At first, there was some unpleasantness between Xiang Jin and Yan Chen's father. Xiang Jin even disliked his father, thinking that he was a very snobbish person.
However, after he bowed and apologized to her in front of many people, and in the following few years of getting along with him, her dislike for him was no longer so strong, and she even felt that he was a little pitiful.
What was originally a happy family ended up being separated because of his infidelity in marriage and love. His father did not want to see him, his sons hated him, and even his only sister complained a lot about him.
He has a family, but he doesn't have one. He has spent the New Year alone outside for so many years. Even though he formed a new family with that woman, he still has no spiritual comfort because of the frequent quarrels, which makes him very upset.
, he is still alone.
He is actually about the same age as his father, but he looks much older and more vicissitudes than his father.
After breakfast, Xiang Jin went back to the study to handle her work. The moment she sat down, she suddenly thought that there was one more thing that needed to be dealt with. After a moment of hesitation, she picked up her phone and found
The phone number was dialed.
This is what the old man told her, she still has to obey it!
The other party's phone rang a few times before someone picked it up, "Hello, girl Jin?"
"Oh, dad?" Although she also felt shameful about his betrayal of marriage, family and love, he was Yan Chen's biological father after all, and she and Yan Chen had now received a marriage certificate, and Yan Chen
Since Chen has changed her attitude towards her parents and grandparents, she will no longer be able to call him Uncle Yan, so she has to follow Yan Chen's change in calling him father.
When Xiang Jin called him "Dad", Yan Chen's father was silent for a moment on the other end of the phone. Although he concealed it very well, Xiang Jin could still hear the excitement in his words.
"Why are you calling me at this time? Is it about you or Yan Chen?"
Xiang Jin said, "Oh, no, we are all fine. You don't have to worry. I just wanted to call and say hello. How are you doing recently?"
"Oh, okay, okay, it's okay, you don't have to worry."
"What about work, are you busy?" Xiang Jin asked again.
Yan Chen's father said, "It's okay at work. It's the end of the year, so I'm a little busy. It's the end of the year, and our suppliers have to press us for payment, and we also have to press our customers for payment. It's just socializing."
A little bit more, nothing else."
Xiang Jin said, "Then you still need to pay more attention to your health. Don't drink or smoke too much. You may injure your liver and stomach."
"Oh, okay! I know that you are pregnant. As a father-in-law, I should come to Beijing to visit you, but I am afraid that your grandparents will be unhappy, so it is not convenient for me to come.
Don’t you mind?”
Xiang Jin said, "No! It's understandable. Don't you usually call Yan Chen to ask about my situation? This is also concern!"
Yan Chen's father said, "Yes, I bought you some supplements and prepared some things for the child. When your aunt comes to Beijing for a work summary meeting in two days, I will ask her to bring it to you."
"Thank you, dad!" Xiang Jin said.
"Hey, you're welcome, that's right!"
Xiang Jin followed and said, "Dad, the Chinese New Year will be here in a few days. Do you have any arrangements? If you don't have any arrangements, why don't you come to Beijing to celebrate the New Year with us? My parents are still here.
My aunt and the others are coming, and the whole family will be lively when the time comes!"
Yan Chen's father fell silent on the other end of the phone. He came over for at least half a minute before Xiang Jin heard him speak again, "You guys can go over, I won't go over. This will save everyone from being unhappy. Your grandparents are so old."
I don’t want to make them unhappy when they’re older. I’ll come to Beijing to see you when it’s empty after the Chinese New Year.”
Xiang Jin opened her mouth and wanted to say that it was actually her grandparents who had let go and she called him to invite him to come to Beijing to celebrate the New Year. But then she thought again, maybe her grandparents had not forgiven him, but just...
The concession was made because of the friendship between Grandpa and Yan Chen. When he comes, the two old people may be really unhappy.
To be honest, compared with him and the two old people, he must be 100% on the side of the two old people, because one is that the two old people have been very good to her since she was a child, which is no different from how they treat his own granddaughter.
