First spoiled, then love

Chapter 570 The New Year is approaching
"Okay." Chen Qingrong had no objection to this, but was a little worried. "But if we have to go to the temple to worship, can you do it?"

Tang Xiaoru was a little dissatisfied. "It's true that my belly is big, but I'm not to the point where I can't walk, okay? I heard from my mother that in her era, many pregnant women even went to work in the fields before giving birth. Sometimes I reflect on myself for being too pretentious."

Chen Qingrong really didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "It's a good thing to know how to reflect on yourself, but there's no need to reflect on everything. You should get some special care when you're pregnant."

"Besides, this is not the same era as before. We didn't have the conditions back then, but now we do. How can it be the same? Don't feel any psychological burden."

Tang Xiaoru pouted, "I know, I don't have any psychological burden, I'm just talking, I'm not good at self-PUA."

Chen Qingrong hummed, then suddenly thought of something and slapped his thigh, "Damn, I forgot to bring the gift box I brought back from the Sun family. I'll go downstairs and get it from the car now."

"It's okay." Tang Xiaoru held his hand, "Don't worry, it's the same if you go get it in the evening. Wait until mom, dad, grandpa and grandma are here, and we can eat together."

"By the way, what's in the gift box?"

"It's chocolate, eggs, and some candies. You can't eat the chocolate, but you can eat the eggs and candies. The portions are quite large."

"I have no appetite." Tang Xiaoru pouted and looked at Chen Qingrong eagerly, "I actually want to eat pizza more."

"Then order takeout."

"I want you to get it for me, on So-and-So Street."

"Huh?" Chen Qingrong was confused. "Do we have to go that far? Is their pizza delicious?"

Tang Xiaoru said with a playful smile, "Then I don't know. Anyway, I only know that they have just opened and they have a great discount. If you buy a certain pizza, you can get a free egg tart. So are you willing to help me get it?"

Chen Qingrong rolled his eyes. "If I'm not mistaken, you should have already bought the coupons, right?"

Tang Xiaoru held up Chen Qingrong's face and kissed him, "You really understand me, my dear husband. Then you should go quickly. It's quite warm now and drive over there."

"alright."

Knowing that Tang Xiaoru had already bought the ticket and seeing how eager she looked, Chen Qingrong couldn't say anything to refuse her.

So he drove to the designated store and got pizza from Tang Xiaoru.

It takes about 35 minutes to drive from their community to the store. In Chen Qingrong's mind, this is already quite a long distance.

On the way, Chen Qingrong suddenly received a call from Mr. Bai.

"Xiao Chen, the New Year is coming soon. I have prepared some fresh pork, beef and mutton for you and Xiao Tang. Do you want to come and get it yourself, or should I mail it to you?" Grandpa Bai said with a smile.

Chen Qingrong was immediately flattered. "Mr. Bai, you are so polite. You should keep it and sell it for money. If we want to eat meat during the New Year, we can just buy some ourselves."

"Well, they've already been slaughtered, and I'm making money from selling them. I'm sure I'll have to eat them myself during the New Year."

"The ones I'm slaughtering now are the ones I've specially saved. The meat is very firm. You and Xiao Tang will definitely like it."

Uncle Bai said enthusiastically.

Chen Qingrong thought for a moment and said, "How about this, Mr. Bai? I'll go to your place the day after tomorrow afternoon. It just so happens that I haven't seen you for a long time, so I'll go over to see you."

"Okay, okay, then I'll wait for you at home."

"Okay, see you tomorrow."

"OK."

Chen Qingrong hung up the phone and continued to step on the accelerator.

After getting the pizza and returning home, he told Tang Xiaoru about it.

Tang Xiaoru nodded, "It's New Year's Day, and it's time for the district to visit Mr. Bai. We'll go and pay our respects tomorrow, and then I'll go buy some New Year's goods with you, and you can bring them to Mr. Bai."

"They specially left fresh meat for us, you can't go there empty-handed."

Chen Qingrong smiled and said, "I know this. Even if you didn't tell me, I would have bought it myself."

