Chapter 138 New Year

"We arranged a marriage for him, and our Zhou family even paid a few taels of silver as a betrothal gift. But he went and became the son-in-law, and even forgot about his parents. I don't know what kind of evening soup the Ding family gave him..."

Lin Shiqi listened with great interest.

This Mrs. Zhou has a lot of opinions!

However, anyone would have opinions.

It's his own son, but he's being treated as a fool and someone else is getting the upper hand. No one would have any objection to that.

To be honest, the Zhou family is really kind.

The old couple Zhou don't bother with the younger generation.

According to Mrs. Zhou, Zhou Laowu earns more than ten taels of silver a year. Such a large amount of money is really a huge sum of money in the countryside. If it were a head of an ordinary family, he would stare at him.

However, Old Man Zhou fulfilled Zhou Laowu's wish to live in the city and did not want to take the money, allowing him to distribute it himself.

What a valuable practice this is.

Of course, more than ten taels of silver might be an exaggeration by Mrs. Zhou.

A clerk doesn't have this much money, unless he is a shopkeeper working alone.

Lin Shiqi asked, "Then Fifth Brother and Miss Ding have such a good relationship, why haven't they gotten married yet?"

Mrs. Zhou became even more angry as she spoke. "I also asked a matchmaker to go to the county town this year and ask about it. The Ding family said that they are still young. Your fifth brother is eighteen years old. How can he be young? The girl from the Ding family is the same age as your fifth brother. She is eighteen years old. She is still young..."

Lin Shiqi was surprised, "This Ding family is a bit strange. He is not young at this age. The most important thing is that my fifth brother has been in and out of the Ding family all year round to help with work. I'm afraid men and women don't avoid suspicion. From the perspective of outsiders, it's not much different from getting married. Why don't they get married for real?"

She just said it casually, but she didn't expect Mrs. Zhou to take it to heart.

"After the New Year, I will go to the county town to ask in person. Is there something shameful that is being used to deceive our Zhou family?"

"Forget it. Let's ignore Lao Wu, this damn unfilial ungrateful bastard. It's New Year's Day, let's have fun. We don't need a damn conscienceless guy like him."

Mrs. Zhou was quite open-minded.

She has many sons, so she doesn't need that damn Zhou Laowu.

Just one look at Zhou Lang would make her happy and relieved for a long time.

He is capable of both literature and martial arts, handsome, and filial. One Zhou Lang is worth ten or eight Zhou Laowus, no, he is more than enough to be worth a hundred or eighty of them.

On New Year’s Eve, the whole family makes dumplings.

During the Chinese New Year, the tofu business was booming and we made a lot of money.

Mrs. Zhou had said before that each person could only eat one bowl of dumplings, but now it has been changed to unlimited quantity.

Taohua Village had a hard time this year because of the robbery, but it was not as difficult as imagined. When the year was coming to an end, Old Zhou's family hired workers for their tofu business, and they found people from the most difficult families to work. They paid them wages and gave them bean curd dregs, so they could get through the year end.

The end of the year, the end of the year, the New Year is all about passing the test.

Every year passes, every level is passed.

When eating the New Year's dumplings, the whole family gathered together, and Zhou Lang and Zhou Qinan both sat at the table.

The place was crowded with people.

Mrs. Zhou scolded Zhou Laowu again.

They said he was a good-for-nothing, an ungrateful person who didn't know what was good for him and who even helped others count money after being sold.

Grow in height without growing in brains.

In the countryside, there is a custom of staying up all night after dinner. The whole family gathers around the brazier in the main hall to stay up all night.

The adults played mahjong while the children gathered around a fire and ate snacks.

Mrs. Zhou said that we should be frugal during the New Year and not buy anything, but she still bought snacks for the children.

Melon seeds, peanuts, chestnuts, etc. were laid out on several large plates.

The kids were having so much fun.

This year, the Zhou family had made new clothes. When the robbers came, they were prepared. Everyone packed up the new clothes and took them up the mountain, so they were not damaged by the robbers.

Mrs. Zhou didn't allow people to wear new clothes outside, they had to wear them inside.

Wear an old shirt over it.

Everyone felt warm in their hearts, especially the children who were wearing new cotton vests underneath, and their little hands were warm.

By the end of the night, the children were all asleep.

Mrs. Zhou asked everyone to go back to their rooms and sleep.

Old man Zhou will just have to guard the second half of the night.

Zhou Lang and his wife also went back to their room to sleep. The two returned to the Concentric Lock Space to look for something delicious.

"Zhou Lang, would you like to have a midnight snack?"

"Eat something." Zhou Lang was not polite.

Back in the concentric lock space, it was time for Lin Shiqi to show off his cooking skills.

Even when cooking noodles, they taste better than those cooked by ordinary people.

I fried eggs and steak and grilled two eggs.

Washed a plate of cherry tomatoes and some fresh strawberries.

Lin Shiqi also took out a bottle of red wine that he had treasured for a long time.

During the Chinese New Year, we need to have some sense of ceremony.

She also found the most beautiful wine glass from her collection and poured a glass for each person.

The atmosphere was instantly filled.

The two ate and drank.

Lin Shiqi said, "In the past, on New Year's Eve, the TV would broadcast the Spring Festival Gala. No matter if it was good or not, people would turn it on just to enjoy the lively atmosphere..."

Zhou Lang said, "My grandfather also watches it every year..."

At this point, the voice was low.

I don’t know how my grandfather is doing. There is no one to accompany him to watch the Spring Festival Gala this year.

At this moment, there were suddenly several notification sounds from the phone.

Lin Shiqi and the others were both excited.

They set all the internet-connected functions on their phones to internet notification sounds and turned the volume up to maximum.

Back online again!

"It's time to watch the Spring Festival Gala! I'll show it."

Lin Shiqi snatched the phone.

Zhou Lang said, "Let's see if there is any contact with Assistant Li first."

Lin Shiqi nodded and said, "Well, you must take a look first."

The first thing she checked was the chat history between the two of them, but there was no message from that end.

She tried to type a question mark... She learned it from Zhou Lang.

There was no response from the other side either.

She looked at her bank card balance again, which was still in the single digits after her last purchase.

"Zhou Lang, your words are no longer effective. You haven't even transferred the hundred dollars."

Zhou Lang drank milk gracefully.

Ignore her.

Lin Shiqi continued to sow discord, "Assistant Li didn't reply either. See, your words really don't work anymore."

Zhou Lang was too lazy to talk nonsense with her. He stretched out his long arm and snatched the phone from her hand effortlessly.

A few quick fiddles and a conclusion.

"The network signal is not good. The money may not have been transferred, or there may be some restrictions."

Lin Shiqi’s cell phone was snatched away and he pounced on Zhou Lang.

"Give it back to me."

Zhou Lang exerted a little force, and she failed to grab the phone, and she rolled into Zhou Lang's arms.

A strong masculine scent enveloped her.

She felt hot all over and her face suddenly turned red.

It’s over, a glass of red wine, is she drunk too?

Why is my head so dizzy and my heart beating so fast?

Usually, in order to deceive the heart-locking space, she also slept in Zhou Lang's arms, with a human-shaped pillow. She fell asleep as soon as she leaned on it without thinking much about it.