Educated Youth Returns to the City, Driving National Economic Development

From a life of blissful idleness, "naively sweet" Su Le unexpectedly transmigrates to the arduous 1970s and becomes the little darling of her family. It should have been another life of lei...

Chapter 77: Lively New Year's Dinner

Su Bei and Sunan learned from Su Xiao that their family had moved to a new home. When they saw the Su family compound, they couldn't help but exclaim how big it was.

Su Bei and Su Xiao occupied the remaining two rooms on the right. They cleaned the room themselves, and luckily, their quilts and covers were in the closet. They put them on themselves and lay down on the soft beds. They were still a little sleepless.

Su Le lay in Li Zichen's arms with familiarity. The sound of his gentle breathing suggested that Su Le was already fast asleep.

Chen Yao got up and prepared to make breakfast. Seeing Li Zichen, Su Xiao, Su Bei and Sunan who had gotten up early, she was a little bit incredulous.

Until that familiar voice, "Mom!" Three people shouted at the same time, no, four people! And one Li Zichen.

Su Bei and Sunan walked to Chen Yao's side and pulled her to sit on the stone bench. Su Xiao and Li Zichen started cooking on their own and made a lot of porridge. Xu Hu and Yu Jie stood up and looked at the two strangers standing next to Chen Yao.

Li Xian went up and attacked him directly. Su Bei's eyes darkened and he stood up and started fighting with Li Xian.

Chen Yao quickly shouted, "Oh! Li Xian, Xiao Bei! Stop it right now!"

When Li Xian heard what Chen Yao said, he stood still. Su Bei did not retract his fist and hit Li Xian directly in the face.

Su Le opened the door when he heard the noise. Seeing that Third Brother had hit Li Xian, he frowned and walked to Li Xian's side. "Third Brother, what are you doing?"

In an instant, everyone in the room came out. Xia Le and Xu Sheng had stayed here last night.

"What's going on?" Xia Le asked

Xu Sheng looked at the blood at the corner of Li Xian's mouth, and stepped forward to show concern, "Li Xian, are you okay?" Xu Sheng had been getting along with Xu Hu and others for a while, and had long regarded them as his apprentices and students.

Su Xiao walked forward, pulled Su Bei, and asked coldly, "You are a soldier! How can you hit someone?"

When Su Nan saw the group of people coming, they were all glaring at Su Bei.

Li Xian said to Su Le and Xu Sheng, "I was the first to start. I saw them sitting next to Auntie."

Everyone understood it at once, and no one blamed Li Xian. This was enough to show that Li Xian really cared about everyone here.

Su Le sighed and introduced them to Xu Hu and the others, "This is my second brother, Su Bei. The one next to my mother is my third brother, Su Nan. This is our first meeting. They are in the army, so it's normal that you don't know each other." Then he looked at Su Bei. "Second brother, come over and say hello."

Su Bei lowered his head and said, "Hello!" He looked at Li Xian with a complicated expression. He stepped forward and apologized, "I'm sorry, I didn't stop just now."

Li didn't care, "It's okay."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Chen Yao pulled Li Xian to sit next to her, along with Xu Hu and a few others. "I've been with you for so long, and I know you're all good kids. I treat you like my own children. Auntie, I'd like to apologize to Li Xian on behalf of the second child."

Xu Hu quickly said, "We were impulsive. We should have asked."

Seeing that there was nothing for Li Zichen and Su Xiao to do, they continued to make steamed buns and dumplings.

Su Le said to Xu Hu, "Go call the people from the old courtyard over here, so they don't wake up with nothing to eat. By the way, they can live next door for the next few days."

Xu Hu nodded, and several people followed him out.

Xu Sheng, Xia Le, and Su Fugui also sat on the stone bench. "These children are all good kids."

Su Fugui nodded, "Hardworking and studious."

"By the way, I'll go prepare some New Year's money for them." Xia Le got up and went back to the room to prepare the New Year's money.

