Chapter 737 A happy reunion between the two families
Four years have passed, and the city of Wuhan has taken on a completely new look, and my grandmother’s courtyard has also been renovated.
The two cars approached the gate of the small courtyard one after the other. Chu Xuan saw a brand-new courtyard gate decorated with lights from a distance. If Liu Yifei hadn't told him that this was his grandmother's house, he would have had no impression.
The two vehicles were parked in a small open area in front of them. Everyone got out of the car and each took some gifts from the trunk. The number of gifts accounted for half of the inventory in the trunk, and the remaining half was waiting to be delivered to An's door tomorrow.
Dong Zhihua handed Chu Xuan a roll of firecrackers, and he also held a roll in his hand.
These are two large firecrackers with 5,000 rings. Chu Xuan and Dong Zhihua each set off one roll before they came to the door.
Chu Xuan didn't understand what this rule was at first, but his mother-in-law told him that in Hubei and Hunan, when relatives and friends visit during the New Year, they usually set off a roll of firecrackers at the door of the host's house, which means good luck and good fortune, and blasts the New Year.
If his son-in-law comes to the house with the purpose of getting engaged, he needs to set off two firecrackers, which means that the New Year and the wedding are double happiness. Confirming the status of son-in-law is tantamount to adding another child to the woman's family, which also means that the woman's family
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"Crackling -" the roaring sound of firecrackers resounded throughout the place, bursting with the full flavor of the New Year on New Year's Eve.
After Dong Zhihua retreated a few steps, he handed the lighter to Chu Xuan and asked Chu Xuan to continue the second volume.
Liu Yifei stood about ten steps behind them, putting her hood over her head and covering her ears with both hands. Her subconscious fear of the firecrackers made her squint at the scene, but in fact her heart was pounding and filled with sodium cyclamate.
Heart.
Four years ago, Chu Xuan was still her passionate boyfriend. When she and her mother got married, there were not so many rules.
Now that Chu Xuan is her fiancé, her identity has changed, everything has become formal, and she needs to follow the traditional etiquette of doing as the Romans do when in a native place.
The changes in the past four years have also witnessed the growth of her and Chu Xuan and the process of their relationship being washed away. Now her love with Chu Xuan has once again entered a major bottleneck in life, and it will be over in just these few days.
Overcoming this bottleneck in one leap made her both excited and happy.
"Look at your daughter." Zhou Wenqiong touched Liu Xiaoli with her elbow, and Liu Xiaoli followed her gaze and looked at her daughter Sissi.
Wearing a hat and covering her ears, it was obvious that she was afraid of the gunfire, but Sissi had a sweet smile on her face.
The two parents didn't know what Sissi was laughing at. It was nothing more than Chu Xuan's identity change. This visit was very formal, which brought different feelings to Sissi.
The two sisters each smiled. For Zhou Wenqiong, her niece is undoubtedly happy to have a good husband and build a long-lasting and beautiful family. This step is not far away now.
, and she was happy about it.
For Liu Xiaoli, watching her two children step by step until today, officially starting a family is a matter of course. She is very relieved and happy about this.
"Crackling -" Chu Xuan lit the second roll of firecrackers, took a few steps back and came to Liu Yifei's side.
Having Chu Xuan by her side brought a sense of security, so Liu Yifei did not cover her ears, tightly wrapped her hands around Chu Xuan's arms, and waited with him for the sound of the cannon to end.
At the entrance of the courtyard, my grandmother, uncle, aunt, and cousin heard the noise and came out. They waved to Chu Xuan, Wang Jinhua, and Dong Zhihua across the space of ten meters from the firecrackers, and they were all in high spirits.
Chu Xuan, Wang Jinhua and Dong Zhihua also waved back, with happy faces on their faces.
The ordinary small firecrackers ended in ten or twenty seconds, but the two large firecrackers continued to go off for more than a minute, which made the neighbors a little irritated and wanted to come out to see who was setting off the long firecrackers.
A young man opened the courtyard door and took a closer look, Huh? Chu Xuan? Liu Yifei?
"Mom! Come and see the big star!" the young man shouted excitedly.
"Brush -" A young man upstairs opened the window, looked down and exclaimed: "Holy crap! Chu Xuan! Liu Yifei! Real or fake!"
"Brush -" Someone opened the window above, and a woman said happily: "It's really Chu Xuan! Chu Xuan, the Internet said that you came to Wuhan to visit me, it's true!"
