Become famous another day.

The opening performance ended successfully.

Lu Yanhe and the other two hurried backstage to change their clothes and makeup.

Time is tight, there is only one hour.

Their performance of "Green Apple Paradise" was scheduled at 9:30 p.m.

The backstage of the Spring Festival Gala can be described as a bustling crowd.

There are so many actors and actresses in various performances that they are as numerous as the fish in the sea.

Lu Yanhe and the other two hurried back to the dressing room under the escort of the team and started to do it again.

Three makeup artists started working at the same time.

After styling themselves and changing into their costumes, the three of them took a photo together, and then took photos with other actors in their show.

In addition to them, there are a total of sixty actors in this show.

They are all non-professional dancers found by the director team. It is said that they have been rehearsing for almost two months.

During this period, the three of them did not keep the rehearsal of the show "Green Apple Paradise" very secretive. Instead, the 60 non-professional dancers kept it very secretive.

This is also the surprise that Lu Yanhe mentioned.
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In fact, many people are puzzled about the program "Green Apple Paradise". Why should such a program, which has already been performed on stage and has had a huge impact and spread, be performed again on the Spring Festival Gala stage?
In fact, a director of the Spring Festival Gala responded to this statement in a CCTV program.

"The concept of this program is very suitable for the Spring Festival Gala stage. Although it has been performed on the stage, according to our survey, many people actually want to see it again. In addition, we will also re-adapt this program. The version for the Spring Festival Gala will definitely have something new compared to the one you have seen before."

Many people are confused.

What new can there be?

As a fan of Lu Yanhe and now Chen Siqi's special assistant, Helan stayed in front of the TV that night, waiting for this show.

I swear to God, she didn’t know how long it had been since she sat in front of the TV and watched the Spring Festival Gala so seriously.

"Why do you always hold your phone?" her mother complained to her.

Helan said: "This skit is not good to watch."

"What's wrong with it? Isn't it quite beautiful?" her mother said.

Helan: "But I don't think it looks good."

When the show "Green Apple Paradise" was about to appear, she immediately put down her phone.

When her mother saw her suddenly looking at the TV screen with a lively look on her face, she immediately understood and exclaimed, "Haha."

"I was wondering why you changed your personality tonight. You sat here obediently to watch the Spring Festival Gala with me. I thought you had grown up, but it turns out you were waiting for your idol to show up."

Helan: "Mom, can we be a little more self-aware? When did I become sensible enough to watch the Spring Festival Gala with you for such a long time? Your idea is too unrealistic."

Her mother immediately threw a small orange at her.

Helan said this teasingly, and immediately caught Xiaojuzi, rushed over, and hugged her mother, "Oh, I was just kidding you, of course I want to accompany you."

The door suddenly clicked.

"Dad is back?!"

They both turned their heads to look over there.

"Oh my, you two are so grown up, yet you always hug each other like this." When her father saw them like this, he immediately started complaining.

Helan pouted and said, "That's because you spoiled my mother. She's already grown up, but she still whines when things don't go her way."

Helan's mother's eyebrows immediately pulled up.

"Hey--"

Helan's father's face was full of wrinkles when he smiled.

"This is your mother's special talent, it has nothing to do with me." He said, "When I met your mother, she would burst into tears when she disagreed with me. I was so confused at that time!"

"He Zhanghai!" Her mother was so angry that her eyes widened.

"Oh, the show is about to start. Please be quiet for a while and wait for me to finish watching the show." Helan saw that the host was about to leave the stage and the prelude began to sound.

Her father took off his police hat, put it aside, and sat down on the sofa.

"What are you looking at?"

Her mother snorted, "It's just that star she likes, Lu Yanhe, who will be on the Spring Festival Gala tonight."

"Lu Yanhe, Green Apple Paradise?"

"Dad, how do you know? Don't you never read news about the entertainment industry?"

