On Chinese New Year's Eve, after cleaning and pasting the Spring Festival, Shen Mingzhu's family took the ingredients and drove a rented van to the hot spring villa.

After learning that the Hot Spring Mountain Resort on Chinese New Year's Eve was also open as usual, Shen Mingzhu booked a suite with a separate yard, planning to have a different Chinese New Year's Eve.

Although it is Chinese New Year's Eve, there are still many tourists in the villa.

But basically just come to the hot springs, and then go home for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner after soaking, and there are almost no people like Shen Mingzhu who spend Chinese New Year's Eve directly in the mountain villa.

When he arrived at the villa, just after lunch, Shen Mingzhu simply cooked a pot of noodles and served them with fried sauce fried at home, making them fill his stomach

Eat and drink to your heart's content, take a break and start soaking in the hot springs.

Guoguo is young, her skin is delicate, and she is worried about burns or drowning, so Shen Mingzhu specially prepared a wooden basin, which was filled with more than half a basin of hot spring water, and let Guoguo sit in it and play naughty.

The first time I soaked in the hot spring, Guoguo was very happy, and the laughter never stopped.

After soaking in the hot springs, Shen Mingzhu boiled fruit tea to replenish everyone's water, while Pei Yang raised the stove and prepared to barbecue meat for a while.

The ingredients Shen Mingzhu prepared at home in advance, according to the custom of Fengcheng's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, chicken, duck, fish, pigs, cattle and sheep, everything.

It's just changed to a fireside barbecue.

Eat while grilling, and put a small copper pot in the center of the grill to cook dumplings and vegetables.

When the sky was dark, the charcoal fire reflected the faces of the family of four.

Pei Yang led the two children to play, and Shen Mingzhu used chopsticks to put the ingredients on the grill.

The smell of barbecued meat fills the air with the sizzling sound of the meat being charcoal-grilled at high temperatures.

There was a knock at the door.

Shen Mingzhu thought it was the staff of the villa, so he got up and went to open the door.

"It smells so good."

Looking at the three Zhong family sisters and brothers outside the door, Shen Mingzhu did not make a sound.

"What a coincidence, we also spent Chinese New Year's Eve in the villa, otherwise together, I also brought a lot of dishes, I will go and get them." Zhong Jing said to Shen Mingzhu with a smile.

However, Shen Mingzhu did not pick up, and the atmosphere was inevitably embarrassing.

After a short silence, Zhong Jing smiled, "It's us who are abrupt, it won't disturb your reunion, we are next door, you can come over if you need anything." ”

After speaking, Zhong Jing led Zhong Yin and Zhong Min away one by one.

Shen Mingzhu closed the door and returned to the courtyard, glaring at Pei Yang, who was obviously weak-hearted.

"You told her?"

"She called yesterday and said that she ordered some fresh, and today she sent some to our home for us to taste, and I said in pass that we are not at home for Chinese New Year's Eve, and I don't know that she will follow here."

Hearing this, Shen Mingzhu didn't ask any more questions, and returned to the oven, and put the cooked meat into the bowls of the father and son.

"Ah~ eat meat."

Staring at the fragrant barbecue in the bowl, Guoguo was more anxious than the father and son, his little short legs were tiptoeing and kicking, and his hands were stretched out.

Guoguo can't eat barbecue at this age, Shen Mingzhu used a small copper pot to cook chicken breasts and pork ribs, but they didn't cook so quickly, in order to avoid her daughter crying, Shen Mingzhu took out teething biscuits.

She bakes her own teething biscuits with mashed bananas and milk powder, which is very sweet and delicious.

Guoguo usually likes to eat very much, and he doesn't let go when he bites, but today he made an awkward scene, and he refused to open his mouth when he fed the teething stick to his mouth, and he had to eat barbecue, and he would cry if he didn't give it.

A family of three was trying to coax, and suddenly there was a "crackling" sound next door.

Everyone was quiet.

Guoguo stopped crying, her big watery eyes open, as if she was curious about what was going on.

