Chapter 150 New Year’s Eve Dinner at Grandma’s House!
Chinese New Year is all about eating!
After burning incense on the first day of the new year, the journey of visiting relatives officially began. He had lunch at his third great-grandfather's house. After all, as the oldest person in the Su family, he must start from his house.

Logically speaking, after eating at Third Great Grandfather's house, it would be Su Chen and his family's turn, but since their family had no say in the past, they were arranged to have dinner at Third Great Grandfather's old house on the first night of the new year.

Su Chen's family was naturally scheduled to go to the second day of the Chinese New Year.

As for the second grandfather's family, Su Chen only remembered that when he was a child, he took a boat to Fuzhou to eat New Year's Eve dinner once or twice, but he never went there again after that. Su Chen was not very clear about the reason and never thought about it.

Old Master Su and the three brothers of the Su family drank quite a bit of wine, and it was quite lively in the car on the way home. Especially Su Zhiyun, who was sitting in the passenger seat, kept talking to himself from time to time, saying something about how the eldest brother of the Su family could finally walk with his head held high.

When he was excited, his tears could not stop flowing. At this moment, Su Chen understood that the sadness that his father had accumulated over decades was perfectly released at this moment.

Even the second uncle and the third uncle were no exception. Only the old man was a little calmer. He did not shout and scream like Su Zhiyun and the other two. He leaned calmly against the car window, wiping away tears from time to time.

The house became busy early in the morning on the second day of the Chinese New Year. Even Su Chen was not spared and was pulled out of bed by Chen Shufen herself.

It is said that the battle robe of Bashu men is a red apron. As long as they wear the red apron, women have nothing to do in the kitchen.

In fact, it is not always like this when preparing New Year's Eve dinner. Most of the time, men prepare the side dishes, such as killing chickens and fish, while women are responsible for the delicate work of preparing the eight big bowls.

In their Su family, the one who cooks is basically Su Chen's mother Chen Shufen. There is nothing they can do about it because the men in the Su family are not ambitious and their cooking skills are not as good as Chen Shufen's.

The person who is in charge of the cooking will naturally speak in a much more assertive manner.

Su Chen looked at the large bowl of potatoes in front of him and sighed, then picked up a peeler and started peeling them. As for asking for help, there was no need to even think about it, as Su Yan and Su Qingya beside him were already busy.

This year's New Year's Eve dinner is much more sumptuous than last year's, but it's almost the same as what we had at Third Grandpa's house yesterday, except for one or two more meat dishes.

It's not that he had never thought about getting some seafood or something, but when Su Chen proposed this idea before, it was directly rejected by Grandpa Su.

The reason is very simple. You cannot break the unspoken rules of the New Year's Eve dinner. It is impossible that your family will make the New Year's Eve dinner particularly sumptuous with big fish, shrimps, sea cucumbers, abalone and the like now that you are rich.

What will your relatives who will be invited to the New Year dinner later think of you and ask them to spend more money to buy some good things?

This is just making people hate them for no reason. How could the Su family do such a thing?

Su Chen was busy from six or seven in the morning until after nine o'clock when he finally finished the tasks at hand and he was no longer needed for the rest of the tasks.

Just as I was about to run upstairs to rest, several cars drove into the yard. I saw that the one leading the way was a Mercedes-Benz S300, and I didn't know that the people from the other two rooms had arrived.

"Brother, ever since those relatives found out yesterday that our family has gotten better, their attitudes have changed. In previous years, they would have arrived after eleven o'clock at the latest, not like now!" Su Yan usually looks honest, but his words are quite sour.

Su Chen glared at him and said unhappily, "Just say this at home, don't say it outside. After all, they are the elders in the family. If outsiders hear it, what will they say about our Su family?"

Su Yan shrank his neck when he heard this, nodded and said, "I understand."

As the eldest of the younger generation of the Su family, Su Zhiyun and others were busy in the kitchen, so the issue of reception fell on Su Chen. He asked Su Yan to get him a few packs of Zhonghua cigarettes, rubbed his face, and greeted them with a smile.

Most of them were from the same generation as Su Chen's grandfather, and they all called him by the same name, Second Grandpa, Third Grandpa, Fourth Grandpa, etc. They also gave each of them a cigarette when they called him. They were all so enthusiastic, patting Su Chen on the shoulder and saying, "Xiao Chen, you've made it!"