Su Fugui and Chen Yao also hurried back to the study to prepare.

Su Le looked at Su Bei and Sunan, "Second brother, third brother, how many days of leave did you take?"

Su Bei weakly held up three fingers. Su Nan did the same. Su Le looked at them and said directly, "Then you will be my sparring partners for the next three days!"

Su Bei and Sunan stared at Su Le, "What do you mean?" Sunan asked.

Su Le said, "Second brother beat someone up, so he has to teach them how to fight, right? Third brother, don't look at me either. You and second brother are one. Don't you share the responsibility for what second brother did?"

Sunan was defeated. "Okay, okay!" Su Bei was speechless, as he couldn't hold back.

Xu Hu and his group returned to the Su family compound with ten other people. Su Bei and Sunan came out to help serve porridge. They had just followed Su Le to move tables and chairs from the adjacent courtyard.

The entire compound was filled with the atmosphere of the New Year, and it was bustling with activity. After breakfast, ten people followed Xu Hu and his group to learn.

Su Le suddenly wanted to watch the Spring Festival Gala, but it wasn't on yet. He hadn't seen Journey to the West or Dream of the Red Chamber yet.

(1976) The college entrance examination will be resumed next year. Su Le looked at Zuo Xiang's rooms and said, "I hope you can all get into university."

At noon, they started eating the New Year's Eve dinner, which was very sumptuous, including roasted pork and roasted lamb legs. The ten of them quickly became friends with the Su family.

Su Bei looked at this group of young people who had accompanied his parents when he, his eldest brother, and his third brother were absent. This was enough to make him grateful.

Young people are always fighting. Su Bei and Sunan were just young men, and they quickly integrated into the group. They became friends and drank a lot of wine. They also played games.

Su Le looked at the remaining people at his table: Su Fugui, Chen Yao, Xu Sheng, Xia Le, Xu Jiaojiao, Li Zichen, and Su Xiao.

"Let's play games too. Wait for me." Su Le stood up and went back to his room, where he took out six dice boxes from his space. Each box contained five dice.

Su Le returned to his seat. Su Fugui and Chen Yao immediately understood. Su Le said to the people present, "That's it. (Su Le rolled the dice.) Look. Two ones, three fives. These are yours, you can't tell anyone else. I can just call five fives, and the one can change to any number. If I call five ones, the one can't change. Roll the straight again."

Everyone present was smart and quickly figured out how to play.

Su Le said to Li Zichen, "I'll play, I'll play with you later, you have to drink."

Xu Jiaojiao followed Su Le's example and said the same thing to Su Xiao.

Chen Yao said she didn't want to play. Su Fugui said generously, "You come and play, I'll drink."

Xia Le had never played it before and was very excited to play. Xu Sheng let her play and he drank it himself.

The four women began to roll the dice, and Su Le was the first to shout, "Five ones!"

Xu Jiaojiao looked at her dice: one, two, three, four, five. She showed them to everyone and rolled them again: two fives, three twos, "six twos."

Xia Le also took a look at his dice, "Six fives."

Chen Yao followed up by shouting, "Seven fives."

Su Le understood immediately: Xu Jiaojiao had at least three twos, Xia Le had at least three fives, and his mother also had more than fives.

Su Le looked at his cards and shouted, "Eight fives!"

Xu Jiaojiao counted the twenty dice in total and said, "Nine twos."

Xia Le looked at the dice in his hand. There was not a single two. There were fifteen outside. His daughter had not yet been picked. "Nine fives!"

Chen Yao directly chose Xia Le, "Open you!" She opened her own dice, two ones, three threes.

Su Le couldn't help but sigh that his mother was really an old hand! He opened his dice, a one, two fours, and a six.

Xia Le had a one and four fives in his hand. Xu Jiaojiao had two fives and three twos.

Xu Sheng drank a glass happily.