Xiang Jin and the others have had a very lively life this year. Not only did they welcome their parents, aunt, and brother on the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, but they also welcomed their parents on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month.
Yan Chen, his uncle, aunt, his cousin and his sisters-in-law were left with him as a family of four.
Fortunately, there are many rooms in their house, which is enough to live in. Yan Chen and his uncle and aunt spent the New Year at his aunt's natal home last year, and this year it is their turn to come back to visit their parents.
Originally they were supposed to reunite in the provincial capital, but Xiang Jin was pregnant. Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo came to BJ to take care of Xiang Jin, so Yan Chen, his uncles, aunts, and cousins changed their way to the capital.
Yan Chen's cousin is also a soldier, a military doctor, engaged in surgery. His parents are also military doctors, his mother is a director-level professor, and his father is the director and professor of the military hospital. Both of them have many subordinates.
There are few students and their family backgrounds are still relatively strong.
They got married when Xiang Jin was in his first year of graduate school, but maybe because they were both busy at work, they didn't have children yet.
Because Yan Chen, his cousin-in-law and uncles like to eat hot pot, on the night of their 30th, Xiang Jin and his family directly arranged a hot pot meal with mutton as the main dish.
Because there were a lot of people, two tables were arranged at home, one for the young people and the other for the elders. And because Xiang Jin’s taste had to be taken care of, this table was arranged for Xiang Jin and the others.
Yuanyang hot pot.
Seeing Yan Chen hotly cooking Xiang Jin's food, and Xiang Jin eating very happily, Yan Chen's cousin asked, "You didn't even have any reaction during pregnancy?"
They have been here for two days, but every time they see how delicious this girl is, she can't help but feel a little curious.
Xiang Jin said, "Well, there's no reaction. I don't know if it's because the time to react hasn't come yet, or if there's no reaction in the first place. In short, I can eat anything at the moment, but I wish I could always be like this."
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Yan Chen and his cousin-in-law nodded, "Yes, it would be great if there is no reaction all the time. I hope that if I get pregnant in the future, I can also have no reaction."
Xiang Jin put down his chopsticks, took a napkin on the side and asked casually, "Cousin, are you planning to have a baby?"
Yan Chen's cousin-in-law glanced at his cousin, smiled happily and sweetly, and said, "Well, we have this plan, your cousin and I are not young anymore."
Yan Chen's cousin is thirty years old this year, and his cousin's sister-in-law is a few months older than his cousin, so he is thirty-one years old. However, it is not too late to raise children at this age, but at this age
The elders should still be quite anxious in their eyes.
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, it doesn't matter if you take it early, you will have to take it sooner or later."
Zeng Haoze put down his chopsticks and teased them, "You two are so quick, you got married without saying a word, and now you even have children."
Yan Chen and his cousin-in-law joked, "Why are you so silent? Hasn't your cousin already set his sights on this girl for a long time? After waiting for so many years, I'm afraid I've long wanted to marry him back.
Home."
Zeng Haoze immediately laughed, then nodded and said, "Yes, yes, yes!"
Xiang Jin and the others were stunned for a moment, then heard Yan Chen and his cousin-in-law say, "What's going on with you two? Your brother has told me that you two grew up together and studied together."
, study together, and also cooperate in doing business together.”
Xiang Jin nodded and said without hesitation, "Yes, we have known each other for ten years. During these ten years, we have become very familiar with each other. Of course, he likes me and I also like him.
So we decided to get married when the time was right, and we felt there was nothing to delay."
Yan Chen and his cousin nodded, and then Yan Chen and his cousin looked at Ouyang Bo, who was eating silently, "What about you, do you have a girlfriend? When do you plan to get married?"
Ouyang Bo said, "I haven't met the right one yet."
Zeng Haoze nodded, "When you have the person you like, don't forget to invite us when you get married? Even if I can't go then, your sister-in-law can go."
Yan Chen and his cousin looked at him and nodded, indicating that Zeng Haoze was right.
Ouyang Bo nodded, "Okay, thank you brother Haoze and sister-in-law."
Then everyone raised their glasses to celebrate the New Year, and then one by one they took their drinks to the table next to the elders to toast and say their blessings.
After dinner, everyone cleaned up the kitchen and dining room together, and then those who wanted to watch TV went to watch TV, and those who wanted to play cards went to play cards. Xiang Jin also went to play mahjong for a while, but her card skills were not good and her luck was not very good.
, so after fighting for a while, she stepped down and was replaced by Yan Chen. She then ran to watch TV with a few elders.
