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Chapter 252 The Rumors of That Year

Chapter 252 Many Rumors That Year

Don’t be greedy, little kids, it’s the New Year after Laba.

How many days can you drink Laba porridge? It will be twenty-three.

This is a jingle during the Spring Festival. The literal explanation is that after the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Spring Festival is almost approaching.

Of course, it is somewhat exaggerated to say that after the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, it is the New Year. Because on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Chen Li has not had a holiday yet!

In fact, when the Spring Festival atmosphere really gets underway, it’s basically around the Little New Year. Generally speaking, after the Little New Year, New Year’s Eve is basically not far away.

If it were the 29th, it would be even more lively.

In some years, there is no New Year's Eve, and the 29th day is also New Year's Eve.

However, there is a New Year's Eve in 1999, so the 29th is not a real New Year's day.

But the 29th of 1999 is also special because this day is Valentine's Day in the West.

Well~ Actually, there is definitely no market for Valentine’s Day in Erlong Town these days.

As a remote town with a less developed economy, Erlong Town has a relatively good experience in celebrating the Spring Festival.

If nothing else, the long string of stalls on the roadside look quite festive.

These various food stalls that are rarely seen in ordinary times have been set up one after another, and the target group is naturally those children who have pocket money in their bags.

Such as Chen Xue and Wang Yan!

As the saying goes, the one who is close to the ink is the darkest person. This sentence is really not wrong at all.

Wang Yan only stayed with Chen Xue for half a year, and now this girl has been turned into a snack food by Chen Xue.

The only difference is probably that Chen Xue is more picky, while Wang Yan is not picky at all.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the living environment of the two people since they were young.

At this moment, Chen Xue and Wang Yan were following behind Chen Li and Liu Qingqing, both of them holding several kinds of snacks in their hands.

Guokui stuffed braised pork is a more advanced snack than Guokui stuffed with jelly.

But in fact, Chen Li thinks it’s not as delicious as Guokui jelly!

Fried sesame balls. This stuff is heavy on oil and sweet. Chen Li doesn’t like eating it either.

The pea oil grid is definitely the best choice when paired with rice noodles, but eating it alone is a little less interesting.

Sugar painting is more interesting, but it requires spinning. You pay one dollar a time, and you can paint whatever you spin.

However, if there are not many onlookers, the ones that will basically go there will be smaller animals.

Only when there are a lot of onlookers around, there is a chance of turning to large mythical beasts like dragons and phoenixes.

You taste~you taste carefully!

Okay~ In fact, the turntable at the candy painting stall can be controlled. Basically, you can only turn what the boss wants you to turn.

Once there are many people watching, the boss will create one or two more exciting dragons and phoenixes in order to attract other people to spend money.

If there are few people, then basically don’t even think about it.

Today's day is actually quite special. Not only is it Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve, this day is also the last market day of the year in Erlong Town.

It's just that Chen Li and others came out relatively late, and the gathering was almost over.

There are only these small stalls selling food, hoping to make more money before the end of the year.

Finally, Chen Li chose a shop selling oil tea dumplings.

This oil tea dumpling is also a kind of local snack. First, break the white rice into fine powder, put it in a pot, add water and stir it into a thin paste.

Then heat it and simmer it slowly. When the rice paste is cooked and sticks to the spoon, add a little sugar juice to make it turn dark yellow. Then you can put it in the pot and put it into a bowl. This is the oil tea.

As for the steamed buns in the oil tea steamed buns, they are actually a kind of fried pasta.

When mixing the bowl, first ladle the oil tea into the bowl, add the crushed rice dumplings, kohlrabi cut into small pieces, mashed peanuts, salt and pepper, chopped green onion, red oil, etc. The taste is so fragrant!

Chen Li drank two bowls at once, and in the end he even drank the half of the bowl that Liu Qingqing hadn't finished.

Miss Liu had breakfast in the morning, so she was not hungry. Chen Li and his two sisters started helping to clean up the house early in the morning. Finally, Ms. Wang tried to make do with a pot of noodles, but Chen Li sternly refused.

