Chapter 1141: Gorgeous Fireworks

The sixth cold dish is called Everything Goes As Planned, but it is actually just bean sprouts mixed with dried tofu sheets.

The first hot dish is called Full Family Blessing, which is actually an improved version of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, with the tendon and fish maw removed; it is delicious and not greasy.

The second dish, Auspiciousness, is, to put it plainly, braised chicken with chestnuts.

The third dish is called Red and Prosperous, which is just braised pork ribs.

In addition, there are Year After Year of Abundance, Bamboo Reporting Peace, Joyful Tonight, Good Fortune at the Head, Joyful Gathering, Longevity for a Hundred Years...

These are all seafood, chicken, duck, and meat dishes that everyone is used to eating, but once Zichen gives them new names and serves them, they immediately become very festive.

"Not bad, you can develop in this direction in the future," Sheng Hanyu praised.

"You, what did you say?"

Zichen widened his eyes in disbelief, almost unable to believe his own ears.

He said to Litian, "Hurry up and pinch me, let me see if I'm dreaming? Dad actually praised me and agreed to let me develop in this direction. Is it real? Is this real?"

Dad had never praised him for cooking well, never; this was the first time.

Litian did not stand on ceremony either; he went up and pinched Zichen's arm.

It hurt so much that he bared his teeth and grimaced, almost jumping up: "Ouch, that hurts! You really didn't hold back, why did you use so much strength?"

"You're the one who told me to pinch hard, are you blaming me?" Litian spread his hands, his expression very innocent.

"You've learned to be bad, you don't learn the good things but learn to trick your older brother."

"Hahahaha..."

The whole family burst into laughter.

Sheng Zichen rubbed his arm; it still hurt a lot, but he laughed along with them.

Now he could be sure it was real, Dad wasn't joking with him... of course, Dad never joked.

Sheng Zichen was too excited, and in his excitement, he did a very shocking thing!

He left his seat, ran to his father, hugged him, and kissed him on the right cheek.

In an instant.

The air suddenly went quiet.

What was this situation?

Even Sheng Hanyu was stunned.

Among the boys in the family, not one dared to be too close to him; they were closer to their mother.

Seeing Dad was like a mouse seeing a cat; the only one who wasn't afraid of Dad was Shi Ran.

From the time Sheng Zichen was small until now, this should be the first time he had kissed his father's cheek.

After kissing him, he ran away, ran back to his seat, and buried his head in his food, not daring to look up at his father, afraid he would get angry.

He didn't get angry, and even rarely cracked a joke: "I haven't washed my face today, you know!"

Sheng Zichen looked up: "It's okay, I don't mind that you're dirty."

Shi Youxuan gave her son a thumbs up: "Well done, you really didn't hold back."

Just from this one action, the years of estrangement between father and son lessened significantly.

After the meal, they wrapped dumplings.

According to Jiangzhou custom, the whole family must wrap dumplings together after dinner to eat at the New Year's Eve meal after midnight.

Even if one doesn't know how to wrap them, just symbolically picking up chopsticks to stir the filling is fine; it's just the sentiment, signifying that everyone is still together in the new year, united and working together.

Every New Year's Eve, wrapping dumplings is a very important program for the Sheng Family.

The whole family is together, and even when the children couldn't crawl yet, they would be carried out by the nanny to grab a piece of dough to play with.

Now that they are all so big, naturally, not one can be left out!

It's lively when there are many people, especially when there are many children.

"Big Brother, look, do you think the one I wrapped looks good?" Sheng Zihan spent over ten minutes finally pinching out a "dumpling" that didn't leak, and hurriedly put it in front of Zichen to show off.

Sheng Zichen didn't give him any face: "It doesn't look good. What is that you pinched? It looks like a donkey's ear."

It really didn't look good, long and flat. Sheng Zihan was unconvinced: "What's wrong with donkey ears? They attract wealth!"

It wasn't that he didn't want to pinch it into a plump shape, it was just that when he put too much filling in, the skin wouldn't close.

Wrapping dumplings is truly a technical job; it looks simple, but when you actually do it, you find it's not simple at all.

But it didn't matter, he had company!

The ones who wrapped equally ugly ones were his second brother Sheng Litian and his mother—no, his mother's were even uglier.

Sheng Zihan discovered this and immediately picked up one his mother had wrapped to show his big brother: "You only know how to talk about me and bully the weak, why don't you say Mom's are ugly? Hers are uglier than mine."

Shi Youxuan:...

She slapped her son on the head: "You've grown some nerve, haven't you? You're even comparing yourself to me? I have so many good points, why don't you compare those with me?"

"I haven't discovered them."

"Sheng Zihan, I'll give you a chance to say that again!"

So Sheng Zihan stopped wrapping dumplings, ran far away, and laughed: "Sorry Mom, I really haven't discovered them."

"Good boy, you just wait."

No matter how old Shi Youxuan was, she was still playful; she caught her son and smeared flour on his face.

Her son, of course, couldn't suffer a loss, so he grabbed a handful of flour and fought back... feinting to the east and attacking the west, catching whoever he could to smear flour on their face, so more and more people joined the battle, and soon everyone in the family had white on their faces to some degree.

The family laughed and played, and after the dumplings were wrapped, the room was a mess.

The children couldn't stay idle for a moment; after wrapping the dumplings, they were thinking about setting off fireworks.

But they had to wait until it was dark for the effect to be good.

The older children were fine, and Sheng Zirui could keep his cool, but only Sheng Zihan was anxious, constantly opening the door to go out, then coming back, opening the door to go out, and coming back again.

The cycle repeats.

Actually, one could see whether it was dark outside from inside the room, but children are impatient, so let them do as they please.

The sky gradually darkened, though it was not yet nighttime, and pure white snowflakes drifted down from the sky; it was snowing.

"It's snowing, it's snowing, shall we go out for a snowball fight?"

Sheng Zihan was excited again; he had enjoyed it so much last time that he couldn't stop thinking about it.

What a pity.

The snowflakes only drifted for a few minutes before stopping, and the wish to have a snowball fight fell through.

Fortunately, it was finally dark, and they could set off fireworks.

The children were jumping for joy, but they couldn't be allowed to set them off by themselves, so Sheng Hanyu and Shi Youxuan put on their coats, preparing to accompany the children.

At this moment, there was a sound at the courtyard gate; Lao Qi and Nianyin had arrived.

The couple lived as if they had no children; they left the children with Gu Zhihao, and the two of them lived a life as a couple that even immortals would envy.

They had only given their company employees time off this morning, and after finishing their work and returning home, they felt that spending the New Year with just the two of them was meaningless, so after a quick discussion, they came here.

Arriving just in time for the fireworks, wasn't that perfect?

Their love for fireworks was no less than the children's, and with them there, the children's safety could also be guaranteed.

"Whoosh!"

The fireworks rose into the air and exploded, displaying their brilliant beauty.

"Wow!"

"It's so beautiful."

"So good to look at."

The children cheered and jumped for joy.

Shi Youxuan snuggled up to Sheng Hanyu, and the two looked at each other sweetly, smiling as they saw contentment and happiness in each other's eyes.

The elders were healthy, and the children were lively and cute.

Nothing could make one feel happier than having the whole family together and in good health.