Jiang Yun was gently woken up by Chen Yuanwu.
She thought she was dreaming: "It's cold, I need a hug!"
Chen Yuanwu patted Jiang Yun's shoulder and said, "Mom is back and is preparing the New Year's Eve dinner. Go get up and help."
A new daughter-in-law always has to show herself, even if it's just showing her face or extending a hand.
Jiang Yun sat up and leaned into Chen Yuanwu's arms, wrapping her arms around his waist. "I don't want to eat. I want to sleep."
Chen Yuanwu chuckled softly, "Be good. If you want to sleep, I'll sleep with you tonight. Just bear with it for a while, okay? We need to take the coal stove outside to cook. Aunt Liu and Dai are waiting."
Jiang Jun was suddenly embarrassed and annoyed, as if she was extremely anxious. She raised her fist and punched Chen Yuanwu in the stomach twice in anger: "Who asked you to accompany me? You are the one who should be patient!"
Chen Yuanwu caught Jiang Jun's fist, pulled him up and kissed him: "I'm already holding it in! But if you don't get up soon, I won't be able to bear it anymore! Otherwise, how about we call an emergency meeting now?"
Jiang Jun's eyes rolled, and he jumped up, hugged Chen Yuanwu and said, "Okay!"
Chen Yuanwu laughed and pinched Jiang Yun's cheek gently: "Okay, I haven't been home for just one night, and you're already so impatient?"
Ye Qingyin's voice came from the yard: "Wu? Come and hang up the firecrackers."
This is the rule of the Chen family. During the New Year’s Eve reunion dinner, the eldest son of the family has to hang and set off the firecrackers.
Jiang Yun was embarrassed: "Your mother is back!"
Chen Yuanwu patted Jiang Yun on the back and said, "It's your mother's fault! You put an old military uniform on your cotton-padded jacket, and it will cause oil to leak while you cook."
Jiang Jun grabbed the old clothes on the hanger, walked out the door and greeted Ye Qingyin: "Mom, you're back!"
Ye Qingyin replied with a half-smile: "Have you slept enough?"
Jiang Jun answered honestly, "I just took a nap. I didn't sleep much because I was afraid I'd miss the lesson for Fei."
Anyway, we haven't prepared any big dishes. Making excuses is tantamount to shirking responsibility. It's better to stick to the facts.
Ye Qingyin was so angry that she couldn't utter a word: "Even if you study, you still have to eat New Year's Eve dinner! You have a family now, and you have to take care of it when we, the elders, are not around!"
Chen Yuefei looked at Jiang Yun apologetically and explained for her, "Mom, Yun was supposed to make it, but she was busy helping me with the materials and didn't have time to do it. While I was studying, she even took the time to make me a nutritious meal to nourish my brain."
It only took Yun two years to help him achieve the learning results of two years. If she is still blamed for this, it is simply unreasonable!
Ye Qingyin glanced at Chen Yuefei from the corner of her eye: "You, just enjoy the New Year. What can you learn in just a few days? I haven't seen you get nervous before. You finally get a holiday but you don't stay home. I have to chase you around for a reunion dinner."
Chen Yuefei suddenly fell in love with studying and wouldn't let anyone look down on his academic achievements. "I haven't played at all since I came back from vacation. I went to study with my teacher! I have no basic knowledge of English and couldn't understand a thing in class. But I started studying hard these past two days, and you know how amazing I am? I'm almost like a dictionary!"
Ye Qingyin had studied French for two years at a women's university when she was young. Knowing her son well, she didn't believe Chen Yuefei could learn anything in just three or five hours. "What's with the dictionary? If you can pronounce the 26 letters without using pinyin, you've completed your mission!"
Jiang Yun hid behind Chen Yuanwu, imagining A-po's laughter, biting her lip, trying hard not to laugh out loud.
Unexpectedly, Ye Qingyin, who was always noble and elegant in her conversation, changed into a motherly image in front of Chen Yuefei, speaking bluntly and with a bit of sarcasm.
