Feng Yi had a very satisfying New Year's Eve, which was the most relaxing one for him since he left the Feng family. He also had a happy New Year's Eve dinner.
There are no worries and not too much psychological pressure.
Check out the New Year's Eve updates in chat groups and friend circles, and interact with everyone. In the past few years, I haven't been so leisurely. I was either working or preparing for work.
Two friends from Yongcheng also video chatted with Feng Yi. They had invited Feng Yi to have New Year's Eve dinner together before, but Feng Yi said he had plans. Now they made a video call to see how Feng Yi was doing. Knowing that Feng Yi was doing well, they felt relieved. However, what they envied the most was the temperature in Yangcheng. The highest temperature in Yangcheng during the past two days was over 20 degrees, while people in Yongcheng were wearing down jackets.
Fengyi chats with friends and family, as well as former business partners, but by comparison, there are very few blood relatives. I haven't contacted my parents for several years and they have disappeared from my address book.
Thinking of the rejection attitude of the other party during the most difficult time last year, Feng Yi paused while flipping through the phone book and returned the page.
Take care of yourself.
In the evening, Feng Yi also received a call from Feng Chi.
Feng Chi and his family had their New Year's Eve dinner at the old house this year. Everyone went, including several people from his aunt's family and a few people who were often absent in previous years due to busy work or studies.
It was possible to be absent before, but this year it is of great significance.
The Feng family's fight over the family property was previously only done in secret, but now it is almost out in the open.
"I don't know what the old man is thinking. A few days ago, when he was chatting with someone, he specifically said that he would make a will after the new year. During this period, the tides of change have been very turbulent. There has been a lot of talk at the dinner table. My God, I got indigestion after just one meal." Feng Chi complained.
"Someone mentioned you, but the old man's attitude was very strange. He was obviously angry, but not completely angry. Those people are very smart. Judging from the old man's subtle expression, they probably have some other ideas about you. You have to be vigilant." Feng Chi suggested, "If you want to have a good New Year, don't show up in public."
Feng Yi didn't want to make a public appearance, and he rejected or postponed all the invitations to interview "Brother Snake".
The online discussion about "Snake Brother" and "Python King" quickly cooled down as the Chinese New Year brought more hot topics, but that doesn't mean no one is watching him.
In addition, the Feng family is fighting for the family property, and Feng Yi doesn't want to get himself into trouble.
The venom glands are still strengthening, and the teeth itch from time to time. If you want to travel far, you have to wait until this period is over.
He planned to go out less before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and only visit Uncle Ya on the first day of the lunar month and pay respects to his ancestral home. Xiaofeng Mountain is in the far suburbs, so no one should pay attention to it, and few people went there to pay respects in the past.
I sent my blessings to everyone in the chat group of the Virginia python hunting event. Steve, Director He and others did not return to China for the New Year. Feng Yi was supposed to be with them, but the matter of the fangs and the python changed the plan.
The members of the Python Hunting Activity Team ordered a New Year's Eve dinner together. Feng Yi watched the videos posted in the group and it was quite lively. Many people did not go to the swamp today. Due to the time difference, the New Year's Eve dinner was not synchronized. However, the atmosphere they arranged was quite good, and they even hung red lanterns.
Feng Yi also sent a blessing message to Uncle Ya, asking him how he had the New Year's Eve dinner, and mentioned in passing the visit to the ancestral home on the first day of the new year.
Uncle Ya replied: Don’t get up too early tomorrow! [Video]
Feng Yi clicked on the video.
I don't know where Uncle Mute is, there are a group of people sitting around the mahjong table, there are old men and women talking about something, and the Spring Festival Gala is playing in the background. It's quite lively, but not chaotic.
My uncle is so awesome!
You’re quite good at having fun!
Feng Yi smiled and replied to Uncle Ya, saying that he would go over there at around ten o'clock in the morning and bring the old man some meat dishes prepared by the family chef.
A nursing home near Xiaofengshan.
Uncle Ya quickly replied to Feng Yi and continued to sort the cards. With his hand speed of picking tea leaves, he was the only one among his peers who waited for others. He could also send messages and browse the web while sorting the cards.
An old man asked: "Who are you sending messages to again?"
