Chapter 148: New Year’s Eve, set off fireworks!
After the Little New Year, time passed quickly and in the blink of an eye it was New Year’s Eve.

Su Chen has been very busy during this period. He is either busy cleaning the house or preparing various things for the New Year.

In the past, it was the parents who worried about these things, but now it is Su Chen's turn to prepare them and he realizes how complicated it is.

It's not that it's very tiring or I have to move anything big, but it's all kinds of small things that can take half a day to do.

I'm so busy that I don't have much time to rest.

"Mom, have you brought all the ingredients for tonight back to our hometown?" Su Chen asked Chen Shufen who was packing up to go back to her hometown.

"I'm not sure either. Your uncle is in charge of this!" Chen Shufen checked the time. It was already 11 o'clock in the morning. "It should have been sent back. Ask in the family group before you leave."

Speaking of family groups, Su Chen didn't know which "smart guy" came up with the group name. He really didn't know how the name "Loving Family" was unified across the country.

"By the way, give your dad a call and ask him where he is!"

As the New Year is approaching, the business of Shufen Hotpot Restaurant in the main urban area is so good that it was originally planning to close for the holiday in the past two days, but old customers repeatedly asked it to extend the business hours, preferably even throughout the New Year.

In the end, Su Zhiyun sent out several notices and successfully closed the store for the holiday after operating last night.

Su Chen was just about to make a phone call when he heard a "dong dong" notification in the loving family group that there was a message. He clicked on it and saw that it was his father Su Zhiyun asking whether his second and third uncles had returned home.

After flipping through the information, Su Chen looked up and said, "Mom and Dad got off the highway directly from our hometown and asked us when we would leave. My second uncle and third uncle also left!"

The second and third sons of the Su family also made a lot of money thanks to the popularity of the hot pot restaurant. In addition to buying a house, each of them also bought a car, but they were all cars of transportation worth tens of thousands of yuan.

"coming!"

Chen Shufen came out of the storage room carrying several bags of things. Su Chen saw that most of them were New Year's goods he bought, so he hurried forward to take the things.

"Why are you carrying so much? Aren't there some prepared in the car to take back for grandpa and grandma?"

Chen Shufen curled her lips when she heard this and said, "It's for your Third Master. Remember to bring it over when you burn incense on New Year's Day!"

"Third Master?" Su Chen was also stunned for a moment, and a relatively distant memory emerged in his mind.

The Third Master was not very old, about the same age as Grandpa Su Chen, only around seventy years old.

Their Su family was also a big family in the past. In Su Chen's great grandfather's generation, there were three brothers, and Su Chen's lineage was the eldest in the family.
No one knows what happened at that time. My great grandfather and the second grandfather both separated and became independent, and only the third grandfather's family inherited the few family properties.

Later, with the successive deaths of my great-grandfather and my second-grandfather, and the fact that my second-grandfather's family moved to Fuzhou City, we had little contact except during festivals or when something big happened in someone's family.

Su Chen's lineage and the Third Master's lineage all live in the same town and have close contacts, but it's just comparison.

When Su Chen was a child, he asked about these things, and the answer he got was always his grandfather shaking his head and sighing.

Every Chinese New Year, the Su family would get together to burn incense for their ancestors.

After burning incense, they would have dinner at the third grandfather's house. The old Su family would get together temporarily, and after dinner, they would go their separate ways.

What’s interesting is that after the family split up, the second grandfather’s line was the most promising. In just ten years, they built a fleet from scratch, specializing in freight business along the Yangtze River.

The third grandfather's lineage, which inherited the family business, was a bit embarrassed and lost all the family property. But even so, it was much better off than Su Chen and his lineage. At least there was a contractor in the family who led that lineage to make a lot of money.

But compared with the second master's lineage, it is far inferior.

As for Su Chen's lineage, there is no need to say more. If Su Chen had not obtained the system, his father and two uncles would probably still be working to earn money to support their family.

"Let's go, why are you still standing there?"

Chen Shufen's words brought Su Chen back to his senses immediately. Seeing his mother had already walked to the door, he hurriedly picked up his things and followed her.

"You're right, this Mercedes is much more comfortable to sit in than dad's crappy Volkswagen!" Chen Shufen said with satisfaction while sitting in the back seat.

