Chapter 409: This Year

The opening performance ended smoothly.

Lu Yan He and the other two hurried back to the backstage to change clothes and makeup.

Time was tight, only one hour.

Their *Green Apple Paradise* was scheduled for the 9:30 PM slot.

The backstage of the Spring Festival Gala can be described as a crowd.

The number of various performers was as numerous as crucian carp crossing the river.

Lu Yan He and the other three hurried back to the dressing room under the escort of the team and started to redo it.

Three makeup artists started doing it at the same time.

After styling and changing clothes, the three of them took a group photo together and went to take a group photo with the other actors in this program.

This program, besides them, had a full sixty actors.

They were all non-professional dancers found by the director team, and it is said that they rehearsed for almost two months.

During this time, the three of them didn't keep much secret about the rehearsal of the *Green Apple Paradise* program, but these sixty non-professional dancers kept it very secret.

This is also the surprise Lu Yan He mentioned.

In fact, regarding the *Green Apple Paradise* program, many people were puzzled. Why should such a program that had already been performed on stage and formed a very large influence and dissemination be performed again on the Spring Festival Gala stage?

Regarding this statement, a director of the Spring Festival Gala also responded in a CCTV program.

"The intention of this program is very suitable for appearing on the Spring Festival Gala stage. Although it has been performed on stage, according to our survey, many people actually hope to see it again. In addition, we will also re-adapt this program. The version of the Spring Festival Gala will definitely have new things compared to the version everyone saw before."

Many people were puzzled.

What new things can there be?

He Lan, as Lu Yan He's fan and now Chen Siqi's special assistant, stayed in front of the TV that night, waiting for this program.

Heaven and earth conscience, she didn't know how long she hadn't sat in front of the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala so seriously.

"Why are you always holding your phone?" her mother complained to her.

He Lan said: "This sketch is not good-looking."

"Where is it not good-looking? Isn't it quite good?" her mother said.

He Lan: "But I think it's not good-looking."

When the *Green Apple Paradise* program was about to appear, she immediately put down her phone.

Her mother saw her suddenly looking at the TV screen with spirit, and understood in seconds, "Heh," she said.

"I said why you changed your temper tonight and sat here honestly to accompany me to watch the Spring Festival Gala. I thought you were sensible. It turns out you were waiting for your idol to appear."

He Lan: "Mom, can we have some self-knowledge? When was I sensible enough to accompany you to watch the Spring Festival Gala for so long? This idea of yours is too fantastic."

Her mother immediately threw a small orange at her.

He Lan caught the small orange immediately, rushed over, and hugged her mother, "Oh, I'm joking with you, of course it's to accompany you."

The door suddenly clicked.

"Dad is back?!"

They both turned their heads to look.

"Oh, you two are so old and still hugging like this." Her father saw them like this and immediately complained.

He Lan pouted and said: "That's because my mom is spoiled by you. She's so old and still hums and haws at every disagreement."

He Lan's mother's two willow eyebrows immediately stood up.

"Hey—"

He Lan's father laughed with a face full of wrinkles.

"This is your mother's innate talent, it has nothing to do with me," he said, "When I met your mother, she would shed tears at every disagreement. My head was big at that time!"

"He Zhanghai!" Her mother was so angry that she stared round-eyed.

"Ah, the program is about to start, you two be quiet for a while, wait for me to finish watching this program." He Lan saw that the host was ready to go off stage, and the prelude had begun to ring.

Her father took off his police cap, put it aside, and sat down on the sofa.

"What are you watching?"

Her mother hummed, "It's just the star she likes, Lu Yan He, who is on the Spring Festival Gala tonight."

"Lu Yan He, *Green Apple Paradise*?"

"Dad, how do you know? Don't you never watch entertainment news?"

"Spring Festival Gala, everyone is talking about this matter everywhere," her father said, "And, many young people in my unit are his fans."