Uncle Ya quickly edited it on his phone, and then read it out loud: "Junior~ the one who asked me to celebrate the New Year~"
"That's good, it means I'm thinking of you."
"Annoying! So sticky~"
Uncle Ya grinned and played his cards loudly, slapping them on the table.
Sitting next to him was a one-armed old man who helped him announce the cards in a loud voice. The two were old partners.
There are many left-behind elderly people here, and Uncle Ya brought a lot of New Year's goods to celebrate the New Year with them.
Uncle Mute cannot speak, but everyone in the nursing home knows that this mute old man is not to be trifled with.
In the past, someone in the nursing home bullied him because he couldn't speak, and cursed at him in person and then ran away.
He started cursing in the morning, and in the afternoon, Uncle Ya came to the door with a Bluetooth speaker, converted the 2,000-word reply written on his phone into a voice message, and played it on a loop for the entire afternoon. He also hired four young men to guard the speaker to prevent anyone from taking it away or the people in the house from escaping.
If you have money, free time, and are open-minded, you will usually take revenge the next day.
This year, Uncle Ya is staying in a nursing home to celebrate the New Year. He has a room here. He will have a New Year's Eve dinner, play mahjong, and have a good sleep before going back to the mountain tomorrow.
The next day was New Year’s Day.
The north wind is howling in many places and you have to wear down jackets when traveling. The weather in Yangcheng is so good that it makes people jealous.
It was already nine o'clock when Feng Yi woke up. Some people he had seldom contacted before sent him messages last night. It must be said that this man, now that he has become famous, has more "friends".
After waking up, I didn't get up immediately and just stayed in bed.
Feng Yi rubbed his cheeks. The venom glands were still changing, and his cheeks felt a little itchy and uncomfortable.
Feng Yi yawned and thought of something. He didn't bother to rub his face and picked up his phone.
It’s time to give New Year’s red envelopes to employees.
They are still given a day off today, and Feng Yi plans to go to Xiaofengshan alone.
I originally wanted to ask the butler to join us, but the butler refused.
I sent red envelopes to my employees and replied to each New Year greeting message on the chat app one by one.
Feng Yi also sent a New Year's greeting letter to Uncle Ya.
After a while, Uncle Ya came back with a red envelope.
The amount is quite large.
Did you win money playing mahjong
After finishing the online New Year greetings, Feng Yi got up with a tail-swinging move.
When I was talking to Feng Chi yesterday, the guy said that he had never heard anyone mention going to Xiaofengshan to worship their ancestors.
The ancestral home of Xiao Fengshan did not have a strong presence in the Feng family, because the old man did not attach much importance to it. He arranged all the ancestor worship activities and rarely let other people participate, including the Qingming Festival. Gradually, no one cared about it anymore.
They only need to know that there are no ancestors to venerate. They can even interpret an important piece of information when analyzing the old man's psychology: the old man has a grudge against his great-grandfather's generation.
The Feng family now has only one "ancestor", that is, Grandpa Feng. The old man is alive and well, and he doesn't like to hear people always mention the word "sacrifice".
The father and grandchildren of the Feng family only commemorate the old man’s three deceased wives.
There have been rumors in the past that the old man wanted to choose a place to build an ancestral hall, but there has been no substantial progress, and gradually no one mentioned the "ancestral hall" or the like. After all, not every place has an ancestral hall culture, and if there is one, it may not always last.
Times are changing, and etiquette is changing too.
Almost no one of Feng Yi's generation knew that there was an ancestral temple built in their ancestral home in Xiaofengshan.
When Feng Yi was driving to Xiaofeng Mountain, at the foot of the mountain, a black low-key private car slowly drove up from a distance and stopped at a service station at the foot of the mountain.
This service station is not big, and with the development of intelligence, the service station does not need to be staffed all the time.
The car stopped at the designated location and two young men got out.
The younger one is Feng Yi’s fourth uncle’s child, Feng Qian.
The other is Aunt Feng Yi’s eldest son, Luo Kai.
These two do not have the same grandmother as Feng Yi, and they were not very close in the past, but they have been talking about Feng Yi frequently recently. One reason is the popularity Feng Yi has caused on the Internet, and the other is the old man's strange attitude towards Feng Yi.
Feng Qian got out of the car, looked at the sun above his head, frowned, and walked to the shade of the service area.
