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Chapter 289 Companion

On New Year's Eve, the employees of the online store also took a day off, and did not resume work until the 25th.

But I won’t be able to work for many days, because in another two days, the couriers will stop running, and I can only rest until after the eighth day of the first lunar month.

Feng Xi goes to the online store now, mainly to do an inventory, count all the inventory in the store, settle the accounts that need to be settled, and then give out year-end bonuses and New Year red envelopes to employees.

Online stores have made a lot of money, so of course they need to provide some benefits to their employees so that they can be more motivated to do what they do.

After Feng Xi received Yan Xin's message, he quickly sent him a reply: "I'm busy. I should finish it tomorrow. I will treat everyone to a meal the day after tomorrow. You are also the boss, do you want to come and join us?"

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When Yan Xin received her reply, he had already got out of the car and was carrying a leg of venison upstairs.

Venison is relatively expensive, and most people can't get it. It hangs outside, and it might be stolen at any time.

The cured fish and bacon made at home are all hung on the balcony on the second floor, and this leg of venison must also be hung there.

When I heard the QQ call, I took out my phone and checked it, but there was no immediate reply.

He was thinking about this matter and whether he should go there or not.

I went up to the second floor and found an iron hook to hook the leg of venison and hang it up. After thinking for a while, I replied with two words: "Okay."

Feng Xi quickly replied: "Then it's settled, I'll go to the bank to withdraw some money, and then you can give out red envelopes."

Yan Xin replied "OK", thought for a moment, and added: "Just eat when you eat. The food can be richer, so don't drink."

He is really a bit sensitive about drinking.

If the amount of alcohol is too small, you will get drunk as soon as you drink it, and some uncontrollable things will happen when you are drunk.

For example, when I drank too much in the county town, I ended up lying on the same bed with Feng Xi for no reason.

For another example, I drank some red wine with Ellie later, and then inexplicably ended up lying on the same bed again, with neither of them even wearing clothes.

That means that he is a bad drinker, he will do random things when he is drunk, and he will also do bad things to girls.

I had lunch at Xiao Shiyu's house and didn't drink a drop of wine. The main reason was this. Worrying about drunk driving was secondary - if you drank too much, you didn't have to go back. You could just find a place to stay for the night.

The main reason is that I'm afraid that if I drink too much and do some messy things in front of my father, I'm afraid that when I wake up from the alcohol, I'll be squatting in the police station.

He does have some money now, but that money is not enough to save him from punishment.

He didn't know how he had such a drink, but every time he got drunk with a girl, something like this happened, which made him have to wonder if there was a sex demon living in his heart, and he couldn't control it when he drank too much.

Live yourself.

The best way is not to drink. If you don't drink, the devil will not be released.

Feng Xi was a little dissatisfied with his reminder: "But, during the Chinese New Year, this is equivalent to a New Year's Eve dinner with the employees. Shouldn't we drink some wine to cheer up?"

Yan Xin also felt that it was unreasonable not to drink on such occasions, but he didn’t want to drink, so he found an excuse:

"I want to drive, but I can't drive if I drink, so I can't drink."

Feng Xi: "Then don't drink it. Other employees still have to drink a little, so we can't let them down."

Yan Xin had no choice but to agree to her arrangement.

It's not that he's reluctant to part with the little money for drinks, it's that everyone drinks, and as a boss he doesn't drink, which seems a bit out of place and creates a sense of distance among employees.

But I'm afraid of getting into trouble when I drink.

All the employees in the online store are women. If they drink alcohol and become drunk like that, it will be a big problem.

What's even more frightening is that none of the employees are pretty...

It was still early when he came home, not even three o'clock, and his father did not go out to work, but was chopping firewood on the hillside behind the house.

First use a hacksaw to cut the bowl-thick wood into small sections, and then split it.

This still requires some effort.

Yan Xin ended his chat with Feng Xi and went downstairs to the back. When he saw his father chopping firewood, he took the ax from his hand and said, "Let me do it."

Father Yan shook his head: "How could you do this?"

Yan Xin was unconvinced: "I still have some strength."