"How can you police also chase stars?" her mother asked.

"How can police not have stars they like?" her father smiled, "How can you have prejudice? I don't chase stars, let young people chase if they want."

"Exactly," He Lan immediately helped, "Mom, you are not as enlightened as my dad."

"When your dad forced you to do homework when you were young, why didn't you say your dad was enlightened? I had to secretly let you watch TV." Her mother immediately complained.

He Lan: "Exactly, Dad, you are too much, how could you not allow me to watch TV when I was young?"

"Every time you cried, your mother softened her heart, and it didn't matter if you didn't do your homework. If I wasn't stricter, you would have slept on the street long ago," her father complained.

"Also, Mom, thanks to my dad being stricter with me, otherwise with my lazy personality, I might not even be able to pass the college entrance examination," He Lan said.

"Alright, alright, it's started singing, Lanlan, aren't you going to watch your idol? They have already started singing."

He Zhanghai knew that if he didn't stop it immediately, this argument would last until twelve o'clock at night.

Three young people appeared on the stage, moving to the rhythm together.

He Lan's mother took a look and couldn't help but sigh: "These three children are really good-looking."

He Lan said: "They are almost the three most popular young stars now."

He Lan's mother nodded: "No wonder they can be on the Spring Festival Gala at a young age."

"Have we seen this performance?" He Lan's father asked suspiciously, "Seems to have seen it."

He Lan asked: "You should have heard this song, this song is very popular."

"Oh, no, I've seen it. When our unit held a New Year's party, someone performed this, and the dance was exactly the same," He Lan's father said.

He Lan: "Is it so popular? Even your unit's New Year's party has people performing this program? Isn't this a performance that only young people will like?"

"Prejudice, you have prejudice like your mother. Can't our unit have young people? Can't we middle-aged people like such performances?"

He Lan's mother raised her hand and patted He Lan's father on the back.

"Who has prejudice! Who are you saying has prejudice!"

He Lan: "..."

She originally wanted to say something else, but suddenly, many dancers appeared on both sides of the stage on the TV screen.

They were all wearing dance hall-style clothes from the last century, and their makeup and hairstyles were also the same. On the left were young people, and on the right were middle-aged people.

Sixty people and Lu Yan He and the other three performed the dance moves of *Green Apple Paradise* on the stage, neat and tidy, which was very beautiful.

At this moment, the camera suddenly started switching.

"Hmm? That person—" He Lan was stunned. The face of the person the camera just cut to made her feel very familiar.

Isn't that Li Xiaobin? The boy who was filmed wearing his father's suit and ended up crying when his mother saw it, later participated in a talent show, and although his final results were not very ideal, he still became a singer.

The camera changed to another person, a beautiful girl with short hair.

Hmm? That is also the girl whose short video was very popular online. She wore the set of clothes from the short video at that time, her mother's floral dress, permed with retro big waves, and painted big red lips, a kind of retro and bright and atmospheric beauty.

He Lan suddenly reacted. These thirty young people on the left of the stage were actually video bloggers who were very popular online after the *Green Apple Paradise* performance was broadcast, imitating their parents' dress and appearance.

And the thirty middle-aged people on the right—

Should be their parents.

He Lan covered her mouth in disbelief.

At this moment, on the screen behind the stage, several very popular performance videos online appeared.

They switched one by one, and lines of subtitles kept sliding across them, all of which were subtitles that had attracted a lot of attention and discussion online:

—When I grow up, I become you.

——We look down on them for being old, while they laugh at us for still being young.

—Our parents were also fashionable young people, even more fashionable than us.

—Why was my mother's hair so black and thick at that time, and I started losing hair at a young age?!

He Lan watched and cried and laughed.

On the stage, Lu Yan He and the three separated, occupied three points, reached out their hands, looked at the stage, and waved their left hands together.