"Shall I go and have a look?"

Seeing that Shen Mingzhu did not object, Pei Yang handed her daughter to her, got up and went to the next door.

After a while, he came back, "The three sisters and brothers have never cooked, and they knocked over the pot, and Zhong Jing's hands were hot. ”

Seeing that Shen Mingzhu was silent, Pei Yang teased: "If you don't let her come over, there will be other movements after a while." ”

After speaking, he was glared at by Shen Mingzhu.

In the end, the three Zhong Jing sisters and brothers were called over.

Also coming over were the ingredients of the Zhong family.

Compared with the simplicity and unpretentiousness on their side, the ingredients of the Zhong family can be described as inhumane.

Alaskan king crab, red abalone, blue lobster, raw food, and a variety of shellfish and shrimp.

Coincidentally, it's all her favorite food.

I don't know if it was because she noticed the unhappiness between her and Zhong Jing, or because of her upbringing, Zhong Yin and Zhong Min didn't move their chopsticks after they sat down, although the two children were hungry for oily barbecue.

Shen Mingzhu used a grill to put some cooked meat in the bowl for the sisters and brothers.

"Eat, thank you, Sister Mingzhu."

With Zhong Jing's permission, the sister and brother immediately picked up the chopsticks and did not forget to say thank you to Shen Mingzhu.

Pei Yang wanted to take care of Guoguo, and the task of barbecue fell on Shen Mingzhu alone.

Now that the three sisters and brothers of the Zhong family have been added, she is inevitably overwhelmed and can't take care of herself at all.

"I'll help you."

"You sit still, don't turn my oven up in a moment."

After being scolded by her, Zhong Jing sat honestly and didn't dare to move, and said in a low voice: "I'm sorry for causing you trouble." ”

Shen Mingzhu silently put two pieces of freshly roasted beef into her bowl.

"Thank you."

After swallowing the beef, Zhong Jing praised sincerely: "The taste of the beef is very good, the outside is charred and the inside is tender, the fragrance is slightly spicy, and it is even more perfect with fruit wine." ”

"I brought a bottle of white wine, right next door, and I'm going to get it."

Zhong Jing quickly brought the wine.

The wine is opened and the pale yellow wine is poured into a beautiful goblet.

Zhong Jing handed the first glass of wine to Shen Mingzhu.

Seeing that she refused to answer, Zhong Jing put the wine glass in her hand.

"Pearl, Happy New Year."

"This is the third year we have known each other, and I hope that the next three years, the next three years, and the next three will all be like today, eating meat and drinking together."

Bite.

Zhong Jing touched the wine glass in her hand, and drank the white wine from the glass with her neck tilted.

The charcoal fire reflected the crystal under the other party's eyes, thinking of the unbearable past that the other party buried deep in his heart and couldn't tell anyone, Shen Mingzhu suddenly collapsed somewhere in his heart.

Empathy, she may not be able to handle it better than Zhong Jing.

The matter has passed, and she has also learned a lesson, and she has been holding on to it, embarrassing others, and torturing herself.

Seeing Shen Mingzhu pick up the wine glass and drink the wine, Zhong Jing hugged her happily.

"Mingzhu, my wish has come true, right?"

"Well, Happy New Year."

At this moment, Shen Mingzhu suddenly felt very relaxed, as if the dark clouds that were pressing on his heart had finally dispersed.

……

New Year's Day.

A group of young daughters-in-law each took their babies and gathered in a pile of teething and playing.

Everyone's eyes fell on Jia Yuemei from time to time, a brand-new rich and flowery cotton jacket, wearing red leather shoes on her feet, golden gold earrings on her ears, and a pair of bright silver bracelets on her wrists.

"Yuemei, I'm afraid your family is making a lot of money this year, right?"

"If you want me to say, Yuemei still has vision, unlike the one surnamed Yang, who picked up sesame seeds and lost watermelons, and still hasn't married yet!"

Hearing someone talking about her ex, Jia Yuemei became interested, "Then what is she doing now?" (End of chapter)