"Zhusheng and senior sister will come to our place to play. Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?"

After hanging up the phone, Ying Chanxi puffed her lips and got a little angry.

"I thought I'd mention it to you again when I'm in the third grade of junior high school." Li Luo scratched his head and said with a sarcastic smile, "Yan Zhusheng stayed with Aunt Yuan during the New Year. After Aunt Yuan celebrated the New Year, she immediately went back to the house again.

She has to go to work and is bored at home alone."

"Senior sister has never seen Chinese New Year in the countryside and wanted to experience this atmosphere, so she came with Zhu Sheng."

"I thought it would be more lively if there were more people, so I agreed."

Li Luo talked so much that Ying Chanxi didn't even notice that Li Luo changed the subject, and subconsciously started thinking about other things: "Then where will they live here?"

"I still have an empty room on the third floor of my house," Li Luo said.

The small villas here are all four-story, but the fourth floor is usually converted into rental housing, specifically to provide low-cost rental housing for migrant workers to work in nearby factories.

Some families even rent out the third floor, leaving only a living room on the second floor, while the elderly in the family live on the first floor.

For example, the fourth floor of Grandpa Li Luo's house is rented out. Although the tenants are not here during the Chinese New Year, it is impossible to use it for others to stay at.

"Then you only have one room here," Ying Chanxi said.

"Then there is my uncle's house, there are a lot of empty rooms."

"It's better to live with me." Ying Chanxi thought about it and said, "But there is only one empty room on the third floor of our house."

"Isn't this just right? They both share a room."

It's just right... Ying Chanxi muttered in his heart, and then he had to say: "Then Zhusheng will live with me in my house, and let senior sister live with you."

Zhu Sheng and Li Luo go for morning runs every day. As for the senior sister... they have lived together in Bihailanting for so long, and Ying Chanxi thinks that she still knows her very well.

"It doesn't matter, it's up to you."

The New Year's Eve dinner started at eight o'clock in the evening and lasted until after nine o'clock, when Li Luo stopped using his chopsticks.

At this time, Lin Xiuhong took Li Luo with a wine glass and went to the second grandfather and third grandfather's house opposite to toast and wish them a good year.

The three families visited each other to drink. The men soon gathered together to brag and talk nonsense. From time to time they burst into laughter, and then they started to persuade each other to drink with blushing faces.

Li Luo thought they were too noisy, so he simply called Ying Chanxi and the others to come out, brought a lot of fireworks he bought before the Chinese New Year to the yard, took out his lighter and started setting off the fireworks.

"Keep the big one for the New Year," Li Luo said, "The other little ones can start playing first."

Chen Yongqi was not interested in setting off firecrackers and sneaked home to play games.

Chen Lu took Chen Sijia, who had just returned from his grandfather's house, to play with the fairy stick, holding the shining fairy stick in his hand and writing in the air.

Instead of playing with the fairy wand, Ying Chanxi went home, took down the Polaroid that Li Luo gave her, and engraved each photo on it.

It wasn't until after ten o'clock in the evening that the wine party upstairs ended.

When Li Luo and the others went upstairs, the living room was already in a mess, with wine bottles and garbage everywhere on the floor.

Lin Xiuhong and the others have already started a new round of playing mahjong.

Li Luo and the others were tired from playing with fireworks, so they sat around the coffee table and continued playing cards.

"Where is the Qiqi man?" Li Xuexian's eyes were sharp and he suddenly realized that his son was missing.

Li Luo coughed twice: "I'm probably going on a date."

"What's the date?" Li Xuexian said angrily, "I just went home to play games."

I went to play games, but I also went on a date. After all, Li Luo knew in his previous life that Chen Yongqi's favorite thing to play was all kinds of gal games.

There's nothing wrong with dating in a game.

There is nothing the family can do against him.

"By the way, brother, do you have any connections to know the landlord of the shop over there on West Street?"

In the living room, people were playing mahjong and playing poker. Li Guohong still remembered what Li Luo had mentioned to him, so he started asking Li Guoru about it.

"Why are you asking about this?" Li Guoru asked strangely, "The shop on West Street... do you still want to buy it?"

"Ahem." Li Guohong leaned next to Li Guoru and whispered, "That's right, I do have this idea."

"Didn't you just buy it..." Li Guoru was halfway through saying this when he suddenly realized something, then he took back his words and thought about it, "Well... I don't know West Street myself.

It belongs to the landlord, but I can introduce you to a friend."

"How do you say it?" Li Guohong raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect it to be really interesting.

Although Li Guoru has not been in business for many years, he did have a lot of acquaintances from his travels in the past.

After knowing Li Guohong's needs, Li Guoru thought for a while and said: "I know a few friends who are intermediaries. They probably have a lot of information in their hands. I will invite you to sit down and have a chat."

