Chapter 0020 – New Year’s Eve

Before Zhuang Rui family New Year’s Eve is three people, then Zhuang Min married, only Zhuang Rui and his mother two people over the New Year, although every year Liu Chuan’s parents will invite their mother and son to go to the home with the New Year, but Zhuang mother’s character is not too much like to trouble other people, always politely refused, so many years down, Zhuang Rui is also used to it.

From the morning of the New Year’s Eve, Zhuang Rui began to busy up, first of all, the family’s health cleaned up, and then on the door to paste “Fu” down, as well as the Spring Festival couplets, window, New Year’s paintings, etc., although only he and his mother New Year’s Eve, but also to the family set up the New Year’s Eve full of flavors, the home of the stereo inside the Cantonese version of the play! The home stereo also played the Cantonese version of the song “Congratulations on your fortune”, which filled the house with a festive atmosphere.

To the New Year’s Eve more than six o’clock in the evening, Zhuang Rui first to the deceased grandparents and father burned incense to pay homage to, and then and Zhuang mother had an early dinner, sitting next to the TV, while waiting for the Spring Festival Gala broadcast, while wrapping up the dumplings, in accordance with the custom, the next day, early in the morning, the dumplings should be put into the pot, mother and son, a dumpling skin pressure, a person wrapped, the action is very skillful.

To talk about wrapping dumplings, Zhuang Rui from a young age, but no less ate Zhuang mother’s row head, as a child playful, took the dumpling skin put the filling on the start of the chaotic pinch up, wrapped out of the four is not like, down to the pot immediately scattered, Zhuang mother did not say he just let him every time he wrapped their own dumplings ate, one by two Zhuang Rui’s dumplings are also wrapped like a good example of what they say that poor people’s children are early in the family, which is not false, Zhuang Rui on the Zhuang Rui often saw Liu Chuan that bastard wrapped the dumplings like a steamed bun.

“Xiao Rui, you see Liu Chuan have found a girlfriend, Lei Lei’s character is still so good, you and Liu Chuan born in a year, also twenty-five, when to bring a daughter-in-law to mom ah!”

Zhuang mother’s rolling pin in hand did not pause, seemingly thoughtless casually asked her son, in fact, her heart has long been anxious, although they can not explain to the child for some reasons, and do not want to interfere with the child’s marriage too much, in the family is very enlightened and democratic, but ultimately older, the son’s lifelong matters naturally also on the heart of the more points.

However, Zhuang mother did not mention Qin Xuan Bing, she could see that the girl must have come from a family with a better environment, in the old saying, it is a famous woman, although very polite, but always give a sense of distance, that kind of woman is not suitable for their son.

“Mom, I’m still young, not in a hurry, slowly find, I must find a filial piety to your daughter-in-law, every day to you to cook and whack the back, do not listen to us on the repudiation of her and then change a ……”

Zhuang Rui and mom joked, although in Shanghai pawnshop work, often come into contact with a number of women, just those women are non-rich that is, for Zhuang Rui never looked at, he is a no money, no power of the ordinary small white-collar workers, want to find a satisfactory girlfriend in Shanghai, but it is not really an easy thing, Zhuang Rui is a normal man, en, I should say that it is a normal virgin, or else then see that scene in the hospital will not let The scene he saw in the hospital wouldn’t have shocked him so much.

“Give me a back pounding and cooking every day, you think you are looking for a maid ah! Mom is old, I can watch you get married peacefully and securely and I’m satisfied, I can still bring you a few years of children by then, if you keep dragging it on, Mom won’t have the strength to help you bring up children in the future.”

Mother Zhuang seemed to have remembered something, her voice gradually lowered, her eyes seemed to have tears in them, and she stood up and walked towards her room.

“Mom, you’ve aged a bit! There are not even wrinkles on your face, okay, the Spring Festival Gala has started, come out and watch the TV! This will be enough dumplings to eat.” Zhuang Rui saw that his mother was a bit sad, and quickly changed the subject, getting up to turn up the volume of the TV.

In fact, Zhuang Rui and his sister have always had some doubts in their hearts for so many years, their mother when they were small, spoke a mouthful of Mandarin, and slowly turned into the current Pangcheng dialect, there is also the fact that the mother never brought up the matter of their own mother’s family, when I was small Zhuang Rui saw that everyone else had aunts and uncles, maternal grandparents, but also had once asked this question to the mother along with his sister, the result is that they have never The result was that Zhuang mother, who had never touched a single finger of her two children, severely beat her two children that time.

Since then, the understanding Zhuang Rui and Zhuang Min have never mentioned this matter, but every New Year’s Eve, the two siblings will find that their mother’s mood is very low, and will go to their room to stay alone for a while, and Zhuang Rui always think of ways to make their mother happy.