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei looked up and met some passers-by who opened the window to join in the fun.
Seeing that the sound of firecrackers stopped, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei sent a blessing: "Happy New Year."
"Happy New Year!" the woman upstairs wished back.
"When are we going to have the wedding banquet?" the young man shouted.
"Let's see." Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei smiled and walked towards the entrance of the courtyard with their families.
The grandmothers and others who had been waiting at the entrance of the courtyard had already opened the door and came forward to welcome them.
"Xiao Xuan, Jin Hua, and Xiao Dong are finally here." Grandma greeted warmly.
"Auntie, we are here to wish you a happy New Year." Wang Jinhua and Dong Zhihua's faces were full of joy.
"Hello grandma, hello uncles and aunts." Dong Zijian is very well-behaved, and children who want to ask for lucky money are usually sweet-tongued.
"Grandma, uncle, aunt, uncle, cousin, happy New Year." Chu Xuan greeted.
"Okay, okay." Grandma liked Chu Xuan very much. She took his hand and walked into the house: "Come in and sit down, come in and sit down. Dinner will be served in a while. Sissi has to go to her dad's place in the afternoon, so let's start early today.
We ordered a meal and prepared a lot of dishes. Let’s eat for a long time and celebrate the New Year happily.”
Chu Xuan came to celebrate the Chinese New Year with his mother and daughter four years ago. He was the boyfriend he met for the first time. When he first came to visit, he was full of confusion and a sense of youth.
Now he has half a foot in the door of his son-in-law. After several years of getting along with his family, although they don't get along much, they recognize him every time they meet, so that when he comes to visit him again today, he no longer has the youthful feeling he once had.
It was overflowing with excitement that my son-in-law came to visit, but also a bit of anxiety that the marriage was pending.
But seeing that his grandmother, uncle, aunt and uncle were still enthusiastic and treated him like a member of his own family, most of his anxiety dissipated and he walked into the house very relaxed.
"Zijian, come and eat sweets. Eat whatever you want, just like at home." Grandma grabbed a handful of sweets and handed them to Dong Zijian.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Okay, grandma, I will take it myself." Dong Zijian took the candy.
"Xiaoxuan, Jinhua, Zhihua, you sit down and we'll get some dishes. Dinner will be served later." My uncle and aunt said hello and went to the kitchen to continue preparing the dishes.
"Come, sit down, sit down and warm yourself by the fire on the electric hot plate." Grandma lifted up the quilt on the electric hot plate and invited everyone to sit in and warm themselves by the fire.
In Chu Xuan's eyes, this electric heating plate looks like a coffin with a missing lid, with a few heating diodes embedded at the bottom. The effect of sitting in it and covering it with a quilt is more effective than the heating in the north.
Electric heating plates are widely distributed in Hubei and Hunan, but are almost non-existent in other places. This thing was the thing that impressed him the most when he came to celebrate the New Year four years ago. It can be called a heating artifact.
The only drawback is that it is not very friendly to people with smelly feet, because if you want to sit in and warm yourself by the fire, you need to slip on your shoes. Once your smelly feet are roasted by the high temperature, the smell of stinky tofu will be inferior, so my uncle is very embarrassed and just sits there minding his own business.
Watching TV on the sofa.
"Xiao Xuan, how do you feel about coming to celebrate the New Year this time?" Zhou Wenqiong adjusted the quilt on the fire and asked Chu Xuan with an interesting look.
Liu Yifei took the candy box containing pistachios, put the lid on the quilt as a temporary storage place for garbage, and ate pistachios with Chu Xuan.
Hearing Zhou Wenqiong's question, Chu Xuan said: "It feels like going home to celebrate the New Year."
"Hey, that's right." Grandma was very happy that Chu Xuan had such an answer and said, "From now on, treat Grandma here as if she were home. We are all your family."
"Okay." Chu Xuan nodded, feeling warm in his heart.
Wang Jinhua and Liu Xiaoli were cracking sunflower seeds. While eating, she asked: "Is it easy to get along there?"
That side refers to the An family. Wang Jinhua has also dealt with Qian Qian’s family several times. Because of Liu Xiaoli’s relationship and her approval of Chu Xuan, the two parties who are already familiar with each other can naturally chat, but they are not familiar with each other.
Wang Jinhua had no idea about the An family she had never met.
"Xiaoxuan is so outstanding that there are few in the country, so why is it so difficult to deal with?" Grandma said.
