Chapter 271: The New Year's atmosphere is getting stronger
In the living room, Jiang Xiyue looked at Sakurai Hui with horror, and the tone of her voice changed.
"Wait, Xiaohui, when did you say you came?"
"It started from the moment your husband held you on the windowsill and talked to you..." Sakurai Megumi had a smirk on her face, as if she was talking about something very unimportant.
After hearing the exact time, Jiang Xiyue's expression changed in just a few seconds.
From shyness to helplessness, from wanting to kill to relief.
Because Linzhou was upstairs checking the switches and sockets of the electrical appliances, he couldn't hear the conversation between the two, so it was completely fine for the best friend to say this.
After figuring out the key point of the matter, Jiang Xiyue answered her best friend with confidence.
"Well, it feels good. Xiaohui, why don't you find a boyfriend and settle down in Shenzhou in the future..."
"Say it again, you little brat, why are you urging me, your sister?" When it comes to finding a boyfriend, Sakurai Megumi's face fell. She doesn't want to find that kind of person now.
To use the words on the Internet, a lonely soul does not need a place to be bound, and she is very lonely now.
After hearing Sakurai Hui's rebuttal, Jiang Xiyue's voice suddenly became higher, "Just because I'm younger than you, I'm pushing you. I'm already engaged, and you've never even touched a man's hand, quack."
"I'm not lonely, I just don't want to find one. It seems too troublesome." Sakurai Megumi bit her lip and hesitated for a long time before saying the rest of the words, "Physiological needs and so on, I don't need a boy for the time being."
After he finished speaking, Jiang Xiyue patted his head and stood up.
This best friend is the kind of person who never asks anyone for help in anything, so there is nothing much to say about her. She doesn't need anyone for help either psychologically or physically.
There is no point in saying more.
So she could only go around behind Sakurai Megumi, take a small wooden box from the cabinet next to her, and hand it to her.
"This is a Spring Festival gift. We have known each other for eight years."
Looking at the gift that Jiang Xiyue handed to her, Sakurai Hui did not refuse and directly opened the small wooden box. An exquisite peace locket lay inside.
The rope on it is particularly delicate, and the jade pendant is of the icy type. Because it is not large in size, the price is within Jiang Xiyue's affordable range.
Looking at the gift in the box, Sakurai Megumi carefully closed the lid and looked at her best friend who she had been with for eight years.
"I like it very much, thank you Yueyue."
"I'm glad you like it. If you don't like it, I have another bracelet that I have worn before, but the material isn't as good as this one." Jiang Xiyue said in a low voice, reaching out to pull Sakurai Megumi's cheek.
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While the two besties were communicating with each other, Linzhou also took care of all the electrical appliances in the house and then took out a cardboard box from the side.
The box contained several pairs of couplets and some firecrackers.
"Yueyue, come and help. Let's put up the couplets here in advance, and then we can go have lunch."
"Yeah." Jiang Xiyue nodded and got up to help.
Sakurai Megumi, who was sitting on the sofa, seemed to have thought of something, and hurriedly got up and ran out of the house. When she came back again, the girl was holding a very strange thing in her hand.
But Linzhou recognized what that thing was at a glance.
"Sister Xiaohui, where did you buy this candied melon..."
"It's at the market in the surrounding villages. I drove for a long time. These are the leftovers from my worship of the Kitchen God. I can't eat them myself, so I gave them to you." Sakurai Megumi put the plastic bag of sugar melons on the table, rubbed her hands, and prepared to help paste the couplets.
Although Linzhou was a little surprised that Sakurai Kei would worship the Kitchen God, he didn't say anything.
He has never worshipped the gods before. When he was in his hometown, these things were left to his father. But because his father was lazy, he would just light a piece of incense on the stove in the morning and consider it as worshipping the gods.
When Linzhou asked whether this appearance would dislike the Kitchen God, his father's answer was often that it was fine to be that way, and that it was better to rely on oneself than on God.
At that time, Linzhou couldn't understand why Qiu Ji's father would burn incense to the Kitchen God.
But now he understood that in his father's understanding, praying to God was also part of praying to oneself.
Tearing off the old couplet and replacing it with a new one, Linzhou took a few steps back, looked at the contents with satisfaction, and then took out his mobile phone to take a picture.
Curious about what was posted, Sakurai Megumi also came out to take a look and read out loud the couplet.
"A dragon draws water from thousands of rivers, a tiger leaps over thousands of mountains... The horizontal banner reads... a dragon coils and a tiger sits."
After reading the horizontal banner, Yingjing Hui looked at Linzhou with a questioning expression, and then spoke, "Linzhou, who is the dragon and who is the tiger between you and Yueyue?"
"I'm Wolong, Yueyue is... a tiger that eats people." Linzhou answered casually, took out a firecracker from the box, and put a lighter in his pocket, "Let's go, let's go eat."
