It was already two o'clock in the afternoon when Zhang Tiantian and the others returned home.
It’s time to prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner, so everyone gets started.
Even the team leader helped to light the fire. The chefs were Zhang's mother and Lu Hai, with Zhang Tiantian, Gu Ranran and Lu Jiang assisting.
Zhang's mother went to steam the rice first, Lu Jiang went to kill the chicken, Lu Hai processed the mutton, Gu Ranran processed the fish, and Zhang Tiantian prepared the onions, ginger and garlic.
They kept busy, one after another, and there was no stopping. The team leader was also very busy, having to keep three stoves burning by himself.
By six o'clock in the afternoon, the New Year's Eve dinner was finally ready. Zhang Tiantian and Lu Jiang went to set off firecrackers, and the others started serving the dishes.
After everyone sat down, the team leader spoke first: "Today is New Year's Eve, and we are having the New Year's Eve dinner. We should eat slowly, the longer the better.
Let's eat and talk, everyone eats and drinks well, come on, let's clink glasses and start eating. Come on, cheers! "
"Lu Jiang, Lu Hai, the child's father, please don't get drunk. We still have to stay up all night to celebrate the New Year."
"Don't worry, mother. You can't get drunk on New Year's Eve. A little tipsy is fine at most."
"Mom, just eat your food quickly. They're drinking wine, they know how to count. This fish is delicious, eat more."
"Tiantian, you eat too. There are a lot of dishes today, so pick up what you like.
Ranran, you should eat more too. Ranran, this is your first time celebrating the New Year here with us, how do you feel?
"Auntie, I will eat more. Lu Hai has already given me a lot of dishes, and I can't eat it all.
Auntie, Chinese New Year here is so much fun, especially going to the market in the morning. There are so many things to sell, and you don't need a ticket. The main thing is that the Chinese New Year atmosphere is so strong, and everyone is so happy.
"When I celebrated Chinese New Year in Beijing before, I couldn't buy so many things. My brother didn't come home during Chinese New Year, and my parents missed him. Although Chinese New Year is a happy time, it's also a little sad."
"Ranran, your family should be having a lively New Year's celebration this year. Your brother and sister-in-law are back, as well as your brother's father-in-law and mother-in-law."
"Auntie, I don't think so. My brother's mother-in-law is very strange. She becomes awkward whenever she's around. I can't serve her the New Year's Eve dinner. Let her eat in her room."
"Ranran, that's it. That crying thing is really annoying. It keeps crying. If it cries during the New Year's Eve dinner, it will be unlucky.
Luckily she didn't come out for dinner on our wedding day, because whenever I saw her, she was crying."
"Ran Ran, your brother's mother-in-law in Beijing shouldn't be crying, right? She must be crying because she dislikes us from the countryside and can't stand it? Or is she sick? She can't help crying."
"Hahaha, Auntie, you're so funny. I used to think so, but it's not true. My mom said she started crying because she didn't do what she wanted to do, or didn't get what she wanted.
My brother's mother-in-law has some issues, but she's not really sick.
When Lu Hai and I went to the train station to pick them up, we saw her crying, and my sister-in-law told us not to bother with her because she was sick.
I thought my brother's mother-in-law was sick, so I told my sister-in-law to take good care of her mother and tell us if she needed anything.
Hahaha, I only realized later that what my sister-in-law said about being sick was wrong, hahaha."
"Ran Ran, your brother's mother-in-law is so abnormal. She's so old and still crying. It's really too ugly to look at. And she cries for a long time. Most people can't stand it."
"That's right, this is the first time I've seen such a person. I feel sorry for my parents, they can't even have a peaceful New Year.
Especially, I don’t dare let her go out tomorrow. Everyone will be happily greeting the New Year tomorrow. Who would dare to let her go out and bring bad luck?
Next year, I'll tell my brother not to come back for the New Year. I'll bring my parents over and we'll come together."
"Okay, Ranran, your mom and I get along pretty well. We used to get along well when we were young.
Take it over and celebrate the New Year, let's have fun together. More people celebrate the New Year, more fun.
I am so happy to celebrate Chinese New Year with you this year. In the past, I always celebrated Chinese New Year with those ungrateful people. They were so annoying.
The food is eaten in a rush. As soon as you start to use your chopsticks, you quickly fill up your bowl. If you don’t hurry up, you won’t be able to eat meat at the New Year’s Eve dinner.”
"Mom, don't think about those ungrateful people during the New Year. We will be better and better in the future.
Tomorrow, those ungrateful people will probably come to wish you and Dad a happy new year again. When you see them coming, just chase them away with a broom.
You can't give these people face, or they'll get ahead of you. They don't even provide for their parents in their old age, yet they have the nerve to come and ask for your house.
You've already allocated housing to them, and they already have a place to live in. It's truly shameful that they still want a bigger place to live.
I think, if Lu Jiang, Lu Hai and Ran Ran were not more powerful, they would still dare to covet our yard."
"Tiantian is right, mother, you can't be soft-hearted tomorrow. They say they're here to pay New Year's greetings, but to put it bluntly, they're here to beg for food.
Tomorrow I will come to pay New Year's greetings, I will definitely come empty-handed, and then I will want to take everything I see back home."
"Also, don't open the door tomorrow when the Lu family comes to pay New Year's greetings. Even if that person truly repents, the harm he has caused us is irreparable.
Everyone in the Lu family is not a good person. They love to take advantage of others and are all leopards and tigers."
"My brother is right. We can't let them take a single cent from us. They used to withhold our food during meals. Even during New Year's Eve dinner, my brother and I had to look at their faces before picking up food.
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