Chapter 089

Chuxia suddenly felt a little nervous and uneasy.

She silently adjusted her breathing, smiled and took two steps forward.

Seeing what Lin Xiaohan was carrying, Chu Xia asked, "Are you bringing something else?"

Lin Xiaohan replied: "Is it appropriate to visit a friend's house empty-handed to wish him a happy new year?"

It does sound a bit outrageous.

Chu Xia took Lin Xiaohan to the alley and whispered to him, "I greeted my parents when we were having dinner just now. According to what we agreed on that day, we just said we were friends, so you don't have to be nervous. We are just going to a friend's house to wish them a happy new year. But now they are all playing cards in the yard. In addition to the people in our yard, there are other neighbors here, so there are quite a lot of people."

Lin Xiaohan responded: "Okay."

In fact, they don't need to act anything, let alone tell anyone that they are in love. Just visiting as friends to wish each other a happy new year will almost achieve the desired effect.

After all, everyone is conservative these days, and even when they are in love, they won’t show it on their faces.

The mere act of visiting someone’s home to wish them a happy new year is enough to have an effect.

Chu Xia took Lin Xiaohan to the gate of Courtyard No. 8.

Lin Xiaohan didn't seem nervous, but Chu Xia herself became nervous instead.

After entering the gate and walking in front of the screen wall, she suddenly stopped, covered her chest and exhaled deeply.

Lin Xiaohan lowered his brows and tried to suppress his laughter.

Chuxia adjusted herself and took Lin Xiaohan through the front yard and into the second gate.

After entering the second door and walking down the stairs, Chuxia called out crisply, "Mom and Dad, my friends are here to pay New Year's greetings."

Tang Haikuan was sitting at the table playing cards, and Wu Xuemei was sitting behind him watching.

Hearing this, they and the others in the yard all looked towards the second gate, and then Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei stood up and said, "Bring him in quickly."

Others didn't know that Chuxia had friends coming to pay New Year's greetings.

When they saw Chu Xia bringing Lin Xiaohan in, they all showed expressions of surprise and curiosity on their faces.

Chuxia brought Lin Xiaohan to the yard and asked him to say hello to Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei first. Then she introduced him to the other people in the yard and greeted them all politely.

Uncles, aunts, and grandpa, no one was left behind.

It's the New Year, so everyone is naturally warm and polite.

But when Chu Xia took Lin Xiaohan to greet the Han family, the Han family members all smiled reluctantly, especially Wang Cuiying, whose mouth corners were so stiff that she could hardly lift them.

After saying hello, Wang Cuiying asked with a stiff smile: "Chuxia, is this your friend?"

Chu Xia smiled and replied, "Yes, Auntie, we were classmates in high school, and we were together when we went to the countryside. Later, we returned to the city together, and we were admitted to Peking University together."

When they heard that Lin Xiaohan was also from Peking University, many people were surprised.

Especially Jiang Jianping and Xu Lihua smiled more enthusiastically, saying, "It's true that people of the same kind make friends with the same kind of people. It's obvious from her temperament that she is not an ordinary person."

After saying this, Xu Lihua suddenly shouted to the west room: "Guanjie, don't stay in the room. It's New Year's Day, you should come out and have fun with everyone and make more friends."

Jiang Guanjie said "oh" in the west room and came out after a moment.

Seeing Jiang Guanjie coming out, Xu Lihua said again: "Didn't I tell you a long time ago that you should learn and communicate more with your sister Chuxia. Don't treat her like a stranger when you are from the same institute. She is from Peking University and has different perspectives."

When Jiang Guanjie came over, Chu Xia smiled and introduced him to Lin Xiaohan.

After the introduction, Chu Xia took Lin Xiaohan into the house first and asked him to put the New Year gifts into the house.

In the east room.

Su Yun stood in front of the window of the new house, watching Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan enter the north room through the stained glass window.

She turned around, looked at Han Ting and said, "Lin Xiaohan came to Tang Chuxia's house to pay New Year's greetings."

Han Ting heard it himself without Su Yun saying anything.

He acted completely uninterested and said, "Come on if you want."

Han Ting lay lazily on the bed.

Su Yun walked over and sat down next to him, moved close to his face and stared at him for a while, then suddenly smiled.

Han Ting was able to suppress his inner irritation.

