Chapter 1030: The First Day of the Lunar New Year

Ye Chen drove straight to Buckingham Palace, and the subordinates arranged by Chen Zekai were already waiting at the main entrance with a handcart.

Seeing Ye Chen arrive, he hurriedly pushed the cart forward and said respectfully, "Master Ye, President Chen asked me to prepare some fireworks and firecrackers for you. Do you want me to help you load them into the car?"

Ye Chen nodded, opened the trunk, and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

The other party hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Master Ye, you are too polite, this is what I should do."

After saying this, he loaded several large boxes of fireworks into the trunk of the BMW.

Ye Chen said thank you and drove back, while calling Xiao Churan to ask her and her parents to prepare, and to get in the car in a moment to find a place where they could set off fireworks and firecrackers to find the New Year's atmosphere.

Xiao Churan was very happy, and with her parents, put on thick down jackets and arrived early at the main entrance of Tomson Yipin to wait.

As soon as Ye Chen's car arrived, the family of three got into the car.

Xiao Churan asked Ye Chen, "Husband, where are we going to set off firecrackers?"

Ye Chen laughed, "As long as it's not within the city limits, it's fine. You can think about where specifically you want to go."

Xiao Changkun suggested at this time, "Why don't we go to the riverside! The scenery by the river is good, and after the fireworks go up, they can reflect on the river surface, it's even more artistic!"

Xiao Churan laughed, "Dad's idea is good! Then let's go to the riverside!"

Xiao Changkun hurriedly said, "I know a place that's not bad, there's a large stretch of river embankment!"

Listening to his wife and father-in-law talking about the riverside, Ye Chen suddenly thought of Song Wanting of the Song family.

Previously, when Song Wanting sent him home, they passed by the Yangtze River, and she suggested that he accompany her for a walk by the river.

He didn't think much of it and readily agreed.

But what he didn't expect was that after walking by the river and returning, Song Wanting sent him to the main entrance of the Tomson Yipin villa, and then took the initiative to kiss him in the car.

That scene still remains in the depths of Ye Chen's memory; sometimes when he thinks of it, he feels a different kind of warmth.

While his mind was wandering, Ye Chen drove the car all the way to the Yangtze River under Xiao Changkun's direction.

What he didn't expect was that the beach area his father-in-law led them to was actually the same place Song Wanting had taken him to before.

Because it was New Year's Eve, there was no one around.

After Ye Chen parked the car, he moved several boxes of fireworks with his father-in-law and arrived at the foot of the river embankment.

On a river embankment paved with cement, Ye Chen placed the fireworks at certain intervals.

On the other side, Xiao Changkun couldn't suppress his impulse and set off two strings of firecrackers in a row.

The festive sound of firecrackers echoed by the river, instantly making people feel the New Year's atmosphere.

After the firecrackers burned out, Ye Chen said to Xiao Churan, "Churan, I'm ready to set off the fireworks!"

Xiao Churan immediately took out her phone and said excitedly, "Husband, wait a moment, let me turn on the video recording first!"

"Okay!"

After Xiao Churan took out her phone and turned on the camera function, Ye Chen lit the fuse of the fireworks.

Colorful fireworks soared into the sky and exploded with a bang over the river. The wide river surface reflected the wonderful colors bursting out in the sky, and Xiao Churan was dancing with joy on the side.

After one set of fireworks burned out, Ye Chen immediately lit the second set, followed by the third and fourth.

By the time all the fireworks were burned out, Xiao Churan's cheeks were already red with excitement!

She hadn't experienced the feeling of setting off fireworks and firecrackers to her heart's content on New Year's Eve for a long time, so at this moment, she was as excited as a child.

Xiao Changkun and Ma Lan were also very happy. This Lunar New Year was of extraordinary significance to this family of four.

And this New Year's Eve, which was so perfect, made them feel an unprecedented sense of happiness.

Twenty-four o'clock on New Year's Eve.

It was also the zero hour of the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Ye Chen set off the last set of fireworks, and Xiao Changkun also lit the last string of firecrackers.

Xiao Churan put her hands to her mouth and shouted loudly, "Husband, Mom and Dad, Happy New Year!"

Ma Lan, leaning on her crutch, also shouted excitedly, "Happy New Year!"

Xiao Changkun looked up at the fireworks, the gorgeous colors reflecting on his face, and that face, which already had quite a few wrinkles, was full of happiness.