In response to these words, Su Chen just smiled and did not say anything. He knew that they were all polite remarks and no one knew what he was doing or what his future would be. It was nothing more than seeing his father standing up now.

After asking all the elders to sit down, he took two sets of mahjong and placed them on the table in the yard.

Without Su Chen's invitation, they all found their partners and sat down at the card table.

As for Su Yan and Su Qingya, they naturally helped out and put two plates of melon seeds, peanuts, fruits and the like on each table.

After finishing all these, Su Chen and his two siblings finally had a short rest.

At lunch time, we had to serve various dishes and ask the elders if they wanted more rice. After all that busy work, I had no appetite at all looking at the sumptuous New Year's dinner in front of me.

kitchen!

"Thank you for your hard work today!" Su Zhiyun said with satisfaction, patting Su Chen's arm.

"Not bad!" Su Chen said, trying hard to force a smile.

This was the first time he was so busy during the Chinese New Year. When he was in school, he just played during the Chinese New Year and waited for the New Year dinner at home to be prepared and started eating right away.

After graduation, I stayed in Shanghai for several years without going home. It was rare for me to help my family prepare dinner, and I was exhausted just by helping out, let alone cutting meat or cooking.

But what Su Chen saw on the faces of his parents, second uncle and third uncle was not tiredness, but smiles, which deeply touched Su Chen.

For the older generation, Chinese New Year is about family reunion, and it is a happy thing for the family to sit together and have a meal.

But in the eyes of Su Chen and other young generations, the concept of relatives is gradually fading. Except for these few people in the family, others don’t seem to care much.

As there were many relatives at home, after lunch, I followed the group to the next house. The lineup was still similar to when we burned incense on the first day of the Lunar New Year, including Grandpa Su, the three brothers Su Zhiyun, and the three siblings Su Chen.

As for everyone else, they are resting at home.

After eating it for two or three days in a row, Su Chen felt that he had gained several pounds and even had a small belly.

"Xiao Chen, let's go to your grandma's house today." Just as he was about to leave for his relatives' house for New Year's Eve dinner, he was stopped by Chen Shufen.

"Huh? Going to grandma's house?" Su Chen was stunned for a moment, thinking that it was already the fourth day of the New Year. According to the custom in previous years, his mother Chen Shufen would go back to her parents' home on the second day of the New Year. Now it was the fourth day of the New Year, and if he didn't go back, he was afraid that people around his parents' home would say something sarcastic again.

"Okay, Mom, pack three of the things I bought before, and then we'll have them."

Before Su Chen finished speaking, he saw Chen Shufen coming out of the house carrying large and small bags of things. After taking a closer look, he realized that these were not three portions but four or five portions.

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Su Chen didn't say much. He bought a lot of these things, and except for those left for his grandparents and one gift to his third grandfather, he didn't give any to other relatives.

The reason is the same as when eating New Year’s Eve dinner, you can’t be the first one to stick out.

Of course, Su Chen understood this through his experiences in the past two days.

After putting the things in the trunk, Su Chen was just about to ask his father if he wanted to go when Su Zhiyun, dressed in a suit, walked quickly down from upstairs.

Seeing the shiny leather shoes and the suit without a single wrinkle, Su Chen looked at Su Zhiyun with some surprise.

"Dad, why are you dressed so flashy today?"

"Bang!" Su Chen was hit on the back of his head.

"What are you talking about? We're going to your mother's house today to show our support. Can you not dress more formally?" He turned to look at Chen Shufen tenderly and asked, "Are you right, wife?"

"Yeah!" Chen Shufen nodded shyly.

Su Chen, who saw all this, shuddered and complained silently in his heart: "You are already an old couple, and you are still playing the plot of love between you and me."

He nodded, opened the door of the white G-Class and got in.

Chen Shufen's parents' home and Su Chen's home are separated by the Yangtze River, but if you want to get there, you have to take a long detour and cross the river bridge at the edge of Fuzhou City.

The original straight-line distance was less than five kilometers, but it ended up being nearly forty kilometers.

The village where Su Chen's grandmother lives is more densely populated. Although it is also next to the road, there are houses in front, behind, left and right.

As soon as the white G-Class entered the village, it attracted a lot of onlookers, which was unavoidable.

