Chapter 458 New Year
After returning from Chen Guichang's house, Chen Guilan started preparing the New Year's Eve dinner.
There are firecrackers everywhere in the community, and it feels like the New Year.
This little thing in their family did not affect the good mood of the mother and daughter. Su Jiaojiao even played music. New Year, new atmosphere, and the New Year should be celebrated in a festive manner.
The custom in Jiao County is to eat New Year's Eve dinner in the afternoon. There must be chicken and rice. The more food there is, the better the living conditions at home.
Dumplings are made after the New Year’s Eve dinner and cooked at midnight.
When she was young, Su Jiaojiao would stare at the clock and wait for dumplings. Dumplings would not be cooked at home before twelve o'clock.
Chen Guilan originally planned to cook ten dishes, saying they would be perfect, but Su Jiaojiao stopped her, saying that "six sixes of luck" was good enough: "Mom, in our business, we value smooth sailing, smooth sailing, and the God of Wealth."
She knew Chen Guilan very well. If she cooked too much, she would eat the leftovers, and she would eat them for the next meal.
Now that her family's living conditions have improved, Chen Guilan still maintains her original lifestyle. She is reluctant to waste any food and has no habit of throwing away leftovers.
"Okay, let's fry six!" Chen Guilan put the remaining ingredients into the refrigerator.
After dinner, it was getting dark, and the mother and daughter started to prepare the dough and chop the stuffing to make dumplings.
Chen Guilan works fast, so Su Jiaojiao doesn't have to do these things. She just helps out or something.
Su Jiaojiao took the time to call Mrs. Lu and wish her a happy new year. Mrs. Lu was very happy and asked her what she was doing at home.
Su Jiaojiao said that she and her mother were making dumplings.
Old Mrs. Lu said she would send greetings to her mother and asked her mother to come to the capital to play after the New Year. Su Jiaojiao agreed and also sent greetings to Lu Jia and Lin Manli. She knew that their family would be at the old house for the New Year.
After hanging up the phone, Mrs. Lu said to Lin Manli, "Jiaojiao says hello to you. You didn't leave her your phone number last time."
"I forgot last time." Lin Manli hadn't intended to leave Su Jiaojiao her phone number, but she said against her will, "Just give it to her next time."
She felt that she had nothing to say to Su Jiaojiao.
It’s better not to have a phone call to avoid embarrassment for both of us.
Lu Jingyou was playing chess with Mr. Lu. When he heard them talking about Su Jiaojiao, he hurriedly asked, "Did Jiaojiao call?"
As usual, Qin Xiuming sat on the sidelines watching the game. When he heard Su Jiaojiao calling Old Mrs. Lu, he didn't even raise his eyelids and just stared at the chessboard.
His new girlfriend is a local, and he originally planned to bring her back to meet the old couple during the first month of the lunar year, but the old couple refused.
Mr. Lu said it wouldn’t be too late to bring her back after their relationship stabilized.
Old Mrs. Lu also said that they had been dating for too short a time and didn't know each other well enough, so they should wait a year or two before deciding.
Qin Xiuming heard that Old Lady Lu gave Su Jiaojiao a green jade necklace, which was very valuable.
I wonder what gift Mrs. Lu will give his girlfriend...
"Well, she asked how we were." Old Mrs. Lu said to Lu Jingyou with a smile, "I have a task for you. Bring her back early and let her stay at our house for a few days. Otherwise, she'll be busy again once school starts."
"Grandma, she finally got to go back to her hometown, let her stay home for a few more days!" Lu Jingyou said with a smile, "She wants to spend more time with her mother."
"Yes, it's more comfortable to be with my mother." Mrs. Lu didn't say anything else.
Lin Manli knew that Lu Jingyou was going to see Su Jiaojiao on the second day of the Chinese New Year, so she couldn't help but remind him: "We still have to go to your aunt's house for dinner on the second day of the Chinese New Year. You can go two days later."
