Until the rice noodles were eaten, Chen Wenjin still didn't remember that Hui didn't call him again since the beginning of the new year.

During the Chinese New Year, the refrigerator was full of things, and the vegetables that could be put were put into the sack cabinet, and the whole family took action to clean up.

These processes have become ritual-like, so that in the future, the way of life has changed, and Chen's mother is still reluctant to change. When there were not so many people visiting the house, Chen's mother still bought so much food, and when she hired someone to clean up on popular holidays, Chen's mother still insisted on doing it herself.

Almost busy from morning to night, lunch is also a simple noodle cooking, and it is finally cleaned up.

The child had only one thought in his mind: 'I'm tired of it, and I'm finally done scrubbing.' ’

And the adults saw that the corners of the room were clean, and they felt satisfied and gratified.

Chen Wenjin is now looking at his family, not as he did when he was a teenager, and he can understand his parents' feelings about home.

Is it because the child does not have much sunk cost for the home, and has always enjoyed the role of the home, so that the parents do not have the special value of the things at home?" Chen Wenjin asked himself, but he felt that this was not entirely the reason, because even if he bought something himself, he would not be nostalgic when he did not need it. Or the family atmosphere is not warm and loving, too cold and irritable. ’

"Don't be stunned, it's time for dinner, Chen Qian is going to wash the vegetables!" Chen's mother wiped her sweat and stood up.

"I'm tired to death! Why do you want me to wash vegetables!" Chen Qian protested loudly and angrily, and Chen's father said angrily: "The little baby shouts tired when he does something, what will he do in the future? How happy your life is now! I don't know how blessed we were now! Do you know how we lived back then? I was still in the second grade, and when I came home from school, I consciously remembered to dig gourds and find wild vegetables first......

Chen Qian's anger turned into pain, she felt that Master Chen's verbosity was more terrible than going to wash the vegetables, so she stood up and shouted: "Okay, okay, I'll go wash the vegetables! Don't be long-winded, I'm annoyed! I'm tired all day and still have to listen to you talk about the old yellow calendar! I said it over and over again, it's not annoying!"

"Won't I say anything if you do it?" Lord Chen continued angrily: "Look at your generation, what will you do in the future! I don't know the suffering of the elders at all, and I don't want to listen to it! In the future, when you come out to work, how can you stay in the company with this attitude?...... Before you finish speaking, close the kitchen door!"

"Wait a little bit longer for you to wash the vegetables!" Chen Qian roared in the kitchen, she was still verbose after washing the vegetables, it was just too much.

"Look, look at your sister! You don't take the lead as a brother, your sister follows you like ......, if you don't learn, you will learn from you" Chen's father then shifted his attention, Chen Wenjin nodded while pouring himself tea, pretending to look at his father very seriously and said, "Well, Dad, you're right!"

Probably because he was too serious, so that Master Chen didn't feel the slightest sincerity, but said angrily: "That's right!

"Yes, Dad is right!" Chen Wenjin said, and then asked, "Do you want tea?"

"Don't drink!" Father Chen was furious, knowing that Chen Wenjin clearly didn't listen to it, and he didn't even feel verbose.

Chen Wenjin had just finished making tea when he heard his mother shouting, "The kitchen door is open!"

Chen Qian had no choice but to open it, and was relieved to hear the silence in the living room.

Chen Wenjin heard his mother's words and felt that it was funny, it was like this in the past, and it will still be like this in the future, so he used to open the window and the wind blowing from east to west, north and south, even in winter. Chen Wenjin remembered that he couldn't help but ask his mother: Is it almost the same as living in a bridge cave with such convection blowing wind from morning to night?

Chen Wenjin remembered that his mother gave him a blank look and said, "Then you go to live in Qiaodong." ”

"No, you like to blow from morning to night, and you should go to live in the bridge cave, right?" Chen Wenjin asked with a deliberately hippie smile.