These words were purely an unconditional compliment from the old man to the younger generation, so that everyone present looked at Chu Xuan jokingly, and even Liu Yifei was happy.
Chu Xuan peeled the pistachios and smiled sheepishly: "Grandma, am I really so good?"
"Of course!" Grandma said emphatically, "You are the most outstanding young man I have ever seen, bar none."
Chu Xuan put the pistachio shells in the box lid and said: "No wonder my grandma and I get along very well. It turns out that the consensus reached by my grandma and me in this regard is highly consistent."
"Hahaha..." Everyone burst into laughter.
"You want some face." Liu Yifei didn't know whether to laugh or cry. It didn't matter if her grandma said he was the best young man. This is the doting feeling of the older generation towards the younger generation. He himself also admitted that he was the best young man. This is somewhat true.
Shameless.
Whether it was Chu Xuan's high emotional intelligence or Chu Xuan's witty words, grandma liked Chu Xuan more and more the more she looked at him, so she helped him lift the quilt so that he could warm himself by the fire.
Liu Xiaoli said: "I met and talked with her father yesterday. Her father is really wrong. He wants to hold the wedding in Wuhan. The man went to the woman to get married. This is too disrespectful to you. I scolded you.
Had a meal."
Liu Yifei was very helpless. When her mother said something bad about her father, she always said it to her face. That is to say, she has grown up now. In the past, she felt uncomfortable whenever such a situation happened. After all, her father is her father, and he is not right.
She is not good, but her mother is like this. She has a lot of resentment towards her father, which is deep-rooted.
Chu Xuan, Wang Jinhua and Dong Zhihua were noncommittal. This was a private discussion between Liu Xiaoli and Ankang. From the man's perspective and the woman's background, they could not dig into this issue.
"Sister Li, you still have the same thoughts as when you were chatting with me," Wang Jinhua said.
Regarding Chu Xuan and Qian Qian’s marriage situation, Liu Xiaoli discussed it with her when they were at the company.
Regarding this, Liu Xiaoli had already planned: "Yes, it is not necessary to get married in Wuhan. Their family is very powerful in Wuhan. When they settle down to lead the wedding, isn't Xiaoxuan just like a bride-in-law? Not to mention Xiaoxuan herself.
Now that you are here, Xiaoxuan’s friends, Han Sanping’s leaders, and Chen Kaige’s directors, what will you think of Xiaoxuan then?”
Wang Jinhua nodded, what Liu Xiaoli said was the truth, and Chu Xuan was not a person without status. Even if the An family had an official background, it would not be such that Chu Xuan now needed to marry into the family.
Liu Xiaoli added: "It stands to reason that it is reasonable to get married in the capital, but getting married requires buying a house, and they already have a big villa in the capital, so it is not appropriate to buy a house again."
She looked at Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei: "My suggestion is to go to Xiamen, Shenzhen, Hainan, choose a place to buy a house for the wedding, and hire a team to prepare it.
"These places are like spring all year round. If you want to raise children in the future, if it is winter and it is too cold in the capital, you will easily get sick. It is a good choice to go to these places to change the environment and raise children."
"What do you think?"
Before Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei spoke, grandma clapped her hands happily: "This is a good idea. For the sake of future babies, I support it with both hands."
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei looked at each other. They were thinking about having a baby before they even got married. This was something they had never thought about. In the past, teasing each other about raising a baby was just a joke. They really didn’t have any plans for having children at the moment.
The couple could only be speechless on this issue.
But in order to plan for the long-term situation of the family, the mother-in-law's suggestion seems to be very constructive.
At this, Chu Xuan nodded and said: "I have no objection."
Liu Yifei also said: "I have no objection either."
"It's on the table, it's on the table." My uncle and aunt came out of the kitchen each carrying dishes and shouted to everyone in the living room.
"Come, come, let's have a meal and let's chat while we eat." Zhou Wenqiong lifted the quilt and invited everyone to have a meal.
Grandma greeted Chu Xuan and Wang Jinhua: "While we are celebrating the New Year together today, our family members also represent the family members of Sissi's wife and have roughly decided some aspects of the marriage. Tomorrow you will go to Sissi's father's place to see what they think. Finally
The two sides will discuss it together and reach a settlement."
Liu Xiaoli got off the sofa to put on her shoes and said, "It depends on what they think. We are the main ones."
Chu Xuan led Liu Yifei out of the electric hot plate. When he heard his mother-in-law's words, he couldn't help but raise his lips. She was indeed the female devil, she was so domineering.