Ever since the incident with Zhang Guifen, he was too embarrassed to see anyone and hadn't left the house for several days.

He mixed rat poison into the dumplings for today's New Year's Eve dinner. He originally wanted to eat it and die, but at the last moment he didn't have the courage to do so. He was too ashamed to live, and he didn't dare to die.

After Gu Weicheng finished his speech, many young men came to ask him about some military matters. Gu Weicheng answered them one by one. After answering, he took his wife and children back home. An An wore a tiger-head hat, looking festive and cute.

The couple each held An An's hand, and the family of three walked towards home.

At this moment, Gu Changzheng suddenly came out from the corner.

"Gu Changzheng? What do you want to do?" When Gu Weicheng saw Gu Changzheng, he subconsciously protected his wife and children, and looked at the distraught Gu Changzheng with a frown.

He didn't expect that Gu Changzheng would have the nerve to appear in front of him at this time.

Gu Changzheng looked at Gu Weicheng, whose face was filled with indifference after seeing him. He suddenly knelt down in front of Gu Weicheng and slapped himself a few times: "Weicheng, Dad was wrong!"

This time was completely different from the last time he apologized to Gu Weicheng in front of the whole team. Last time, Gu Changzheng had no choice but to apologize to Gu Weicheng, but this time, he was sincere.

But when Gu Weicheng looked at him, he just thought it was ridiculous.

"I've already said it before, I, Gu Weicheng, only have a mother, not a father."

After saying this, Gu Weicheng held Li Xia in one hand and An An in the other, and the family of three didn't even bother to glance at Gu Changzheng before turning around and leaving.

Belated affection is cheaper than grass, this applies to love and family affection.

Li Xia fully supports Gu Weicheng's approach, and no one else should try to use morality to blackmail them.

Those who say that no matter what, Gu Changzheng is still Gu Weicheng's biological father, Li Xia will fight against one for every one, and against two for every two.

After returning home, Gu Xiaoman took Gu Xiaofu and An An to use firecrackers to blow up cow dung.

This kind of firecracker is a long strip. After the adults at home light the firecrackers, there are some that have slipped through the net and have not exploded, and the children will pick them up and play with them.

Li Xia grew up in the city and had never seen firecrackers blasting cow dung, so she dragged Gu Weicheng to watch. Gu Xiaoman was surprised to see that An An, the new brother, had never used firecrackers to blast cow dung, so he took the firecrackers and wanted to teach An An how to blast cow dung.

"Brother An'an, just like me, stick this firecracker into the cow dung, and then light it with a match..."

Then with a "bang", the pile of cow dung was blown away by the firecrackers.

Then with a "pop", a pile of cow dung fell on Gu Xiaoman's head.

Under everyone's shocked gazes, Gu Xiaoman blankly reached out his hand and touched his head, then put it to the tip of his nose and sniffed it, and then cried out "wow".

Seeing Gu Xiaoman crying, Li Xia hurried to comfort him. But Gu Xiaoman was not as easy to comfort as An An, and his crying was so loud that he didn't listen to a word Li Xia said.

Li Xia felt a headache. Seeing this, An An quickly leaned over to Gu Xiaoman's ear and said, "Brother Xiaoman, don't you want to be a soldier? Soldiers can't cry! If you cry, you won't be able to be a soldier in the future."

Gu Xiaoman felt even more wronged when she heard this, but she held back her tears for the sake of her military service, and smiled a smile that was uglier than crying: "Brother An An, I, I won't cry!"

Gu Xiaofu quickly took his brother back to find their mother. Ding Hehua saw Gu Xiaoman coming back clean in new clothes, but when he came back he was covered in cow dung. She was so angry that she wanted to beat Gu Xiaoman: "Gu Xiaoman! You just changed into new clothes, and you came back covered in cow dung. You want to be beaten by me on New Year's Day?"

Fortunately, Gu Yongnian stopped him: "Alright, alright, this kid has been naughty for a long time. If you hit him, he will do the same thing next time. Let him go on New Year's Day. Xiaoman, hurry up and change your clothes with me."

Ding Hehua: "Give him a patched-up old set of clothes. He shouldn't wear new clothes!"

Outside, Gu Weicheng looked at An An who was in a daze and asked, "Son, do you still want to blow up the cow dung?"

"I don't want to, I don't want to!" An An shook his head like a rattle.

He doesn't want to come into close contact with cow dung!

Seeing An An like this, Li Xia covered her mouth and laughed so hard that she fell forward and backward. At this moment, a snowball hit her on the body.

When she turned her head, she found that it was Gu Weicheng who was throwing snowballs at her, and he was laughing so arrogantly!

Li Xia couldn't stand it anymore, so she immediately pulled An An together to attack Gu Weicheng with snowballs. Unfortunately, Gu Weicheng's attack power was too strong, and she and An An could only barely fight Gu Weicheng to a draw.

After playing for a long time, the family of three returned to the house. Gu Xiaoman had changed into old clothes and was sitting on the kang eating melon seeds. When he saw An An coming in, he moved to his mother's side and made room for An An to sit: "Brother An An, come sit with me and eat melon seeds!"

An An sat over after seeing that he had been cleaned, otherwise he would have been afraid of the smell of cow dung.

"It must be cold. Come and sit on the kang to warm up." Chen Dongju hurriedly invited them to sit on the kang.

This is the last part of New Year’s Eve – staying up all night.

There is a saying that if you stay up all night on New Year's Eve, you can drive away all evil plagues and diseases, and your family will be healthy and safe in the new year.

In the 1970s, there was neither the Spring Festival Gala nor mobile phones. People would not just focus on playing with their phones and forget to communicate with their families. The family would sit on the kang and chat happily about family matters.

Chen Dongju said to the children, "At midnight, there will be a wedding of mice. The mice will carry a red sedan chair, and the mouse leading the way will play the suona. It will be very lively."

When An An heard this, she widened her eyes in shock, her eyes full of surprise.

Mice can actually get married! They can also carry sedan chairs and play suona!

"Mom, is the mouse's marriage the same as Uncle Hu and Aunt Zhou's?" An An asked curiously.

Li Xia couldn't help laughing when he heard it, and immediately conjured up a scene in his mind, except that Hu Songlin and Zhou Yunxing's faces were automatically replaced with mice. It was too funny.

Although the children were looking forward to seeing the mice getting married, they had played so happily during the day that they could not stay up so late. In the end, their little heads drooped and they began to doze off.

Gu Xiaofu and Gu Xiaoman have heard Chen Dongju talk about the mouse wedding for several years, but they have never actually seen it once, because they never see it until midnight every year.

An An persisted the longest in order to watch the mice get married, but after ten o'clock he began to feel drowsy.

Gu Weicheng carried An An back to the room and let Xiao Zhu go to sleep first. Li Xia chatted with Chen Dongju for a while, and finally felt sleepy and went to sleep too.

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There are some special rules for the first day of the new year. It is said that you cannot work on this day, otherwise you will have endless work to do every day in the next year.

Gu Weicheng took a few children out to make snowmen and have snowball fights. Li Xia had a rare chance to relax, so he wrote an 8,000-word novel.

After finishing writing, he found Gu Yongnian and asked him to do him a favor: "Cousin, I would like to trouble you to find out something for me."