struggle in a small town

Chapter 157 Whose house do you go to on New Year's Eve?
Busy to New Year's Eve.

Lin Zhiyuan gave his employees a holiday last night, and they will be open on the fifth day of the lunar new year.

Originally, he wanted to open in the third grade of junior high school, but Zhang Xuejiao said that he was a modern week pickpocket, a black-hearted capitalist, so he changed the time.

It was rare that he had time to sleep late, and when he woke up, Zhang Xuejiao had already returned from the shop.

The two went to the supermarket together to buy some new year's goods, and bought gifts for both parents, but they had a disagreement on whose house to go back tonight.

Of course Lin Zhiyuan wanted to spend New Year's Eve with his wife, but Zhang Xuejiao wanted to go back to her own home.

For the New Year's Eve, the two didn't want to quarrel, and finally decided to go back to their respective homes and find their own mothers.

When Lin Zhiyuan entered the door alone, Song Xiuni looked behind him several times, and found that he was really alone, with a displeased expression on her face: "Where is Xiaoxue?"

Lin Zhiyuan had long thought of a solution: "We haven't had a wedding yet, and Xiaoxue is not considered married, she's gone back."

Song Xiuni thought about it for the same reason. Chinese people always regard wedding as more important than obtaining a certificate, so she didn't say anything more.

The situation on Zhang Xuejiao's side was just the opposite. Seeing her enter the door alone, Liu Huifang seemed relieved and smiled with satisfaction.

Zhang Xuejiao joked: "What? You think I won't come back?"

"After you get married, it's common sense to stay at your mother-in-law's house at the age of thirty."

Zhang Xuejiao didn't like to hear this: "Don't marry, marry, Lin Zhiyuan and I are equal, we will form a new family together."

Liu Huifang doesn't take these fashionable sayings to heart at all, she knows that it's still the same old way, marrying a daughter, marrying a daughter-in-law, there is no such thing as starting a new family.

Zhang Xuejiao walked around the room, but she didn't see Zhang Yuqiao, she wondered, "Didn't Xiao Yu go on vacation early? Where is she?"

Liu Huifang didn't say anything.

Zhang Xuejiao thought she didn't hear, and asked again, only to find out that Xiao Yu went to Zhao Yang's house for the New Year.

Eating the New Year's Eve dinner and watching the Spring Festival Gala, she felt somewhat uncomfortable.

There is one less person in the family.

When it was almost ten o'clock, there was a knock on the door, accompanied by Zhang Yuqiao's shout: "Mom! Dad! Open the door!"

Opening the door, not only Zhang Yuqiao came back, but also Zhao Yang.

Zhang Xuejiao was both surprised and delighted: "Why are you back?"

"Half of the family." Zhang Yuqiao threw herself on her: "Did you miss me?"

"Think~"

The two sisters hugged each other and walked towards the sofa, leaving Zhao Yang standing awkwardly behind the door.

Liu Huifang greeted quickly: "Yangyang, sit down quickly, and eat dumplings later."

Only then did Zhang Xuejiao realize something was wrong, and pulled her arm out of her younger sister's hand: "It's the first time Zhao Yang came to celebrate the New Year, and you greeted her."

When it was almost twelve o'clock, Wang Xiangmei woke up and wanted to go to the backyard with everyone to set off firecrackers.

Accompanied by the sound of firecrackers, Zhang Xuejiao's mobile phone received a lot of New Year's greeting messages in an instant. She replied one by one, and finally clicked on Lin Zhiyuan's name. There were eight words in total: Happy New Year, Gong Xi Fa Cai.

So official?

Zhang Xuejiao replied unhappily: Congratulations and congratulations, I wish Mr. Lin all the best in the coming year.

Humph, let's see who is more official.

Soon Lin Zhiyuan sent a photo. There were cats on his shoulders, legs, and beside him.

Then he sent another message: My mother said that Miaomiao will be sterilized after the New Year, and if she gives birth to kittens like this, she will not be able to give them away.

Zhang Xuejiao took it very seriously, and replied with a smile: After that, won't Miaomiao lose the dignity of a male cat?

Lin Zhiyuan sent a pitiful expression: Miaomiao is so miserable.

Zhang Xuejiao originally wanted to ask him what would happen if Huahua and the cats outside made a kitten, but felt that this seemed to be a reflection.

If Lin Zhiyuan thinks too much and thinks she's making sidesteps, it won't be worth it.