Most of the villages in the southwest are very poor. Not to mention a Mercedes-Benz G-Class, even a B-Class sedan worth tens of thousands of yuan will be the focus of everyone's attention when it returns to the village.

"Whose rich relative is this? He's driving a Mercedes-Benz G-Class, which must be worth at least one or two million!" Any young person with a little knowledge could recognize him at a glance.

"One or two million, my goodness, such a rich relative has appeared in our poor place? He must have just passed by!"

"It's hard to say. Look, the G-Class has slowed down."

Many people stood in front of their courtyards and looked around, until they saw the white G-Class driving into Chen Changjie's house, they all exclaimed. "Why did it drive to Changjie's house? Could it be that the fourth daughter of the Chen family is back?"

"It's very possible. I heard that Chang Jie opened a hot pot restaurant in town and learned it from his brother-in-law. I heard that the business is booming every day!"

"It seems that Chang Jie's brother-in-law's hot pot restaurant is doing something wrong, otherwise I can't afford this luxury car worth one or two million. Oh, if I were a relative of Chang Jie's family, I could at least have some soup."

As soon as these words were spoken, many people sighed in their eyes, but those who were related to Chen Changjie's family felt something in their hearts and walked slowly towards their homes, all thinking about finding a reason to visit Chen Changjie's home.

As soon as the car stopped, Chen Changjie, who heard the noise, walked out quickly. Seeing Chen Shufen fiddling with something in the trunk, a look of excitement instantly appeared on his face.

Last year, with the help of Chen Shufen, I opened a hot pot restaurant in the town. Business was not very good at the beginning, with only three or four tables a day, most of which were residents from the surrounding area.

This situation lasted for less than a week before a drastic change occurred.

The town was not very big to begin with, and people who had eaten the hotpot told their friends about it, and word of mouth spread quickly. After that, the restaurant was packed almost every day, and sometimes it would be open until eleven or twelve at night.

In a small town at this time, it was a miracle.

In just the two months before the New Year, excluding the investment Chen Shufen gave him, he earned nearly $100,000. You should know that he couldn't save that much even after working for a year.

As the hot pot restaurant became popular, Chen Changjie simply called his son Chen Rui and his wife back to help. Chen Rui was reluctant at first, but he came back after Chen Changjie's repeated requests.

When he came back and saw that the hot pot restaurant was booming, he went back to the city that day, quit his job, and went straight back to the village with his wife and children.

After all, it's better to keep the money within the family, so every penny saved counts.

"Second brother!" Chen Shufen came over from behind the car carrying a few gift boxes.

Hearing the cry, Chen Changjie came to his senses and shouted into the house, "Mom, Fourth Sister is back!"

Looking at the several exquisite gift boxes in Chen Shufen's hands, Chen Changjie said with a somewhat complaining tone: "Little sister, you are here anyway, why do you bring gifts? This is just a slap in my face!"

Chen Shufen has made great contributions to the great changes in our family now. How could I dare to accept any gift from her?

Chen Shufen raised her eyebrows when she heard this and said unhappily, "This is for mom, not yours!"

After saying this, Su Zhiyun and Su Chen who were following behind him burst out laughing.

Chen Changjie didn't feel embarrassed at all when he heard this. He took the item and took a look at it.
It would have been fine if I hadn't looked at it, but as soon as I saw the packaging, my hands began to tremble.

If it were in the past, he would have treated these things as ordinary gifts, but now that he has run a hot pot restaurant, he has also made a point to learn some knowledge about the ingredients.

At first glance, you can tell that the dried seafood in his hands are all top-notch, worth at least tens of thousands. Looking at the saffron and cordyceps, they are definitely not simple either.

This gift is worth at least one hundred thousand, and it feels a little hot when he holds it in his hand.

"Little sister, this is too expensive!" Chen Changjie said with a wry smile.

"It doesn't matter how expensive or not, just accept it with confidence!" As he said this, he walked towards the house, just in time he saw a figure walking out with a hunched back.

"Mom, why did you come out? Sit down quickly!" Chen Shufen quickly helped the old woman to the recliner.

Su Zhiwen and Su Chen, who were following behind, also came in and greeted, "Happy New Year, Mom (Grandma)!"

