Chapter 304

We had a nice lunch together, with birthday cake as an afternoon dessert.

At the point of nap time, Cheng Li’s body was uncontrollably sleepy, rubbing his sleepy eyes and yawning.

Cheng Ming, who was ready to take his leave, asked, “Xiao Yi, will your parents come home at night?”

“I don’t think any of them are coming back, waiting until early New Year’s Eve to rush back home, sitting in the car all day, and then getting stuck in traffic several times, and not being able to catch the New Year’s Eve dinner hot.”

Every year end, the work in the government will spring up a lot, all kinds of big and small things are not to be neglected, Uncle Tang also want to avoid the gift-giving people, simply stay in the government compound until late at night before going home.

“Your mom wasn’t available to come home for your birthday either?”

“She’s busier than my dad, busy consoling employees who can’t make it home for New Year’s, and she gets to go back a day early every year just because of my mom.”

“What kind of business is that? It doesn’t even let people go home for New Year’s.”

“The National Network.”

“Hiss, SOE, that’s fine then, we’ll just have dinner with you before we leave. There’s a lot of food left over from lunch anyway, just heat it up and stir-fry a few more dishes.”

Although Cheng Ming had guessed that Chen Ziyi’s mother’s company was most likely a state-owned enterprise.

But also failed to guess is the state network, Chen Ziyi’s grandmother’s family is also afraid of the state network in the top, and her future, it is estimated that she is also going to go in to take over the team.

“Keep playing the game then, I’m going to win you a round today.”

Cheng Li had already fallen asleep on Cheng Ming’s lap and muted the TV so as not to wake her up.

Jing Jing and Xu Juan sat on Cheng Ming’s left and right sides respectively, hugging their pillows.

With Chen Ziyi helping Cheng Ming choose people, with so many roles, there’s always something Cheng Ming isn’t good at and something she’s good at.

The idea was good, but Chen Ziyi was bloodied by Cheng Ming for four or five games before she succeeded in a silk-blooded counterattack when Cheng Ming’s movements were stuck.

“Winning!”

Chen Ziyi waved her fist and glanced at Cheng Ming.

Lin Jingyi, who wasn’t a big fan of fighting games, leaned on Cheng Ming’s shoulder, a little weary from boredom, holding Cheng Li in her hands so that she wouldn’t roll onto the floor, and Xu Juan held Cheng Ming’s arm.

It turns out that they won because they got in Cheng Ming’s way.

Although Chen Ziyi won the game, it feels like everything else is lost ah.

“No more games, I feel like I’m isolated, let’s watch a movie.”

Chen Ziyi plugged the video cable of the game console into the vcd and started to play Titanic, Jing Jing was instantly energized, instead Cheng Ming was sleepy.

“Xiao Ming, if you’re sleepy, carry Xiao Li to the guest room and go to bed, we want to turn on the sound and watch TV.” Chen Ziyi said as she waved her hand in disgust.

As soon as Cheng Ming’s body moved, Cheng Li was woken up and muttered in a daze, “Um, brother?”

“I’m here, let’s go back to bed.”

“Uh-huh.” Cheng Li responded softly.

Although they had known the ending of the movie for a long time, Chen Ziyi and Lin Jingyi, as emotional girls, were still touched by the performance and rendering of the movie, and wiped their tears and washed their noses with tissue paper, their eyes slightly red and swollen.

Xu Juan, who was also quite touched, wiped the corners of her eyes, thinking that she had cried, but she hadn’t.

“I’ll go see if they’re awake.” Lin Jingyi said.

It turned out that once I went, I didn’t come back.

“They’re not going to do that in my bed, are they? How am I going to explain it to mom and dad if it leaves a smell.”

Cheng Ming hugged Cheng Li, Jing Jing hugged Cheng Ming from behind, the small single bed was crowded with three people.

Chen Ziyi pouted in dissatisfaction and directly pressed her body up, her chest facing Cheng Ming’s face.

Xu Juan sat directly on Cheng Ming’s legs.

Cheng Ming, who was forcibly awakened, shouted, “What are you doing? It’s going to weigh me to death.”

After dinner, Xu Juan and Jing Jing went to wash the dishes, Cheng Ming, the tallest, took off the ribbons and small light bulbs, and Chen ZiYi and Cheng Li cleaned up the colorful crumbs on the floor.

Before leaving, Chen Ziyi called out to Cheng Ming, “Xiao Ming, wait and take the game console back.”

“I was waiting for you to say this.” Cheng Ming smiled and took the game console.

“You just know I can’t put a game console at home before you gave me this, right? Otherwise, how can you afford to send me such an expensive thing, usually I don’t dare to play it, otherwise my mom will definitely smash it directly when she sees it.”

“Why can’t you give up, even more expensive gifts can’t compare to you ah, this game console will be put in my house first, you have time to come to my house to play.”

“Hmph, wash my neck and wait at home, after the New Year, I’ll come and take the dog’s head on your collar.” Chen Zi Yi crossed his hand knife and wiped his neck and said.

“Just wash your neck?”

“Wash my ass, too, and my mouth.”

Chen Ziyi stood on her tiptoes and bit Cheng Ming’s lower lip, If I don’t give you a color, you really don’t know whose home this is.

The shadows of the two men on the wall clung together under the light.

Only being that the people outside the courtyard could only see the two figures stacked on top of each other.

“Brother, hurry up, it’s getting dark.” Cheng Li, who was waiting impatiently in the car, urged.

Lin Jingyi asked suspiciously, “Xiao Ming, why are you standing still?”

“Nothing, it’s just that my legs are a bit numb from standing.” Cheng Ming turned back and laughed dryly.

Chen Ziyi, who had done something bad, covered her mouth and snickered, waving her hand to say goodbye to Cheng Ming and the others.

New Year’s Eve is the day of ancestral worship, but neither Dad nor Aunt Lian could make it back home to the north on this day.

But Dad went to the ancestral shrine in Mingxi Village every year to honor his ancestors.

It was both to burn a little incense for the family of a comrade in arms, and to give offerings to the elders of his own family in the meantime.

In Dad’s words, “I hope your grandfather’s nose is good enough to smell that there’s food here.”

Cheng Ming was usually uninterested in activities like ancestor worship.

But Ren was in Mingxi Village, so naturally he had to go over there with his dad.

There are three major surnames and three ancestral shrines in Mingxi Village, of which the Zhao family’s ancestral shrine is also the oldest and most dilapidated, and most of the people don’t mix very well.

This year, the person in charge of rituals and genealogy readings also approached Zhao Lei and Zhao Si’s grandfather, thinking that next year, everyone would donate some money to repair the ancestral shrine and fix the leaky roof.

There are restrictions on setting off fireworks in the city, only on specified holidays and locations.

But here in Mingxi Village there are not so many rules.

Some ancestral shrines finish reading their genealogies first, and then they begin to set off firecrackers and burn paper money, with black smoky smoke drifting in the sky and confetti with sparks fluttering in the wind.

Dad was playing chess at the village headman’s house while waiting for the genealogy to be read over at the ancestral shrine.

Cheng Ming then hugged Xiao Ren and roasted the fire in the kitchen, and when the firecrackers sounded, Cheng Ming plugged her ears.

“Brother Cheng Ming, I ……”

Xiao Ren seemed to want to say something, but it was drowned out by the sound of the firecrackers in front of his house and passed, Zhao Lei this guy really can’t read the timing ah.

In addition to the ancestral shrine, a table is set up at home.

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing, Happy New Year.”

“It’s still a few hours before New Year’s, it’s too early to say Happy New Year.”

“It would be nice to have New Year’s Eve dinner together.”

“There will be opportunities later.”