Although he himself had never chopped firewood before, seeing his father do it, he felt that it was just a laborious job and did not require any skills.

Speaking of anger, he didn't think that he, a twenty-year-old young man, would be any less powerful than his father.

Place the firewood, take the ax and chop it down.

The first blow was not accurate, and the ax hit the ground.

Then came the second blow, and this time it hit the mark, but the force was not used well, the blade was deflected, and instead of splitting the firewood, it caused the piece of wood to fly up, barely hitting anyone.

Father Yan shook his head and took the ax from his hand: "I'll do it."

With the facts before him, Yan Xin could only accept it and gave up the ax with a red face.

Then he said: "Actually, it's not that good to burn wood. Let's not talk about using gas. At least we can burn some coal."

“There’s no need to waste that money,” Dad Yan said. “It doesn’t cost anything to burn firewood. You can just go to the mountains to chop the firewood yourself. It just takes a little effort.”

"Wouldn't it be better to save some energy and take a rest?" Yan Xin tried to convince his father, "People are not born to work so hard. It is not a sin to rest for a few more days."

Father Yan said: "I can't sit still, and I feel panicked when I'm free. It's better to do something to feel more at ease."

Many people in rural areas are like that.

Even though I don't have to work so hard anymore, I still have to find something to do for myself. I always feel like I'm making a mistake by taking a break.

Probably because I was afraid of poverty in the past and felt insecure if I didn’t do some work.

Yan Xin had nothing to do about it.

You can only do it slowly and step by step.

Just as Feng Xi said, if you want his dad to work less hard and be less frugal, you have to make his dad feel safe about the future and let his dad know that the money at home will never be spent. Only then will he slowly

Change your own mindset.

Of course, now he can also persuade his father to realize that he, as a son, does not want him to work so hard, and hopes that he can have more time to rest and enjoy life.

I don’t know how to chop firewood, but I can still cut firewood with a hacksaw.

His dad is busy here, so it's really hard for him to just lie in bed and rest peacefully.

So, I took up the job of sawing firewood.

His father asked him to rest, saying that he worked hard outside and finally came back, so there was no need to do these things.

He smiled and said: "It's not as hard for me to work outside as it is for you to farm at home. You are working during the Chinese New Year, so it's not easy for me to just sit and rest. Otherwise, I might be judged by others."

How unfilial this son is."

When he said this, his father was a little embarrassed.

The father and son worked together, but they didn't work for long. Before four o'clock, Yan's father said he stopped working and wanted to prepare dinner and put away all the chopped firewood.

In fact, it's not time to cook dinner yet, but Father Yan knows that if he doesn't stop, his son will also work here. He doesn't see his son working hard, so he might as well stop working earlier.

I also made a decision in my heart - I will wait until my son is gone to do those tasks, and while my son is still here, I will rest at home.

Yan Xin ate out at noon, so Yan's father made do with the leftovers that he and his son had not finished yesterday.

Now that my son is back and we want to have dinner together, of course we can't just make do with it.

But today is not New Year's Eve, and there is no need to be as grand as yesterday.

I made three dishes, two meat and one vegetarian, a plate of bacon fried with garlic sprouts, a plate of fish, and a fried cabbage sum.

Two meat and one vegetable.

All three dishes are cooked by Yan Xin.

He now feels that his cooking skills have improved a bit, and the dishes he cooks are much more delicious than those made by his father. Of course, he must show off his cooking skills at this time.

This is also better for your stomach.

Dad Yan was lighting the fire there.

While cooking, Yan's father asked about Yan Xin's visit to Xiao Shiyu. He was very concerned about this.

What concerns me the most is Xiao Shiyu’s father’s attitude.

If it doesn’t work out, you’ll be the in-laws in the future. If it’s an in-laws who are hard to talk to,

Yan Xin didn't hide much. He told about the meeting and the position of Xiao Shiyu's father.

Yan's father didn't understand how high an official a deputy director was, but he knew very well how high a deputy director was.

In his opinion, that was a very big official. He was a little worried when he heard this: "Will such a big official like him agree to his daughter marrying you?"

Although Yan Xin had no idea of ​​marrying Xiao Shiyu, he still disagreed when he heard this and said with a smile: "That's not a big official, so he won't look down on ordinary people like us so much."

