The reason why New Year’s Eve dinner is called New Year’s Eve dinner is that it is eaten at night.
Although everyone in the Cheng family arrived before noon, they still had a simple meal at noon.
The kitchen has always been busy. Cheng Guangnian specially invited two chefs to come to his home and they were responsible for cooking this New Year's Eve dinner for family reunion.
We had noodles for lunch. After the kitchen was ready, Ning Kezhu went to the backyard in person and called Cheng Qingshan, Cheng Yu and others back.
As soon as he entered the room, Cheng Qingshan kept twitching his nose, and the wrinkles on his face became deeper because of his smile.
"Well, it smells so good, it tastes like braised pork. Yu'er, I want to eat braised pork."
Cheng Yu smiled and said, "Grandpa, please sit down first and I'll go to the kitchen to take a look."
Cheng Guangnian saw this and said, "Let's eat noodles for lunch. Keep it simple. The kitchen only prepares dinner for dinner."
Cheng Yu didn't ignore it like before. He stopped and said, "I'll go see if there's anything ready-made and get some for grandpa to eat."
"Your grandpa's body cannot eat anything too greasy. There is a limit to how much fat he can consume every day. You let him eat braised pork for lunch. Will he still eat the New Year's Eve dinner in the evening?"
"It's the Chinese New Year today, why do you ask him to eat more? I understand that when you get older, you have to control everything, but you are so scripted that you want to use a scale and ruler to limit how much he eats every day.
.What’s the point of living like this, even if you live a long life?”
Cheng Guangnian frowned and was about to get angry. Cheng Jie hurriedly stood between the two of them and whispered, "Brother, what Yu'er said is right. It's the Chinese New Year today, so you can let dad be a little bold."
After that, he said to Cheng Yu, "Just give him a few pieces to taste. Don't do too much."
Cheng Yu nodded, and Cheng Guangnian sighed and complained to Cheng Jie in a low voice, "It's you and his mother who got him into this way. There are no rules at all."
Cheng Jie didn't refute, just smiled. She knew that Cheng Guangnian was just trying to show some dignity as a father.
I went to the kitchen and took a look. The braised pork is braised pork, so it’s really not suitable to start now.
Cheng Yu found some other dishes, put them on a small plate, and brought them out to Cheng Qingshan.
Cheng Qingshan got his noodle bowl and looked at the dishes Cheng Yu made for him, his smile became even brighter.
"My eldest grandson is still kind to me."
Cheng Yu rolled his eyes and said, "Now you know that I am your eldest grandson? When we were playing chess with me just now, I don't know who shouted that he didn't recognize me, and said that he would never play chess with me again.
"
Cheng Qingshan chuckled and ignored Cheng Yu, reaching out to pick up the plate.
Cheng Yu retracted his hand, but Cheng Qingshan couldn't get it and stamped his feet anxiously.
"Hurry up and give me that plate!"
"Your son said you can't eat more, so I got it for myself."
"No! What do you mean I can't eat more? Give it to me quickly! Otherwise... otherwise..." Cheng Qingshan rolled his eyes, but he couldn't think of anything to threaten Cheng Yu.
Ning Kezhu took the plate from Cheng Yu's hand, placed it in front of Cheng Qingshan, and said, "Okay, Yu'er, stop teasing your grandpa."
"The old man is very bad. He always says that I am the best to him. He doesn't cheat on me when playing chess. He steals my pieces when I'm not paying attention. When I was about to drive out, I found that the horse was gone."
Cheng Qingshan looked at the plate Ning Kezhu gave him, and his chopsticks went straight to the dishes. How could he have time to argue with Cheng Yu?
Looking at Cheng Yu's angry look, and looking at the old man's disrespectful mouth, Ning Kezhu also shook his head helplessly and said, "As long as you and your grandfather get together, there will never be a quarrel."
This sentence seems to be complaining about Cheng Yu, but in fact, it is filled with pride.
Cheng Yu was quarreling with the old man, but everyone knew that it was not a real quarrel, just a joke.
