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There are many guests at Professor Song's house, and there are even more guests at Chen Jin's house.
Not only was the whole family present, but Zhuang Yao and Liu Chengzhi were also here. Chen Jin specifically called Zhuang Yao, but she didn't call Liu Chengzhi. Chen Ting probably saw that her second cousin was going to bring Zhuang Yao along, so she called Liu Chengzhi as well. Or maybe Liu Chengzhi himself told Chen Ting that he wanted to come together.
There are nearly twenty people in our family.
If we really start announcing the "good news", even if we're arguing here, the two families next door might be able to hear it. After all, my uncle's loud voice is no joke, and her voice is in good shape now.
So, when Chen Jin stood at the gate to greet people, he jokingly said, "No one is allowed to announce big news today. It's my birthday and I'm the biggest today."
Chen Jin quickly caught the uncomfortable expression on his aunt's face and hummed in his heart. She just knew it!
Fortunately, she spoke up in advance. If anyone comes up with "big news" or "good news" later, I won't blame her for getting scolded. Anyway, she has already spoken up in advance.
The second cousin turned around and laughed, and the third cousin laughed and said, "Who dares to overshadow you? Is that broom at the door to chase people away?"
Chen Jin snorted, "At most I'm trying to get you out of here. Did you bring the cake I ordered?" She looked around, but didn't see the cake. She had specially called the store owner to order it.
"Here you go, your second uncle is behind, he carried it." The eldest uncle patted her back with his big hand, "Hurry up and go into the house to talk."
Then he looked around the house from top to bottom, nodded as he walked, and said with satisfaction, "You have tidied it up quite well. When I came to see it last year, it was just an ordinary small Western-style building. Now that it has been tidied up, it looks quite fashionable."
"Really? I think my decoration looks great. Uncle, aunt, third uncle and third aunt, please come in. Aunt, please sit down. I'll go out and see if my second uncle and second aunt are lost."
As soon as I went out, I saw my third cousin and the others standing in front of their courtyard looking at Shen Baichuan’s luxury car…
"I don't know what it feels like to sit in one." The third cousin said enviously: "When my travel agency spreads all over Southern Province, I will buy one too."
Chen Jin: "It's a little more comfortable than the Santana, but they're almost the same if you sit for a long time. Your travel agency has money now, why don't you buy a tourist bus?"
"Don't say anything. Why don't you think about it? I'll buy a luxury tourist bus."
The third cousin looked at him a few more times and then followed him into the house.
Just as Chen Jin was about to go out, he saw his second uncle and second aunt coming over with a big cake in their hands. Chen Jin trotted over to pick them up and asked them why they were so slow.
"I just ran into a colleague at the gate and found out that his family lives here. He left in a hurry and I didn't have time to ask who his father is. Maybe you still know him."
"Oh, you can ask me next time you have a chance." Chen Jin and her second aunt walked side by side. Her second aunt glanced at her hair and asked with concern, "Why don't you go and take care of your hair?"
My hair isn't curly anymore, I need to get it permed again.
Chen Jin said, "I'm going there tomorrow. I have an appointment with a good friend."
"We said we would order a cake for you, but you already ordered it yourself." Second Aunt said with a smile: "Yongfei said that you love cakes from this shop."
Chen Jin laughed, "Yeah, I can choose what I like to eat, that's great."
Others ordered it, and she was worried about choosing a flavor she didn't like.
"That's true." The second aunt looked at Chen Jin's small Western-style building. Although Chen Jia had mentioned what the small Western-style building looked like several times at home, seeing it with one's own eyes was still different from hearing about it.
She glanced at the building next door and saw a person standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the neighboring small living room. The person was also stunned for a moment, then nodded at her.
"Third sister, is that the teacher Shen you mentioned?"
Chen Jin looked up and happened to meet Shen Baichuan's eyes. He smiled at him and then said to his second aunt, "Yes. And this building over here belongs to Professor Song. Her family is having a dinner party today."
My second uncle stood outside the door and watched for a long time. He said that the atmosphere here was better and it looked like a place where cultural people gathered.
Chen Jin looked left and right, but couldn't tell where it looked like a gathering of intellectuals, but this place did indeed gather quite a few intellectuals. She is the one dragging down the cultural level of the community.