"It's the Spring Festival Gala, and everyone is talking about it," her father said. "Besides, many young people in my unit are his fans."

"Why do you policemen also chase stars?" her mother asked.

"Why can't police officers have their favorite stars?" Her father smiled and said, "How can you be so prejudiced? I don't chase stars. If young people want to chase stars, let them do it."

"That's right." Helan immediately chimed in, "Mom, you're not as open-minded as my dad."

"When your father forced you to do your homework when you were a child, why didn't you say that your father was open-minded? I had to secretly let you watch TV." Her mother complained immediately.

Helan: "That's right, Dad, you're too much. Why didn't you allow me to watch TV when I was a kid?"

"Every time you cry, your mom becomes soft-hearted and lets you not do your homework. If I weren't a little too much, you would be sleeping on the street now." Her father complained.

"That's right, Mom. Fortunately, my dad is strict with me. Otherwise, with my lazy personality, I might not even be able to get into university." Helan said.

"Alright, alright, they've started singing. Lanlan, don't you want to see your idol? They've already started singing."

He Zhanghai knew that if he didn't stop it quickly, the argument would continue until midnight and would be difficult to end.

Three young people appeared on the stage and moved to the rhythm.

Helan's mother took a look and couldn't help but sigh: "These three children are so good-looking."

He Lan said: "The three of them are now almost the three most popular young stars."

Helan's mother nodded: "No wonder she was able to perform on the Spring Festival Gala at such a young age."

"Have we seen this performance before?" Helan's father asked doubtfully, "It seems we have."

Helan asked: "You must have heard this song, it's very popular."

"Oh, no, I have seen it. When our unit held the New Year's Eve party, someone performed this, and the dance was exactly the same." Helan's father said.

Helan: "Is it so popular? Even your company's New Year's Eve party has people performing this show. Isn't this a show that only young people would like?"

"Prejudice, the same prejudice as your mother. Can't we have young people in our unit? Can't we middle-aged people like such performances?"

Helan's mother raised her hand and patted Helan's father on the back.

"Who is biased? You keep saying who is biased!"

Helan: “…”

She wanted to say something else when suddenly, many dancers appeared on the TV screen from both sides of the stage.

They were all wearing ballroom-style clothing from the last century, with the same makeup and hairstyle. The one on the left was young, and the one on the right was middle-aged.

Sixty people and Lu Yanhe and three others performed the dance moves of "Green Apple Paradise" on the stage in unison, which was very beautiful.

At this moment, the camera suddenly started switching.

"Hmm? That person--" Helan was stunned. The face of the person that the camera just cut to looked very familiar to her.

Isn't that Li Xiaobin? The boy who filmed himself wearing his father's suit and burst into tears when his mother saw him, later participated in a talent show. Although the final result was not very ideal, he still became a singer.

The camera switched to another person, a beautiful girl with short hair.

Hmm? That was also the girl whose short video became popular online. She was wearing the same outfit in the short video, her mother's printed dress, with retro big waves and big red lips, a very retro and bright beauty.

Helan suddenly realized that the thirty young people on the left side of the stage were actually video bloggers who became very popular online by imitating their parents' dressing and appearance after the performance of "Green Apple Paradise" was broadcast.

And the thirty middle-aged men on the right——

It should be their parents.

Helan covered his mouth in disbelief.

At this moment, several performance videos that were very popular on the Internet at that time appeared on the screen behind the stage.

They switched and appeared one by one, with subtitles constantly running across them. These were all subtitles that had attracted a lot of attention and discussion online:
——When I grow up, I become you.

——We despise them for being old, and they laugh at us for being young.

——Our parents were once fashionable young people, even more fashionable than us.

——Why was my mother's hair so dark and thick, but I started to lose my hair at such a young age? !
……

Helan watched with tears and laughter.

On the stage, Lu Yanhe and the other two separated and occupied three positions. They stretched out their hands, looked at the audience, and waved their left hands together.

