Start with the script killing shop

"This is an old free-range hen I bought in the vegetable market this morning. It's very fat. I bought all 3 of them. This one is the fattest. I've prepared it and used it to stew soup with some mushrooms, cordyceps, and chicken fat. I also took it out separately. If you don't like the soup to be too oily when stewing the chicken, just don't add chicken oil." Huang Fugui took the prepared chicken and told Qiao Huifang how to cook the chicken.

Qiao Huifang took the chicken and began to look for anything at home that could be reciprocated. Finally, she looked at the refrigerator, put down the chicken and went to get the pork from the refrigerator.

"Old Huang, yesterday my dad asked someone to bring the freshly slaughtered pigs he raised in the countryside. They are all good meat. I will find you two pieces of pork belly and some ribs." Qiao Huifang began to rummage through the refrigerator.

"No, no, no, the refrigerator at home is full and there is no room for anything. Besides, we have pork at home. I went to the supermarket a few days ago and grabbed several waves of black pork. If you need black pork, I will deliver it to you." Huang Fugui continued. Wave your hands.

"We have pork, right?" Qiao Huifang stopped opening the refrigerator door, thought for a moment, and opened the upper shelf, "Then take some cherries back. I just bought them today and they are fresh."

"Okay." Huang Fugui didn't refuse and went back holding a small box of cherries.

The familiarity between upstairs and downstairs started when Huang Fugui presented roasted lamb chops on January 25th.

Huang Fugui has always been a social person. When he goes to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, he can chat with the vendors and the uncles and aunts who buy vegetables. When he goes to the supermarket to grab special eggs, he can chat with the cashier. When he goes for a walk downstairs, he can chat with the old man downstairs. My wife chats with the security guy at the door. Occasionally I go to the breakfast shop to buy a bun and chat with the breakfast shop owner.

For Huang Fugui, there is no one in the world whom he cannot chat with. Sometimes he can just say hello to people he doesn't know when he walks on the street and have a few words.

It's not easy for him to make friends.

Qiao Huifang and Jiang Xiaoliang are at the highest social level here in Huang Fugui.

You have to make good friends with your boss’s parents.

So Huang Fugui started his unique way of socializing.

Deliver food.

On the first day, the morning of the 25th, he delivered green vegetable noodles. He knew that Jiang Qi didn't have much food at home, so he made more and sent it over.

Qiao Huifang and Jiang Xiaoliang were astonished after eating the vegetable noodles. By the time Huang Fugui came to deliver abalone and roasted chicken at noon, they had already called him Brother Huang.

Then the two discovered that Huang Fugui was actually younger than them, so they changed their names to Lao Huang.

In the evening, Huang Fugui presented a freshly baked fruit cake.

Huang Fugui has been learning to make cakes recently. He used to have to make cakes in the morning when he had to go to work. Now he doesn’t have to take a break at work. He stays at home and studies food every day, making various snacks while watching TV series on his tablet. Wang Xinghua is smiling happily after eating.

Delivering food three times a day, Qiao Huifang and Jiang Xiaoliang quickly became familiar with the people upstairs.

Although Jiang Xiaoliang was a total social fear who could only transfer money when facing Jiang Qi and Jiang Bing, he had been doing business outside for so many years and had seen no less things than Huang Fugui (of course, things like killing people and stealing goods) You probably haven’t seen it much yet).

Jiang Xiaoliang is also a good person in daily social life. Both parties intend to get close to each other. In just a few days, the people upstairs and downstairs have become model good neighbors.

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Today is the 27th, New Year’s Eve.

Qiao Huifang tidied the overcrowded refrigerator and put the chicken Huang Fugui brought into the freezer.

According to the Jiang family's tradition of eating for one day, Jiang Qi's family doesn't open the fire until the third day of the Lunar New Year. They don't cook at home these days, and they have to put any good food in the refrigerator first.

"Lao Jiang, when are we going to eldest brother's house?" Qiao Huifang asked loudly.

"Let's go after packing. I see that Xiaohong in the WeChat group has set off." Jiang Xiaoliang's voice came from inside the room.

"Okay." Qiao Huifang took out the cherries and strawberries from the refrigerator, walked to the door of Jiang Qi and Jiang Bing's room and knocked on the door, "Xiao Qi, Bingbing, are you awake? It's past ten o'clock. It's time to go to the uncle's house. ”

Jiang Qi dressed neatly and came out of the room: "I woke up a long time ago. I was just processing the information about the appointment after the new year."

