Even though the sun is shining brightly in the winter afternoon, a gust of wind still stings your face, and white steam still rises when you speak.

After the Yi Jiefang couple came in, as if they had agreed on a time, the other three couples also came in one after another before the agreed time in the evening.

Maggie Cheung was the last one to come in with her neck hunched. She hurriedly greeted everyone and went to warm her hands by the stove in the hall where everyone was gathered.

Zhou Jiao handed her a cup of hot water and motioned her to hold it to warm her hands first.

"Jiaojiao, you are still the best."

"We are not bad either. Come, sisters, help her change clothes."

"You used the wrong word." Maggie Cheung rolled her eyes at them and took off her coat, throwing it on the chair. "When did you arrive? I thought we were the first to arrive."

"We went to see the old man and his family. They took a lunch break, so we set off. Where have you been? The temperature is good today, why are you so cold?"

Ding Datou's wife glanced at Michelle Yim and said, "She prefers elegance to warmth. Won't such a thin coat make her feel cold?"

"Hey, are you good sisters? Don't say it out loud."

Geng Dazhi's wife glanced at the coat on the back of the chair and asked in confusion, "I just made a cotton-padded jacket a while ago. It looks very nice. Why don't you wear that one?"

Maggie Cheung pounded her chest and said, "I gave it away on impulse."

Seeing her distressed expression, the other four laughed heartily, gloating over her misfortune. Serves you right! You're so proud of yourself!

"Friendship is over!"

"Who are you giving it to this time?"

"Who else could it be? I saw Miss Wan wearing that red dress back to the compound a few days ago, and I thought she was looking for your clothes to use as a model."

"Of course, it's a gift. You should feel honored that Miss Wan likes it. She wouldn't even look at ordinary vulgar things."

Maggie Cheung rolled her eyes. "She makes it sound like my aunt is unreliable. I've gotten a lot of good things from her, and I was just about to give her something back, but instead of giving her new things, she took off the ones she had. What's going on?"

"Giving a gift like you is incredible!"

Several people burst into laughter.

At the other end of the group, Wan Dayong knocked on the coffee table in front of him and said, "Hey, hey, don't bully my wife!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he was immediately surrounded and attacked by his buddies.

"Ouch, your ears are fine, press your knees, press your knees quickly."

"Stupid! It's definitely not a punishment to kneel. Didn't you see how happy he was when he first came in?"

Zhang Guoqing and Yi Jiefang shouted in unison, "Waist!"

Suddenly everyone in the room burst into laughter.

Does this count as confession?

After the fun, a group of old men in their forties finally stopped attacking. They opened the wine bottles without using bowls and took turns to take a sip.

As for the delicious cakes, they comforted themselves self-righteously that they were women's food and should be enjoyed with pig ears and lamb ribs.

Zhang Guoqing asked curiously, "Did you see those female hooligans who were shot?"

Ding Datou shook his head decisively, "No, I heard she doesn't look that good."

"You went to take a look?" Yi Jiefang stuffed a mouthful of meat into his mouth and stared at him. It was a pity that he was dead. He and Lao Zhang wanted to go to the scene and take a look.

"No, there were a huge crowd at the announcement meeting. I'm a serious person and didn't feel comfortable joining in the fun. I heard that it was mostly those young ladies from earlier years."

Geng Dazhi shook his head. "A young man from my unit went to look around and came back saying there was a good-looking one."

"This should be right. Think about it, if it looks too chilling..." Wan Dayong shook his head, and his unspoken meaning was fully understood.

Ding Datou naturally retorted, "That's not necessarily the case. Maybe some people just like that."

Zhang Guoqing stole a glance at Zhou Jiao and knocked on the coffee table. "Comrade, your thoughts are unacceptable. This is a serious issue. Why are you skirting around the issue?"

Geng Dazhi laughed gleefully: "Because they grew up wearing the same pants."

"I had several new pairs of pants back then, and who among you hadn't worn them? It's all because of you, the troublemakers, that I almost had to go to class naked."

"I didn't!"

"Go to hell! You're the one who made the first move!"

"Hahaha... Dayong didn't wrongly accuse you. You were the only one who had a wife back then, but you weren't like a peacock, always showing off in front of your wife."

"This dude can't do it!"

"It's okay. They all have wives now, and they're all pretty much the same. They're all the same character."

"Dazhi, see through it but don't say it, understand?"

"I don't understand! You even went to steal flowers to give to your wife. I was keeping watch for you, and I almost got caught."

"That's what I learned from Xiaowu."

"Yes, the key is that you all learned it, and you all have the same character."

"And you?"

"I, I have no choice. You have led a good and upright young man astray."

"This idiot is shameless, get close to him!"

Birds of a feather flock together.

Twenty years have passed, and the five of us are still as young at heart and as shameless as ever.

Not only did they keep muttering to each other, but they also started fighting. This commotion made the five old sisters on the other side of the hall laugh and cry.

It was still Maggie Cheung who curled her lips and said, "Let them make a fuss! In another ten years, they won't even have the energy to make a fuss."

"Ten years? I think they'll still be able to stir things up in another twenty years. You don't know my old Ding, but he's at home, entertaining the kids every day."

"That must be lively."

"It's so noisy!"

"They're all the same. They're all the same! My kids love their dad the most. I always consult him about anything."

Zhou Jiao smiled and said, "Isn't this good? Don't show off when you go out, or you might get taken advantage of. Some girls have crooked minds these days."

After hearing what she said, several people sighed, "That's why being a woman is harder than being a man. Not only are we busy at home and outside, but we also have to be careful about being pried into our jobs."

"That's right, you and Jiaojiao are still good. Dayi and Xiaowu are in the army after all, and they have strict discipline. Did my husband see that?"

After Maggie Cheung said this, everyone looked at her in confusion.

"I've known him until now, and he hasn't aged at all. He's almost 50, but when he meets a little girl asking for directions on the street, she calls him 'Big Brother'."

Zhou Jiao quietly reminded her, "You're not even forty-five yet." So don't even mention you're almost fifty, because that sounds like an old man, and it's scary to hear that.

"Besides, you are very young."

Maggie Cheung made a bitter face, "Jiaojiao, I'm not young anymore. Look at the corners of my eyes. I don't dare to smile too happily. I'm about to get wrinkles. Do you have any more of that skin care lotion?"

"Yes, the skin care lotion you made yourself?"

"I,"

"What am I missing? You're also short of something. I understand! Jiaojiao, I'm telling you the truth. The sisters are all waiting."

Zhou Jiao rolled her eyes at them speechlessly, a bunch of nonsense, the feelings are waiting for her here! "Okay, I'll give it to you next weekend, don't give it away."

"Hehe, I'd be stupid to give it away! If you weren't so rich, I'd have you invest in a factory in the Special Economic Zone to produce skin care products."

"And then a bunch of goblins come out?"