My hotel connects the past and present

People in Longhua are very keen on stocking up on new year's goods before the Chinese New Year, and the people in Maoyang Village are certainly no exception.

Especially when they know that the hotel supermarket will be closed on the first day of the new year and will open on the eighth day of the new year. Now they have to rush to the supermarket to buy a lot of things.

Of course, you don't have to worry about ingredients and fruits. The hotel's small vegetable stalls and fruit stalls will not be closed during the Chinese New Year. Only large supermarkets will be closed because their employees have to take a holiday.

But even so, there are still many people rushing to the supermarket to buy things before the Chinese New Year. Not only people from Maoyang Village, but also people from the neighboring villages that are close to Maoyang Village but not very close to the county seat will also come to the hotel. Buy New Year's goods at the supermarket.

There are also people from other time and space, and people from the apocalyptic plane are also worried that the seven days of closing during the New Year will affect their side, so they also ordered a large amount of goods this time.

After all, the New Year is almost here in the apocalyptic plane, and everyone is busy during the New Year. It has been almost four years since the end of the world, and the Spring Festival has not been celebrated in the previous three years, so this time they want to have a good New Year.

It was similar in the Great Xia Dynasty. After all, Xia Housong and Xie Yuruan were pure ancients, and they were still emperors and queens. Even though they had accepted a lot of modern knowledge, they did not say they wanted to end their status as the ruling class.

Xia Housong is also a good emperor, so even if he is not a good emperor and does not want everyone to be equal, the people in the world are his subjects, and he will not watch them live a miserable life.

He would often purchase 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 is indeed very good-looking. He is about 1.8 meters tall, about the same as his son, and has a long body. Even though he has been ill for many years, he has gradually recovered. Although he is still a little thin, he looks more elegant and bookish. .

Kong Lingchen looks like a handsome, cold handsome guy, the kind of handsome guy who looks like the Iceberg Prince in campus novels.

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

Kong Yuesheng's father and son are also very similar in appearance, but their temperaments are not exactly the same.

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

In the past, Kong was indeed the largest shareholder, but after things went wrong, he was unable to turn the tide and prevent it from going bankrupt. Even though he was very confident in his own ability, he didn't really want to be the first shareholder. He felt very uncomfortable working for the government. good.

With official protection, he feels even safer.

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

He would come to the hotel from time to time, and occasionally go to the big bathroom on the second floor to soak in the hot spring, or go to the fitness square to work out, and then go to the small garden to stroll around, and now he also occasionally goes to the big square. Take a walk over there.

After Kong Yuesheng was bedridden for several years, he no longer was busy working all day, and would also pay attention to leisure, entertainment and fitness exercises. He would not focus all his energy on work.

Now that he is almost fifty years old, he has no intention of working so hard even if he makes a comeback.

Kong Yuesheng came to the hotel today not to discuss business with the people here, but to relax. Taking a hot spring bath was good for his health. He was very concerned about his health now.

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

"It's almost done." Chen Wenjiu said with a smile.

She receives dividends from the hotel every month, and she has quite a lot of money in her personal account, so during the Chinese New Year she also used her own money to buy a lot of new year's goods for her parents and grandparents. , Grandpa and grandma gave a lot of gifts.

Anyway, she basically spends nothing at the hotel now. After she has more savings, of course she will repay her parents and relatives.

"Mr. Kong came here this time to discuss business or just for fun?" Chen Wenjiu asked curiously.

"Come and soak in the hot springs, and also visit the supermarket and buy some things." Kong Yuesheng said with a smile, "The two children, Ah Chen and Ah Yao, are studying very hard now, so I just want to buy them more good things to supplement them."

Chen Wenjiu nodded when he heard this. The winter vacation for Kong Lingchen and Tang Yao, two senior high school students, was very short. Although it was not the Chinese New Year yet, they were still in school when everyone else was on winter vacation.

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

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

Kong Yuesheng, a father, hopes that his son can take care of his body while studying hard, so it is understandable that he prepares all kinds of delicious food for them.

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

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

Although Kong Yuesheng has opened a company now, he still doesn't have much assets. Of course, he can't bathe in the super expensive indoor hot springs. He can only bathe in the outdoor hot springs, which have a health-building effect.

