"Well, buddy, you've moved your whole family here. Now you're just going home for the New Year, aren't you?" Jiang Mingjing couldn't help but tease.

"Brother, stop teasing him. His home is here, that's true, but his daughter isn't coming back this year! His wife is spending the New Year out of town, and he's really sad all by himself!"

Song Changzheng couldn't help but tease him from the side.

"Ha ha……"

Everyone burst into laughter.

"Now that you're here, it's time to eat. We didn't help with washing the vegetables and cooking, so you'll have to clean up the table and wash the dishes after we eat," Bai Tanqing couldn't help but tease her again.

In the past, when the families of the residents celebrated the Lunar New Year together, a table would be prepared for the leaders to come and offer their greetings.

"I've prepared some gifts for each of our families, ten catties of rice and three catties of pork for each household," Bai Tanqing said. "Although I haven't done any work, I'm showing consideration for everyone!"

"You bastard, you can't produce this without my signature, even though I'm the logistics minister!" Liao Shanhe retorted indignantly. "You're treating everyone's welfare like a personal favor!"

"I don't like what you're saying!" Bai Qingtan pointed at Liao Shanhe and complained.

"Take it or leave it..."

Everyone joked and sat down together.

Everyone has started eating their New Year's Eve dinner, which was originally scheduled for lunch.

Shen Qiaoyue and Liu Xinlan sat at the same table, and Zhang Hehua's dumplings were quite good.

"Aunt Zhang's stir-fried chicken is really delicious, and the filling of these dumplings is also very good," Liu Xinlan couldn't help but praise.

After eating, Shen Qiaoyue nodded and said, "Aunt Zhang has been cooking for over twenty years, her food must be delicious!"

"More than twenty years...that's true..." Liu Xinlan couldn't help but complain about herself, "I might not even be able to cook properly anymore, and my skills have become rusty over time!"

Liu Xinlan hasn't cooked since she started working.

After marrying Xu Qianli, neither of them had time to cook, and they ate at the cafeteria.

"Let me tell you, Mom's cooking is delicious!" Liu Xinlan recalled her mother-in-law's cooking and said, "If I could have gotten pregnant earlier, I would have had a reason to bring my mother-in-law over, and I could have eaten her cooking."

"Mother-in-law..." It took Shen Qiaoyue a while to realize that Liu Xinlan was talking about Li Xiaoxiao, her second uncle's wife.

Shen Qiaoyue was both amused and exasperated, saying, "Second Uncle might not be willing. He searched for over twenty years to find a wife. Do you think he would be willing to give her up?"

“I can’t bear to part with him, he’s his grandson!” Liu Xinlan took a bite of her dumpling, then added, “If all else fails, I’ll go to Beijing to have my postpartum confinement.”

Shen Qiaoyue was completely speechless.

"My aunt's cooking skills are really good. The spicy cold dish she made smelled so good last time that I really wanted to take a bite." But I'm in postpartum confinement, so I can't eat spicy food, not to mention soy sauce and vinegar.

Everyone chatted and ate together; it always tastes better when we sit down to eat together.

After dinner, Shen Qiaoyue went home to look after the children. Both Da Nian and Xiao Nian had woken up, but they were unusually quiet today, neither crying nor making a fuss.

Liu Xinlan quickly came over to help and made formula for the baby.

Shen Qiaoyue changed the baby's diaper and then dressed the baby in clean clothes.

As a mother, I'm used to this kind of thing.

"The child is awake, let Grandpa hold him?" Jiang Mingjing was cleaning up after the meal when he heard that his grandson and granddaughter had woken up, so he rushed back to hold the children.

Liu Xinlan handed the baby Xiao Nian to Jiang Mingjing.

"Is this the Little New Year?" he asked, a hint of uncertainty in his voice.

“Yes, this is the Little New Year,” Liu Xinlan replied to Jiang Mingjing.

Jiang Mingjing looked at Xiao Nian and noticed that the child was staring at him.

“Xiao Nian, it’s Grandpa!” Jiang Mingjing said gently to Xiao Nian.

Xiao Nian stared wide-eyed at Jiang Mingjing. She neither cried nor made a fuss. When she saw Jiang Mingjing smile, she smiled too.

"Xiao Nian isn't shy at all, and he's very affectionate towards his grandpa!" Jiang Mingjing liked him more and more as he looked at him.

Shen Qiaoyue carried Da Nian out of the room, and Liu Xinlan put new charcoal in the charcoal brazier in the living room.

“Dad, the children haven’t been named yet. We originally planned for my parents to name Da Nian, but my mom said you should name both children,” Shen Qiaoyue said to Jiang Mingjing.

Shen Qiaoyue called her mother in Beijing and asked her to name Danian. Chu Wanfang suggested that Lu Chen's father give her a better name.

“I saw your mother last time, and she told me the same thing. We talked about the name we were going to give Da Nian.” Jiang Mingjing had already thought of a name for the child.

Looking at the eldest child, he handed the youngest child to Liu Xinlan for a hug, and then he hugged the eldest child.

Da Nian also stared at Jiang Mingjing with curious eyes.

"Da Nian isn't as fair-skinned as when she was born!" Jiang Mingjing remembered that Da Nian was fair and tender when she was born, "Xiao Nian, on the other hand, was quite chubby!" Jiang Mingjing could see the obvious difference at a glance.

“Dan Nian was often taken out to sunbathe by my mother. Xiao Nian loved to sleep and felt uncomfortable when exposed to the sun, so Xiao Nian often slept at home. Dan Nian was carried by my mother to play in the yard and chat with others under the big tree in the yard. Sunbathing in the winter was warmer, and over time, his skin became less fair.”

Chen Qiaoyue knew that Chu Wanfang doted on Danian more. Chu Wanfang had always favored Danian because he was chubby when she first saw him.

It's not that she dislikes Xiao Nian; she's been quite kind to Xiao Nian. Chu Wanfang feels sorry for Da Nian because she sees that Lu Chen and Shen Qiaoyu prefer Xiao Nian.

However, Shen Qiaoyue and Lu Chen had told each other that they should keep an eye on each other, and that as parents, they should not change their hearts towards either of their children.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Mingjing understood what had happened and didn't say anything more.

He joked, "In any family with two children, there's an unconscious tendency to favor one over the other. On the way here, Lu Chen said he preferred his daughter, and when I saw her, I realized how well she's been raised—chubby and healthy!"

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