All things welcome spring and send residual wax, and the end of the year is tonight.

Chinese New Year's Eve, ten o'clock in the morning.

Tang Wan put on a long down jacket, opened the door, and yawned and left the room.

After washing up in the toilet and tying her ponytail, Tang Wan came to the restaurant and sat in the place where she usually sits.

Zhao Huijuan put a bowl of steaming chicken soup in front of Tang Wan and said, "I got up so late, and I stayed up late last night, right?" ”

"How so? I never stay up late. ”

In fact, Tang Wan didn't sleep until two o'clock in the morning last night, or rather, today. There's no way, the drama is brushing up, and I can't stop at all.

Tang Wan carefully stretched out her index finger and gently touched the porcelain bowl. A slight tingling pain hit, and Tang Wan immediately retracted her fingers.

"It's hot!"

"Drink it slowly if it's hot, and it's strange if the soup is not hot."

Zhao Huijuan handed Tang Wan another pair of chopsticks, and said earnestly: "Staying up late hurts your body and skin, no matter how good your foundation is, you can't stand the toss, do you hear?" ”

Tang Wan took the chopsticks and said perfunctorily: "I heard it." ”

Tang Wan didn't take Zhao Huijuan's words to heart, because she knew that staying up late was not beneficial, so under normal circumstances, her routine was normal, unless she couldn't help it.

Tang Wan lowered her head, blew a few breaths into the turbid soup, and then took a tentative sip.

The chicken soup is full of umami, moderately salty, and has a faint aftertaste in the throat.

"Mom, what herbs did you put in it?"

"You don't understand it."

Zhao Huijuan scooped up a chicken wing, sandwiched it into Tang Wan's bowl, and said, "Hurry up and eat, after eating, I will paste the couplet at the door with Brother Ling, and your father and I will go back to the countryside in a hurry." ”

"yes, okay."

Tang Wan didn't ask much, it was arranged like this in the past for the New Year, and she was used to it.

Tang Wan dipped the chicken thighs in soy sauce and asked, "When will you come back?" ”

"Probably in the afternoon. After burning incense and worshipping God, I came back after visiting a few more acquaintances. ”

"Do you have a red envelope?" Tang Wan nibbled on chicken wings and asked vaguely.

"You come with it."

"Forget it, just go back."

Regardless of whether the countryman has money or not, the red envelope is only fifty yuan in the sky, which is not even the icing on the cake for Tang Wan today. There is no need to forcibly meet some unfamiliar people for this money, not to mention, it is very likely to meet those two disgusting relatives.

……

Lu family compound.

Lu You sat on the right hand side of her grandmother, looking at the boring TV with an expressionless face, and holding a little girl carved in pink in her arms.

The little girl is his half-sister, Lu Jingshu.

"Brother, do you eat melon seeds?"

"Don't eat it."

"Brother, do you eat oranges?"

"Don't eat it."

"Brother, do you want to eat grapefruit?"

"Don't eat it."

"Brother......

Without waiting for Lu Jingshu to finish speaking, Lu You interrupted directly.

"Stop! My brother had a full breakfast, and now he doesn't want to eat anything. But if you quarrel again, my brother will eat you. ”

Lu Jingshu stopped speaking for an instant.

Just when Lu You thought that Lu Jingshu could be quiet for a while, she silently raised her little short hand and brought it to Lu You's mouth, her round little face was full of sadness and sadness, and her bright eyes were covered with a layer of crystal water.

"Brother, if you take a small bite, I'm afraid it hurts."

Lu You: (_)

Lu You didn't know whether to laugh or cry, his heart was like a wired headset that had been in his pocket for a while, entwined and extremely complicated.

"Ahh

Lu You sighed, pressed Lu Jingshu's little short hand, and said, "Brother teased you to be quiet, not really to eat you." ”

Lu Jingshu burst into tears and laughed, and tore off two large and round purple grapes with her small hands and sent them to Lu You.

"Brother, eat grapes!"

In desperation, Lu You had no choice but to accept Lu Jingshu's kindness, ate one grape, and stuffed the other into Lu Jingshu's mouth, and continued to watch TV boringly.

It's not that Lu You doesn't want to play with his mobile phone, it's not that he wants to stay in the living room, just after breakfast in the morning, grandma asked Lu You to sit next to him and watch TV with her.

Without him, a grandson who was escorted to Capital University and found a future marriage partner, the family status is almost supreme, second only to the old man in version t0 and the newborn within three years, which can be called t0.5.

At this time, the grandmother, who had finished chatting with the other seven aunts and eight aunts, withdrew her attention and put it on Lu You on the side.

