Chapter 140
The yard was quiet, not a single word could be heard.
Only the light from the window under the corridor was shining, illuminating the falling snowflakes.
The snow on the stone steps, which were already covered with white tiles, became even thicker.
In the west room, the lights are still on.
Xu Lihua threw back the quilt and went to bed. When she sat down, she said to Jiang Jianping, "Before dinner, I heard the north room suddenly became noisy. Is it Tang Chuxia and her husband who are back?"
Jiang Jianping continued, "That should be the case. Is there anyone else in his family?"
Xu Lihua was even more confused. "Why did you come back tonight? Isn't it Chinese New Year tomorrow?"
Jiang Jianping: "How would I know? Maybe he just came back to celebrate the New Year."
Xu Lihua: "If they really came back to celebrate the New Year here, then their relationship with the Lin family must have been strained. How can they celebrate the New Year at their parents' home in their first year of marriage?"
Jiang Jianping: "If that's the case, then things are really tense."
Xu Lihua: "Young people nowadays are really capable of doing anything when their minds are hot-headed. They don't even think about why their parents object. Marriages that parents don't agree with never end well. When you are hot-headed, love is more important than anything else. After you get married, life is just like that. When that heat passes, you understand your parents' painstaking efforts. They are still your parents."
Jiang Jianping: "Of course, no parent would harm their own child."
Xu Lihua: "You are still too young. You don't think deeply and long-term. In two years, you will understand everything. Then you will regret not listening to your parents."
Jiang Jianping lay down and said, "If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer the consequences."
Xu Lihua turned on the light and lay down. "After comparing, our Guanjie is still the best."
The last light in the yard went out.
The falling snow melted into the night, falling silently.
***
The alarm clock suddenly rang in the quiet room.
Chuxia woke up in Lin Xiaohan's arms, reached out to turn off the alarm clock, and then lay in his arms and slept for a while.
Today is New Year's Eve.
People in the alley get up early.
Hearing that someone was greeting them and talking in the yard, Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan didn't sleep any longer and got up after two minutes.
Get up, get dressed, and go to the window to open the curtains in early summer.
The yard outside was white, but the snow had stopped.
After taking a look, Chu Xia turned around and said to Lin Xiaohan, "We'll be busy today."
Not only do you have to do a thorough cleaning, put up Spring Festival couplets and hang lanterns to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, but you also have to sweep the snow in front of your house.
Lin Xiaohan walked behind Chu Xia, stretched out his hands and hugged her, bent down and kissed her on the cheek and said, "Be busy and festive, it feels like the New Year."
Chuxia's heart skipped a beat and she quickly drew the curtains.
She turned around and looked at Lin Xiaohan and whispered, "There are a lot of people in the yard, be careful."
Lin Xiaohan smiled and whispered, "What are you afraid of? We are a legitimate couple."
Chu Xia still turned her head to look at him, "But what you did is not proper."
Lin Xiaohan couldn't help laughing, "Is it not proper to hug and kiss each other in your own room?"
Chu Xia still kept her voice down, "What else do you want to do?"
Lin Xiaohan: "Can I do what I want?"
Chu Xia couldn't help but feel her heart beating fast and her face blushing when she heard this.
She pried his arms apart and said, "Don't think about it or do it. I'm going to wash up."
***
Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan finished washing up and went to the kitchen. Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei were already making breakfast.
There is nothing special to do for breakfast. Just add the steamed buns from yesterday, cook a pot of hot porridge, add some shredded pickles, and at most stir-fry a few side dishes.
I saw Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan enter the kitchen.
Tang Haikuan looked at Lin Xiaohan and asked with a smile: "How is it? Are you used to living here?"
Lin Xiaohan replied naturally: "I'm used to it. How can I not be used to going home?"
Tang Haikuan laughed when he heard that, "You'll get used to it. There are many people living in our yard, and I'm afraid you'll feel uncomfortable."
Lin Xiaohan added: "There's nothing awkward about it. When I was in the countryside, seven of us lived in a small mud house. My grandmother Wen Haitang updated her waste article every day, and after she returned to the city, she lived in a dormitory."
Come to think of it, although his family is well-off, he has suffered no less than others.
Tang Haikuan didn't say anything else, but smiled and said, "Then just stay at home and have a good time for a few days."