She sat on the sofa, and Grandma Mo asked, "What's going on, girl Jin, are you losing or winning?"
Xiang Jin shook his head and said, "I'm not very skilled, and I'm not very lucky either. I always couldn't get the cards, and I kept giving them sticks and cannons. In two games, I even fired three shots at a time, so I lost a lot.
But our fight was small, so we didn’t lose much, and we were all from our own family, so it doesn’t matter if the money doesn’t go to outsiders, so Yan Chen is fighting on my behalf right now.”
The elders all laughed, and then said, "It's okay, come watch TV with us for a while. The Spring Festival Gala tonight is not bad, the arrangement is nice."
Xiang Jin nodded, and then asked them while staring at the TV, "Where are you planning to go tomorrow?"
Her grandma said, "We plan to go to the Forbidden City to see it tomorrow."
Xiang Jin said, "There will probably be a lot of people going to the Forbidden City tomorrow, but it's okay. It's okay to go and see it for a while. I stay under the Imperial City every day, so why should I go and see what the Forbidden City is like?"
"
Several elders nodded and said "Yes!"
Then Yan Chen's aunt asked, "Have you ever been to the Forbidden City?"
Xiang Jin said, "We have been there. We have been there a few years ago. We have been to all the scenic tourist attractions in BJ, including the Great Wall in Badaling."
Then Xiang Jin introduced them to some BJ attractions that were worth visiting, and everyone nodded and said that they could go and visit them when the time came.
Xiang Jin accompanied them and saw that she was feeling sleepy at a little past ten o'clock, so she told several elders that she was feeling sleepy and wanted to go to bed.
Several elders nodded in understanding, and then told her to go and have a rest.
Yan Chen was always paying attention to Xiang Jin's movements. When he saw him getting up to go back to the house, he immediately stood up and made room to face Ouyang Bo who was watching them playing cards, "You come and play, I won't play."
"Okay," Ouyang Bo hurriedly came on the bench.
After returning to the house, Xiang Jin asked Yan Chen, "You're not going to fight?"
Yan Chen said, "No more fighting," and then he went into the inner room to give her some water.
Xiang Jin followed and asked, "Did you lose or win?"
Yan Chen said, "Take a bath?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, let's take a dip."
Yan Chen answered him while filling the bathtub with water, "I won a bit, but not much, just a few hundred yuan."
Xiang Jin asked, "Which one lost?"
Yan Chen said, "My cousin lost some money."
"Will she lose alone?"
"Well, that's about right!"
After a while, the water in the bathtub was put in. Yan Chen looked at Xiang Jin and said, "Let's take a bath together?"
Xiang Jin blushed slightly, then nodded, "Yeah!"
Yan Chen's lips curled up, and he went back to the house to get their pajamas, and then the two of them got into the bathtub and took a bath together.
After washing up, the two of them went back to the house and lay down on the bed. Xiang Jin said to Yan Chen, "Tomorrow my grandparents and grandparents want to visit the Forbidden City. We can't accompany them to visit, so we will give it to them then."
Take some money and use it for their travel expenses."
Yan Chen agreed without any hesitation, "Okay, then you can give it to our mother tomorrow."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay!"
Yan Chen hugged her, and then stared at her with intense eyes. Then he slowly lowered his head towards her, and Xiang Jin immediately stretched out his arms and put his arms around his neck...
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The next morning, Xiang Jin and Yan Chen got up, and then they saw Yan Chen, his uncle and aunts standing under the eaves, looking at what they were talking about in the yard, and Zeng Haoze and his wife standing next to them.
The two walked over to greet them. Yan Chen and his uncle looked at the two of them and praised with a smile, "Your little yard is a good buy. It has a big room and a big courtyard. You can also grow vegetables and flowers in it. Well,
It’s really good.”
Yan Chen's aunt nodded and said, "The key is that the environment inside is good and quiet."
Xiang Jin smiled and said, "It seems that my uncle and aunt also like courtyard houses very much."
Yan Chen and his uncle nodded and said, "Well, not bad, it's indeed good!"
Yan Chen's aunt said, "Your uncle is engaged in the restoration and protection of cultural relics. He is naturally interested in such classical architecture."
Xiang Jin said, "How about uncle and auntie just buy a courtyard like this in BJ? Then it will be easier for us to move around each other."
Their uncle just smiled and said nothing, but seemed to be a little moved. Their aunt said, "Oh, it shouldn't be cheap to buy a yard like this now, right?"
