On New Year's Eve, Chen Yang and Li Su'er's families ate together at the same table.
Although the two sets of parents often get together online, meeting in real life on New Year's Eve inevitably brings up a certain issue.
marry!
Chen Yang and Li Su'er have been together for quite some time and haven't had any relationship problems. Including their time in the online world, they've been together for almost five years. If we only consider real-life time, it's been more than two years, so it's time for them to get married.
They used to think it was better to get married later, but this idea changes a lot every year.
Chen Yang and Li Su'er both felt that it was about time to get married, as they were of marriageable age, and Chen Yang was approaching thirty.
"Yang, it's not that Grandma is saying anything, but shouldn't you and Su'er consider getting married? Grandma isn't in a hurry to have a great-grandchild, she just wants to see herself settle down."
At the dinner table, Grandma Chen Yang spoke first, and the atmosphere instantly changed. For a moment, Chen Yang felt a tense atmosphere. Everyone at the table secretly glanced at him and Li Su'er.
Chen Tianming silently put down his chopsticks, and Yang Yu smiled and added a chicken leg to Chen Yang's plate. Meanwhile, Li Kong and his wife were also watching them closely, both openly and secretly.
Chen Yang remained unmoved, and exchanged a glance with Li Su'er.
“Okay,” he said.
Both of their elders were stunned for a moment.
"Let's pick an auspicious day after the New Year to get our marriage certificate and then get married directly. We don't need an engagement; we can just have a simple ceremony at the inn in the real world. All the residents and relatives are welcome to attend. I'll cover their travel expenses, and we don't need any monetary gifts. Just a small present will do. The New Micro Realm Inn has enough space for a wedding. Let's make it more grand in the Micro Realm. I hope the residents can help me with the preparations; everyone should be happy to do so."
Chen Yang said these words so naturally that he left the two elders at the table stunned.
“Well, you all knew we’d be pressuring us to get married, didn’t you?” Li Kong said first.
"Nonsense, if we don't urge them to get married during the New Year, are we even parents?" Li Su'er had an expression that said, "I already knew it."
"It's good that you're planning to get married. Grandma has already had a date chosen. You can pick one," Grandma Chen said with a smile.
“Auntie, no rush. The child has already been chosen. Let’s have dinner first and enjoy the New Year. Tomorrow, our two families will discuss and finalize the details,” said Zhang Aijia, Li Su’er’s mother.
"Yes, yes, let's eat New Year's Eve dinner first."
Grandma Chen Yang said with a smile.
She'll be happy as long as Chen Yang gets married. Now, in the micro-world, with her well-behaved great-grandson Chen Liu, Grandma Chen Yang is already very content.
Even when she was in the micro-world, she couldn't stay idle. Every day she would help weave things, whether it was bamboo weaving, hemp rope, or knitting clothes. Grandma Chen Yang was very skilled at it. She used to make a living by weaving when she was young.
In reality, most of the elderly people in the micro-world do some handicrafts, or help feed animals, tidy up the camp, etc., while the heavy and tiring work is done by the young and strong.
After the New Year's Eve dinner, everyone went to WeChat, and the Spring Festival Gala, which was criticized every year, really didn't get any viewers anymore.
When I entered the micro-realm today, many realm residents didn't come in because they wanted to spend time with their families. A large portion of the realm residents' families are not realm residents. It's fine on ordinary days, but they still want to spend time with their families during the Lunar New Year.
Chen Yang and his family all entered the Micro Realm, becoming its inhabitants. Therefore, instead of celebrating the New Year in the real world, they all went to the Micro Realm together.
The traditional Chinese New Year celebrations are increasingly lacking in festive spirit; the most important thing is for the whole family to be happy together. That's why they all came to Weijie (a micro-world platform).
Many people from the Realm also entered the Micro Realm on time. Most of them were families living in the Micro Realm or whose families were not with them.
As soon as the inhabitants entered the micro-world, they began to get busy, decorating with lanterns and colorful decorations.
Grandpa Yun took on all the task of writing couplets; he wrote the couplets for every household's entrance tickets. They also made and dyed the paper themselves; it wasn't as bright red as the couplet paper on the market, but it was still very festive.
They also made a lot of red lanterns, and every household hung red lanterns in front of their doors.
In winter, many people dry corn and meat in front of their doors, accompanied by couplets and lanterns, creating a strong festive atmosphere. It would be even more perfect if chili peppers were hung up as well.
However, chili peppers will be available next year, and Chen Yang plans to use the one-month quota to bring in chili peppers before the planting season next year, taking advantage of the time to accelerate the harvest of seeds in the area.
Chili peppers are still a very necessary seasoning. Some residents had already given him their opinions on this.
While the lack of chili peppers is a pity, the culinary skills of the chefs in the micro-world can completely make up for it.
Under the guidance of Chef Sun Bo, Li Su'er and Wang Bing further improved their culinary skills. The three of them were the main chefs, with the others helping out, and they started preparing ingredients in the morning.
The food for over a hundred people was enough to keep them busy all day.
Prepare all the cold dishes first and store them. For dishes that can be stewed for a long time, stew them directly and then uncover them in the evening. Prepare the ingredients for the hot dishes in advance as well.
This year, the ingredients were much more plentiful than last year, and there were more seasonings available. We even made soy sauce and vinegar, and they turned out quite well.
The biggest addition is probably seafood. Compared to last year, there is significantly more seafood on the table this year, many of which are rare ingredients in reality.
The animals' meals were not neglected, especially the snow leopards who had worked hard for most of the winter. They happily ate the special food prepared for them. The lucky black panda and the others also had their own special food. Even our national treasure, the giant panda, was given a fruit platter.
For Chinese people, the New Year's Eve dinner is arguably the most important meal of the year, so everyone attaches great importance to it. The entire camp is busy preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner, with everyone moving tables, helping to process ingredients, arranging plates, and decorating, striving to make the New Year's Eve dinner perfect.
The new residents of the Microworld who joined this year have never experienced the Spring Festival in the Microworld, so this year's Spring Festival is full of novelty for them.
Not to mention them, even the old residents of the area found it all very novel.
The changes in the micro-world every year can be described as earth-shattering, so the changes are very different every year.
The New Year in reality has also changed a lot, but it's mostly getting quieter year by year. When we finally get together, most of us are smiling at our phones, and all we hear during a meal is the phone ringing.
The micro-world is different; the festive atmosphere in the micro-world is something that most people could hardly experience when they were children.
After a year of hard work in the micro-world, it would be wonderful to have a perfect New Year's Eve dinner at the end of the year. The sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that the micro-world can bring to its users is something that is hard to experience in real life.
This year, the micro-world has also changed a lot, and you can feel it from their photos.
The widespread use of the Four Gates has truly transformed the Microworld into a microworld where one can experience completely different regional styles within a single day, and it can unify the resources of the entire Microworld.
The discovery of various new resources, the major renovation of the Xindu camp, and the increase in the number of camp residents—all of this is vastly different from last year.
Other beings gradually entered the Micro-World as well. Amidst the busy work of all beings, the third year of the Micro-World was about to begin.
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