Behind them, sixty people moved and rhythmically danced in unison. Obviously, it was very retro, a style from the last century, but because they were two groups of non-professional dancers of different ages, the movements still had obvious style differences. And because of such style differences, people could immediately understand the intention.

"La la la la la la, swing to your heart's content!"

The performance ended smoothly.

Everyone came to the backstage.

After the mighty performance team of dozens of people came out of the studio, their faces were filled with excited smiles.

Here, except for Li Zhibai, everyone else was on the Spring Festival Gala stage for the first time.

Everyone was very excited.

Lu Yan He and the others turned back to wave and bow to the uncles and aunts who just danced for them.

"Uncles and aunts are great!"

"Thank you!"

For this stage, these uncles and aunts rehearsed for two months in advance.

When the director team found them and invited them to the Spring Festival Gala stage, they told them this idea.

Why did the Spring Festival Gala invite *Green Apple Paradise*? Because this program can be said to be the stage performance with the greatest social influence in the past year, and even a social influence that crossed the barriers of age levels and social classes.

They thought of inviting thirty pairs of parents and children to perform this program on stage together.

At that time, there were many popular imitation videos online, so the director team simply contacted them one by one and invited them to the Spring Festival Gala together.

Thus, this program had the current presentation.

And the director responsible for this program, Li Qingbing, finally breathed a sigh of relief until this time.

When the idea was first proposed, many people questioned it, believing that it was impossible to let so many non-professional dancers dance on the Spring Festival Gala stage, which was very easy to make mistakes.

Once a mistake is made, it is an accident.

But the idea proposed by Li Qingbing was finally recognized because it was very meaningful.

Now Li Qingbing has not gone online to see the feedback from the internet, but judging from the reaction on the scene, he feels that the feedback of this program should be quite good.

Form is always much more important to content than we imagine.

Some programs you think are very good when you watch them in this place, but when you go to another place, you will feel something is wrong.

So, why can cinemas still survive in an era where internet media is so developed? Many people who have been to the cinema and seen movies they love very much in the cinema will say that the feeling of sitting in a dark cinema and watching a movie on the silver screen is completely different from watching a movie on their own computer.

*Green Apple Paradise* is also like this.

If it still uses the performance on *Idol Era*, it may not be suitable for a big stage like the Spring Festival Gala. Big is not only the size of the stage, but also the size of people's expectations in their hearts.

There will always be people who want to see some meaning and social value from the Spring Festival Gala stage. Even if we always say, let content return to content, and don't let the so-called meaning and social value kidnap the quality of the content itself. Because that is not another place, that is the Spring Festival Gala.

Such people are also very opposed to the *Green Apple Paradise* stage appearing on the Spring Festival Gala.

Because it is popular, the gimmick is big, but there is no social value.

But when they were fully prepared to fire when they finished watching this program, they unexpectedly found that the various criticisms they had prepared were not very useful.

Because the *Green Apple Paradise* program performed on the Spring Festival Gala stage suddenly highlighted the themes of "father's generation" and "inheritance."

Not long after the program was completed, Li Xiaobin boarded the Spring Festival Gala interview live room and accepted an interview with the CCTV host. He said: "This is the first time I have performed on stage with my mother. I never thought there would be such a moment. This will become a very unforgettable memory for me."

Lu Yan He, Li Zhibai, and Yan Liang also came to this live room.

"Except for Zhibai, Yan He and Yan Liang are on the Spring Festival Gala for the first time. Are you nervous?"

"Very nervous," Yan Liang nodded, "I thought I wouldn't be nervous, but when I thought that the national audience was watching me, my heart couldn't help but beat."

Lu Yan He nodded, "Me too."

"Now the performance is over, you can breathe a sigh of relief."

"Yes," everyone laughed.

"Then will everyone go home directly later? Reunite with family?"

"Yes," Yan Liang nodded, "I will go home later, try to arrive home before twelve o'clock."