"Dabao, have you been doing well with Wanwan in the past six months? Didn't you encounter anything bad, did you? ”

Lu You didn't hesitate at all, and replied with a smile: "Grandma, we played well, ate well, and slept well all the way, and it went very well." ”

There must be bad things, but you don't need to tell your grandmother, you can hide it in your heart.

"That's good, that's good!"

The smile on Grandma's face became more and more kind, and she continued to ask, "Eh, when are you and Wanwan going to have a child?" ”

Lu You tugged at the corners of his mouth, almost not holding it back. His own two lifetimes of virgin body were not broken, how could he have a child.

"Grandma, what are you talking nonsense! I'm only eighteen years old, Wanwan is even eighteen years old, and we still have to go to college, so how can we have children. ”

"How could it be impossible!!"

Grandma looked at Lu Buyi, who was busy working outside the courtyard, and asked, "Do you know how old I was when I gave birth to your uncle?" ”

Lu You frowned, he could guess what Grandma was going to say next.

"Sixteen! I gave birth to your uncle at the age of sixteen! ”

It can't be said that it is completely in line with Lu You's expectations, it can only be said that there is no difference. It's nothing more than that, I'm at your age, what's already wrong.

Use your own experience and apply it to others, and then show that certain things are feasible, and let others follow suit.

Lu You's forehead ached. If this was an unfamiliar outsider, Lu You would have gone back mercilessly. My own family affairs, what qualifications do you have as an outsider to point fingers.

But the reality is that it is the elders of my family who say this, and the relationship is still very good, so I can't be scolded at all.

Lu You quickly organized his words and said in the gentler tone possible: "Grandma, this time is different from the past. You were able to get married early and get pregnant early back then, which was caused by the general environment.

In this day and age, I think I and Wanwan will have to wait until they are twenty-two years old! If you have a child now, I'm afraid you won't even be able to get a hukou.

Besides, we still have to go to school and study, who will take care of the child after it is born? Lost to you? I don't want to be such a failed father when I give birth to a child but don't accompany me personally, a typical caregiver. ”

Speaking of this, Lu You thought of Tang Wan. Tang Yixiong went to other places to do business when she was a child, and she didn't necessarily come back once a month.

Fortunately, Zhao Huijuan has a set of education for children, and almost alone brought out Tang Jing and Tang Wan, two top students of Capital University.

But even so, the long-term absence of the father has also caused a certain degree of flaws in the character of the brother and sister.

Tang Jing's own ability is obviously strong enough, but in the face of Xiang Zhiyi's pursuit, he still inevitably has low self-esteem, worried that he will not be able to give Xiang Zhiyi a stable future.

After Tang Wan and Lu You were together, they became very clingy, and often worried that some of their inconsequential little behaviors would make Lu You angry, causing the two to break up.

These defects are not big, but they really affect Tang Jing and Tang Wan's attitude towards relationships.

Lu You's words did not make grandma change her stubborn thoughts.

"Ouch, Dabao, what you say is not a problem! Our family has money, and if we give birth to a child, even if you don't go to college, your family can support you for a lifetime. ”

Lu You shook his head and said resolutely: "Whether the family supports us or not, we will definitely go to university, which is responsible for life." Children will also be born, but definitely not now. ”

"Why are you so stubborn!"

Grandma still wanted to persuade her, but grandpa, who had been sitting on her left hand side and had been silent, finally couldn't stand it anymore and opened his mouth to block grandma's next words.

"Alright, you can say a few words."

Grandpa turned to look at Lu You and said, "Your grandmother is a stubborn antique, don't listen to her." You can discuss the child's affairs yourself, and we will not interfere when you want to give birth to the child.

But you must study in college, and you must take it seriously, and you can't mess around. Find a suitable job after graduation, the salary does not need to be high, just don't be wronged. ”

"Hey, you bad old man!"

Grandma got angry and was about to quarrel with her grandfather, but was glared back by his fierce eyes.

"Old woman, I'm not joking with you. Whether we can support our children for a lifetime is different from whether the children have the ability to support their own families. ”

"Humph! I'm too lazy to argue with you! ”

Grandma knew that what her grandfather said was right, but she didn't want to admit her mistake in front of her grandchildren, so she got up and left the living room and walked out to the courtyard.

Lu You looked at the back of his grandmother and asked worriedly, "Grandpa, don't you have to chase grandma?" ”

"No, I don't. Your grandmother and I have been getting along like this for decades, and we can lie down in the same bed and take a nap at noon after a quarrel in the morning, and nothing happens. ”

As he spoke, Grandpa reached out and took away Lu Jingshu in Tang Wan's arms, and then said, "Xiaoshu hand it over to me, you can go back to the room." ”

A flash of joy flashed in Lu You's eyes, but he was still suppressed by his powerful emotional control ability.

