Chapter 2854: Playing with the Zhongfan

On New Year's Eve, the women in the family got up early and started making the New Year's Eve dinner. In fact, in Jingcheng, everyone's habit was to have the reunion dinner in the evening, but the Su family still followed the habit in Hudong and had the New Year's Eve dinner at noon.

After finishing the New Year's Eve dinner at noon, they could still eat dumplings, drink lotus root soup, and watch the Spring Festival Gala in the evening, still spending a happy reunion night.

While the women were cooking, Su Wenjun played chess with Yu Maode, Tan Mingcheng watched the battle from the side, and Su Xinghui took the two children to build a snowman.

It had snowed in Jingcheng a few days ago, and it had snowed quite heavily. Now the snow was piled up in the courtyard and hadn't melted, which was just right for building a snowman.

In fact, in the past few days, Tan Weisheng had already taken Niu Niu to build a few snowmen. Of course, they were young and weak, so the snowmen they built were relatively small. Today, Su Xinghui said he wanted to take them to build a big snowman.

Speaking of which, Su Xinghui hadn't built a snowman for several years. Mainly because in Hudong Province, it hadn't snowed heavily in the past few years, and even if it did, it would melt as it fell, so there was no chance to build a snowman. Now in Jingcheng, with such good conditions, he also wanted to take the children to build a big snowman and then take a picture with the camera at home, which was also quite interesting.

Tan Weisheng and Niu Niu were even more expectant about this big snowman. They worked hard to help Su Xinghui roll the snowballs. Su Xinghui managed to roll a snowball over a meter wide, using this snowball as the snowman's body, and then rolled a smaller snowball, placing it on the big snowball as the snowman's head.

Next, Su Xinghui used coal balls as the snowman's eyes, a carrot as the snowman's nose, and then inserted a wooden stick on each side of the big snowball as the snowman's hands. Niu Niu took out his small red bucket, ran over, and wanted to put the bucket on the snowman's head as the snowman's hat.

But the snowman was too tall, much taller than him, and he couldn't put it on even when he raised his hand. Su Xinghui smiled and picked him up, letting him put the bucket on the snowman's head. Niu Niu clapped his hands and cheered, "The snowman is finished! The snowman is finished!"

Su Xinghui put Niu Niu down, took out the camera from the room, let Tan Weisheng and Niu Niu stand on both sides of the snowman, and took a picture for them. Tan Weisheng and Niu Niu hugged the snowman, smiling as happily as could be.

At exactly twelve o'clock noon, the Su family's New Year's Eve dinner began. The table was filled with a whole table of dishes, most of which were Hudong specialties, and there were also two or three Beijing specialties that Lu Xiaoya had learned after coming to Jingcheng, including a specially bought roast duck.

Among these dishes were also the bamboo rats and pheasants brought by Yu Gaoshan the last time he came to Jingcheng to visit his father and uncle. Yu Gaoshan would bring a few of these to the Su family every year as a special wild game dish on the New Year's Eve dinner table.

Such rich dishes, each one fragrant and delicious, looked very good. Su Xinghui took out the camera again, let the whole family sit by the dining table, and took a family portrait. Everyone smiled very happily.

After Su Xinghui focused the lens and adjusted the automatic photo time, he quickly ran to his seat and sat down. As the shutter sound automatically rang, a perfect family portrait was taken.

Although the table was full of good dishes, Su Xinghui had a characteristic: every time the New Year came, he didn't want to eat when looking at the full table of dishes. This was the "New Year fullness." Not only him, many people had this characteristic; they didn't want to eat much when the New Year came.

Although everyone didn't eat much, the atmosphere at the dining table was still very good. The family ate this meal in harmony. The elders took out red envelopes and gave them to the two children. The two children suddenly had several more red envelopes each, and they were all very happy.

However, they didn't stay happy for long before the red envelopes were taken away by their respective mothers. This was also the Su family's rule. The red envelopes given by the elders today were quite large, and so much money certainly couldn't be kept in the hands of children. If they were allowed to use the red envelopes given to them at will, it would only cultivate two playboys.

After the meal, the elders played mahjong. On such a day, such entertainment activities were also needed. Su Xinghui took his sister, brother-in-law, and wife and children out for a stroll.

Spending the Spring Festival in Jingcheng, there were still many folk activities, so the streets were very lively today. Although Jingcheng had long banned firecrackers, the festive atmosphere on the streets had not diminished at all.

Su Xinghui took them to the temple fair. At the temple fair, they saw those snacks and their appetites opened up. They ate quite a few snacks. Anyway, they didn't eat much during the meal, and their stomachs were still empty.

On the street, they also saw lion dance and dragon dance performances. At a temple fair, Su Xinghui was also very pleasantly surprised to see a Zhongfan performance. The big man playing with the Zhongfan was actually Qi Xiaoshan.

Su Xinghui watched Qi Xiaoshan play with the Zhongfan with great interest. Qi Xiaoshan was very focused and serious when playing with the Zhongfan and didn't see Su Xinghui, and he played it very wonderfully.

Although the weather in Jingcheng was very cold now, Qi Xiaoshan was still wearing a thin wrestling vest, which was a standard wrestling suit. He was playing with a Zhongfan about three zhang long. The Zhongfan was made of a very thick bamboo pole, and there was a yellow umbrella on top of the bamboo pole. The total length already exceeded ten meters, and the weight was estimated to be several dozen jin.

Such a heavy weight of the Zhongfan was as light as a feather in Qi Xiaoshan's hands. It was easily thrown into the air by him, doing all kinds of movements, such as throwing the Zhongfan up and holding it with his forehead. The Zhongfan stood on his forehead, motionless. This movement was called "Overlord Lifting the Tripod."

Or standing on one leg, holding the Zhongfan with one hand. This movement was called "Golden Rooster Standing on One Leg."

Qi Xiaoshan skillfully performed all kinds of movements, and there was another person on the side reporting the names of these movements: "Overlord Lifting the Tripod, Golden Rooster Standing on One Leg, Su Qin Carrying the Sword, Sealing the Marquis and Hanging the Seal, Taigong Fishing..."

Every time a movement was performed, the audience on the side would cheer loudly. Tan Weisheng and Niu Niu were also among the cheering crowd. Niu Niu even recognized Qi Xiaoshan. He told Su Xinghui that this was the Uncle Qi who had eaten at his house last time. Su Xinghui nodded and said, "Yes, it's him. Is he playing it well?"

Niu Niu said loudly, "Too great!"

Qi Xiaoshan was only wearing a wrestling vest, but because of playing with the Zhongfan, he was steaming with heat all over, and heat was even rising from the top of his head. His hair was all soaked with sweat.

Even though Qi Xiaoshan was very strong, after a set of Zhongfan performances, he was still a bit out of breath. Everyone cheered loudly and applauded for him, and he also thanked everyone very happily.