Marriage as a Game

Chapter 81 Nickname Notes SJH
On the morning of New Year's Eve, the house was thoroughly cleaned, window paper-cuts and couplets were pasted up, and in the afternoon we began preparing food for the evening.

Shen Chaoxi didn’t know how to make dumplings, so he watched Zheng Juanjuan and her grandmother make them in the restaurant.

"The bad thing about Yao Yuan's job is that there are no holidays."

Grandma couldn't help but start mumbling.

Yao Yuan swapped shifts with someone else last night so that he could spend New Year's Eve at home. He is still at work and will not be back until eight o'clock in the evening.

"Isn't this triple holiday pay? It's just like that during the Chinese New Year. If Xixi wasn't at home this year, he would have taken on all the holiday shifts!"

When Zheng Juanjuan was 22 years old and married Yao Yuan, who was also 22 years old, they had already become accustomed to this down-to-earth life of earning money with their own hands.

Grandma glanced at Shen Chaoxi and found it very funny to see her pinching the dumpling skins into gold ingots.

"Xixi, when pinching dumplings like this, you can't squeeze them with both palms. Use your thumb and index finger to squeeze them from both sides."

"Hey! Mom, please don't teach her anymore. We don't need her in normal times. Go watch TV instead. Don't waste time here with us. It's so boring!"

After Zheng Juanjuan finished speaking, she looked around but didn't see Yao Dimai.

"Where's your brother? He did nothing all morning except post a couplet. He disappeared after dinner!"

Shen Chaoxi lowered her head, pursed her lips and said nothing. She naturally knew what Yao Dimai was going to do, but she had to keep it a secret.

At this moment, the mobile phone on the sofa in the living room could hear the sound of incoming messages, one after another.

Since the winter vacation, I rarely send messages so frequently except in the class group.

"It's probably a New Year's greeting message."

Shen Chaoxi washed his hands and walked from the dining room to the living room.

Sure enough, the class group avatar already showed dozens of messages, and the number was still growing.

Shen Chaoxi clicked it and scrolled to the top.

The cause was that Kang Jian posted a set of naked photos of himself wearing only swimming trunks on an Australian beach.

In recent years, wealthy people rarely stay at home during the Chinese New Year and generally choose to go abroad.

[Jian! Are you here to get wet and seduce me? ]

[Who are you tempting? You have nothing! ]

[What do you want to see upstairs? ]

[Chest muscles, abdominal muscles, and brachialis! ]

[?! It seems like our brother Jian hasn’t fully developed this thing yet! ]

[Okay, this is a class group, not a sex-scanning group. There are girls here, don’t lead the motherland astray! ]

[Hahahaha! I don’t understand! I don’t understand!!]

[If you drink water, you will know whether you understand it or not! (covering your mouth and laughing)]

……

[Everyone, please share what you did during your vacation? I’ll share first! ]

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The pictures everyone posted were varied. Some were on vacation in the south, posting beautiful photos of the beach, some were posting photos of exotic food, and even Zhongli posted a photo of himself sitting in a nanny car.

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[Is there anyone more dedicated than me? After finishing the location work, I rushed back home to celebrate the New Year! (firecrackers)]

And then there was a lot of flattery.

[Wow! Big stars are so dedicated. I admire them! ]

[Beautiful lady, why do I feel that your tired photos are so much better than mine! ]

[Hey! Where's Shen Chaoxi? Why isn't he participating again? ]

[It's Chinese New Year today, you're not still writing papers, are you? 】

Shen Chaoxi took a photo of himself making dumplings and was about to post it, but when he saw everyone teasing him, he went straight into the bedroom and took a photo of the test paper he had reviewed for at noon.

She hit send.

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The test paper was a set of comprehensive science questions, and she was working on the physics questions.

There was a brief silence in the group, as if the Internet was suddenly disconnected.

Then Bai Jinyuan gave a thumbs up.

【Take more steps towards excellence! Thumbs up to Shen! 】

Since Bai Jinyuan had spoken, I liked the following dozen or so comments that didn't go off topic.