"Come on, come on, I still need some hair." Jiang Bing called. A few minutes later, Jiang Bing came out of the room with his newly curled hair.

"Look at your stinky beauty, take the dragon fruit and let's go." Qiao Huifang said with a smile.

Jiang Qi picked up Che Lizi, and Jiang Xiaoliang mentioned the strawberries, not forgetting to answer: "Bingbing is good-looking, and it's normal to love beauty. If you like it, go get a perm. The more expensive ones will hurt your hair."

"Oops, I didn't take my phone. I went back to the room to look for my phone." Jiang Xiaoliang put down the strawberries and went back to the room to look for his phone.

"By the way, I've always wanted to ask. Isn't Lao Huang's hometown also in our province? It shouldn't be very far from us, and Xiao Qi has given the store so many days off this year, even if he is the store manager If you don’t take extra leave, you won’t have time to go home for the New Year, right?”

"Xinghua's parents died and stayed here. It makes sense that Teacher John is British and doesn't need to go home to celebrate the New Year. Why doesn't Lao Huang take Qinghe back to celebrate the New Year?"

Jiang Qi said cryptically: "Uncle Huang didn't say the specific reason, but I heard from Teacher John that since Qinghe came, Uncle Huang seems to have often quarreled with his wife on the phone. Maybe the family is not very harmonious, so I just won't do it this year." Go back and celebrate the New Year.”

Qiao Huifang instantly figured out the plot of 40 episodes of the country drama.

"Alas." Qiao Huifang sighed, "He is also a poor person."

"What a poor man." Jiang Xiaoliang came out with his mobile phone, thinking that he had missed some important topic.

Jiang Xiaoliang, who really wanted to enhance his relationship with his children, was unwilling to let go of any possible topic of conversation.

"Nothing." Qiao Huifang said vaguely.

The family set off carrying the fruit.

After Jiang Qi and others went out, all the toy spirits in the room ran out. Qi Qi said excitedly: "The boss just said that they won't be back until after 10 o'clock tonight. It's been such a long time, let's watch TV." !”

While talking about racing, he ran to the sofa to see if the remote control was on the sofa.

"You all ran out to watch TV, and no one moved me out. Didn't you let me stay alone in the room?" Sunflower shouted dissatisfied.

"There's nothing you can do about it. Who told you not to move?" Sailor shouted back.

Just then, the door lock moved.

The experienced racing car soared to 160 yards and turned into an afterimage and rushed back to the room. Other toy spirits followed closely behind, performing speed and passion.

The door opened.

"It's me." Wang Xinghua stood at the door. "The boss asked me to pick you up. You will stay upstairs these days. The boss said that his family doesn't stay at home very much these days."

"I heard Tutu said that you are watching "Blue Life and Death" recently, and the TV has been adjusted for you."

"Okay!" Racing Car was the first to rush out, "I knew Mr. Boss wouldn't forget us!"

A group of toy spirits ran towards the door excitedly.

"There is me, I can't move! Miss Xinghua, please come in and carry me out!"

All the Toy Spirits were rushing outside, except Himawari who was shouting in the room.

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On the other side, Jiang Qi's family has arrived at Jiang Xiaokang's house.

The only disadvantage of the Jiang family not going back to the countryside to celebrate the New Year is probably that the commercial housing in the city is too small compared to the self-built housing in the countryside.

Jiang Xiaohong's parents-in-law are out of town, and they have more than one son. Jiang Xiaohong's family has always spent New Year's Eve in Xuncheng and at her parents-in-law's house. Last year we spent the Chinese New Year outside, this year we will celebrate the Chinese New Year in Xuncheng.

Four families and a total of 13 people are all crowded into a three-bedroom house of 107 square meters, which is naturally a bit crowded.

If there is crowding, there must be diversion.

The eldest aunt, Qiao Huifang, Jiang Xiaohong and the second aunt were in the kitchen. Since the kitchen could not accommodate so many people, Qiao Huifang and the second aunt, who were not good at cooking, were responsible for meeting outside, picking vegetables, processing fruits and so on.

As usual, Jiang Xiaokang and his uncle set up a small table by the window to play chess. Jiang Xiaoliang and Jiang Xiaoguang watched. The two onlookers who rarely came back often chatted and talked about the difficulties of middle-aged men.

