Chapter 298: Dry Kiss

The people of Longhua are very keen on stocking up for the New Year, and the people of Maoyang Village are no exception.

Especially knowing that the hotel supermarket will be closed from the first day of the New Year to the eighth day of the New Year, now they have to rush to the supermarket to buy a lot of things.

Of course, there is no need to worry about ingredients and fruits. The small vegetable and fruit stalls in the hotel will not be closed during the New Year. Only the big supermarket will be closed because the employees have to take a holiday.

But even so, many people rushed to the supermarket to buy things before the New Year. Not only the people of Maoyang Village, but also some people from the neighboring villages that are close to Maoyang Village but not very close to the county town will come to the hotel supermarket to buy New Year goods.

There are also people from other time and space. People in the doomsday plane are also worried that the seven days of closure during the New Year will affect them, so they also ordered a large amount of goods this time.

After all, it is almost the time for the New Year in the doomsday plane, and everyone is also lively during the New Year. The end of the world has been almost four years, and the previous three years of Spring Festival have not been celebrated, so this time they want to have a good New Year.

It was similar in the Great Xia Dynasty. Xiahou Song and Xie Yuruan were pure ancients after all, and they were the emperor and empress. Even though they had received a lot of modern knowledge, they did not say that they would end their status as the ruling class.

Xiahou Song was also a good emperor, so even if he would not be a good emperor and make everyone equal, the people of the world were his subjects, and he would not watch them live a hard life.

He would often buy a large amount of supplies from the hotel, or exchange various knowledge that could help the Great Xia Dynasty. His purpose was to make the Great Xia Dynasty stronger and hope that his people would live a better life.

"Mr. Kong." Chen Wenjiu greeted Kong Yuesheng when he saw him coming to the hotel.

Kong Yuesheng was indeed very good-looking, with a height of more than 1.8 meters, almost the same as his son, tall and graceful. Even though he had been ill for many years, he had gradually recovered. Although he was still a little thin, he looked more elegant and scholarly.

Kong Lingchen looks like a handsome, cold guy, the type of handsome guy who looks like the iceberg prince in campus novels.

But Kong Yuesheng is a handsome guy who is elegant and gentle, and he also has the mature temperament of a middle-aged man, which makes him even more attractive.

Kong Yuesheng and his son look about the same, but their temperaments are quite different.

Kong Yuesheng has now reopened his company. Although he is not the largest shareholder of the company, or in other words, he works for the government, he feels very safe.

He was indeed the largest shareholder of the Kong Group before, but he was unable to save it from bankruptcy after problems arose. Even though he was very confident in his abilities, he did not want to be the first shareholder. He felt very good working for the government.

With the protection of the government, he felt more secure.

After Kong Yuesheng opened his company, he imported a lot of goods from the hotel, and gradually cooperated with the government of the hotel. Now the company is developing very well.

He would come to the hotel from time to time, occasionally go to the big bathroom on the second floor to soak in the hot springs, or go to the fitness square to exercise, and then go to the small garden for a walk. Now he would occasionally go to the big square for a walk.

After those years of bedridden experience, Kong Yuesheng was no longer busy with work all day, and he would also pay attention to leisure and entertainment and fitness. He would not put all his energy on work.

Now he is almost fifty years old, and even if he makes a comeback, he does not plan to work so hard.

Today Kong Yuesheng came to the hotel not to discuss business with the people here, but to relax. Soaking in hot springs is good for his health. He is very concerned about his health now.

"It's the director of the Wen Hotel." Kong Yuesheng also smiled after seeing Chen Wenjiu, "Has the director of the Wen Hotel prepared the New Year's goods for the New Year?"

"Almost." Chen Wenjiu said with a smile.

She receives dividends from the hotel every month, and she has a lot of money in her personal account, so she also uses her own money to buy a lot of New Year's goods during the Chinese New Year, and gives a lot to her parents, grandparents, and grandparents.

Anyway, she basically doesn't spend anything at the hotel now, and when her savings increase, she will of course repay her parents and relatives.

"Mr. Kong, are you here to discuss business or just have fun?" Chen Wenjiu asked curiously.

"Come here to soak in the hot springs, and go to the supermarket and buy some things by the way." Kong Yuesheng said with a smile, "Achen and Ayao are studying very hard now, so I want to buy them more good things to make up for it."

Chen Wenjiu nodded when he heard it. The winter vacation of Kong Lingchen and Tang Yao, two senior high school students, is very short. Although it is not the Chinese New Year yet, they are still in school when others are on winter vacation.

Because they want to work hard to get into Peking University, Kong Lingchen and Tang Yao study very hard and diligently. After all, Kong Lingchen's academic performance was good before, but he was not sure if he could be admitted to Peking University.

Tang Yao was too decadent before, and it took a lot of time and energy to improve his grades, so neither of them had time to come.

Kong Yuesheng, as a father, hoped that his son could take care of his health while studying hard, so it was understandable that he prepared all kinds of delicious food for them.

"Then I won't bother Mr. Kong anymore. I'll go get busy first." Chen Wenjiu said goodbye with a smile.

Kong Yuesheng didn't stay for long. After saying goodbye to Chen Wenjiu, he went directly to the second floor bathroom to soak in the hot spring.

