Chapter 572: The Opening Ceremony
"Old Yan, I heard you're back. Did you bring me any local specialties?"
Mr. Jin swaggered into the house.
"Are you still a child?"
"My Lord is going on a long journey, and I have to bring you a gift when I come back?"
"In terms of age, he is indeed a few years younger than you."
"Oh, these are the twins from the fourth family. They are so beautiful. They are fair and tender, and their little hands are chubby. You can tell at a glance that they are blessed children."
"You are quite good at talking. Our family is safe and sound. We will be blessed in the future. We will definitely have great fortune."
Whenever he heard someone praising them, Mr. Yan was always the happiest one.
"Our baby girl is going to give birth soon, and I don't know which of these two little ones she will be destined to be with."
"Go away, don't get involved."
Old Master Yan waved away his hand that was about to hug An An.
"Why, didn't we agree on this at the beginning?"
"Who told you that? It was all your Jin family's wishful thinking. We didn't agree to it."
"How could you, old Yan, turn your back on me?"
"Anyway, I just want to say one thing: don't try to harm our family's safety."
"snort."
"You, the great grandfather, have no say. Who knows, maybe he will be happy to play with our children in the future."
"Grandpa Jin, long time no see."
Song Fuyu came out with two bottles of milk and handed them to Yan's mother and grandfather respectively.
"Feed me, I'll practice ahead of time."
Old Master Jin felt a little itchy.
"They don't need to be fed. They can drink from the bottle by themselves. Just watch over them."
"So good?"
"Don't you see whose child it is? We are from the Yan family, so naturally we are very well behaved."
After Ping'an and An'an finished drinking their milk and wrapped them up tightly, the old man and the old lady pushed the two children to visit neighbors.
This is the first time the two children return to the compound after they were born, so shouldn’t we show them off?
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Early the next morning, Song Fuyu began to prepare the meat-eating ceremony for the children.
I asked Mrs. Liu to buy the things that needed to be prepared yesterday.
"Xiao Yu, do you need to be so formal?"
"Of course they need to. Today is Ping An'an's first time eating solid food, so we have to give them a sense of ceremony."
"Grandpa, I'm busy right now, please bring out a bottle of wine."
"And we have to give them drinks?"
"Either it's for them to drink, or it will be used during the ceremony."
"Chengzhou, go to the kitchen and see if Mrs. Liu's cake is ready."
"Sister-in-law, do you need to prepare so many things?"
Tong Youyou, with a big belly, also came over with the help of Jin Kai.
Yesterday they heard about what kind of meat-opening ceremony the sister-in-law was going to prepare for Ping Ping An. They were very curious as they had never heard of it before and wanted to learn it.
"Oh, we're not late, are we?"
Gu Yue came with Hao Zhuangzhuang, and Zhou Yongning also came with their three-month-old daughter.
"We're not late. Everything is almost ready. You guys can sit down for a while. We'll start soon."
“Seungyu, go get the camera from the table in my room.”
The table was filled with all kinds of food. They sat peacefully on their little chairs, somewhat confused about what their mother was doing.
"eat."
"Wait a moment, we can only start eating after the ceremony is over."
"Pingping can actually speak now."
"He could speak at five months old and often had one-word conversations with us."
After everything was prepared, Song Fuyu and Yan's mother sat next to the two children.
“Ahem~”
She cleared her throat and began to speak.
"Today our little Ping Ping and little An An are six months old. Welcome everyone to participate in their meat-eating ceremony."
As soon as the words fell, everyone around the table applauded at the same time.
Even the hosts of the ceremony, Gong Ping and An An, joined in the clapping and laughing happily.
Song Fuyu first picked up a scallion and a piece of washed green onion and slipped them in front of Pingping's mouth. Yan's mother followed her example and approached An'an with the same things.
"Eat a little shallot, then a little scallion, and you'll become twice as smart."
Then she picked up a small clove of peeled garlic. The taste was not what Pingping liked, which made him keep hiding behind, but he was stopped by his mother.
"Eat some garlic and try to be able to count when you start kindergarten."
"Come and have a drink. Although you are already born in a blessed family, mom still hopes that you will be rich and have everything you want in your life."
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"Let's have one last sip of wine, and wish us peace and happiness forever."
Song Fuyu prepared a total of twenty things, and his words were full of blessings for the two children.
"Okay, our peaceful meat-opening ceremony has officially ended here. Thank you everyone."
"Sister-in-law, how come you have so many ideas in your head? You can even come up with this."
Song Fuyu thought, this was not her idea, it became popular in later generations, but she couldn't say it.
"This is called a sense of ritual, understand?"
"When our child is six months old, we will have to give him some kind of ceremony."
"Chengyu, quickly take a picture of everything on the table so that I can prepare according to what's on the table."
"eat."
Pingping and Anan were so greedy that they had twenty things slipped away from them, and none of them made it into their mouths.
An An sat on the little chair with a look of grievance and waited patiently, while Ping Ping became a little impatient, clapping his little hands on the table, extremely anxious.
"Okay, don't worry, I'll be there soon."
The things on the table were prepared for the ceremony. In addition, Song Fuyu also prepared rice porridge for them.
"Mom, you feed An An and I'll feed Ping Ping."
She handed over a small bowl of rice paste.
For fear that the two children would not be able to adapt to the food for the first time, I added some spiritual spring water to the rice porridge.
"Eat rice porridge. Come on, open your mouth."
"ah."
Pingping opened his mouth wide, waiting for his mother to feed him the first spoonful.
The rice porridge tasted a little different from the milk they usually drank, but the two children still finished it happily.
"That's right. After a few days of getting used to it, you can start eating pureed vegetables and fruits."
"Sister-in-law, do we have to wait six months before letting them eat it?"
Although Zhou Yongning has been a new mother for three months, she is still a little confused about raising children and is not as clear as Song Fuyu.
"It is best to add complementary foods slowly after six months. Before six months, the gastrointestinal function of children is weak, and adding complementary foods too early may cause indigestion."
"Junsheng's grandmother always said that eggs are nutritious and can be fed to the child, but I thought that our Nina is only three months old and other children drink milk."
"You're not out of milk right now, why are you in such a hurry to feed your child eggs?"
"If you eat eggs too early, your child won't be able to digest them, which can cause fever and other symptoms. You, as a mother, will be the one who's worried."
“Sometimes elders intervene, and I really don’t know how to say no.”
"If you are not clear about these things, you can go to the hospital and ask Director Li. She is very experienced."
Song Fuyu couldn't give her too much advice in this regard, after all, every family is different.
Some elders believe that they are older, have more knowledge, and have more experience in raising children, so they will raise their children in the old-fashioned way.
Is it wrong? Actually, it is not wrong. After all, our parents grew up under this parenting model.
Is it completely right? Not necessarily. Times are changing, and family environments are changing too. In the past, when we didn’t have breast milk and couldn’t afford milk powder, we would feed our children first, no matter what they were, because we couldn’t let them starve to death.
When it comes to raising children, Song Fuyu is particularly fortunate that he met the elders of the Yan family.
They never interfered with her way of raising and educating her children. Everything was based on her opinions. They respected her very much instead of forcing her to accept the ideas of the older generation.