Jiang Qi, Jiang Bing, Jiang Wanwan, Wen Luo and their second uncle's daughter Jiang Pei gathered around the sofa area playing with their mobile phones, watching TV and chatting.

Wen Luo, who is in her third year of high school, has no chance to play with her mobile phone even during the winter vacation. The person Jiang Xiaohong admires most in her life is her third brother, Jiang Qi's biological father, Jiang Xiaoliang. This filter is still there to this day. Even in the lowest years of Jiang Xiaoliang's life when he was being chased by others for debts and dared not go home, Jiang Xiaohong always believed that her third brother could make a comeback with his own talent.

The reason why Jiang Xiaohong admires Jiang Xiaoliang is because she thinks that his third brother is a literary star and knows how to read, so Jiang Xiaohong actually admires scholars.

Coincidentally, Wen Luo didn't like reading very much, and his grades were always sluggish.

Even if Jiang Qi gave Cao Wenyang's authentic No. 1 Scholar's Notes to Wen Luo, Wen Luo, like Jiang Bing, had to use a small altar to offer the No. 1 Scholar's Notes, and praying three times a day did not change the fact that his grades were not good.

From the winter vacation until now, Jiang Xiaohong didn't even have time to go to Jiang Qi's house to deliver food to him and Jiang Bing. She stayed at home every day and watched Wen Luo's studies, which led to Wen Luo not touching his cell phone until now.

Then everyone saw Wen Luo multitasking.

He was watching TV, playing games on his mobile phone, and chatting with everyone at the same time.

"Sister Peipei, your original company closed down? Why? Last year, I heard from my second aunt that your company was very good and prosperous." Wen Luo asked curiously. He forgot to operate his mobile phone for a moment, and then died. .

Seeing this record that was almost as good as Huang Fugui's, Jiang Qi advised: "Let's play games later, and have a good chat while chatting."

It’s New Year’s Eve, let your gaming teammates go.

Wen Luo chuckled, just resurrected and died again.

Jiang Pei is the eldest among the juniors in the Jiang family, two years older than Jiang Bing, and has reached the age where she can be urged to marry. Legend has it that her second aunt has already found a blind date list in the phone book for her.

Jiang Pei held up his forehead: "It's not bankrupt, but it's probably going to collapse soon."

"Our boss is dead."

"Ah?" Everyone was shocked, and Wen Luo stopped playing the game immediately.

"Could it be a legendary business war in which a competitor poisoned the boss of your company and killed your boss?" Wen Luo made a bold guess.

"Or maybe he was rich and had a mistress outside, but his wife poisoned him to death?" Jiang Wanwan, who has watched too many TV series, also made a bold guess.

"No." Jiang Pei shook his head, "Our boss worked overtime and died suddenly."

For a moment, everyone looked at Jiang Qi.

Jiang Qi:? ? ?

What do you see me doing?

"Our boss is a very nice person. He is in his 30s. He was divorced and had a daughter. The daughter was awarded to his ex-wife. I should have told you before that when I joined our company, our company had only been established for two years."

"I remember that your company seems to be engaged in new media." Jiang Bing nodded to express his impression.

"Our company has been developing very well in the past few years. In June, we received a very important order. From that time on, our boss stayed in the company and worked overtime every day. Basically, he left after everyone else left. . As a result, in October, he entered the elevator after work and died suddenly in the elevator. It was past two o'clock in the morning. The security guard of our office building saw that the lights in the office were turned off, so he did not check the last elevator. Our boss That’s gone.”

Jiang Qi:......

Such a familiar character.

"Then our company fell into chaos. Originally, our boss started the company from scratch, and there were no other major shareholders. Our boss's uncles, aunts, cousins, and his ex-wife were working hard every day to grab the company's shares. It’s noisy, basically all our company’s employees have resigned anyway.”

"What are you going to do now, Sister Peipei?" Jiang Bing asked.

"Kaogong, please come ashore."

Everyone has already started the next topic. Jiang Qi thoughtfully took out his mobile phone and replaced the New Year's greetings that he planned to send to all his friends in the WeChat list in the memo this evening with New Year's blessings for good health.

Especially Fang Jing’s, double health blessings.