After his second uncle and aunt entered the house, Chen Jin closed the gate. Then he subconsciously looked up to the upper left, and Shen Baichuan was still standing there.
She really couldn't understand why he liked standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in his small living room so much? ! She really wanted to recommend him the same type of sofa in her house so that no one would stand in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.
She still occasionally recalls that one night when she came back home, he was standing in front of the window like a hanging ghost...
Chen Jin sighed helplessly.
Apart from Chen Jin, the ones who are most familiar with this small western-style building are Chen Yongan and Chen Jia. These two come here quite often and can accurately find the location of each remote control in the house once they arrive. Junjun's eyes lit up as he walked into the room. His cousin's house was filled with dolls and there was a huge brown bear sitting on a chair. He ran over and hugged the bear's thighs, and could only laugh with excitement.
Normally, Chen Jin lives alone at home, so this small western-style building seems very spacious, but now with so many people here, there is definitely not enough room to sit in the house. Chen Yongan and his friends moved the spare tables and chairs to the backyard. There were also enough seats for a few people in the gazebo, and some wanted to go to the small living room on the second floor to play cards and chat...
Junjun was the only "mobile personnel" and he ran around the house happily as if he was looking for treasure.
The excitement of the two neighboring houses was so obvious that it was hard for Shen Baichuan not to know. Although he really wanted to go over and join in the fun, he couldn't. If he went over rashly, he wouldn't have to say a word to Chen Jin anymore, and he would probably have to take a detour when he saw him.
Or maybe she came to warn him and tell him to avoid her when he sees her.
Chen Jin is the birthday boy today and does not have to work. He is free to go out to the backyard to chat with the elders, go to the living room to talk with his cousins, or go upstairs to play a card game.
Finally, Zhuang Yao and the second cousin also came up to the second floor. Chen Ting lost again. After being eliminated, she stood in the small living room and looked at the corridor. She asked curiously: "Can you take me to see your room and study?"
The study and bedroom on the second floor were places where she had more personal privacy and there were many traces of her life. When she went out to meet people, she would close the doors of these two rooms.
Chen Ting wanted to see it, and Chen Jin did not refuse. He generously took her to visit them one by one. Zhuang Yao and Tian Miao were also curious, so the game of cards was paused. Chen Yongxin, Chen Yongan and Liu Chengzhi were still sitting in the small living room waiting. Chen Jin didn't shout, which meant he didn't want them to follow him and see, so they could only wait.
At this time, Chen Yongfei took a few big steps and brought Junjun up. Standing in the middle of the small living room, he looked out the window and said, "No wonder Third Sister doesn't want to go out every day. She has enough time to move around at home."
Before I knew it, Junjun had already taken out a row of Wangzai milk from the woven basket in the cabinet next to him, and ran while holding it, calling "cousin". After a while, he ran back and asked his uncle to open it for him.
Chen Yongxin smiled and said, "You were very well behaved at your cousin's house. You even knew to ask before drinking."
Chen Ting, who was touring the study and bedroom, muttered, "The house is not as good as the one in Hanlin Garden. I live in Hanlin Garden all the time. I don't understand why you like to live here."
Hanlin Garden looks much more spacious than the small Western-style building, and the scenery there is also good. The only advantage here is that it is a separate building.
Zhuang Yao really likes this kind of building, but it's a pity that it is hard to buy, otherwise she would also like to buy a house like this to live in. This kind of house is much more comfortable than living in a large flat.
"Everyone has their own preferences. I like down-to-earth ones like this."
"Is this the wedding dress you ordered? It looks different from the ones other people wear to weddings. The skirt has been made so much smaller." As soon as Chen Ting walked into the cloakroom, she saw the wedding dress hanging up and her eyes lit up.
Chen Jin leaned against the chest of drawers next to him and said, "I didn't get married for the purpose of getting married."
"There's nothing nice in there. They're all the clothes I normally wear."
Chen Ting remembered something and said, "That clothing store you often go to seems to be going out of business soon. I saw that the store was having a clearance sale last week."
"Well, if it can't be opened, then it can't be opened. There's nothing I can do. The worst that can happen is that I can just go to another store to buy it."
Not only is the clothing store going to close down, even the clothing factory behind it is probably going to collapse. Can she still buy the factory? Buy it and invest all your fortune in it, and then let it go bankrupt?