"You baby is uneasy and kind! Is it that the vixen outside your father has given you benefits? Tell you to drive me away, the vixen will come to be your stepmother?" Chen's mother was immediately furious, but this logical connection caught people off guard.

Chen Wenjin had no choice but to say very seriously: "I'm not stupid. It's been miserable enough to be beaten by you since I was a child, how can I still expect a stepmother? My own mother is so cruel, and my stepmother can't poison me?"

"Flim tongue!" Mother Chen walked away angrily and funny.

Chen Wenjin thought about it, and felt that the past that he once thought was only a memory was now fortunate to be able to experience it again, which is good!

But this happiness didn't last long, and it turned into depression......

Lord Chen's comrades-in-arms and friends have more than 20 households coming and going, and they also have to receive more than 20 households.

More than 40 meals, two meals a day, more than 20 days to be all right.

Fortunately, some will make an appointment with two or three families, and two or three families will make an appointment to go to the same family to pay New Year's greetings, and after this operation, it will become seven to twelve days to settle the battle, and in special cases, there will be a time when you move around until fifteen.

Children run with adults, eating and drinking should not feel tired, however, every time they eat and toast with drinks one by one, a table of people is tired enough after a turn, especially hate to meet adults who deliberately use the wine table culture to test children, push and hinder, and drink for a long time.

When you encounter this, you can't respect people's willingness not to drink, and your parents will say that you are not right, saying that you do not show enough sincerity to toast.

Chen Wenjin remembered that a child of about the same age once toasted and said angrily: "Rory, I was stunned for thirteen minutes!

As for when others come to their own homes for dinner, then they have to add hospitality work such as serving tea and pouring water to a large group of people, making fruit snacks, etc., if there is anything more uncomfortable, it is to watch their favorite snacks being eaten less and less by the guests.

You can't quietly hide your favorite snacks and hide too much, otherwise Chen's mother will inevitably find out, and then you will know what Chen's mother's temper is like when she picks up the broom.

Chen Wenjin thinks that his generation generally hates excessive socialization and likes the family to have private space, which should be caused by the fatigue accumulated since childhood.

Chen's father and his comrades-in-arms have common good memories, and they have a good intention to get together and hope that the next generation can maintain their friendship, but the reality is: when children see each other once or twice a year, they will only have feelings such as 'toasting one by one, repeating the greetings of the routine over and over again, and entertaining guests with favorite snacks', so it's strange to like it.

As for the bowls and plates that filled the pool after the guests had dispersed, and the mess of the house full of garbage, the pain was nothing compared to that.

For Chen Wenjin, these tiredness have long been gone, because he has always avoided falling into a socially cumbersome lifestyle, and this year, he has relived it again.

Unfortunately, this reliving is not a beautiful experience, but a painful torment.

It's only been two days, and Chen Wenjin just hopes that the year will end soon.

As for the red envelopes?

When I was a child, I also had to hand it in, and I could swallow it privately even if I was beaten up.

But now Chen Wenjin has no motivation to swallow the red envelope money privately, and the Chinese New Year is completely meaningless.

At noon in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Hui also quietly called Chen Wenjin and hurriedly said two sentences, after which, there was no news on the first, second, and third days of the new year.

Chen Wenjin was immersed in the busy atmosphere of the New Year, and he didn't breathe a sigh of relief until the ninth day of the new year.

Chen's father said that a comrade-in-arms went back for the New Year, and he would go again on the day of the eleventh, and then the year would be over.

"Ah, there is another family, everyone has gone back to their hometown to hide, and you still don't let him go?" Chen Qian shouted in annoyance, and Chen's father angrily rebuked: "What nonsense! People are going home to visit relatives! We should go back to visit your grandparents this year." ”

"You have a red envelope, what else do you complain about?" Chen's mother also echoed the reproach.

Chen Qian's eyes widened, and she stretched out her hand and said, "Then you give me the red envelope, and I won't complain if I don't have to hand it over!"

"Isn't it saved for you?" Chen's mother took it for granted.

