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In the kitchen, pork, beef, fish and chicken are always the protagonists, and white vegetables and radishes are essential winter dishes.

After a while, the table was full.

Stir-fried yellow beef, pork ribs and winter melon soup, twice-cooked pork, fish tofu, Kung Pao chicken, Xiangxi grandma's dish, winter bamboo shoots and mutton and a large bowl of cauliflower.

Finally, there’s the refreshing sour radish.

Yu Guanzhi couldn't get along with him, so he washed the dishes, served the rice and set out the wine, then sat next to him and watched him come and go.

When eating, she especially likes twice-cooked pork, grandma's vegetables, winter bamboo shoots and mutton, and she also eats a lot of pickled radish.

She said: "After so many years of New Year's Eve dinner, yours is the one that suits my taste best. It has successfully overturned my nostalgia for the past, which I only ate Huaiyang cuisine."

Lu An gave her a spoonful of fish tofu: "Actually, this fish jelly is the essence. I really like this flavor. You can try it."

Yu Guanzhi said: "I can see that you were very careful when cooking the fish yesterday, and you would add more or less appropriate seasoning to other dishes.

But you only put salt and fish scented leaves on the fish, not even oil. It seems that you are pursuing milky white fish soup. "

Lu An nodded: "When I was young, my family was poor. Every Chinese New Year, fish jelly was the dish I looked forward to the most. You don't have to eat anything else, but you must have a bowl of fish jelly. Just slurp it on the edge of the bowl with your mouth. , it’s really delicious to the core of your soul.”

Yu Guanzhi prefers to eat fish. After all, she lives in Shanghai and is close to the sea, where fish resources are abundant. However, she usually ate steamed and boiled fish in the past. She had never eaten fish jelly. This was the first time she had seen this kind of fish fragrant leaves.

She tried to put a spoonful into her mouth with a spoon, pursed her beautiful red lips, and then her eyes shone brightly, and she said with a smile:

"No wonder you only put fish scented leaves. This is the soul. It's really delicious."

According to custom, it is said that the fifth day of the lunar month breaks the peace.

Before the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, you don’t easily visit other people’s homes, because the host family has to send you things.

It would be fine if I met a generous person, and I wouldn't care about a drawer of peanuts and melon seeds.

If you meet someone who is stingy, there is no telling what will be done to you behind the scenes. To scold you for being ignorant is a frivolous thing. If it is serious, they will say that you came to ask for things on purpose and call you a "beggar".

After dinner, the two decided to take a walk along Taohuaping Street to eat. As soon as they went out, they met Li Dong's family going to pay New Year's greetings.

Seeing Lu An and Yu Guanzhi walking side by side on the road, Li Dong's face, which was full of happiness a second ago, instantly turned into a coffin, and the plaintive eyes looking at the two of them had the words "I'm broken in love again" written in big words.

"Li Dong, happy New Year and everything goes well."

"Brother, happy new year, I wish you a happy love."

Lu An grinned and did not reveal Li Dong's thoughts. He took Yu Guanzhi around for a while, but he didn't dare to stay outside for a long time. This woman's body bones had not recovered yet.

After nine o'clock, the sound of firecrackers stopped a lot, and the two took the opportunity to go home and catch up on some sleep.

In the next two days, both of them were reading, and one was reading textbooks on the Eight Immortals table to prepare for the college entrance examination.

One is reading classics and Dream of Red Mansions on the sofa.

In the middle, Yu Guanzhi suddenly asked him: "Lu An, how is your level of Chinese painting?"

Lu An didn't say anything, he just came to the bedroom and briefly sketched a "Spring River Picture".

Handed it to her: "How is it?"

Yu Guanzhi looked at it carefully for a long time and finally said: "It's better than I imagined."

Then she asked: "Can I take this painting away? I suddenly thought of an elder and let him see it."

Thinking of the five sets of whiteboards and the signing and partnership between the two, Lu An graciously gave them to her directly.

The third day of the first lunar month.

While having breakfast, Yu Guanzhi said: "The first lottery for stock subscription certificates is on March 2. You'd better get a BB machine to facilitate our contact."

Lu An felt that this was reasonable, "Okay, I will go and handle it in a few days."

After the meal, they packed up their things and left the Royal Concubine Lane.

