"I'll have my assistant contact you after the New Year."
Lin Junying's eyes widened in surprise. "You're going to let me join the company?!"
"What qualifications does someone who fails every semester have to work for the company?"
"oh."
Lin Junying calmed down; he had thought he had managed to break into a place his father hadn't even been able to enter.
Actually, Lin Shen came out to take charge of Lin Junying's agricultural and labor work this time because Lin Junying's mother asked Lin Shen for help.
Back then, Lin Junying worked hard to get into university, but he started indulging in eating, drinking, and having fun. If it had been just about eating, drinking, and having fun, his family wouldn't have cared.
They're all the same, just enjoying life, nothing important.
However, Lin Junying's mother recently discovered that her son was hanging out with a group of bad friends every day and almost did something illegal. That's why she went to Lin Shen to talk about it.
At the time, Lin Junying's mother said that she would arrange any kind of work for him, such as carrying bricks on a construction site, as long as he was not idle and it would be best to keep him away from his friends so that they would not have a chance to contact him.
Lin Shen, considering various factors, agreed to his second sister-in-law's request.
There's nowhere to move bricks, and the Lin Group doesn't have any real estate projects, but they definitely won't let Lin Junying have an easy time.
After Lin Shen finished speaking to him, he stood up and left with the words, "Enjoy your vacation."
Lin Junying was completely confused. He went to ask his parents, and one told him to get lost, while the other told him to listen to his uncle.
So Lin Junying could only leave, completely bewildered.
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After finishing making the dumplings, Xia Wenxi remembered something and deliberately left a little bit of her portion uneaten, telling Aunt Li not to cook them yet.
Xia Wensheng followed closely behind, repeating the same words as Xia Wenxi.
Aunt Li smiled but said nothing. She divided the dumplings that the two of them had made into portions, packed them separately, and froze them first.
Xia Wenxi asked Xia Wensheng, "Are you sure you want to take the dumplings you made to Sister Minghuan? They'll turn into noodle soup after you cook them. Aren't you ashamed of that?"
Xia Wensheng grinned and said, "Mind your own dumplings. I just love noodle soup."
When cooking dumplings that evening, Aunt Li specially cooked the ones Xia Wensheng had made in a separate pot. Sure enough, even though she was very careful, a few still leaked out.
It was much better than I expected; at least the soup was only a little cloudy and hadn't completely turned into pork and cabbage noodle soup.
"Let's see who finds the dumpling with the coin in it first tonight!"
There was a plate of dumplings in front of everyone. To be fair, all the dumplings were served by Aunt Li, and each plate contained dumplings made by different people.
Soon, Ke Shurong spat out a coin from her mouth.
"Now that I've had the food, I'll make a wish!"
Ke Shurong put the coins aside for now, planning to clean them up and put them away properly later.
"Mom doesn't have any other wishes, she just hopes that our family will be happy and healthy. And she also hopes that Xiaobao will pass the exam smoothly!"
"Thank you, Mom."
Xia Wenxi thanked her mother and immediately ate the coin herself.
Perhaps she followed the same wish as her mother.
In the end, Xia Wensheng was the only one who finished his plate of dumplings without finding a coin, which made him very disappointed, so he decided to eat another plate!
"What's going on?! I even came up with a wish."
Ke Shurong asked him, "Dabao, what is your wish? I'll make a wish for you when we eat later."
Xia Wensheng sighed, "I hope I won't have to go to work next year, and that Hengyuan can sign a lot of projects and make a lot of money."
Before he could finish speaking, the three people who had just been sympathizing with him stared at him speechlessly.
"Well! I'll make a new wish later."
It was indeed an interesting coincidence. After Xia Wensheng said those words, he actually found three coins in the next plate of dumplings.
This whole situation has left Xia Wensheng feeling helpless.
So, you're saying I have no choice but to attend this class?
"It's fate that you have to work, so accept it."
Halfway through the family's New Year's Eve dinner, they suddenly realized that it was still a bit too early.
Fireworks and firecrackers are banned in the city, so there's no entertainment after dinner.
So Xia Wenxi suggested, "The four of us can play cards later!"
Xia Hengyuan asked the two of them, "Didn't you two leave some dumplings? Aren't you going out later?"
Xia Wenxi and Xia Wensheng had no idea that their little actions had already been seen by their parents.
Xia opened his mouth, about to explain, when Xia Hengyuan said again, "Your mother and I are going out on a date too, we don't have time to play cards."
Okay...
Xia Wenxi originally planned to surprise Lin Shen with dumplings before returning home, and then spend New Year's Eve with her parents. It turns out she was just being presumptuous.
"I'll go out later. People are eating now, so we should wait until they finish their meal before we go out."
"Me too."
Xia Wensheng originally planned to wait until his parents were asleep before going out.
"So, Mom and Dad, where are you planning to go on your date?"
Xia Wensheng decided to learn from his father, hoping that he could be just as passionate when he reaches that age.
"I'm taking your mother out of town. How can we celebrate the New Year without setting off fireworks? We're going to find a place where we can set off fireworks and have a blast!"
Hearing this, Xia Wenxi was tempted and really wanted to ask her parents if she could come along too...
But after thinking about it, she decided not to say anything. She didn't want to do anything flashy or glamorous for her parents' private life.
After the meal, Xia Hengyuan and Ke Shurong took out red envelopes and gave one to each of them.
"There are two more, which are for Huanhuan and Xiaoshen. You two can give them to them later."
"Okay! Thank you, Mom and Dad."
Xia Wenxi never received red envelopes from her parents during the Spring Festival before. Since coming into this world, she feels that countless blanks and regrets in her life have been made up.
Xia Wensheng carefully put away the four red envelopes given to him by his parents, and then took two more out of his pocket.
"This is for you and Lin Shen, don't be shy, it's what I should do as an older brother. Lin Shen calls me brother, so I won't let him call me that for nothing."
"Thank you, brother! I'll definitely tell Lin Shen to call you 'brother' more often when he sees you in the future."
"That's not necessary..."
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10 PM.
Only Xia Wenxi and Xia Wensheng remained at home.
"At first, I was planning to go on a date behind my parents' backs, but I never expected that we would become left-behind children."
Xia Wenxi glanced at him and said, "You call yourself a left-behind child? You're more like a left-behind youth."
Xia took a deep breath upon hearing this, "Can you please stop talking?"
"OK."
Xia Wenxi looked down and sent a message to Lin Shen, asking if they had finished their New Year's Eve dinner.
Lin Shen quickly replied that he had finished eating and was chatting with his mother and family.
Xia Wenxi stood up, preparing to cook dumplings.
Just then, Xia Wensheng stood up, and it seemed that the brother and sister were traveling in the same direction.
The brother and sister exchanged a glance, and for the first time, they understood what tacit understanding meant.
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