Li Zhibai also said: "Me too, but I will definitely be able to arrive before twelve o'clock. My home is in Yuming, still more convenient than Old Lu and Yan Liang."

"Is Yan He not staying in Yuming for the New Year?" A host was a bit confused.

Everyone knows that Lu Yan He has no family anymore, and there is no one to rush to reunite with.

Lu Yan He smiled and nodded, saying: "Going to another place today."

He didn't say in detail.

The host didn't continue to ask.

"The dancers who danced for you tonight, we noticed that they are composed of young people and middle-aged people. Can you introduce to us in detail why it is such a setting?"

Lu Yan He and Li Zhibai both looked at Yan Liang, "You introduce it."

Yan Liang then said: "This is an idea from the director team, Director Li Qingbing, he proposed that our performance at that time had a great influence on the whole society, and many people online started to imitate the styling and dress of their parents in old photos, and it was very popular. Maybe we can invite them over and add them to our performance. This song itself is a song with a relatively retro style, and we also think this is very good. By dressing up as our parents when they were young, it is a kind of review and tribute. Every era has people who are young, our appearance will change, but this kind of youthful power and vitality of life are the same, and it is passed down from generation to generation."

This paragraph was not thought of by Yan Liang, but prepared by the director team long ago, hoping to say it through their mouths.

This task was handed over to Yan Liang.

"Said very well, in fact, these sixty dancers can also share one thing with everyone. They actually come from thirty families, all of which are parent-child relationships, right?"

"Yes, that's right," Yan Liang and the others nodded, "In fact, working with them, we are also particularly moved, because everyone knows that they are not professional dancers, nor are they artists who often perform on stage, but everyone is very hardworking and diligent to complete this performance together, and practiced for a long time. Especially the uncles and aunts, they practiced this dance very hard, salute to them."

Coming out of the live room, their work on the Spring Festival Gala tonight is truly completed.

They went to the dressing room to remove makeup, change clothes, and leave.

"Then I'm leaving, see you after the New Year." Lu Yan He finished first and left first.

Li Zhibai: "Look at your impatient look."

Lu Yan He gave him a middle finger and went out with Wang Biao and Zou Dong.

Leaving all the way, coming to the outside of CCTV, I saw Chen Siqi's car from a distance.

"Brother Dong, Wang Biao, thank you for your hard work. Let's start the holiday from today," Lu Yan He said, "The past year has been really hard. I wanted to have a celebration party with everyone, but I didn't find time."

He took out two red envelopes from his bag.

"This is a little bit of my heart, thank you for your support and care for me in the past year."

Zou Dong and Wang Biao were both stunned.

"We have already received the year-end bonus," Wang Biao said, "Little Brother Lu, why are you giving us red envelopes again?"

"Year-end bonus is year-end bonus, red envelope is red envelope," Lu Yan He said with a smile, "There are not many people around me, only the two of you, so you must be much harder than other artist team members, of course I can't let you suffer. Siqi and I will go abroad for a holiday later, you don't need to worry about that side, Sister Ziyan has already arranged it, you take a good rest, and we will meet directly in Bikalo later."

After the holiday, Lu Yan He went directly to the Bikalo Film Festival.

The short film shot by Wang Zhong was shortlisted for the short film competition unit of the Bikalo Film Festival.

Lu Yan He stuffed the two red envelopes into the hands of Zou Dong and Wang Biao.

"Happy New Year, keep working hard next year, bye!" Lu Yan He waved his hand, "See you next year!"

"See you next year, Little Brother Lu!" Wang Biao waved with a bright smile.

Zou Dong watched him get into Chen Siqi's car before his eyes fell on the red envelope in his hand.

The red envelope was very thin, and you could tell by touching it in your hand that it shouldn't be paper money inside.

He asked Wang Biao: "Where are you going?"

Wang Biao said: "I'm going home, I bought a ticket to go home tomorrow morning."

Zou Dong: "Then are you going back to the place you rented tonight first?"