"Happy New Year, Happy New Year! Come here, my dear grandson, grandma will give you a red envelope!" As she said this, she took out a red envelope as big as her palm from her pocket. The red envelope was bulging and looked like it had a lot of money.

Su Chen originally wanted to refuse, but when he saw his grandmother's expectant eyes, he didn't say the words of refusal.

"Thank you, grandma!" Su Chen bent down and took the red envelope.

The smile on grandma's face grew even wider.

At this time, Chen Rui also walked out from the kitchen at the back. When he saw Su Chen and others, he was stunned for a moment. After he came to his senses, he hurriedly greeted Chen Shufen and Su Zhiyun.

"Second brother, your body is getting better and better!" Su Chen looked at Chen Rui who was wearing only a single piece of clothing, smiled and patted his waist, feeling all the muscles.

"Alas, there's nothing I can do. This is all acquired through practice during this period of time!" Chen Rui also looked melancholy.

Knowing that the hotpot restaurant at home was doing good business, I brought my wife and children back home, but I had no idea that the hard times were just beginning.

Every morning he has to go to the slaughterhouse in the city to buy the freshest ingredients, and then he has to prepare them all. Since he is the only young man in the family, he has to do many things by himself.

In just two months, I have lost almost 20 kilograms. I used to be a little chubby but now I have become a handsome guy. It can be said that I am in pain and happiness at the same time.

"Huh? Second brother, eldest brother and third brother didn't come back this year?" Only then did Chen Shufen realize that she had not seen the eldest and third brothers of the Chen family.

"No, I called them before the New Year and told them that there were a lot of things to do at the factory during the New Year, so I didn't come back."

Although Chen Changjie did not explain it clearly, everyone present knew what was going on. He simply did not make any money this year and was embarrassed to come back.

Su Chen has a deep understanding of this.

Everyone tacitly skipped this topic, chatted for a few words and then went about their own business.

My mother started chatting with my grandmother, while Su Zhiyun went out for a walk with two packs of Zhonghua cigarettes. As for why he went out for a walk, it was simply to show off his strength as a son-in-law to the people around him.

Originally, Su Zhiyun wanted to take Su Chen out with him, but Su Chen refused without even thinking about it. He decided not to disturb his father's highlight moment.

I moved a lounge chair into the yard and leisurely enjoyed the feeling of the breeze on my face.

"Uncle!" Just as he was about to close his eyes and rest, a childish voice sounded in Su Chen's ears.

"Hmm?" Su Chen opened his eyes and looked sideways.
A chubby little girl was leaning on a recliner, staring at him blankly, her two big black eyes revealing an innocent look.

Su Chen knew that this was his second brother's child, but what he didn't expect was that his second brother, who didn't look that good, could give birth to such a lovely daughter.

The chubby little face already shows that she will be a big beauty in the future!

He picked up the little guy, put him on his lap and asked, "Little guy, what's your name?"

"Mom and Dad both call me Xiaoyaoyao," the little baby said seriously.

"Xiaoyaoyao is so good!"

The little guy is so cute, with big eyes, double eyelids, long eyelashes, and beautiful facial features. He is simply everyone's dream baby!

Su Chen was reluctant to let go of the girl in his arms and teased her from time to time. Her little pouting lips when she was angry melted Su Chen's heart.

The two of them played for a while, and then a clear voice rang out, "Xiao Yaoyao, get off your uncle quickly, look, your dirty feet have made your uncle's clothes dirty!"

When Su Chen looked back, he saw his second sister-in-law coming out of the house. She was wearing an apron and apparently was cooking in the kitchen.

"It's okay, sister-in-law!" Su Chen waved his hand calmly.

"Uncle, you will protect me, right!" Xiao Yaoyao said softly.

Su Chen looked at Xiao Yaoyao's expectant eyes and nodded heavily.
After getting Su Chen's assurance, he felt like he had found a backer. He pushed his nose upwards with his right index finger and made a pig face at his second sister-in-law.

That cute look made Su Chen laugh.

But the second sister-in-law standing by was so angry that she wanted to pick up Xiao Yaoyao and teach her a lesson.

Seeing that her mother was helpless, Xiao Yaoyao was so happy that her facial expressions changed one after another.

But what she didn't know was that there is an idiom called "to settle accounts after the autumn"!
(End of this chapter)