flstandardbreds Chapter 236 Everyone’s New Year’s Eve Dinner
Chapter 236 Everyone’s New Year’s Eve Dinner
Chapter 236 Everyone's New Year's Eve Dinner
On New Year's Eve, Chen Zhirui looked at a large table of delicious food and finally couldn't help himself. He ate several bowls of food while crying. After returning home, Chen Zhirui did not slack off and worked hard to lose weight every day.
He also bought a monthly membership card for a gym near his home. Every day he is either on his way to lift weights or running in his backyard.
Now, when all the relatives and friends of the family see Chen Zhirui, the first thing they say is: "Chen, how come you have lost so much weight!"
Grandpa and grandma looked at Chen Zhirui, whose face had become smaller, and thought that he was so hungry at school, so they immediately went to the backyard to catch a big fat chicken, and were about to kill it with a knife to make chicken soup for Chen Zhirui.
Chen Zhirui immediately saved the big fat chicken from the knife. If he really drank a sip of the chicken soup stewed by his grandmother, all his efforts in the past few months would be in vain.
The rescued chicken may be grateful, and now runs with Chen Zhirui in the backyard every morning. Chen Zhirui gave the chicken a nice name: "Chicken is so beautiful!"
Today is New Year's Eve and the gym is closed, so he can't lift weights. After doing a few sets of aerobic exercises at home, he went back to his room to look at postgraduate entrance examination materials. He suddenly had the idea of taking the postgraduate entrance examination recently - and it was definitely not because he was influenced by a certain postgraduate entrance examination candidate.
Since returning home, Chen Zhirui has been strictly following the standards of a fat-reducing meal for his food intake. Today is New Year's Day, so he had an indulgent meal. After finishing the indulgent meal, Chen Zhirui immediately went to the yard to run.
After running, he took a shower, then went online to invite Zhou Xiaonan to play games. Zhou Xiaonan thought that Chen Zhirui also ate boiled cabbage on New Year's Eve, so he sent a photo of his own New Year's Eve dinner to tempt him.
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Wang Qi was in a small county town in the north, which was now covered in white snow, with the snow reaching above his knees in some places.
On this cold night, it is best for the family to sit on the warm kang, eat the New Year's Eve dinner together and watch the Spring Festival Gala.
The dishes on the table were all served in large plates, and some were directly served in pots, such as the pig-killing dishes and boiled dumplings, which were all served in a large pot. The braised pork and large pork elbow were all served in large enamel bowls, and the large shrimps and braised fish were filled to the brim on the large round plates.
The table was full of delicious dishes, and the smell was so delicious that it made me dizzy.
Before dinner, Wang Qi took a photo and sent it to his girlfriend Yang Xueer.
Pengcheng is located in the north, and its local language and lifestyle are closer to those of Qi and Lu. The food also has a northern flavor. The New Year's Eve dinner at Yang Xueer's home is not much different from that at Wang Qi's home.
The two chatted on the phone about family matters and expressed their longing for each other...
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Today, Du Hongyuan asked the store manager Wang Siting for an advance on his salary. He took half a day off at noon, went to the jewelry store to buy a new pair of gold earrings, then bought two packs of Huazi in the store and went to his mother's house.
The guests at his mother's house had just left and the door was not closed. Du Hongyuan watched his mother cleaning the living room and his stepfather washing dishes in the kitchen. After he finished washing the dishes, he walked out of the kitchen to help his mother mop the floor and deal with the garbage.
"Xiaoyuan! Come in quickly... Have you eaten yet?... Where have you been staying during the holidays? At your dad's place?"
Du Hongyuan watched at the door for a while until he was discovered by his mother and stepfather.
The two men asked Du Hongyuan to come into the house, but Du Hongyuan was unwilling to go in. He put the jewelry box and cigarettes on the shoe rack at the entrance and turned around and ran away.