As for the others? Regardless of whether it was Cheng Yi, Cheng Fu, Cheng Ran or Cheng Mo, Cheng Qingshan could hardly remember who they were when he saw them.
Speaking of which, Cheng Yu left home for the United States when he was thirteen years old and only came back once a year. In the last eight or nine years, Cheng Qingshan and Cheng Yu have not seen each other for five months.
As for the rest of the family, except for Cheng Fu, who has been studying in the UK for the past three years and has only come back once to celebrate the Chinese New Year, the rest of the family have stayed in China in recent years.
But they didn't spend much more time with Cheng Qingshan than Cheng Yu, and they didn't even spend as much time with Cheng Qingshan as Cheng Yu had come back this year.
Regardless of the heavy topic of filial piety or not, just talking about being willing to spend time with the old man, Cheng Yu is indeed the best in the entire Cheng family, even though he always quarrels with the old man every time he sees Cheng Qingshan.
Non-stop.
At first, Cheng Guangnian and Ning Kezhu were really worried. How old is the old man? Alzheimer's disease is easy to say. High blood pressure, high blood lipids, and many other problems that appear in old age, Cheng Qingshan basically has.
No more running.
Although it has not reached the point where treatment is urgently needed, and it only needs to be better controlled in all aspects, it is not a big deal, but after all, it is a potential hidden danger.
Cheng Yu started making trouble with the old man when he was still fine. Both Cheng Guangnian and Ning Kezhu were afraid that something would suddenly happen to the old man.
For this reason, Ning Kezhu went to consult doctors, and they all said that there was nothing wrong with Cheng Yu's approach. As long as it was not a real quarrel, but a conscious quarrel with the old man and joking with him, then not only would it not be
It will affect the old man's health, but it will be good for his body.
"Mr. Ning, as for old people, what they fear most when they get older is not having any activities. For example, your old man, you usually don't let him go out. In the long run, it is easy for him to become depressed and sick. Your young master's
There’s nothing wrong with this approach, it can keep the old man’s brain cells in a more active state. Although it won’t help his Alzheimer’s disease, it can at least activate his blood.”
With the words of the two doctors, Cheng Guangnian and Ning Kezhu gradually felt relieved.
"Old man! Are you going too far? It's so easy for me to make such a plate of food, so I'm just going to make some noodles. You finish it all for me? You can leave some for me?" Cheng Yu returned.
On the table, when he saw that the plates in front of Cheng Qingshan were all empty, he immediately became anxious.
Cheng Qingshan giggled, with oil still dripping from the corners of his mouth. He pointed at Cheng Yu's noodle bowl and said, "The noodles are delicious. Look, I left all the noodles for you!"
"Hey, you bad old man, do you want to lose face? If you want to say that the noodles are delicious, I will let you eat noodles alone at night."
When Cheng Qingshan heard this, his face suddenly fell, and he pursed his lips and said, "My eldest grandson bullied me."
Cheng Jie laughed and said, "You deserve it!"
"My daughter bullied me too!" Cheng Qingshan lowered his head depressedly.
Cheng Yu sat next to Cheng Qingshan, holding his bowl of noodles and saying, "Old man, please stop pretending to me here. Hurry up, you have to eat that bowl of noodles!"
"Then how can I eat it?" Cheng Qingshan was anxious.
"Don't follow me like this. I packed the noodles. I only filled half a bowl. I also got those dishes just now. Do I know how many servings there are? No nonsense. Hurry up and get this bowl of noodles."
Eat them all, and then go take a nap. When you wake up, I will take you out to play..."
Upon hearing this, Cheng Qingshan suddenly became happy and said, "Can I set off the cannon?"
Cheng Yu nodded and said, "Yes!"
Without saying a word, Cheng Qingshan picked up the chopsticks and started eating the noodles. As a result, the soup was all over his front, and Cheng Jie had to help him wipe it away for a long time.
After coaxing the old man to take a nap, Du Xiaoyu stood next to Cheng Yu, gently nudged him with his arm, and whispered, "You have a good relationship with your grandpa?"
"Nonsense, that's my grandfather."