Today happened to be the last market day, so Chen Li took his two sisters to find Liu Qingqing, and then started eating rims on the street.

As mentioned before, Chen Xue's mouth is more picky, but in fact, Chen Li's mouth is even more picky.

After this round of shopping, both Chen Xue and Wang Yan were well fed, but Chen Li was still hungry.

"After the Chinese New Year, I will go to Yanjing first."

"When you go to Yanjing, remember to buy a sleeper ticket. I don't worry about the hard seat."

After two and a half bowls of oil tea, Chen Li's stomach finally felt better, but then Chen Li started to give instructions.

"Oh, I see!"

"Don't worry~ I'm not a child, it'll be fine!"

Liu Qingqing smiled at Chen Li. Although she didn't take Chen Li's worries seriously, she really enjoyed the care from her boyfriend.

"It's just because I'm worried. If it weren't for the fact that there are things in Yanjing that need to be prepared in advance, I would definitely go to Yanjing with you."

"I originally wanted to buy you a plane ticket. I don't have that much money."

"But you still won't do it!"

Chen Li was also helpless. Two branches in Yanjing were going to open in the new year, and he had to go there in advance to prepare for the renovations.

Deng Weimin also called him. The old man has been in some trouble recently.

In fact, it cannot be said to be trouble. To be precise, Deng Weimin suffered revenge.

This is actually quite normal. After all, this guy has changed his family and is being retaliated against. This is something that is expected.

What Chen Li didn't expect was that Deng Weimin seemed to regard him as a dog-headed military adviser and actually called him to ask for advice.

Chen Li actually wanted to refuse, but now his relationship with Deng Weimin can no longer be described as just a customer relationship.

Deng Weimin was in Yanjing before and helped him a lot, so whether he could help Deng Weimin or not, at least he had to express an attitude.

So, Chen Li has already booked train tickets for the second day of the Lunar New Year.

But this way, he would not be able to go to Beijing with Liu Qingqing, so he was a little worried.

The security situation these days is not as good as it was later, especially on trains.

Chen Li initially planned to book a flight for Liu Qingqing later, but the girl refused to do so.

After all, air tickets are still a bit expensive for ordinary people.

Although in Chen Li's eyes, the air ticket money is nothing, for Liu Qingqing, her consumption concept will not change for a while.

In fact, Miss Liu had another idea in her mind. It was her first time to fly, so she had to go with Chen Li.

So in the end, Miss Liu just agreed to buy a sleeper ticket.

Fortunately, there were some acquaintances of Chen Li on the train to Yanjing. Chen Li could just call the high police sergeant then.

"Hey~ It's another year of going around and around!"

"We are about to enter the new century!"

After drinking the oil tea, Chen Li paid the bill and started walking on the new street of Erlong Town holding hands with Liu Qingqing.

"By the way~Chen Li, have you ever heard a rumor?"

Suddenly, Miss Liu seemed to remember something and shook Chen Li's hand.

"What rumor?"

Chen Li was a little stunned. He thought there was some gossip in Erlong Town! The result.

"Rumors of the end of the world!"

Liu Qingqing said this with a smile. It was obvious that she didn't take it seriously at all.

However, Chen Li was stunned when he heard it, and suddenly remembered that such doomsday remarks were not only from 2012, but also from the year 2000.

Not only this so-called prophecy, Chen Li also thought that this year is 1999!

This year, an inexplicable "war" was fought to protect the earth!

This guy, Chen Li, suddenly didn't want to sign that "confidentiality agreement".

Okay~! Thinking of these messy things, Chen Li suddenly became happy.

"What? You don't believe it either? Hehe~!"

"I don't believe it either!"

When Liu Qingqing saw Chen Li laughing, she knew that Chen Li didn't believe this nonsense like him.

"Some people say that the Millennium Bug or something like that will cause a lot of damage. It's just for a year. What does it have to do with bugs?"

"Huh? Huh? I'm going~!"

As Liu Qingqing's words came out, Chen Li was suddenly stunned.

The end of the world or something, it's just a rumor~Chen Li naturally didn't bother to think about it.

But this millennium bug.