After locking the door, Linzhou put the firecrackers he had been holding in his hand on the ground, lit them, and got into the car without looking back.
The luggage has been stuffed into the trunk.
Seeing Linzhou go out and set off a firecracker, Sakurai Hui, who was driving, asked curiously. She had never heard of this custom.
" Linzhou, it's customary for you to put that, right?"
"Well, for the sake of good luck, let's have a safe journey." Linzhou casually answered Sakurai Kei's words, then looked out the window. It was the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, and the atmosphere of the New Year could be seen in every household.
It seemed like red lanterns that hadn’t been hung for a long time were hung at the door, and the air was filled with the smell of preparing various New Year’s goods.
Although it is a small villa, there are not many young people on Jiang Xiyue's side. Those old people who are used to it always prepare some things, such as meatballs, ribs, and crispy pork.
But Linzhou did not prepare anything because there were only two of them, and the food that his father-in-law drove over was enough for them.
They sat quietly until they reached the gate of the community. When the three of them were about to get off the car to eat, Lin Zhou spoke, "Sister Xiaohui, do you want to go back and walk around with me?"
"Eh? I'd better forget it. The coffee shop has to be open during the New Year. I promised those rich ladies." Sakurai Megumi's Chinese is now much fluent than usual, and she even speaks a few strange dialects occasionally.
Seeing that Sakurai Kei refused, Linzhou did not continue to invite her. The three got out of the car and walked into the newly opened restaurant at the door.
When a customer came in, the boss strode over to greet him.
"Sit down, what would you like to eat? Here is the menu..."
Lin Zhou would not look at the menu of a newly opened restaurant. He just glanced at it casually and said, "I want two signature dishes and another one with snow-white bean paste. I think your chef can make it."
"Look at what you said, young man. I am the chef. As long as you can tell me the name of the dish, I can cook anything." The boss patted his chest confidently and guaranteed, then ran to the kitchen to cook.
In the entire front hall, there were no other living creatures except the three people. The only moving thing was the lucky cat on the bar.
Pushing the menu to the remaining two girls, Linzhou just sat there in a daze.
Bringing my fiancée home, it seems like there will be red envelopes to be received. Thinking of Linzhou here, I began to count on my fingers, "Second uncle 1000, younger sister-in-law 1000, eldest aunt 1000... "
When Jiang Xiyue heard Linzhou say the number, she had already guessed what was going on, so she just smiled.
But less than three minutes later, before Linzhou had finished counting, she was shocked.
Does Zhou Zhou have so many relatives?
"Wait, Zhou Zhou, don't count yet. Can you really receive so many red envelopes?"
"Of course you can, but you have to go to the house to pay New Year's greetings. In fact, only the red envelopes for direct relatives are about 10,000 yuan." Lin Zhou explained in a low voice, and then continued, "But if you hold a wedding, you have to add a zero at the end of the red envelope, and add a 2 to the 100,000 place."
Now, Jiang Xiyue was dumbfounded. She had promised her mother some time ago that she would have a wedding no matter what.
Now it seems that it was a misstep.
More than 300,000 yuan in share money, which means she has to toast until she faints, and also walk around in deathly high heels all day long...
Now, Jiang Xiyue seemed to understand why the groom asked the bride to stay in the room after picking her up.
If I run all day, how can I have the energy to complete the last step of the wedding ceremony at night...
Seeing Jiang Xiyue start to frown, Linzhou knew what she was thinking, so he spoke in a low voice, "You're wrong. Should your relatives from that side of the family also be present? I think the two mothers want to skip the return gifts and just have a big wedding banquet. That means we will have about a hundred tables just for toasting."
After she finished speaking, there was no expression on Jiang Xiyue's face. Girls' imagination ability is extremely strong.
She could even imagine herself lying on the bed like melted slime at night after a full day of running.
With that kind of intensity, I can't even count money happily...
So, Jiang Xiyue stared into Linzhou's eyes, and her movements and words became strange.
"Zhou Zhou, I think... let's not have a wedding or a wedding banquet. Let's just run away and watch the aurora with me."
"If you can convince your mother, I have no problem with that." Linzhou answered casually.
But as the words fell, the last glimmer of hope that the girl had originally ignited also extinguished...
However, Linzhou happily poured tea for Jiang Xiyue, with a nonchalant look on his face. He was just teasing the little girl, and he could really run to a hundred tables, not to mention those who were not present due to distance. As for toasting, he only needed to toast the elders, and the rest could stand on the stage and toast together.
But none of the elders can be left behind. Those people care about that thing very much. If you don’t go, they will think that you are not giving them face.
Although it won't lead to the table being overturned on the spot, there will definitely be some unpleasant things happening.
Thinking of this, Linzhou patted Jiang Xiyue's thigh and comforted her in a low voice.
"Your husband knows what's going on. He won't let you get tired. Hurry up and eat. We'll go to the airport after dinner."
"Well... okay."