She doesn't have the ability to run a big factory.
oh. You're overthinking it. She doesn't have that much money to buy a big factory.
Today’s main meal will be in the evening, and we will make some home-cooked meals at noon.
At half past eleven, the house started to get busy.
My third uncle and my aunt are the chefs. My second aunt also ordered two of her signature dishes. My third cousin and second cousin set up a barbecue grill in the backyard, but they haven't started the fire yet as they'll be using it tonight. Everyone else has their own plans.
Chen Jin looked into the refrigerator at home and found that there was no beer. Several elders said they wanted to drink a little. Except for my eldest uncle, my three uncles don’t drive, so it’s okay to drink a little. Chen Jin called Chen Yongan and went out with the family's cart.
It’s not far from the gate of the community, but I’m too lazy to drive out.
"Hello, Teacher Shen!" Chen Yongan saw Shen Baichuan walking back with a lunch box at a glance, "Teacher Shen, are you buying food to eat?"
"Well, you guys wanna go out and buy something?"
Chen Jin was speechless about this. What nonsense were you two talking about? !
Shen Baichuan saw Chen Jin’s micro-expression and guessed that she might think that the conversation he just had with her cousin was silly. When he thought about it, he felt that the conversation just now was quite silly.
"Is there any good news in Teacher Chen's family today?"
"Yes! My third sister's birthday is today!" Chen Yongan answered first.
"Teacher Chen has his birthday today?" Shen Baichuan was surprised.
He had read Chen Jin's information. Chen Jin's birthday was not today at all. Whether it was the lunar calendar or the new calendar, it should not be today. It should be half a month later. He has been thinking about how to give her a gift legitimately recently, but he hasn't figured it out yet, and Chen Jin's birthday is coming up?
He was also thinking at the time that Chen Jin was four and a half years younger than him... Could it be that the age in the information was not accurate either?
Chen Jin nodded and said, "Teacher Shen, please have cake tonight. We are going to go shopping, so we will leave first."
Shen Baichuan walked a few steps and looked back. Chen Jin was standing with her hands on her waist, teaching her cousin a lesson. No one knew what she was saying. Just by looking at her profile, one could imagine her fierce expression.
Well, she is still so young, it is normal that she doesn’t want to date for the time being.
Chen Jin drank half a can of beer with me at lunch. He didn't feel too full, but he couldn't help burping. At the end of the fight she found it very funny and laughed and burped a few times.
After a day of playing, you will definitely feel tired. Chen Jin opened the guest room and asked his aunt to go in and rest. It is not easy for young people to get pregnant, and it is even more difficult for her at her age.
Sometimes I get really angry! I don't understand what she is trying to do.
Whether the Gu family has a son or not, why should she, a woman named Chen, worry about it? Compared to her mother back then, and compared to her aunt before the divorce, her aunt still owns at least three large stalls in the wholesale market. The 500,000 yuan that she and her uncle invested in her uncle, no matter how they raised the money, only her name was written on it. Isn't it much more than the small dividends that her uncle got from the brother company?
In the past, my aunt was such a strong person that even my uncle couldn't get over her...
That’s why cousin Minmin feels so disappointed.
However, when the aunt wanted to pull her aside to talk to her alone, Chen Jin said that the others were waiting for her to leave, and with a few words she stopped the aunt from talking.
No matter what it was, she didn't want to hear it today.
She knew it couldn't be anything good. My uncle obviously knew about it. When he saw her coming in with my aunt, he urged her to leave after just two minutes.
My aunt wanted to say something but stopped herself. When she saw my uncle come in, she pursed her lips and stopped talking.
I guess my uncle reminded my aunt before he came.
"You guys go ahead, I'll rest at home for a while." Uncle and the others didn't want to go out, but Chen Jin's brothers and sisters said that it was a rare trip for them, so they wanted to go shopping in Nanjing University. And Chen Jin and Chen Jia would naturally follow and lead the way.
Chen Jin didn't want to go out that much, but he didn't want to stay at home with his aunt even more, lest he find the opportunity to talk to her about something later.
Chen Jin pointed upstairs and said, "There is a guest room upstairs. If you are tired, go up and rest. We are going out now."
"Go ahead and don't worry." The uncle waved his hand and urged them to go out quickly.
When the gate closed again, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Their noise at home is giving me a headache, so it's better for them to go out."