Breakfast was quickly prepared and the family sat down to eat.
Not long after they sat down to eat in the north room, they started to hear a commotion in the yard outside because everyone in the east and west rooms went out and started busying themselves in the yard. Some were putting up Spring Festival couplets, some were hanging lanterns, and some were sweeping snow.
I finished my breakfast while listening to the noise outside.
Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei collected the dishes and went to the kitchen, where they cleaned up the entire kitchen at the same time.
Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan took the snow shovels and prepared to go to the yard to sweep the snow in front of the north house.
Before leaving, Chu Xia stopped Lin Xiaohan and said, "There is an obvious disadvantage of living in a courtyard, that is, there are many neighbors and they are nosy. They like to ask questions about everything and gossip about you behind your back."
Chu Xia didn't need to explain it clearly for Lin Xiaohan to understand what she meant.
After they got married, they did not go to the Lin family to celebrate the New Year, but instead went to the Tang family to celebrate the New Year. This was bound to arouse their curiosity and they wentssiped about them behind their backs.
Lin Xiaohan said indifferently: "Let them ask."
After saying that, Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan went out.
Then, as soon as I walked out of the corridor and down the stone steps, I heard a voice: "Hey, isn't this Chuxia and Xiaolin? When did you come back?"
The first person to say this was Li Lan.
The Han family was crowded last night and no one noticed that Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan came back.
Li Lan's tone was full of surprise and politeness. It was a normal greeting. Chu Xia also said in return: "We came back last night."
Li Lan was curious and continued to ask: "So are you guys coming back to celebrate the New Year?"
Chu Xia continued to answer openly: "Yes, if we don't come back, it will be too lonely for only my parents to celebrate the New Year at home, right?"
Before Li Lan could say anything else, Wang Cuiying, who was standing under the veranda sweeping the snow with a broom, suddenly said, "Oh, that's not right. Your filial piety is not in the right place. It's only the first year of your marriage, so you should spend it at your husband's house. It's not a good idea to go back to your parents' house for the New Year. It's unlucky."
Chu Xia was about to speak, but the words hadn’t come out yet.
Lin Xiaohan suddenly said beside her: "Hey, Auntie, you have fought against feudalism for more than ten years, why are you still so feudal? Whether life is good or not depends on people, not on these feudal superstitions. Some people can't live a good life, but they avoid all unlucky things and spend the New Year at their husband's house every year, but in the end they still can't live together and get divorced. Don't you think so?"
When she heard the last word "divorce", Wang Cuiying's face instantly fell.
Seeing Wang Cuiying's expression change, Chu Xia almost couldn't help laughing, and hurriedly lowered her head and pursed her lips.
Wang Cuiying's face had turned a little dark and she stopped talking, but Lin Xiaohan didn't shut up and continued, "I'm married to Xia Xia, her parents are my parents, her home is my home, we come back to celebrate the New Year in our own home, what's wrong with that? If you put it that way, you all rent here, this is not your home, you don't think there's anything wrong with celebrating the New Year in other people's homes, how can it be bad for us to celebrate the New Year in our own home? No matter how you look at it, celebrating the New Year in your own home should be better than celebrating the New Year in someone else's home, what do you think?"
I said you're screwed!
Wang Cuiying already wanted to glare at Lin Xiaohan.
Seeing Wang Cuiying's face turn green and she didn't say anything, Lin Xiaohan suddenly smiled and looked towards the west room, then looked directly at Jiang Jianping and Xu Lihua and asked, "Uncle and aunt, what do you think?"
Jiang Jianping and Xu Lihua were suddenly asked and were a little slow to react.
Almost subconsciously, they both nodded and smiled and replied, "Yes, yes, yes."
After saying that, he suddenly reacted.
What the hell is right about him? Isn't he talking about them as well?
So the smiles on Jiang Jianping and Xu Lihua's faces suddenly stopped.
Chu Xia looked up and saw the changes in Jiang Jianping and Xu Lihua's expressions, then quickly lowered her head and pursed her lips.
Not only did she lower her head and purse her lips, she also hid behind Lin Xiaohan, because even if she lowered her head and pursed her lips, she couldn't suppress the smile on her face.
Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei were in the kitchen. They heard what Lin Xiaohan said through the window. They also saw the faces of the other people outside and couldn't help laughing.
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