Chapter 80 New Year Greetings

Song Yanxi grabbed Chen Anan and went to take a shower.

No matter how angry you are, that's your own baby. Look at her face covered in cow dung, and she washes and beats him without hesitation.

After washing, I changed her into a new set of clean clothes.

Outside the door, 25-year-old Chen Fan asked her to blow up cow dung, or even more excitingly, to blow up the toilet.

I can't kill you little brats.

Chen Anan was beaten and had no choice but to follow her parents to her grandfather's house for the New Year's dinner.

After eating, the whole family comes back to eat and run around to watch TV.

At night, we watch the Spring Festival Gala and wait for the big firecrackers to go off at midnight.

New Year's Eve passed in such a boring day.

Chen Anan couldn't help falling asleep before the fireworks show started at midnight.

I regretted it the next day when I woke up.

They have a rule on New Year's Day, which is that you can't go out.

The family had a reunion dinner at home, and the garbage could not be swept out the door. Anyway, there were all kinds of rules.

After Chen Anan played with firecrackers at home for a day, she had to visit relatives the next day, which was the second day of the Chinese New Year.

First, my grandfather’s house.

Chen Pingsheng had prepared a car full of gifts on his blog early on, and his grandfather was very nice to him.

Without his support, he wouldn't have been able to marry Song Yanxi so easily.

Liu Fen was strongly against it at that time, but her grandfather did not indulge her at all. He believed that matters concerning the eldest granddaughter must be decided by the man.

His grandfather is still here, why are you, a woman, complaining?

This wasn't in the capital, where women had no say, yet he managed to marry Song Yanxi smoothly.

My grandfather is in his sixties or seventies, but his health is not as good as his grandfather's.

Various three highs.

The doctor told him not to smoke or drink.

Grandma wanted him to quit, but grandpa always said, "If you can't even smoke or drink, then what's the point of living?"

The old couple often quarreled over this.

Chen Pingsheng brought a lot of good cigarettes and good wine this time. It is really difficult to quit these things when you are old, and living a few more years with poor health is actually a torture.

His grandfather's house was not too far away from him. When Chen Pingsheng's car arrived, the line of cars stretched from the front house to his grandfather's house.

Every family sets off firecrackers.

This is the whole village welcoming guests.

He also rolled down the car window to greet people. When he arrived at his grandfather's house, many relatives had come to visit.

Song Yanxi took Chen Anan to greet everyone one by one.

There is a very wide and large river in front of my grandfather's house. There are often some small boats parked next to it, and the area is full of reeds.

All the children in the village like to play there, and Chen Anan is no exception.

Two people in the family who were four or five years older than her took her out to play.

Chen Pingsheng chatted with his grandfather.

My grandfather has two sons and a daughter. The elder one, Song Huamin, did not come back this year, but the other two came on the second day of the Chinese New Year.

It was Song Yanxi's aunt who cooked, and she also helped.

"Yanxi, when are you going to Beijing this year?"

"Let's go after the fifteenth day. It won't be too urgent this year."

There is really no rush. Generally, those who come back drive out on the 7th or 8th. For those who go out during the Lantern Festival like them, there will definitely be no traffic jams.

"Your father is in the capital. Is he still being oppressed by my sister-in-law?"

"this…"

One is her father and the other is her mother, so it’s hard for Song Yanxi to comment.

But the younger aunt said, "If you ask me, your mother is the most short-sighted. If my father hadn't insisted on you marrying Pingsheng, would you two be so happy now? Your mother, for example, was born in the capital and has acquired many problems. Look at how she looks every year when she comes back."

The younger sister-in-law imitated Liu Fen very well, raising her index finger.

"Ah... our capital is so good, our capital is so wonderful, everyone knows how good it is, but every time she comes back she acts like she's living in the Forbidden City, and she wants us country girls to bow down to her."

In fact, every family has such relatives.

People like Liu Fen, who were born and raised in Beijing, were fine, but some people were even more angry.