"Mm," Wang Biao nodded. "Get in the car, I'll take you." Zou Dong said.

"Thank you, Brother Dong!" Wang Biao said happily.

Once in the car, Zou Dong had just started the car when he heard Wang Biao exclaim from behind, "What is this? Is this a check?"

Zou Dong was stunned.

Wang Biao couldn't believe it: "My God, I have never received a check in my life!"

Zou Dong looked at Wang Biao sitting in the back row from the rearview mirror, the young man's face was full of uncontrollable excitement.

"Little Brother Lu is too generous, the year-end bonus has been issued so much, why give us a check?" Wang Biao said.

Zou Dong said: "You will know later, your Little Brother Lu has always been very generous, as long as you do well and treat him well, he will definitely not treat you badly."

Wang Biao nodded twice.

Zou Dong followed Lu Yan He for two years, the contract signed, nominally an annual salary of 250,000 yuan, but in fact, what he got was far more than this number.

In terms of treating people around him, Lu Yan He has never been stingy, always very generous.

Lu Yan He got into the car.

Chen Siqi said: "Haven't you had dinner yet?"

"Just ate a little," Lu Yan He said.

Chen Siqi: "Okay, I told my grandmother, grandmother said there is still soup stewed on the stove, you can eat a little more when you arrive."

"No need to trouble."

"There is no shortage of food during the New Year, what trouble, anyway, every time I go back, grandmother will stew soup for me, waiting for me to go back and drink."

Lu Yan He: "Then your grandmother is good enough to you."

"Mm, grandmother has liked me very much since I was a child and is very good to me," Chen Siqi said, "This time, it was also her who asked me why I didn't take you to see her."

"Ah?" Lu Yan He was stunned, looking at Chen Siqi in surprise, "Was it grandmother who asked first?"

"Mm," Chen Siqi said, "I originally thought we were still studying, I never thought about taking you to see grandmother at this time."

Lu Yan He scratched his head awkwardly.

"I should have gone to see your grandparents earlier."

"Usually so busy, it's hard for us to meet, where can we take care of seeing them, I rarely have time to go back myself," Chen Siqi said, "Sigh, speaking of which, I have a lot of guilt."

"Actually, since you have such a good relationship with your grandparents, why didn't you live with your grandparents?"

"Actually, after my father remarried, my grandparents specifically came to talk about this matter, saying they were willing to raise me, but my father was unwilling, saying it very righteously, saying that I am his daughter, there is no reason for them to work hard, and saying that I grew up by his side, he is also more at ease. At that time, I was ignorant, really thought he couldn't bear to part with me, so he didn't want to give me to my grandparents, so I told my grandparents that I was willing to live with my father and them. Later, later things you also know, many things are different from imagination, by the time I wanted to leave, it was not so easy to leave."

Chen Siqi looked expressionlessly at the somewhat empty road ahead, the yellow headlights were like the eyes of a beast, silently watching everything unnamed in the darkness ahead, illuminating them.

"They can't let me go anymore, because I have the shares my mother left me. By the time I am twenty-two, it will be in my hands," Chen Siqi said, "This is also the reason why my father insisted on keeping me by his side at that time. Now it is managed by him, but when I am twenty-two, it is not something he can manage."

Lu Yan He suddenly realized.

"So, Yan He, I am actually very glad now that I can use the magazine *Jump Up* in the few years of college to familiarize myself with the operation rules of business in advance, and also be able to master some connections and power in advance," Chen Siqi said, "I think, the things I have accomplished in the few years of college, none of them expected, do you know that my father looks at me now, just like looking at a time bomb that doesn't know when it will explode, his eyes are full of fear."

Chen Siqi's mouth curled up with some irony.

Lu Yan He looked at Chen Siqi gently.

