It's the Spring Festival again.

Early in the morning on New Year's Eve, Luo's wife came to give Ning Tang some pickled bacon. "It's smoked with pine branches. It doesn't taste dry at all."

Ning Tang: "I'm going to make a dish of garlic sprouts and pork in the evening. You and Political Commissar Zhao must come over."

Mrs. Luo smiled and replied, "Of course." Then she asked, "Are the three of Da Wa not coming back for the Spring Festival this year?"

Shen Lie sighed and replied, "No reply." He muttered, "Is this still our child? If I want to see him, I have to watch him on TV."

Da Wa is busy with his business. He said he wants to open Tangya overseas and let foreigners wear our country's clothes.

Erniu has singing programs on the Spring Festival Gala every year. The only way to really watch the child is to watch her on TV.

Sanwa? Now he's an Olympic champion. Seeing him is rarer than seeing a giant panda.

Luo's wife spit at him, "You have a happy worry. The children in your family are all successful. You can only say this in front of me. Go out and say a few words and see if others will spit at you."

Shen Lie knew this truth, but he felt itchy inside when he didn't see his child. "Sister-in-law, please go back quickly. Don't forget to come to have the reunion dinner in the evening."

In the evening, Mrs. Luo and Political Commissar Zhao arrived as scheduled. Zeng Xinlan, Battalion Commander Qi, Zhou Caiwei, Wu Dahui... arrived only one step later than them.

There was a large round table in the living room, with dishes and wine on it, and the aroma filled the air.

Mrs. Luo looked around and smiled, "Now, we are all alone. Our children are far away, and we are the only ones having a reunion dinner at home."

Zeng Xinlan said, "How can we say that we are alone? The children all have their own things to do. As long as they are thinking about us, that's enough."

Da Wa pushed open the door and yelled, "Sister Luo, I heard you say bad things about me."

Ning Tang brought out the dishes and asked in surprise, "Didn't you say you wouldn't come back for the Spring Festival this year?"

Erniu, Sanwa and Dahu jumped out from behind Dawa and said with a smile, "That was just a lie. No matter how busy you are, you have to go home for the reunion dinner."

The eldest child said, "I'll give you a surprise."

Erniu said, "I won't be on the Spring Festival Gala this year. Being on the Spring Festival Gala is not as important as being with my parents."

Ning Tang was amused, "It's too late. We didn't prepare your meal for the reunion dinner this year."

The eldest child exaggerated, "No way, are we going to be hungry on New Year's Eve?"

Mrs. Luo said, "Your mother lied to you. She cooked for you during the Spring Festival every year. It's just that you didn't have time to come back, so you just ate it."

Erniu turned her back and wiped away her tears.

Ning Tang pretended not to see it and said, "You must be hungry. Come and eat."

With toasts clinking and laughter and chatter, everyone finished the New Year's Eve dinner together.

Shen Lie looked at everyone's smiling faces and said with emotion, "Shall we take a photo?"

"Take a photo?" Political Commissar Zhao asked.

"Yes." Shen Lie said, "Let's take a group photo to commemorate this year's Spring Festival."

Ning Tang said, "Okay, put two stools, we adults stand at the back, and they children sit at the front."

Erniu puffed up her cheeks and said, "Mom, we are not children anymore, we are adults now."

Ning Tang was amused. "Even if you are in your seventies or eighties, you are still children in my eyes."

Shen Lie asked, "By the way, where is our camera?" Then he said, "By the way, I have to go out and ask someone to take a photo for us."

The eldest boy waved his hands and said, "We don't need that point-and-shoot camera at home. I brought a new digital camera. It's very advanced. Just put it there, set the timer, and it will automatically take pictures. And it takes color pictures."

He pulled his camera out of his backpack, set it on a basement stool, and set it up.

Then we used the TV playing the Spring Festival Gala as the background, placed two stools, and stood as Ningtang said.

From left to right, each couple stood in a group. Ning Tang and Shen Lie stood in the middle. Erniu sat in the middle on a stool, and Da Wa, San Wa, and Da Hu sat next to her on the left and right.

Shout together: "One, two, three, eggplant?."

The shutter button was pressed, and everyone's smiling faces were frozen in the photo.

After the photo shoot, Shen Lie looked at the photos taken by the camera and was happy. He asked Da Wa, Er Niu, San Wa and Da Hu, "When are the four of you going to get married and have kids? This way, we can expand our team."

Da Wa muttered, "You don't even have a partner, and you still want to get married and have kids."

Shen Lie slapped him on the head, "You know? Why don't you hurry up and find someone? Wait until you're thirty or forty and still single. Just wait and see how I'll deal with you."

Ning Tang took the camera with a smile and captured this scene.

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