When it was time to say goodbye, Yu Guanzhi said: "Thank you for letting me have a special New Year. See you next time."

"Okay, bye, have a nice trip."

Rushing to the station, Lu An searched for it with uncertainty, and sure enough, there was a shuttle bus. But it only goes to Liuduzhai, and you have to change trains later.

"Master, how much does it cost to go to Liuduzhai?"

"One price, 25."

This is a robbery, Lu An murmured in his heart, lost his temper, and obediently counted the money and got into the car.

But the car is pretty good. It's new and doesn't smell like oil. Since he arrived early, he even picked up a front passenger seat.

It took nearly 2 hours to get to Liuduzhai, and more than 40 minutes to transfer to Jianhua. Someone was repairing the road. But judging from the efficiency, it probably wouldn’t take ten days and a half to complete it.

After a lot of trouble, it was already past noon when he returned to town. He first called home and learned that his eldest sister and younger sister were at his sister-in-law's house, so he was not in a hurry to go back.

So I turned around and went to the supply and marketing cooperative. After wandering around inside, he picked up two packs of candy, two sticks of cigarettes, two bottles of wine and a hanging firecracker, and then came out carrying the bag.

Passing by a place that sells meat, he asked the butcher to cut 5 pounds of meat at the designated position.

The Meng family's hometown is not very far from the town, about 3 miles. Although it takes a little longer to carry large and small bags in the snow, it still takes 20 minutes.

From a distance, I saw a bunch of little kids playing with firecrackers gathered around the door of Meng's house. There was also a girl with a familiar face among them. I wanted to say hello, but unexpectedly, a firecracker was thrown directly at me.

Tsk, the county magistrate is trying to show off his authority in front of the door, but he really can’t wait for you.

Seeing the firecrackers coming to his feet, Lu An pretended to be frightened, making the group of naughty children laugh happily, and even scolded him for being a coward.

Meng Wenjie happened to come out to take out the garbage. When he saw him, he threw away the dustpan and hurriedly came over to receive the gift, chattering:

"Why are you back? Qingshui still wanted to go to your house today. If you hadn't gone to Baoqing, she would have already gone."

Afraid that his brother-in-law would become suspicious, Lu An did not dare to ask Sister Qingchi first this time, "Where is Qingshui?"

Meng Wenjie turned back to the second floor and babbled: "I'm playing cards with some aunts on the second floor."

Glancing at the second floor window, Lu An lit the firecrackers and followed into the yard.

Alas, it came at a bad time.

The Meng family is indeed a big family. Many relatives came today. As soon as he entered, some of the people inside looked at him, whispered to each other, and talked about it.

One of the older men also handed over a cigarette: "Lu An, congratulations on getting rich! Come and have a cigarette."

Lu An is inexplicably strange and has a weird mind.

He is not particularly unfamiliar with these people, they are old faces. After all, they all come to Meng's house often. At first out of politeness, these people would ask who he was, but after learning about his family background, their appearance changed. Later, when they met again at the Meng family, they just glanced at him and forgot about it. How could he take the initiative to talk to you like this?

Not to mention fucking passing cigarettes.

In the past, facing these people, although Lu An could not be said to have inferiority complex, he was more or less uncomfortable. After all, the people who could enter the Meng family in the first few days of the year were all direct relatives of the Meng family, and they all sought shelter under the protection of Meng Zhenhai. If you have to do something, it's either a supply and marketing cooperative, the post office, or a bank.

These units may not be enough for the Meng family, but once you get out, it is a pretty decent job, and it also requires you to be superior to others.

What's more, you have to walk with your nose in the air.

Because she was often left out in the Meng family, and because she was often treated as a transparent person, the strong-tempered Lu Yan stopped coming to the Meng family after two years of worship.

Even though the five members of the Meng family were nice to her, she still didn't want to come back. She was so angry that she cried because of their disregard.

In the following ten years of human relations, Lu An was the one who took the lead. This is why the Meng family was very kind to him, but relatively indifferent to Lu Yan.

Although I know that Lu Yan is a little girl and will not care about it, people's hearts are full of flesh and blood. There will always be closeness and distance, and they will always be biased towards those who are close to them.

Originally, according to his young mind, he would not be able to smoke the cigarette that was offered to him.