Being stared at and smiled by Su Yun like that, he couldn't control himself for a moment.

He sat up from the bed, looked at Su Yun and said, "You really want to make me uncomfortable, don't you?"

Su Yun retracted her gaze and denied, "I didn't, you are the one who has a guilty conscience."

Han Ting held back his anger and leaned back on the bed.

He really regrets getting married now. From the day he saw Chu Xia and then Wang Cuiying got drunk and started acting crazy, he has not had a single peaceful minute until now.

Originally, Su Yun was better than anyone else when she was in the countryside. She was gentle and considerate, understood him and loved him, and was able to sympathize, comfort and support him no matter what happened. But now she seems like a different person, being sarcastic in everything.

Just getting married changes everything.

***

In the yard.

Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan went into the house to put down the gifts and then came out again.

Han Qingtian stood up from the table and said to Lin Xiaohan, "Xiao Lin, you come and play."

Lin Xiaohan declined, but Han Qingtian insisted on letting him fight, so he sat down.

After sitting down, playing cards with Tang Haikuan, Jiang Jianping and Han Lei became secondary. The main thing was to talk to the people in the yard.

The friends who brought it back from the New Year in early summer had an interest in everyone in the yard.

So everyone took the opportunity of playing cards and chatting to ask a lot of questions about Lin Xiaohan's situation.

The topic naturally started with him and Chu Xia.

I asked about how they worked in the countryside together, returned to the city together, and took the college entrance examination together, and then I asked about his family situation.

Of course, there was nothing in the question about love, after all, they were just here to wish each other a happy new year.

About family situation.

Lin Xiaohan also told the truth: "My father is the director of Wanfeng Food Factory."

Hearing this, Jiang Jianping was surprised again and said with a smile: "Oh, considering the scale of Wanfeng Food Factory, you are the son of a cadre."

Lin Xiaohan also smiled and said, "There's nothing different."

People can naturally hear that this is a humble word.

The director of a large state-owned factory in Beijing is a cadre of a high rank.

Lin Xiaohan was playing cards and talking to the elders in the courtyard, and Chuxia occasionally said a few words to him.

She mainly secretly observed the expressions on the faces of each member of the Han family and guessed their inner thoughts based on their expressions.

We played cards and chatted for a while, when we suddenly heard shouting coming from outside the second door.

I looked up and saw Chaozi and Guogai coming over.

When the two of them entered the yard, they were stunned when they saw Lin Xiaohan.

But when they thought about how Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan had always been together in the countryside, they didn't think it was strange anymore.

The two of them were stunned and didn't say anything. Han Qingtian spoke first: "How come you didn't even know to call all the elders when you saw them during the New Year's Day?"

Chaozi and Guogai came to their senses and hurriedly called out to grandpa, auntie, uncle and auntie.

After calling out, they all said hello to Lin Xiaohan: "Long time no see."

Lin Xiaohan smiled at them and replied, "Long time no see."

They had no friendship at first, but they had celebrated many festivals together.

In such an occasion, being able to say hello like this is already the limit.

After Chaozi and Guogai greeted Lin Xiaohan, they no longer stood in the yard and turned around and went into the east room.

After entering the door, he shouted: "Brother Ting, the skates are ready, let's go

Dependence

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Not long after, four people came out of the east room together.

Han Ting and Su Yun didn't say hello to Lin Xiaohan, they just told their family, "We're going out."

Han Qingtian asked casually: "Where are you going now?"

Han Ting didn't say anything. Guo Gai said, "Let's go skating at the Shichahai Ice Rink. Do you want to go?"

Han Qingtian said: "Why should I go with you? Come back early in the evening."

Han Ting responded with "I understand" and left with Chaozi, Guogai and Su Yun.

After leaving the courtyard gate, the four people and two bicycles rode out of the alley.

Guo Gai sat on the back seat of the car, looked at Han Ting and asked, "Why is Lin Xiaohan in the yard?"

Han Ting didn't answer.

Su Yun sat sideways in the back seat of the car and said, "Come to Tang Chuxia's house to pay New Year's greetings."

Guo Gai clicked his tongue and said, "Chu Xia is really patient. She can actually stay with someone like Lin Xiaohan for so long. I thought they would break up after returning to the city."