Behind them, sixty people were dancing in unison, moving rhythmically, obviously in a retro style from the last century, but because they were two groups of non-professional dancers of different ages, there were obvious style differences in their movements. And because of this style difference, people could immediately understand their intentions.

"La la la la la, rock it!"
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The performance ended successfully.

Everyone came backstage.

When the huge performance team of dozens of people came out of the studio, their faces were filled with excited smiles.

Here, except Li Zhibai, everyone else is performing on the Spring Festival Gala stage for the first time.

Everyone is excited.

Lu Yanhe and the others turned around, waved and bowed to the uncle and aunt who had just danced with them.

“The uncles and aunts are awesome!”

"Thank you!"

For this stage, these uncles and aunts started rehearsing two months in advance.

When the director team found them and invited them to perform on the Spring Festival Gala stage, they told them about this idea.

Why did the Spring Festival Gala invite Green Apple Paradise? Because this show can be said to be the stage performance with the greatest social influence last year, and its influence even transcends the barriers of age and social class.

They thought of inviting thirty pairs of parents and children to perform on stage together.

At that time, there were many popular imitation videos on the Internet, so the director team simply contacted them one by one and invited them to perform on the Spring Festival Gala together.

Hence, the program has its current presentation.

It was not until this time that Li Qingbing, the director of the program, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

When this idea was first proposed, many people questioned it, thinking that it was not appropriate to have so many non-professional dancers on the Spring Festival Gala stage as it would easily lead to mistakes.

When something goes wrong, it's an accident.

However, the idea proposed by Li Qingbing was finally recognized because it was very meaningful.

Li Qingbing has not yet gone online to check out the feedback on the Internet, but judging from the reaction on site, he thinks the feedback for this program should be very good.
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Form is always much more important to content than we think.

Some programs may seem good when you watch them in one place, but when you watch them in another place, you may feel that something is wrong.

So, why do cinemas still survive in an age when online media is so advanced? Many people who have been to the cinema and watched their favorite movies in the cinema will say that the feeling of sitting in a dark cinema and watching a movie on the screen is completely different from watching a movie on their computer.

The same is true for "Green Apple Paradise".

If it still uses the performance in "Idol Era", it may not be suitable for such a large stage as the Spring Festival Gala. Large is not only the size of the stage, but also the size of people's expectations.

There will always be people who want to see some meaning and social value from the Spring Festival Gala stage. Even though we always say that we should let the content return to the content, and not let the so-called meaning and social value hijack the quality of the content itself. Because that is not some other place, it is the Spring Festival Gala.

Such people are very opposed to a stage like "Green Apple Paradise" being performed on the Spring Festival Gala.

Because it is popular and has a big gimmick, but it has no social value.

But when they were ready to criticize after watching the show, they unexpectedly found that all the criticisms they had prepared were of little use.

Because the program "Green Apple Paradise" performed on the Spring Festival Gala stage suddenly highlighted themes such as "fathers" and "inheritance".

Shortly after the show was completed, Li Xiaobin appeared in the live interview room of the Spring Festival Gala and was interviewed by the host of CCTV. He said: "This is the first time I performed on stage with my mother. I never thought there would be such a moment. This will become a very unforgettable memory for me."

Lu Yanhe, Li Zhibai and Yan Liang also came to this live broadcast room.

"Except for Zhi Bai, Yan He and Yan Liang are both performing on the Spring Festival Gala for the first time. Are you nervous?"

"Very nervous." Yan Liang nodded. "I originally thought I wouldn't be nervous, but when I thought about the whole country watching me, my heart started beating fast."

Lu Yanhe nodded, "Me too."

"Now that the show is over, you can breathe a sigh of relief."

"Yes." Everyone laughed.

"So will everyone go home directly later? Reunite with your family?"

"Yes." Yan Liang nodded, "I will go home soon, and try to get home before twelve o'clock."

