HLnovel Chapter 257 Nian Beast
Chapter 257 Nian Beast
Fang Nanzhi was lying in the house playing with dough, and when she had nothing to do, she wanted to chat with the system brother.
It’s the New Year, and everyone says that this year’s New Year is a good day. She wants to ask System Brother if he is celebrating the New Year.
It turned out that the system brother was not there. She looked at the mall for a while and then heard her father calling her.
As soon as she left her room, she smelled the fragrance of the yard, which immediately aroused the little girl's appetite!
"Smells, smells so good!"
She skipped to the kitchen door and saw her aunt scooping out dumplings while her father was still lighting the fire and cooking the second pot.
"Wow, so many dumplings! Can we finish them all?"
"Have you forgotten your second uncle? Your aunt has mutton, and dad has pork. Your second uncle, I'm afraid he will have to eat this pot!"
Fang Nanzhi walked behind her father, held his shoulders, and stood on tiptoe to look into the pot: "How many are there in a pot?"
Fang Tong thought for a moment and said, "About forty?"
He felt something was wrong: "Hiss... That's not right. Your father can eat more than 30 of them, so your second uncle can eat 60, right?!"
The little girl blinked on her father's shoulder, with an expression that said, "I've never seen my second uncle eat dumplings, so I don't know."
Qian Fengping always thought that the father and daughter were really funny: "See, I was right, three pots are not enough, we need four pots, just listen to me, I'll bring it out!"
Fang Nanzhi also ran off with her aunt, leaving her father shaking his head at the pot: "Come on, come on, it's a blessing to be able to eat, it's a blessing to be able to eat."
In the end, Fang Tong naturally listened to Qian Fengping and cooked four pots of dumplings.
There was a table full of dumplings steaming hot, and there were four other dishes.
"Eat more vegetables. It's okay if there are leftover dumplings. You can just cook them again tomorrow morning and eat them anyway."
But no one at the table listened, everyone was thinking about the dumplings, they were so delicious!
"Eat slowly. First bite it open and see if there are any copper coins. I put five in there."
Fang Nanzhi ate very carefully because she had heard that it was a blessing to eat dumplings wrapped with copper coins!
I didn't spend any money on the first few, but I could taste the flavor: "Aunt, this one is better than the last one."
Qian Fengping was overjoyed: "Zhizhi is still good at eating. You said the mutton is delicious. Come, let auntie pick it up for you."
"I'll do it myself. I want to eat copper coins!" Fang Nanzhi reached out and picked one up and put it in the bowl.
When she took a bite, the little girl's teeth were hard and a "ding" sound could be heard over the table.
"Yeah, did you eat it?"
Fang Nanzhi was still nodding with a dumpling in her mouth, which made her family laugh.
"Come on, spit it out, spit it into the bowl!"
She then lowered her head, loosened her teeth, and the copper coin in her mouth fell into the bowl with a clang. She ate the dumplings and held the copper coin in her hand.
"Eat it!"
Fang Tong quickly took the lead: "Blessed, my daughter is blessed, may the new year go smoothly and safely!"
"Healthy!" "No illness or disaster."
Fang Nanzhi was so happy. She wanted to eat copper coin dumplings and finally she got them. It was so great to celebrate the Chinese New Year. She was really happy!
As soon as he finished this dumpling, Qin Yan took a bite and frowned.
He gently ate the dumpling in his mouth, put the remaining half in the bowl, picked up the copper coins and put them on the table.
Only then did everyone hear the noise.
"Yeah, my son ate it too."
But there is nothing more joyful than this. Both the son and daughter can enjoy it, which makes the two parents happier than enjoying it themselves.
Fang Nanzhi reacted the fastest this time: "I wish my brother good health and continued success!"
The whole family sent their blessings, and then Fang Tong couldn't help but complain about his own daughter in his heart.
This kid, it’s not in vain that he reads books, hehe!
After he and his brother had eaten some, Fang Nanzhi kept staring at his parents and second uncle to see who would eat the remaining copper coins.
After a while, Qian Fengping ate one, and then the second uncle also ate one.
Fang Tong didn't care at first, but since everyone happened to have one, he started to take it seriously.
Qian Fengping felt that she had eaten enough and was planning to have one last dumpling. But when she picked up the dumpling, she felt something was wrong.
It looks like there are copper coins in this dumpling.
She pursed her lips, but it was difficult to put the dumplings in. She could only pick them up and put them in the square copper bowl: "This is for you to eat."
Fang Tong hadn't reacted yet and thought Qian Fengping couldn't eat anymore. He felt a little embarrassed, but as soon as he put the food in his mouth, he bit the copper coin.
At this point, he understood everything. He took the coin out of his mouth and smiled as if it was worthless!
The whole family enjoyed the dumplings together happily. After the meal, Fang Nanzhi pulled her father to play glass balls on the kang.
Since she couldn't dig a hole on the kang, she tried other ways to play. She knew that she had to stay up all night today and it would take a long time before she could rest.
Fang Tong got tired after playing with his daughter for a while, so he gave up and couldn't play anymore.
"Dad, do you know the story of Nian?"
Fang Tong was lying on the bed, Qian Fengping was eating a chestnut beside him, and Qin Yan was sitting on the other side reading a book, but this time he was not preparing for the exam, but reading some leisurely books.
"You know? Tell Dad about it?"
The girl learned the story of the year from a book that Mr. Zheng lent her to read at the academy just before classes were closed. The little girl had a good memory and could also remember what she heard from the teacher after reading the book. She could describe the story vividly so that even people who didn't read could understand it.
"A long, long time ago, there was a particularly ferocious wild beast that lived deep in the mountains. The people called it 'Nian'."
"Nian is enormous and ferocious, devouring humans in a single bite. But after he's finished eating, he sleeps for 365 days. When he wakes up, he'll come down the mountain to eat humans out of hunger."
Fang Nanzhi was dancing with joy, looking like a very cute Nian beast.
"Later, when Nian was about to come, people would look for places to hide. But one year, a white-haired old man came to a village and said he could drive away the beast called Nian!"
"No one believed it, so the old man took out some red paper and pasted it on the door of a house. When the New Year came, people would approach places where people could smell something, but they would be scared by the red paper and would not dare to go near. Then the old man would appear from the door, holding a lantern and lighting something in his hand. The crackling sound scared away the Nian monster!"
"Later, when people returned from the mountains and saw that the old man was fine and the village was safe, they realized that the Nian monster was most afraid of the color red. After that, every year on this day, every household would light up the house, post Spring Festival couplets on the door, set off firecrackers, and wait for the coming of the new year!"
After the story was told, the whole family praised the little girl. They all knew a little about the Chinese New Year and its customs, but no one had ever told it in such a lively way!
After chatting lively for a long time, Fang Tong went out and saw that it was almost time. He took out the firecrackers he had bought and tied them to a long pole.
"Let's go set off the firecrackers!"