Chapter 29 Chapter 29 New Year Greetings
Shu Niannian silently put the letter under her pillow, kept it safe, and pretended nothing had happened.
Her calm demeanor made it so that no one noticed anything unusual. Anyway, in recent months, she would receive letters from Haicheng from time to time.
Shu Niannian suppressed all her worries and spent the New Year wholeheartedly with her family.
After more than ten years, she celebrated the New Year with her family again.
She cherishes it very much. She helps wash the vegetables and wipe the table. She washes every vegetable very clean and also wipes the table clean.
Looking at the firecracker fragments on the ground, smelling the aroma of braised meat wafting from the kitchen, listening to Li Guifen's mumbling, and bickering with Shu Wenhui and Shu Wenqiang, Shu Niannian spent the first New Year in her life.
The lunch was simple, but the dinner was quite rich, including chicken stuffed with mushrooms, braised grass carp, pork offal hotpot, cold pork trotters, braised pork intestines, and of course Shu Niannian's favorite fried eggs with garlic sprouts and stir-fried Chinese cabbage. The table was full of six dishes and one soup.
Shu Guodong invited Shu Chengzu over. Although Shu Chengzu usually didn't like to hang out with the younger generations, he was still happy to hang out with the children during the New Year.
Year after year, year after year, looking at the table full of dishes in front of him, Shu Chengzu smiled and sighed, saying that in the past, only the best landlords could have such a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner!
When he spoke, Shu Guodong could only agree, "Yes, yes, yes!"
They were particularly supportive, with Li Guifen and Shu Niannian giggling beside them. Shu Chengzu was in a good mood today, and Li Guifen even warmed up a pot of Huadiao for him. Shu Chengzu was very satisfied, and the red envelope he gave to Li Guifen was thicker than in previous years.
Shu Niannian also received a red envelope, but she couldn't remember how much money her grandfather gave her last time. If her grandfather was willing to accept it, she would actually prefer to give him a red envelope. However, Shu Chengzu would definitely not agree to that. He was an old-fashioned person and would only give money to the younger generations and would not take their money.
After dinner, Shu Chengzu wanted to meet up with his old friends, so he left first. Shu Wenhui and Shu Wenqiang wanted to go out and play with their friends, so they also went out. Li Guifen and Shu Guodong cleaned the dining table and the kitchen, and Shu Niannian swept the floor clean.
The food today was so delicious that Shu Niannian felt a little full. After she had cleaned up everything, she made herself a cup of digestive tea that she had prepared herself. After drinking the tea, she walked around the yard twice before returning to her room.
The letter was still under the pillow. Shu Niannian took a deep breath and took out the letter. She was expectant and nervous, afraid that Ye Jinhong said something he shouldn't, but also afraid that Ye Jinhong would say nothing. After much hesitation, Shu Niannian finally opened the letter. The letter was sent on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, and after four days, it finally reached Shu Niannian's hands.
Shu Niannian unfolded the letter and started laughing before she even started reading. In the past, when Ye Jinhong wrote letters to Shu Niannian, they were always very simple, and could be finished in just a few sentences.
This time, the letter was a full page long. Shu Niannian couldn't help laughing, thinking of the taciturn person. This was really difficult for him. But after she finished reading the letter at a glance, Shu Niannian could no longer laugh.
Ye Jinhong kept talking about this and that, and even casually attributed the last time he wiped her mouth at the snack street to the care of an elder for a younger person?
Shu Niannian angrily threw the letter aside. After taking a few deep breaths, she picked it up again and read it carefully. After reading the whole letter, Shu Niannian realized that her understanding was indeed correct. Ye Jinhong had indeed distanced himself from the matter.
Shu Niannian laughed angrily!
Is it really that she is being overly sentimental?
Was it all just her illusion?
After the snack street, Shu Niannian deliberately suppressed everything in her heart, waiting for it to slowly ferment into deep longing, and she finally confirmed her feelings in the process.