"It doesn't matter, we can already control our own lives. If you can't let go, we will go and talk to them. If you are too lazy to pay attention to them, then we can completely ignore them," Lu Yan He said, "Now the initiative is in our hands, what kind of life we want to live is no longer something they can influence, we decide for ourselves."

Chen Siqi nodded and laughed.

"Mm."

She took a deep breath, "Until now, I think it's incredible, how come I haven't reached twenty-two, and I have the confidence to call them out. I used to think, at worst, we will burn together, they won't let me have a good time, and I won't let them have a good time. Now, they can't make me have a bad time."

Lu Yan He smiled.

"I rarely think of them now," Chen Siqi said, "There are too many things to be busy with every day, and there is no time to think of them at all."

Lu Yan He was very happy to hear Chen Siqi say this.

This happy emotion came very suddenly, why did it come?

Lu Yan He felt that it was probably because from his perspective, he hoped that Chen Siqi could walk out of those not-so-wonderful growth memories and see a bigger world and more wonderful people and things than those bad memories.

Driving to Chen Siqi's grandparents' house, it took a total of more than two hours.

There were almost no cars on the road.

Not many people were still rushing home at this point.

Chen Siqi said: "After my grandparents retired, the family's industry was handed over to my uncle to manage, and they didn't manage these things anymore. Usually, the nanny is responsible for taking care of their daily life. These days, it should be my aunt who is entertaining them."

Lu Yan He rarely heard about Chen Siqi's mother's side from Chen Siqi's mouth.

Most of what he heard was about her father and Liu Weian.

"When I see them later, how should I greet them? Should I call them grandparents, uncle and aunt with you?" Lu Yan He asked.

He didn't think there was any problem with calling them like that.

Chen Siqi only said: "Whatever you want."

Finally, when appearing in front of Chen Siqi's mother's family, Lu Yan He smiled particularly obediently.

In terms of pretending to be obedient, Lu Yan He can be considered to have innate talent.

Chen Siqi immediately ran to hug her grandmother, hugged her grandfather, then greeted her uncle and aunt, and finally introduced Lu Yan He to them.

"Lu Yan He, my boyfriend."

Lu Yan He was carrying large and small bags of New Year goods in his hands. It was his first time visiting, so it was not good to come empty-handed.

He finally called them grandfather and grandmother, uncle and aunt, without being abrupt.

Chen Siqi's uncle patted him on the shoulder and said: "Looks thinner than on TV."

Lu Yan He smiled and said: "Usually, you look a bit fatter on camera."

A round of pleasantries.

They were not very mature people themselves, they were still children.

They welcomed him in.

Once inside, grandmother said: "Siqi said, you two didn't eat much at night, sit down first, I will go and serve you something to eat, pigeon soup has been stewed."

Lu Yan He thanked her repeatedly and said: "I will accompany you to serve it."

Chen Siqi said: "You sit down, I will go and help serve it."

Lu Yan He sat down, keeping a polite smile on his face.

"Your performance on the Spring Festival Gala just now was really good," Chen Siqi's aunt took the initiative to say.

"Really? Thank you."

"I heard that your entertainment industry is quite chaotic," Chen Siqi's uncle suddenly said, "Is it true?"

Lu Yan He was stunned, "Ah?"

Chen Siqi's aunt had already poked him with an elbow, threw a glance at him, and the eyes clearly wrote a few words "if you can't speak, don't speak."

Aunt smiled slightly and said: "You are going to school on one side, and you have to act and sing on the other side, you should be very busy usually?"

Lu Yan He smiled and nodded, saying: "It is a bit."

Aunt said: "You young children are really competitive now, you are, and Siqi is too. At a young age, still in college, you already have your own career, and you have done so outstandingly. I really admire you, and let Huadong learn more from you in the future."

Who is Huadong?

"Jiang Huadong, my son, he and his classmates went to Germany to participate in a study tour this winter vacation, so he is not here," aunt explained.

Lu Yan He suddenly realized that Chen Siqi had a younger brother named Jiang Huadong.