"That's a good relationship." Li Guohong agreed quickly.

"But..." Li Guoru leaned into his younger brother's ear and asked softly, "I know that your Li Luo made a lot of money last month, but did you start planning to buy a new house so early? Isn't it too urgent?

?”

Li Guohong was stunned. He didn't expect that Li Guoru already knew about Li Luo's royalties: "I'm not that anxious. I just want to wait and see in advance. I may not buy it in the end."

"I understand." Li Guoru nodded, "Then let me keep an eye on it for you and take you to meet with some agents. Don't be fooled. These people are very talkative."

After finalizing this matter, Li Guohong had finally settled the matter in his mind.

If Li Luo's royalties can really be maintained at 370,000 in the next few months, Li Guohong will definitely be willing to try to buy another storefront house before the subway line in Yinjiang District has been officially determined.

In this way, even if he and Lin Xiuhong no longer run a breakfast restaurant, they can still earn a good and stable income by collecting rent every month from the breakfast restaurant and the two storefronts at the subway entrance.

When the subway station is completed in the future, the rents of the shops on West Street may also increase. By then, they will not be able to earn less than the two of them who got up early and worked late at night.

Li Luo didn't know at this moment that his father was still worrying about the store and house during the Chinese New Year.

At this moment, he has become one with the children and enjoys the children's fun very much.

In his impression, only when he was a child could Chinese New Year be so happy.

When we grow up, the relatives of the older generation die one after another, and our parents gradually grow old. The younger generation all starts their own families, and it is difficult to get together during the Chinese New Year.

The Chinese New Year at that time really had no New Year flavor at all.

New Year's Eve and Spring Festival are more like a long holiday than a festival with profound meaning.

And when they grow up, unlike Li Guohong and Ying Zhicheng, they all grew up in the same village when they were young.

Therefore, after becoming an adult, the relationship between Li Luo and his brothers and sisters actually gradually weakened as the older generation left.

Only now, when the family tradition has not completely died out and the urban atomized family has not yet been fully formed, can Li Luo take advantage of his youth to experience the strong flavor of the New Year again.

From then on, there was a scene like this where more than a dozen people would get together to have New Year's Eve dinner every year, but it happened only a few times.

When I was a child, I thought that this kind of New Year’s Eve dinner would continue forever and would happen again every year.

But now Li Luo knows very well that the wheel of history is rolling forward, and no one can stop the torrent of the times.

As a result, he cherished the present more and more.

"It's almost New Year's Eve." Ying Chanxi glanced at the time, it was already 11:57 pm, "There are only three minutes left."

"Let's go downstairs and set off the fireworks." Li Luo glanced at the watch given to him by Ying Chanxi, then immediately stood up and asked them to follow him.

Ying Chanxi followed Li Luo, jumped down the steps and came to the yard with an expectant look on his face.

There were already people who couldn't hold themselves back and had already set off fireworks more than half an hour ago.

The bang bang bang kept ringing in the night sky.

The night in Lijiacun is illuminated like day.

Ying Chanxi stood next to Li Luo, looking up at the fireworks in the sky, feeling excited.

She looked at the time displayed in her hand, while Li Luo had already squatted next to a box of fireworks, waiting for her instructions.

As Ying Chanxi's "three, two, one" countdown sounded, Li Luo lit the fuse with a lighter, and then immediately ran back to Chanxi's side.

Fireworks that go off elsewhere have a completely different impact on the eardrums than those that go off just a few meters away from you.

It had been a long time since Ying Chanxi had seen fireworks at such a close distance. When the first fireworks went off with a loud "Bang!", she immediately let out a "yeah" and her whole body was shaken.

When the first bouquet of fireworks soared into the sky and bloomed brilliantly, the second bouquet also "bang" into the sky, frightening Ying Chanxi's heart.

"Idiot, cover your ears." Li Luo stood behind Ying Chanxi and stretched out his hands to cover her ears.

Ying Chanxi felt the furry touch on his ears, turned his head and looked around, and found that Li Luo had put on gloves at some point.

And...the styles seem to be the ones I gave him as a gift.

"What are you looking at? Watching the fireworks." Li Luo leaned into her ear and said.

"I'm watching." Ying Chanxi responded, then turned around, blushing and actively covering Li Luo's ears.

The two people just stupidly covered each other's ears, then turned their heads to look at the fireworks that continued to bloom in the night sky.

"Happy New Year!"

"Well, Happy New Year."

"Jiajia." On the steps leading to the small balcony on the second floor, Chen Lu sat there, holding his chin and looking at the two younger brothers and sisters in the yard, "Tell me, when can we have their wedding wine?"
To be continued...