Chapter 143

In two days, the Spring Festival holiday will be over.

Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan resumed their daily work routine, and Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei also resumed their daily store operations.

There was no major change in the lives of the two families in the east and west houses.

After the holiday, Jiang Jianping, Xu Lihua and Jiang Guanjie returned to work as usual. However, Jiang Shan went back to school early without waiting for her own holiday to end.

Han Ting packed his bags and left Beijing, which had little impact on the Han family's life.

Even though he stayed in Beijing, he spent very little time at home, so Han Qingtian and Wang Cuiying did not have much time to see or talk to him.

Half a year later.

In the light and shadow of the setting sun, the wind blew through the alley, lifting the tassels of the lanterns under the door lintels.

The restaurant was full of people having dinner and chatting animatedly.

Jiang Jianping and Xu Lihua came out of the gate, smiling as they pasted the red double happiness pattern outside the gate.

When the guests who came to eat in the restaurant saw the red double happiness, they smiled and asked, "Oh, is there another wedding going on in this courtyard?"

Jiang Jianping smiled and replied, "Yes, my son is getting married."

After the Chinese New Year, Xu Lihua paid more attention to Jiang Guanjie's marriage. In just half a year, she found a satisfactory girl and settled the marriage.

Tomorrow is the wedding day, so let’s put up all the happy characters today.

The guest simply exchanged a few pleasantries, smiled, and then went into the restaurant.

I entered the restaurant, waited for an empty table, sat down, ordered food and ate.

Jiang Jianping and Xu Lihua pasted the double happiness pattern on the gate and went into the yard.

Not long after, Lin Xiaohan braked his bike and stopped outside the gate with the word "Double Happiness" on it.

Chuxia jumped out of the car and walked into the gate with Lin Xiaohan.

After parking the car in the front yard and entering the inner courtyard, I saw double happiness patterns pasted on the second door, the door of the west room, the windows, and even the pillars.

The Jiang family does not plan to hold the wedding in a restaurant.

So in addition to these wedding characters cut out of red paper in the yard, a shed was also set up, and a banquet table and long benches were placed under the shed.

There was no one in the yard at the moment, so Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan didn't need to be polite and greet anyone.

They walked straight under the shed, went into the north room and put down their bags.

After breathing a sigh of relief in the north room, the two went to the restaurant in front.

It was dinner time, the busiest time of the day in the restaurant, so Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan went to help greet customers and collect money.

Because there are enough people, they don't need to be too busy.

After helping for a while, he went to the kitchen to find something to eat to fill his stomach.

When the shops on both sides closed at night, Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan helped count the money and do the accounts for today in Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei's room.

After finishing the day's work, Wu Xuemei said to Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan, "Your father and I may not be able to spare time tomorrow, so you two can go out for the wedding banquet then."

Tomorrow is Sunday, and Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan do have time to attend the wedding banquet.

But Chu Xia smiled and looked at Lin Xiaohan and said, "I just don't know if they are happy to let us eat."

On New Year's Eve, Lin Xiaohan offended both the East and West families with his words.

From the first day of this year till now, their attitude towards the two of them has never been warm.

Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei knew what Chu Xia meant.

Tang Haikuan said: "Don't think too much. It's his family's big day, so he has to show his respect."

There is actually no such thing in early summer.

She asked again: "Now that the wedding is over, has Jiang Guanjie got his share of the house?"

Wu Xuemei added, "I heard from Xu Lihua that they are already going through the formalities, and they will get the keys once they are done. Oh, they are so proud these days. After they get the house, they will have a building to live in, and they don't have to live in this bungalow like us anymore."

Chuxia said: "That's great, Deyi, move out early and give the house back to our family."

Tang Haikuan added, "I wouldn't say it's that good. The house that his family's Guanjie unit allocated isn't as good as yours. It's too small, with only two rooms. Our yard isn't like those other houses where more than a dozen families live, so it's still quite spacious. If a family moves into such a small house, they'll bump into each other when they turn around. Just thinking about it makes me feel suffocated."

Wu Xuemei replied, "We don't care about them."

Tang Haikuan was just speaking casually and didn't say anything else after saying these few words.

It's getting late now.

The four of them didn't chat any further.

After washing up, everyone went to sleep in their own rooms.

***

Turn off the lights.

Lin Xiaohan spread his arms.

Chuxia lay in his arms naturally.

Lin Xiaohan suddenly asked while holding Chu Xia, "Will such an old house and yard become valuable in the future?"

Hearing this, Chu Xia turned to look at him, "How do you know?"

Lin Xiaohan smiled and said, "I guessed."

Chu Xia continued to ask him: "Then how did you guess?"

Lin Xiaohan said: "This year's social atmosphere is obviously more open. Because of the solid ideas left over from the past ten years, people used to be a little disdainful of material things and money, but since this year, the whole society has no longer concealed its desire for material things and money. If it continues to develop in this way, and depending on the attitude of the leaders above, the market should become more and more free, and cars and houses will most likely become commodities. In troubled times, there is gold, and in prosperous times, there are antiques. If everyone can get rich and live better, this old house may become an antique."

Chu Xia couldn't help laughing, "You can see so far?" He really had a keen sense of smell.

Lin Xiaohan pinched her face and said, "But I always feel that you see farther than me, and you hide it in your heart pretending to be stupid." In the past in the countryside, when people mentioned the resumption of the college entrance examination, that was the only thing they talked about.

Chu Xia didn't tell him whether to pretend to be stupid or not.

She asked him again: "Would you like to go into the sea to make money?"

Lin Xiaohan looked at Chu Xia and asked back: "Do you want to go into the sea to make money?"