Su Yun: "Tang Chuxia is already capable, and now she's so beautiful, isn't it easy for her to control Lin Xiaohan? There are many people who are obsessed with her now."

Guo Gai didn't hear the sarcasm in Su Yun's words.

He went on to say, "Honestly, who would have thought that the ordinary little girl would suddenly become so beautiful after growing up, and let Lin Xiaohan get a great bargain."

It was she who first said that Chu Xia had become more beautiful, but when Su Yun heard Guo Gai say that, she couldn't help feeling very uncomfortable.

Now in their eyes, she might not even be as good as a hair of Tang Chuxia.

Thinking back to when she was at the educated youth training center, she was the most eye-catching among the five girls.

Su Yun suppressed her bitterness and said, "We're not married anyway, so you can pursue her if you think she's good."

When Guogai heard this, he hurriedly said, "Oh, please don't knock my teeth out. What conditions do they have now? Do I deserve them? I wouldn't dare to do that before. Brother Ting would have to break my legs."

Su Yun was curious again, and asked Han Ting, "You didn't like Tang Chuxia before, so why didn't you let others be interested in her?"

Han Ting still didn't say anything.

Chaozi answered for him, "Brother Ting treats her as his own sister. Shouldn't he take care of his sister? If it were me, I wouldn't want any random person to think about my sister."

Su Yun: "But you are not messy people, you are his brothers."

Pot Cover: "Brothers are even worse! How can you miss your brother's sister?"

Su Yun and Chaozi Guogai chatted all the way.

Han Ting did not speak out to participate, nor did he speak out to stop it.

When he got to the ice rink, he put on his skates and started skating without saying a word.

He has left many glorious moments on this ice rink.

As long as he puts on ice skates and stands here, he is still that spirited young man.

***

Lin Xiaohan played cards with Tang Haikuan, Jiang Jianping and others in Yard No. 8 for the entire afternoon.

After the sun went down, the yard became colder and the sky darkened. It was almost time to make dinner, so everyone dispersed and went home.

After an afternoon of getting to know each other, Tang Haikuan, Wu Xuemei and Lin Xiaohan became familiar with each other.

The two of them had a good impression of Lin Xiaohan in all aspects, so they smiled and asked him to stay: "Xiao Lin, it's a rare opportunity for you to come and play, so please have dinner before you leave."

Chuxia thought that Lin Xiaohan must be tired after spending the whole afternoon with the elders, and didn't want to stay any longer.

As a result, he immediately responded with a smile: "Uncle and aunt, if it's not too much trouble, then I won't be polite."

Hearing this, Wu Xuemei immediately responded: "Of course we won't bother you. If you come back late, your family..."

Lin Xiaohan decisively stated: "I have told my family about this."

Then that's no problem.

Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei went to the kitchen to cook.

Lin Xiaohan seemed restless, so he followed them.

This won't work.

Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei hurriedly said, "How can we let you into the kitchen when you are a guest at our house?"

After that, he called Chuxia, "Hurry up and take Xiaolin to play inside."

Before Chu Xia could say anything, Lin Xiaohan said, "Uncle and aunt, it's okay. I can do all these tasks. You don't have to be polite to me. Just let me do whatever you want."

Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei were unable to defeat Lin Xiaohan.

I could only breathe a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Okay, let's do it together, let's do it together."

Chuxia lay at the kitchen door, blinking her eyes at the kitchen.

Kobayashi is such a great actor. If he were given more room to perform, his parents would probably treat him as their godson.

In the yard.

Xu Lihua came out from the west room to get water.

While fetching water, I followed the sound and looked into Chu Xia's kitchen for a long time.

After getting the water and returning to her kitchen, she said to Jiang Jianping, "Guess what I saw?"

Jiang Jianping replied with some curiosity: "What did you see?"

Xu Lihua gestured in the direction of Chu Xia's kitchen, "That classmate Xiao Lin went into the kitchen with Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei to cook."

Jiang Jianping nodded and said, "This friend that Chu Xia made is really good."

Xu Lihua said: "A person who came to our house alone to pay New Year's greetings, do you think they can be just ordinary friends? Didn't you see that Wang Cuiying's face was downcast for the whole afternoon?"

Jiang Jianping: "Why is she upset? Her family's Han Ting is already married, why does she care who comes to Chu Xia's house to pay New Year's greetings?"

