dognovel Chapter 873 New Year
Chapter 873 New Year
Chapter 873 New Year
Xue Chuchu walked to the door of Tongtong's house, only to see a couplet with flamboyant strokes pasted on the door wall: [Music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine, flowers, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea].
The horizontal banner reads: Getting richer day by day.
This couplet was written by Mr. Qian, a very educated neighbor, and was presented to the Xue family.
At first, it wasn't actually this, but a couplet with a strong cultural flavor. Tongtong thought it didn't sound good, so he ordered Teacher Qian to rewrite it.
At that time, Teacher Qian pinched his nose and wrote this down-to-earth couplet, and Tongtong was finally satisfied.
Zhang Ruyun walked out of the door with a firecracker in his hand. When he saw Xue Chuchu, he greeted her warmly: "Xue Chuchu, have you eaten?"
Xue Chuchu replied: "Not yet."
After answering, she walked into Tongtong's house.
Zhang Ruyun felt lost. He took a few steps forward and spread the firecrackers on the ground.
Today is New Year's Eve. According to the custom in Yuzhou, it is customary to set off firecrackers before breakfast.
Zhang Ruyun stepped back one or two meters, then half-knelt, with his arms stretched straight, holding a lighter in his hand, and pressed it with a "click".
As soon as the flames started to rise, he retracted his hand in fear.
Normally, the fuse of firecrackers burns very quickly, so Zhang Ruyun retreated so quickly, but he dodged too quickly and the fuse had not yet been lit.
Early in the morning, Mr. Qian walked out of his house. He turned around and looked at his own Spring Festival couplet: [The garden is full of peaches and plums, and the spring is like brocade. The orchids are fragrant around the walls.]
The horizontal banner reads: Elegant and upright.
The more Teacher Qian looked at it, the more satisfied he was. For a teacher like him, isn't it what he pursues all his life to educate people through reading?
Teacher Qian glanced at Zhang Ruyun who was lighting firecrackers. What a useless boy! He was so timid when lighting firecrackers. How ridiculous!
He coughed twice.
Zhang Ruyun immediately looked over.
Teacher Qian picked up the lighter, lit the firecracker in his hand, and then threw it out. The firecracker flew into the air and exploded with a "crackling" sound before it hit the ground.
Zhang Ruyun was stunned. He was in his prime, but was actually not as good as an old man?
After lighting the firecrackers, Mr. Qian stood with his hands behind his back and composed a poem in a rhythmic manner: "Firecrackers frighten the neighbor's ghosts and drive away the children!"
After saying this, he burst into laughter, turned around and walked into the house, showing the demeanor of a poet.
As the sound of firecrackers faded away, Zhang Ruyun heard some movement behind him. He turned around and saw that it was Xue Chuchu, who was as pure as ice and as delicate as jade!
Zhang Ruyun recalled Teacher Qian, who was still trying to look cool at an old age. He then thought about his own timid appearance. Zhang Ruyun sighed in his heart: "Zhang Ruyun, Zhang Ruyun! How could you be so depraved!"
The strong feeling of resentment immediately filled Zhang Ruyun's chest. He resolutely picked up the firecrackers on the ground and wanted to replicate Teacher Qian's style in front of Xue Chuchu and Xue Yuantong.
Zhang Ruyun originally just wanted to learn from Teacher Qian, light it in his hand, and then throw it away casually.
But young people always have their own ideas.
Zhang Ruyun turned around and walked into the main room of his own house. He stood in the room and waited until Xue Chuchu and the others passed by. Then Zhang Ruyun pressed the lighter and it lit up with a "click".
He swung it hard, but the firecracker was too long and he couldn't swing it all the way out, and it hung down at his feet.
The next moment, there was a crackling sound in the house.
Butcher Zhang in the house was alarmed and ran over to see what was happening, only to find that something had happened in his own home.
Xue Yuantong, who was outside the house, also poked his head out to watch the fun.
In the smoke, Zhang Ruyun's weathered face was revealed. He explained in a unique and charming voice: "Dad, listen to me, there is something wrong with the gun you bought!"
……
After learning the terrible lesson from his neighbor next door, Xue Yuantong was extra careful when setting off firecrackers. After lighting them, he stretched out his short legs and ran away, with his dodging skill at the maximum level.
Accompanied by the crackling sound of firecrackers, the firecracker debris exploded and then fell, and finally all that was left on the ground was fallen red, like solidified blood, symbolizing joy and solemnity.
Tongtong raised her calves and walked into the debris of the firecrackers. She shouted, "Chuchu, look!"
Xue Chuchu didn't understand: "What are you looking at?"
Tongtong stood on the ground and spun gently. She was surrounded by blood-red debris. She said solemnly and solemnly: "I bloom in blood, like a flower of heaven and earth!"
After she finished speaking, she asked solemnly: "Chu Chu, is it cool?"
Xue Chuchu pursed her lips: "So cool!"
