It was already the 29th when Xu Tingsheng returned to Libei's home, and the next day was the 30th of the new year. Earlier, Xu's mother called every day to remind her, but seeing that it didn't work, she just stopped fighting in anger. Even if Xu Tingsheng called back, she would still refuse. catch.
Around four o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Tingsheng walked into the courtyard of his newly built small villa not far from the old house.
Dad Xu was sitting on a small bench and was repairing a loose hoe. He took a hammer and drove a wooden wedge into the bayonet where the wooden handle of the hoe joined, and then tried it out with a few swings.
Xu's mother was peeling winter bamboo shoots, and there were bamboo shoots all over the place.
The younger sister, Xu Qiuyi, was leaning on a recliner, lazily flipping through the book, but it seemed that she was not paying attention to the book at all, and she looked like she was about to fall asleep.
How does this scene look like a family with hundreds of millions of assets? It was clearly an ordinary, well-to-do farmer's family. Of course, such days may not be many.
It's just years that make people come back.
"Ha, I'm back!"
Being left out in the cold, Xu Tingsheng gave himself a warm welcome.
The younger sister Xu Qiuyi turned her head to look at him, ignored him, and turned her head away again, looking very disgusted. As for the reason, whether it was because his brother came back late, or because of her dear senior sister Wu Yuewei, Xu Tingsheng didn't dare to inquire.
"Mom, I'm back."
Xu Tingsheng put the bag down, went up and squatted beside Xu Ma, helping peel the bamboo shoots.
Xu's mother looked up at him and murmured, "I even forgot that I have a son."
Xu Tingsheng cast his eyes on Dad Xu for help, but Dad Xu just smiled and didn't speak.
At this time, he didn't dare to stand up and speak for Xu Tingsheng, because Huangou's business was getting bigger and Dad Xu spent a lot less time at home, and now it was a situation where he would be affected by the flames of war if he was not careful.
Generally speaking, the status of father and son at home is not high now.
Xu Tingsheng was the last one, and Xu's father was the last one.
After a while, Zhong Wusheng brought Jiajie back from the prenatal examination, and Xu Tingsheng finally found someone who was willing to talk to him.
In fact, Zhong Wusheng had already bought a house in the county more than two months ago, and the decoration was completed, but because Jiajie's side was due to give birth, Xu's mother was afraid that he would not be able to take care of him alone, so she persuaded the couple to stay and wait until Jiajie had a baby. After confinement, they will move back to their own home.
"Tingsheng, you have to hurry up when you graduate from college." Sister Jia caressed her big belly and said to Xu Tingsheng with a smile, "My aunt is so precious to me, and she must be more attentive to my daughter-in-law. I think, my aunt is already thinking about it very much. I have a grandson."
Xu Tingsheng smiled and said nothing, turned his head and secretly glanced at Xu's mother, feeling a little complicated.
In the previous life, Xu's father left early, Xu's mother insisted because of her deep affection for Xu's father, and worked hard to bring up a pair of children by herself.
As a traditional woman, she naturally hopes that the Xu family's incense will continue and she can give Dad Xu an explanation.
However, Xu Tingsheng was still unmarried until he was 31 years old. Xu's mother knew that he was depressed, so she didn't dare to rush him, but every time my mother looked at other people's grandsons and granddaughters, she had that envious look, she was reluctant to speak, and she often paid homage to Xu's father. That sigh... In fact, even Xu Tingsheng could see and hear it.
It was deep guilt and pain.
Mother Xu also heard what Sister Jia said.
"Isn't it? He'll be twenty-one after the new year. If he hadn't gone to college, it would be time to marry a wife and have children. Among those in the village who are as old as him and don't go to school, two of them have already given birth to children. "
Mama Xu said.
"It seems that college students can get married and have children now, right? I remember I heard that the state allows it." Zhong Wusheng said.
"Really?" Xu Ma rubbed her hands and stood up, looking eagerly at Zhong Wusheng.
After receiving an affirmative answer, Mama Xu waved her hand and said:
"It's a good thing, so hurry up, so that I won't have to worry about being idle at home every day, and besides, I will take care of you, and it won't delay your going to college. Also, you father and son have worked together to create such a big business, and it won't last from generation to generation, son." Pass it on to our children and grandchildren? What else do we want?...We can’t eat it all ourselves, we can’t use it up.”
It doesn't look like my mother is joking. In this life, Xu's family is so good. Xu's mother has lived a life of leisure and wealth early. It seems that she is really "too busy" and wants to have a grandson in advance. .
Moreover, Xu's mother is a traditional woman who grew up in the countryside for many years, in an environment where every tile-roofed house and half-ridged land is intended to be passed down from generation to generation. In her opinion, family business is for passing on, otherwise it is meaningless.
What's more, the Xu family's current family business is so big.
At this moment, Xu Tingsheng suddenly thought of that agreement, the woman who was far away in Milan, who personally said that she wanted to bear him a child, Li Wan'er. The image of her coming to Libei, sitting in this yard with her big belly, being pampered and cared for by Mother Xu unconsciously appeared in her mind...
"Tingsheng's father, don't you think so?"
Xu's mother saw that Xu Tingsheng didn't speak, so she asked Xu's father instead.
Dad Xu said without principle: "That's fine."
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Fu Cheng returned disappointed again.
Then, Huang Yaming came back.
Instead of going out with them, Xu Tingsheng tried his best to perform at home for two days. It wasn't until the evening of New Year's Eve that he finally regained some family status and was taken care of at the dinner table.
Compared with the previous year, this year's Xu family is not so lively, but much warmer.
Please change the meal time for the core staff and friends of Huangou to noon, not at the restaurant, but at home, Xu's mother cooks for herself, and Xu's father brings the two children to serve the dishes. This seems to be gradually becoming a practice of Xu Jiahuan's shopping, a kind of corporate culture.
In the evening, Xu's own family, together with Zhong Wusheng and Jiajie, had a New Year's Eve dinner together.
Anyway, having watched it several times in the previous life, Xu Tingsheng basically didn't watch the Spring Festival Gala a few times after dinner, he was always sending and receiving text messages and answering phone calls.
Apple was alone in the United States for the Chinese New Year, and the two of them had a phone call. She said that in fact, the Chinese in the United States also had a great atmosphere during the Chinese New Year. Afterwards, Tianyi’s team had also passed by, and she found the best recording studio in New York, and she started recording. album songs.
Xu Tingsheng sent her four songs via email one after another, plus the one that Tianyi left for her before, there are five songs in total.
However, Apple, which already has a relatively complete self-concept in music, gave up two of them due to the diversity of album styles and the overall concept.
There is actually another reason why she can be so "arrogant". Tianyi really spared no effort in the process of collecting songs for her first album, willing to spend money and connections.
Xu Tingsheng got to know it a little bit, and there were actually two works by Cai Jianya, and one of them, Xu Tingsheng knew, would be a big hit.
Ye Ying stayed in Nice, France, and sent a simple New Year's greeting. Xu Tingsheng responded with the same simplicity. The two of them agreed tacitly and neither of them mentioned the photo.
On the contrary, Mama Xu received a call from Ye Yingjing, and the two chatted affectionately for a long time. When Xu's mother asked that sentence: "I heard that now you can get married and have children in college, is it true?"
Xu Tingsheng felt very messed up, but he didn't know if Ye Yingjing was embarrassed there or how he answered.