"You can't buy it by yourself, you're too stingy, I have to supervise you to buy it."

"If you want to go shopping, just tell me."

Chen Qingrong rolled his eyes lazily and exposed her directly.

It is true that he is stingy when it comes to small things, but he is never vague when it comes to big things. Tang Xiaoru clearly knows this about him, but she still uses this matter to criticize him, obviously wanting to follow suit.

However, it's nice to take her out for a walk once in a while.

After all, it can be seen that Tang Xiaoru is really about to be suffocated.

Tang Xiaoru smiled and stuck out her tongue, then opened the package and started eating the pizza.

Chen Qingrong then said, "I suddenly realized that since we got married, whether it was the New Year or other festivals, I rarely accompanied you to buy gifts and go back to your parents' home. Instead, we often brought things back from your parents' home. It seems different from other couples."

Tang Xiaoru said casually, "My parents don't care about that. Besides, it's not that far from our house to my parents' house. I'm not marrying far away."

"Besides, we haven't given gifts to your parents much."

"My parents don't care about that either." Chen Qingrong couldn't help laughing when he said this, "It seems that our parents are really special. They don't know how to make money from their son-in-law and daughter-in-law."

"When our children grow up, I will ask my daughter to bring back as many gifts from her parents-in-law as my son gives to his father-in-law's house during the New Year and other festivals. This way, we can achieve the best profit and loss ratio."

Tang Xiaoru didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "You really think our son is the Construction Bank and our daughter is the China Merchants Bank? Let me tell you, I am also a very open-minded parent. If our children really get married, please don't embarrass me."

"Do I look like the kind of person who would embarrass you?"

Tang Xiaoru was very satisfied with the pizza.

She had a good appetite now and did not ask Chen Qingrong to help share the burden. She finished the pizza by herself, but she gave all the chicken wings she ordered to Chen Qingrong.

In the evening, both fathers rushed back from Chen Qingrong's hometown. Chen Qingrong could clearly feel that his father-in-law seemed to have lost some weight.

"I asked you two to come back early because tomorrow our family will go to worship and pray together. After all, there is a third generation in the family now, and this first New Year with a third generation should have some sense of ceremony."

Lin Yue poured them both tea and said.

Tang Chengshan asked, "Where should we go to worship? Are there any temples in Shanghai that are more spiritual? I don't know much about this."

"Besides knowing where to go fishing, what else do you know?" Lin Yue rolled her eyes and complained about him, then added, "It's in a certain district. There was a temple fair there before, and I even took you to marry it."

Tang Chengshan was stunned. "But I remember there were only statues for praying for children. Xiaoru is pregnant now. There's no need to pray for a child, right?"

Lin Yue said with a smile, "Who told you that you can only go there to pray for a child? There are obviously other statues. Well, anyway, I have arranged it. You don't need to ask more. We can just go together when the time comes."

"Okay, I'll listen to my wife."

After the family had dinner together in the evening, the parents went back to rest.

Tang Xiaoru said to Chen Qingrong at this time, "I was chatting with Bingbing just now. I asked her and she said she used a pregnancy test stick and confirmed that she was not pregnant. It seems that she just had a stomach upset."

Chen Qingrong smiled and said, "That's good. I was wondering how it is possible to get pregnant with a second child so soon. It's too outrageous."

"Yes, Bingbing told me that she was fully prepared at the time. If she was confirmed to be pregnant, she would have had an abortion."

"She doesn't plan to have a second child?"

"Of course she wants it, but she hasn't even taken care of her first child yet, so how can she have the energy to raise a second child? So she will definitely choose to have an abortion." Tang Xiaoru raised her eyebrows.

Chen Qingrong leaned on the sofa beside her, "If we really fight, will Lao Yan agree?"

Tang Xiaoru glanced at him and asked, "Do you think Yan Mo dares not to listen to Yang Bingbing?"

These words immediately left Chen Qingrong speechless.

Chen Qingrong is very self-aware and knows for sure that he is a henpecked husband, but he is still inferior to Yan Mo in that he is a henpecked husband. Yan Mo is the most henpecked of the henpecked husbands.