Li Zhibai also said: "Me too, but I will definitely be there before twelve o'clock. My home is in Yuming, which is more convenient than Lao Lu and Yan Liang."

"Isn't Yan He staying in Yuming for the New Year?" a host asked puzzled.

Everyone knows that Lu Yanhe no longer has any family, and there is no one he needs to rush to reunite with.

Lu Yanhe smiled and nodded, saying, "We are going to another place today."

He didn't go into detail.

The host did not ask any further questions.

"We noticed that the dancers who are dancing with you today are a combination of young people and middle-aged people. Can you tell us in detail why this is the setting?"

Lu Yanhe and Li Zhibai all looked at Yan Liang, "You come and introduce them."

Yan Liang then said, "This is an idea from the director team, Director Li Qingbing. He said that our performance had a great impact on the whole society at that time. Many people on the Internet began to imitate the styles and clothes of their parents in old photos, and it became very popular. Maybe we can invite them to join our performance. This song itself is a retro song, and we also think it is a good idea. Through us young people dressing up as our parents when they were young, it can be regarded as a kind of review and tribute. There are young people in every era, and our appearance will change, but the power of youth and the vitality of life are the same, and they are passed down from generation to generation."

These words were not something Yan Liang had just thought of, but were something the director team had prepared long ago, hoping to say through their mouths.

This task was given to Yan Liang.

"That's very well said. Actually, there is another thing I want to share with you about these 60 dancers. They actually come from 30 families. They are all parents and children, right?"

"Yes, that's right." Yan Liang and the others nodded. "In fact, we are also very moved to work with them, because everyone knows that they are not professional dancers, nor are they artists who often perform on stage, but everyone has worked very hard and diligently to complete this performance together, and has practiced for a long time. Especially the uncles and aunts, it is not easy for them to practice this dance, and I salute them."

After coming out of the live broadcast room, their work for tonight's Spring Festival Gala was truly completed.

They went back to the dressing room to remove their makeup, change their clothes, and then left.

"Then I'm leaving. See you after the New Year." Lu Yanhe finished first and left.

Li Zhibai: "Look at how impatient you are."

Lu Yanhe gave him a middle finger and followed Wang Biao and Zou Dong out.

I walked all the way to the outside of CCTV and saw Chen Siqi's car from afar.

"Brother Dong, Wang Biao, thank you for your hard work. Let's take a break from today." Lu Yanhe said, "This past year has been really hard. I wanted to have a celebration party with everyone, but I didn't find the time."

He took out two red envelopes from his bag.

"This is a small token of my personal gratitude to both of you for your support and care for me over the past year."

Zou Dong and Wang Biao were both stunned.

"We have all received our year-end bonuses." Wang Biao said, "Brother Lu, why are you giving us red envelopes again?"

"Year-end bonus is year-end bonus, and red envelope is red envelope." Lu Yanhe said with a smile, "I don't have many people around me, only you two, so you must have worked much harder than other artists. I certainly can't let you suffer. Siqi and I will go abroad for a vacation later, so you don't have to worry about it. Sister Zi Yan has already arranged it. You should have a good rest, and we will meet directly in Bicaro later."

After the vacation, Lu Yanhe went directly to the Bicaro Film Festival.

The short film shot by Wang Zhong was shortlisted for the short film competition unit of the Picasso Film Festival.

Lu Yanhe stuffed two red envelopes into the hands of Zou Dong and Wang Biao.

"Happy New Year, keep working hard next year, bye!" Lu Yanhe waved his hand, "See you next year!"

"See you next year, Brother Lu!" Wang Biao waved his hand with a bright smile.

Zou Dong watched him get into Chen Siqi's car before he turned his gaze to the red envelope in his hand.

The red envelope is very thin, and you can tell by touching it that there is probably no banknote inside.

He asked Wang Biao: "Where are you going?"

Wang Biao said: "I'm going home. I bought a ticket to go home tomorrow morning."

