Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 1014 274. Topic escalation, dumplings and quilts
On the way, Li An sent a message to Sun Hong, saying that Chen Xuan would not come.

Sun Hong asked Li An what was going on and whether they had a fight.

Li An said no: Grandpa and grandma asked Chen Xuan to stay for dinner.

Just like that, the foursome reunited as four people.

The dining location is still in the small restaurant at the entrance of the mine.

Chen Yaling and Zheng Xiaoyu naturally felt a little regretful that Chen Xuan did not come.

But it doesn’t matter. Anyway, Ang Lee is going to marry Miss Chen this year, so it’s only a matter of time before they meet.

When it comes to marriage, Chen Yaling has already set the date, May 15th this year.

Zheng Xiaoyu: "When are you two planning to get married? You haven't gotten engaged yet."

Li An: "No, I'm only planning to get it done this year, nothing else has been planned."

Sun Hong: “Is the house decorated?”

Li An: “I haven’t bought it yet.”

Sun Hong: "Then you have to hurry up. If you get married this year, you can't buy a pre-sale property."

Li An: "Let's just buy a second-hand house first. Even if I don't get married, I don't want to rent a house anymore."

Sun Hong: "Tsk tsk, our teacher Li is really awesome. Let's buy a second-hand house first."

Li An: "Go away."

Chen Yaling: "It doesn't make much difference to redecorate it, and second-hand houses are more secure. Our house was delayed for three months before delivery, and the nine-year school that was supposed to be built was not yet built. People went to the property management every day to make trouble."

Sun Hong: "That would be a big deal. How can children go to school without schools?"

Chen Yaling: "Oh, I don't want to have children just thinking about it. It's too tiring."

Sun Hong: "Oh, that's easy to say."

Chen Yaling: "There are so many people who don't want to have children now."

Sun Hong: "Look around you and see if anyone is getting married and doesn't have a baby."

Chen Yaling: "Go check it out online."

Sun Hong: "What are you looking at? The average annual income of the Internet users is one million yuan."

Chen Yaling: "You won't understand even if I tell you. When you get to this point, you will understand how great the pressure is."

Sun Hong: "So I'd rather be single. One person can feed the whole family."

Chen Yaling: "Look around you to see who is like you."

Sun Hong: “Too many.”

Li An interrupted, "Alright, alright, stop being so stubborn. If you don't want a baby, don't have it. If you don't want to get married, don't get married. Just figure it out on your own. Who are you looking for reference? You still have to live your own life."

He was really worried that Chen Yaling would mention Yuan Jie again.

Yuan Jie was in Class 3 of Senior 3, and they were in Class 2. Yuan Jie and Sun Hong had been together on and off since high school until June last year.

There were various cold wars during that period, but no one mentioned breaking up.

But in mid-June last year, Sun Hong and Yuan Jie suddenly announced their peaceful breakup. Before everyone could react, the two had ended their long-term love affair in another way.

There probably isn't any special reason. In Chen Yaling's words, if they could have gotten married, they would have done it a long time ago.

So why didn't they get married? Sun Hong said it was because they were too familiar with each other.

But Li An felt that Sun Hong probably hadn't let go of this relationship yet.

Of course, maybe Sun Hong has already let it go.

When it comes to love, it doesn't matter what others say.

Life always moves forward.

"Come on."

The four of them raised their glasses, "Cheers, cheers."

Li An put down his wine glass and looked at Zheng Xiaoyu: "What do you say, are you still going to take the exam?"

Zheng Xiaoyu: "I won't take the exam anymore."

Chen Yaling: "I think it would be right not to take the test."

Zheng Xiaoyu: "Oh, it's a pity to think about it. If I don't take the exam, I'll waste half a year. If I take the exam, there's no point in persisting. His family has already found a job for me."

Li Anle: "It's pretty good, isn't it? If you were to say so, how many people have wasted 16 years and still don't have a job."

Zheng Xiaoyu curled her lips: "Do you know how I've been spending the past six months? I can't complain anymore!"

Li An: "Fa, Fa, Fa!"

Everyone laughs.

Sun Hong: "Then it will be soon."

Zheng Xiaoyu: "Definitely not as fast as Ang Lee."

Li An: "It's too early to say that. Who knows."

Sun Hong: "What do you mean? Do you have any more variables?"

Li An: "Brother, she is not studying in the country."

Sun Hong: "That's right, you can only wait until her holiday."

Li An: "Yes, hotels must be booked at least half a year in advance. It's February now. You can do the math."

Chen Yaling: "It's really tight for you to hold it this year, but we don't need to book a hotel so early. We found one before New Year's Day, so there are still many available days."

Speaking of this, Zheng Xiaoyu was going to ask Li An: "Where are you doing it? In Chengdu or here?"

Lee Ang: "Hold it here, and then hold another one at her house."

Sun Hong: "Will Rongcheng hold another one at the end?"