In Chen Qingrong's opinion, as long as Yang Bingbing was not cheating on him, he would agree to whatever Yang Bingbing said.

After all, being cuckolded is such a big blow to a man's self-esteem that any normal man cannot accept it. Tang Xiaoru added, "Today during the day, Furong chatted with me for a while. She said that she has basically adapted to the pace of life there. She also said that everything there is good, except that Europeans have a strong body odor and are too unhygienic."

Chen Qingrong was amused, "That's not what is written in Yilin."

Tang Xiaoru rolled her eyes, "You believe what Yilin said? Then you might as well believe that I am the reincarnation of Qin Shi Huang."

The couple slept soundly that night.

The next day was a sunny day. After getting dressed, they went to the temple to worship.

Yang Bingbing knew that Tang Xiaoru and the others were coming to worship, so she asked Tang Xiaoru to help them say something good to the Bodhisattva during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Tang Xiaoru naturally agreed.

After praying, Tang Xiaoru went outside to draw lots, and she got a good lot.

When they took the fortune to a fortune teller, the fortune teller asked them, "What do you want to pray for?"

Tang Xiaoru said quickly, "I want to ask about the future fate of the baby in my belly. I want to know if they can live in peace and if they can have a promising future when they grow up."

The master looked at the fortune stick in his hand and said, "The dragon and the phoenix are auspicious and the lucky star shines. If I'm not wrong, you are pregnant with twins, right?"

"That's right, Master, you are really amazing!" Tang Xiaoru's eyes lit up.

The master smiled and said, "Don't worry, the baby in your belly will definitely grow up safely, and if nothing unexpected happens, he will definitely achieve great things when he grows up. You two just need to wait and enjoy your life."

Although it was an auspicious word, it made Tang Xiaoru happy when it came from the mouth of a "professional".

"Thank you, Master. Thank you, Master. If it is really as you said, I will definitely come back to fulfill my wish."

Tang Xiaoru clasped her hands together and stuffed two hundred-yuan bills into the red box in front of her.

Chen Qingrong said at this time, "Let's go, let's go find our parents, they seem to be in the side hall."

"Uh-huh."

After finding his parents, Chen Qingrong used the excuse of going to the toilet and sneaked all the way to the fortune-teller again.

"Thank you, Master, for your help."

Chen Qingrong stuffed another three hundred yuan into the box.

The master smiled and said, "It's a small matter. I can say a few nice words to make the female donor feel at ease. Why not do it?"

"Exactly."

It turned out that Chen Qingrong had come to greet the master in advance before interpreting the fortune. Otherwise, how would he know that Tang Xiaoru was pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl?
Do you think he is really a fortune teller?
Chen Qingrong did this just to make Tang Xiaoru happy. Why not spend a little money to make Tang Xiaoru happy?

The master then said to him, "But what I just said was not all just polite talk. I can tell that the child of you and that female donor will really achieve something when he grows up. You must educate him well."

Chen Qingrong said perfunctorily, "Ah, yes, yes."

He thought that the world is unpredictable, and you are still calculating it. This was just to appease Tang Xiaoru, he wouldn't believe it anyway.

After the worship, the family took a brief stroll and then went home.

The next day, Chen Qingrong and Ni Shengnan went to visit Sun Cheng's grave. Of course, Sun Dafu and his wife also brought Sun Niancheng with them.

When Ni Shengnan saw Chen Qingrong holding a black bag, he asked him, "Brother Chen, what's in your bag?"

Chen Qingrong smiled mysteriously, "It's the handmade shop you recommended to me. I placed an urgent order there. Luckily there are only two pieces, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to come here to burn them for me today."

Ni Shengnan pursed his lips, wanting to say something.

Chen Qingrong guessed it immediately and glared at her, "I'll tell you again, this is definitely not something inappropriate for children. I'm a serious person, okay."

"Oh."

After arriving at the cemetery, the mysterious gift that Chen Qingrong brought was revealed.

One is a paper-made new Apple mobile phone, and the other is a paper-made Kamen Rider Zi-O belt.