Zou Dong: "Then why don't you go back to your rental place tonight?"

"Yes." Wang Biao nodded. "Get in the car, I'll take you there." Zou Dong said.

"Thank you, Brother Dong!" Wang Biao said happily.

As soon as Zou Dong got in the car and started the car, he heard Wang Biao exclaimed in the back, "What is this? Is this a check?"

Zou Dong was stunned.

Wang Biao couldn't believe it: "Oh my God, I have never received a check in my life!"

Zou Dong glanced at Wang Biao sitting in the back seat through the rearview mirror. The young man’s face was filled with unconcealable excitement.

"Brother Lu is so generous. He gave us so much as a year-end bonus, so why did he give us a check?" Wang Biao said.

Zou Dong said: "You will understand in the future. Your little brother Lu has always been very generous. As long as you do well and treat him well, he will never treat you unfairly."

Wang Biao hummed twice.

Zou Dong followed Lu Yanhe for two years and signed a contract that nominally provided him with an annual salary of 250,000 yuan, but in reality he received far more than that.

When it comes to treating people around him, Lu Yanhe has never been stingy and has always been generous.
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Lu Yanhe got in the car.

Chen Siqi said, "You haven't had dinner yet?"

"I just ate a little bit." Lu Yanhe said.

Chen Siqi: "Okay, I told grandma, and she said there's some soup stewing on the stove, so we can have some when we get there."

"Don't bother."

"I'll always have something to eat during the Chinese New Year. Why would I bother? Every time I go back home, my grandma will make soup for me and wait for me to drink it."

Lu Yanhe: "Then your grandma is very good to you."

"Well, my grandma has loved me since I was a child and has been very kind to me." Chen Siqi said, "This time, she also asked me why I had never brought you to her to see you."

"Ah?" Lu Yanhe was stunned and looked at Chen Siqi in surprise. "Was it grandma who asked about it first?"

"Yeah." Chen Siqi said, "I thought we were still studying, and I never thought about taking you to see grandma at this time."

Lu Yanhe scratched his head awkwardly.

"I really should have gone to see your grandma and grandpa earlier."

"We are so busy that it's hard for us to see each other. How can we have time to see them? I rarely have time to go back myself." Chen Siqi said, "Oh, I feel guilty when I talk about it."

"Actually, since you have such a good relationship with your grandparents, why don't you live with them?"

"In fact, after my dad remarried, my grandparents specifically talked about this matter, saying that they were willing to raise me, but my dad didn't want to. They said it very righteously, saying that I was his daughter, and there was no reason for them to suffer. He also said that he would be more at ease if I grew up with him. At that time, I was ignorant and really thought that he couldn't bear to part with me, so he didn't want to give me to my grandparents, so I told my grandparents that I was willing to live with my dad and his family. Later, you know what happened later. Many things were different from what I imagined. When I wanted to leave, it was not so easy to leave."

Chen Siqi looked expressionlessly at the somewhat empty road ahead. The yellow car lights were like the gaze of a beast, silently watching all the nameless things in the darkness ahead and illuminating them.

"They can't let me go because I have the shares my mom left me. When I turn 22, they will be mine," Chen Siqi said. "That's why my dad insisted on keeping me by his side. Now he's managing it on my behalf. But when I turn 22, he won't be able to manage it anymore."

Lu Yanhe suddenly realized.

"So, Yan He, I'm actually very fortunate now that I was able to get familiar with the operating rules of business in advance through the magazine Jump Up during my college years, and I was also able to gain some connections and power in advance." Chen Siqi said, "I think none of them could have imagined what I would accomplish during my college years. You know, when my dad sees me now, it's like he's looking at a time bomb that may explode at any time. His eyes are full of fear."

The corners of Chen Siqi's mouth curled up sarcastically.

Lu Yanhe looked at Chen Siqi tenderly.

