January 31, 2003, Friday, the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month.
Since there is no thirty this year, today is New Year’s Eve.
That afternoon, Zhu Sha, who finished filming the last scene of the crew, finally came back before the end of the year.
At this time, grandpa, grandma, Ma Qiangsheng and Liu Ying were already preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner in the villa. They were all heartbroken when they saw Cinnabar rushing back from the dust.
"Xiao Sha, you must be exhausted from the road! Hurry up and drink some hot water to warm yourself up. There are freshly fried lotus root boxes at home. Let's eat two to fill our stomachs." Grandma and Liu Ying greeted her for a while.
Ma Xiaolong, who had brought Zhusha all the way back from the film and television base, said helplessly: "Doesn't anyone care about me?"
"You've been eating and sleeping all day, what do you have to worry about?" Liu Ying said angrily.
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Zhang Chiling chuckled: "Xiaolong has had a hard time along the way. Come on, give me your coat."
"My mother still loves me." Ma Xiaolong was so moved that he hugged Zhang Chiling and said, "I don't want my biological mother anymore. You will be my biological mother from now on."
"You brat, you want to rebel!" Liu Ying angrily whipped the feather duster and violently suppressed the unfilial son.
Grandpa laughed loudly: "Okay! Xiaosha has just come back and it has become lively. Sure enough, this family can't live without Xiaosha."
Zhu Sha looked at the scene in front of her with a smile. The fatigue of the past year was all worth it.
Zhu Sha went to the bathroom to wash her face, came back, took a bite of the lotus root box, and asked, "Isn't there a nanny at home? Why is my dad cooking New Year's Eve dinner again?"
"Your dad just feels that if you don't do it yourself, it won't feel like celebrating the New Year." Liu Ying chewed melon seeds and said, "Anyway, if he likes to be busy, just be busy! It's rare to celebrate the New Year, so we have to make him happy."
Cinnabar nodded with a smile.
Ma Xiaolong sighed: "I think this year's New Year's spirit is not as good as in previous years. Nowadays, many young people like me don't like to visit relatives and friends. They stay at home all day and play games online. Some people don't do anything at home during the New Year.
We have to go to restaurants to eat all our meals. If things continue like this, I’m afraid that in the future our Spring Festival will just be a festival for people to put prices on, and it will have no meaning in celebrating the New Year.”
"No way!" Zhang Chiling said: "Although today's young people are different from us before, the Chinese New Year is for family reunion, and the meaning is different."
"Then August 15th is also for family reunion!" Ma Xiaolong said: "When we lived in Heyan, our family paid great attention to the Mid-Autumn Festival! Since we moved, August 15th has not been a big part of the past few years.
After that, I think the New Year is not far away."
Everyone was silent, with mixed emotions.
"Alas!" Grandpa sighed and said: "After all, life is getting better and better now. In the past, when people were poor, they just had a good meal during the Chinese New Year and could wear new clothes. But now, when they eat well, they can wear new clothes.
Well, even the things for fun and use are good, and living every day is like celebrating the New Year, so celebrating the New Year doesn’t mean much.”
"Grandpa is right." Ma Xiaolong gestured with his thumb and said, "Let me tell you! This Spring Festival is for the poor. After being poor for a year, I just hope that I can eat better and wear better clothes during the New Year.
, children also look forward to getting lucky money,
Although the mother took them away in the end on the pretext of "keeping it for you", it was different from the past. Unlike now, you can have everything you want, and there is no need to wait until the Chinese New Year. It feels like the New Year!
I think it will get worse year by year in the future.”
"Okay, why are you talking about this during the Chinese New Year?" Liu Ying couldn't stand it anymore: "Hurry up and help your dad!"
"Okay!" Ma Xiaolong shrugged and ran to the kitchen to help his father.
Ma Qiangsheng was frying meatballs at the moment. Not to mention, his move really made Ma Xiaolong regain the feeling of celebrating the New Year by the river: "Dad, let me help."
The father and son worked together and finally made today's New Year's Eve dinner before dark, as well as the croquettes, fried lotus roots, and fried fruits that can be stored for a long time and eaten in the second half of the year.
Looking at the crowded kitchen, Ma Xiaolong seemed to be back to the way he used to celebrate the New Year when he was a child, and he felt particularly moved.
Sure enough, when there are parents and elders, the year is just the year. Without the parents and elders, the New Year is to pass through the hurdles. I don’t know how many hurdles I have reached before I fall down.
"It's time to eat dumplings."
Although I spent a day tinkering in the kitchen and cooked up a lot of things, on New Year's Eve I only had dumplings to eat, and we still had to wait until the first day of the Lunar New Year to eat the main dishes.