Chu Xia said: "I am considering it. Didn't the country issue a notice to suspend employment without pay? The policy encourages and supports everyone to go into the entertainment industry. What about you?"

Lin Xiaohan said: "Then I have to stay in the system."

Chu Xia was stunned for a moment and asked, "Because of me?"

According to the novel, he went into business.

Lin Xiaohan said: "The two of us getting married is like two eggs, how can we put them in the same basket?"

Chu Xia laughed again and whispered, "Then one of us will be the big boss and the other will be a high official."

Lin Xiaohan also smiled, "Okay, let's rule the world together."

It wasn't a serious conversation.

Chuxia smiled and pinched Lin Xiaohan's waist, and he grabbed her hand.

The two chatted for a few more words, and Chuxia was so sleepy that her voice became soft, and she closed her eyes and fell asleep.

The next day I was woken up by the noise in the yard.

The two did not sleep long. They got up, washed, had breakfast, and waited for the Jiang family to bring back the bride. Then they went directly to the yard to attend the wedding banquet.

Everyone sat down at the table at noon, and soon Jiang Guanjie came back with his bride.

The time from the blind date to the marriage for Jiang Guanjie was very short. Standing with the bride, it felt like they were temporarily pulled from the street to get married, and it looked like they were just completing a task.

There is no relevant content about Jiang Guanjie's marriage in the original text.

Chu Xia didn't care much either. She just sat at the table with Lin Xiaohan, looking at the bride, feeling the festive atmosphere of the wedding in the yard, and waiting for the banquet to begin.

The banquet officially begins.

Pick up chopsticks and eat cold dishes in early summer.

After eating just two chopsticks, she suddenly felt nauseous.

She put down her chopsticks and drank some water, trying to suppress the feeling of nausea.

But I don’t know how my nose became more sensitive. When I smelled the dish in front of me, the feeling of nausea in my heart came up again.

Unable to hold it back any longer, Chuxia hurriedly got up and ran to the north room.

She originally wanted to go directly to the stone trough, but the Jiang family was holding a wedding in the yard at that time, and if she vomited during the banquet, it would inevitably ruin the atmosphere.

She quickly ran into the north room, leaned down next to the trash can, and vomited what she had eaten.

As soon as she left, Xilin Xiaohan got up and chased after her. Seeing her lying next to a trash can and vomiting, he hurried over to rub her back and asked her, "What's wrong?"

I vomited all the way through early summer.

Lin Xiaohan hurriedly poured her some water for her to rinse her mouth.

Chu Xia rinsed her mouth and sat down at the table. After a while, she said, "That sesame oil tastes so weird."

Lin Xiaohan didn't think there was any strange taste in the dish.

He looked at Chuxia and asked, "Are you feeling unwell? Did you catch a cold from the electric fan last night?"

Before Chuxia could say anything, Wu Xuemei suddenly came in from outside.

She came in and asked, "What's wrong? Why aren't you outside for the wedding?"

Chu Xia still looked a little uncomfortable, and waved her hands at Wu Xuemei, "I can't eat that dish. The smell of sesame oil made me spit it out after taking two bites."

Wu Xuemei looked at Chu Xia strangely, then at Lin Xiaohan.

Then she pulled Chuxia up from the table, pulled her into the room and asked, "Are you feeling any other discomfort? Do you have diarrhea?"

Chu Xia answered her: "No."

Wu Xuemei hurriedly said, "Don't take any medicine yet. After the wedding banquet is over, you and Xiaolin should go to the hospital for a checkup."

Chu Xia looked at Wu Xuemei: "What are you checking?"

Wu Xuemei lowered her voice and said, "Pregnancy? What do you want to check?"

Chu Xia was stunned for a moment, and blinked at Wu Xuemei.

***

Wu Xuemei took some time out and went to the yard to attend the wedding banquet.

Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan sat in the room, staring at each other, with smiles in their eyes and at the corners of their mouths that were suppressed but not completely.

Lin Xiaohan asked, "What do you want to eat? I'll make it for you."

Chu Xia shook her head: "I don't want to eat anything for now."

She didn't want to eat, so Lin Xiaohan didn't let her eat.

He squeezed her hand and suddenly looked at her and smiled.

Chu Xia couldn't help laughing and said to him again: "What are you laughing at!"

Lin Xiaohan really couldn't control himself, so he just lowered his head and started laughing, and couldn't stop laughing.

The two waited at home until the Jiang family's banquet was over, and then rode out on their bikes.

I rode my bike out of the alley and went straight to the hospital, asked the doctor a few questions, and had my blood drawn for a test.

It will take some time for the blood test results to come out.

Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan didn't wait in the hospital, but went out for a walk.

When I walked to the gate of a middle school, I happened to run into Lu Fangying and Lin Haobo.

The mother and son were just coming out of the school gate, both looking unhappy.

After coming out, Lu Fangying was stunned when she ran into Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan.

Chu Xia thought she was going to give another impromptu performance as a good stepmother, but unexpectedly, she simply raised her hand, put on her sunglasses, and walked past them with a sullen face.

Seeing that Lin Xiaohan's face became worse, Lin Haobo naturally stopped talking to Lin Xiaohan and just followed Lu Fangying over.

Chuxia looked back at them.

Other middle school students came out of the school gate.

The two middle school students who came out were all smiling and discussing:

"I didn't expect that our scores were similar. Which university do you plan to apply to?"

"I'll think about it when I get back. I feel much more at ease now that I've crossed the line."

…

Hearing the conversation between the two students, Chu Xia looked at Lin Xiaohan and said, "Failed the exam?"

Lin Xiaohan looked at Chu Xia and replied, "To be precise, it's the second time I failed the exam."