Chapter 101: Guarding the New Year

After the New Year’s Eve dinner, Zhou Qiuhe and Li Jie came over with a few kids to visit.

New Year's Eve is meant to stay up all night to celebrate the coming year.

This era is not like the world before Xia Juanjuan traveled through time. There was electricity and internet, and as long as you had a mobile phone, you could watch videos and play games all night long. The Spring Festival Gala seemed to be getting more and more boring every year.

The first Spring Festival Gala was held in 1983, which is more than ten years ago!

Although the first black-and-white television was produced in 1958, by the early 1970s, only a very small number of families in the city had one.

In rural areas, most people have never even heard of the word television.

Therefore, coming to visit does not count as disturbing others. Instead, everyone can chat about family matters and time passes faster.

Xia Juanjuan took out the snacks such as melon seeds and milk candies that she had bought before, as well as the fried "hemp leaves" and "sweet potato chips" from the previous day. Zhou Qiuhe also brought some peanuts that she had fried herself and mixed them in, and let the two girls in the family, Xiaowen, Xiaowu and Beibei grab some and eat them.

The kids were playing around in the house and yard, while the adults were chatting around the fire, reminiscing about their childhood.

Even Li Jie changed his usual taciturn personality and talked a lot about Li Zhan's childhood.

Different from the bustle here, Liu Lan's place is extremely quiet.

In the past, the eldest brother was alive and the youngest brother was not separated. Although Li Zhan was always in the army and never came back, the whole family still had a very lively New Year. In the two years after the death of old man Li, Liu Lan was the center of the family. Which son or grandson would not kneel down and kowtow to her to wish her a happy New Year?

As a result, this year, I asked Wang Guixiang, and I don’t know how she spread the word, but it turned out that neither Lijie nor Lizhan had married and forgotten their mothers, and neither of them agreed to have the whole family together for New Year’s Eve dinner!

Wang Guixiang had no choice but to cook the New Year's Eve dinner herself, but her cooking skills were so poor that the food was either too salty or not cooked properly. Liu Lan was already unhappy and took it out on Wang Guixiang, saying that what she cooked was pig food!

Wang Guixiang's family is large and she is usually afraid of Liu Lan and tries to avoid her. But when she was kind enough to cook for her during Chinese New Year, she scolded her and made her angry. Wang Guixiang directly said a few words to Liu Lan, gave up the job, and went back to the house!

Wang Guixiang also made some dumplings for herself and gave some to her husband and two children as a New Year's Eve dinner.

Liu Lan didn't even make dumplings. Now her second son Li Qiang was also controlled by his wife. He didn't even have the courage to serve her a bowl and hid in his room like a turtle.

Her daughter Li Qiaoqiao is even less reliable. She has always been a pushover, but now not only does she not cook for her mother, she also blames Liu Lan for scolding her second sister-in-law. Now she can't even eat dumplings!

Liu Lan was so angry that her heart ached, but she was also very hungry, so she could only make some cornmeal and sweet potato porridge and heat up two mixed-wheat steamed buns - she didn't even cut the meat. She went to Wang Guixiang's room to ask for meat. Li Qiang wanted to give it to her, but Wang Guixiang stopped him with a look.

Liu Lan had no choice but to go back with a gloomy face, and fried some cabbage on New Year's Eve.

She hasn't cooked for many years, and her cooking skills are not as good as Wang Guixiang's. The food is also very salty. Li Qiaoqiao rolled her eyes in disgust, ate two bites and then stopped eating out of spite.

Liu Lan was angry and the food was really unpalatable, so she only ate two bites. She asked Li Qiaoqiao to wash the dishes, but Li Qiaoqiao pretended not to hear her!

Liu Lan felt deeply sad. Fortunately, she had saved all the money before!

Look, this is the flesh that fell off her body! You are all ungrateful wolves!

The room was dark. She looked up and saw that on the other side of the fence, Xia Juanjuan's yard was brightly lit and full of laughter and joy. Instead of reflecting on her own mistakes, she hated Xia Juanjuan even more!

It must be Xia Juanjuan who instigated Li Zhan not to come over to her place for the New Year's Eve dinner! Otherwise, Li Zhan used to send all his allowance back home. How could such a filial child suddenly change?

Over at Xia Juanjuan's place, the little ones went crazy for a while, then they couldn't help rubbing their eyes and started feeling sleepy.

Zhou Qiuhe and Li Jie took the children back home. Xiaowen and the other two also got into bed.

Xia Juanjuan was lying on her side with her clothes on and singing nursery rhymes to Beibei in a low voice, but she fell asleep while singing.

I have been busy preparing for the New Year these days. It seems that I have not done anything, but my physical fatigue is actually accumulating.

In addition, he was attacked that day and lay unconscious in the snow for so long. Although he seemed to have recovered overnight because of his young age, his body was not actually fully recovered.

Lizhan came back after washing up and was in a state of confusion after seeing what he saw.

Just now she was arrogantly saying that she must stay up until dawn and she wanted to compete with him to see who could fall asleep first, but now she fell asleep first.

He called her softly twice, trying to wake her up, take off his cotton padded jacket and go back to sleep.

Xia Juanjuan responded vaguely, turned over, but did not wake up.

Lizhan had no choice but to take off her cotton coat, then pulled her up and tried to straighten her into the quilt.

Xia Juanjuan was only wearing a single piece of clothing. At the moment, she was sleeping sweetly and defenselessly. Li Zhan's eyes couldn't help but turn darker.

He has been enduring for several days. Today is New Year's Eve. Even if he forces it, his wife shouldn't be angry, right?

Li Zhan held her in his arms, his big hand uncontrollably reaching under her clothes, exploring her passionately yet tenderly, while his other hand dealt with the annoying buttons...

I finally untied it, but before I could do anything, I suddenly felt the gazes above me.

Lizhan raised his head suddenly and saw Xia Juanjuan looking at him in a daze with a bewildered look on her face.