"Oh, I know. I won't miss my flight this afternoon." Lu Jingyou has only one aunt, Lin Manling. Every year on the second day of the Lunar New Year, his family would go to Lin Manling's house for dinner.
The Lu family’s relatives are all in their hometown in northern Tianjin and can’t go there either.
"Jingyou, can you get used to living there?" Lin Manli was concerned about this. "I heard they don't have heating over there, so you should wear more clothes."
"Mom, who told you there's no heating there? They live in a building, just like us." Lu Jingyou didn't understand why his mother always imagined Su Jiaojiao's hometown to be so simple. "Don't forget, I've lived in Jiao County for more than three years. What's there for me to be uncomfortable with?"
Lin Manli thought so too, but still told him: "Don't stay at their house when you go there. Stay at the Guotai Hotel. That's the rule."
"I understand." Lu Jingyou agreed. He was already a grown-up, and his mother didn't need to worry about where he would stay at night.
Besides, it’s Chinese New Year, why is he staying at the China Travel Service?
Of course he had to live in his wife's house. He had never heard of any rules or regulations.
"Jingyou, how many days do you plan to be gone?" Mr. Lu asked him.
"About three or four days!" Lu Jingyou replied.
"When you visit someone's home, you must be polite and respect their customs." Mr. Lu said this and didn't say anything else.
"I'll remember." Lu Jingyou responded happily. He was looking forward to visiting relatives in the village with her.
Lin Manli felt very uncomfortable when she saw her son's happy face.
He has been busy in the suburbs of Beijing for the past two years, and she rarely sees him. He just came back yesterday, stayed for two or three days, and then went to look for Su Jiaojiao again.
She hopes her son can calm down and spend some time with her, even if it's just to go out for a walk or talk about his true feelings.
Even in the old house, Lu Jingyou basically stayed with Grandpa Lu, either playing chess or talking about company matters, and never thought of talking to her.
Mrs. Lu saw this and walked up to the grandfather and grandson and said, "After you finish this game of chess, stop playing. Let Jingyou talk to his mother."
Lu Jia and his brothers haven't come back yet.
As soon as Wu Xinyue arrived, she went into Lu Qingqing's room. The mother and daughter talked affectionately in the room. The daughter is really considerate.
Only Lu Jingyou played chess with the old man as soon as he came back, and he didn't even consider spending time with his mother.
"Okay, I'll listen to grandma." Lu Jingyou agreed happily. He turned his head to look at Lin Manli and asked, "Mom, what can I do for you?"
"It's okay..." Lin Manli instantly lost the desire to talk to him. Does it mean that in his eyes, if there is something to talk about, then talk about it, and if there is nothing to talk about, then don't talk about it?
After wrapping the dumplings, the mother and daughter sat on the sofa, watching the Spring Festival Gala and chatting leisurely. Chen Guilan heard Su Jiaojiao calling Lu Jingyou's grandmother to wish her a happy new year, so she asked her, "Why did you only call his grandmother and not his mother?"
"I don't have his mother's phone number." Su Jiaojiao hugged the pillow and found a comfortable position to lean on the sofa.
"Even if you don't have any, you can ask Lu Jingyou." Chen Guilan was very surprised. "You wouldn't be unable to think of this, right?"
"Mom, they're all together. I can just call the old lady and say hello." Su Jiaojiao said disapprovingly, "Do I need to call everyone?"
"That's not necessary." Chen Guilan agreed, but still advised her, "You have to get along well with his mother. Look at Cheng Yu, they didn't get along well before marriage, and it got even worse after marriage."
"Mom, let's watch TV!" Su Jiaojiao didn't want to chat anymore.
Getting along between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has been a problem for thousands of years, and she didn't expect it to be solved by her.
If you can get along, get along; if you can’t, stay away from it.
A mother-in-law like my aunt-in-law would be hard to get along with even if she had another daughter-in-law. It’s not that all mothers-in-law are bad, but that neither she nor Cheng Yu had encountered one.
Good mothers-in-law are all from other people's families.
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