"It doesn't matter. We can all control our own lives. If you can't let it go, we can talk to them. If you don't want to bother with them, we can just ignore them." Lu Yanhe said, "Now the initiative is in our hands. What kind of life we ​​want to live is no longer something they can influence. We have the final say."

Chen Siqi nodded and laughed.

"Ah."

She took a deep breath. "Until now, I still find it incredible. How can I have the confidence to challenge them before I even turn 22? In the past, I thought that at worst, we would both perish together. If they don't let me live well, I won't let them live well either. Now, they can't let me live well."

Lu Yanhe smiled.

"I rarely think about them now," Chen Siqi said. "I have too many things to do every day and I don't have time to think about them."

Lu Yanhe was very happy to hear Chen Siqi say this.

This feeling of joy came suddenly. Why did it come?
Lu Yanhe felt that, perhaps from his perspective, he hoped that Chen Siqi could move on from those not-so-wonderful memories of growing up and see a bigger world, more wonderful people and things than those bad memories.

It took more than two hours to drive to Chen Siqi's grandparents' house.

There were hardly any cars on the road.

Not many people were still on their way home at this point.

Chen Siqi said: "After my grandparents retired, the family business was handed over to my uncle to manage, and he no longer took care of these things. Usually, the nanny was responsible for taking care of their daily lives. These days, it should be my aunt who is taking care of them."

Lu Yanhe rarely heard about Chen Siqi's mother's side of the story.

What she heard the most was about her father and Liu Wei'an.

"How should I greet them when I see them later? Should I call them grandpa and grandma, uncle and aunt along with you?" Lu Yanhe asked.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with shouting like that.

Chen Siqi just said, "It's up to you."
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Finally, when he appeared in front of Chen Siqi's mother's family, Lu Yanhe smiled particularly well.

When it comes to pretending to be good, Lu Yanhe is gifted.

Chen Siqi immediately ran over to hug her grandmother, then hugged her grandfather, then greeted her uncle and aunt, and finally introduced Lu Yanhe to them.

"Lu Yanhe, my boyfriend."

Lu Yanhe was carrying large and small bags of New Year's goods. It was his first time visiting a customer, so he didn't want to go empty-handed.

The last people he called were grandpa and grandma, uncle and aunt, without being abrupt.

Chen Siqi's uncle patted him on the shoulder and said, "You look thinner than on TV."

Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "You usually need to be a little fatter to be on camera."

Some pleasantries.

They are not very mature people themselves, they are still children.

They welcomed him in.

As soon as we entered, grandma said, "Siqi said that you two didn't eat much tonight. Sit down first. I'll bring you some food. The pigeon soup is still cooking."

Lu Yanhe thanked him quickly and said, "I'll go with you to get it."

Chen Siqi said, "Please sit down. I'll help you carry it."

Lu Yanhe sat down with a polite smile on his face.

"Your performance on the Spring Festival Gala just now was really great." Chen Siqi's aunt took the initiative to say.

"Really? Thanks."

"I heard that your entertainment industry is quite chaotic." Chen Siqi's uncle suddenly said, "Is it true?"

Lu Yanhe was stunned, "Huh?"

Chen Siqi's aunt had already elbowed him and glared at him, with a look that clearly said "If you can't speak, don't speak."

My aunt smiled and said, "You go to school, act, and sing at the same time. You must be very busy, right?"

Lu Yanhe smiled and nodded, saying, "Yes, a little."

My aunt said, "You young people are really doing well. You and Siqi are both very young and still in college, but you already have your own careers and are doing so well. I really admire you. I will let Huadong learn from you in the future."

Who is Huadong?

"Jiang Huadong, my son, went to Germany with his classmates to participate in a study program during the winter vacation this year, so he is not here." My aunt explained.

Lu Yanhe suddenly realized that Chen Siqi had a younger brother named Jiang Huadong.

At this time, my grandfather, who had been silent all the time, suddenly asked, "Are you going to be an artist forever?"