"I'm going back to my room alone, isn't it? After all, everyone is either busy outside or chatting in the living room. ”

"Don't pretend to me, if you don't go back, you'll go outside to help your dad and them."

Lu Youmeng stood up and said seriously: "I suddenly remembered that there was still something to do, so I went back to the room first, and I was called for something." ”

Without waiting for his grandfather's reaction, Lu You ran away.

"Virtue!"

Grandpa shook Lu You with a disdainful expression, and then the speed of light switched to a kind and kind smile to face Lu Jingshu, and the speed of changing his face was comparable to turning a book.

"Xiaoshu, if you want to watch cartoons, grandpa will let it be for you."

Lu Jingshu lay in her grandfather's arms like an uncle, and replied, "I don't watch cartoons." ”

"And what do you usually look at?"

"Molumita~"

Grandfather:?

……

Tang Wan finished cleaning up the kitchen and then came to the living room.

At this time, Tang Jing squatted on the ground and spread out a large banner, two long couplets, five small vertical couplets and a boxy Fuzi door sticker that needed to be posted and placed them on the ground.

"Do you remember how to post it?" Tang Wan asked.

Tang Jing was silent for a moment and took the mobile phone on the coffee table.

"I'll take a look at Baidu."

"You post it every year, can't you remember this?"

"Say it as if you remember."

It didn't take long for Tang Jing to find the correct way to paste the couplet.

"When facing the door, the right-hand direction is the upper link, and the left-hand direction is the lower link. The last word of the upper link is three or four tones, and the last word of the lower link is one or two tones. ”

Tang Wan looked down at the two long couplets on the ground, and read out the correct order of the couplets according to Tang Jing's method.

"Peace and happiness are good for a thousand days, people are happy and everything is prosperous, it should be read like this."

Tang Jing stood up with his knees propped up, and ordered: "You stay here and put double-sided tape on the couplet, I'll go outside and tear up the old one, and I'll tell you to take the couplet out when I'm done." ”

"Okay."

Tang Wan unpacked a new roll of double-sided tape and officially started work.

Five minutes later.

Tang Wan stood in the middle of the corridor, looking up at Tang Jing standing on the ladder with his hands in his hands, holding a banner in his hand, looking for a different position in the middle.

"Sister, what do you think of this?"

Tang Wan took two steps back and narrowed her eyes to observe carefully.

"It's a little crooked, lift the right side up and throw it away."

"And now?"

"It's not very centered, and the whole thing is moved to the left."

"Okay?"

"Hmm...... Turn your head and pull back a few millimeters to the right. ”

"Is this going down?"

"It still doesn't feel perfect, you drag it down a little."

The two of them pulled back and forth for nearly ten minutes, but they still didn't put the banner up.

"I feel like it's the best position at the beginning."

Tang Jing really couldn't stand it, so he immediately stinked his face and turned around and asked, "Tang Wan, are you playing me like a monkey?" If you don't come up and post it, I'll help you see it below. ”

"Uh...... Actually, the location is good now. In life, it's hard to be perfect in everything, right? ”

After pasting the banner, the next couplet is very simple, the vertical direction is based on the door frame, and the horizontal direction is based on the corridor tiles, so as to achieve almost perfect symmetry.

Tang Jing climbed down the ladder, pointed to the plastic bag containing last year's old couplet in the corner of the wall, and said, "You can paste the remaining five vertical couplets and Fuzi door stickers, and I will go downstairs and throw away the garbage." ”

"Okay, there you go."

Tang Wan returned to the house, took five vertical couplets and turned them back, aimed at the double-sided tape traces left in previous years, and pasted them smoothly.

Looking at the five neatly arranged and evenly spaced vertical couplets on the edge of the door, Tang Wan smiled with satisfaction.

"Recruit wealth into the treasure, all wishes come true, all the best, good luck, and peace in all seasons. I don't ask for more, but if one of them can achieve half of it, I'm very satisfied, especially you. ”

Tang Wan stared at the first place on the left-hand side, "Fortune and Treasure", clasped her hands together, and bowed slightly.

"I hope there will be a few meters for the Chinese New Year this year! I'm not greedy, a hundred and eighty thousand is enough. ”

Tang Wan pasted the last blessing word door, then returned to the room, and plunged into the warm quilt like a rotten salted fish.

"Let's call my husband first! I didn't talk to him one morning, and I was about to get sick. ”

Tang Wan took out the mobile phone under the pillow, and when she clicked on Lu You's VX, he made a phone call.

"Oops? Do we have such a tacit understanding? ”

Tang Wan immediately connected the phone.

[Hey? Aifei, have you gotten up? 】

"What do you say?"

Tang Wan pulled the silk quilt in her hand and covered her body, and said, "I don't want to think about it, I can still answer your phone before I get up?" ”

[Did you eat breakfast?] 】

"I did, but I didn't eat either."