"Aren't those also his grandchildren?" Du Xiaoyu curled her lips and said in a low voice.
Cheng Yu shook his head, meaning not to talk about this topic, but just looked at the few people gathered around Cheng Guangnian.
At Cheng Guangnian's suggestion, most people went to the study room, and only a few female family members stayed in the hall.
"Yu'er, why don't you go to the study to chat with your father and your uncle?" Ning Kezhu asked, seeing that Cheng Yu was motionless.
Cheng Yu said, "Their conversation must be related to the Cheng Group. I am too lazy to get involved. Besides, when grandpa wakes up later, I have to take grandpa out to play. If I go in for a drink now, I won't be able to drive at that time."
Already?"
"Are you really planning to take your grandpa out?" Ning Kezhu said.
Cheng Guangle's wife Feng Qin also said quickly, "Yes, your grandpa is old and in poor health. You'd better not take him out."
Cheng Yu ignored it, and Fang Mengdi said slowly, "If you really don't want to stay in the house, why don't you just take a walk in the yard? There is such a big lake in the backyard, why is it not enough for the old man to take a walk?"
Cheng Yu didn't like hearing this. He said, "It's precisely because grandpa is old and in poor health that he can't go out a few times throughout the year. At such an old age, it's not appropriate for him to be a homebody, right?"
I just hope that when you two aunts get older, your children will not keep you at home because of your poor health." After that, he took Du Xiaoyu's hand and left the living room directly.
Du Xiaoyu followed Cheng Yu out of the back door, and heard Ning Kezhu in the room awkwardly explaining to Feng Qin and Fang Mengdi, and couldn't help but say, "Why are you doing this? Is there anything you can't say properly? You have to hold a gun."
With a stick. I know what you said is reasonable, but there is no need to make trouble with them during the Chinese New Year, right?"
Cheng Yu thought for a while and said, "It's weird, I don't know why I'm so angry today."
"Is it related to what my dad told you last night?"
Cheng Yu thought for a while and said, "It shouldn't happen. I don't think Cheng Fu can threaten me."
Du Xiaoyu said, "It is essential to be on guard against others. After all, such a huge family property is involved. It is impossible for your second uncle and third uncle not to be jealous. In a big family, there will always be these and other things."
.Even if you think you can stop relying on your father, you won’t give away the Cheng Group so generously, right?"
Cheng Yu shrugged his shoulders and said, "First of all, the Cheng Group belongs to Lao Cheng. I really can't interfere with whoever he wants to give it to, and I don't bother to interfere.
If he wants to give it to me, my best possibility is to divide it and sell it gradually, but I don't have as big an ambition as him.
Even if I want to build a business empire one day, it will never be in the state of the Cheng Group.
Secondly, I know very well who Lao Cheng is.
Not to mention my second and third uncle's two and a half buckets of water, even if the two families were tied together, they would still be no match for Old Cheng with one hand.
Since I don't care, and there is absolutely no way that Lao Cheng will suffer any loss from this, it's just a matter of whether he was prepared or not."
Du Xiaoyu smiled softly and said, "But you are still upset about this!"
Cheng Yu thought about it for a while and found that he didn't understand it, so he simply gave up.
"Forget it, let's not think about it. My mood is not right today. I will adjust it later." Cheng Yu patted the back of Du Xiaoyu's hand and walked to the lake. He found a fishing rod somewhere and sat down.
A fish was caught.
Du Xiaoyu stood behind him, looking at him from a distance and not too close, thinking to himself, he had a fishing rod and didn't even put any bait, so what kind of fish could he catch with an empty hook?
However, she knew that Cheng Yu must have something on his mind, so she didn't bother him and just looked at his back like this.
The phone rang twice. Du Xiaoyu lowered his head and saw that it was a WeChat message from Qin Manyuan.
"Happy New Year." Behind him was a little man setting off firecrackers.
Du Xiaoyu smiled slightly, turned down the volume on her phone, and replied, "Happy New Year."
"Are you celebrating the New Year at Master Cheng's house?"