They both had New Year's Eve dinner at the old house yesterday. They had never paid attention to the ancestral temple before, but Luo Kai found some information. It's not that the old man doesn't care about the ancestral temple, but he has plans to build another one. After discussing it, the two of them decided to go to the ancestral house in Xiaofengshan this morning to see if they can find any useful information.
There is a factory at the foot of Xiaofeng Mountain which has some connection with a company under the eldest uncle of the Feng family. In order to avoid being noticed, they took a detour and arrived here a little later than expected. When they arrived at the foot of the mountain, the sun was already high.
Feng Qian opened the map on his phone, checked the location, pointed to a point on the map, and asked Luo Kai, "Are you sure the old man wants to build the ancestral hall there? It's diagonally opposite to Xiaofeng Mountain, and it's very far away."
Luo Kai was not sure either. "This is what we found out. I guess the old man thinks the feng shui here is bad?"
"Xiaofeng Mountain, the legendary Snake Mountain, but there are no snakes." Feng Qian looked around.
"They said they had just changed the management model and moved a group of people away, so no snakes were seen."
"That's a good exchange! Snakes shouldn't exist!" Feng Qian was afraid of snakes. When he first knew that the ancestral temple was on the legendary Snake Mountain, he refused. But driven by interests, he came here with Luo Kai.
I was nervous all the way here, but when I got here I only saw a warning sign with a snake symbol, but didn't see a single snake, so the fear in my heart eased a little.
"There's no one in this place! It's creepy, no wonder people don't like coming here!"
They came all the way here, there were cars and people, but none of them went this way. After searching on the map, I found a cemetery nearby.
"It's New Year's Day, and you're all here in this remote area to visit graves, right?"
Feng Qian complained and yawned. He was a senior this year and it was a rare holiday for him to rest at home. He wished he could sleep until noon every day.
Luo Kai is similar to him, but he will graduate soon. He has to prepare his thesis, be taken care of by his parents, and attend several important banquets in the first month of the year. He is very busy. He can only sleep in for a few days around New Year's Eve.
I rubbed my eyes, stood outside the car in the breeze, and adjusted my mental state.
"I'm going to go to the bathroom."
Feng Qian said as he walked into the service station. There was a toilet inside.
Luo Kai walked to the smoking area, lit a cigarette, and thought carefully about the information he had found about the old man in the past two days. Old man Feng did not leave the old house, but he made a lot of moves. He only found out about the new ancestral temple by chance, otherwise he would not have known that the old man had such an idea!
They always thought that the old man didn't care about the ancestral temple. After all, times are changing, young people have new habits, and many ideas are different from those of the elderly. No one would think about the ancestral temple.
He has never seen the Feng family ancestral temple!
As a grandson who is doing fairly well, Luo Kai has some sense of presence in his grandfather's eyes.
Luo Kai held a cigarette in his mouth and frowned as he thought about what his mother said last night.
The old man had too much stuff in his hands, and even a little bit that leaked through his fingers would be enough to make most people full.
But the internal competition is also quite fierce...
Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard a scream from inside the service station:
“There’s a snake!!!”
Luo Kai was so frightened that he almost choked. The cigarette butt fell and burned his hand. He didn't care about anything else and was about to rush inside when he saw Feng Qian running out with a pale face.
"Inside... there's a snake inside! It's so big!!"
Feng Qian gestured with shaking hands.
Luo Kai took a look. According to Feng Qian's description, the snakes inside were as thick as wrists! However, Feng Qian was too frightened now, so it was understandable that he was a little exaggerated.
"Let's hide in the car!" Luo Kai saw that he was fine and said he was going to hide in the car. He was also afraid of snakes.
"No hurry." Feng Qian's face was still pale and he was breathing heavily, but his emotions gradually calmed down. "The snake is stuck in the window and can't move."
"...Oh." Luo Kai closed the car door again. Hearing that the snake was stuck, he was a little curious.
He was really afraid of snakes, but the news about Feng Yi on the Internet recently made him more unnecessary curious.
"Is that snake really that big?" Luo Kai asked.
"Big! How can it be stuck in the window? Isn't it winter now? Aren't snakes supposed to hibernate?"
"How can they sleep in the winter when it's over 20 degrees?"
The temperature was a bit low in the morning, but now it is almost noon and the temperature has risen, exceeding 20 degrees.
