Chapter 570
Everyone laughed and Lin Lan was busy reminding them not to choke and to swallow before speaking.
After that, Lin Lan smiled and said, “Let’s make a fortune in the New Year, wang wang wang isn’t a bad idea.”
Wangwang, who was seated below, responded to the situation with a few barks as a response.
Dawang gave it a lucky dumpling to eat and Wangwang immediately licked the child’s feet after eating it.
The children’s bellies were so full after eating that they all leaned on the kang, holding their bellies in their hands. Listening to the New Year’s celebration announcements coming from the radio, they all felt that they were really having a great time this year.
Han Qingsong saw that the children were full and had stopped eating, so he started eating.
Lin Lan saw him picking up the dumpling skins and eating them, so she quickly stopped him, “Eat these whole ones first. We can save the zhong(2) ones for frying later on.”
(T/N: Zhong referred to the dumplings as ‘on point’. They like to think of the splitting as an incident that occurs because the dumpling was made so perfectly that it couldn’t handle itself, causing it to break)
There was a tradition of using auspicious words during the Chinese New Year. If the dumplings were split or broken, the villagers would often refer to them as zhong instead of broken. When the dumplings were being served, they would ask, “Are the dumplings zhong?”
Han Qingsong suddenly looked at her, picked up the wine bottle and said, “Have a drink.”