At this time, grandfather, who had not spoken, suddenly asked: "Are you planning to be an artist forever?"

Lu Yan He nodded, "That's the plan for now."

Grandfather said: "But if you are an artist, you often can't go home, right?"

Lu Yan He hesitated and nodded, "Yes."

Grandfather hummed and said: "Then after you and Siqi become a family, won't you be separated more often?"

Lu Yan He was stunned.

Ah? Discussing such a distant thing?

"We... at that time I should not be as busy as I am now," Lu Yan He said, "At this stage, according to our ideas, both people may be a bit busy, wait until five years later, ten years later, if there is no accident, our careers should have entered a more stable stage, and we don't need to be as busy as we are now."

Grandfather said: "How can that be? No matter what stage of life you are in, your career cannot be slackened, and you must treat it seriously."

Lu Yan He said "Uh."

Huh?

Isn't it you who thinks it's too busy and separated?

Lu Yan He was confused for a moment.

At this time, grandmother and Chen Siqi came out.

"Don't worry about chatting, hurry up and eat something first, pad your stomach, if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry, if your stomach is not full, people's spirit will be affected," grandmother said.

Lu Yan He responded with relief and went to eat first.

Two young people sat at the dining table.

A pot of pigeon soup, a plate of stir-fried flat bean shreds, a plate of green onion omelet, just suitable for eating at night, relatively light.

When they were eating, grandmother sat on the side, looking at them with a smile, asking them how the taste was.

Lu Yan He of course immediately said it was delicious.

In fact, it is a very home-style taste.

Of course, it is indeed delicious.

Chen Siqi said: "Grandmother, your cooking skills are still as good as ever."

Grandmother said: "Your grandmother, I haven't been idle at home in the past few years, I have been studying various dishes, this is the only hobby, but your grandfather doesn't appreciate it, and insists that I am always poisoning him."

Chen Siqi laughed and said: "Grandfather is in happiness and doesn't know happiness."

"Exactly," grandmother nodded immediately, and urged Lu Yan He, "Yan He, you can't learn from Siqi's grandfather, you must learn to know happiness when you are in happiness."

Lu Yan He immediately said: "I know, I have always known."

At this time, grandfather came over with his hands behind his back, took a look at the dishes on the table, and immediately said with disgust: "You really, Yan He came to our house for the first time, and you made him so little, it seems like we are neglecting him."

Lu Yan He was stunned.

"No, no, it's quite good, grandmother's cooking is delicious."

Forgot to call her grandmother, and directly called her grandmother smoothly.

Grandmother glared at grandfather, "Did you hear that!"

Grandfather said: "People are polite, you really, usually use these clear soups and light water to send me away, why give it to Siqi's boyfriend?"

Chen Siqi gave Lu Yan He a "don't interrupt" look.

Lu Yan He quickly closed his mouth that wanted to round things up.

Grandmother sneered at grandfather and said: "You are really capable, clear soup and light water to send you away? You are not bad if you have something to eat, and you are still clear soup and light water, you will drink northwest wind for me in the future!"

Grandfather: "We are not without a nanny."

"Dismissed!" Grandmother's willow eyebrows stood up, "No need to come after the New Year, I want to see what you eat!"

Grandfather: "..."

Lu Yan He watched from the side, surprised at the way the two old people got along, which was completely beyond his expectations, and at the same time felt a trace of inexplicable familiarity.

He suddenly had a truth that he had found "how Chen Siqi's courage was cultivated."

Lu Yan He ate silently without interrupting.

After eating, he returned to the TV and waited for the midnight countdown of the Spring Festival Gala with everyone.

In the bell of the New Year, the sound of fireworks blooming sounded outside.

Lu Yan He and Chen Siqi came to the courtyard, looking at the bright fireworks in the night sky in the distance.

This area is quiet, and there seem to be no other houses around, and the neighbors are far away.