I encountered a problem when sleeping, there is no bedroom for Zhang Xuejiao.

Zhang Xuejiao felt that she was going to sleep with her grandma, but she was held back by her younger sister: "Let Zhao Yang sleep on the sofa, I still want to talk to you."

"How about that?"

In the end, Zhao Yang lived in Zhang Yuqiao's bedroom, while she and her sister were huddling and chatting on the sofa.

"Sister, Zhao Yang's family has to go to the field to burn paper for the ancestors, and they can't let the girl come to them, so they can only stand far away."

"Isn't it?"

Zhang Xuejiao seemed to have heard a story as old as Pangu opened the world.

"It's not just me, Zhao Yang's mother can't go either. The two of us and his family's female relatives are all waiting by the side of the road."

"So exaggerated?" Zhang Xuejiao was a little worried: "Could it be that women don't let them eat at the table?"

"That's not true, but men and women sit separately."

Zhang Xuejiao became even more worried: "Can you handle it?"

"I didn't sit at the big table. Zhao Yang's mother was afraid that I wouldn't get used to it, so she let me eat in Zhao Yang's room."

At first glance, it seemed to be good, but Zhang Xuejiao vaguely felt that something was not right.

"How many relatives do you think Zhao Yang's family has?"

Where can I guess?
After asking, I found out that Zhao Yang has five uncles, three aunts, plus Zhao Yang's father, the youngest son, and a total of nine brothers and sisters.

In addition, he has two aunts, five uncles, and one aunt.

And only Zhao Yang is the only child, and other relatives have at least two children.

In this way, all the relatives of Zhao Yang add up to almost one hundred.

Zhang Xuejiao was dumbfounded: "So many relatives!"

"Zhao Yang said that visiting relatives in previous years was really from the first day to the fifteenth day of junior high school, and one day was not enough for one family."

Zhang Yuqiao moved to her sister's side: "Today, I only remember one of his cousins ​​is Zhao Tao, and I don't remember anything else."

"I can't remember it."

Zhang Xuejiao thought silently, so many relatives in Zhao Yang's family, doesn't it mean that Xiao Yu will hardly be able to stay at home during the Chinese New Year?

As a daughter-in-law, Xiao Yu always followed her in-laws to visit relatives.

Then she thought that Lin Zhiyuan seemed to have an uncle too.

"Sister, you said I'm going to Zhao Yang's house tomorrow, do you want to help in the kitchen?"

Zhang Xuejiao thought for a while and gave an answer: "I don't think you need your help, you are a new wife, just wait and eat."

On the morning of the first day of the new year, Zhang Yuqiao left with Zhao Yang.

Zhang Xuejiao was bored and slumped on the sofa watching TV.

Liu Huifang came out with a plate of oranges: "Aren't you going to Xiaoyuan's house?"

"He didn't say let me go."

"You didn't say you wouldn't go?" Liu Huifang peeled an orange for Wang Xiangmei: "Mom, look at Xiaoxue like this. I'm really worried about how she will live when she gets married."

Wang Xiangmei smiled and said, "How about love, don't worry about it."

"Grandma's words are what I love to hear." Zhang Xuejiao threw herself on Liu Huifang: "It's how it was before, and it will be how it will be in the future. Anyway, it's the life of Lin Zhiyuan and me, as long as we both look good."

Not long after, Liu Jianye's family came.

Liu Shibo leaned on Wang Xiangmei and called grandma, and said that he wanted to die grandma.

Zhang Xuejiao rolled her eyes in her heart, thinking what the hell, if she really wanted to, why didn't she come and see it?
Wang Xiangmei took out a red envelope and stuffed it to Liu Shibo, wishing him success in his studies.

Zhang Xuejiao also stretched out her hand: "Grandma, where is my red envelope?"

Liu Jianye laughed at her: "How old are you?"

Liang Fei glanced at her, but she didn't know what to think of, her lips moved, but she didn't say anything.

Zhang Xuejiao acted as if she hadn't seen it, and stayed by Wang Xiangmei's side: "Grandma, you are biased, Xiao Yu and I don't have any red envelopes."

Only then did Liu Jianye notice that Zhang Yuqiao was not there: "Where is Xiao Yu?"

Upon hearing that Zhang Yuqiao had gone to her mother-in-law's house, Liu Jianye's expression exaggerated as if he had seen a ghost: "Xiao Yu got married? Why didn't anyone inform me?"

(End of this chapter)