Xu Lihua: "I'm afraid he thinks Chu Xia still has Han Ting in her heart, and still has illusions in her heart, thinking that Chu Xia will continue to wait for Han Ting. Now that the illusion is shattered, isn't it painful?"

Jiang Jianping: "Why would she think so? With Chu Xia's current conditions, she can find someone who is no worse than Han Ting. How could she still hang herself on Han Ting's tree?"

Xu Lihua: "Then you have to think about how much Tang Chuxia has done for Han Ting in the past."

Jiang Jianping: "Don't tell me, Han Ting is such a bad boy."

***

In the east room.

Dinner was ready but Han Ting and Su Yun hadn't come back yet.

Wang Cuiying asked Li Lan to serve the food, but Li Lan reminded her, "San'er hasn't come back yet."

Wang Cuiying really didn't want to see Han Ting and Su Yun, especially Su Yun, so she said unhappily, "Who cares if they come back or not? If they don't come back, they'll be left out here starving!"

Seeing that Wang Cuiying could no longer control her temper, Li Lan went to serve the rice.

After the meal was served, the family sat down at the table. Li Lan said again, "Mom, it's New Year's Day, don't be angry."

Wang Cuiying said in a hard tone: "I'm not angry. What should I be angry about?"

Suddenly he couldn't hold it in anymore, his voice trembled, "I just pissed myself off and broke my heart, that's all I can do, that's it."

Originally, she was thinking that if Han Ting understood Chu Xia's feelings, knew that he regretted it, and couldn't go on with Su Yun, there would still be a possibility for him and Chu Xia.

As long as Chuxia remains single and doesn't look for a partner, it means that she has not really given up on Han Ting. If they spend some time to win over Chuxia, then her Han Ting still has a chance.

Now, there is nothing.

The beautiful wife is gone, the outstanding college students are gone, the house and the car are gone.

Han Qingtian said again: "Then don't say anything more."

Wang Cuiying: "If I don't tell you, I'll suffocate to death. I'm going to tell you. When they come back, I'll tell them in front of them!"

Han Qingtian: “…”

Han Qingtian: "Then what do you want to do? They're already married, and you still want to break them up?"

Wang Cuiying: "It's just right to break up. My son San'er can find someone better."

Han Qingtian: "...I think you are crazy!"

***

In the main room.

Chu Xia's family and Lin Xiaohan were also having dinner.

After cooking together in the kitchen, Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei became even more warm towards Lin Xiaohan.

Sit down and eat.

Fearing that Lin Xiaohan would be embarrassed, and also to express his enthusiasm, Tang Haikuan took the lead in picking up the dish and said to Lin Xiaohan: "Xiao Lin, try this. I used to be a chef."

Seeing Tang Haikuan's move, Chu Xia quickly reached out to stop him: "Dad, Dad, no need."

It was probably very difficult for Lin Xiaohan to eat with them, let alone pick up food for them.

Tang Haikuan understood what Chu Xia meant and explained, "I have never used these chopsticks."

Chu Xia wanted to say something else, but before she could say anything, Lin Xiaohan had already brought the bowl to the bottom of the dish Tang Haikuan had picked up and said with a smile, "Uncle, it's okay to use it."

Tang Haikuan put the dish down.

After he finished, he looked at Chu Xia and said, "Xiao Lin is not as petty as you think."

Chu Xia: “…”

She raised the corners of her mouth and smiled.

Well, she is narrow-minded.

Lin Xiaohan had already started chatting with Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei. They were talking about everything. As they chatted, Lin Xiaohan made Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei laugh.

Seeing him like this, Chuxia inexplicably wanted to cause him some trouble, so she deliberately put a piece of potato into his bowl.

After putting it in his bowl, she deliberately glanced at him.

Lin Xiaohan saw the potatoes that fell into his bowl and turned back to look at Chuxia.

Then he didn't react at all. He picked up the potato naturally and put it into his mouth to eat. After eating, he continued to chat with Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei as if nothing had happened.

“…”

Chu Xia stared at his bowl for a while, then raised her eyes and looked at his face for a while.

Then he looked away and stared at his chopsticks for a while.

***

This meal took quite a while.

After dinner, it was already dark outside.

It was getting late, so Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei didn't keep Lin Xiaohan any longer.