"Lao Sun, your sister-in-law bought me a real Kamen Rider belt. You also liked to look at it when you were alive. I will ask someone to make one for you and burn it for you. After you receive it, come to me in a dream and tell me how it feels to use it."

"As for this new Apple phone, I think you will like it too. Make good use of it down there. If you run out of phone credit, remember to tell me in your dreams and I'll give you some extra money."

The Kamen Rider series was recommended to Chen Qingrong by Sun Cheng when he was in college, but he was not very interested in it at the time, and even thought that Kamen Rider was a remake of Armor Hero.

To use Sun Cheng's words at the time, his idea was indeed a bit against the will of Heaven.

Ni Shengnan also burned the gift that he had prepared for Sun Cheng and said a lot of things to him while sitting in front of Sun Cheng's grave.

"Cheng Cheng, it's New Year's again. It's been almost two years since you left us. You should be doing well down there, otherwise you wouldn't have come to my dreams to complain to me."

"I don't blame you if you don't come. Anyway, we will meet again sooner or later. Don't forget me."

She said as she touched Sun Cheng's portrait with tears in her eyes.

Sun Dafu and his wife choked up as they told Sun Cheng about the changes in their family.

Sun Niancheng was held obediently in his mother's arms, not crying or making a fuss, and no one knew what was in his two big dark eyes.

In the afternoon, Chen Qingrong took the New Year's goods that Tang Xiaoru and he bought yesterday, and drove to Grandpa Bai's house.

After arriving at Uncle Bai’s farm, he started shouting.

Soon Mr. Bai came out to greet him, "Xiao Chen, you're here."

"Uncle Bai, Happy New Year, Happy New Year." Chen Qingrong smiled and bowed.

Then he opened the trunk, which was full of New Year's goods.

Mr. Bai was immediately unhappy. "You just came here, why did you buy so many things? You kid, I don't lack anything here, why are you spending so much money?"

Chen Qingrong chuckled, "Chinese New Year is coming soon, so I'll prepare some New Year's goods for you. Besides, you've prepared some for Xiaoru and me, so shouldn't we prepare some for you?"

"I am the elder, isn't it my duty to prepare gifts for you youngsters?"

"Then it is also etiquette for us younger generations to prepare gifts for you, an elder."

"You, forget it, I can't argue with you. Come, I'll move in with you. By the way, I'll take you to see my treasures. A lot of them have been sold."

"to make."

After Chen Qingrong and Grandpa Bai moved the New Year's goods into the yard, they went to visit the farm together.

It was indeed as Mr. Bai said, many pigs, cattle and sheep were sold.

Mr. Bai originally wanted to invite Chen Qingrong to have dinner, but Chen Qingrong received a call from Tang Xiaoru, saying that relatives from her mother's side had come to pay New Year's greetings and asked him to go home to meet them. Chen Qingrong had to say goodbye first.

Grandpa Bai put the New Year goods he had prepared for them into the trunk of the car. Chen Qingrong took a look and thought, wow, he doesn't have to buy any meat for the New Year this year, which really saves money.

Two days later, Chen Qingrong's company started its holiday.

Chen Qingrong announced that the annual meeting would be held the day after tomorrow, and said that there were mysterious guests waiting for them, and then announced the holiday. At the same time, Gao Qiang and his branch company also synchronized the news.

When leaving the company, Chen Qingrong called Yang Bingbing, "Sister Bingbing, our company will hold an annual meeting the day after tomorrow. Have you settled it?"

Yang Bingbing said confidently, "It's already been done. If you don't call me, I will call you too. I invited you to join a very popular girl group in China, Fire Bxobs, or FB Group for short. This group debuted in a talent show and is very popular among young people, but they are not well-known enough nationwide, which just meets your requirements."

Chen Qingrong's mouth twitched. "Uh, Sister Bingbing, is this girl group really serious? How can there be a group named Burning Like a House? Why do I feel a little uneasy?"

"It's just a marketing gimmick. There are so many new artists debuting every year. How can they leave an impression without some marketing gimmicks? Don't get the wrong idea. This is a serious group."

(End of this chapter)