After all, Kong Yuesheng does not get discounts for family members of hotel employees. The indoor hot springs cost 100,000 yuan each time, which he cannot afford now.

Kong Yuesheng went upstairs to soak in the hot spring. When Chen Wenjiu left the main building, he saw a lot of guests around the hotel. Many of them were basically villagers from their village, coming back from the supermarket with large and small bags. .

These villagers all go to big supermarkets to buy New Year's goods. They have to buy all kinds of things back. They have to stock up on enough things for a week or two, and they also have to stock up on various gifts for relatives. There are many things to buy.

"Mom? Our family should have bought enough New Year's goods, right?" Chen Wenjiu asked helplessly as he looked at his mother and aunt carrying large and small bags.

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

"Your grandma, your cousins, your cousins, and your relatives will all give you some gifts." Li Siyue said with a smile, "Don't worry, the gifts are all food and drinks. "

The gifts given by relatives here are not gold, silver or money, but something of high value. The gifts are basically coconut palm juice, Wong Lo Kat herbal tea, and other fruits such as oranges and apples.

Anyway, during the Chinese New Year every year, Chen Wen Restaurant also receives a variety of coconut milk and herbal tea drinks, as well as various fruits such as oranges and apples.

There are also cookies, candies, etc. These gifts are really common.

The godmother that Li Siyue mentioned was the godmother that the woman recognized when Chen Yongtao and Li Siyue got married, and she lived in Maoyang Village.

According to the custom of Chen Wenjiu and his Qiongnan Miao people, when getting married, that is, during the wedding, the woman must recognize a godfather and godmother. During the wedding, the godfather will accompany the groom to pick up the bride and wait for the guests. When they make trouble with the groom, they have to protect the groom.

That's right, the wedding of the Qiongnan Miao ethnic group is caused by the groom. Neither the bride nor the bridesmaids will be disturbed. Only the bridesmaids will help the bride to hold back the wine during the toast. In today's weddings, the person who makes the toast is not necessarily wine, and what the bride drinks afterwards is basically pretending to be mineral water.

According to Chen Wenjiu's custom, they pick up the bride in the morning, and after the wedding banquet starts at noon, the bride and groom toast table by table.

After the toasts are finished, the bride and groom can go back to dinner with the groomsmen and bridesmaids.

In the afternoon, that is, in the evening, the groom, the best man, the godfather of the bride and groom, and an officiant and so on, a group of people go to the entrance of the village and return to the groom's house from the entrance of the village.

This distance is when the villagers stop the groom and ask for red envelopes, but the red envelopes are basically one yuan and five yuan, and cannot exceed ten yuan at most.

These are the current prices. When Chen Wenjiu was a child, the red envelopes the villagers got when they held weddings and stopped the best man were basically 10 cents, 20 cents, and 50 cents. One dollar was a huge sum of money.

While stopping the groom to ask for the red envelope, the villagers can snatch the groom away and hide it from the best man and officiant, 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 officiant and the godfather to protect him. If he could not protect him, he would be pulled away by the people around him.

After the groom is snatched away, red envelopes will be given to the groom when he is picked up, and then some Miao rituals will be held in the evening to prove that the couple is married.

Chen Wenjiu didn't know much about the customs in other places. Anyway, she knew that weddings in Maoyang Village and Miao Village nearby and in the next county were like this.

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

People of Chen Yongtao and Li April's generation basically only need to get a certificate to get married, and rarely hold a wedding directly. Most weddings are held after the children grow up and the family conditions improve.

When Chen Yongtao and Li Yiyue got married, the siblings were both teenagers and witnessed their parents' wedding. Although her parents wore national costumes during the wedding, not wedding dresses or phoenix crowns, she still felt that her parents looked the best.

Li Siyue's godfather and godmother were the ones she met before the wedding. 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 his godfather before the wedding and having his godfather present to protect the groom during the wedding.

Because there was a family in their village who recognized their godmother when they got married. As a result, when their godson's 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 as their godfather and godmother—his cousin, Chen Jiarong’s grandfather and his godfather and godmother’s grandmother were biological siblings. relation.

In fact, Chen Wenjiu's godmother was basically called aunt when her mother didn't recognize her as her godmother. As a result, her mother recognized her godmother and transformed directly from aunt to grandmother, which also left her speechless.

This confusing relationship is really a headache.