Su Chen smiled helplessly when he heard that. His G-Class could buy ten of his father's Volkswagens. If it's not comfortable to sit in, he might as well not buy the car.

On the way back, I unexpectedly caught up with my second uncle and third uncle on the way back. The three cars in the group drove straight towards my hometown.

He attracted a lot of people's attention along the way, especially when he entered the village, there were more acquaintances. Chen Shufen even lowered the window specially, and when she saw acquaintances, she asked Su Chen to slow down and deliberately chatted with them.

The most common thing Su Chen heard along the way was, "Did your son buy this car?"

"Oh, Shufen, your son is really promising!"

"You can enjoy yourself from now on!"

Su Chen was quite resistant to such behavior at first, but gradually he succumbed to the numerous compliments. Later, he consciously slowed down the car without Chen Shufen telling him to do so.

It was not until they were about to reach the yard of their old home that Chen Shufen reluctantly rolled up the window.

"It's so comfortable!" Chen Shufen said proudly.

"Mom~ Will those people you chatted up before scold you behind your back?" Su Chen said with a strange look on his face. If it were him, he would definitely scold them.

"Of course. Someone in the production team had a child who was admitted to a key university. His mother would walk with her head held high. When she met people, she would ask them, 'How did you know my son was admitted to a key university?' I don't know how many people smiled in front of her but laughed behind her back."

Hearing these fierce words, Su Chen closed his mouth decisively, not knowing what his mother would say if he continued.

When the three cars drove into the yard, they saw a group of people standing together smoking and chatting.

Su Chen saw Su Zhiyun in the crowd at a glance, and the smile on his face was as bright as it could be.

"Hey, Mercedes-Benz G, whose car is this?"

"Is there anyone as promising as this in our hospital?"

"Aren't those the second and third sons of the Su family?"

Everyone who was chatting focused their attention on Su Zhiyun.

Su Zhiyun took a slow puff and exhaled white smoke before saying, "That was the car Su Chen was driving."

"Su Chen? Boss Su, you are really willing to buy such an expensive car for your son. It seems that your hot pot restaurant business is very good!"

They spoke unintentionally but listened intentionally. There was a strange light flashing in the eyes of the people next to them, but it soon disappeared without a trace.

Upon hearing this, Su Zhiyun did not defend himself by saying that this was bought by Su Chen himself and that he was richer than himself.

In the countryside, people are not afraid of being poor, but they are afraid that their neighbors will suddenly become rich. That kind of psychological gap cannot be accepted in a short period of time.

Fortunately, all the neighbors know that the Su family has opened a hot pot restaurant, and the business is booming. Although they are jealous, they can still accept it. After all, this is something that the other person has worked hard for.

"You guys take your time chatting, I'll go get busy first!" Su Zhiyun saw Su Chen and the others carrying bags, so he quickly threw the cigarette in his hand on the ground and walked over quickly.

After Su Zhiyun walked away, several people began to discuss in a low voice.

"What do you think if we all ask together to let Su Zhiyun take us to open a hot pot restaurant?"

After he said this, the others looked at him strangely.

"How is that possible? Why would they take you with them? Based on your status as a neighbor?"

"Don't you forget that a few years ago, you and the Su family had a huge argument over the release of water from the terraced fields, and you almost beat up Old Master Su. Why are you still letting them help you make money now?"

"You may have drunk too much and are not sober yet."

Although everyone lived in the same yard, there had been many conflicts in the past. They were not big, but not small either. At least, they could not make money together as they had imagined.

It's good enough that people don't make things difficult for you, but you are still dreaming about it. How is that possible?

No one was in the mood to chat anymore and they all went home.

"Did you buy this car?" Su Zhiyun asked while touching the body of the G-Class.

"Well, you're not at home, so you might as well buy a car."

Su Zhiyun walked around the car, walked in front of Su Chen and spread out his right hand, "Give me the keys, I'm going to go out for a walk."

Just as Su Chen was about to take the key out of his pocket, a pair of big hands reached out from behind Su Zhiyun and firmly pinched his ears.

"It hurts, it hurts~ Be gentle! Wife, be gentle!"

"Be gentle? You've been back for so long and you don't help mom and the others with cooking. You just know how to play!" As he said that, he pulled Su Zhiyun into the house.