But Lu An is no longer the Lu An he used to be. With so many people watching and Meng Wenjie around, he wouldn't hit anyone with a smile. What's more, it's the beginning of the year, so he still pretends to be polite and accepts the cigarette. He also replied with a Happy New Year.

The people in the room are different. They are different from before. Take the initiative to talk to him even if you don't say anything. Everywhere he looks, he sees smiling faces. No matter men, women, old or young, their faces are all covered with flowers. That smile was so blooming that it almost made him laugh.

The lively men took the initiative to spread cigarettes for Lu An and get close to him.

There was also a middle-aged aunt who stared at him and said at the end: "Lu An, are you in love?"

Lu An looked at the other party with a confused expression.

The middle-aged aunt's next operation made him even more confused. With a swipe of her hand, she pulled a young woman next to her and introduced her enthusiastically:

"My youngest daughter, Qiqi, just graduated from technical secondary school this year and works in the Internal Revenue Service."

A room full of people: "."

Luan: "."

Damn it, he recognized this Qiqi. Before he came out of school in his previous life, she had never said a word to him, but today, hey, she was still shy.

This is really a change in the world and people's hearts, and they have become confused.

There were many people in the main room, and Lu An was chatting with them all the way. His mouth was almost stiff, and his papery smile was almost broken.

But fortunately, Meng Wenjie stepped forward in time and pulled him upstairs.

When they came to the corner of the stairs, Lu An laughed at himself: "Please look at my face. Is it more beautiful than before?"

Meng Wenjie laughed when he heard it and told him: "There are rumors everywhere that you made a lot of money from painting, and now you are the most popular person in town."

"Well, no wonder people want to betroth their daughters to me." Lu An said.

Meng Wenjie reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and said sincerely: "If Qing Shui hears this, even I, the eldest brother, can't protect you."

Wuyang Wuyang was crowded with people downstairs, and there were quite a few upstairs.

However, the people who can drink tea and chat on the sofa on the second floor are basically Meng Wenjie's aunts and uncles, who are the closest people to the Meng family.

"Hey! Look who's here. Come on, let me take a good look." Li Meng smiled and poured him a cup of tea, then joked.

She has liked Lu An since she was a child, and I won’t go into details about the reasons. In one sentence: he has a good face and suits her temperament.

Li Meng often used the term "handsome man" to tease him.

"Auntie, Happy New Year!"

Then he also joked: "Don't look at it like that, you won't be able to run away in the future anyway."

Li Meng was extremely happy to hear this. She knew about her little daughter's relationship with him, but she never objected.

She even told her husband Meng Zhenhai in private: "If Lu An is successful in the future, I will give him clear water."

At this time, Meng Zhenhai would ask: "What does it mean to be promising? What is your standard for being promising?"

Li Meng said without hesitation: "Enter college."

In the minds of their generation, being able to go to college is a sign of success.

After all, college students these days are given a graduation package, so they really attract people's attention wherever they go, and they are popular wherever they go.

Meng Zhenhai often remained silent when he heard his wife's standards.

Li Meng teased and asked: "Why, you don't like him? This is your best friend's son, and you treat him like this?"

Meng Zhenhai shook his head: "It's not that I don't like it, but you are too one-sided and too impatient. Whether it's Lu An or Qing Shui, at their age, they haven't seen a bigger stage. They won't be able to succeed in college in the future. You will meet someone more suitable. And"

Li Meng asked: "And what?"

Meng Zhenhai said: "I have been observing over the years that Qing Shui is more proactive and Lu An is more introverted."

Li Meng reacted: "Are you saying that Lu An may change his mind in the future?"

Meng Zhenhai did not refute or admit it.

Li Meng slapped the table and said, "How dare he. If he has the guts, I won't allow him to enter the Meng family."

Whenever this happens, Meng Zhenhai laughs and says, "Come on, come on, your hot temper is here again."

After saying a few thoughtful words to Li Meng, Lu An greeted the other people on the sofa one by one.

Finally, I glanced around, but I didn't see Sister Qingchi, but I saw Meng Qingshui who was looking at me eagerly. The latter was playing cards and couldn't leave, otherwise he would have come here early in the morning.

Feeling those eyes full of strong emotions, Lu An sighed secretly, walked over and asked:

"Did you win today?"

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