"Let's not hold it in Chengdu," Li An said as he pondered. It was really hard to get married. "We can just treat everyone to a meal when the time comes."

Zheng Xiaoyu: "Then you have to plan your time in advance and coordinate the time of the three places."

Sun Hong: "If you need any help, please let us know in advance. We are nearby."

Li An: "Don't worry, you will be treated like a slave."

Sun Hong: "Haha! Fuck!"

"cheers!"

After dinner, the four of them went for a walk around the mine entrance.

The past is vivid in my mind.

I didn’t have this feeling last year, but this year, all of a sudden, everyone is talking about marriage, and the trivialities of life seem to have been integrated into everyone’s fabric.

"Hey, if there is a chance for the four of us to go back to high school together, would you be willing?" Chen Yaling suddenly asked the three of them with emotion.

"I don't want to." Sun Hong said directly.

Chen Yaling just realized that she might have touched upon someone's sad past, and then she heard Sun Hong complain:
"Your mother didn't get into a good university because she met you three!"

Hahahaha.

The laughter of the four people seemed to bring back the end of an evening study session several years ago, and then a shout of "Are you an idiot!" broke the silence of the night sky.

Hahahaha.

"Click."

"This one doesn't work, can you get a beauty camera?"

"You come, you come."

"Click."

"That's it. Let's go to Yingdu and sit for a while. It's freezing outside."
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Zhuangzi.

Grandpa and grandma have already fallen asleep on the warm kang in Old Li's house.

Chen Xuan and Yan Zi were chatting beside the kang.

As the two were talking, Aunt Wu brought over two bowls of noodle soup dumplings.

Just now Yan Zi said she was hungry and wanted to eat dumplings, so Aunt Wu went to make two small bowls.

"I'll move the table!"

Xiaoyan wanted to eat on the kang with her fourth sister-in-law. The kang table was in the next room.

While Yan Zi was getting the table, Aunt Wu chatted with Chen Xuan about the college entrance examination.

Aunt Wu is uneducated and doesn't know how to guide children.

Fifth Auntie didn't have any high expectations for Xiaoyan. She just hoped that Xiaoyan could pass the entrance exam to a decent university, and after graduation, she could find a job that didn't require her to work in the sun and the wind. "Don't worry, Fifth Auntie. Xiaoyan will be fine."

Chen Xuan has been chatting with Xiaoyan since noon. Even though Xiaoyan said the night before that she liked makeup as a major, that was just a question asked by everyone about what Xiaoyan was interested in, and Xiaoyan answered truthfully.

Xiaoyan talked a lot with Chen Xuan today. Xiaoyan knew her family background and her parents' hard work and effort, so she wanted to graduate from college quickly and start working, first to support herself and reduce the pressure on her parents, and then to help her family gradually improve their living conditions.

When Chen Xuan heard this, she felt deep admiration.

If Xiaoyan is just a "poor student" in her studies, this statement is not far-fetched, but it is not convincing.

How could a truly sensible child, a child who truly cares about his parents and family, be a poor student if he has the conditions to study well?

But Xiaoyan's grades are not only excellent, but also the best among the best. Not only is she good at studying, she also has a sincere heart.

Chen Xuan has also felt this kind of sincerity in Ang Lee.

Maybe this is the characteristic of this family. Chen Xuan likes Li Ang's grandfather very much.

Although the old man doesn't talk much, his every move gives people an indescribable feeling of being moved.

For example, after lunch, the old man sat on the stone platform in the yard to bask in the sun. When the sun went down, the old man stood up, cleaned the stall under his butt, folded it neatly, put it back into the bag and took it into the house.

Chen Xuan was observing the whole process and was thinking that the old man could obviously just walk into the house and someone would definitely help him clean up.

The old man could obviously stuff all the mats into the bag, or simply not put them away. But the aunt said that the old man would sit in the yard for a while every afternoon and would have to sit there again tomorrow, so why did he have to put them away today and tidy them up so neatly?

Chen Xuan really couldn't describe how she felt about this.

But she could feel that the old grandfather was silently influencing this big family with his every move.

That’s why the third generation of the Li family, such as Li Jun, Li An and Yan Zi, were born.

While eating the noodle soup dumplings made by Aunt Wu and talking to Yan Zi, Chen Xuan occasionally glanced at the old grandfather lying not far away.

It was as if the old grandfather was lying there, and she could feel extremely at ease just sitting here and eating.

It was probably this feeling that forced her to finally give up on Lee Ang and attend the party. She wanted to stay with the old man for a while longer.

"Yanzi, what else does grandpa like to eat besides egg cake?"

"Grandpa can only eat egg cakes. His teeth are not good now, so he can only eat soft things."

Chen Xuan nodded, and at this moment, the cell phone on the kang table lit up.

Yan Zi chuckled and said, "It must be Fourth Brother."