"What should we do now? Call the police?" Feng Qian said and then shook his head, "Calling the police will make too much noise, let's just ignore it and focus on the business first."
Luo Kai thought so too.
If they leave first, the next person who comes to the service station will definitely call the police.
The two got into the car and prepared to drive away.
"A car is coming!" Feng Qian looked towards the entrance to the service station.
Due to the lighting, they couldn't see the people in the car clearly and they had no impression of the license plate.
"Remind the car owner that there is a snake inside and ask him to call the police," said Luo Kai.
"Um."
Feng Qian, who was sitting in the passenger seat, unbuckled his seat belt and was about to open the car door when he was stopped by Luo Kai.
"What's wrong?" Feng Qian asked puzzledly.
"It's Feng Yi!"
Feng Qian's expression suddenly changed. He looked to the side and saw Feng Yi, who had just gotten off the car, looking at them.
The atmosphere is a bit strange.
They had not contacted Feng Yi since he left the Feng family to go to college. The subsequent news was either found by someone else or on the Internet. This was the first time they had met in a few years.
Feng Yi raised his eyebrows, surprised to see them here. But he didn't want to talk much, he didn't have a close relationship with them before, nor did he have much hatred, after not seeing them for a few years, he felt alienated, so he said indifferently: "Happy New Year."
"Happy New Year." Feng Qian replied stiffly.
Seeing Feng Yi was about to walk into the service station, Feng Qian said, "There's a big snake stuck in the bathroom window!"
Feng Yi didn't stop and made a gesture to indicate that he understood.
Feng Qian laughed at himself and whispered, "That's right, Brother Snake, you can catch a python that's seven meters long, how can you be afraid of such a small snake!"
After hesitating for a moment, Feng Qian got out of the car and walked inside, wanting to see how Feng Yi caught the snake!
Luo Kai also got out of the car.
Feng Yi first took care of his urgent needs, then went to the toilet and simply washed his hands. While wiping the water on his hands, he looked at the snake stuck there.
The king snake must have escaped from a protected area. It was very fat and was spitting out its tongue.
There are two types of rat snakes that people often talk about, one is the black-browed rat snake and the other is the king rat snake. It is non-venomous, and residents near Xiaofengshan are not very afraid of it. Some elderly people even regard it as a treasure.
Unlike the slender body of the black-browed rat snake, the king rat snake is more sturdy and is also snake-eating. After all, it is a snake with the word "king" in its name.
With its wealthy body, it also has a place if we were to select snakes as high-quality foodies.
The side window was broken, with only a crack that could neither be closed nor opened. If someone else came, they would probably have to use hydraulic pliers to pull the snake out of the crack.
Feng Yi pinched the snake's head with one hand and pried the window open with the other, not using too much force, just to widen the gap a little and pull the snake out.
He walked out of the bathroom holding the snake. The two people standing at the door stepped back and didn't say a word.
Feng Yi ignored them and continued walking out.
The two looked at each other and followed in silence.
Feng Yi saw a mousetrap in the corner, with a fat mouse in it. It must have been caught not long ago, and the mouse was still very energetic. The snake might have chased its prey here.
The mouse didn't have to come in through the window, but the snake was unlucky and tried to take a shortcut through the window, but got stuck because it was too fat.
When Feng Yi came in just now, he noticed there was a cabinet at the door.
It is similar to the lockers in supermarkets, but in the corner. If you don't look carefully, you won't notice it. Even if you notice it, many people won't touch it, and won't study the instructions next to it, but stay away from it. Because there is a snake logo on the locker.
Feng Yi grabbed the snake, walked to the cabinet and pressed a button.
A basket with a bag inside popped out from under the cabinet.
Throw the snake inside the bag, tie it up, and then select a larger storage compartment on the screen.
Place the snake in the storage compartment and close the door.
The screen displays "Scanning" and then weighs.
After a while, the settlement page popped up on the screen. Feng Yi scanned the code and a bonus was deposited into his account, with points attached.
Because snakes often escape from Xiaofengshan, this cabinet is set up to encourage nearby residents to catch snakes. There are bonuses and points for catching snakes. Although the points are only in the single digit, they are still points!!
Feng Qian and Luo Kai stood by and watched in daze.
And... How can this be possible