She started working right after graduation, juggling both the school and the hospital. For a full seven months, Shen An Ning couldn't count the number of days she had rest on one hand. Except for the night shift, she worked fewer hours than others, and her attendance days were definitely among the top three in the entire department.
So starting from the New Year, she had an advantage when scheduling shifts. She worked fifteen consecutive days, stayed up all night on the 29th day of the lunar year to work the night shift, and took a vacation early in the morning on the 30th day of the lunar year, for a total of ten days off. Shen An Ning was very satisfied with this arrangement. Although she had to make up for a few night shifts after returning from vacation, it was not a big deal. The main point was that she could enjoy the good things first and suffer later.
Shen Zixi and Shen Ziyi had their winter vacation early, so the Shen family had a lot of trouble. The Qin family's children, plus the two younger ones, Xiao Huasheng and Xiao Guazi, were noisy every day.
On the day of the New Year's Eve dinner, three tables were set up in the Shen family's house. There were only five people in the Cao family, including adults and children. Peanut liked to be lively and liked to play with his brothers and sisters, so they had to eat the New Year's Eve dinner together. Add to that the four people from his aunt's family and the Qin family, and the children's table alone was so lively that it was about to lift the roof off the house.
Normally everyone is busy with work and studies, and the only time we can get together at home is during the holidays. This year, we started to develop a habit at home, that is, whenever everyone gets together to celebrate the holidays or there are any big events, we will take photos as a souvenir.
They ate delicious food, had fun, and took photos. From getting up at 7:30 in the morning to returning home at around 12 o'clock at night, Peanut didn't sleep at all during this time. When Cao Jingheng carried him away, he was already squinting his eyes, but he still made an appointment with his brothers and sisters in the house to play together tomorrow.
Before the New Year, both the Shen and Qin families moved. In the past two years, Peng Zhe and Shen Anning have accumulated quite a few courtyard houses. Qin's eldest uncle has never stopped buying since he returned to China. The families have a good relationship, and the children in the family always like to get together. Grandpa Shen, Grandma Shen, Dad Shen, and Mom Shen all wanted to live closer to Shen Anning, so in May last year, they were thinking about exchanging courtyards with other families. In the following months, they renovated and renovated them. Now the families live very close to each other, and it only takes a few minutes to walk to each other, with the alleys in front and back.
It only takes three minutes to walk from his father-in-law's house to his own home. Cao Jingheng likes this very much. He even offered to sell the houses in this area to those who wanted to move in. It would be lively for several families to live together in the future. The Cao family has few relatives, and his wife has many sisters and brothers, so living close together means they can interact more often.
The whole family slept in on the first day of the Lunar New Year. When Shen An Ning opened her eyes, it was already bright outside and snowflakes were falling again. Little Peanut was sleeping soundly with a doll by the wall. Being confined by the man, Shen An Ning's waist was sore. She came back so late last night, and the man insisted that there should be a new look in the couple's life in the New Year. It turned out that she was the only one who was tired.
When she thought about having a ten-day holiday, Shen Anning wanted to jump twice in place with joy. Grandpa Cao and Grandma Cao didn't want to bother her, so they would let her meet the business guests who came to visit during the New Year, unless they were particularly important and had a good relationship with the Cao family. The other two old people were sent away by themselves.
I originally thought that I would be able to develop a good relationship with my son during this ten-day holiday, but I didn't expect that the sudden appearance of a Journey to the West would put it to the test.
During the Spring Festival, CCTV announced that all 25 episodes of Journey to the West would be broadcast during the Spring Festival. The episode that was piloted last year attracted a lot of attention at the time, and people all over the country were deeply attracted by the story of the Black Chicken Kingdom.
But at that time, Peanut couldn't understand TV. He would only react when he saw good-looking monsters or ugly monsters. Now, the two-year-old baby has grown up and can discuss TV plots with his brothers and sisters.
Grandpa Cao and Grandma Cao are also fans of TV dramas. You know, the TV drama industry is still relatively scarce now. Instead, there are more movies released. Moreover, it took several years from the start of filming to the successful production of "Journey to the West". The production team is really capable. For such a good production, everyone's sense of identity is extremely high.
In order to make things convenient for himself and the children at home, Grandpa Cao specially cleaned up the back house in the front yard of his house. Previously, the back house was connected into two rooms. It has a large area and is covered with thick woolen blankets, sofas and shelves for snacks. It is simply a paradise for drama fans.
After nine o'clock every morning, except for the little one who could speak a few words and could not walk yet, all the other children would gather in the back room on time and turn on the TV. There would be only one episode of a TV series a day, which would be broadcast repeatedly on several channels of CCTV during the day. They would watch it over and over again and learn the lines by heart, but they still enjoyed it.
Shen Anning looked at Shen Anyu and Shen Anxuan sitting on the carpet eating dried sweet potatoes and expressed deep confusion. Could this TV have attracted such a big kid? It's okay to watch it once, but how can you watch it over and over again and talk about different topics every time?
After observing these children for three consecutive days, Shen Anning saw the grandparents on both sides many times. The four old people sat on the four sofas at the edge, happily chatting about the plot with the children sitting on the carpet...
It was another morning when she woke up and didn't see her son. Shen Anning was used to it. She got dressed and went to the kitchen. The pot was warming her breakfast. She looked at her watch. It was 8:50. In order to prevent these children from being addicted to TV and to protect their eyes, the adults in several families set rules after the first day.
Get up at eight in the morning to have breakfast, then go to Cao's house to practice writing big characters for half an hour, then watch the first replay of CCTV at nine o'clock, each episode is 45 minutes, and take a break at about ten o'clock. The older children like Xixi and Qin Shutong have to take their younger brothers and sisters to study, then have lunch around eleven thirty, after which they can play video games for a while and take a nap, and study for another hour at two in the afternoon. The older children have homework, but the younger children do not, so they write big characters based on Tang poetry, and watch the second replay at three o'clock, then play until after dinner, when a new episode begins.
With every day arranged so clearly, several children, even Peanut, were willing to sit there and scribble crookedly just to watch TV with their older brothers and sisters.
Based on the principle of experiencing it, Shen Anning watched TV with a group of children on the sixth day of her vacation. After a morning, she understood why everyone liked it so much. The good plot of the TV series was one aspect, but the atmosphere was more important. Everyone saw things and understood them from different angles. What the children enjoyed was the process of constantly broadening their thinking from new perspectives.
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