Father Yan said: "He won't let you be his son-in-law, right?"

Mainly thinking, how could an official's daughter, an only child, marry a farmer's son?

Not a good match at all.

If he agrees, then he is probably looking for a son-in-law, otherwise it makes no sense.

Xiao Shiyu is a very good girl, and he is totally willing to have such an outstanding girl become his daughter-in-law.

But if you want to be someone else's son-in-law, you can't accept it.

How could such a thing happen? He would not be able to face his deceased wife after her death.

Yan Xin said depressedly: "Dad, your son is not that bad, how can he be a door-to-door son-in-law? Even if I am a bachelor, I can't be a door-to-door son-in-law!"

But I was thinking: "This seems to be a good excuse. Then I will tell him that Xiao Shiyu's family asked me to be their son-in-law, but I refused, so that he will not complain that I am irresponsible."

Father Yan was relieved and said: "There is no need to be a bachelor. With your current conditions, you are not worthy of being an official from a family, but you can still find a very good wife."

Yan Xin smiled and said: "Isn't it? So, you don't have to worry about this at all. I can assure you that when I reach the age of marriage, I will find you an excellent daughter-in-law and give her to you as soon as possible.

You hold your grandson in your arms."

Hearing his son's assurance, Yan's father also laughed.

Although having such determination may not necessarily lead to success, having such determination is a very good thing.

Nowadays, many young people in the village are unwilling to get married too early, which makes some parents worried to death.

In the past few years, he had heard many parents in the village complain that their sons did not want a wife when they were older. When asked, they said they did not want to get married and would become old bachelors.

At least Yan Xin doesn't have such problems. He is willing to get married and have children early, which is better than those people.

——Actually, Dad Yan is a bit misinformed. Nowadays, when young people say they don’t want to get married, in many cases it’s not that they really don’t want to get married, but that they don’t have the ability to get married.

Their parents just urge them to find a daughter-in-law, and it’s not that they don’t want to, but given their own conditions, it’s extremely difficult to find a girlfriend.

But I was too embarrassed to say this, and in the end I could only find one reason, that is, I didn't want to get married so early.

Not wanting to get married is just a fig leaf.

Of course, after a few years, many young people really don't want to get married. They feel that getting married will only bring endless troubles to their lives and reduce their quality of life. It is better to live happily alone.

Yan Xin actually thought about getting married for a while. He felt that living without marriage would be more free.

As long as you have enough wealth, you will definitely live more comfortably without getting married than getting married.

At that time, he had already made his first pot of gold. In the foreseeable future, relying on the dividends from his rebirth, he will have more wealth. It is not difficult to become a billionaire.

With so much wealth, as long as you don't get married, you can be with any pretty girl you want without worrying about being condemned by public opinion.

If you are married, it is called cheating. If you are not married, it is not cheating.

Not only will you not be condemned, you may even be licked by many people and become a national husband.

As long as the money is enough.

Don't say that it's okay to have a girlfriend in a month. There are beautiful girls lining up waiting for the flop. Even if their fists are itchy, there will still be a large number of people lining up waiting to be beaten - as long as they can afford it.

The cost is more than 2 million.

If I had a net worth of tens of billions, I could live such a life.

Getting married is simply making yourself uncomfortable.

Yan Xin is not a very innocent man, he actually hopes to have more beautiful girls.

However, he also knew that his father would not approve of his lifestyle, and hoped that he could live a more traditional life, get married and have children, so that he would feel at ease.

In his last life, he disappointed his father so much and made his life so painful. He still needs to make up for it in this life. He feels that he should follow the traditional path and get married and have children when he reaches his age.

Later, when I established a relationship with Ai Lili, I even put an end to some unrealistic fantasies.

In order to fulfill his father's wish, he should get married and have children early.

In order not to let down Ellie, he should marry her earlier and have children.

Ellie was very kind to him and helped him when he was in a difficult time. She is a very kind person.

Such a relationship happened again. He couldn't let her down and let such a kind-hearted woman feel sad.

Although there is desire in my heart, it is not impossible to suppress it.