Now, everything has become her wishful thinking? That bad guy got himself clean scalp!
Shu Niannian folded the letter again according to its original folds, stuffed it back into the envelope, and then put the envelope into the box. She had treasured all the letters Ye Jinhong had written to her over the past few months.
After thinking it over again and again, Shu Niannian picked up her pen and wrote a reply letter to Ye Jinhong. She replied in the letter: Thank you uncle for your care. I have always regarded you as an elder and will never misunderstand. In addition, my parents said that I am old and have become an old girl in the village, so a few days ago, they arranged a blind date for me. The man is the son of the director of our county machinery factory and graduated from Beijing University of Science and Technology. My parents think he is not bad and asked me to give it a try with him. What do you think, uncle?
After Shu Niannian finished writing the letter, she found an envelope and put it in it.
Even if she realized it later, after two lifetimes combined, Shu Niannian was absolutely certain that Ye Jinhong's attitude towards her was definitely more than just an elder who wanted to take care of the younger generation. However, since he wanted to distance himself from her, then let him do as he wished!
Anyway, she has her own path to follow. Originally, she never planned to spend the rest of her life with anyone!
On New Year's Eve, Shu Niannian slept soundly on the warm kang. Since her rebirth, Shu Niannian has been busy planning, planning to repeat her studies, planning to do business, planning to separate herself from Lu Jianjun, and let Shu Meilan get the retribution she deserves. She dared not stop for a moment, and the string in her heart was always taut.
Now, of the three major events she had prepared, one had been completed, and the other two were proceeding in an orderly manner. Everything was developing in the direction she expected. On this New Year's Eve, she had no reason not to relax.
Shu Niannian slept until dawn, and even the continuous, crackling, and sometimes distant sound of firecrackers at night could not wake her up.
The next morning, Shu Niannian followed Shu Wenhui and Shu Wenqiang to pay New Year's greetings to Shu Chengzu, and then went to the county town and put the letter she wrote to Ye Jinhong into the mailbox. Although she didn't know which specific day the postman would go to work, she put the letter into the mailbox so early that it should ensure that her letter would be sent out in the first batch. In this way, Ye Jinhong would be able to receive her first letter of the new year as soon as the post office resumed work.
After returning home, Li Guifen told Shu Niannian, "Li Zhiqiang just left. He said he came to pay New Year's greetings. He also brought two kilograms of fruit and two kilograms of brown sugar. I didn't want to accept them, but I couldn't persuade him, so I finally accepted them."
Shu Niannian frowned. Although the material control was relaxed a lot now, fruits and brown sugar still required tickets, and it was difficult to buy them even if you had money. The things that Li Zhiqiang carried could be considered the standard for a prospective son-in-law to visit his father-in-law to pay New Year's greetings.
"Did he say anything?" Shu Niannian asked.
"I didn't say anything. I just came to wish you a happy new year. When I saw you weren't there, I put my things down and left."
Li Guifen understood in her heart that even if Li Zhiqiang didn't say anything, his meaning was clear. He came for a blind date a few days ago, and although Nian Nian didn't agree, Li Zhiqiang came to wish everyone a happy new year with gifts. Many things don't need to be said, anyone with a discerning eye can see it.
Shu Guodong had a headache. Shu Niannian obviously didn't want to get along with Li Zhiqiang, so he definitely couldn't accept the gift. However, he and Shu Wenqiang both worked under Li Changhong, so he was not sure how to return the gift.
However, this was not the only thing that gave Shu Guodong a headache. On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Lu Jianjun's grandparents came to Shujia Village with gifts on the pretext of visiting Shu Chengzu. They placed the gifts with Shu Chengzu, and several of them came to the big house chatting and laughing, accompanied by Ye Jinhong.
Shu Niannian didn't expect that before Ye Jinhong received the letter she sent, she had met Ye Jinhong first.
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