Yan Chen said, "The current price of BJ's courtyard house is around 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, and the one in our house might cost 35,000 to 35,600 yuan."
Yan Chen's cousin asked, "How big is your house?"
Xiang Jin said, "More than five hundred and seventy square meters."
Yan Chen's aunt said, "Oh, one thousand to twenty million?"
Zeng Haoze asked, "How much did you buy this house for?"
Yan Chen said, "More than four million, almost five million."
Yan Chen's aunt sighed with emotion, "Oh, look how many times it has doubled now."
Xiang Jin said, "We bought it early. He bought it when we were freshmen. At that time, courtyard houses were very cheap. At that time, many people were pursuing the kind of glamorous high-rise buildings, and almost no one paid attention to them.
Siheyuan.”
Yan Chen's aunt said, "You still have vision."
Xiang Jin said, "The price of courtyard houses will rise in the future."
Yan Chen's aunt said, "It's still going up. Oh, tens of thousands of yuan per square meter is already very high. If it's still going up, who can afford it in the future?"
Xiang Jin said, "There are still a lot of rich people. There is no shortage of rich, powerful and powerful people in BJ."
A few people nodded, and then their aunt said, "This is true. A falling brick can easily hit an official or a wealthy person."
After breakfast, a group of elders changed their clothes and went out to visit the Forbidden City. Xiang Jin went back to the house to get money for them. As soon as she turned around, her brother saw what she was thinking, and then pulled her and whispered to her
, "You don't need to worry about their expenses today, I will be responsible for them!"
"You want to visit the Forbidden City too?" Xiang Jin was surprised, and Yan Chen also looked at him.
Ouyang Bo nodded towards them, and then joked to himself, "I haven't visited the Forbidden City yet, so I can take this opportunity to go shopping with the elders, see what they know, and do some filial piety in front of them.
, I haven’t been in front of them much this year.”
When Xiang Jin heard what he said, he understood, so he nodded, "Okay, it would be best to have you with me, so we can feel relieved."
Yan Chen said, "Bring your camera at home. You can take some photos and keep a photo."
Ouyang Bo nodded, "Oh, this is okay!"
"You guys started taking a taxi?" Yan Chen followed and asked.
Ouyang Bo said, "Take a taxi. If you drive out and it's difficult to park,"
Yan Chen went back to the house to get the camera, and then they went out together. Yan Chen, his cousin, and his sister-in-law also casually joined him. Suddenly, Xiang Jin and Yan Chen were the only two people left in the house.
Yan Chen washed some blueberries and cherries and brought them to her. Xiang Jin took them, picked up one and ate it in his mouth, and then said to him, "Hey, I think uncle is very interested in buying a courtyard in BJ."
Yes, did you see that he kept asking us about the BJ Courtyard?"
Yan Chen said, "Well, I feel it, but if they want to buy it, it's not impossible. They have the strength."
Xiang Jin said, "That's my aunt's herbarium, the fried chicken restaurants they opened, and the antiques my uncle usually collects. If you take out any of them and sell them, you can buy a house."
Yan Chen smiled and said, "But if you want to buy BJ's courtyard house, you probably have to sell a few antiques."
Xiang Jin stuffed a cherry into his mouth, "Oh, in short, their family still has money to buy a courtyard house. I think, if uncle and the others really live in BJ, they will like it very much.
With so many places of interest and historical sites here, uncle can do whatever he wants to do archeology at that time."
Xiang Jin said, "That's not necessarily the case. My cousin and sister-in-law will take care of the children by then, and their uncle and aunt may go over to help them take care of the children. My cousin's parents are both doctors, so they probably don't have time to help.
They take care of the children, and my cousin is a doctor herself, so she probably doesn’t have time to take care of the children, so there is a high possibility that the uncle and aunt will take care of the children for them. My uncle will retire next year.”
Xiang Jin nodded, "Yes, even if they buy a courtyard here, the possibility of living here should be very small. The children are so young that they cannot leave their parents. No matter what, they have to wait until the children are almost here.
I’ll come back and live here when I go to kindergarten or elementary school.”
"Well, yes!"
"Hey, do you think my grandparents will follow them when the time comes?" Xiang Jin fed another piece of fruit into Yan Chen's mouth.
Yan Chen said, "I don't know. It will depend on their own wishes at that time."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, that's true, but if they really follow their uncle and aunt, I won't be used to it."
Yan Chen said, "As long as they are in good health, it doesn't matter to me whether they go with us or with their uncle and aunt."