He clearly came from the countryside and only lived in the smallest rental house in the city, but as soon as he came back he started learning to speak the city dialect.

You can’t eat this, you can’t drink that.

This kind of person is even more annoying, and it just so happens that her two sisters-in-law are both like this.

"Look at how good your man is. He made so much money outside, but when he came back, he still respected his elders. He could even play with your grandfather with great interest, even though the five-cent ticket ran fast."

That’s right, Chen Pingsheng was already playing cards with his grandfather.

If we don’t play cards during the New Year in the countryside, it will be less fun.

Anyway, he can play with big ones or small ones.

"He's a very good person. After all, he suffered so much in the capital before he became rich. You can't compare him with my mother."

"I get angry when I talk about your mother."

The young girl chopped the meat into small pieces with a kitchen knife.

"Your father was supposed to come back this year. Your grandfather is already this old, and we don't know how many years he can live. Don't you think he wouldn't be looking forward to the family reunion during the New Year? But your mother let him stay in Beijing."

"My brother was the one who married a Beijing girl. Everyone envied him, but I didn't. Neither did your grandfather. But later on, it was proven that he was bullied by his natal family his entire life."

Song Huamin had indeed suffered bullying in the capital before.

After all, the house was not bought by himself. This is the case for many rural people who find wives from the city.

It would be fine if I could make a lot of money, but if not, it can only be said that no one wants to go to my mother-in-law's house for the New Year.

You have to consider other people's moods when doing anything, so don't even talk about personality.

When you are thirty, you have car loans, mortgages, and children to send to school. How many people still dare to have personality?

Some unscrupulous bosses like to hire this type of people because they are easy to exploit and will never quit easily.

It’s hard to find a job in the city, so I’ll stay in the countryside for the rest of my life.

Song Yanxi's sister-in-law is like this anyway. She will never go to the city to develop, and even if she goes there, she will just be a bricklayer.

It’s better to stay in the countryside.

A table of food was quickly prepared. Gaining ten pounds during the Chinese New Year holiday is no joke.

There were sumptuous meals every day, just like at my grandfather's house, and he also gave my grandfather 100,000 yuan.

When elderly people reach a certain age and have no money, they can’t expect their children to be filial to them.

This is not an exaggeration, but that's how society is.

It's no joke that everything is about money.

Chen Pingsheng is doing his best to ensure a happy life for his elders in their later years.

In the afternoon, many relatives rode their motorcycles home as soon as they finished their meal.

Chen Pingsheng himself chatted with his grandfather.

On the third day of the New Year, we still visited relatives, and it didn't end until the seventh day.

That’s what it’s like when you get married. You have a lot of things to do when you go home for the New Year.

It was not until the eighth day of the Lunar New Year that Chen Pingsheng accompanied Principal Hu, Teacher Chen Qing, and two leaders from the county to visit Wangcai Primary School.

Then select a new site to build a new school.

He even made headlines in the county because of this, but his picture and name couldn't be published.

This was his own request.

Chen Pingsheng has always believed that businessmen should try not to be overexposed to the media, as this not only affects their private lives but also makes it easy to become addicted to it.

It’s just like how if an entrepreneur marries a female celebrity, he’s doomed in nine out of ten cases.

After spending two days in the village selecting a location for the new school, we found a construction team from Shacheng.

Only then did he leave Wangcai Village and take his family to Shacheng to buy a land-based villa of more than 600 square meters.

Located in the suburbs, there is a five-star hotel and a golf course nearby.

The environment is naturally very good and the air is fresh.

In 2014, the average house price in Shacheng was only around 5,000 yuan, and the price of his landed villa was a bit higher, but it would only be over 4 million yuan if he paid in full.

It’s pretty good. If you often travel to Shacheng, it will be much more convenient to buy a house here.

After a busy Lantern Festival, Chen Pingsheng decided to leave for the capital.

After spending a month at home, I have completed all the travel and spent most of the money I needed to spend.

If I don’t go out and make money, how can I go home and have fun next year?

(End of this chapter)