The worst part is that he really doesn't have a good impression of people who are unfaithful to their marriage, family and lover.
So she asked, "So how do you plan to spend this year?"
Yan Chen's father said, "I will spend the New Year with you, Uncle Tao and the others. Don't worry, Dad will also have a good New Year."
"Oh, okay then, then you should cook more delicious dishes and have a good New Year. You should also pay more attention to your health, right?"
"Oh, okay, I know."
At night, when the two of them were lying on the bed, Xiang Jin told Yan Chen, "Dad is not allowed to come over to celebrate the New Year with us."
Yan Chen asked, "Did you call him?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, actually I think he still wanted to come over to celebrate the New Year with us, but he was afraid that his grandparents would be unhappy if he came over, so he said he couldn't come over. Then he would
Celebrate the New Year with Uncle Tao and the others."
Yan Chen said, "That's fine, just come over and forget it. The reason why grandpa and grandma said that is just because of the friendship between grandpa and us. It is estimated that it will be impossible to forgive him in this life."
, after all, that is my mother, their daughter."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, well, Uncle Tao won't come to Beijing to celebrate the New Year?"
Yan Chen said, "Uncle Tao said that there will be a lot of people on our side then, so he won't come over to cause trouble. He also has a few comrades over there who won't go back to celebrate the New Year. Then we will invite them to celebrate the New Year together."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Then you give him a call and ask them to slaughter a sheep then, and then go to the breeding farm to slaughter a few chickens and ducks. If you don't come to celebrate the New Year with us, why don't you come and celebrate the New Year with us?
We can't treat him badly even though he is alone, he has also paid a lot for us over the years."
Yan Chen nodded, "Well, I will call him then, and then I will explain it to my aunt, in case he doesn't follow our instructions. Should we slaughter another sheep and chicken?"
Ya asked Auntie to bring her over then? After all, there are still so many people in our family during the Chinese New Year."
Xiang Jin asked, "I'm afraid the refrigerator at home can't hold so much meat?"
Yan Chen said, "Don't worry about it. In the worst case, we can just buy another double-door refrigerator."
Xiang Jin suddenly felt dumbfounded, "Just because we have to pack a sheep and some chickens and ducks, our family needs to buy a large refrigerator."
Yan Chen asked, "What's this?"
Xiang Jin said, "How luxurious!"
Yan Chen smiled and said, "Occasionally you can still be luxurious. Why don't you use it for enjoyment after making so much money? Do you want to be a miser?"
Xiang Jin said, "I'm not a miser, but there's no need to buy a large double-door refrigerator. We can buy a small single-door refrigerator."
Yan Chen said, "The small one can't hold many things, so I still have to buy a larger one. There will still be so many bacon, sausages and cured fish, and some seafood products also need to be frozen."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Oh, that's okay!"
Yan Chen said, "Then I'll call them tomorrow?"
"good!"
On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, when Ouyang Bo arrived with a large truckload of things, Xiang Jin said to Yan Chen, "You are right to suggest buying a large refrigerator."
Yan Chen laughed.
Looking at the large baskets of bacon, sausages, and cured fish, as well as a fat sheep cut into many small pieces, as well as dozens or twenty chickens and ducks, and two large sides of fresh pork and
Spare ribs, Xiang Jin couldn't help but face her
Brother said, "I just forgot to tell you on the phone. Aunt Yan Shu also slaughtered a sheep and a dozen chickens and ducks yesterday. Two sheep, so many chickens, ducks, pork, and bacon and sausages.
Do you know when you want to eat?"
Ouyang Bo said, "It doesn't matter. You can freeze this in the refrigerator and eat it slowly. The chickens and ducks I brought you are all live. You can keep this and eat it later. Oh, yes.
There are some chickens and ducks inside that are still laying eggs. You can still eat fresh eggs when the time comes."
Xiang Jin said, "Our family now has a lot of chicken and duck eggs. Last time when my grandparents and grandparents came here from the provincial capital, they brought one or two hundred local eggs. Later, my grandparents came back from their hometown.