Xue Yuantong didn't care about Chuchu's remarks. Chuchu was still young and didn't understand the ways of the world. It didn't matter. He could teach her.
"Chu Chu, please take two photos for me and send them to Jiang Ning, and attach the domineering words just now!" She instructed remotely.
After all, acting cool needs to go through other people's hands to be more stylish.
Xue Chuchu obediently picked up the phone.
Linshi.
Jiang Ning received Chuchu's message. He almost laughed out loud and commented: "It's like flowers blooming between heaven and earth, but they are obviously small potatoes popping out of the ground."
When Xue Chuchu saw this, she tried hard to hold back her smile.
Xue Yuantong found something wrong and ran over to check, not giving Chu Chu a chance to delete the message.
Seeing Jiang Ning's reply, Xue Yuantong was furious and sent several angry emojis.
Jiang Ning provoked: "Who told Chuchu to take such a short photo of you?"
Xue Chuchu quickly clarified: "I didn't make him short in the photo!"
After she said that, she realized that she had said the wrong thing. It wasn't that she took the photo short, but that Tongtong was short?
Jiang Ning took back his phone with satisfaction.
……
Jiang Ning's provocation did not work. The bond between Tongtong and Chuchu was not something he could easily break.
After finishing breakfast, the two little girls went to the open space at the door to play badminton.
There is no wind today, the sun is warm, and it is New Year's Eve, so no one mentioned homework.
There are not many days in a year, or even in a lifetime, when we can play carefree like this.
Aunt Gu and Hua Fengmei sat at the door, eating pumpkin seeds and chatting. Listening to their daughters' laughter, smiles gradually appeared on their faces.
Teacher Qian was drinking tea at the door, Uncle Tang was eating broad bean flowers, and Butcher Zhang was watching short videos...
Suddenly, from the kitchen in the east, Bi Yue ran over here with a pot in his hand. His steps were so hurried that everyone's eyes were instantly focused on him.
Compared with Zhang the Butcher and Teacher Qian, the residents he usually comes into contact with, Bi Yue is relatively special and does not belong to a certain circle.
It was not until Bi Yue's father was sent to jail and his assets were seized that Bi Yue's living standard plummeted and his former arrogance gradually disappeared.
The day before yesterday, Butcher Zhang gave her two pounds of dog meat, and she actually responded with a smile, completely devoid of her previous rebelliousness and contempt.
Bi Yue hurried to Aunt Gu's door. She looked at Aunt Gu, still feeling a bit of contempt in her heart, but she restrained herself well. A man who knows the times is a hero.
Recently, Bi Yue met a "socialite" through previous channels. She turned her poor family situation around by marrying into a wealthy family.
After hearing the experience shared by this famous sister, Bi Yueting's heart was filled with emotion. Although her own family was in decline, if she married into a wealthy family, wouldn't she be able to live a good life again?
The socialite sister emphasized that if one wants to marry into a wealthy family, cooking is an essential skill, as the sons of wealthy families prefer virtuous wives.
After being fooled, Bi Yue bought the course taught by the socialite sister. However, she was not well-off and could not afford the cooking training course, so she decided to teach herself.
Then, she set her sights on Aunt Gu. Since she was the chef of Changqingye, her cooking skills were naturally beyond doubt. If she could get some points for free, wouldn't she be better than ordinary chefs?
Bi Yue forced a smile and asked enthusiastically: "Sister Gu, isn't today Chinese New Year? I bought a black fish and made a dish, but it doesn't seem right. Can you help me take a look?"
As she spoke, she lifted the lid of the pot and a strong fishy smell wafted out. Aunt Gu's eyelids jumped and she glanced away with great courage.
There was a black semi-solid mass in the pot, vaguely recognizable as the shape of a black fish, with its eyes staring straight at her.
Aunt Gu: "No, you..."
Teacher Qian, who was watching the fun, felt distressed: "What a sin!"
Hua Fengmei also shook her head.
Bi Yue heard everyone's comments, she forced a smile and leaned over to ask: "Sister Gu, look at my cooking, is it the pot or the black fish that's to blame?"
Teacher Qian sighed: "You never mentioned yourself at all!"
Bi Yue's face looked grim, she was an overseas student, a very popular type of overseas student nowadays. If she chose to take the civil service exam, it would be equivalent to a master's degree!
Of course, she failed the exam.
Cooking is a skill that any country girl can master, so why can't she do it?
Bi Yue asked unwillingly: "Is it because of my pot, or my black fish?"
Tongtong ran over: "Of course it's because of you, sister!"
Bi Yue was silent, unable to accept it for a moment.
Uncle Tang is the peacemaker in Heba. When Dongdong was stung by a wasp, he was still busy helping him.
At this time, he called out: "Yueyue, why don't you come to my house to celebrate the New Year at noon? You and your mother are so pitiful!"
Bi Yue refused.
Aunt Zhang sighed: "Yueyue has suffered!"