It was indeed Li Ang. Chen Xuan was slightly startled when she opened the message.

It's a photo of four people.

The four smiling faces together reflect the good personal relationship between the four people.

Soon Chen Xuan's eyes fell on the third smiling face. It was a woman with fair skin and big eyes. Her smile was very attractive.

Especially the blue birthmark under the left eye. Chen Xuan had no ill intentions, she really didn't expect it.

Looking at this birthmark for a long time, it seems as if all the little secrets of Lee Ang's adolescence are hidden here.

After a while, Chen Xuan handed the phone to Xiaoyan. Xiaoyan took it, took a look and smiled: "It's weird that Fourth Brother uses the beauty filter."

Chen Xuan didn't ask Xiaoyan if she knew the other three people here, just as she didn't plan to ask Li Ang anything.

The fact that she does not have such school memories is her own experience and has nothing to do with Ang Lee. It is even more unacceptable to say that it is a sin for Ang Lee to have such memories.

It didn’t even matter to her whether Li Ang said it or not. In her heart, they had already passed this stage long ago.

And from the moment she chose to believe Li Ang, she never questioned anything again.

"Fourth sister-in-law, when will you and Fourth Brother hold your wedding this year?"

Here it comes again. This question has been running in Chen Xuan's mind for two days.

"I listen to your fourth brother. It's whatever time he says."

Xiaoyan: “Ha”

The image of the fourth sister-in-law as a strong woman was instantly overturned in Xiaoyan's mind.

Half an hour later, there was a sound of door opening in the yard.

Then there was the sound of humming.

"Fourth brother is back!"

Before Yan Zi finished her words, the door to the main hall was pushed open.

"What to eat?"

As soon as Li An entered the room, he saw the two of them eating. He came over to take a look and said, "Why is there lamb chops in this soup? It's quite decadent."

Yan Zi smiled and said, "Fourth brother, do you want to eat?"

Chen Xuan: "You want to eat mine, I can't eat it."

Li An: "You only have some soup left. I need to have another meal."

Chen Xuan: "Are you not full?"

Li An: "The restaurant Yaling booked is really not good. It's not as good as Lao Tang's."

Yan Zi: "Mom!"

Li An: "Stop shouting, let's pack it ourselves, eh."

Chen Xuan suddenly smiled.

Yan Zi: "What's the matter, Fourth Sister-in-law?"

Speaking of making dumplings, Li An originally wanted to fill a cup at Chen Xuan's house during the Chinese New Year, but in the end he didn't even get involved.

Yan Zi: “Haha.”

Li An sighed: "Alas! A hero has no place to use his talents."

Chen Xuan: "Keep your voice down, grandpa and grandma are asleep."

Ouch.

"grandfather!"

Li Ang's shout almost made Chen Xuan raise her hand, and then she saw her grandfather slowly turn over and sit up.

"Grandpa, do you want to eat dumplings?!" Li An moved closer to the old man and continued to shout.

The old man sat for a while, then looked at Chen Xuan and the others.

Li An then shouted, "Grandpa, do you want to eat dumplings?! We all want to eat dumplings! They both want to eat too!"

The old man turned his head and looked at Li An. After a moment, he nodded woodenly. Then, his dry lips curled up and he slowly uttered three words: "Let's go and make a bag."

"Lie down and wait!" After saying that, Li An turned around and saw that Chen Xuan had already gotten off the kang and put on her shoes.

Teacher Xiaomi must make these dumplings for the old man herself!

"I'm coming too!"

Swallow suddenly wanted to eat a little more.

Just like that, the three children and the old grandfather had a midnight snack on the fourth night of the New Year.

The old man ate five dumplings, and after he was done he asked what kind of filling the dumplings were in Chen Xuan's family.

Li An quickly answered that it was filled with fish meat.

Grandpa: "Donkey meat."

Swallow laughed: "Fish! Grandpa! Fish swimming in the water!!!"

This time the old man heard it clearly, and it was also the first time Chen Xuan saw the old man smile!

Chen Xuan quickly leaned over to the old man's ear and said, "Grandpa! Wait for me to take you to my house! I'll make you dumplings stuffed with fish!"

Li An was not sure whether the old man could understand such complicated words, but the old man smiled and responded: "Okay."

After saying that, the old man was going to clean up the dishes. Chen Xuan stepped forward to help but was stopped by Li An.

"Let Grandpa do it."

Li An said: "No one can interfere with the work at grandpa's house."

After a while, the old man came back to the kang and made the bed for Li An and Chen Xuan.

The mattress was made, and the old man took out the new quilt that he had prepared for Chen Xuan from the cabinet.

Looking at this scene, Chen Xuan realized something belatedly.

"Grandpa, haven't you slept yet?"

Lee Ang: "Grandpa doesn't sleep more than three hours a day."

After a moment, "Grandpa also likes the hustle and bustle."