Lu Yanhe nodded, "This is the plan for now."

Grandpa said: "But if you are an artist, you often can't be at home, right?"

Lu Yanhe nodded hesitantly, "Yes."

Grandpa hummed and said, "Then when you and Siqi get married, won't you be together less and apart more?"

Lu Yanhe was stunned.

Huh? We're talking about something that happened so long ago?

"We...I shouldn't be as busy as we are now by then." Lu Yanhe said, "At this stage, according to our thinking, both of us may be a little busy. Five or ten years later, if nothing unexpected happens, our careers should have entered a more stable stage, and we won't need to be as busy as we are now."

But my grandfather said, "How can that be possible? No matter what stage of life you are in, you can't slack off in your career. You have to take it seriously."

Lu Yanhe snorted.

ha?
Aren’t you always complaining that you’re too busy and that we’re apart more often than we are together?

Lu Yanhe was at a loss for a moment.

At this time, grandma and Chen Siqi came out.

"Don't bother chatting yet, let's eat something first to fill our stomachs. If you skip a meal, you'll feel hungry. If your stomach is not full, your energy and spirit will be affected." said grandma.

Lu Yanhe responded with a sense of relief and went to eat first.

Two young people were sitting at the dining table.

A pot of pigeon soup, a portion of stir-fried lentil shreds, and a plate of scallion fried eggs are perfect for dinner and are quite light.

While they were eating, grandma sat beside them, looking at them with a smile and asking them how the food tasted.

Of course Lu Yanhe immediately said it was delicious.

It actually tastes very homely.

Of course, it’s delicious too.

Chen Siqi said: "Grandma, your cooking skills are still as good as they were back then."

Grandma said, "I have not been idle at home these past few years. I have been studying various dishes. This is my only hobby, but your grandpa doesn't appreciate it and insists that I always poison him."

Chen Siqi laughed and said, "Grandpa is living in a blessed situation but doesn't know how to appreciate it."

"That's right." Grandma nodded immediately and reminded Lu Yanhe, "Yanhe, you can't learn from Grandpa Siqi. You have to learn to appreciate the blessings you have."

Lu Yanhe immediately said, "I know, I've always known."

At this time, grandpa came over with his hands behind his back, took one look at the dishes on the table, and immediately said with disdain: "How can you be so mean, it's the first time Yan He comes to our house, and you only make this little food for him, it seems like we are being very neglectful."

Lu Yanhe was stunned.

"No, no, it's good. Grandma's cooking is delicious."

I even forgot to call her grandma and just called her grandma.

Grandma glared at Grandpa and said, "Did you hear that?"

Grandpa said, "I'm just being polite. You're really too much of a fool. You usually treat me with these bland dishes, but why do you treat Siqi's boyfriend like this?"

Chen Siqi gave Lu Yanhe a look that said "don't interrupt".

Lu Yanhe quickly shut up and tried to smooth things over.

Grandma sneered at Grandpa and said, "You are really capable. Are you being treated to a plain soup? You are lucky to have something to eat, but you are being treated to a plain soup. You will be starving from now on!"

Grandpa: "It's not like we don't have a nanny."

"Quit!" Grandma's eyebrows were raised, "Don't come after the New Year. I want to see what you eat!"

Grandfather: “…”

Lu Yanhe watched from the side, surprised at the way the old couple got along, which was completely beyond his expectations, but at the same time he felt a sense of inexplicable familiarity.

He suddenly felt like he had discovered the truth about how Chen Siqi developed such courage.

Lu Yanhe ate in silence without interrupting.

After eating, I returned to the TV and waited for the countdown to midnight for the Spring Festival Gala with everyone.

As the bells rang to welcome the New Year, the sound of fireworks exploded outside.

Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi both came to the yard and looked at the brilliant fireworks in the night sky in the distance.

This area is secluded, there seems to be no other houses around, and the neighbors are far away.

