The first four songs on Zhao Lunjie's album all have titles with a single character, all in the ancient Chinese style, with gorgeous lyrics and beautiful melodies.

Zhao Lunjie, who had been heavily promoted by Haiyun since 1997, finally began his rise to fame with the release of this album in the winter of 2001.

From its release on December 30th to the Spring Festival of 2002, "Envy" sold a total of 4.8 million copies in just over 40 days.

Haiyun Company has created another IP with sales exceeding 5 million.

When this good news came, Haiyun Company was on holiday, and Liang Liang was already preparing to go home.

Xu Mei didn't go to Beijing for rehearsals with the group this year. She had already arranged for her stand-in and shamelessly followed Liang Liang home.

In the past two years, the Waves Band has become unrecognizable.

Xiaoqian and Xiaoyao have already left, and Xumei will gradually move away starting this year. Compared to the original members of Hailanghua, none of the current members are from that early period.

The original members of the Sea Waves were Ming Hongling, Zhang Hua, Lan Zhi, and Xiao Qian and Xiao Yao.

Subsequently, Ming Hongling and two others left the team, and Xu Mei and Lin Hanrui joined.

Currently, only Lin Hanrui remains in the Sea Waves organization, but her time there won't be long.

Once she leaves, the first and second generations of the "Sea Waves" group will completely retire, and a new generation of artists will take over.

The saying "the camp remains, but the soldiers come and go" is very fitting for the Sea Waves band.

When the car entered the fork in the road from Gaobao Township to Pingshan Village, there were still many trucks coming and going along the road, creating a busy scene.

"Hey! You're coming to my house for the Lunar New Year on the fourth day this year, so please don't come after the New Year on the afternoon of New Year's Eve, remember that."

"Your family doesn't even maintain a family genealogy, so what are you afraid of?"

According to local custom, on the afternoon of New Year's Eve, families that keep ancestral records will invite their ancestors home for the New Year celebrations.

After the New Year, unmarried women are not allowed to look at the family genealogy.

An unmarried woman who is not yet married into her husband's family has to wait until after the New Year celebrations are over at her husband's family home.

Invite the New Year on the afternoon of the 30th of the lunar month, and send off the New Year on the afternoon of the 3rd of the lunar month.

After the New Year celebrations are over, the bride who is engaged but not yet married can be called home for the New Year.

Therefore, in the coastal areas of southern Liaoning, people call their wives on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.

Liang Liang and Xu Mei are engaged, so Xu Mei cannot visit Liang Liang's home after the New Year this year.

However, since Liang Liang's family did not support the family genealogy, this rule had little binding force on Xu Mei.

"My family hasn't registered our ancestral genealogy yet, so you're not allowed to go until the fourth day of the new year. The rules can't be changed. Besides, maybe my family will register our ancestral genealogy this year!"

Liang Liang's mouth must have been blessed, because when he returned home, he actually saw that his mother had obtained a new family genealogy and was having a retired teacher from the village fill it out.

Unfortunately, after thinking for a long time, the father could only remember the names of his grandparents, and could not recall any further back. Therefore, only two names were written on the genealogy.

Xu Mei was dumbfounded when she saw the Liang family genealogy, while Liang Liang smiled smugly.

An unmarried daughter-in-law cannot see her husband's family genealogy before the third day of the Lunar New Year, and an unmarried son-in-law certainly cannot see his wife's family genealogy.

Xu Mei was told that she couldn't visit Liang Liang's house from 5 pm on New Year's Eve until 5 pm on the third day of the Lunar New Year. Similarly, Liang Liang couldn't visit Xu's house during this period.

Having a wife who lives too close to home is definitely not a good thing; it leads to spending a lot of money.

After Liang Liang returned home, he went to buy firecrackers on the 27th and bought an extra set.

Can you not bring your father-in-law's family along?

Xu Mei clapped her hands with joy as she looked at the fireworks and firecrackers that had been removed from half the yard.