"Then I don't need your help to save it, I'll save it myself, you can give it to me. Chen Qian decided to go down.

Lord Chen frowned and said, "Isn't the red envelope exchanged for the money we gave out?"

"If you don't have us, don't you want to give it? If you give it to you, no one will take it back for you, and if you take it back, you will take it all away, and you won't give it to us at all. Chen Qian was very disdainful of those beautiful words, Chen Wenjin couldn't help laughing, in his memory these words were said by his parents.

"Chen Wen, listen to it today! Listen to it—if you don't study well yourself, you will teach your sister!" Lord Chen rebuked angrily, Chen Qian pouted and said, "If you can't talk about it, change the topic." ”

"Didn't I get shot while lying down?" Chen Wenjin listened happily as he knocked on his pistachios.

"You're still innocent, aren't you? Didn't you say these words before? Your sister has learned everything, and when you become a brother, you don't lead by example, it's not your responsibility or anyone's responsibility?......" Chen's father turned on the admonishment mode again, Chen Qian looked up at the ceiling in despair, looking loveless.

Chen Wenjin knocked on the pistachios, pretending to be very serious and said, "Yes! Dad is right!"

"That's right! As soon as I said it, you said it was right, and I didn't listen to it at all!" Master Chen was very angry, and Chen Wenjin said innocently: "Dad is indeed right, I can't say it's wrong." ”

Lord Chen was angry, but he didn't continue to turn on the verbose mode.

Chen Qian couldn't help but look at Chen Wenjin, and the two brothers and sisters looked at each other, revealing surprise.

Yes, they wondered why Lord Chen didn't continue to ramble, could it be that this sentence was a 'spell' that could make him not verbose?

"Brother, I'll try to use this trick next time?" Chen Qian's heart was pounding, if this spell could eliminate the pain of listening to Lord Chen's verbosity, she would definitely be willing to say it!

"I think it's okay, it's kind of interesting. Chen Wenjin also found it interesting.

As if he couldn't hear Lord Chen speak, he ignored it completely, he could fall down one by one, and there was even more quarrel against it, but he didn't expect to pretend to be serious and immediately say yes, but he couldn't go on?

The next day, Chen Qian found an opportunity to experiment.

As soon as Master Chen started the verbose mode for her, Chen Qian looked at Chen's father with a serious expression like a primary school student listening to a teacher's lecture and said, "Yes! Dad is right!"

“...... Look, look! The good sons and daughters you teach, one will be more angry than the other!" Lord Chen immediately shifted the spearhead of the attack to Chen's mother, who was also shot while lying down, and suddenly couldn't bear to open his mouth back, and a big battle began......

After arguing for a while, when Chen's father turned on the routine mode in the living room again, Chen Qian slipped into the master bedroom, Chen's mother glared at her and reprimanded: "You provoked it!"

"Mom, you try to learn from us, pretend to be very serious and look at Dad and say, 'Yes, what you said is right!', so good! As soon as he says it, he won't be verbose!" Chen Qian's face was full of anticipation of being adopted after making suggestions, Chen's mother felt ridiculous, and after thinking about it, she felt that Master Chen's reaction when she heard this twice was very strange, but she still denied it with suspicion: "How is it possible? He just didn't bother to talk about you." ”

"He's too lazy to say, he doesn't listen to his long-winded words all day in high spirits, which is more terrible than Tang Seng in the Journey to the West! Chen Qian heard Lord Chen roaring outside: "I'm talking! You don't listen well, what are you muttering to Chen Qian there......?

Chen Qian quickly lowered her head and slipped back to the room, Chen's mother was annoyed, and closed the door with a 'snap', and the city lord stood at the door angrily and continued to argue.

Chen Wenjin pondered in the room whether that sentence was coincidentally effective, or was it really effective?

If it works, why does it work?

So he pondered the personality and psychology of Chen's father, and then brought it into the state of that sentence, and tried to deduce the mental activity and mental state of Master Chen after listening to it, in order to find out the reason for the effect......