Ye Yuanhang looked up at the source of the cold air and saw Yingbao. His eyes softened.
As if he knew what his sister Yingbao was thinking, he quickly walked to Yingbao's side and gently opened up her fingers that were about to be scratched raw.
With comfort from her elder brother Ye Yuanhang, Yingbao calmed down.
The older brothers had been watching Yingbao with concern. Just as Yingbao was about to speak under their gaze, she was interrupted by her grandmother, Wang Cuihua, who suddenly appeared:
"What are you guys doing? Come and eat right now."
"boil……"
"good"
"..."
The nine people spoke different characters, but they all meant the same thing.
***
Lunch today was exceptionally plentiful.
The little ones' mouths were practically agape, especially Xiao Mingchen, who raised his hand to wipe away a little bit of drool from the corner of his mouth.
Although Yingbao didn't lose her composure like Xiaoge Mingchen, she quickened her pace considerably.
Soon, the eldest brother Ye Yuanhang and his cousin Ye Heyun helped the adults bring out the fragrant food from the kitchen and set it on the table, followed by the introduction of bowls and chopsticks.
Yingbao, Mingchen, Zilin, Yuezhou... also wanted to help out.
But his grandfather, Ye Yaozu, stopped him.
The reason for this is that the children are too young. During the Lunar New Year, they got burned while helping out for such a short time, which would have been very bad.
Not long after,
The Ye family sat around the dinner table, enjoying one of their few leisurely days. The strong festive atmosphere of the New Year was palpable, making the whole family feel refreshed, as if a heavy burden had been lifted off their shoulders.
The smooth wooden table was laden with all sorts of delicious food, including a large greenhouse in the backyard that had been renovated, filled with cabbage, green and red peppers, and pork.
To put it simply: the vegetables wrap the meat in the middle, and since the vegetables are home-grown, they are definitely not as valuable as pork bought from outside.
The vegetables here are like an object, a package, a thin piece of paper, while the pork is like that valuable treasure.
Think about it, the treasure is wrapped in the middle, doesn't that symbolize: gathering wealth!
There's also chopped chili fish head, which means "abundance year after year".
This is something everyone probably knows.
The pronunciation of "fish" is the same as "surplus", so "fish" represents abundance. For example, "year after year there is surplus" means that one has a lot of wealth, lives well every year, and has a lot of wealth left over at the end of the year.
In the eyes of the Ye family, "May you have fish every year" represents their yearning and hope for a better life.
They also hope that their family will have a surplus of wealth in the coming year, and that their food and other reserves will be plentiful.
They won't end up completely ignorant, looked down upon by others, starving, or unable to get enough to eat.
—And many other delicious things, good fortune, prosperity, wealth, peace in all seasons, ever-growing success, rising to higher positions, family reunion, flowers blooming in wealth, auspicious purple clouds coming from the east, and soaring high...
There were twelve dishes served at noon, and each dish had an idiom associated with it. The meanings of each dish were different, but the general direction was the same: they were all good wishes for people.
The Ye family would never have dared to indulge in such lavish eating and drinking in the past; this was something only a very few wealthy families in the capital would eat.
Grandpa Ye Yaozu and Grandma Wang Cuihua had enjoyed a period of luxury before. When he was a child, the meals at his family's house were much more extravagant than this, but unfortunately he was too young to remember.
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