The Rise of the Ranch King

Chapter 136 135. Celebrate the New Year with great excitement

Pasting Spring Festival couplets.

First couplet: Auspicious snow heralds a good harvest and spring returns to the earth

Second line: Infinite spring and happiness fill the world

Hengpiao: Celebrate the Spring Festival

This was personally selected by Lin Feng, with a bit of literary flavor, which feels very in line with the characteristics of the ranch.

Dad made a bucket of glutinous rice flour paste, saying it was an ancient craft passed down by the Lin family.

Lin Feng didn't see any difference from the traditional method online, except that no flour was used.

Spring couplets are posted on the door of the wooden villa. The wooden house looks particularly festive, and it feels like returning to the hometown of childhood, except that the place I lived in before is not as big as now.

Uncle David liked to join in the fun and asked Lin Feng to post a Spring Festival couplet on his far side cabin.

First couplet: The God of Wealth sends treasures every year

Second line: The family welcomes the spring and is prosperous every year.

Horizontal comment: Lucky star shines brightly

This was chosen by the uncle himself with Lin Feng's help, and the inner monologue of wanting a salary increase was expressed quite nakedly.

There are also stickers with the word "blessing" all over the rooms in the ranch.

When the blessing words were posted, Jia Simin came. In order to spend the Spring Festival with the Lin family, she specially asked for a day off.

The Grando couple will come later, and they will take this opportunity to meet their parents and sit down for a lively New Year's Eve dinner.

American girls are very curious about everything in China and have become the main force in posting the Chinese characters "福".

Ask Lin Feng to help her check whether it is posted crookedly.

"Wait a minute, dear, this word seems to be pasted backwards?" Jasmine saw the clue.

Lin Feng explained to her with a smile, "This is the homophonic pronunciation of "arrived" for the sake of blessing. It is said that its origin is related to an emperor in ancient China. You may not understand it even if I talk too much."

I don’t know if the little girl understood, but she nodded her head.

"Of course, the word "福" cannot be pasted upside down everywhere. The word "福" on the door means opening the door to welcome blessings and good luck. If you stick it upright, you will let blessings come into the door. If you stick it upside down, it will let the blessings go to other people's homes. .”

Jasmine was even more confused.

Mom and dad were busy cooking in the kitchen, and Jia Simin also wanted to help. How could mom let such a beautiful girl work hard.

There is a big Chinese knot hanging in the living room, replacing the previous deer head. My mother said it was quite scary to hang an animal head during the holidays.

Lin Feng thought about it and temporarily put it in the grocery room.

In the United States, you can’t watch CCTV. The TV is on a Chinese channel and starts broadcasting Spring Festival content early in the morning.

You can go to YouTube to watch the Spring Festival Gala in the evening, just like watching TV directly.

Jia Simin said that she just watched a Chinese movie some time ago, with a famous Chinese actor. The last part was a fight with a humanoid toad. The heroine was very beautiful but could not speak.

Lin Feng thought for a while, my God, she actually knows kung fu.

Kung Fu is indeed very popular abroad. It has won numerous awards and many people have watched it.

"You have great taste." Lin Feng gave a thumbs up.

The kitchen door was closed, and it was originally open, so he later installed a frosted glass sliding door to block the oil fumes.

Lin Feng became lustful and pulled Jasmine, who was standing in front of the coffee table drinking water, onto his lap, and then started to smell the fragrance of her hair.

Her hands began to be dishonest, rubbing back and forth on her stockinged thighs.

Jasmine was afraid of being embarrassed by his parents, so she wanted to break away, but it was obvious that she was giving in half.

She kissed Lin Feng gently on his forehead as a sign of encouragement.

The man is in love with his concubine, Xiao accompanies Qin, Qin accompanies Xiao, a match made in heaven, the two depend on each other.

The two quietly went upstairs, closed the bedroom door and started the last shot of the year.

After finishing going downstairs, Lin Feng went to inquire first. Seeing that my parents were still chatting in the kitchen and preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner in the evening, I felt relieved and asked Jasmine to come down too.

There was a hole in her stockings just now, but now she has experience, and there are several pairs in her small backpack, each with its own characteristics.

Jasmine's cheeks turned red, as she would do every time it ended. Lin Feng was so excited when he saw it, always thinking about doing it a second time.

But today is New Year’s Eve, so we should exercise restraint.

Mom and dad were busy for more than two hours. Lin Feng said that it would be him and Jia Simin who could go in. After all, he could cook too.

My mother would definitely not want to let her daughter-in-law-to-be enter the kitchen, saying that she is a guest, so there is no way for guests to work.

In the end, I couldn't stand the fact that Lin Feng and Jia Simin took turns doing the work, so I reluctantly agreed.

Lin Feng knew how to cook, so he had no problem cooking home-cooked fish or something like that.

My mother was worried and stood at the door of the kitchen with her arms folded to guide her, for fear that Jasmine would be tired.

Lin Feng remembered a story he had read before. His son asked his mother to find out who his girlfriend was among several girls.

The mother found it accurately, and the son was surprised and asked why.

Mom said she was the only one in this group of people who didn't like her.

Of course this is just a joke, it still has something to do with people’s personalities.

Jasmine is also crafty and plans to make a vegetable salad and bake a pudding.

The combination of Chinese and Western food makes the New Year's Eve dinner in the evening even more interesting.

Catherine is making dessert at home and will invite them over, as well as Charlie's family.

There are so many people and it’s lively.

According to the old tradition of my hometown, people would go up the mountain to burn incense and worship ancestors at three or four o'clock in the afternoon.

However, in recent years, changes in customs have been advocated, and memorial halls have been built in various villages. Burning paper on the mountain is no longer allowed, and even setting off firecrackers has become illegal.

Lin Feng did not want to express too much. The merits and demerits of right and wrong will be judged by future generations.

Lin Feng and his father went out to set off firecrackers, while his mother took Jia Simin to make dumplings on the coffee table.

Jasmine was wearing a red sweater, like a newly married daughter-in-law.

Lin Feng hopes that this harmony can be maintained for a lifetime until the day he passes away, and then passed on to the next generation. This will be the case for generations of the Lin family.

When the firecrackers were set off, Uncle David also came to join in the fun. In the eyes of people who often play with guns, firecrackers are "sound toys that use gunpowder."

It is said that there are 5000 stores selling fireworks and firecrackers in Texas. However, most of these stores are located in remote areas of the suburbs and on both sides of the highway outside the city. They are out of the way.

The stores are also very simple, and they are all lonely mobile houses with eye-catching words "Fireworks and Firecrackers" written on them. In normal times, these stores are not open and will only open to accept customers when celebrating festivals.

In order to buy these firecrackers, Lin Feng used his connections.

The core is Doudou, that guy is fat and he is really good at critical moments.

And Doudou is quite capable, and she helped him get something in the middle of winter.

Looking at the three big boxes of fireworks produced in Changsha, Hunan, Lin Feng was about to burst into tears. This was the smell of gunpowder from the motherland.

When delivering the goods, Doudou wished us a Happy New Year, and her fat body became redder and redder.

Dad was a traditional old man, so he asked Lin Feng to locate the exact location of his hometown, then set up a small offering table in that direction, burned incense and paper to place tributes.

Northerners will hang "bamboos", which are family trees, during the Chinese New Year. After the Chinese New Year, they will change them into landscape paintings.

We don't have this condition in the United States, but it tastes like that when it's fragrant.

When Raymond was busy in the kitchen, he told Jasmine about traditional Chinese culture. The 23-year-old American girl seemed to have opened up a new world and repeatedly praised the profoundness of Eastern culture.

(End of this chapter)