Although Kong Yuesheng has started a company now, he doesn't have much assets. Of course, it's impossible for him to soak in the super expensive indoor hot spring. He can only soak in the outdoor hot spring that has a good effect on strengthening the body.

After all, Kong Yuesheng doesn't have a discount for the family members of the hotel employees. The indoor hot spring costs 100,000 yuan per time, and he can't afford it now.

Kong Yuesheng went upstairs to soak in the hot spring. When Chen Wenjiu left the main building, he saw that there were many guests around the hotel. Many of them were basically villagers from their village, and they came back from the big supermarket with big bags and small bags.

These villagers went to the big supermarket to buy New Year's goods. They had to buy all kinds of things and stock up enough for a week or two weeks. They also had to stock up various gifts for relatives. There were a lot of things to buy.

"Mom? Have we bought enough New Year's goods?" Chen Wenjiu asked helplessly, looking at his mother and aunt carrying a lot of bags.

Li Siyue, who had just come out of the supermarket with her sister-in-law, saw her daughter and said with a smile, "We still need to buy some gifts."

"Your godmother, your uncle, your cousins, and your cousins, all relatives have to give some gifts." Li Siyue said with a smile, "Don't worry, they are all food and drink."

The gifts given by relatives here are not gold or silver or money, but also things of high value. They are basically coconut juice from Coco Tree, Wanglaoji herbal tea, and fruits such as oranges and apples.

Anyway, every year during the New Year, Chen Wen Restaurant will also receive various coconut juices and herbal teas, as well as various fruits such as oranges and apples.

There are also biscuits and candies, which are really common gifts.

The godmother that Li Siyue mentioned is the godmother that Chen Yongtao and Li Siyue recognized when they got married. She is in Maoyang Village.

According to the custom of the Miao ethnic group in southern Qiong, Chen Wenjiu and others, when getting married, that is, when holding a wedding, the bride has to recognize a godfather or godmother. During the wedding, the godfather accompanies the groom to pick up the bride, and when the guests make trouble for the groom, he has to protect the groom.

That's right, in the wedding of the Miao ethnic group in southern Qiong, the groom is the one who makes trouble, and the bride and bridesmaid will not be made trouble. Only when toasting, the bridesmaid will help the bride to block the wine. In today's weddings, the toast is not necessarily the wine that the bride drinks afterwards, and basically they will pretend to drink mineral water or something like that.

According to the custom of Chen Wenjiu and others, the bride is picked up in the morning, and after the wedding banquet starts at noon, the bride and groom toast each table.

After the toast, the bride and groom can take the groomsmen and bridesmaids back to eat.

In the afternoon, that is, in the evening, the groom and the groom, the godfather of the bride and groom, and a master of ceremonies, a group of people should go to the village entrance and return to the groom's home from the village entrance.

This distance is when the villagers stop the groom to ask for red envelopes, but the red envelopes are basically one or five yuan, and it is impossible to exceed ten yuan at most.

These are the current prices. When Chen Wenjiu was a child, the red envelopes that the villagers got when they stopped the best man at the wedding were basically ten cents, twenty cents and fifty cents. One dollar was a huge sum of money.

During this period of time when the villagers stopped the groom to ask for red envelopes, they could snatch the groom away and hide him from the best man and the master of ceremonies, playing hide-and-seek.

During this period, the groom covered his head and face, and he could not resist. He could only rely on the best man, the master of ceremonies and the godfather to protect him. If he could not protect himself, he would be pulled away by the people around him.

After the groom was snatched away, he would also be given a red envelope when he went to pick him up, and then some Miao rituals were held in the evening to prove that the couple was married.

Chen Wenjiu was not very clear about the customs in other places. Anyway, she knew that the weddings in Maoyang Village and the Miao villages nearby and in the next county were all like this.

When Chen Wenjiu's parents, Chen Yongtao and Li Siyue, got married, she was already a teenager, in junior high school.

People of Chen Yongtao and Li Siyue's generation basically just got married and rarely got married directly. Most of the time, they would have a wedding after their children grew up and their family conditions improved.

When Chen Yongtao and Li Siyue got married, the brother and sister were both teenagers and witnessed their parents' wedding. Although her parents wore ethnic costumes at the wedding, not wedding dresses or phoenix crowns and bridal robes, she still thought her parents looked the best.

Li Siyue's godfather and godmother were recognized before the wedding, and they were a family in the village who had a good relationship with her family.

To be honest, Chen Wenjiu was really confused about the relationship between recognizing godparents before the wedding and the godparents attending the wedding to protect the groom.

Because there was a family in their village who recognized godparents when they got married; as a result, when the godparents' son got married, he recognized his parents' goddaughter as his godmother.

For example, when Chen Jiarong and Wei Xiaohong got married, they recognized Chen Jiarong's cousin and his wife as their godparents. They were real cousins, and Chen Jiarong's grandfather and his godparents' grandmother were like real siblings.

In fact, when Chen Wenjiu's godparents were not recognized as godparents, she basically called them aunt. But when her mother recognized them as godparents, she was directly changed from aunt to grandmother, which made her speechless.

This confusing relationship between relatives is really a headache.