"Well, we have such a big family, and we are really not used to it. It's really hard on my parents. Originally, there were only a few people in the family celebrating the New Year, but this year it's even better, it's just the two of them."
"Is there always this process?"
"Well, sooner or later you will have to do this one day."
"That's hard to say. Xu Wanting is also chatting with me. How about I form a group."
"OK."
Qin Manyuan quickly pulled Xu Wanting in, and the three women naturally exchanged pleasantries again.
Later, Xu Wanting said, "Xiao Yu, are you and Mr. Cheng together?"
"Well, he's fishing."
"Hey, at his age, he actually has such a hobby? It's almost the same as my dad."
"You want to talk to him about the show, right?"
"Actually, it's not a chat, I just want you to convey it to me. We have discussed it with Xiao Zhang, Mr. Yantai and Mr. Carpenter. They happen to be free on the third and fourth days of junior high school, so we will have a group to go on the third day of junior high school.
Filming has started in the Imperial Capital.”
"You don't need to tell him this. Just do it. Do you also want to make an appointment with him?"
"Yes, because only Xiao Zhang is free in the third year of junior high school, and Mr. Dai Yanti and Mr. Carpenter are both available in the fourth year of junior high school. So, I want to ask him. In the third year of junior high school, we will go to Wudong as a group to shoot his part.
Is that okay?"
"Okay, let me ask for you."
Du Xiaoyu put down her cell phone, looked at Cheng Yu, and shouted, "Cheng Yu, Xu Wanting asked me to ask you if you can come to Wudong to film part of your program in the third year of junior high school."
Cheng Yu didn't seem to hear, and kept looking down at the fishing rod in his hand.
Du Xiaoyu hesitated for a moment, then walked over and squatted down beside him.
He gently touched Cheng Yu with his elbow, and Cheng Yu came back to his senses.
"Ah? What's wrong?"
"Xu Wanting asked me to ask you, is it okay to come to Wudong to film a program for you in the third year of junior high school?"
"I'm going back to your house on the second day of junior high, right? That shouldn't be a problem, right?" Cheng Yu replied casually, "Why didn't she just ask me?"
"Maybe I sent you a message, but you were distracted and didn't hear it. I called you but you didn't hear it."
Cheng Yu groaned and quickly took out his cell phone to check. Sure enough, Xu Wanting sent him a New Year's greeting on WeChat.
He hurriedly operated his mobile phone and replied, "Xiaoyu told me that I am fine in my third year of junior high school. Where are the other people? How was the time determined?"
Soon, Xu Wanting replied to the message, "Xiao Zhang is free on the third day of the Lunar New Year, and Mr. Yantai and Mr. Carpenter are both free on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. Mr. Cheng, you are really posing a problem for me. It is so easy for me to go back to my hometown to celebrate the New Year.
As a result, I had to leave in the third grade of junior high school. The three people from the Imperial Capital also kept complaining about me, saying why we were in such a hurry."
"Isn't this the Lantern Festival scheduled for Jiangdong TV? I know it's hard and inhumane for you to work overtime during the Spring Festival holiday, but we still have to do post-production, and we have to shoot at least two episodes first. Thank you for your hard work.
"
"Okay, stop saying these words. For the Chinese New Year, hurry up and give out red envelopes!"
Cheng Yu smiled and directly handed over a full red envelope, saying, "When you arrive at Wudong on the third day of junior high school, I will prepare a big red envelope for each of you."
"Thank you boss."
Look at the time, it's past two o'clock.
Cheng Yu knew that the New Year's Eve dinner was said to be in the evening, but it was actually around four o'clock.
It was estimated that Cheng Qingshan should have woken up by now, so Cheng Yu stood up.
"I'm taking grandpa out for a walk, will you come with us?"
Du Xiaoyu thought for a while and said, "Forget it, I won't go. Grandpa doesn't know me at all, and I can't get in the conversation. I'll go chat with my mother. I guess she doesn't like to talk to you either."
Chatting with an aunt."
Cheng Yu smiled and said, "Thank you."