Chen Yuefei didn't care, instead he smiled and said, "Mom, have you ever seen a dictionary that can read letters to you?"
Ye Qingyin snorted: "You're so talkative!"
Chen Yuefei bared his teeth, tapped his fingers, and smacked his lips. "Mom, my mouth is very valuable now! My words are my bond! Do you understand? I can't just read foreign languages to you! Do you think I'm a record? You can play it whenever you want?"
Jiang Jun rested her forehead on Chen Yuanwu's back and laughed so hard that she was shaking. How could she not know that Chen Yuefei's words were so funny?
What she said was a sure thing, she told Chen Yuefei.
What she meant was that when learning a new language, one must first master the pronunciation and phonetic symbols, otherwise it is easy to have listening deviations, leading to misunderstandings and making jokes.
In order to emphasize this point, she used the adjective "一言九鼎". Fearing that Chen Yuefei might not understand, she roughly explained the original meaning of the idiom, and used the large tripod in the Forbidden City as an example. She also accidentally calculated a price using the hammer price at the auction.
As a result, Chen Yuefei's misinterpretation happened to match Ye Qingyin's words, and the effect was extremely funny.
Chen Yuanwu calmly reached out and pushed Jiang Jun behind him again, coughing, "Fei, take the coal stove to the kitchen."
Those who should have laughed didn't laugh, and those who shouldn't have laughed laughed, which would annoy Ye Qingyin.
Chen Yuefei jumped over in two steps, climbed onto the stairs, took the coal stove with a smile and ran to the kitchen.
Chen Yuanwu patted Jiang Yun with his backhand and said, "I'll hang up the firecrackers. Go thaw the ribs. I'll come over and chop them later."
Jiang Jun forced himself to stop laughing, lowered his head and walked away.
Chen Yuefei looked at the ingredients on the chopping board in the kitchen and exclaimed, "These are all hard-to-eat dishes! Wait, I'll have to eat double the amount!"
Jiang Jun finally managed to suppress his laughter, but it burst out again.
Aunt Liu also laughed: "Fei, you are still growing, you need to eat more. Eat as much as you can tonight, all of them are your favorite dishes."
Dai Ye: "Deputy Commander Chen, you can drink a little."
Chen Yuefei waved his hand and said, "Hey, the days of drinking and eating meat with big bowls will soon come!" Turning back, he asked Jiang Yun, "Yun, is that you?"
Jiang Jun smiled, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and took a breath: "Yeah."
With so many people around, the hands work quickly. Under Ye Qingyin's general command, a full banquet for soldiers and civilians consisting of eight dishes and two soups was served on the eight-immortal table at the scheduled reunion dinner time.
Chen Yuanwu went to the yard to light firecrackers.
It was a pair of electric cannons, which fired with a few crackling sounds.
In this day and age, we can only do it for the sake of our intention.
Ye Qingyin sat alone in the main seat. Every New Year, Chen Zhong would visit the officers and soldiers on duty in the grassroots companies. Therefore, the Chen family almost never had everyone seated at the New Year's Eve dinner.
“Although our family still has not reached all the number of people this year, it has grown from a family into a big family.” Ye Qingyin made a pre-dinner speech and year-end summary: “The whole family has contributed and achieved results, and I am very satisfied!”
Chen Yuanwu then spoke. His father was not at home, so he used to wish his mother good health every year: "Mom, you've worked hard this year. Yun and I wish you good health and a long life!"
Jiang Jun quickly raised his sugar-water-diluted wine glass and said, "Mom, I wish you good health and a long life!"
Chen Yuefei also raised his sugar-water-diluted wine glass: "Mom, I wish you good health!"
Ye Qingyin nodded with a smile and invited everyone to pick up their chopsticks: "Dai, Sister Liu, just treat this place as your own home. Don't be shy. Sitting at the same table is like a family. On behalf of Dad Wu, I also want to thank you!"
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