I want to ruin the country

"What do you mean, there's a person on a piece of paper like this?"

Catherine was still puzzled. When she saw that there was no one around, she secretly lifted up the door several times to see if there was a group of old men and women hiding behind it.

They made dumplings in the afternoon of the 30th. When it was almost dark, Yi Shijie got some sesame stalks and scattered them in the yard.

"What is this for?"

Yi Shijie said,

"We have an old saying: 'The sesame seeds bloom higher and higher.

When someone enters the yard and steps on the sesame stalks, they make a crackling sound and break into pieces, symbolizing good luck and prosperity in the coming year, and peace and prosperity for all years to come!

"You have so many things to pay attention to during the Chinese New Year!"

They had the New Year's Eve dinner in the evening. A large table of delicious food was set up in the main hall. Yi Shijie, his brothers, and nephews drank until their faces were flushed.

He talked to them endlessly about Yining, London, flying on airplanes, etc., and everyone was envious.

Children and girls go to watch the Spring Festival Gala after they have eaten their fill. The Spring Festival Gala is becoming less and less interesting now, just like chicken ribs, which have no meat when eaten but are still enjoyable to discard.

But in order to adapt to the situation, everyone still endured and watched.

At twelve o'clock, the new year officially arrives. Every household sets off firecrackers. The fireworks flying in the sky and the sound of firecrackers one after another bring the New Year atmosphere to the extreme.

Catherine felt that celebrating the Chinese New Year was too ritualistic. He mumbled something, and Qiao Zhihui asked her what she was mumbling about.

"It's a shame that Yining can't see all this excitement!"

Qiao Zhihui said,

"You don't have to feel sorry for him. He's been celebrating the New Year like this since he was a child. What's so special about it?"

Catherine was relieved!

Yi Shijie said,

"Why does he need us to worry about him? It's New Year's over there today. He's the emperor, and I don't know how much more lively it is than ours!"

This sentence made Catherine feel sad again.

"Yining, you bastard, you're having fun over there by yourself and you don't care about us!"

Qiao Zhihui glared at her husband fiercely.

"If you don't speak, no one will buy you as a mute!"

Yi Shijie regretted it as soon as he finished speaking, and quickly lowered his head and remained silent!

He would burn incense to heaven and earth and worship everywhere,

Worship means burning paper, burning it for heaven and earth, for the "house god", for the "kitchen god", for the "kang god", for the "thatched god", and so on.

"Mao Shen" is the god of toilets, because toilets are called "mao fang" in rural areas.

Catherine followed behind and watched her father-in-law stand up and fall down, kowtow and burn paper, muttering to herself, blessing the family with safety and so on. It was so interesting that she wanted to lie down and try to see if she could communicate with the gods!

Qiao Zhihui said no,

"You're pregnant, so it's inconvenient. Otherwise, you would have to kowtow too!"

Catherine said,

"I can!"

Qiao Zhihui hurriedly stopped him.

"Forget it, forget it, you don't have to!"

Dumplings Dumplings, which means "Jiaozi", also means the time when the sky changes to midnight. Eating dumplings at this time is the most appropriate.

The meatball dumplings were delicious, and Catherine ate about twenty of them.

Qiao Zhihui said,

"Eat less. You'll have to eat early tomorrow. If you eat too much now, you'll feel uncomfortable and have no appetite tomorrow morning!"

Catherine didn't care about that and threw them into her mouth one by one.

"No, it's so delicious I can't stop eating it!"

After a while, it was already past one o'clock. Everyone was really sleepy and fell asleep.

Excited Catherine stared with wide eyes and asked in confusion,

"Aren't we supposed to stay up all night to celebrate the New Year?"

Qiao Zhihui said,

"If you stay up until twelve o'clock, the New Year is over and you can go to sleep!"

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, we still ate dumplings. Catherine looked at the dumplings on the table with a bitter face.

"Mom, I can't eat it!"

Qiao Zhihui said,

“Dumplings are made of unleavened dough. If you eat them and then lie down to sleep, you won’t be able to digest them.

What did I say to you last night? I told you to eat less, but you didn't listen. You ate so much and now you're feeling bloated and uncomfortable!"

After 7:30, people come to pay New Year's greetings, and young people also go out to visit other people's homes.

Catherine was pregnant, but her parents-in-law wouldn't let her go.

Catherine was so surprised that she insisted on going with them and knelt on the ground to kowtow to her grandparents.

Everyone saw that this foreign daughter-in-law was very well-mannered, so the elders gave her a big red envelope.

Catherine opened the red envelope and saw the bright red Mao Zedong notes inside, and she grinned from ear to ear.

There is nothing else to do during the Chinese New Year except visiting relatives and eating and drinking.

Yi's relatives, friends and clansmen all vied to invite Catherine to their homes for dinner.

Catherine also knew how to reciprocate, and would bring good cigarettes and wine when she went to other people's houses for dinner.

Whenever he saw a young girl or a young wife, as long as he liked her, he would take out a ring, earrings, bracelet or necklace and give it to her.

There is nothing bad in her hands. Although these things cannot be said to be priceless, they are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, but she doesn't even blink an eye when giving them away.

Qiao Zhihui and her husband didn't care about spending so much money. They thought spending money would make them look good, and her family had plenty of money and they could never spend it all.

Who wouldn't love a daughter-in-law like this? Everyone was vying to bring her home, and Catherine became very popular.

A group of sisters-in-law taught her how to play mahjong and would drag her to play after dinner.

She was also having fun and played to her heart's content, ignoring Qiao Zhihui's scolding.

After playing the wrong card and firing the cannon, Catherine imitated others and beat her chest and said she regretted it.

Even after losing money, she pretended to be heartbroken, blushing and slapping her butt like others, which made everyone laugh!

Catherine had a lot of fun. Everyone was laughing and playing together. This was what life was all about. It was nothing like their home, which was always deserted.

The New Year in the countryside is lively.

Starting from the seventh or eighth day of the first lunar month, people with nothing to do would start beating drums and gongs in the streets.

Starting from the afternoon of the 14th, the villagers performed yangge dance, stilt walking, lion dance, land boat racing and Luozi singing.

There will be performances in the afternoon and evening on the 14th, 15th and 16th.

Catherine watched for several days with her belly bulging. When she heard that anyone could participate in the yangko dance, she said she must come and participate next year.

After happily celebrating the Lantern Festival, all the people who had gone out to work left and the village became quiet.

Catherine has been in the United States since she was in China. She doesn't want to go back. She wants to stay in China for her confinement.

Martin said, if you buy a big house in Shanghai, I will go and live there when I have time!

Catherine reluctantly said goodbye to her fellow villagers and came to Shanghai.

Money makes things easier. In just ten days, they spent two or three hundred million to buy a luxury house.

After the renovation, Catherine waited for the birth in Shanghai.

On April 25th, I felt something was wrong and rushed to the hospital.

The hospital arranged the most luxurious ward for high-ranking officials, arranged the best experts to form a delivery team, and formulated several emergency plans.

Mr. Martin also said that he wanted to find the most famous doctor in the world to deliver the baby, but Catherine refused to let him come, saying that it was unnecessary.

Mr. Martin was afraid of nothing except Catherine.

Mr. Martin would never dare to do anything that Catherine did not want to do.

The couple had no choice but to fly over to accompany her.