Lu Yan He said: "It's quite quiet around here, even the fireworks are so far away."

Chen Siqi said: "After my grandparents retired, they wanted to avoid others and find a quiet place to retire, so they chose this place early, built a house, and after the company was handed over to my uncle, they came here without nostalgia."

"Is it convenient for two old people to live here?"

"It's quite convenient; there's a nanny, a driver, and someone to take care of all the shopping and errands. My uncle and the others also come back to check on them from time to time," Chen Siqi said. "Don't let their bickering like ordinary old folks now fool you; back in their day, they were both titans of industry. Even now, many people still want to come and visit them, but they refuse everyone. Sometimes they go out for a trip or a stroll, but most of the time they just stay here, planting flowers, tending to the grass, and occasionally going out to see old friends."

Lu Yan He nodded, "Sounds like a very comfortable life."

"Yes, very envious," Chen Siqi said, "After I went to college, every time I came back to see them, they said I didn't need to come back, they would come to see me if they missed me, and let me do *Jump Up* well. My doing *Jump Up* made them very proud, although they never told me, but I can feel it."

Lu Yan He said: "They must have been very worried about you before."

"They are like you, they don't want me to always limit my vision to those few people," Chen Siqi said, "They hope I can have my own life."

"Because they hope you live truly happily."

"Mm, I know."

Grandmother stood behind the window, took a look at the two young people leaning against each other in the courtyard, slightly curled her mouth, did not look back, and whispered: "Old man, what do you think of this boy Lu Yan He?"

Old man said: "Our Xiao Qi has good eyes."

The two of them didn't argue this time.

Grandmother sighed slightly, "Xiao Qi can meet this child, her luck is better than her mother's."

"The first year of the New Year, don't say these," grandfather came behind grandmother, "Now you can rest assured a little, this child doesn't have as many problems as imagined, just like Xiao Qi said, teach him well in the future, don't go astray, they will live very happily."

Grandmother: "You were still disgusted with Xiao Lu as a star before."

"Then stars who get married and divorce a lot, I dislike it, what's wrong?"

"Then who else can be admitted to Zhenhua University among the stars?"

"Who said that those who are admitted to Zhenhua don't divorce? Are they schools run by the old man of the moon?"

"I mean your logic is problematic, stars divorce a lot, stars are not suitable for marriage, then stars and stars are not the same person, why do you still kill them with one stick?"

"How did I kill them with one stick? Isn't this seeing Xiao Lu, and feeling that this child is good?"

"Then you disliked him before?"

"Who disliked him, I just care that he is in this line of work and the feng shui is not good."

"Yo, even superstitious."

"... Why are you getting more and more unreasonable?"

"Humph!"

Lu Yan He and Chen Siqi stayed here for two days.

At noon on the first day of the New Year, Lu Yan He did the cooking himself, made a table, and everyone was stunned.

"You child still has this ability?"

Lu Yan He smiled embarrassedly and said: "I started cooking by myself since I was a child, it's average, not as good as grandmother's craft, please forgive me."

Grandmother

"It's alright, Grandma will teach you her special skills slowly in the future," Grandma said, beaming with joy.

By noon on the second day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Yan He and Chen Siqi left together, ready to begin the vacation they had planned for so long.

The elders urged them, "Don't just focus on having fun and forget about safety; safety comes first."

"We know, we know." Chen Siqi waved her hand, smiling brightly at her relatives, "We'll come back to see you all again next time."

"You two just focus on your work; there's nothing much to see here, we'll go see you instead," Grandma said.

And just like that, the New Year passed.

They headed straight to the airport; their luggage had been packed and sitting in the trunk all along.

The airport was crowded at this time.

This was the first time Lu Yan He and Chen Siqi were going abroad together, purely for a vacation.

This made them feel inexplicably extravagant, to the point that even as they walked into an airport they had already been to countless times, they felt a heartfelt sense of relaxation and joy.