[For the last question about current flow, the steps are reversed, and the letters of the lines connecting B and A are opposite to get the correct answer. ]

Suddenly, a person with a blank avatar appeared and spoke, which caught everyone off guard.

【Who? 】

[I clicked, there is one more person in our group! ]

Sure enough, the group members showed 22.

[Did the enemy infiltrate our army and quietly prepare to wipe us out? ]

[Upstairs! Are you watching a spy movie?] [Picture (TV video)]

It really is a spy film!

【Hahahahahaha】

This person doesn't have a nickname, and other people may not know who he is, but Shen Chaoxi has a note about him.

SJH!

【Red envelope】

【Red envelope】

【Red envelope】

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While I was hesitating, I could only hear my phone ringing so fast that I couldn't even grab the red envelope.

[Ah! So cool! ]

【Ah! I love it so much! 】

【ah! ah! ah! 】

This sentence is inserted from time to time in the gaps between red envelopes.

About two minutes later, the frequency of sending red envelopes ended.

There was silence in the group for a few seconds.

Then Bai Jinyuan sent a message.

[Thank you Mr. Shang for the New Year's red envelope! (Bang fist)]

【grateful!】

【grateful!】

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[Stop typing, just grab it! ]

The limit for each red envelope is 200 yuan, and there are probably dozens of them.

This amount of money was nothing to the students of Class 9, but it seemed particularly exciting to snatch it.

Shen Chaoxi was slow and the red envelope she liked was snatched away before she could even open it. Later, she simply started to watch the fun.

She remembered the question that Shang Jianghan had just corrected her.

Shen Chaoxi simply put down his phone and went into the bedroom. After checking, he found that he had made a mistake in a question due to carelessness.

When they came out again, people in the group started showing off the amount of red envelopes.

At this time, Zhongli called via video.

She had just gotten out of the babysitting car and was walking home.

Beside her are precious shrubs and trees, and an exquisitely carved covered bridge.

"When are you coming over? This is the old house. This year, my uncle is back, and our family is celebrating the New Year here."

Then, Zhongli pointed the camera at the courtyard and took some pictures.

It has the style of the south with white walls, green tiles, small bridges and flowing water.

"Isn't it beautiful? My great grandmother is from the south, and my grandfather specially built this courtyard. If my uncle and aunt hadn't come back, we wouldn't have the right to celebrate the New Year here!"

Shen Chaoxi knew something about the relationships of the Zhong family.

Zhong Hongguang and Zhong Hongyi do not have the same mother.

Zhong Hongguang's mother was his first wife, but unfortunately she passed away very early. When Zhong Hongguang was only five or six years old, in order to take good care of him, Mr. Zhong married a second wife, who later gave birth to Zhong Hongyi.

"Well, it's beautiful, with the characteristics of a southern courtyard. It's rare to find such a landscape in the north."

"Then why don't you come over tomorrow! Auntie is here, shouldn't you spend the New Year with her?"

Shen Chaoxi curled the corners of his mouth.

"Have you finished shooting the exterior scenes?"

Because she changed the subject, Zhongli rolled his eyes.

"Yes, we finally finished the project on New Year's Eve. I am so miserable!"

As Zhongli spoke, he walked into the courtyard.

"Oh! What a coincidence, look who this is?"

The camera was blurry because Zhongli was walking fast.

Soon, Yao Chun, dressed in white Chinese style, appeared in the camera.

She was drinking tea in a closed pavilion, together with Liang Jing.

The Qing Dynasty white porcelain tea set blends perfectly with the surrounding environment.

The style of a wealthy wife is fully displayed.

I have to say, her outfit is also very eye-catching.

"Aunt, please ask Xixi to come to our house to celebrate the New Year. I will live with her in Suiyu Garden."

Suiyu Garden is the name of a residence.

Shen Chaoxi greeted Liang Jing through the camera, and she called out "Hello, Auntie!"

(End of this chapter)