Uncle Tang: "Yes, I remember that when your father was still here, people drove over to give gifts during the Chinese New Year, one wave after another. Wow, that scene!"
In her heart, Bi Yue actually looked down on those unsophisticated residents, but when she heard this, she couldn't help but recall those days in her mind, and she felt inexplicably sad.
Bi Yue was in low spirits. She held on for a breath and thought about her future as a celebrity. She said, "Things will change. In the future..."
Tongtong ran over and said, "Yeah, you had a very good life before, but things will change, and it will get worse and worse in the future!"
Tongtong said this and ran away again.
It was so hateful that Bi Yue wanted to go crazy right there!
……
10: am.
Sunshine Deer Court, in front of the security booth.
Zhang Chi, who was wearing a security jacket, picked up the phone and called his grandparents. After several rings, the call was finally connected.
Zhang Chi's tone was unusually sincere: "Grandpa, where are you, where are you? I have reserved a table!"
His gambling father is hiding from debt, his heartless mother has run away, and the only people who care about him at home are his grandparents.
"What, you can't come?" Zhang Chi suddenly raised his voice, "Why can't you come suddenly? Where's the car? Don't you have a car?"
"Oh, something happened at your uncle's house? You are asked to go and help, can't you leave?"
Zhang Chi raised his voice again: "What about grandma?"
Zhang Chi's expression dimmed: "Everyone is busy, busy, please be busy..."
He hung up the phone, the security booth became quiet, and he sat there blankly for a while.
Zhang Chi turned his head and looked at the main road in the south. The street was empty. At this time, people had already gone home to celebrate the New Year.
He turned his head and looked to the north, where there were residential buildings with dry-hanging stone materials. His gaze passed through the windows and saw the scene of family reunion.
Finally, he lowered his gaze and saw the couplet he had posted on the security booth: [No worries every year, Chang'an is always happy]
Sadly, he was not at peace at all.
Zhang Chi opened the group chat and found that Lu Qiqi was scolding Yan Tianpeng, saying that he had the nerve to ask her out for New Year's Eve. She told Yan Tianpeng to get out, and then she scolded him fiercely for a while, and then asked: "Yanan, Wenwen, let's remember to go out tonight for New Year's Eve!"
Yu Wen: "Okay, I'll wear ancient costume tonight and make you all fall in love with me."
Jiang Yanan: "See you there."
The group seems harmonious.
Zhang Chi was defeated: "What's there to celebrate about New Year's Eve? The development of everything will not change just because the previous second is 2014 and the next second is 2015... How stupid!"
After he finished speaking, he found that Lu Qiqi, who had previously argued with him, actually ignored him.
The group fell into a rare silence.
It was Zhang Chi's turn to feel embarrassed.
For a moment, it seemed as if there was no place for him in this vast world.
Zhang Chi put down his phone and looked at the road outside with mixed feelings.
New Year's Eve, today is New Year's Eve, thousands of houses are lit up, but he is the only one left.
When I was feeling melancholy, a figure appeared at the end of the empty road. Yan Tianpeng was riding a bicycle and riding hard to the gate of the community.
In Zhang Chi's incredulous eyes, Yan Tianpeng patted his shoulder and said in a full voice: "Brother, I guessed that you are still on duty. Let's go to my house at noon to celebrate the New Year!"
Zhang Chi looked at his heroic spirit and felt warm in his heart. He actually felt the friendship of brothers. He couldn't help but ask, "Is it true?"
Yan Tianpeng laughed and said, "Just kidding, of course it's fake!"
"Fuck!" Zhang Chi felt extremely humiliated. He was already so destitute, why did he have to be humiliated again!
He was about to explode in the next second.
Yan Tianpeng said seriously: "We are not going to my house, but to a restaurant. My dad has booked a restaurant."
……
Before lunch on New Year's Eve, Xue Yuantong lit firecrackers again.
She thought that Jiang Ning was not at the river dam, so she specially recorded a video of the firecrackers exploding and sent it to Jiang Ning who was far away in Linzhou, and also sent him a voice message: "
"A year has passed with the sound of firecrackers. Hehe, I am one year older!"
Jiang Ning heard her childish voice and replied, "You are still a child."
Xue Yuantong argued in a voice message: "Humph, I'm not a kid!"
Jiang Ning: "I am already three hundred years old, you are indeed a child."
Xue Yuantong: "Three hundred years is nothing. I will live to be a thousand years old."
Jiang Ning: "Great! Then you live a thousand years and I live a thousand and one years."
Xue Yuantong was puzzled at first: "Why? Why did he live longer than me?"
Then, she understood, and felt touched: "Jiang Ning, aren't you worried that you will die first and leave me alone in the world to be sad? So you want to live one year longer than me?"
Jiang Ning said disdainfully: "You look stupid because I am one year older than you."
Xue Yuantong was embarrassed and annoyed: "Who wants to die with you?"