At this moment, Xiao Changkun couldn't help but think of Han Meiqing.

This was also the first Spring Festival Han Meiqing had spent after returning to the country for the first time in more than twenty years.

Xiao Changkun quietly took out his phone and sent a WeChat message to Han Meiqing. The WeChat message only had six characters: "Meiqing, Happy New Year!"

Ye Chen's phone was already being bombarded by WeChat notifications at this moment.

Many people were sending him New Year's blessings at this moment. He didn't have the energy to reply one by one, so he posted a text on his Moments: "Wishing all relatives and friends, Happy New Year!"

This night, the whole of Jin Ling was lit up with thousands of lights.

Ye Chen's family of four even played by the river until one o'clock in the morning before driving back.

The vast majority of people were immersed in the unique happiness of the New Year, except for Old Mrs. Xiao's family, who were still engaged in a hard struggle with hunger.

During the day today, Zhang Guifen didn't know where she had scavenged an old 21-inch color TV. This kind of broken TV, even if it were in perfect condition, would sell for at most a few dozen yuan, and ordinary people wouldn't even bother to look at it.

However, for the three of them, this broken old TV allowed them to watch the entire Spring Festival Gala, bringing them great satisfaction and happiness.

While watching TV, they ate all the New Year's Eve dinner they had prepared, and in the end, they didn't even leave a drop of vegetable soup.

After the three of them finished eating in the living room, they didn't forget to carry the TV back to Zhang Guifen's room.

The purpose was to not let Old Mrs. Xiao's family take any advantage of them.

Old Mrs. Xiao and Xiao Weiwei had been thinking about the bit of rice in the incense burner, so they stayed hungry until past one o'clock before finally waiting for Zhang Guifen and the others to fall asleep.

After Zhang Guifen and the others were asleep, they started preparing to make porridge.

Because the rice in the incense burner had fallen into a lot of incense ash, it didn't look very good, but Old Mrs. Xiao and Xiao Weiwei, who were hungry to the point of sticking to their ribs, couldn't care about this at all.

They didn't say a word, very nimbly carried the incense burner into the kitchen, then poured out the rice, washed it clean, and immediately used this rice to cook porridge.

There was about a jin or more of rice in the incense burner, and cooking it all into porridge made a large pot.

Old Mrs. Xiao and Xiao Weiwei each drank a bowl as soon as the rice porridge was cooked.

Afterwards, feeling it wasn't enough to satisfy their hunger, they each drank another bowl.

Feeling the taste was a bit bland, the two of them secretly put the salt and soy sauce that Zhang Guifen and the others had bought into the rice porridge and stirred it to drink.

Zhang Guifen had tried every possible way not to leave any obvious opportunity for Old Mrs. Xiao, but she had calculated everything except that Old Mrs. Xiao would be thinking about the bit of rice in her incense burner, as well as her salt and soy sauce.

The next morning.

The first day of the Lunar New Year.

Because Xiao Churan went out to play last night, she was somewhat tired and hadn't gotten up yet.

Ye Chen had already woken up and was making a cup of tea for himself in the living room downstairs.

With nothing to do, he scrolled through his Moments. Besides the Moments of everyone wishing each other a Happy New Year, he also saw a Moment posted by Song Wanting.

"Setting off for Japan today, the cycle is estimated to be one week. During this period, please contact Mr. Song Rongyu for matters related to Jin Ling."

Ye Chen couldn't help but be a bit surprised; he didn't expect Song Wanting to go to Japan on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

At the same time, next door at A04.

Zhang Guifen and the three got up early. Although today was the first day of the Lunar New Year, they still had to continue going to the supermarket to work and earn money.

The first thing Zhang Guifen did after getting up early was to plan to offer another stick of incense to the portrait of the Bodhisattva Guanyin, asking the Bodhisattva Guanyin to bless her with peace and smoothness in the new year.

She lit three sticks of incense, made a wish, kowtowed, stood up, and was about to insert the three sticks of incense into the incense burner when she suddenly felt that the feeling was a bit wrong.

Originally, when the incense was inserted into the rice in the incense burner, there would be a distinct feeling of resistance.

But now, she couldn't find any feeling at all.

When she looked closely, she was instantly furious!

She roared sternly, "This dead old woman surnamed Xiao! She actually dared to steal even the rice in my incense burner!?" ===== CHAPTER 1031 =====