Lu Yanhe said, "It's quite quiet around here. Even the fireworks are so far away."

Chen Siqi said: "After my grandparents retired, they wanted to find a quiet place to retire away from other people. They chose this place early and built a house. After handing over the company to my uncle, they came here without any attachment."

"Is it convenient for two elderly people to live here?"

"It's quite convenient. There's a nanny and a driver. There's someone to take care of all the shopping. My uncle and his family come back every now and then to visit us." Chen Siqi said, "Don't think that they are just like ordinary old men and women who like to bicker. Back then, they were influential figures in business. Even now, many people want to visit them, but they refuse to see them. Sometimes they go out for a trip, but most of the time they stay here, planting flowers and grass, and sometimes going out to see old friends."

Lu Yanhe nodded, "It sounds like a very comfortable life."

"Yes, I envy them a lot." Chen Siqi said, "After I went to college, every time I came back to see them, they said that I didn't need to come back, they would come to see me when they missed me, and asked me to do a good job on Jump Up. They were very proud of me doing Jump Up, although they never told me, but I could feel it."

Lu Yanhe said: "They must have been very worried about you before."

"They are just like you. They don't want me to always limit my focus to those few people," Chen Siqi said. "They want me to have my own life."

"Because they want you to be truly happy."

"Ok, I know."
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Grandma stood behind the window, glanced at the two young men leaning against each other in the yard, raised her lips slightly, and asked in a low voice without turning back, "Old man, what do you think of this young man Lu Yanhe?"

The old man said, "Our Xiaoqi has good taste."

The two of them stopped bickering at this moment.

Grandma sighed softly, "Xiao Qi is luckier than her mother to meet this child."

"It's the first year of the new year, so let's not talk about this." Grandpa came behind grandma, "Now you can relax a little. This child doesn't have as many problems as you thought. Just like Xiaoqi said, teach him well in the future and don't let him go astray. They will live a happy life."

Grandma: "You were the only one who disliked Xiao Lu for being a celebrity."

"Most celebrities get divorced after getting married, so what's wrong with me being disgusted?"

"Who else among the celebrities can be admitted to Zhenhua University?"

"Who said that those who get admitted to Zhenhua won't get divorced? They are a school run by Yue Lao, right?"

"I'm saying that your logic is flawed. Celebrities get divorced a lot, so they're not suitable for marriage. But celebrities are not the same person, so why are you generalizing?"

"How could I have judged him so badly? Didn't you meet Xiao Lu and think he was a good kid?"

"So you disliked him before?"

"Who dislikes him? I'm just a little concerned about the bad feng shui of his business."

"Oh, you're becoming superstitious."

"Why are you becoming more and more unreasonable?"

"Humph!"
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Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi stayed here for two days.

At noon on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Yanhe cooked a table full of food himself, which stunned everyone.

"You kid, you still have this ability?"

Lu Yanhe smiled sheepishly and said, "I've been cooking since I was a kid. My cooking is average, not as good as my grandmother's. Please forgive me."

When grandma looked at Lu Yanhe, stars began to appear in her eyes.

"It's okay. I'll teach you my wonderful skills slowly in the future." Grandma smiled.

At noon on the second day of the Chinese New Year, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi left together, ready to start their long-planned vacation.

The elderly people reminded: "Don't just play and forget about safety. Safety comes first."

"Got it, got it." Chen Siqi waved her hand and smiled brightly at her family members, "We'll come back to see you next time."

"You guys just go about your business, there's nothing to see, we'll come to see you," said grandma.

This year passed just like that.

They went straight to the airport. Their luggage had already been prepared and was placed in the trunk.

There are many people at the airport at this time.

It was the first time for Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi to go abroad together, purely for vacation.

This made them feel inexplicably luxurious, so much so that every time they walked into the airport, which they had walked into countless times, they felt a genuine sense of ease and happiness. (End of this chapter)