Chapter 176 Sister (Page 1/2)
It’s the same phone call from before.
Chen Baomei hung up again.
As soon as I put the things in the car, the same phone call came in again.
"Hey, this liar is quite persistent."
She's been hung up twice and she's still fighting!
Shen Ru: "Let me see?"
Chen Baomei placed the phone screen in front of Shen Ru.
"Hey, it's from the Beautiful Country." Are there scammers in the Beautiful Country now?
As she said that, Chen Baomei clicked the answer button, ready to give the other party a good scolding.
As soon as the phone was connected, a middle-aged female voice that was both unfamiliar and somewhat familiar came from the other end.
"Sister? Why do you keep hanging up on me?"
sister?
Chen Baomei's brows were twisted into a question mark.
"You call me sister?"
"Sister, I'm Baolan, your biological sister. How come you can't even recognize my voice?"
"Chen Baolan?"
Chen Baomei was extremely surprised. She hadn't been in contact with her sister for eight hundred years, so why did she suddenly remember to call her?
After Chen Baolan married and moved away, she soon gave birth to a son.
At that time, there was a trend of going abroad. Chen Baolan's husband was an engineer. He immigrated to the beautiful country with his whole family through technical immigration.
Originally, Chen's parents did not agree with Chen Baolan marrying far away. When they learned that she wanted to immigrate abroad, the old couple was even more determined not to agree.
Chen Baolan broke up with them and went abroad with her husband and son, never to return.
The old couple passed away one after another. Chen Baomei contacted Chen Baolan to come back for the funeral, but Chen Baolan refused every time with various excuses.
After the old couple passed away, Chen Baomei lost contact with her sister.
They haven't seen each other for more than 20 years.
"It's me. Our whole family is back to celebrate the New Year this year. We'll stay in Xingye for a few days and then go back to Yangcheng after the New Year. There are seven of us in our group. You and your brother-in-law will be ready to host us."
Tian Xingye is Chen Baolan’s husband. His hometown is in Province C, more than a thousand kilometers away from Yangcheng.
"International long-distance calls are expensive, so I won't go into details. I'll contact you when we return home."
Chen Baomei: “???”
Before she could say anything, Chen Baolan hung up the phone.
Chen Baomei couldn't help but complain, "What the hell? I didn't even say whether I agreed or not, and she arranged it all on her own?"
Even sisters shouldn't be so rude.
This never happened in my previous life.
Chen Baomei didn't know what went wrong, which caused Chen Baolan, who had never come back in her previous life, to come back to find her in this life.
When Chen Baolan went abroad, Shen Ru had already started to understand things, so she had some impression of this aunt.
"It's my aunt, are they going back to China?"
"She said that and told us to provide a good reception. I don't know where she got my phone number."
Not wanting to dwell on these things anymore, Chen Baomei shook her head and put the matter behind her.
It will be after the New Year for Chen Baolan to come back, so let’s talk about it after the New Year.
"Let's go buy New Year's goods."
On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, Chen Yin returned from the Magic City on vacation.
She brought a lot of butterfly cakes that Niuniu loved, and bought Jiang Qiqi her favorite action figures, which made the two little girls follow Chen Yin around every day.
Chen Baomei called Lu Qionghua to ask her to come over and celebrate the New Year together, but Lu Qionghua refused.
She said that her employer's health had not yet recovered, and he would give her triple salary during the Chinese New Year, so she wanted to stay with him and continue to take care of him.
After Chen Baomei hung up the phone, Shen Ru said to her with a funny face, "It's not because of the triple salary, it's purely because she feels sorry for him and doesn't want him to spend the New Year alone."
Chen Baomei raised her eyebrows, "Are they dating?"
Maybe because of the small age difference, Lu Qionghua prefers to share many things with Chen Ru.
So Shen Ru knew more about Lu Qionghua's affairs.
Shen Ru, "I don't know if it counts as a deal."
It's more than an ordinary employer-employee relationship, but not quite the boyfriend-girlfriend level.
Shen Ru also couldn't figure out what stage they were at now.
Chen Baomei: "This person should be alright, right?"
To be honest, once bitten by a snake, one will be afraid of ropes for ten years. She was really afraid that Lu Qionghua would meet another abnormal man.
"It should be okay. Qionghua's boss used to work in international shipping and had a very high income, otherwise he wouldn't be able to afford such a nice nursing home. Besides, he has no parents or children, and his only niece is married. He's better off than Qionghua, so there's really nothing he can do to gain anything from her."
"Don't worry about it. Violent people like Wei Sheng are rare in reality. Qionghua is an adult now, and you can't plan everything for her."
Her mother treats Qionghua very well.
Sometimes Shen Ru still feels jealous when she thinks about the fact that Chen Baomei gave Lu Qionghua more than 200,000 yuan to buy a house.
It was only because she kept her mouth shut that she didn't tell Shen Rui and Shen Yin about this, otherwise the two younger siblings would have made a fuss.
Of course, she also knew that Qionghua was a good person and was good to her mother, so she didn't say anything.
If this happened to someone else, they would have exploded long ago.
"That's true."
Given the other party's conditions, if you are determined to find one, you can indeed find someone with better conditions than Qionghua.
The atmosphere of the Spring Festival is getting stronger and stronger, and Chen Baomei and her family started to decorate their home.
Couplets with the word "Fu" (blessing) were posted, and the yard was decorated with lights and many festive red lanterns were hung.
In order to celebrate the occasion, Chen Baomei specially bought a pair of big red lanterns that emit colorful lights and hung them on top of the villa gate.
When it gets dark at night, press the switch and the red lanterns will spin and emit colorful lights. Press it again and they will spin while singing.
The big red lanterns were installed and began to click along with the song "Good Luck Comes". The colorful lights made the doorway of their house look like an old-fashioned disco from the 1980s and 1990s.
Shen Yin laughed so hard that she couldn't straighten her back.
"Mom, where did you buy this lantern? It's so tacky and flashy. It's so funny."
Chen Baomei: "How can it be funny? It's so beautiful. If you can't appreciate it, don't say anything nonsense."
The singing was just a little noisy, so Chen Baomei pressed the switch again and the singing was turned off.
Jiang Qiqi and Niuniu covered their mouths and laughed.
They also thought it was a bit funny.
I can’t appreciate the things that the elderly like.
On New Year's Eve, Shen Qin came early with his wife and children.
Guo Xiaoxiao bought Chen Baomei a fur coat, a long smoky gray mink fur coat. Chen Baomei tried it on and found it both warm and elegant.
It was Chen Baomei’s first time wearing fur, and she couldn’t let it go as soon as she got it.
“Isn’t this expensive?”
Shen Rui spoke quickly, "More than 8,000 yuan, how can it not be expensive?"
Guo Xiaoxiao glared at him.
Chen Baomei smiled from ear to ear, "It's comfortable to wear, it's worth it!"
Chen Baomei put it on and showed off for a long time.
Unfortunately, it's Chinese New Year now, and they're all family, so there's no one for her to show off to.
So she took it off after wearing it for a while.
Chen Ru asked Guo Xiaoxiao with a smile how her business was going, and Guo Xiaoxiao said vaguely that it was okay.
Everyone worked together to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner. Shen Ru was mainly responsible for cooking, while the others helped prepare the dishes. Finally, Guo Xiaoxiao and Shen Yin were responsible for cleaning up the mess.
The reasonable division of labor makes the work much better than before when only Chen Baomei and Lu Qionghua did the work.
On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Chen Baolan called again.
This time it's a domestic number.
She told Chen Baomei that their family would be taking a flight the day after tomorrow and asked Chen Baomei to pick them up at the airport on time.
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