teeth, he has been changing every day. Although Su Nuan accompanies the child's growth every day, she feels that the child is growing too fast.
What's more, Gu Chengfeng is always in the army, and sometimes he would be away for one or two months on a mission.
When he returned home, Xiao Mantou didn't recognize him. As a father, he felt sad and guilty.
Fortunately, little Mantou is not shy. After the father and son get to know each other for a while, little Mantou will happily let him hold him and play with him.
Su Nuan, who was watching from the side, found it unbelievable.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, little Mantou is one year old.
A year has passed and little Mantou has grown a lot. He no longer just eats and sleeps, sleeps and poops, and then eats and sleeps again and poops again.
Little Mantou started learning to speak quite early. Now he can say "Dad, Mom". Although his words are not clear, you can still understand them.
I still remember that when little Mantou met "Mom" for the first time, Su Nuan cried with joy.
Later, Su Nuan taught her to call him dad. When Gu Chengfeng came back from vacation, he just held his son in his arms and heard his son calling him "Daddy" in a baby voice.
Gu Chengfeng, the iron-blooded soldier, couldn't help but have tears in his eyes. He held his son in his arms all day long, not letting go, and kept letting him call him.
Even when little Mantou fell asleep from exhaustion, he watched his son sleep without blinking.
Su Nuan couldn't bear to watch it any longer, so she went back to the study to look at the company's financial statements. After the new year, the profits of the Su Group doubled again. Looking at the numbers on the report, Su Nuan couldn't help but feel happy.
Because little Mantou was one year old, the Gu family and the Lin family all rushed from Beijing to Shanghai. Due to some work reasons, only the aunt came as a representative of the Gu family's uncle's family.
Because the full moon banquet had already been a grand event, Su Nuan did not plan to hold a big one-year-old celebration. She only wanted the family members to celebrate together for the little Mantou.
At home, prepare one or two tables of banquets, and the whole family will have a lively time.
Today is the one-year-old baby boy's one-year-old birthday ceremony. According to tradition, each family member prepares an object for the ceremony. Not only can the objects be different, but each object also represents a different meaning.
The "Zhuazhouer" ceremony is usually held before eating the "longevity noodles" at noon.
In ancient times, wealthy families would set up a large table in front of their bed (kang), on which were placed seals, scriptures of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, pens, ink, paper, inkstone, abacus, coins, account books, jewelry, flowers, rouge, food and toys.
If it is a girl, the ceremony also requires adding a shovel, spoon (cooking utensils), scissors, ruler (sewing tools), embroidery thread, pattern (embroidery tools), etc.
The items placed at the little Mantou’s one-year-old birthday ceremony today were all carefully selected by all the family members.
Su Nuan prepared an abacus, Gu Chengfeng prepared a wooden pistol, Old Man Gu prepared a seal, the old lady prepared paper, ink, brush and inkstone, Grandpa Lin prepared a set of acupuncture needles, and Grandma Lin prepared a pharmacology and medical book...
From what everyone prepared, we can see everyone’s genuine love for Xiao Mantou and their expectations for him.
Different objects also represent different meanings.
Su Nuan's plan is that the child will be good at managing money when he grows up and will inherit the Su Group's business.
Gu Chengfeng's wooden spear represents that when the child grows up, he will inherit his father's business and defend his country.
Mr. Gu’s seal expressed the hope that his child would inherit the grace of heaven and virtue of his ancestors and have a successful career in the future.
The old lady's writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone meant that when he grew up, he would be studious, write a beautiful article and become the top scorer in the imperial examinations.
Grandpa Lin and Grandma Lin gave their children acupuncture needles and pharmacology books, naturally because they hoped that their children could inherit the Lin family's knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacology.
Before the one-year-old celebration, Su Nuan specially changed little Mantou into a red Tang suit. The little guy, who just turned one month old, has become whiter and fatter this month.
Wearing a small red Tang suit, she looked like a lucky doll and was extremely cute.
When Su Nuan carried him downstairs, the whole family was attracted by the dressed-up little bun and praised the child for being cute and good-looking.
Then everyone started scrambling to take the baby from Su Nuan's arms.
The little bun didn't cry or make a fuss even when everyone was fighting over it. Instead, he smiled happily, which made everyone feel so cute.
When Su Nuan saw the child being taken away, she pulled Gu Chengfeng to start arranging the ceremony. Gu Huanhuan and Gu Erge were also drafted by the two and started to get busy.
Clean a spot on the floor at the entrance, lay a carpet on the floor, and then lay a layer of red velvet on top of the carpet.
After placing the items everyone had prepared for the one-year-old celebration on the table and the place was almost set up, Su Nuan looked at the time and went over to pick up the baby.
Little Mantou can't walk yet, but he can sit very steadily. However, Gu Chengfeng is still worried that the child will fall, so he kneels on the ground and supports him with his hands. Little Mantou is a bit like Su Nuan.
That is, they are all incredibly lazy. They would never sit if they could lie down. Even if they sit very steadily, they will either lie down or lie down after a while.
For this reason, Gu Chengfeng, who has a strong sense of self-discipline, often teaches his son sternly when he sees his son like this.
Little Mantou didn’t understand what Gu Chengfeng said, and he always looked at his father with his cute big eyes, not afraid at all.
After Gu Chengfeng finished speaking, Xiao Mantou remained the same, which made Gu Chengfeng quite helpless. The special operations brigade that could deal with the strongest soldier in the Shanghai Military Region.
But he didn't know how to deal with his one-year-old son. Who could he turn to for justice?
Sure enough, the little bun did not disappoint Gu Chengfeng. Not long after sitting, the little guy lay directly on the ground. This funny action amused everyone present.
Little Mantou didn't care that everyone was laughing at him. He didn't know anything anyway, so he just lay on the ground and crawled towards the objects in front of him.
Gu Chengfeng kindly picked him up and brought him closer to the objects for the "Zhuazhou" ceremony.
When everyone saw him reaching out to grab something, they all fell silent tacitly and waited to see what the child got first.
Xiao Mantou first took the seal, but before Mr. Gu could even smile, he put it down again.
He reached out to the abacus again, and after touching it for a while, he reached out to the wooden horse toy.
As everyone was touched by him, their mentality changed.
After the little mantou touched around, he finally put his hands on the wooden spear and stopped moving. Gu Chengfeng happily hugged his son and kissed him.
"You are such a good son of mine. When you grow up, you will defend our country just like your father."
Seeing this, everyone had no objection and happily agreed.
The men in the Gu family either join the army or go into politics, so it seems natural for them to get a wooden spear.
However, Su Nuan still thought in her heart that when the child grew up, she would not force the child to make a choice. Whatever he wanted to do in the future would depend on his own interests and ideas, and she would support him in everything he did.
Even if he was born in a military and political family like the Gu family, she would not let her son accept a promising career that he did not like.
After the one-year-old ceremony, lunch began. According to tradition, longevity noodles were served first, but the protagonist, Little Mantou, couldn't eat it, so he could only symbolically pick up some noodles and let him smell it.
Then, Su Nuan carried him back to the room to feed him.
After coaxing the child to sleep and putting him in the cradle, she went downstairs to have dinner with everyone.
After the ceremony of grabbing the week is over.
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