Although they were just simple dumplings, the fillings of the dumplings were seasoned by Ma Xiaolong himself. Everyone took just one bite and couldn't stop. It was just a plate of dumplings. It was a wonderful state banquet. Without exception, they were all full.
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"Ouch! I have never eaten such delicious dumplings in my life." Grandpa sat on the sofa with a big belly and kept humming: "Xiaolong, your fillings are amazing, do you have any secret recipe?"
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Ma Xiaolong said with a smile: "There must be a secret recipe, but apart from the secret recipe, it also has to do with the selection of ingredients and techniques. You can't learn it even if I teach you, you just eat it."
"Haha, I'm not destined to be in the kitchen." My grandfather was quite proud. In his life, his parents cooked when he was a child, and when he got married, his wife cooked. Later, he met his uncle, who was also a good cook during the holidays.
, when his grandson was born, his cooking skills reached the peak. When it came to having a good fortune, he felt that few people had a better fate than him.
"Grandpa has a good life." Zhu Sha smiled and said, "But everyone here in the room has a good life."
These words made everyone smile, and Ma Xiaolong smiled especially happily, because in the previous life, his grandfather and grandma would die one after another in four years. In the same year, they already looked very old, but now, the two of them are getting older and older.
The younger you live, even if you live another hundred and eighty years, it won't be a problem.
Although my parents did not have a hard life in their previous lives, they were still working-class people. They had to work every day and had no leisure time.
Ma Xiaofeng doesn't have much to say. She lived a very happy life in her last life, but in this life she became successful early. She doesn't know what it will be like to form a family with a strong woman and a weak man in the future.
And for some unknown reason, Chen Jun would jump off the cliff in a few years and bid farewell to this world early. Chen Jun would do the same, so you can imagine Zhang Chiling's situation.
Not to mention Cinnabar, a girl who had been dead for several years is now living more wonderfully than anyone else, and she shines with incomparable brilliance.
As for little Didi, with his uncle here, her future will not be as bumpy as it was in her previous life.
His rebirth alone affected everyone around him, allowing them to escape their original fate and stride forward towards a better future. This sense of accomplishment was more comfortable than if he had made hundreds of billions.
At eight o'clock in the evening, the Spring Festival Gala begins.
This year's Spring Festival Gala seemed lively overall, but the quality of language programs declined seriously. Uncle Feng's "Road Love Song" announced that he had completely bid farewell to cross talk and began to make strides in the direction of sketches. Of course, for the sake of listening, he acted
This is not called a sketch, it is called a cross talk drama.
Huang Hong's "Foot Massage" is still full of "educational significance", Statham Kuo and Cai Ming's "We Are Relatives" are also boring, and even Uncle Zhao's "Heart Disease" is based on a winning comedy widely circulated on the Internet.
Adapted from a joke.
All in all, this year's language programs are all wiped out, and none of them are classics.
Ma Xiaolong thinks this won't work, so he plans to send Chen Xiaoer and Aunt Zhao to next year's Spring Festival Gala.
Under his influence, after Chen Xiaoer was banned by Yang Ma, he asked Chen Xiaoer to engage in drama. Aunt Zhao, who would have died three years ago, because of his treatment in the past few years, Aunt Zhao is still alive today.
She is still living very healthily, but because after that treatment, Aunt Zhao saw some things clearly, and she stopped going to the Spring Festival Gala from then on.
But seeing that the language program of the Spring Festival Gala is so bad now, Ma Xiaolong feels that he has an obligation to let these two original sketch kings return to the audience's attention.
Without Chen Xiaoer and Aunt Zhao, would the Spring Festival Gala still be called the Spring Festival Gala?
This year Ni Ping and Zhao Zhongxiang both appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, so it is even more important for Chen Xiaoer and Aunt Zhao to meet the audience and friends across the country.
In addition, next year he will appear on the Spring Festival Gala stage with Chen Jun. If possible, he would also like to arrange a skit with Zhu Sha and Chen Jun.
Just attending the Spring Festival Gala means that I can't stay up with my family on New Year's Eve. Fortunately, the capital is far away from the small town. If the program is arranged earlier, I might be able to return to the small town before 12 o'clock.
For him, attending the Spring Festival Gala is not important at all, but being reunited with his family and staying up late is the most important thing.
This was probably because he had been single for forty years in his previous life and rarely reunited with his parents during the Chinese New Year. He had regrets in his previous life and would only try to make up for it in this life.
When the time arrived at 11:30 p.m., everyone started dressing and getting ready to go out.
"Super" is about to premiere, and the whole family must go out together to support Bruce Ma and Cinnabar's film career.
