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#40 - Chapter 40: Ordinary Family Dinner
This year, we didn't celebrate the New Year at our old home.
Instead, we had our reunion dinner in Caijia Town.
Caijia Town had become more lively in the past two years, but it was still just so-so, never really taking off.
Li Yun remembered that his first girlfriend lived nearby.
But it seemed she had moved back to Tongliang later.
My dad booked four tables at the hot pot restaurant today.
It's quite normal to book tables for a hot pot reunion dinner in our hometown, but he won't be doing this in a few years.
Mainly because he can drink more these past few years, and the homemade wine isn't strong enough to impress his buddies, so he basically eats reunion dinners outside.
Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and he's mainly invited family and relatives.
In a few days, he'll be drinking and eating with people from his circle.
Dad is quite skilled at handling social interactions.
Eating hot pot in winter isn't as comfortable as in summer; wearing thick clothes makes you feel awkward.
Everyone in the family, except for the drivers, had a little wine.
Li Yun, who usually doesn't drink, also had a small can of beer.
It was still Lao Shancheng beer, which will be replaced by brands like Snow and Guobin in a few years.
Grandpa and Grandma hadn't seen him in a long time and enthusiastically held his hand, chatting about everything.
They talked about everything, except for his mother.
Li Yun still doesn't understand why his parents divorced, and they both tacitly avoid mentioning it.
Those who know the reason are unwilling to tell him, leaving him to speculate.
However, as he grew older, he gradually understood.
In China, divorce is just too common.
Incompatible in-laws, trivial matters, conflicts of interest, and so on can all lead to divorce.
Later, he took it in stride and didn't bother to ask about such unpleasant topics.
After his parents divorced, no one complained in private.
What are the topics of conversation when family and friends gather together?
Mostly it's about work, marriage, children's education, and literacy.
Four-year-old Li Xiao'an stumbled over to Li Yun, muttering with her little mouth, apparently eating a milk candy.
Her sister-in-law didn't want her to eat it.
But Grandma doted on her great-granddaughter and insisted on stuffing one into her mouth.
The little one came to Li Yun because she wanted to watch cartoons on his phone; he was the only one in the family playing with a smartphone.
His eldest and second elder brothers were still eating, and his sister-in-law and youngest sister had gone shopping.
The child was left here.
His aunt was watching the child, but it was noisy and stuffy inside the restaurant, so she had to take her out.
"Third Uncle, I want to watch cartoons!" Li Xiao'an's speech was still a bit unclear, and she was eating candy, so it took Li Yun two calls to understand what the little girl wanted.
"Okay, okay, what do you want to watch? I'll search for it for you." Current video players aren't like those in later years, where you can't watch anything even with VIP, and the picture quality is much better.
After Li Xiao'an got the phone to watch cartoons, she happily ran back to her aunt.
Without the phone to play with, Li Yun felt a little bored.
He was feeling sleepy after eating, so he simply went to the car to take a nap.
He woke up more than two hours later.
By this time, his sister-in-law and youngest sister had returned from shopping, and his father and the others had stopped drinking long ago and were playing mahjong or Dou Dizhu on the third floor of the hot pot restaurant.
People in Sichuan and Chongqing basically spend their time like this after meals.
Li Yun doesn't like to play these things, and he didn't in his previous life either.
The phone was almost out of power, so his aunt quickly took it from Li Xiao'an and gave it to Li Yun to charge.
His eldest brother walked over with his second brother, grinning, wanting to practice driving more, mainly to teach his second brother how to drive.
"Okay, let's learn together. After the New Year, I'll also register for a driving school and get my license."
The second brother nodded, and after getting into the car, he and Li Yun watched their eldest brother teach driving seriously.
After driving around the neighborhood a few times, his sister-in-law also became interested.
In the car.
His sister-in-law suddenly asked Li Yun, "Xiao Yun, do you still remember Jiang Lin?"
Jiang Lin?
Li Yun searched his memory carefully and suddenly remembered such a person: "Yeah, what's wrong with him?"
Jiang Lin was from the village next to his hometown and was a year older than Li Yun.
They used to have a good relationship when they were young, often walking together after school, but Li Yun never saw him again after his parents divorced.
His sister-in-law sighed: "That kid is married. We only heard about it when we went out today."
"Married today?" Li Yun asked in surprise.
"Yeah, I heard the bride is the mute girl from Xinshigang."
Mute? Chen Siwen?
When she said this, he suddenly remembered something.
That's right! The Chen family's antique painting!
By the time the widely publicized events of his previous life reached his ears, they had already happened a long time ago.
Jiang Lin graduated from the Archeology Department of Peking University.
This year, just as he was about to start college, he was forced to marry Chen Siwen under the arrangement of his family.
Originally, the combination of the two families could be considered a good match.
But because of this antique painting, the two families eventually tore each other apart, embarking on a five-year tug-of-war, which really provided enough gossip for the people in their rural hometown.
Later, Chen Siwen successfully divorced him and, by selling this antique painting, eventually reached the peak of her life.
She later opened her own hot pot restaurant and, with the help of her family, walked out of the shadow of marriage and achieved financial freedom.
Later, I heard that she had been single all along.
However, Li Yun didn't have any thoughts about her; he just simply remembered that there was such a thing.
Chen Siwen's appearance wasn't bad.
Just because she was mute, she was isolated by many people when she was a child, so it was not easy for her to make it through.
His sister-in-law babbled about gossip, and Li Yun listened quietly.
His eldest and second elder brothers practiced driving for a few hours and looked quite decent, but Li Yun didn't drive; he was a little timid, afraid of taking a car full of people to see his great-grandfather.
At six o'clock in the afternoon, they began to eat their reunion dinner.
But no one drank alcohol this afternoon; everyone had to go back to their respective homes after dinner.
When his dad found Li Yun, he had already sobered up and chatted with him about family matters, telling him to come home often.
Li Yun naturally agreed readily, but if he really had time, he would rather play games online.
There was no way, going home was too boring.
He and his youngest sister were the only ones in the family who didn't play cards or mahjong, and their personalities didn't mesh well, so they didn't have much to talk about.
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