What do you mean? 】

"My mother wants to go back to her hometown to burn incense and worship God, and she combines breakfast and lunch."

【What to eat?】 】

"Just the chicken leftover from yesterday, the ribs, and the chicken soup that was cooked in the morning."

Tang Wan turned over in the quilt and asked, "What about you, what are you doing in the morning?" ”

[Jail. 】

Tang Wan raised the corners of her mouth and said funny: "Were you tortured by your relatives at home?" ”

[Almost.] 】

"What's the torture method, tell me about it?"

[Some asked me how to learn, some asked me how to chase my girlfriend, in short, a lot. ] 】

"Hee-hee!"

Tang Wan snickered twice, and then asked, "How did you answer?" ”

[Learning methods, I will say that it depends on the self-restraint ability of the individual, as well as the discipline of the parents. The skills of finding a girlfriend, I will say look at the face, under the premise that our family has money, as long as the appearance is in place and the person is sincere, there is no girl who can't take it. 】

"Although what you said is very unpleasant, I have to admit that it is true."

For example, Tang Wan herself, subjectively speaking, she is a beautiful dog but does not worship money, and she likes Lu You largely because of his appearance and unique temperament, rather than his illustrious family background.

But in fact, without the Lu family as the background, he can't raise people like Lu You, and he can't support the rapid development of the relationship between the two.

[The most outrageous thing has to be grandma, her questions are simply scared to death! 】

Tang Wan thought of her grandmother's kind face, and asked suspiciously, "Grandma looks very good!" How scary can her question be? ”

[She asked us if we had any plans to have children.] 】

"Huh? Right now? ”

[Yes, now.] 】

This question is really beyond Tang Wan's expectations, she herself is still perfect, where to get children, roadside trash cans?

"We're only seventeen or eighteen years old, so there's no reason for Grandma to ask such a question, right?"

[I don't know, it may be that my cousin just gave birth to a great-grandson for her last year, which triggered the passivity of the elderly. 】

"Your cousin?"

Tang Wan's mind flashed, a carp sat up straight, and asked in surprise, "Sister Yu Ning was born?" ”

[Yes.] She said at the Chinese New Year last year that she would go back and start preparing for pregnancy, but before a month arrived, she found out that she was pregnant. 】

"What hit rate? Got a lock? ”

[Young man, there is nothing wrong with his body, and his vitality is very good. 】

Tang Wan couldn't help but sigh, some husbands and wives have worked hard for several years, and some have no intention of planting willows and willows.

"When it comes to having children, I have a few junior high school classmates from the countryside who got married and had children last year."

[Really? Is there anyone born so early? 】

"I've heard from people, too. It is said that in their village, there are many people who have dropped out of high school to get married and have children. ”

[Hiss~ It's a little appalling.] 】

Lu You couldn't imagine what it would be like to be a father at an age when his mind was not fully developed and shoulder the responsibilities of the family.

[I have a question, how did they get their marriage certificate before they reached legal age? 】

"I guess, it should be set up first, and then go to get the license after a few years when it is legal."

[Without legal protection, you are not afraid of people running away? 】

Tang Wan lay down on the bed again, looked at the white ceiling on top, and considered: "I personally think that if there are people who want to run, even if they have a marriage certificate, they can't stop them." If you really want to be together, whether you have a marriage certificate or not does not affect the daily life of the husband and wife. ”

[That's the truth.] 】

"Speaking of grandma, how did you deal with her birth?"

[I said, we are too young, we still have to go to college, and we don't have time to study.] 】

"Yes! It's troublesome to have a child, not to mention the impact on your studies, and a lot of trivial things, your skin has deteriorated, your body is out of shape, and your brain hurts when you listen to it. ”

[It's not completely without benefits, in December last year, my cousin and they put on a full moon wine, and my grandmother sealed a super-large red envelope for Sister Yuning, a seven-figure kind. 】

"Take less!?"

[Seven digits.] 】

Tang Wan changed her words and said seriously: "I suddenly feel that it is good to have a child, take a two-year break from college, and then return to school after giving birth to a child."

Don't get me wrong, I definitely don't want a seven-figure red envelope, I just want to make my own efforts for the continuation of our family and the reproduction of mankind. ”

Two chuckles came from across the phone.

[I'm afraid that you haven't fallen into the eyes of money, and you'd rather break your principles for the sake of just seven figures. 】

"What do you mean by a mere seven-digit number? Do you know that with seven figures, many migrant workers can't earn it desperately! ”

[Okay, I won't tell you, grandpa asked me to go downstairs and take a hand, and we'll talk again in the evening. 】

"Bye-bye, mua~"

[Bye-bye.] 】

(End of chapter)