He had already made such a plan, and now it was in front of his father. Of course, he had to express his stance like this to make his father happy.

His statement really made his father a lot happier. He calculated that his son would get married in two years, and his grandson would be born in two years after his marriage.

By that time, his life will be complete.

When talking to Yan Xin about this, he said with emotion: "When you get married and have children, my affairs will be over. I don't have to worry about anything from now on. I will help you take care of your grandchildren from now on. I don't have to worry about anything else."

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Yan Xin smiled and said: "Dad, I'm not talking about you. You are a grown man, do you know how to take care of children?"

This question stunned Dad Yan.

He really doesn't know how to take care of children.

After Yan Xin was born, it was his mother who took care of the child. His father needed to do farm work to support the family, and he could only do farm work.

I basically never interfered in the matter of raising children.

Yan Xin really wanted to give birth to a child, and he was asked to take care of it, but he didn't know how to take care of it.

He was stunned for a moment, and then said seriously: "I can learn this."

Seeing that his father was really interested, Yan Xin couldn't help but laugh again and said, "Dad, you can't learn this. But you don't have to worry. If you really have a baby, someone will naturally take care of it."

What he means is that if he really gives birth to a child, he will definitely hire a professional nanny to help take care of the child.

Taking care of children is a hard job. If you are not short of money, it is of course better to hire someone to take care of your children.

Not to mention how much wealth he will have in the future, the wealth he has now is enough for him to hire the most professional nanny to help take care of his children. Naturally, he does not need to work hard for his old father.

But Yan's father misunderstood and thought that his son's idea was to let the child's grandparents take care of him.

For him, this is not very good news.

Let the grandparents take care of the grandson, and it is unlikely that the grandson will be related to him as a grandpa, which makes me feel depressed just thinking about it.

He said: "As a grandfather, it is natural for me to raise my grandson. There is no need for you to leave your child to the grandparents. This will make other people gossip, and the child may not consider himself a member of our Yan family in the future."

Yan Xin didn't expect that his father would think of this and wanted to explain it to him, but also felt that with the salary level he revealed now, if he said that he wanted to find a nanny to take care of his children, his father might think that he was a waste of money and had no future prospects.

sense of security.

So there was no explanation, and he said with a smile: "How about this, Dad, find a partner who knows how to take care of children, then I can safely leave it to you and your wife to take care of the child after I have it."

Dad Yan's face turned red all of a sudden and said: "Where does this all go? Why is this involved?"

"Dad, you can think about it." Yan Xin smiled.

Now that the relationship between father and son is good, it doesn't matter if they joke occasionally. It can also make the relationship between father and son more natural.

In his previous life, even though Yan Xin understood the difficulties of his father in the last few years, the relationship had reached that point. He himself was a married man and had to bear so much pressure in life. He wanted to make the relationship between them

It is impossible to make the relationship more relaxed.

Now I don’t have that kind of pressure anymore, I’m chatting and laughing, and I’m pretty easy-going.

Although Yan's father felt a little embarrassed, he felt quite happy to be able to communicate with his son in such a chatting and laughing manner.

After the food was ready, we ate it in the kitchen.

By the time we finished eating, it was getting dark.

This night, Yan Xin still watched TV with his father for two or three hours.

Watching TV and talking at the same time.

I also have my mobile phone in my hand, and I can reply to QQ messages when I get them.

Doing three things at once didn't affect anything.

After nine o'clock, seeing that his father was sleepy, he left and went upstairs to his bedroom.

After returning to the bedroom, I didn’t go to sleep immediately. Instead, I posted a post on the travel forum of Xingguang.com and participated in the theme event of going home for the New Year organized by the forum.

I sent a dozen photos, the ones I took back home, and a text was added under each photo.

His writing style is not enough to write a novel, but it is still possible to post paragraphs of narrative text on the forum. Express your own feelings. As long as there are no typos, it is enough. No writing skills are needed.

Nowadays, it is not so convenient to post on mobile phones. You have to write a piece of text, insert a picture, and then send the post.

After posting, click Edit to continue adding text descriptions and pictures to the original post.