My second uncle laughed, it was really noisy and I couldn't hear a word anyone said.
The third uncle said, "It's better to quarrel a little. Yongfei and Yongan don't talk so much when they go home. We old people don't want to get together, and they don't want to get together either. While we can still move, we should get together more and keep in touch."
"That's right! Young people nowadays are not like our generation. They don't move around much, and many relatives don't remember them." It was then that the uncle noticed the photo albums on Chen Jin's wall. He looked through them one by one. They were all photos of her traveling or group photos with friends. The most obvious one in the middle was a photo of her and a girl in military uniform. Judging from the background, it looked like a school... After looking for a long time, he finally recognized that it was the No. 3 Middle School in the city.
After taking the album and examining it carefully, he said with some surprise, "Third sister has a friend who is in the army? He looks like he's wearing an air force uniform? Is that right?"
My second uncle was also attracted and confirmed that it was.
"Third sister's friends are all good."
My uncle quickly thought of Teacher Shen who lived next door. While eating, Yongxin asked Sanmei if she wanted to invite the neighbors from the next door to come over to eat cake together in the evening. Sanmei said it was inconvenient and she was afraid that it would embarrass them, so she would send the cake over when the time comes.
He also wanted to see what the boy next door looked like. From what Yongxin said, he might be interested in their third sister. Thinking of the other person's identity, he was worried, afraid that the other person was just trying to deceive his third sister because she was pretty.
If this is the case, no matter which group's young master he is, someone has to put a sack on him!
But he couldn't just go to their house, otherwise others might think they were going after his identity as the eldest son of the Cheng Group.
"I'm worried about the girls in my family who are too naive in finding a partner. I'm also worried about the girls who are too naive." He was afraid that his third sister would hear too much gossip and, under the influence of Liu Shisheng, would think there were no good men in the world.
My aunt was too lazy to say anything to him. His mind was fickle all day long, and he didn't allow others to say that he thought too much. Just two days ago he said it didn’t matter if the third sister didn’t find a partner, but today he’s worrying about her future partner again. I don’t know what he’s thinking, he changes every day.
"Don't walk around in front of me. It makes me dizzy."
My uncle clicked his tongue and said, "If you feel dizzy, go upstairs and rest. There is a living room and guest room upstairs. I'll go sit in the backyard. Hey, where is the electric fan in this house? I just saw it in the living room. Who moved it away?"
"You moved to the backyard by yourself." My aunt really didn't want to see him wandering around, so she couldn't help but remind him.
"Oh, right." The uncle went out with a teacup and muttered, "I'll send a set of furniture to the third sister someday. There are a lot of good teas at home, but you didn't buy a set of tea sets..."
The second and third uncles followed him out, "It's comfortable sitting outside, I want to go out and sit for a while too."
When Gu Shunfa saw it, he naturally followed.
The uncle leaned back in his chair leisurely, looking at the flowers and plants in the backyard of the neighbor's house, picked up the teacup, blew on it, took a sip, and said regretfully: "The tea here is good, but there is no one to make it. I will take some tea away later, don't waste it."
The third uncle said, "This kind of house with its own entrance and courtyard is better. Living in a high-rise building for a long time always feels uncomfortable and out of touch with the real world."
"Do you regret it now? If you had been willing to buy the house next door, it would have been great. Now, small Western-style buildings like this are out of stock and can't be bought."
Not to mention that my third uncle regrets it, my eldest uncle also regrets it now. At the beginning, he was short of money and was reluctant to spend one million to buy a building. Who knew that he would recover a year later and spent hundreds of thousands to buy a large flat in Rose Garden. It would be better to buy a small Western-style building. This house, which is close to the ground, is more comfortable to live in.
The backyard door of Professor Song's house next door was also open. After a while, the three children ran to the backyard and saw the adults drinking tea in the backyard. They stared at them curiously for a while.
"I'll see if we can buy a townhouse in the future so we can live together and take care of each other when we grow old." The eldest uncle patted his belly and said with emotion: "If I work for a few more years, I really can't refuse to admit that I'm getting old."
"It's better to buy a townhouse. When my third sister and her family have children in the future, they can all be raised together. I think everyone in my family has a hard time getting married, especially my third sister..."
As they were talking, the back door of the house next door opened. The eldest and third uncles looked up and met Shen Baichuan's eyes.
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