I brought back some local chicken and duck eggs. Yesterday, my aunt came from the provincial capital and brought about two hundred chicken and duck eggs. You brought so many more today. Our family now has at least five or six hundred eggs.
A native chicken and duck egg.”
Ouyang Bo said, "These chicken and duck eggs were mainly brought by Aunt Liao for you that time. It was not convenient for your grandparents to bring so many when they came back, so I brought them for you this time. Your grandparents, and
Aunt Liao and the others also brought you some other things, so I’ll bring them to you this time too.”
Xiang Jin asked, "What did they spend on it?"
Ouyang Bo said, "Your grandparents brought you a large pot of sesame oil, Aunt Liao brought you a large pot of rapeseed oil, both pots weighed twenty kilograms, and your grandmother
They also brought you a big bag of new rice, half a bag of noodles, also made from this year's new wheat, and a bag of glutinous rice. Aunt Liao brought you a bag of chestnuts, which were grown by her brothers on her mother's side.
Yes, say this
Roast chicken and stewed chicken are both delicious, especially for pregnant people. She also brought you two cured geese and some dried cowpeas. Then your high school classmate brought you those sweet potato vermicelli.
Sweet potato noodles and rice noodles were given to us by her mother last week when she called me and I went over to pick them up. She said they were going to your classmate’s place in Shanghai to celebrate the New Year, so she gave them to us early to avoid missing out.
.”
Xiang Jin nodded, and then asked her brother, "If you come here now, what will you do in the orchard and the company?"
Her brother said, "All the ripe fruits in the orchard have been picked and sold. The next batch will be picked almost half a month later. That means I will go back to spend the New Year with them tomorrow and then give them to them."
Just give me a year-end bonus."
Xiang Jin asked, "Are you going back tomorrow?"
Ouyang Bo nodded, "Ah, I'll go back tomorrow and sort things out for a while. When I'm thirty, I'll have a reunion with my parents, aunt, and the others, but we all have a three o'clock flight in the afternoon.
, it might be late if we call."
Yan Chen said, "It's okay, I'll pick you up at the airport then."
Xiang Jin and her grandmother said, "It will be appropriate to catch up and finish the meal then."
Then Xiang Jin asked again, "Now that you're here, can my aunt be busy over there alone?"
Ouyang Bo said, "Mom is back."
"Mom is back? They are on vacation so early?!" Xiang Jin was surprised.
Ouyang Bo said, "She changed shifts with someone else. Because she wanted to come to your place, she changed shifts with someone else for a month, so she started taking leave from the day before yesterday."
"Is dad alone over there?" Xiang Jin followed.
Ouyang Bo said, "Dad has been very busy recently. He often leaves early and comes home late. He rarely eats at home while our mother is there, so after her vacation, our mother goes directly back to the melon orchard to help
Auntie is busy."
Yan Chen asked him, "What time is your flight tomorrow?"
Ouyang Bo said, "Twelve o'clock."
Yan Chen said, "Then I will take you to the airport tomorrow."
Ouyang Bo asked, "You won't go to work tomorrow?"
Yan Chen said, "We are already on vacation."
Ouyang Bo nodded, "Okay, then you can give it to me tomorrow."
"Where does this pork come from?" Xiang Jin and her grandparents went to pack things, and her grandma asked looking at the basket of fresh pork.
Ouyang Bo said, "Don't we want to give year-end benefits to our employees? So we ordered two pigs from the master who usually slaughters sheep for us, and then asked him to help us find one that was purely grain-fed.
Native pig, that pig is not big, weighing more than 100 pounds. My aunt and I left some meat, and then I brought the rest to Xiaojin and the others, thinking that there will be more people here during the Chinese New Year, so it will be edible
The quantity is also relatively large.”
Xiang Jin's grandma said, "Oh, there's a lot of meat here. Sister, do you think we can add some sausages to this meat? Just the mutton sausage. Xiaochen's grandfather doesn't usually like to eat this kind of mutton.
