Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 434, Back to the Door

On the morning of New Year's Day, Jiang Yan was awakened by the sound of firecrackers. After hesitating for a while, he got dressed and got up. After all, it was the first day of the Lunar New Year!This lazy bed is really not good. Besides, if I don’t get up quickly, many people will come over to wish me and my grandma New Year greetings. It will be a lot of fun if I am stuck in the room.

As soon as they came out of the house, He Yuzhu and the others had already gotten up. Xu Damao went back to his parents' place during the New Year. Now there are only a few people left in his yard.

When He Yuzhu saw Jiang Yan come out, he started cooking dumplings. After the dumplings were cooked, he set off a firecracker in the yard, then each person filled a bowl of dumplings and went back to the house to eat.

After breakfast, people in the yard began to walk around each other to pay New Year greetings. The blessings of "Happy New Year" expressed people's simple emotions. Of course, feudal dross such as "Gong Xi Fa Cai" should never be said.

The children happily accepted the red envelopes handed out by the adults. The red envelopes in this era are just a symbol of happiness. Most of them contain one or two cents, and the big ones are only five cents or ten cents. Although In this way, it can also make children extremely excited.

Walking around the streets and going from house to house to pay New Year greetings is essential. The old lady is the oldest person in the whole yard. Someone comes to pay New Year greetings this early in the morning?
When the children saw the old lady, they knelt down and kowtowed, and then shouted: "Old lady, happy New Year. I wish the old lady good health and a long life in the new year." Although they usually don't move around, this New Year greeting custom is not only Everyone who has a life-or-death feud will respect each other and proceed peacefully.

At this time, the old lady would also take out the red envelope she had prepared and hand it over with a smile. The money was only a dime, which was somewhat unintended.

Jiang Yan just went to the three uncles' homes.After walking around for a while, we just sat at the third uncle's house for a short while, and the rest of the people were all interested and left after a while.After paying homage to the first-year students in the courtyard, Jiang Yan carried his things and walked to the homes of his friends.

Duomen's house was the closest to him, only two blocks away. He happened to be on the way, so Jiang Yan was the first to go to their house.

When I arrived at Duoye's residence, I happened to see him opening the door to his own home. "Happy New Year, Mr. Duo. I'm here to wish you good health." After Jiang Yan said this, he took his gift up.

"You kid is here, come in quickly. Let's have a good drink this year. You kid is always the beginning but not the end."

Master Duo was also very happy to see Jiang Yan. After taking the food, he grabbed Jiang Yan and insisted on drinking some with him.

At this time, Jiang Yan said directly: "Master Duo, let's talk about it later. I still have several restaurants here that I haven't visited yet!"

"Okay, you boy, go and get busy! I'll go see your old lady too."

When paying New Year's greetings today, Jiang Yan specifically chose Zheng Chaoyang's house where he went just before noon, just to have a meal with him.

After eating and resting at their house, Jiang Yan once again embarked on a journey to pay New Year greetings.

But what Jiang Yan didn't know was that he was visiting his friends and brothers all over the world to pay New Year's greetings. Who would have thought that many people from their family had come to pay New Year's greetings to Jiang Yan and the old lady. When Jiang Yan was away, Jiang Sirui was responsible for entertaining them. Everything is basically arranged properly.On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people finish paying New Year greetings to each other, and then go home to visit relatives on the second day of the Lunar New Year. This is the second day of the first lunar month when they return to their parents’ homes.In the past, every year on the second day of the first lunar month, any married daughter would return to her parents' home, and her husband would accompany her.Therefore, this custom is called "returning to one's mother's house" or "going to one's mother's house" in our country. Because the mother's family wants to welcome their son-in-law, this day is also called "Sister-in-law's Day" and "Sister-in-law's Day". .This time, the children of the natal family have to bring gifts when they go home, and some of the gifts are for their parents.

There is usually a big bag of candies or biscuits distributed by the mother to the neighbors and villagers, which symbolizes the joy and excitement of the New Year.

In the past, among the people, people believed that a married daughter could not return home on the first day of the first lunar month. If she did, her parents' family would be impoverished. They could only return to their parents' home after the second day of the first lunar month.

There is a folk proverb in Taiwan: "If you have a father and a mother on the second and third day of the first lunar month, if you don't have a father, you won't have a mother to bear the burden." This means that after the second day of the first lunar month for a daughter with parents, her natal family will definitely take her back for reunion. The mother's daughter has no relatives to miss her, so her parents' family will not send anyone to pick her up.There is also a proverb that goes like this: "On the second day of the first lunar month, all you see on the street are young men and young women." It means that on the second day of the first lunar month, the streets are full of men carrying gifts and preparing to go back to their parents' homes with their wives.

Although Jiang Sirui said that her parents were gone, Liu Xufeng was the one who raised her, so Liu Xufeng's family was naturally his natal family. After the young couple had eaten this morning, Jiang Yan drove the car, and the two of them happily said, "Go back to your natal family." .”

Liu Xufeng's house was also quite lively, and Huang Ling was preparing things.But Liu Xufeng was sitting there with a dirty look on his face, and his father-in-law was very capable of showing off his airs.

Naturally, He Yuzhu took his wife and children back to his parents' home, but now Qin Huairu's brother has allocated a house in the city and will spend the New Year in the city this year.So He Yuzhu didn't need to take her back to Qinjia Village.

However, lunch was not settled at her parents' house. After putting down the gifts, she hurried back home. The reason why she returned home in such a hurry was because He Yuzhu's apprentice Ma Hua was coming to pay New Year's greetings today.

Although MCA has been following He Yuzhu for almost two years, this is the first time this apprentice has paid New Year greetings to his master, so He Yuzhu takes it more seriously.

The average cook learns cooking skills by first doing chores for three years, and then cutting meat for three years. The master only teaches his cooking skills when he is happy.

However, Jiang Yan understood Ma Hua and respected He Yuzhu from the bottom of his heart, so Jiang Yan told He Yuzhu to teach him the Ma Hua craftsmanship.

According to Jiang Yan, a stupid person can learn slowly, but loyalty can never be learned.

After Jiang Yan's persuasion and a brief observation of MCA for a while, He Yuzhu felt that his boss was right. This kid was a little stupid, but he was devoted to him, so he taught him a few skills, but those What He Yuzhu is good at is still not taught.

This is what Chinese people do. When a master teaches his apprentice, he will always leave something to be desired, and He Yuzhu is no exception.Basically, the ingredients of the specialty dishes have not been taught yet. I guess MCA wants to fully learn what they have in hand!
Fortunately, this kid has a big heart and doesn't think too much. He still does what his master He Yuzhu says and always tries his best to complete it.

But He Yuzhu also has skills. Although the secret recipes and the like are not taught, almost everything else is passed on to MCA, so that now the big pot dishes in the institute that He Yuzhu has barely touched for several days are almost all made by MCA, and He Yuzhu is also Just take a look.Although the taste is a little worse than that of He Yuzhu, as long as the dishes are heavy in oil and salt, they are delicious, and others can't say anything about it.

(End of this chapter)