The stepfather chased him out and stuffed a red envelope into Du Hongyuan's pocket. Du Hongyuan didn't want it, but he still forced it into his pocket and said, "Happy New Year, Xiaoyuan!"
"Be nice to my mom!"
"Ah."
There wasn't much conversation between the two men, just a look and an expression were enough.
Du Hongyuan turned and left. The red envelope in his pocket was very thick, but he didn't open it. He just kept it in his pocket and walked for a long time...
After leaving his mother's house, Du Hongyuan went to the mall and bought a piece of men's clothing and a jade locket for a child.
Standing at the door of his father's house, Du Hongyuan took a deep breath and knocked on the door.
After a while, a little boy of seven or eight years old opened the door.
Seeing Du Hongyuan standing at the door, the child childishly said, "Brother."
This child was born to Du Hongyuan's father and stepmother, and is Du Hongyuan's half-brother.
Du Hongyuan looked at his brother and asked, "Well, aren't mom and dad home?"
"Yes, I'm playing mahjong with my uncles in the room." The younger brother said, opening the door, "Brother, come in quickly."
"Not going in."
Du Hongyuan took out a peace locket and put it on his brother's wrist, then handed the bag of clothes to his brother and told him, "Give this to Dad, and tell him that your brother can make a lot of money now."
"Oh... Brother isn't going home for the New Year?"
"No."
Du Hongyuan shook his head, turned around and walked downstairs.
While I was waiting for the bus at the bus stop, my father chased me out on his motorcycle.
"Why... don't you go home for dinner?"
"I...I...ate at my mom's."
"Your aunt (stepmother) is making New Year's Eve dinner tonight. She asked me to ask you to come over here to eat tonight."
"I... have something to do this afternoon... so I won't come..."
The father and son hadn't seen each other for a long time and didn't know how to start a conversation. They fell silent while chatting. After a while, the father stuffed a wad of money into Du Hongyuan's hand.
During the scuffle, two hundred yuan of my father's money fell to the ground, and my father stuffed the remaining eight or nine hundred yuan into Du Hongyuan's pocket before getting on the car.
My father picked up the two hundred yuan on the ground that was a little dusty, and watched the bus leave without any gesture of goodbye, but his eyes were already red...
Du Hongyuan took a puff of his cigarette, looked at the red envelope and money in his hand, and tears couldn't stop falling.
He had always felt that his parents' remarriage had hurt him. He was unwilling to face these two reconstituted families, and he did not want his parents to become someone else's parents. He hated his stepfather and stepmother...
It was not until today that he realized that he had been tying himself up in knots and working against himself all along.
Even though he remarried, his parents still loved him, and his stepfather and stepmother were not as vicious as he thought...
The boy cried and then he laughed. This was his reconciliation with himself.
It is also a reckless boy's reconciliation with this unfair world.
He returned to the security booth, and tonight he was still alone...
really?
"Jingle Bell……"
"Hey?"
Du Hongyuan answered the call from Gong Liu and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Stop guarding that piece of shit, come out and set off the fireworks!"
"No, the overtime pay for one night is several hundred yuan."
"Oh, it's okay. I asked Gu Chenxi to say hello. The manager said it's okay for you to go out for an hour or two. Your salary will be paid as usual without any deduction."
"real or fake?"
"of course it's true!"
"But I've already asked for leave this afternoon."
"It's okay to come out at night."
"Forget it, I don't want to go. I want to sleep."
"Really not coming? Shen Xia is here too!"
"Don't you want to lie to me?"
After Du Hongyuan finished speaking, Kong Liu stopped talking and said directly to Shen Xia, who was sitting in the passenger seat, "Du Hongyuan is not coming!"
Shen Xia said, "He can't ask for leave?"
Du Hongyuan's eyes widened when he heard Shen Xia's voice on the phone.
"Is Shen Xia really here?"
Gong Liu smiled crookedly: "How could it be false?"
Du Hongyuan: "Send the address, I'll be there right away!"
"Wait at the security booth. We're here to pick you up."
(End of this chapter)