It's almost 10 o'clock, and the preparations in the kitchen are basically all done. All that's left is to turn on the stove and start cooking.

Chen Hong set up the cutting board and, together with her two sisters-in-law, began making dumplings.

Just then, the doorbell rang. Chen Hong and everyone else were wondering who had come. Everyone was already here today; it was agreed that only these three families would be visiting.

When Chen Hong opened the door, she was dumbfounded.

There were more than twenty people standing outside the door, some carrying milk, some carrying cooking oil, and others carrying cases of beer.

Leading the group were her mother and her brother, followed by her mother's family.

There is my second maternal uncle's large family of eight people, and my eldest maternal uncle's family of three families, totaling ten people: two older cousins ​​and one older cousin.

Including her mother, her brother and sister-in-law, and their two children, there were a total of 23 people in the family.

"Mom, Second Uncle, Second Aunt, Sister Qin, Sister Xia, Brother Jun, come in quickly."

Why are you here so suddenly? Is something wrong? Why didn't you call me beforehand?

Chen Hong's mother beckoned the people behind her to come in, "Come in quickly, come in quickly, we're home, don't be shy."

Xiao Hong, hurry up and invite them to sit down! Your uncle and his family are here to celebrate your housewarming today.

"Oh, Xiao Hong, why didn't you give us any warning before you moved?"

Do you not want to visit your maternal grandparents anymore? You child, you live in Wenju, Rongcheng, which is too far away for us to visit. Why don't you say anything when you live in Wenju, Jinan?

"We have to come and familiarize ourselves with this place, whether we have time or not," said the second aunt, pulling Chen Hong along.

"It's not Auntie, we didn't have a housewarming party! What's going on? Who sent you this letter?"

My cousin, who was in the military, objected, saying, "Xiao Hong, you're wrong about that."

"Didn't you say you were treating everyone today? Why are you only inviting guests from Jinan and not my maternal grandparents' family? Are you looking down on our relatives in the countryside?"