The Tu Chuan design department worked tirelessly to produce a peripheral gift package that satisfied Shen Qingqing, just before the Spring Festival holiday at the end of January.
Shen Qingqing did not want to turn Tu Chuan into a one-man show where "whatever she says, we make the product." Tu Chuan's team was also recruited by her one by one. Compared to Youqiantu, Tu Chuan was more like a growing child that Shen Qingqing had high hopes for.
Therefore, she needed to give Tu Chuan's group more room to expand. She could only offer some peripheral forms and models from her previous life as inspiration, but she wanted to see the thoughtfulness that Tu Chuan's group demonstrated in these processes.
After finalizing the satisfactory design draft, Shen Qingqing sent five red envelopes in Tu Chuan's group chat and also gave individual red envelopes to everyone in the design department so they could have a good New Year.
On the evening of the 28th, Li Xunli, who hadn't been home for more than half a year, finally returned.
Originally, the master planned to have a dinner party with everyone on the evening of the 28th, which was a holiday. However, Li Xunli couldn't resist and wanted to go home to see her child and Shen Rongzhou. She made a quick appearance at the dinner party and put on a show before she could barely escape from the group of colleagues and went home that night.
When they got home, it was already past 1 a.m. At that time, only Shen Qingqing was still awake, and she was in her room discussing a chemistry reasoning problem with Wu Fangyi via video call.
Hearing the noise in the living room, Shen Qingqing was so frightened that her hair stood on end. After dropping her earphones, she quietly opened the bedroom door. Just as she was about to sneak into the master bedroom to call her father, she met Li Xunli's eyes as she walked from the living room into the master bedroom.
"Mom!" Shen Qingqing exclaimed in surprise.
"Shh!" Li Xunli quickly held up a finger to make Shen Qingqing lower her voice.
"Oh, oh, oh..." Shen Qingqing immediately realized what was happening, covered her mouth and quieted down, "Mommy, are you hungry?"
Li Xunli shook her head: "I'm not hungry, you should go back to sleep. We can talk about it tomorrow."
Shen Qingqing said "Oh," but didn't dare tell her mother that she hadn't actually slept at all.
Back at my computer desk, as I picked up my headphones again, I heard Wu Fangyi ask, "What's wrong?"
Shen Qingqing lowered her voice and answered, "My mom is back. I thought it was a thief just now."
This answer was then ridiculed by Wu Fangyi.
Even during the Chinese New Year, it didn't affect their unwavering online learning sessions.
This year's Spring Festival Gala featured many popular songs that are still well-known to later generations, such as Da Zhangwei's "Bei'er Shuang", Wulan Tuya's "Taming the Horse", Wang Zhengliang's "Where Did the Time Go?", and Huang Bo's "My Demands Are Not High", which is still used to satirize life ten years later.
The current Spring Festival Gala still features Cai Ming and Guo Donglin, and it's also the first time that Shen Teng and Ma Li's classic skit "To Help or Not to Help" has been broadcast.
It was remarkable that even someone like Shen Qingqing, who hadn't watched the Spring Festival Gala since, watched it with great interest for an entire evening.
After the Spring Festival holiday, Shen Rongzhou went back to work, and Li Xunli also returned to participate in the porcelain project that was almost completely isolated from the world.
Shen Qingqing resumed her daily routine of shuttling between Youqiantu, Tu Chuan, and her studies. Every day, except for eating, sleeping, and showering, her time was fully scheduled.
However, just before the start of the school year, I accepted Lin Ziyang's invitation.
School started this year after the Lantern Festival, on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month. So on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Lin Ziyang bombarded Shen Qingqing on QQ, begging her to come out and play.
Shen Qingqing originally wanted to refuse because she really didn't have enough time, but Lin Ziyang said that if she didn't come, Wu Fangyi wouldn't be able to come out either, so he had to beg her to accompany Wu Fangyi.
You see, when people are gossiping or sharing stories, they always have plenty of time to listen to others elaborate.
Especially since this kind of gossip was obviously something to laugh at, Shen Qingqing felt she shouldn't miss it. Besides studying and working, she also needed some entertainment to spice up her life and not be too rigid.
In short, Shen Qingqing and Wu Fangyi went out together on the night of the Lantern Festival.
"Come on, I'll take you to see our village's annual procession!" Lin Ziyang came specifically to pick them up.
"Okay!" Shen Qingqing has always loved watching the parade of gods since she was a child. Each village has its own way of celebrating the parade of gods.
For example, Shen Qingqing's family has always followed the time of Lijia Village, which is the 25th day of the first lunar month. In their previous life, they moved to another village and started following the time of that village, which is the 8th day of the fourth lunar month.
However, they never lived like that again. After selling their only house, the family was like a rootless duckweed floating on the water, spending their days in prayer.
Shen Qingqing took one of Wu Fangyi's arms, leaving the other arm for Lin Ziyang.
This time, she reluctantly gave Lin Ziyang some face and didn't walk between the two of them.
Lin Ziyang was very savvy; as soon as he entered the parade grounds, he bought an arm-length fruit skewer for Shen Qingqing at the entrance.
It wasn't that I didn't want to buy it for Wu Fangyi, but Wu Fangyi was very uninterested and said she didn't want it.
While Lin Ziyang was still unsure whether Wu Fangyi really didn't want it or was just being polite, Shen Qingqing chuckled and bit off the top strawberry, saying, "Sister Fangyi doesn't like things that only kids like to eat."
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