Chapter 2 Chinese New Year (Page 12)
New Year's Eve is a very grand day in China, so almost every family will cook a lot of dishes.
The same goes for Lai Jian's family, with big fish and meat, filling the one-meter-long and wide table. The whole family of three went out to cook a total of sixteen dishes, including three vegetarian dishes and the rest were meat dishes.
Once it’s done, you can’t eat it yet. In rural areas, there are a lot of rules.
First, sacrifices are made to the ancestors and various gods. After the sacrifices are completed, it is people's turn to eat. Usually, by this time, the dishes are cold. Of course, even though it was cold, I was very happy to eat it.
After all, the atmosphere is different during the New Year.
Lai Jian remembers that when he was a child, what he looked forward to most was New Year’s Eve, because there were many, many dishes that were not available in normal times, and you could eat them freely on this day!
"Am I old? Why do I always like to reminisce?"
It’s rare for a family to get together. Eating New Year’s Eve dinner at home and watching the Spring Festival Gala is a very happy and warm scene. No matter how many troubles there are outside, they are completely forgotten at this moment!
"No matter how hard or tired you are, you have to go home to celebrate the New Year!" The warm home made him feel that it was right to come back.
Originally wandering outside alone, my lonely and cold heart was gradually melted by the atmosphere of family.
"You are not young anymore, your mother and I are also old..." At this time, his father Lai Youwei suddenly said after taking a few sips of wine.
As soon as Lai Youwei spoke, Lai Jian knew what his father was going to say. He began to doubt his life!
The warm feeling just now is gone!
Is it really right for me to come back?
"Dad, I know! Is it okay if we don't talk about it today?" Lai Jian interrupted before his father could say it. It was because he had said this sentence for ten years, ever since he left school. Once a year starts, it never stops.
As long as they were together, no more than half a day, his father would have to hold back these words. He had to admire his father's indomitable spirit!
"Your dad is right, you are not young anymore, and we are old too!" However, dad shut up, and mom Yao Yanhong started again!
"Well, okay, I'm working hard too! Just marry a wife. She doesn't go to the supermarket to buy something. She can buy it whenever she wants!" Lai Jian was helpless, but could he do this?
Come on! This topic cannot be avoided!
Even if you don’t want to listen, you still have to listen. Even if your ears are calloused, it’s useless. If you are annoyed and the elderly are not annoyed, then you have to listen!
"You are quite eloquent after me. Why can't you open your mouth when facing a girl? You are like a piece of wood. How can you fool me?" Lai Youwei hates the fact that iron cannot become steel.
Yao Yanhong glanced at Lai Youwei, her look seemed to be saying, I was just fooled by you and have been poor with you my whole life!
Lai Youwei glared at Yao Yanhong and ignored his wife. He looked at Lai Jian and said anything in his heart.
"If you can't find a wife, it just means you're useless. How dare you make excuses here?"
It can be regarded as a way to stimulate generals, Lai Jian thought.
"It's useless for you to provoke me. I've had twenty-eight kisses this year. I've spent a lot of money and it's of no use. People keep asking about cars and houses. What can I do?"
moment!
The whole family was silent!
Many times, the ideas of the elderly are very simple and simple, or some old concepts are affecting them.
They failed to provide any good conditions for their son. They always felt that they were useless and felt sorry for their son. Therefore, when this issue came up, they felt heavy and speechless.
Especially when they see parents from other families buying cars and houses for their sons and looking for daughters-in-law, the couple feels particularly uncomfortable. They feel that their son cannot marry a wife, and they have a huge responsibility.
This was the thinking of most people of their time.
Because in that era, marriages were usually arranged by parents, and the woman generally didn't care about the man's appearance, but only about the quality of his family.
The so-called good or bad, in his father's time, depended on whether there were many fields.
Because there was no hybrid rice at that time, the yield of old varieties of rice was low, and most families did not have enough to eat!
Therefore, the only ideal for ordinary people in that era was to have enough to eat.
Therefore, it is not difficult for families with a lot of land to find a wife. After all, they can have enough to eat, right?
If the family has little land and many brothers, it will be difficult to find a wife!
After all, no one wants their daughter to go to someone else's house to suffer, and to go hungry.
If in addition to their own food, they can still have some surplus food, they are considered to be living a better life in the village. Many people like to marry their daughters to such families. After all, they can ensure that their daughters will not be hungry when they get there.
In the words of their time, life was guaranteed, which was better than anything else!
But that was in the past. At that time, there were many people who didn't have enough to eat, so the goal of many people at that time was just to have enough to eat. But it's different now. How many people still don't have enough to eat now? So who cares about the land now? How much is rural land worth?
Nowadays, it’s all about house and car work. To put it bluntly, it’s all about the money!
After all, most people in China now strive to be well-off! How many people are there who don’t have enough to eat?
Lai Jian's parents have been farmers all their lives and have little education. Even his name was given by his uncle. After all, his uncle had studied for several years and was considered somewhat educated in the countryside at that time, so he was given this name. name.
So it is conceivable that Lai Jian's family...
It was impossible to rely on his parents, and he himself had no achievements. In this era, it was strange to be able to get a wife!
Most of the more than 30 million bachelors in China are people like Lai Jian.
Although he is optimistic, he is not blind, and he still has self-awareness, so he also knows that if there is no accident, the possibility of being single in this life is very high!
Unless you suddenly win the lottery!
But is that possible?
"We have to lower our requirements!" Lai Jian sighed in his heart. From the beginning, the requirements for goddess level have been reduced to the level of not being a dinosaur.
However, looking at the current situation, the requirements are still high!
Still have to surrender!
No matter what, I have to find a woman to carry on the family line, otherwise I would be very sorry for my father and my ancestors!
"As long as it's a girl!" At this moment, looking at his parents' unspeakable worry, Lai Jian decided to go out after the Chinese New Year, expand the scope of blind dates, and lower the standards for mate selection!
Those who are remarried, those who have children, those who are older, those who are ugly,... it doesn't matter if they are dinosaurs, in a word... as long as they are women and can still give birth!
"Dad! Mom! I promise, I will bring a wife back during the Spring Festival next year!" Lai Jian promised.
He didn't believe it anymore. If he couldn't find a first-marriage person, how could he not find a second-marriage person? If you can’t find anything pleasing to the eye, can you still find something that is as good as a dinosaur?
"Okay! I don't know how many years you have been saying this! Your ears are calloused! Can you use a new word?" Lai Youwei glanced at Lai Jian, a little impatient.
I drank another sip of white wine, ate the food, and watched TV. I was obviously used to it!