Besides firecrackers, there were also cigarettes and alcohol.

"I bought all the gifts for the New Year's greetings on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, so I came empty-handed on the fourth day. It would be too much trouble to carry things around."

"Isn't it inappropriate for you to come empty-handed on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year?"

"Didn't I send this gift ahead of time?"

"I'll deliver another one on the fourth day; it wouldn't be right to come empty-handed!"

Liang Liang gritted his teeth: "Other people's wives all side with outsiders, but you side with your family. You stupid idiot!"

Xu Mei laughed loudly.

After making a profit last year, Xu Hebin has been doing quite well this year.

After paying off Liang Liang's loan, he also paid off part of his sister's loan, and by 2002, he had basically paid off all the loans.

The Liang family has hired two daughters-in-law this year, which has kept Liang Liang's mother very busy, and she looks radiant with excitement.

On the morning of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Liang Liang and Liang Feng both left home around 9:00 AM.

Both brothers walked out of the house. When they passed Xu Mei's house, Liang Liang turned into Xu's house, while Liang Feng continued down to the small shop.

Liang Liang was a frequent visitor to the Xu family. Although he came to visit this year as an unmarried son-in-law, the Xu family didn't take him seriously. Before he even entered the house, Xu Mei asked him to carry some firewood in.

"Hey! I'm a guest today, you know? You want me to carry firewood?"

"What's wrong! You're still not happy?"

Xu Mei stood at the door with her hands on her hips, as if she had no intention of letting Liang Liang in unless he carried firewood.

Her mother slapped her on the back: "You brat, you're so good at ordering people around when you ask them to carry firewood. Xiao Liang, ignore her and let her get it herself."

Liang Liang laughed and shoved Xu Mei aside: "Did you hear that? Your words don't count, Auntie! I'll start the fire for you!"

"No need, no need! You can sit inside and chat with your uncle."

Xu Mei was furious and rolled her eyes at Liang Liang.

Liang Liang went inside, took off his shoes, and climbed onto the kang (a heated brick bed) to chat with his future father-in-law about this and that.

Xu Hebin drove Liang Liang's car to his father-in-law's house early in the morning; he wouldn't be back until the afternoon.

Therefore, at noon, the Xu family had three people at the lunch table, plus Liang Liang.

After lunch, Xu Mei followed Liang Liang to the Liang family home. This was her first time visiting the Liang family as a member of the Liang family, and she was naturally quite excited.

Xu Mei sat on the kang (heated brick bed) in the Liang family home, handing out red envelopes to Liang Liang's parents and Liang Qiuqiu.

In other people's homes, the new bride receives money from her mother-in-law upon her arrival at the home, but in her case, the roles are reversed.

Liang Liang's parents each received 88 yuan, and Liang Qiuqiu received 8.8 yuan.

"Hey! Sister-in-law! You only gave me an 8.8 yuan red envelope? That's too stingy of you. If it's not 880 yuan, it should at least be 88 yuan!" Liang Qiuqiu immediately protested.

"Do you want it or not? Don't take it back, I'm still worried about the 8.8 yuan!"

"Why shouldn't I want it!"

Liang Qiuqiu definitely had to accept it; it would be awkward if she didn't.

A dozen minutes later, Liang Feng and Yang Xiaoli also returned.

Now things are settled. Liang Liang's mother, Xu Mei, Yang Xiaoli, and Liang Qiuqiu, the four of them, started playing cards and sticking stickers on each other.

In no time, everyone had a lot of paper sticks on their faces.

With nothing else to do, Liang Liang picked up an electric fan and used it to cool them down.

When the fan blew, the slips of paper made a whooshing sound and flew everywhere, creating a spectacular scene.

After dinner, Liang Liang took Xu Mei for a walk on the street and then stayed at a small shop for a while.

I went home to sleep around 9 o'clock.

Now they can sleep in the same bed.

When Liang Liang saw Xu Mei's somewhat anxious look, he felt that something was wrong.