Together with Chuxia, they escorted Lin Xiaohan out the door, and Chuxia walked Lin Xiaohan forward a little further.

After exiting the alley and seeing that there was no one around, Chu Xia whispered, "Mission accomplished!"

After half a day's observation, she was sure that the Han family should not have any improper thoughts about her.

Lin Xiaohan immediately asked, "How do you thank me?"

Chu Xia was used to his directness, so she looked at him and replied, "Since you asked me this, you must have already thought of how I can thank you."

She knew him very well. Lin Xiaohan said, "We didn't set off fireworks last night. Now it's not the first day of the new year yet. Will you accompany me to set off some fireworks?"

Chu Xia looked at him and asked, "You didn't let it go last night?"

Lin Xiaohan: "I'm too lazy to let go alone."

Then let’s go set off some fireworks.

Chu Xia said, "Let's go to the park."

The place is big enough to run around, the view for watching the fireworks is wider, and there is no one around late at night.

Lin Xiaohan brought his own fireworks, so Chuxia went straight to the park with him.

They went to the park and found a place they thought was good, took out all the fireworks from their backpacks, then took out matches, placed the fireworks on the ground and lit them.

Before lighting the fire, Lin Xiaohan held the matches in front of Chu Xia and asked her, "You come?"

Chu Xia smiled and waved at him, "You should come."

She still remembers the embarrassing scene last year.

She didn't just light the fire.

When Lin Xiaohan lit the fire, she even stepped back.

After Lin Xiaohan lit the torch and stood over, she and he looked up at the fireworks side by side.

A tiny bunch of sparks rose into the night sky and exploded into fireworks.

Chuxia said with miniature fireworks in her eyes: "Make a New Year's wish."

Lin Xiaohan looked at Chu Xia and asked, "What is your New Year's wish?"

Chuxia looked at the fireworks exploding in the night sky and said, "I hope my parents are healthy and safe, and I also hope that my studies will go well, and then..."

She tilted her head towards Lin Xiaohan and whispered, "Make a little fortune."

In the past, if you wished to get rich, you would be criticized for having a problematic ideology.

But this year is different. The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee held at the end of last year has opened the prelude to reform and opening up.

From this year on, everything will be different.

After saying that, she looked at Lin Xiaohan: "What about you?"

Lin Xiaohan looked at her and said, "My wish is that you can take me with you when you make a wish next year."

Chu Xia was stunned as she looked into Lin Xiaohan's eyes.

The last spark exploded above her head, and she felt her heartbeat skip a beat.

Chu Xia came back to her senses and retracted her gaze, then quickly took the match from his hand and said, "Then I'll go light the next one and bring it to you now."

After saying that, she ran to light a bucket of fireworks. When lighting them, she still stepped back with her hands outstretched. After lighting them, she screamed "Ah!" and immediately stood up and ran away, shouting as she ran: "I hope Comrade Lin Xiaohan has a bright future! A promising future! A bright future! A meteoric rise! Reach the pinnacle of life! Never slip down!"

Her voice, along with the sound of cannon fire, reached Lin Xiaohan's ears.

After she stood up, Lin Xiaohan walked to her side with a smile, and suddenly handed her a red paper package.

Chu Xia looked at the red paper package with a puzzled look, "What is this?"

Lin Xiaohan asked, "Didn't you ask me to give you New Year's money?"

That was nonsense before the Chinese New Year!

Chu Xia said hurriedly: "I just said it casually at the time. I thought you would definitely not give it to me..."

Then he realized something was wrong - she had said that he was a stingy person and was reluctant to do it!

Just remember it. Lin Xiaohan stretched out his hand to open the pocket of her clothes, stuffed the red envelope in and said, "I don't say things casually. Once it's agreed, it's agreed. Today I must let you know that I am very generous to my friends."

Chu Xia looked at him, blinked, and asked, "How much is it?"

Lin Xiaohan said: "Oh, eight points."

Chu Xia: “…”

That's really generous.

She didn't refuse anymore and said generously: "Then I'll pay you back 80 cents next time."

After all the fireworks were over, Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan left the park.

After leaving the small park, they went their separate ways. Chu Xia waved to Lin Xiaohan, walked a few steps towards the alley, and their figures disappeared into the night.