After returning to Jiangdu, the atmosphere of the New Year is very strong.

The streets and alleys are lively and joyful, and people's mood has become very restless, just like the mood of looking forward to the New Year when I was a child.

The car slowly parked outside the door of the old house, Wang Huixian had already come out to greet her, I heard that her son was going to take his girlfriend home, she made a lot of delicious dishes, and bought fruits and snacks, specially cleaned up Xie Xiaoke's room, waiting for the return of her future daughter-in-law.

And Xie Xiaofeng is even more exaggerated, since the last time I went to Shencheng to hold a birthday banquet for Wang Huixian, after seeing Wang Xiaochen, I was so happy when I returned to Jiangdu that I didn't even play mahjong, and I was more active in business every day than usual.

Wang Xiaochen and Xie Xiaoke got out of the car with their luggage and walked to the door with a smile.

"Hello uncle, hello aunt!" Wang Xiaochen called very politely, with an irreproducible smile on his face.

The first time she came to Xie Xiaoke's hometown, Wang Xiaochen felt very surprised, the picture she made up in her mind before was in a community, and she had to swipe the access card when she entered the door, and then took the elevator upstairs, but she didn't expect it to be this kind of small western-style building, which looked a little bigger than the villa they bought in Shencheng, and there was such a big open space outside the door, although it was not surrounded by a courtyard, but it all belonged to Xie Xiaoke's family.

She looked around curiously, and then took the luggage in with Xie Xiaoke and put it in the room.

Xie Xiaoke pointed to his room and said, "We'll sleep here at night!"

"The decoration is so luxurious, you don't live at home, it's a waste!" Wang Xiaochen whispered to Xie Xiaoke alone.

Xie Xiaoke said nonchalantly: "It doesn't cost much in Jiangdu, it doesn't cost more than 6 million to buy it and decorate it, it's as expensive as a house in Shencheng!"

"That's right, the house our family bought in the county is only a few hundred thousand!" Wang Xiaochen said with the same feeling.

The two were chatting when they heard Wang Huixian shouting in the living room: "Come out for dinner, Xiaochen!"

"Oh, okay!"

When I came to the living room, the table was already full of all kinds of rich dishes, and I smelled a fragrance from a distance, full of color and fragrance, and Wang Xiaochen praised it again and again: "Auntie's craftsmanship is so good, no wonder Xiao Ke is so good at cooking!"

"Yes, sit down, what do Xiaochen drink?" Wang Huixian and Wang Xiaochen sat at the guest table talking and laughing, Xie Xiaofeng went to get a drink, and Xie Xiaoke went to the kitchen to bring all the rice.

"I'll do anything!"

"Come to the red bar, I didn't come back for the Chinese New Year last year, we have to eat and drink well this year, we will all be a family in the future, you're welcome!" Wang Huixian said with a smile.

One hour later, lunch was over.

Xie Xiaoke took Wang Xiaochen to the surrounding scenic spots for a while, and returned home in the evening.

On the Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the New Year, Wang Huixian and Xie Xiaofeng closed the hotel for two days, in order to have a good New Year, and on the first day of the New Year, their family was going to go to relatives, the two little girls at the cashier had already gone home, and no one in the hotel could not watch, and finally only closed the door, and after returning from the second year of junior high school, the old two could work hard.

People in their twenties no longer look forward to the New Year as they did when they were children.

The current atmosphere of Jiangdu is completely different from before, in the past during the New Year, new clothes, new guns, firecrackers and fireworks are indispensable, and now the times have progressed, small to just recognize the sensible, big to not dead, are playing landlords, fried golden flowers, 80 points, pai gow, mahjong, nothing but gambling.

On the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve, families began to be busy with Chinese New Year's Eve dinners, sticking Spring Festival couplets, and cleaning their homes.

Xie Xiaoke originally planned to cook with Wang Huixian, but there was no one to post the Spring Festival couplets, so he could only give up the opportunity to express himself and go to post the Spring Festival couplets with Wang Xiaochen, while Xie Xiaofeng went to the kitchen to help.

Today's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is far less complicated than when it was a child, and most people are getting lazier and lazier, so that many traditional customs are gradually forgotten.

Jiangdu here for the New Year, Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in what dishes are regulated, not what you want to eat, such as braised fish, egg dumplings, old hen soup, braised pork roasted lotus root, celery fried shredded meat, white fungus sweet soup, pearl balls, tea eggs, etc., each family's Chinese New Year's Eve meal recipe is different, but it is always inseparable from those dozen dishes.

In recent years, these customs have long ceased to exist, like Xie Xiaoke's cousin Xie Xiaodong and cousins Xie Wenjun and Xie Wenyan, where do they still know the customs and habits of their hometown, they have long been poisoned by Douyin and can't extricate themselves, they can know the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Lantern Festival.

Although Xie Xiaoke is not very old, he was born in 1997, and he is a post-00 generation after 3 years, but his thinking is very mature, which is affected by the environment, the children of poor families are in charge early, he is a positive teaching material, he has a strong sense of responsibility since he was a child, and he likes to take on some things by himself, the most commendable thing is that every year during the New Year when he was a child, their Spring Festival couplets were written by Xie Xiaoke himself.

Although he only knew the handwriting, he felt very happy, happy and proud.

Xie Xiaoke took the glue he bought from the supermarket and applied it to the Spring Festival couplets, and then walked carefully to the door with Wang Xiaochen alone, one up and one down, and slowly pasted the Spring Festival couplets on the door.

The Spring Festival couplets I bought are all golden, which look very grand at first glance, but lack some mood.

"In the past, we wrote the Spring Festival couplets ourselves, but now we buy them, which is not interesting at all!"

Wang Xiaochen pressed the Spring Festival couplets on the door with his hand, and sighed from the bottom of his heart: "If only the customs of my childhood could be brought to the present!"

Xie Xiaoke also thinks so: "When I was a child, except that the living conditions were not as good as now, everything else was better than now, and the relationship between relatives was close. ”

Sometimes, Xie Xiaoke really hopes that he can be reborn as a child like the male protagonist in the city, without a golden finger, without a system, and he doesn't want to copy songs, books, and movies to reach the pinnacle of life, as long as he can experience life as a child again.

Although the taste of the New Year is gone, fortunately, with Wang Xiaochen's joining this year, this year is quite happy, not only Xie Xiaoke is happy, but his mother Wang Huixian is even happier.

At the dinner table of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Xie Xiaoke finally asked the point, he came back this time for such a thing: "Dad, Mom, Xiaochen and I are going to get married this year!"

Wang Huixian and Xie Xiaofeng looked at each other, and their faces turned red with laughter.

"Say it again, you're going to get married?" Wang Huixian said excitedly.

Xie Xiaoke nodded: "Hmm!"

Wang Xiaochen also said: "Yes, Auntie, we are going to get married in the second half of the year, which is probably the National Day, what do you think?"

"Of course you can, you two are together, we don't have any opinions, we will fully support when we want to get married!"