"Hey, by the way, I heard that Xiao Qi's script-killing shop is doing well. The shop that was on the hot search before, the one that scared the traffickers to the police and surrendered, is yours. I haven't played script-killing yet, so it turns out that I only get a few days of annual leave at work, and I have to go back on the fifth day of the new year. Now that I have resigned, I don’t have to go to work. My parents are retiring soon and can take a few more days off. We plan to come back for a few more days during the Chinese New Year."

"Why don't you find time after the fifth day of the Lunar New Year to go to the script store opened by Xiao Qi?" Jiang Pei suggested.

This proposal was enthusiastically approved by Wen Luo: "Okay, okay, school starts on November. Sister Peipei, you must make sure to go and play before November!"

"I originally wanted to invite my classmates to Brother Jiang Qi's store during the winter vacation, but my mother didn't let me. She even asked me to go to Brother Jiang Qi's store more during the summer vacation to take care of his business! You go and ask for it this time , My mother definitely agrees." Wen Luo said it didn't matter what script he was playing, he mainly wanted to support his cousin's business.

"Okay." Jiang Pei said with a smile.

Suddenly, Jiang Qi's phone vibrated.

Jiang Qi is now semi-blocking all group chats on WeChat, including work groups, and wants his phone to vibrate to receive messages unless someone sends him a private message.

Jiang Qi glanced at his phone.

Yo, Xiaoka.

Don't mention it, Jiang Qi almost forgot about this customer service after not receiving any message from the small card for a long time.

Card Game Studio-Customer Service Card: Dear, today is such a festive day as the New Year’s Eve. Why don’t you come to the mall and buy a copy?

Card Game Studio-Customer Service Xiaoka: As for your consumption last year reaching 300,000 yuan, Xiaoka specially helped you apply for a super discount of 10 yuan off for purchases over 10,000 yuan during the Chinese New Year!

Jiang Qi:?

Do you have any misunderstanding about the word super?

Jiang Qi: If I don’t have money, I won’t buy it.

Card Game Studio-Customer Service Xiaoka: Dear, considering that today is the 30th of the New Year, Xiaoka can recommend a New Year's special book for you!

Jiang Qi: No money.

Card Game Studio-Customer Service Xiaoka: Dear, considering that today is the New Year’s Eve, Xiaoka can also recommend low-priced books without discounts for you!

Jiang Qi: No money.

Card Game Studio - Customer Service Xiaoka: Dear, considering that this year is the New Year’s Eve and you have no money, Xiaoka has specially found a special New Year’s Eve copy of 9999 yuan that is suitable for you!

Just as Jiang Qi was about to reply that he had no money, he was attracted by the number 9999.

In the conscience of heaven and earth, ever since he opened a store to make money, the hateful script mall has never pushed him such low-priced scripts.

Jiang Qi originally didn't plan to buy it. Eighty-nine of the building cards he had drawn out could not be used, and the special card slot was full. Although there is one free character card slot, Jiang Qi is not that interested in drawing character cards considering the special nature of the character cards.

Character cards take too much effort, and Jiang Qihe can't afford to draw another character card with Wang Xinghua's personality.

Although Wang Xinghua is a special card.

Of course, the real reason why Jiang Qi doesn't plan to buy the script is that the current version of the script mall is too expensive.

From the initial price of a few thousand yuan per book to the current price of more than 100,000 yuan per book, the discounted price offered by the game mall to Jiang Qi has actually been rising. Even if Shiguo makes money quickly, a hundred thousand dollars is not a small amount of money. In addition, Jiang Qi doesn't have a strong need to draw cards, so he has never clicked on the script mall since Double Eleven.

But……

The 9999 version is really cheap.

Jiang Qi was moved.

He has no need to draw cards. He does not have the need to draw hundreds of thousands of cards. He can still draw 9999 cards!

Jiang Qi clicked on the script mall.

As soon as I clicked on it, a big pop-up window with a special New Year's Eve book popped up.

It's like spam advertising.

[New Year’s Eve Dinner] Type: Urban, Food, Flirting/Fun (? People)

Price: 9999RMB

There is also a row of large characters on the pop-up window.

This one day only, limited time pop-up!

Jiang Qi decisively placed the order.

9999, missing it is a mistake!

Card Game Studio - Customer Service Card: Dear Jiang Qi player, the exclusive happy book [New Year's Eve Dinner] you purchased has now been shipped. We will deliver it within 24 hours. Please pay attention to sign for it.