Just like this, I posted it section by section. By the time the entire post was posted, more than an hour had passed, and it was almost eleven o'clock.

By the time he finished posting, there were twenty or thirty replies to the post.

The popularity of the travel forum has already increased. In addition to the theme event of returning home for the New Year, many people who have returned to their hometowns have participated. When Yan Xin posted, there were more than 10,000 people online on the forum, making it one of the most popular forums on the website.

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Once a post is posted, it will quickly receive a lot of clicks. Even if it is posted by a new person, the number of clicks will be higher than that of a popular post on an unpopular forum.

Yan Xin used a new account to post. After posting, he replied to a few posts before exiting.

He just participated in this event and let Ellie see the photos he took of his hometown by posting. He did not think about getting ranked or how many starlight coins he would get.

He doesn't need this thing.

After replying to a few posts, I changed the account of my website manager and went to various forums to see if there were any problems.

I drove home from Yangcheng early in the morning on the 23rd. I was very busy after that and didn't have time to check various forums on the website. I don't know if any major problems have occurred.

After looking around, I didn't find any major problems, so I slept peacefully.

It was already half past eleven when I went to bed.

He slept late that day and didn't wake up until around eight o'clock the next morning. His father woke him up. He had already made breakfast and was about to get up to eat.

He didn't go anywhere that day. He still cooked lunch and dinner. In the morning, he followed his father around the fields for more than an hour. The father and son talked about what crops should be planted next year and what fish should be raised in the pond.

According to Yan Xin's idea, there is no need to grow cotton at home. Growing cotton is hard work and requires spraying pesticides from time to time. It is not good for the health, so it is better to grow some food.

Although you can’t make much money growing grain, you won’t lose money now that there are subsidies for growing grain.

The most important thing is that now there are harvesters in the village, and harvesting one acre of land only costs about a hundred yuan, so you don't have to work so hard.

Yan Xin knew that his father had no time to spare and had time to do some farm work, so he was not that opposed to it. However, harvesting rice was still quite laborious. If it could be replaced by machinery, then use machinery instead.

His fish pond is not big and cannot raise many fish. In the past two years, he has been able to earn several hundred yuan a year from this fish pond, and he can still keep some food for himself.

But raising fish is not easy. Not only do you have to cut grass every day to feed the fish, but when it rains heavily in the summer, you have to worry about it, for fear that the water will flood the fish pond and the fish that you finally raised will escape.

It's not like this has never happened before.

When it rains heavily, you need to use that kind of gauze net to block the pond to prevent the fish from swimming elsewhere after the water overflows the pond dam.

There is another thing to worry about, and that is fish thieves.

There are fish thieves in the village. They go to other people's fish ponds at night to set up nets to drag fish, or they go fishing with batteries on their backs. If they don't watch carefully, all the fish they have worked so hard to raise will be stolen.

Yan Xin also suggested that his father raise less fish, or better yet, open the opening connecting the fish pond to the ditch outside, so that he could collect some wild fish throughout the year.

You can't make money, but you can feed yourself, which makes you feel relaxed.

Dad Yan disagreed with this suggestion. He thought it would be too wasteful to do nothing in such a large fish pond.

The father and son argued for a while, but in the end Yan's father agreed with Yan Xin's suggestion not to raise fish. The main reason was not because he was tired, but because he was so good at stealing fish that it was not a problem to watch him every day.

However, this fish pond will not be abandoned there. He decided to plant lotus seeds next year.

Nowadays, the price of lotus seeds is pretty good. If you pick them up at your doorstep, you can sell them for a few yuan per catty. The income is no worse than raising fish.

In winter, if you are diligent, you can dig lotus roots, which is another source of income.

Moreover, even if there are no fish in the lotus root pond, you can still collect some crucian carp during the Chinese New Year, which is enough for you to eat.

The father and son finally reached an agreement on this matter.

After returning home, I started preparing lunch.

Yan Xin didn't go anywhere in the afternoon. He just surfed the Internet on his mobile phone at home, browsed his website, and chatted with a few friends on QQ from time to time.

During this period, I chatted with Chen Li for more than half an hour.

