"Anyway, most of them are going back to Shanghai for the New Year this time. I don't know if I can meet them when I go back. I always feel that it will be very lively." Shen Nian smiled with a gossipy face
"I don't think we'll meet. We're just classmates and we don't live that close to each other."
“That’s a shame.”
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. I heard that Sheng Yanchuan's eldest brother's family moved back. Do you know about this?" After Chen Nian finished talking about the educated youth center, the topic changed and talked about the Sheng family.
"I know. He came to my house and told me and Yanchuan yesterday."
"Well, I haven't been there much recently. It was Nian who asked Aunt Xiumei to tell me that I hadn't been there for a while, so I went for a walk and found out about it. But how come Brother Sheng and his wife have changed so much in just half a year? It's like they've aged ten years."
"You don't eat well, and you work hard," Nanqiao said casually. He didn't want to discuss the couple, especially since Taohua was still there.
"I don't know what you're thinking. You have to make trouble when you have a good life. You should be more stubborn when you make trouble. You can go back after making trouble. You're also amazing." Shen Nian pouted and didn't comment on Sheng Yanjun's behavior.
The two of them laughed and chatted for the whole morning. Taohua was reading a book on one side, and Nanqiao gave her instructions from time to time. When it was almost noon, Sheng Yanchuan and Li Zhuoran came in with a few lunch boxes.
"It's so cold." As soon as Li Zhuoran put down his lunch box after entering the house, he ran to the heater to warm himself. Sheng Yanchuan also warmed himself up before walking towards Nanqiao and sitting down next to him.
"Are you hungry? I bought spare ribs, braised pork, braised pork with potatoes, and stir-fried cabbage."
"I'm hungry. I'm waiting to be fed." Nanqiao raised her little face and smiled brightly.
"Let's eat, we carried them back together, the food is still hot," Sheng Yanchuan said as he helped Nanqiao up and asked her to wash her hands.
At this time, Li Zhuoran also warmed up. He hung his coat at the door and walked towards the table. "You don't know, we were afraid of getting cold, so we wrapped ourselves in coats and ran all the way back. We are still steaming now, look at us."
Shen Nian came back after washing her hands, and upon hearing this, she stepped forward to open the lid of the lunch box and sat down at the table. “Wow, you’ve worked so hard. The lid of the lunch box is still a little hot to the touch.”
"Yeah, go and thank your brother Zhuoran."
"Ha! If anyone needs to thank someone, thank Comrade Sheng. Why should I thank you, a freeloader?"
"Hey, little girl, I brought you home after all. Even if I have no credit, I have worked hard. If you have the guts, don't eat me."
"I want to eat it!"
The few people were already used to the bickering between Shen Nian and Li Zhuoran, so they ignored them and sat down to eat.
"Take it away, it's delaying my meal."
Seeing that everyone had started eating, Shen Nian pushed away Li Zhuoran who was holding her chopsticks to stop her from eating, and started eating heartily.
"When did you buy the ticket this morning?"
"On the third day of the twelfth lunar month, we are all on the same train"
"Ah, it's only a few days away. Did you buy sleeper berths?" Nanqiao asked.
"It's not mine, but it doesn't matter as my journey is shorter. I'll take the same bus with you guys and I can come to see you during the day."
"Except for Li Zhuoran, everyone else has sleeper berths. There are many people returning home at the end of the year, so it's not easy to squeeze in," Sheng Yanchuan explained. He also had a way to get sleeper berth tickets, but it was difficult to operate because there were so many people buying tickets at the end of the year. Li Zhuoran didn't mind, and the journey was short, so he just left it at that.
"Okay, then why don't you stay with us a day in advance? It's too tight to leave the village early in the morning." Nanqiao glanced at the train tickets that Sheng Yanchuan had placed on the table. They were all for eight in the morning. If they left the village, they would probably have to leave in the dark, and they would have to carry so many things with them. It was really inconvenient.
"Okay, then we'll come over in the afternoon of the second day of the new year," Shen Nian responded readily. With her relationship with Nanqiao, she naturally didn't need to worry about these trivial matters.
Shen Nian agreed, and Li Zhuoran did not object, and nodded and agreed together.
"What are your plans for the afternoon? I have an empty room here. Can you take a break at noon?" Nanqiao asked while eating the meat that Sheng Yanchuan put in her bowl.
"Well~ No, I want to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to see if there is anything I can buy, and then go back to the village early to pack up my things." Shen Nian shook his head.
"That's fine. It gets dark early and the road is hard to walk on. You've been wandering around for too long."
"Hmm," Shen Nian ate and occupied his mouth, and hummed twice as a response to Nanqiao's words.
After dinner, Shen Nian and Li Zhuoran rested for a while and left.
Sheng Yanchuan and Nanqiao took a lunch break as usual, while Taohua went back to her room to do her homework. She didn't want to go to Shanghai with her brother and sister-in-law and bring her homework with her...
She told her classmates that she would go to Shanghai with her brother and sister-in-law to celebrate the New Year during the winter vacation. Her classmates were very envious of her. Thinking of the trip to Shanghai in a few days, Taohua was looking forward to it.
This time when she went to Shanghai, Taohua planned to bring all her pocket money. Her second sister-in-law treated her so well, but she had never given her any gifts. This time when she went to Shanghai, she planned to use her own pocket money to buy gifts for her second sister-in-law. She also wanted to buy gifts for her parents, her second brother Yaya, and her eldest brother... Forget it, she would buy one for her eldest brother and sister-in-law as well.
I just don't know if this money is enough... Taohua's little head was filled with worries.
Youth Point
Chen Nian and Li Zhuoran went to the supply and marketing cooperative in the afternoon but didn't buy anything. Every household was buying New Year's goods. The better ones were sold out early in the morning, and the remaining ones were nothing rare.
Chen Nian originally wanted to take the rare things here back to Shanghai, but she was helpless in the current situation. As for other food and cloth, Shanghai was not short of them, and her family was even less short of them, so she didn't embarrass herself.
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