Su Chen also saw from the corner of his eye that the necks of his second and third uncles shrank. Sure enough, the legendary "Tyrannosaurus" lived up to its reputation. After a simple lunch at noon, everyone started to get busy.

This year's New Year's Eve dinner is very different from previous years and is much richer.

In addition to the standard chicken, duck, fish, beef, mutton and the like, there are also a lot of seafood, such as lobster, king crab and the like. Even the dried abalone that Su Chen had bought before had been dried two days in advance.

The kitchen was occupied by Chen Shufen and her uncles and aunts, so Su Chen could only take Su Yan and Su Qingya to put up Spring Festival couplets and prepare paper money to be burned in the evening.

Just after putting up the Spring Festival couplets, Su Zhiyun came out of the house and asked, "Xiaochen, are you going to set off fireworks tonight?"

"Fireworks?" This is a word that is both familiar and unfamiliar.

In the past, the Su family was very poor and basically would not buy any fireworks for the New Year. In their parents' words, it was just wasting money.

As far as Su Chen could remember, he had only bought a pack of six sky rockets when he was a child, the kind that fired one every two or three seconds. The most important thing was that these six sky rockets were shared by the three siblings.

Each person had two fireworks, and after they were set off, they could only watch the neighbors in the yard set off fireworks. Su Chen once fantasized about buying a lot of fireworks to set off when he made money, but unfortunately this idea was forgotten in his mind after Su Chen entered society.

Su Yan and Su Qingya both looked at him expectantly.

Su Chen smiled and rubbed Su Qingya's little head and said, "Buy, sell in bulk, and let's set off fireworks for a few hours at night!"

"Zundu fake du~"

What's the point of calling a boss? Su Chen called Su Yan and the other two and drove the G-Class straight to the town.

Their village was just on the edge of the town, only five or six minutes' drive away.

The town is located on the bank of the Yangtze River and is in a long strip. When passing by the junior high school, Su Chen stopped to take a look.

“I didn’t expect my old school to become so good now!”

Looking at the teaching buildings, Su Chen said with some emotion that their classrooms at that time were only slightly better than dilapidated buildings.

Hearing this, Su Qingya on the side thought of something and smiled mischievously, "Hehe~Brother, this school was built after your class graduated. Whether it's the teaching building, dormitory or cafeteria, they were all built after your class graduated!"

Su Chen instantly became unhappy when he heard this. It seemed that it was similar to the situation when he was in high school, except that the school did not build a new teaching building. Instead, after they graduated, it was reorganized into a new school, and all the facilities in the entire school were new.

They should be the last graduating class of that school.

After a brief recollection, Su Chen did not forget the main business.

It was New Year's Eve, and the streets were crowded with people, including quite a few selling fireworks.

After driving around for a while, Su Chen finally found a fireworks store that seemed to sell all kinds of fireworks and firecrackers, and then he stopped the car.

"If you miss this opportunity, you will miss this shop. Just take whatever you like. Let's have fun today!"

As soon as Su Chen finished speaking, he saw two figures jumping out, muttering, "I want to buy big fireworks!"

The entire fireworks stall looked very big, but there weren't actually that many things for sale. Apart from the common small fairy wands, large cold smoke fairy wands and other gadgets, there were only three kinds of fireworks in a box.

The 60-round, 80-round, and 100-round ones are not very expensive. The 100-round ones are only over 200 yuan a box, and the other two types are over 100 yuan each.

Su Chen asked the boss, and found out that the three types of fireworks only had fifty boxes in total.

When Su Chen said he wanted them all, not only the boss but also the others who were picking things looked at him with their mouths wide open.

Faced with such a big customer, the boss was very considerate and arranged for a truck to deliver the goods to the door.

Su Yan and Su Qingya were not idle either. They bought four large bags of small gadgets like fairy wands.

When the bill was settled, it was exactly 150,000 yuan, no more, no less.

Just as he was about to leave, Su Chen thought of the big fireworks that could be shot one time, and turned to ask the boss if he had any.

It was just a casual question. After all, in a small town like theirs, who would be willing to spend thousands to buy a big firework?