Xiang Jin nodded, "That's true, but they should still be willing to go with their uncle and aunt. After all, my cousin is also their grandson, and they haven't gotten along well with them in so many years. They definitely want to spend more time with them when they are old.
Let them spend some time together."
"Well! I'll call grandpa."
"Okay, I don't know if it was too cold for them to stand guard last night," Xiang Jin immediately sat upright, then held his arm and leaned against him, raising her ears to listen.
Not long after Yan Chen's call was dialed, their old man's voice came from the other end, "Chen Chen?"
"Grandpa, have you disturbed your rest?"
"Oh, no, some of our old comrades-in-arms are playing chess and drinking tea together. How are you doing? Did you go out for a walk today?"
Yan Chen said, "We are fine. Grandpa, grandma, and grandparents went to visit the Forbidden City. Ajin and I are at home. I just wanted to ask if you were cold while standing guard last night."
His grandfather said on the other end of the phone, "No, no, we all wore thick clothes last night, and a few of us also had hot pot last night, and our bodies were warm, so it's not cold at all. Don't worry, don't worry.
, but you have to take good care of your wife?"
"Yeah, I know!"
Yan Chen moved the phone to Xiang Jin. Xiang Jin took his arm and shouted to the old man on the other end of the phone with a smile on his face, "Grandpa, don't worry, Yan Chen has taken good care of me.
, you just washed me a plate of fruit to eat."
The old man on the other end of the phone immediately laughed and said, "Okay, okay, grandpa is relieved now." The old man's voice was like a bell, very loud, and Xiang Jin and the others on the other end of the phone could feel his good mood.
After everyone chatted for a while, they hung up the phone. A few seconds before Yan Chen put down the phone, Han Che called and said that they, Yan Chen's friends, planned to drive to BJ for a trip.
, visit them together and ask if it is convenient for them to entertain them.
Yan Chen asked, "How many of you are there? How long will you stay here?"
Han Che said, "Just me, Jiang Han, Jiang Han's girlfriend, plus Wang Yu, the four of us will probably stay at the BJ for the rest of the day. Jiang Han and his girlfriend also want to visit the Forbidden City and climb a mountain.
Going to the Great Wall."
Yan Chen said, "It's okay to entertain you for two meals, but there is no extra place at home. My father-in-law, mother-in-law, aunt, Ouyang, my uncle, aunt, and cousin are also here to celebrate the New Year.
, so you may have to stay in a hotel then."
Han Che said, "Okay, no problem!"
Yan Chen asked, "When will you set off?"
Han Che said, "We are already on the way. We will arrive in the afternoon the day after tomorrow."
"Okay, then you don't need me to send you the address, right?"
"No, no, I know!" Han Che said.
Yan Chen said, "Okay, see you then!"
"See you then!"
After Yan Chen picked up the phone, Xiang Jin asked him, "Aren't there a few more rooms at home? They can stay at our house, why do they stay in a hotel?"
Yan Chen said, "Ajin, you are pregnant now. You need to rest more and cannot be disturbed. We are all family members living in our house. There is no need to be polite to family members. If you want to talk to them for a while, just sleep with them for a while."
If you are sleepy and want to go back to the house to rest, you can go back to the house for a vacation, and your family will know your situation and won't mind.
But when they come, if they live in our house, you must entertain them. If it’s the three of them who come, I’ll entertain them. But Jiang Han also brought his girlfriend with him, so I can’t
They are going to entertain female guests, so you, the hostess, are bound to entertain them. I don’t want you to be so tired, so they’d better stay in a hotel.”
The corners of Xiang Jin's lips quirked up immediately, "So you're doing it for me?"
"That's natural! Mrs. Yan is our panda, so we have to protect her at all times!"
Xiang Jin snorted with a resentful expression, "Pandas are animals, but I'm a human!"
Yan Chen burst out laughing, and then hugged her into his arms, "That's natural. No matter how precious the panda is, how can it be compared with our Mrs. Yan? I mean our Mrs. Yan is our
Our key protection targets cannot be careless or careless in the slightest."
Xiang Jinyang said with an arrogant look on his chin, "That's pretty much it!"
"What do you want to eat for lunch?" Yan Chen stared at her and asked immediately.
Xiang Jin said, "It's still early. Do you have to cook lunch so early?"
Yan Chen said, "You can tell me in advance and I will do it later."
Xiang Jin said, "It seems that there are some fat lamb and meat dumplings left over from the hot pot last night. If not, let's use that to make a bowl of sweet potato noodles. I think Lei Jia's sweet potato noodles are quite tasty."