After eating for a while and toasting everyone, Sheng Chuncheng, Xiao An and Zhong Xinxin exchanged a few words, stood up and left. He had to catch the second New Year's Eve dinner and go home to eat with his mother, uncle and Chunni Chunming.
The subway is also empty. There are only three or four people sitting in one car. Among these three or four people, no one is even looking at their mobile phones with their heads down. There is nothing to see. Now everyone is wishing each other New Year's greetings, and the content is more or less the same.
Among these three or four people, some had their eyes closed to meditate, some had their heads resting on their seats, their eyes were wide open, but they looked confused.
Sheng Chuncheng thought about it. He took out his mobile phone and called Sun Hong. The phone rang several times and was picked up:
"My dear, where are you?" Sun Hong asked crisply.
Sheng Chuncheng was stunned for a moment, and then he understood that Sun Hong must be at the dinner table at this time. The background was very noisy and there seemed to be many people around. He was Sun Hong's boyfriend. If Sun Hong didn't call him dear, what would he call him?
If he makes this call, doesn't he have to appear as her boyfriend?
Sure enough, he heard what seemed to be Sun Hong's mother's voice beside him, saying to other people: "It's Hong Hong's boyfriend calling."
Sheng Chuncheng laughed, and Sun Hong also laughed on the other end of the phone.
"Don't laugh." Sun Hong lowered her voice and said.
Sheng Chuncheng said: "Okay, I won't laugh."
"Be honest."
"Okay, let me be honest. I just had some New Year's Eve dinner with everyone in the store, and now I'm on the subway, preparing to go home and have New Year's Eve dinner with my mother," Sheng Chuncheng said.
The phone in Sun Hong's hand was immediately snatched away by her mother. She said to the phone: "Xiao Sheng, it's me, auntie."
Sheng Chuncheng said: "Hello auntie, I wish you a happy new year! Say hello to uncle too!"
Sun Hong's mother said: "Okay, happy New Year to you too. Just leave your uncle alone. He is already confused."
Sun Hong's mother then turned on the greeting mode, asking Sheng Chuncheng how he was doing alone in Hangzhou, and told him to eat well, take care of himself no matter how busy he was at work, etc. Sheng Chuncheng held his mobile phone and kept talking.
He nodded and kept saying hello, speaking so convincingly that he seemed to believe that he was really alone in Hangzhou. He was so moved that he almost shed tears.
If Sun Hong hadn't snatched the phone back and hung up the phone after saying goodbye, her mother would have kept talking to this "prospective son-in-law".
After putting down the phone, Sheng Chuncheng was stunned for a while, and then laughed for a while. For a moment, he also became confused and forgot whether his relationship with Sun Hong was real or fake.
Sheng Chuncheng then picked up the phone and called Sister Chen. Sister Chen and the others were making dumplings and preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner.
People in Zhejiang actually don’t eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year, but when they went to other places, when the cadres of the Xinjiang Assistance Mission were together and preparing to have a collective New Year’s Eve dinner, everyone was in trouble. What everyone thought of was to make dumplings together. The biggest advantage of making dumplings
, everyone can participate, and no one will feel that they are redundant or "freeloading."
The ingredients for dumplings are also relatively easy to prepare, unlike New Year’s Eve dinner at home, where you need to prepare dozens or hundreds of ingredients to put together a New Year’s Eve dinner.
Sister Chen and Sheng Chuncheng said that they had just started making noodles and chopping stuffing. It was still bright out there and it was still early for dinner. They could start having New Year's Eve dinner around the time the Spring Festival Gala was broadcast.
"How are you?" Sheng Chuncheng asked.
"Well, I feel very fulfilled here and there is a lot of work to be done." Sister Chen said, "I have already considered whether I should ask to stay here for a long time. After the Xinjiang aid mission is over, I will not return to Hangzhou."
After ending the call with Sister Chen, although Sister Chen kept emphasizing from beginning to end that she was very good and her voice sounded really happy, Sheng Chuncheng always felt a little lost. He felt that Sister Chen seemed to be hiding something.
Sheng Chuncheng sighed softly.
He found Professor Zheng's phone number and hesitated for a while before dialing the number. Sure enough, the voice on the other end of the phone came from her daughter: "Who is this?"
Professor Zheng cut off her passport and never got a new one. She couldn't go to the United States and was afraid to go. She was afraid that if she went, her daughter wouldn't let her come back.
She couldn't go, so her daughter took a leave of absence and came back to celebrate the New Year with her. Her son-in-law and two granddaughters both had to go to work and go to school, so her daughter had to go back to China alone.
After getting off the plane, they were quarantined in Shanghai for fourteen days. When they returned to Hangzhou, they had to continue to be quarantined. They could only apply for home quarantine. So they said they were coming back to spend the New Year with their mother, but in fact they were harming Professor Zheng and being quarantined at home with her.
, I can’t even go out for a walk anymore.
Professor Zheng joked with the friend who called: "We are inseparable and together 24 hours a day. During this period of time, our mother and daughter have spent more time together than the total time we spent together in the previous ten years."
"Do you think I am willing?" My daughter heard from the side and was dissatisfied: "If you weren't my mother, who would be willing to endure this hardship? Being imprisoned in Shanghai and being imprisoned again in Hangzhou, everyone has to be tortured.
It’s crazy. Once it’s locked up and can be released, my vacation is over and I need to go back to the United States.”
"Stop it, stop it." Professor Zheng said, "You warmonger, don't start a cold war. Do you want to live in peace next time?"
On the other end of the phone, my friend heard a young voice arguing with Professor Zheng's daughter. It really looked like a mother and daughter. However, the young voice was the mother, which made people feel a little confused.
Xiaoma moved back to the dormitory early, but was responsible for delivering them the supplies they needed every day.
Professor Zheng’s daughter is back. Sheng Chun has achieved very little and is even a little afraid to call Professor Zheng. Every time she calls, it is her daughter who answers. Although her daughter speaks very politely and has a kind attitude, Sheng Chuncheng always feels
, there is something cold inside.
For example, although the phone clearly has a caller ID function, Sheng Chuncheng knew that he was shown as "boy" on Professor Zheng's phone. The boy called many times, but Professor Zheng's daughter still asked: "Every time she picked up the phone,"
Who is that?" instead of saying "Hello", or the more intimate "Hello, Xiao Sheng".
Sheng Chuncheng and Professor Zheng's daughter didn't have much in common, so they could only greet each other politely, ask her to say hello to Professor Zheng, say a few words of congratulations to each other, and hang up the phone.
When Sheng Chuncheng returned home, the New Year's Eve dinner had been prepared, and they were waiting for him to come home to eat together. When they heard the door ring, Chunni and Chunming both cheered.
The family enjoyed the New Year's Eve dinner happily. It can be said that this was the best and most relaxing New Year's Eve dinner they had together since their parents' accident.
It was almost eight o'clock after dinner, and the party at Xue'er's place was about to start. Sheng Chuncheng asked Chunni and Chunming whether they wanted to watch the Spring Festival Gala at home or go to Xueyan's company to watch the party. Chunni immediately said she was going to Xueyan.
Yan Company, Chunming didn't know what company they were going to do, or where the company was, but if his brother and sister went, he would definitely go with them.
Sheng Chuncheng walked into his room, made the bed first, led his uncle in, and got familiar with the environment of the room and bathroom. His uncle was not going home tonight, so he would stay with them. Sheng Chuncheng let him sleep in his own room, and he and
Chunming and I will come back later and lay the floor in the living room.
It will definitely be too late by the time they come back. Sheng Chuncheng needs to make arrangements for his uncle first before the three of them go out.