Sausage? Let’s drink some more and get him some more when the time comes?”
Grandma Mo said, "Okay, then tomorrow we will go to the nearby vegetable market to see if we can find some casings."
"Oh, good! I'm afraid I'll have to buy another glass jar when the time comes. There are so many chicken and duck eggs. Let's pick some duck eggs and soak them in some salted duck eggs."
"Hey, this is fine too. I'll make some porridge then."
The elders went to pack the ingredients while talking, while Yan Chen and Ouyang Bo went to store the liquor that Ouyang Bo had brought over in the basement.
The next day, Yan Chen came back from sending Ouyang Bo to the airport, and then came back and said to Xiang Jin, "Your brother just told me that he wants to set up a factory next year."
"What kind of factory is it? Do you have customers and sales channels?"
Yan Chen said, "He wants to build a vegetable and fruit canning factory. He said that the investment cost is small, and then part of it will be sold in our fruit shop."
Xiang Jin couldn't help but laugh and said, "Oh, he will find sales channels and sell them together with our fruits."
Yan Chen also smiled and said, "So, your brother is quite shrewd, and your brother has fallen in love with someone."
"Ah?!" Xiang Jin was surprised, "Who does he like?"
"You and I don't know each other, but an employee in his company is said to have graduated from an agricultural university and helps him take care of the orchard in his orchard."
Xiang Jin asked, "How old is that girl? Where is she from? Does she like her?"
Yan Chen said, "She is the niece of an employee at the melon orchard. I don't know her age. It is said that she graduated from the Agricultural University last year and went to work for him. She is not very tall, about 1.6 meters tall, and her appearance is average.
But the advantage is that he endures hardships, works conscientiously and responsibly, and is still kind-hearted.
At present, your brother seems to have a good impression of them. He said that he will recruit more employees next year. Many employees have said that they will introduce their family members to come to work with him. Among them are the parents of the girl.
He said that when the time comes, he will observe the girl, her parents and her family from the side."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, that's true. Although the girl is excellent in all aspects, it would be bad if she had a pair of terrible parents. What if she is a good girl who obeys her parents in everything?
Not good, it would be good for my brother to observe more."
Yan Chen said, "Well, your brother has grown a lot over the years. He has become more and more calm, and his thinking about things has become more profound and mature."
Xiang Jin said, "Well, indeed! No wonder he doesn't like his grandparents, and those girls introduced to him by his aunt. It turns out he has someone in his heart? Oh, it's strange, why does he give in to everything?
Tell me, why don't you tell me, I am his biological sister?"
Yan Chen laughed and said, "What a jealous person. Are you even jealous?"
Xiang Jin said, "That's right. In terms of kinship, do you think I'm closer to him than you are? Why would he say these things to you instead of me?"
Yan Chen stretched out his hand and pinched her cheek, "This is a topic between us men," but in his heart he said: This feeling is getting better and better!
Xiang Jin said, "This is not an obscure and private topic. Why are you embarrassed to talk about it in front of me? Are you afraid that I will be a big talker and then I will publicize it everywhere? I
He is such a restless and nosy person? I won’t talk nonsense until there is something definite.”
Yan Chen smiled and said, "Don't think blindly. Your brother may be embarrassed to tell you this. After all, there are some topics that are easier for men to talk about."
Xiang Jin said, "I'm not just imagining this. Oh, let it go. Just have a crush. It's better to have a crush than not. Oh, by the way, you once had a crush on me, right?"
Yan Chen asked, "Is it a secret love? I am clearly in love, okay? Everyone can see that I like you, but you can't, pig!" After saying this, he raised his hand and pinched it again.
He pinched her cheek, looking like he was gritting his teeth.
Xiang Jin rolled his eyes at him angrily, "You're a pig, how can I be so narcissistic? I'm not money, and everyone still likes me?"
Yan Chen smiled, hugged her and said, "Okay, let's go, let's take a nap," and then he hugged her and walked inside.