"Although we are husband and wife for a reason, at least we can be considered good friends, right? I'll chat with your mother for a while, so there's no need to be so polite to me."
Cheng Yu nodded and walked directly from the backyard to Cheng Qingshan's building.
As soon as he entered through the back door, Cheng Yu heard Cheng Qingshan's voice, which seemed to be making a noise with the nurse.
Cheng Yu hurried upstairs, shouting as he walked, "Old man, please stop making noise, I'll take you out to play!"
Cheng Qingshan was happy when he heard this, and confidently said to his nurse, "Look, I said that my eldest grandson promised to take me out to play, and I asked you to call him, but you still don't believe it!"
Cheng Yu pushed the door open and saw the nurse standing in front of Cheng Qingshan. Cheng Yu said, "Thank you for the hard work during the New Year."
The nurse turned around and smiled and said, "Mr. Cheng, it's okay. I'm also earning overtime pay, right?"
Cheng Yu took out a red envelope that his family had given him before. Regardless of how much money it contained, he handed it directly to the nurse. "Happy Chinese New Year, take this red envelope to show your appreciation."
"This is impossible, Mr. Cheng."
"Take it as long as you want. This old man of mine has a very bad temper. He usually makes you suffer a lot."
The nurse didn't dare to take it, so she muttered, "Actually, grandpa is a very nice person, and I don't have any grievances."
Cheng Yu forced it into her hand, and Cheng Qingshan hooked his fingers and said, "Old man, what are you waiting for? Hurry up!"
"Okay, okay! My eldest grandson is the best to me!"
Cheng Yu rolled his eyes and led Cheng Qingshan downstairs.
As soon as he started the car, Wang Shuran ran out of the door again.
"Wait for me, brother Yu, wait for me!" Wang Shuran waved his hands vigorously, for fear that Cheng Yu would leave her behind.
Cheng Yu waited with a smile, but Cheng Qingshan became impatient and ordered Cheng Yu to drive quickly.
"Don't worry, didn't you see Xiaomao come out? She's going too."
Cheng Qingshan looked confused, "Who is Xiaomao?"
"Your granddaughter!"
"Ah? When did Xiaojie get married?"
Wang Shuran opened the car door and got in. "Grandpa, I'll go out and play with you too!"
"I don't know you, get out of the car!"
"Hey, you old man, do you still want to set off some fireworks? Let me tell you, I brought fireworks."
"Give it to me quickly!"
"Do you still recognize me now?"
"We know each other." Cheng Qingshan's face looked like a licking dog.
Wang Shuran handed two of the fireworks in his hand to the old man. They were not popular anyway, so he was not afraid that something would go wrong.
Cheng Yu stepped on the accelerator and the car slowly drove away.
"Give me a fire, you don't even have a cigarette lighter in this broken car, you're so backward!" Cheng Qingshan rummaged in the car for a long time, but couldn't find the cigarette lighter, so he stretched out his hand to ask Cheng Yu for a fire.
"You want to give me the car? Why worry? I'll take you to the Baijia Lake to park it later.
Cheng Qingshan slapped the car seat and kept shouting, "Drive faster, drive faster! Do you know how to drive? Step on the accelerator!"
Not long after, the car stopped at a lakeside square. Cheng Qingshan hurriedly got out of the car and set off fireworks under the supervision of Cheng Yu and Wang Shuran.
When the old man was crazy enough, Cheng Yu walked up to him and asked in a low voice, "Grandpa, I want to ask you something. Our family used to have an old house. Do you still remember it?"
"I remember the old house, it was on the Diaoyutai side. I later sold it."
"Who did you sell it to? Why did you sell your old house at that time?"
"Are you short of money? Let me tell you..." Cheng Qingshan looked furtively and looked at Wang Shuran who was still setting off fireworks a few meters away. He lowered his voice mysteriously and said, "I have never told anyone about this.
, I owed a lot of money to others at that time, and your father, and your second and third uncles didn’t have the money to help me pay off the debt. I had no choice but to sell the old house. I didn’t tell them, hehe, they arrived.