Who would have thought that the owner of the fireworks stall actually had some, but they were not the kind that cost several thousand, but more than two thousand. They were called Yongfeng 12 Waterfall Spotted Small Flowers, and he said he was planning to buy some to set off himself.

Su Chen directly paid three thousand and asked the boss to load the dozens of boxes of fireworks into a truck and send them to his home.

Meeting a straightforward customer like Su Chen, how could the boss not agree? He immediately arranged for people to load the goods.

When they returned to the yard, the whole yard was in an uproar. Dozens of boxes of fireworks were placed on the open space. The scene was spectacular.

"You just know how to spend money recklessly!" Chen Shufen walked to Su Chen wearing a waist apron and said, but the smile in the corner of her eyes was not hidden at all.

"It only happens once a year, so we must have fun!" Su Chen shrugged indifferently.

The sky gradually darkened and the sounds of firecrackers and fireworks rang out.

"Su Chen, call Su Yan and Qing Ya to go to the main hall and kowtow!"

"coming!"

Su Chen is not unfamiliar with this at all. It can be said that it is a routine operation before the New Year’s Eve dinner.

A little bit of each dish is served and chopsticks are placed on the table, meaning that the ancestors should eat first. As for kowtowing, it is just to seek psychological comfort.

Su Chen’s previous wish was for his ancestors to bless him with wealth, but maybe his heart was not sincere enough and his wish was only half fulfilled, allowing him to wear the "yellow robe"!
After bowing, the three of them went straight to the kitchen without any delay.

In the countryside, the kitchen and dining area are together. As soon as you enter the kitchen, you can see exquisite delicacies placed on the long table.

After all, it was prepared by chef Chen Shufen herself, and the aroma made everyone, who were already starving, drool.

Seeing that Su Chen and the others had completed the ceremony, Old Man Su waved his hand and said, "Let's eat!"
This year's New Year's Eve dinner was particularly sumptuous, and there was a happier atmosphere on the table than in previous years.

In the past, during the New Year, everyone would just chat for a while, play mahjong after dinner, and watch others set off fireworks. It was not like now when there is non-stop laughter and joy.

After three rounds of wine and five dishes, the meal lasted a full two hours.

"Brother, let's go set off the fireworks!" Su Qingya said excitedly.

Su Chen took a look at the cleaned-up kitchen and called his father, second uncle and third uncle. You know, there were fifty boxes at that time. If he asked these three young men to put them away, it would take who knows how long to finish.

The fireworks were not set off in the yard, but on the road next to the yard, in order to prevent any accidents.

It took ten minutes to put all the boxes in order. Su Yan found a bunch of incense from somewhere, lit it, and gave one to everyone, just to make it easier to light the fireworks.

“Swoosh~swoosh~swoosh~swoosh~”

I lit four boxes at once and saw the fireworks shooting straight up into the sky.

"Bang~bang~bang~bang~"

A series of fireworks rang out, lighting up the surroundings. Su Chen's smile could be seen on his face, which brought a perfect end to his childhood.

It was not until eleven o'clock that the fifty boxes of fireworks and the small gadgets bought by Su Qingya and the others were all used up, and now only the last dahlia was left.

"Brother~ Let's release the last one too!"

Su Chen thought about it and nodded in agreement. He had originally planned to keep it until twelve o'clock, but now everyone looked tired, especially the two aunts and Su Chen's mother Chen Shufen, who had already gone to rest.

Looking at the fireworks that were as big as cakes, Su Chen wanted to light them, but was stopped by Su Zhiyun. In order to be on the safe side, he finally let Su Yan light them because he was strong and could run fast, so he could avoid any accidents in time.

The key point is that this suggestion was made personally by the second uncle, Su Zhiqi, Su Yan’s father.

When Su Yan went to light the fireworks, he looked at his "good father" Su Zhiqi with a resentful look.

"Hiss~" As soon as it was lit, Su Yan jumped to Su Chen's side like a rabbit.

Everyone was stunned by the agile figure.

Before anyone could start joking, they heard a “whoosh!” and large fireworks flew into the sky.

"Oh!"

The fireworks exploded in the air, illuminating the area within a radius of 500 meters, although it was only for a brief moment.

Looking at the fireworks flashing in the sky, everyone looked up to appreciate this fleeting beauty.
You can see a happy smile on every tired face.

(End of this chapter)