Zhuang Rui often in the imagination, think mother must be a big family origin, and then and dad staged a Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun elopement backyard story, because mother not only know English, but also very proficient in Russian, Zhuang Rui on the mother’s life is really some curiosity, he does not know what kind of family can cultivate the mother so that is independent of the strong and the world of the character of the temperament of the euphemistic Zhuang Rui in Shanghai, see the rich and official women. See those rich too official too them, in temperament and Zhuang mother than up, that difference is not a star and a half point.

After a while the Spring Festival Gala has begun, Zhuang mother only red eyes from the room out, but the mood is much better than just now, sitting in front of the TV and Zhuang Rui gossip, watching the Spring Festival Gala.

Now watch the Spring Festival Gala, just a habit of the New Year’s Eve, has not been able to find the feeling of the year, Zhuang mother is older, to 10 o’clock or so to go back to bed, Zhuang Rui a person to see quite meaningless, but also straight sleepy, but do not dare to go to sleep, because by 12 o’clock, the New Year’s call will certainly wake him up.

Stay up to nearly 12 o’clock, Zhuang Rui hastily pulled the living room phone line to their rooms, and really did not have a moment, Liu Chuan, college dormitory brothers, and just left a phone call yesterday a bunch of junior high school classmates, have called over, after receiving the phone, Zhuang Rui would like to give Uncle Te a phone call, look at the time has been almost one o’clock, but also did not play, ready to wait until the morning and then to pay New Year’s Eve to Uncle Te.

Early in the morning up under the dumplings after eating, Zhuang Rui to Liu Chuan’s parents, Uncle De and some friends in Zhonghai called to pay tribute to the New Year, and then lie down on the bed to make up for the sleep to go.

The first two are nothing, Zhuang Rui in addition to go to the godmother and sister’s home to pay tribute to the New Year, are bored at home reading books, he bought a one-time from the Xinhua bookstore hundreds of dollars of appreciation of the collection of books, and now also just look at a few books, for antiques in this line of work, Zhuang Rui heart is still a little bit of plausible, but better than the previous one to see this kind of books to doze off, the least you can do is to look into it.

I do not know because of the dependence on the eyes or these days to make up for some knowledge, Zhuang Rui actually some of the heart of the stupid, if it is not the birds and flowers market opened on the fifth, I’m afraid he is going to try his hand.

To the third daughter back to the door, sister and brother-in-law with inamorata to the home, naturally and lively day, and inamorata on their own although not often seen, but allow themselves to eat big white rabbit milk candy uncle but affectionate very much, to the evening actually not willing to go home with parents, Zhuang Min also left his daughter to stay for a few days, anyway, the mother used to also often help her with children.

In this way, Zhuang Rui but also do not have time to read, simply with nieces full of Pengcheng play a few days, but also their own want to go to the flower and bird market thing to forget, until the sixth of the year Liu Chuan called, let him go to the store to play, only with the nui leisurely around the past.

This time Zhuang Rui in the flower and bird market can not go so smoothly, the snow has long stopped, at the moment the flower and bird antique market that a few streets on both sides, all are set up loose stalls, from the old books and newspapers to the coins and jade bronze, with the antique market with the antique buildings, if you do not look at the clothes that people wear, but also thought that back in ancient times it!

Let Nui Nui sitting on his neck, the effort of nine oxen and two tigers, Zhuang Rui just squeezed into Liu Chuan’s store, go in to see, good guy, this is just a few days, the original empty store inside, has been filled with all kinds of pets, I do not know the year before Liu Chuan put these animals are placed in what place, the doorway of the two large and a small fish tank, put some ornamental fish and pet turtles, and the original cage inside those The original cages are large and small pet dogs, from small Pekingese, Shih Tzu, to grinning ferocious abnormal German black back and other sheepdogs, everything.

Store also more than two clerks, usually Liu Chuan often run around the country to buy goods, but rarely stay in the store, are the two in charge, Zhuang Rui came a few times before, and they are quite familiar with the last time Zhuang Rui, Liu Chuan to the two clerks on vacation.

And years ago that will be free compared to the store is now simply busy, three people are busy feet do not touch the ground, rare Liu Chuan this goods to collect money to find money actually will not be wrong.

“Yell, now is the person who has a girlfriend, also know serious work ah!” See Liu Chuan cold days are busy sweat, Zhuang Rui joked.

“That is, we can’t mix with you this bachelor in the future, aigoo, our also little princess came, come to give uncle kowtow, I’m good to give the new year’s money.”

Liu Chuan see little Nui Nui, immediately happy, since childhood he is only to others kowtow part, last year when Nui Nui is still small, this year he is from the year before, has been chanting to Nui Nui to kowtow to him to pay tribute to the New Year.