This year's New Year's Eve dinner was missing Xue Yang and Wang Xiaoxiao, who just came in. It seemed a bit deserted.
At the end of the year, the Spring Festival holiday is the most anticipated, especially for the elderly and children.
New Year's Eve is not only the end of the year, but also the first day of the New Year. It is full of hope and hope, and it is also full of beautiful expectations for the new year.
The old people are all octogenarians, and they all like to celebrate the New Year, but they don’t like celebrating the New Year either.
The family finally gets lively during the Chinese New Year. The children and grandchildren gather together, saying auspicious words and holding big red envelopes to wish them good health and long life, making them all smile happily.
There are many reasons for liking the Chinese New Year, but the reasons for not liking the Chinese New Year are very simple.
After the New Year, the elderly have added another year to their age. Even though it is a false year, it will still remind them that they have grown one year older again.
Therefore, although several old people did not say anything, they were secretly depressed in their hearts and did not want to mention how old they were at all.
Cheng Tianyuan and Xue Ling noticed it, and quietly reminded the children and relatives and friends visiting for New Year greetings not to ask the elderly how old they will be this year.
No one asked, no one mentioned it, the old people were secretly happy.
Xue's mother was most afraid of being asked how old she was, so she confidently pointed at the TV.
"You haven't watched urban programs, have you? I mentioned above that it is very impolite to ask a lady her age in front of her. Except for children, it is a social taboo for anyone else to ask her age."
Cheng Tianyuan suppressed a laugh, winked at Xue Ling, and agreed very politely: "You really can't ask. People nowadays, old and young, are all well-maintained. If you just walk out by yourself, you can't guess your exact age. Mom, go out.
, people outside can only guess that you are sixty or seventy."
Mother Xue laughed loudly after hearing this.
"Isn't that right? Last time my old sisters made an appointment to have tea, the waitress kept asking me if I was seventy years old and said I looked like I was sixty."
Xue’s father laughed loudly and said mockingly: “Why don’t you tell her that you are only in your forties? Even your daughters have more than that!”
The others giggled.
Mother Xue glared at her husband angrily and hummed, "What do you know? I was about the same when I was thirty or forty-fifty, and now I am about seventy, eighty, or ninety."
"Yes, yes." Xue's father secretly turned over and deliberately lowered his voice: "It's almost the same as much worse."
Everyone laughed.
Liu Ying held up her crutches and said with a smile: "I'm different! If someone asks me, I'll just say that I'm old and my memory is not very good. I don't even know how old I am."
Cheng Huanran laughed: "Grandma! Just say you definitely don't have two hundred, and plan to work hard to live two to three hundred."
"Hahaha!" A chrysanthemum smile appeared on Liu Ying's face: "Isn't that an old goblin?"
Xue Xin hugged her arm and said with a smile: "Grandma, goblins are very popular now! If you are really a goblin, you will look exactly the same as you did when you were a teenager for hundreds of years - how wonderful! You will live forever and stay young forever.
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Liu Ying was so happy that she patted the back of Xue Xin's hand.
"Okay, then grandma will try to live like an old goblin."
Xue's father broke into some peanuts and asked: "How many days do you have off? Do you have any plans? This winter is too cold, so I don't go out much. It's also very cold during the Spring Festival, so it's really hard to travel."
"If I don't go, I won't go. It's better to lie down on the bed and sleep in."
"I'm envious! I can't even sleep."
Children love the Chinese New Year the most, because during the Chinese New Year not only can they have a holiday without studying and doing homework, but they can also receive red envelopes, beautiful new clothes, and all kinds of delicious food. It can’t be better!
But for a few "big kids", it's different.
Cheng Huanran has already entered the workplace and needs to interact with people. In addition, he is the eldest son of the family, so he has to take care of various New Year greetings. Therefore, he can hardly stop during the New Year and is much busier than usual weekends.
Xue Yang posted a video in the family group, showing that his new son-in-law had to cook and prepare the New Year's Eve dinner himself, and he also had to help his wife, whose belly was too big to bend down to wash her feet, to wash her feet in the middle of the night. Obviously, he was also a member of the family who couldn't relax.
Although Cheng Huanchong doesn't have to go to New Year's greetings, and he doesn't have to worry about being forced to get married, the holidays are the most free time for young readers, and it's also a critical moment when subscriptions and traffic surge, so he can only hide in his room and work overtime every day, late at night.
There was no rest either.
After counting, Xue Xin was the most leisurely.
Apart from running to pay Master Qi New Year greetings, she had nothing to do the rest of the time.
However, this year she was different. She also started to be busy. She would hide in her room every day and check this and that. She didn’t know what she was busy with.
Everyone was busy with their own business and had no time to care about her or ask her what she was busy with every day.
Chen Xin had been so busy day and night for a while that he spent the first and second days of the first lunar month hiding in the courtyard to catch up on his sleep and doing some relaxing exercises in the morning and evening.
He originally wanted to take the opportunity to spend time with his little girlfriend, but she always said she was busy, so he had to wait at home for her to be free.
So, he and Zheng Duoduo each lay on the sofa, each with a mobile phone, lazily browsing Weibo and short videos; while the huge movie screen in the living room was left to Zhu Achun.
"It's so boring~~" Zheng Duoduo threw the phone aside and blinked his dry eyes.
Zhu Achun's eyes did not leave the "Spring Festival Gala", and his hand pointed to the coffee table.
"Here! If you have something to eat and drink, take it yourself."
Zheng Duoduo slowly grabbed a handful of melon seeds and gnawed them out of boredom.
"I used to look forward to the Chinese New Year every day when I was a kid. But it's different now. The Chinese New Year means endless overtime work before the year, which leads to exhaustion. I finally have a holiday, but I am exhausted because of excessive boredom and nothing to do. In modern society, how can we still do it?
Do you need something like 'Celebrating the New Year'? It's so expensive!"
Zhu Achun said with a smile: "How old are you? You can't find fun things by yourself? Ah? I have told you a long time ago that people, regardless of gender, must get married when they reach the age of marriage. If you had brought Xiao Tong earlier,
I got married, gave birth to children quickly, and now I must be the father of two children. The children are running around, laughing and playing. Where do you have time to yell and be bored here? Huh? "
Zheng Duoduo, who was once again forced to marry: "..."
Zhu Achun looked at him angrily and said, "I will accompany you to buy some more gifts in the afternoon, and I will take a plane to find Xiao Tong tomorrow."
"She's not free." Zheng Duoduo explained aggrievedly: "She said that her family doesn't have time until the fourth and fifth day of the Lunar New Year."
Zhu Achun gave him a "useless" look and turned to look at Chen Xinzhi who was standing aside.
"What about you? Don't always hide at home and be lazy. Go quickly and accompany Xiaoxin. I seem to have only seen her once in the past two days. Go, coax Xiaoxin to come over here, and stay with us for lunch and dinner.
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Chen Xinzhi whispered: "She said she was not free."
Zhu Achun laughed and scolded in disgust: "Look at you two useless guys! If you can't marry someone else's daughter to come to our house, when will our house become lively? Huh?"