"Xiao Yu, Happy New Year! I wish you all your wishes come true and everything goes well in the new year."

It would be best if you could become my wife.

Of course, he added these words silently in his mind.

He also knew that getting married right away would definitely not work for Xiaoyu.

Alas, the road to chasing a wife is long~

"Happy New Year, and I wish you a bright future and may all your dreams come true."

"Haha, I hope my wish will come true as soon as possible like your blessing."

Although he didn't want to leave this warm house, he had to leave. It was already past twelve o'clock and it was time for Xiaoyu to go to bed.

"I'm going to the next door now, go to sleep quickly, sweet dreams~"

When he came to the next door, Yan Ziyuan climbed over the wall and jumped in, just like he did last time.

When he knocked on the door, Jin Kai was already asleep.

Thinking I was dreaming, I turned over and fell asleep again.

Until the knocks on the door outside became louder and louder. He squinted his eyes, still in a state of half-sleep and half-wakefulness, without any clothes on, and got out of bed and walked to the door and opened it.

A gust of cold wind suddenly penetrated his bones, making him shiver.

The cold winter night and the person standing at the door scared him so much that he lost all his sleepiness.

"Oh my god, Yan Ziyuan, do you know what time it is now?!"

"Why did you come to my place so late at night in the snow? Don't say you saw I was lonely and came to spend the New Year with me."

"Oh~ you think too much."

Yan Ziyuan walked around him and went straight into the house.

Jin Kai immediately closed the door and quickly huddled under the quilt. He almost froze to death when he opened the door for a moment.

"You're not coming here for the guy next door, are you?"

Yan Ziyuan raised an eyebrow at him to show that he guessed correctly.

"madman!"

"You are a complete lunatic!"

Isn't he just crazy.

The team only trained for one morning today. Except for the soldiers on duty, everyone else had three days off. At about 3 o'clock, they started to organize everyone to make dumplings and prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner.

When he was organizing everyone to work, all he thought about was Xiaoyu.

This should be her first New Year spent alone away from home. I wonder how she spent it, whether she felt lonely or sad.

The more he thought about it, the more worried he became.

So I applied for three days of family leave from Zhao Tuan and took the last vehicle to deliver supplies. It took more than seven hours to reach Shanhe Village.

On the way through the town walking towards the village in the snow, he also felt that he was crazy. Missing his mother to death might be the best way to describe him now.

He could never have imagined before that he would behave so impulsively.

But the moment Xiaoyu opened the door, he felt that everything was worth it when he saw a hint of surprise on her face.

The next morning, Yan Ziyuan did not wake up Jin Kai. Instead, he took a shovel and went outside to shovel a path leading to the gate of the next courtyard.

While it was still early, he put on his clothes and went straight to town.

I promised Xiaoyu yesterday that we would have hotpot today. I have to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to see if there is anything else I can buy.

Shake off the snow on your body and enter the supply and marketing cooperative.

The salesperson inside was a little surprised to see someone coming in despite the snow.

"Young man, why are you out shopping in such a heavy snow? Don't freeze to death."

Before the Chinese New Year, almost every household had already stocked up on New Year's goods, and very few people would go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things. Moreover, it was snowing so heavily outside, and there were even fewer people who would come to the supply and marketing cooperative.

It's almost eight o'clock now. At this time before the New Year, there are many people here, but today he is the first customer.

"Look, what do you want to order?"

"There's basically no fresh food, only some dried food and frozen sticky bean curd."

"Oh, by the way, do you want some frozen seafood? They were all shipped over from Lian City before the New Year, and there's still some left."

This was the first year that their supply and marketing cooperative imported seafood. They thought it would sell well, but in fact, very few people bought it because the price was too high and most people didn't know how to cook it.

"Pack all the dry goods for me. I want a hundred sticky bean buns. How many frozen seafoods are there?"

As soon as the salesperson heard what he wanted, he knew he was a big customer.

"There were about ten kilograms of shrimp, two hairtail fish, six golden pomfret, and a dozen hard-shell crabs."

"Originally I wanted fish tickets or meat tickets, young man, if you buy a lot, I won't take your tickets."

In fact, it was because there were still some left and they just couldn’t be sold. The leader had already said that they should be sold directly without tickets.

"Put them all on me."

There were several dozen kilograms of stuff in total, and his hands were frozen when he took them back. So he bought a backpack from the supply and marketing cooperative and carried the stuff on his back.

When we got back to the village, it was almost half past ten. Jin Kai, who had slept in, had also gotten up.

"Did you clear out all the unsold inventory from the supply and marketing cooperative?"

Jin Kai looked at the big backpack behind him. Besides sticky rice dumplings, the most common thing in it was seafood.

A few years ago, he also went to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought some frozen shrimps and a golden pomfret.

But he is not a good cook.

The shrimp can be boiled directly in water and eaten with some sauce.

The golden pomfret he cooked had a very fishy smell. I barely ate two bites and then threw the whole thing away.

"Do you want any? If you don't, I'll take it next door."

"Take it all over there. My cooking isn't very tasty, so it's a waste to keep it here. Take it to the next door, maybe I can get some for free."

"From what you said, it seems that you did a lot of rubbing when I was away."

"No, I only got a little bit. Really just a little bit."

"And I bought all the food myself. I definitely didn't eat white rice."

"You're smart."

"Hey, some people have a partner and don't even want brothers~"

Yan Ziyuan ignored his teasing, picked up the backpack again and went to the next door.

"Hey, wait, I'll go too."

Song Fuyu was so happy to see that he bought so many seafood.

It snowed before the New Year and it was inconvenient to go there, so she didn't go to the supply and marketing cooperative and thought she couldn't buy seafood here.

Although it's frozen, it's better than nothing.

"I don't know if you like it, so I bought some of them."

"Don't believe him. I think he cleared out all the stocks in the supply and marketing cooperative."

Yan Ziyuan originally didn't want Xiao Yu to feel pressured, but Jin Kai's words interrupted him.

“Haha, I like it very much.”

"I got up late today and didn't have time to eat hot pot. I'll eat it tonight."

"I will use these seafood to make you a seafood feast at noon. Look forward to it. I guarantee you will want to eat more after you have tasted it."

She used to make spicy shrimp and spicy crab for herself many times. Although she couldn’t compare with the ones in restaurants, at least she thought they tasted pretty good.

"Do you need help?"

"Please help thaw the shrimp and crabs. Just add some salt to the cold water. After thawing, wash them. It's best to remove the shrimp thread. I'll go prepare the other ingredients."

"Jin Zhiqing, please go to next door and call Youyou over. Tell her that I asked her to come over to help with the cooking."

"Okay, no problem."

After a while, even Jin Kai was assigned the task of washing vegetables by her.

The four people were busy.

When Song Fuyu was making spicy crabs, the other three people were drooling.

They restrained their gaze and did not allow themselves to look into the pot, for fear that they would not be able to hold back and drool.