"What happened? I remember Liu Xingnian and his fiancée dated for three or four years. Did they break up so easily?"

As the two sisters were talking, Xu Milu suddenly interrupted with a sentence that startled Liu Hongjun:

"Dami! You're such a troublemaker! You didn't even make a sound, just like a cat! Ugh, ugh, ugh, look at my mouth, what nonsense am I spouting on New Year's Day?!"

"Dami, look how scared you've made your aunt."

Liu Hongmei gave Xu Milu a reproachful look:

"You must be exhausted. Sit down quickly. Your grandpa went to open his precious bottles of wine. We'll eat when he sits down at the table."

Xu Milu was more interested in the gossip about Liu Hongjun's family, and her eyes lit up:

"Auntie, Auntie, don't keep us in suspense! Tell us already, what happened?"

Looking around, Hao Chen was discussing games with Li Ning, Xu Minian, the chubby kid, was taking pictures of the dishes on the table, and Sun Xing was helping Old Liu get the liquor from the cabinet. No one was paying attention to this side at the moment.

"Hey! What else could it be for?"

Liu Hongjun's face was full of schadenfreude:

“You know your auntie's character. She's more cunning than a monkey. Her son was about to get married, and she told the girl that since she was already pregnant, the bride price would be halved. The girl was shrewd too. She agreed right away, took the bride price, and then went to the hospital to have an abortion. Tian Meiling was furious.”

"Pregnant? That means they're getting married because of the pregnancy? But Auntie is really going too far. The girl's family even gave her a house as a dowry. She's even trying to take advantage of her son."

Xu Milu touched her chin, a knowing look on her face, but Liu Hongmei tapped her forehead:

"This is not something a young lady like you should be discussing. Besides, it's none of our business now. Didn't you see that even your grandfather doesn't care?"

"Oh, sis, what's wrong with this! You just need to make sure Da Mi does more research and learns more so she won't be fooled by men in the future. And let me tell you, there's something even more amazing!"

Liu Hongjun glanced in the direction of Old Man Liu and lowered her voice:

"Wasn't Tian Meiling almost driven mad with anger? She forced Xingnian to break up with that girl and go on blind dates. But somehow, Liu Xingnian just grabbed a random girl and secretly got a marriage certificate!"

"Oh? How can that be? Marriage is a lifelong commitment. Do you really think the girl would agree to that?"

Liu Hongmei was taken aback: "Don't let this ruin that girl's life. With Tian Meiling's personality, she'll definitely cause a scene."

"Where are you going, sis? You don't know, the best part is yet to come!"

Liu Hongjun spoke with great enthusiasm, her smile impossible to contain:

"Guess who the girl who got her marriage certificate with Liu Xingnian is? You'd never guess, would you? It's Zhu Dandan, the eldest daughter of the Zhu family in the front residential compound!!"

Xu Milu gasped sharply.

Even if others don't know, doesn't she know this person?

The Zhu family are butchers; Zhu Dandan's father owns four pork stalls. The family is well-off, and they spoil their daughter like a treasure.

But none of that is the key point. Zhu Dandan has three older brothers, all of them are 1.9 meters tall and strong, the kind that would scare a child to tears. Zhu Dandan's aunts and uncles are also all male. Her brothers combined are almost a reinforced platoon.

Zhu Dandan was a bully in her neighborhood since she was a child. She bullied everyone she saw, and no child in the neighborhood dared to mess with her.

Liu Xingnian didn't just bring a wife home; he brought back a giant Buddha statue to fight his mother!

How dare Liu Xingnian do that?

With Tian Meiling's temper, if Zhu Dandan makes another scene, won't a full-blown fight break out at home?

Who knows who might be the victim of domestic violence!

Xu Milu couldn't hide her sadness; her smile stretched almost to the back of her ears.

The retribution came too quickly.

Having New Year's Eve dinner at the hospital during the Spring Festival must have left a deep impression on Liu Hongjun's family.

"That's what they're saying. These two got their marriage certificate without telling Tian Meiling and Liu Hongjun. My mother-in-law told me a few days ago that Tian Meiling was so angry that she was hospitalized!"

Liu Hongjun scoffed, "If you ask me, she deserves it. She's disrespectful to her elders, and now she's getting her comeuppance. Let her scheme now; do you think Zhu Dandan's family is easy to mess with?"

When Liu Hongmei saw Old Man Liu coming over, she quickly patted him to stop talking, and that stopped the conversation.

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Old Liu sat at the head of the table, facing a table overflowing with food. He said nothing, first pouring himself a glass of wine, before sighing with deep emotion:

"It's Chinese New Year! As the old saying goes, the New Year should be a time for joy. Everyone is here today, and I'm so happy, especially when I see our rice."

His face crinkled into a smile as he slowly looked at Xu Milu and said:

"This whole table of dishes today is made from rice. Hurry up and try it while it's hot. I won't say anything more. Let's all eat and drink well and have a happy reunion for the New Year!"

After saying that, Old Liu picked up his chopsticks and took the first bite of the sweet and sour live fish on the table. Only then did the others at the table begin to eat.

The honey-spiced chicken, fresh from the oven, is incredibly tempting. Its skin is a honey-colored orange-red, and when you gently poke it with chopsticks, the skin cracks like puff pastry, revealing the tender, plump chicken meat inside.

Xu Milu brushed several layers of honey water onto the chicken skin, which gave the chicken a sweet aroma as soon as it entered the mouth. The sweetness of the honey and the tenderness of the chicken intertwined in the mouth, and with almost no chewing, a variety of flavors exploded in the mouth.

Li Ning's eyes lit up at the first taste. He took another bite of the chicken skin, smacked his lips, and immediately noticed the difference:

"Junior Aunt, this honey water isn't ordinary honey, is it?!"

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