At the same time, movie fans across the country also went out of their homes and went to movie theaters to watch the upcoming "Super".
As early as a month ago, various trailers for "Super" began to ferment on the Internet. The trailers are very exciting and eye-catching, whetting the appetite of all movie fans.
Like "Moonlight", "Super" was also released globally, and affected by the record-breaking box office of "Moonlight", "Super" naturally received more revenue than "Moonlight" when talking about overseas box office share.
"Biography" is divided into a large portion.
Capital is like this, as long as they make money, they can do anything.
The premise is that you have to let them see a big enough benefit.
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It was still the same private room as last year. After the movie started, the whole family stared at the screen intently and never left it for even a second from beginning to end.
With Ma Xiaolong's full-level shooting ability, as well as full-level soundtrack, dubbing, special effects, action, etc., this movie is extremely exciting, and the quality is not inferior to "The Legend of the Moon" at all, even because of his previous shooting experience
, making this movie overall slightly better than "Moon Ruden". This can be seen from the fact that the whole family never dared to look away from the screen from the beginning to the end of the movie.
If the movie wasn't so good, who would stare at the screen for two hours without moving?
When the movie ended, grandpa, grandma and Liu Ying hurriedly got up and went to the toilet to drain the water. They didn't drain the water before going out, and now they were all suffocated.
There are many people like them across the country, but when they were talking about the plot of the movie, one or two of them were very excited: "Damn it! I have never seen such a good domestic science fiction movie!"
Although this movie is mainly about supernatural powers, it is a cyberpunk style after all, so many technological products from the future world also appear in the movie, and these products are all products developed by scientific research bases and have not yet been launched on the market.
The appearance of these products is very futuristic and sci-fi, and all the movie fans are hooked after seeing it.
For example, some teenage students, after watching this movie, had the idea of becoming scientists in the future and manufacturing all the science fiction products in the movie.
Affected by this, China will usher in a large wave of scientific research talents in the next few decades, laying a solid foundation for China to move towards the interstellar world.
Without any surprise, the box office of "Super" exploded again.
Based on last year's experience, both Ma Xiaolong and Zhu Sha turned off their mobile phones and all external contact methods early, and enjoyed the joy of the Spring Festival in a relaxed and comfortable way.
On the morning of the first day of the new year, little Didi, with dark circles under her eyes, paid New Year greetings to her elders and received a red envelope that made her grin from the corner of her mouth to the back of her ears. The sleepiness of only five hours of sleep disappeared.
I'm sleepy and tired. Please fan me with red envelopes to wake me up. I can still live for another thirty years.
On the second day of the new year, Ma Xiaolong and Zhu Sha didn't go anywhere. They ate and drank at home and played mahjong with their elders.
Mr. Zhu and the old lady are not in China this year. They flew to Lijiapo two years ago. The old couple have had enough of the lonely days of separation from their children and grandchildren, and plan to live in Lijiapo permanently in the future. However, they did not plan to change their nationality and just applied for a long-term visa.
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It's not that the old couple never thought about joining Li Jiapo, but they listened to Ma Xiaolong's advice: "Chinese nationality is the most difficult nationality in the world to apply for. Once you give up, it is almost impossible to change it back. You two, think twice."
After all, they are old people who pay attention to returning to their roots. In the end, the two elders gave up changing their families and only applied for a long-term visa. Anyway, they just wanted to spend more time with their son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren, which was good.
Lingling Zhu was racing overseas some time ago, and she is still too busy to keep her feet off the ground, so she has not come back to celebrate the New Year. For her who is away all the time, the New Year is not important. Putting the money in her pocket is the real thing.
She now has children. In order to make their lives happy in the future, she has made a series of plans. In addition to making money, she will also hire the best teachers for her two children to teach them various talents and skills so that they can grow up.
When you grow up, you will have enough ability to inherit your own wealth, instead of just sitting around in the busy city with gold bricks in your arms as a baby, which will kill people.
In fact, Zhu Lingling's idea was to give her two children to Bruce Ma for training. The stupid pigs in her family have been trained into international superstars. Her children are so smart and outstanding. As long as Ma Xiaolong gives a little guidance, they will be at least the top richest people at the level of Jobs in the future.
Unfortunately, the two children were still young, and Ma Xiaolong himself was still studying, so he gave up the idea for the time being.
But the future is uncertain.
Who told...the father of the two children is Ma Xiaolong!
Thanks to 'Lieutenant Romanov' for the reward of 100 starting coins.
It's much better today. Although I'm still a little dizzy, have a fever, and feel chills, I finally finished coding a chapter. I hope things will be better tomorrow and I won't stop updating.