What we were talking about was not the plot of the novel, but something else.

Chen Li said that he was going home and had a headache as to how Liang Wei would deal with it.

The return home he was talking about was not to the home in Baijingyuan, Yangcheng, but to his hometown.

His current location is more than a thousand kilometers away from his hometown. If he drives there now, he can reach home before the Chinese New Year, and there won't be much rush on the road.

However, this time he came out with Liang Wei, and he didn't want to take Liang Wei home.

Taking her home would mean acknowledging her as his girlfriend, but Chen Li didn't have such thoughts for the time being.

He told Yan Xin directly that he did not want to marry Liang Wei.

He admitted that there was something he liked about Liang Wei, but he didn't think Liang Wei was a suitable wife, and he didn't want to get married now.

He does not rule out getting married and having children in the future, but for at least ten years he does not want to be bound by marriage and wants to live more freely.

It's been two years since I came out, and I haven't been back home once during this period, and my relationship with my family is not very good. I suddenly came up with this idea after reading the posts on the Xingguang.com travel forum about returning home for the New Year. I wanted to see how my hometown is doing now.

So done.

Going home is just a casual thing for him.

However, no matter how bad the relationship with the family is, bringing a girl home means recognizing Liang Wei's identity, which is not yet a girlfriend, but can evolve into a fiancée.

He doesn't want this.

But leaving Liang Wei halfway, I felt a little unnatural.

So he complained to Yan Xin and hoped that Yan Xin could give him some advice.

Yan Xin knew what Chen Li thought about Liang Wei. Frankly speaking, he disapproved of it and felt that it was an irresponsible mentality.

But he didn't want to change Chen Li's mind.

As for the problem Chen Li was struggling with, he said he couldn't help.

Chen Li expressed his thoughts - to find a reason to have a fight with Liang Wei, so that he could justifiably leave her on the road and drive back to his hometown alone.

Yan Xin was a little surprised: "Will Liang Wei quarrel with you now?"

In his impression, Liang Wei had always behaved very humblely in front of Chen Li, not like a girlfriend, but like a maid - in fact, Liang Wei did this kind of work, and she also worked from

Chen Li received a salary of one thousand yuan.

Until now, Chen Li has never admitted that Liang Wei is his girlfriend.

Yan Xin didn't know whether Liang Wei would feel that way. He only knew that the relationship between the two was not that of a normal couple, and their status was very unequal.

A few days ago, I heard Chen Li complaining about Liang Wei's bloated attitude, but it was just that she had different opinions in some aspects, and it didn't go as far as a quarrel.

Now he actually said that he wanted to have a quarrel, which surprised Yan Xin - a quarrel cannot be done by one person, there must be an opponent.

But can Liang Wei, who acts like a cautious and frustrated little daughter-in-law, be able to quarrel with Chen Li?

Chen Li said angrily: "Now that her wings are hardened, she can already quarrel with me."

Then he gave an example: "Yesterday after I ate tofu puffs, she got into an argument with me. She said that tofu puffs must be eaten sweet. Haha, it's really ridiculous! Isn't tofu puffs meant to be eaten salty? How to eat sweet ones?

Do you have to go down?"

Yan Xin was shocked. He didn't expect that Chen Lin, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, was actually a salty party member.

I originally wanted to say "How to eat salty tofu pudding", but after typing it out, I deleted it in the end - this is his very important partner, and he can't let his partners be unable to do it because of the dispute between salty and sweet.

He can still tell which is light and which is serious.

Some people are curious: "Which of you won the argument in the end?"

Chen Li responded depressingly: "No one won the argument, and in the end, no one had any luck."

Yan Xin: "So are you still in a cold war?"

Chen Li: "It was originally a cold war, but it was reconciled at night."

Then he expressed regret: "If I had known earlier, I should have restrained myself, taken this opportunity to leave her here, and drive home alone."

Yan Xin could only come up with an idea: "How about you order another tofu puff today."

Chen Li: "It's no use. She ordered tofu curd this morning. It's salty. She told me it was delicious."

Yan Xin couldn't help but scolded: "She is like this, and you still want to throw her on the road. Are you still a man?"

(End of chapter)