Wiping away the betel nut juice from the corner of his mouth, Chen Yu squatted down while holding his painful abdomen: "You...you drank so much? Can you be more honest?"
"I want to play with my brother." Chen Sanke blinked his big eyes: "Play a game that only the two of us can play."
Hearing this, Chen Yu subconsciously took a step back: "Play...what are you playing for?"
Chen Sanke looked back at the living room, closed the door tightly, put his hand into his clothes... and took out a cylindrical object: "Play with this!"
"corn?"
"No, mom said it's called Baomi."
"I mean." Chen Yu took the corn and played with it: "What's the point of it?"
"Guess how many rice grains there are on the corn!"
"...how boring are you?"
"Guess, guess." Chen Sanke hugged Chen Yu's thigh and said coquettishly: "Whoever guesses correctly will win. I guess there are a hundred."
"One hundred?" Chen Yu weighed it heavily: "A hundred corn kernels for such a big corn? At least a few hundred."
Chen Sanke curled his lips: "Can you count? One...a hundred, I've said too many!"
"Ouch." Chen Yu raised his eyebrows, and his temper immediately came back. He reached back and took a water glass, and picked the corn kernels into it one by one: "Look carefully, I will check them one by one. I have to slap you in the face today." !”
"What if you guess wrong?"
"I call you sister!"
"Okay!" Chen Sanke said happily: "Keep your word."
"Don't let the ink stain interfere with my counting, seven, eight, nine, ten! Do you see it? It's ten now..."
So, under the watchful eyes of Chen Sanke and the invisible Xiao Taohong, Chen Yu spent ten minutes peeling off all the corn kernels one by one.
"Boom!"
Putting the water cup filled with corn kernels on the floor, Chen Yu threw away the corn cob, shook his sore hands, and sneered: "Six hundred and thirteen, six times more than you said! Does your face hurt? Who doesn't? Can you count? From now on, don’t be so arrogant at home and outside. Especially when facing your brother, you must learn to be in awe."
"No!" Chen Sanke shook his head, took out another corn from his clothes, and clumsily buttoned the rice grains: "You must have lied to me, it can't be that... so much."
"Give it to me." Chen Yu snatched the corn, took another water glass, and plucked it into it one by one: "This time, you will investigate and I will convince you."
"Okay! One, two, three, two..."
"Three is followed by four!"
"four, five, six… "
After another ten minutes, the second corn was picked clean.
"Seven hundred and four corn kernels." Chen Yu looked down at Chen Sanke condescendingly: "What did you learn from this incident?"
Reaching out to pick up two cups of corn, Chen Sanke stood up and bowed awkwardly to Chen Yu: "Brother is still the best."
"It's good to grow." Chen Yu said proudly, rubbing his sore wrist: "Go out and don't disturb my rest."
"Yes." Chen Sanke nodded heavily, then opened the bedroom door with two cups of corn and walked to the kitchen. As she walked, she shouted: "Mom! The corn kernels for making dumplings are all...all ready."
Chen Yu: "?"
"Hey! It's so fast!" Mother Chen quickly took the corn and stroked Chen Sanke's furry head: "The third child has grown up and is becoming more and more efficient at work."
"Ang! I checked and found more than seven hundred!"
"Good boy, are you exhausted?"
"Not tired at all."
Chen Yu: "???"
…
As the New Year is approaching, another heavy snowfall has fallen in Jinzhou City, covering the red lanterns on both sides of the streets.
The Chen family is also covered with couplets, window grilles and red paper-cuts. Under the sunshine of winter, the reflection is particularly festive.
"Mr. Chen, does this suit look good?"
Xiao Taohong was wearing a red Tang suit, standing in front of Chen Yu and spinning around.
"It looks good." Chen Yu looked up, took a look, and then continued busy sending New Year greetings messages.
"It's so perfunctory..."
"Didn't you see that I was busy? If you have nothing to do, go online and send text messages of New Year greetings on several live broadcast platforms."
"Write what?"
"Go check it out online! Just make a fool of yourself and that's it."
"Is...is there something wrong with this?" Xiao Taohong sat at the desk and hesitated: "Isn't the Spring Festival a very important day?"
"As for the New Year's greetings, everyone is fooling each other. It's troublesome to send them in groups." Chen Yu waved his hand.
"Then why bother? Human beings are really weird..."
"Boom!"
At this time, there was a knock on the bedroom door, and Chen's mother's voice came from outside the door: "Chen Yu, open the door. Why are you locking the door during the Chinese New Year?"
"Hide quickly!"
After speaking to Xiao Taohong in a low voice, Chen Yu stood up and walked to the door: "Mom, is something wrong?"
"Hurry up and open the door to give you a New Year's gift."
Looking back, seeing that Xiao Taohong's figure had disappeared, Chen Yu unscrewed the lock and opened the door: "What gift?"
"Here." Mother Chen took out a pair of brand new purple underwear from her pocket and stuffed it into Chen Yu's hand: "Here you go, do you like it?"
"This..." Chen Yu was stunned: "What is this?"
"Purple pants." Mother Chen smiled without showing her teeth: "It has a good meaning when you wear them."
"What does it mean?"
"In the new year, it will work if you point (purple) and fix (butt)!"
“…”
"What are you doing standing still? Put it on quickly!" Mother Chen urged: "Your three sisters have already put it on."
"Mom! Stop making trouble..."
"Put it on quickly!"
"boom!"
After closing the door, Chen Yu held up his purple underwear and had a splitting headache.
"Mr. Chen, what does "butt" mean?" Xiao Taohong appeared and asked doubtfully.
"Don't ask, keep hiding it." Chen Yu threw his underwear on the bed and waited for a while before opening the door again.
"Are you dressed?"
Mother Chen stood outside the door waiting with her hands on her hips.
"Get dressed."
"show me."
"?!!"
"Let me take a look." Mother Chen's right hand was as fast as lightning. She grabbed the waistband of Chen Yu's trousers with precision and pulled it, revealing the outer edge of the black shorts underneath: "Little bastard, you are playing such a useless trick with me. I am your mother. Don’t know you yet? Go put it on quickly!”
"Are you the devil?"
"wear!"
Helpless, under the pressure of his mother, Chen Yu could only put on purple shorts, looked up to the sky and sighed: "I want to go to college..."
"Crack, crackle, crackle..."
Not long after, the sound of simulated firecrackers played by a mobile phone suddenly came from the living room. Then, Chen's mother's loud voice sounded outside the door again: "Has Chen Yu finished dressing? Come out and eat dumplings!"
"good."
Putting on new clothes, Chen Yu walked to the window and looked at the quiet, dark sky on New Year's Eve. He raised his wrist, found the ID named "Huaxia Official" in the private contact column of the watch, and sent sent a short message.
…
Ten minutes later, a temporary news item scrolled out from the bottom of TV1, where the Spring Festival Gala was taking place.
[The Observatory has observed that two large meteorites will collide tonight at a distance of 120,000 kilometers outside the earth, which may cause a large amount of visible light. Since it is far away, it does not pose any danger, so do not panic.]
[Repeat, observatory observation, tonight there will be...]
Not long after, officials from the neighboring countries of Japan, Spaceland, Southland, southern Mauritius and Siberia also issued similar news announcements.
…
(Note: There will be an update on February 1st. I’m glad I saved a few manuscripts.)
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