Siheyuan, don't mess with me

"By the way, Grandpa asked you to name the child!" Chen Xueru remembered what her grandmother said during the day and hurriedly reminded her.

"Didn't grandpa give it to you?" Chen Zhiguo had thought about naming his child himself, but after thinking about it, he decided to give the right to his grandfather. Unexpectedly, his grandfather gave the right back!

"Grandma said, Grandpa said, you are a cultured person, you should give your child a meaningful name, it should be nice and loud!"

Hearing this, Chen Zhiguo probably understood why his grandfather asked him to name the child. In all likelihood, the name he wanted was not approved by his grandmother, so his grandmother was not satisfied, and that was why she gave him this task!

"Okay, I'll think about it tomorrow! By the way, if you have any good names, you can also suggest them."

"Can we?" Jiang Xiaohua looked at Chen Zhiguo.

"Of course you can. You are the child's mother. What's wrong with giving the child a name?"

"No, you should come first! The names we picked are not nice, you have to pick a nice name!"

Liu Lan gave up immediately and still wanted Chen Zhiguo, the father of the child, to make the decision. "Okay, I'll think about it tomorrow!"

"What do you have to do tonight? Can't you think about it at night?" Chen Xueru said dissatisfiedly.

"Of course I have something to do! And I'll be very busy!" Chen Zhiguo looked at them with a smile, and then the three women's faces turned red. Chen Xueru pulled Liu Lan beside her and said, "Ignore him, let's go back to sleep!"

Chen Zhiguo looked at Jiang Xiaohua, who was squatting and wiping his feet. Under the light, her cheeks were flushed and her shy look made Chen Zhiguo lose consciousness for a moment. Beauty is like a flower, beauty is like a painting!

Chen Zhiguo picked up Jiang Xiaohua and said, "The water hasn't been poured out yet."

"Never mind, we'll talk about it tomorrow!"

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Chen Zhiguo himself was a bit confused about how to name his child. Nowadays, the names for boys are Yong, Jun, Qiang, Jianshe, Weiguo, and for girls are Hua, Hong, Fang, and Li. These are all very common. If you shout "Xiaoyong", "Xiaojun", "Xiaofang", "Xiaohong" in a crowd, two or three out of ten people will definitely turn around. The rate of having the same name is too high! Chen Zhiguo certainly didn't want to choose his child's name from these words!

Chen Zhiguo had been thinking about this problem since he got up in the morning. He thought of many names and spent a long time writing and drawing on his desk. After careful consideration, he felt that some of them were not quite right.

"What are you busy with?" At this time, Ma Huihui came in with a big belly.

"I'm naming my child! I didn't expect it to be so difficult!" Chen Zhiguo said with a frown.

"Show me what names you have chosen?" Upon hearing this, Ma Huihui immediately became interested. She also needed one. The baby in her belly would be born in a few months!

"Here, take a look!" Chen Zhiguo casually handed the notebook in his hand to Ma Huihui.

"Chen Leyao, Chen Shihan, Chen Shixuan, Chen Qianzi, Chen Kexin, Chen Kunyu, Chen Kunwen, Chen Kunwu," Ma Huihui was pleasantly surprised when she saw them. "Zhiguo, your name is much better than those Jun, Qiang, Yong and so on!"

"Let me see!" Hearing Ma Huihui's praise, Chen Xueru and the others also gathered around!

"Take your time to look around! Choose for yourself. I'll go pick up my dad from get off work!" The women gathered around him had no time to care about him. They were focused on choosing a name for their child. Seeing that no one paid attention to him, Chen Zhiguo touched his nose and walked out of the house on his own!

Chapter 414: The end of the year, the festive atmosphere!

After driving into the city, Chen Zhiguo returned to the Chen family courtyard, closed the doors and windows of the house, pasted Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters, set off a string of small firecrackers, and then drove the previous GAZ-69 to the steel mill! The rear seats of this car are double-row seats arranged vertically, which can carry many people. Even if there are many people, they can still fit in if they squeeze in!

After rushing as fast as he could, Chen Zhiguo drove his car into the steel mill and parked it at the door of the guesthouse before the noon shift ended. Previously, more than a dozen girls from Chenjia Village came to work in the guesthouse, and seven or eight of them needed to go home today. The other girls had already married during the time when Chen Zhiguo was away. They were young and beautiful, their jobs were easy, and their salaries were high. These girls had long been the best choice for the other half of the young workers in the steel mill!

This year, the New Year benefits distributed by the steel mill are very good, including two pounds of pork, a wild rabbit, a pound of flour, half a pound of oil, a pound of candy, and an enamel basin, which is just enough to hold all the benefits!

"Brother Zhiguo!" A surprised shout rang out when Chen Zhiguo just got off the car. Chen Zhiguo turned around suddenly.

"Xiaohong! Be careful, you're going to be a mother, aren't you?" The one who greeted Chen Zhiguo was Chen Xiaohong, the guest room supervisor of the guest house! When she saw Chen Zhiguo getting off the car, she walked over quickly with her big belly!

Seeing that it was a bit inconvenient for her to carry the New Year benefits, Chen Zhiguo hurried forward to take it, "How are you going to go home? Where do you live? I'll take you home first!" In a blink of an eye, his cousin was already pregnant. Chen Zhiguo also sighed in his heart, time passed so quickly!

"No need to trouble you! My boyfriend will come to pick me up after get off work! And he doesn't live far away, just over 20 minutes' walk!" Chen Xiaohong showed a happy smile on her face. It seems that she is living a good life now!

"Is your partner also from the steel mill?"

"Yes, I'm a third-level fitter in the third workshop!"

"That's right. If there's anything he doesn't know, let him come to me and I'll teach him when I have time!"

"That's great. I'll go home and tell him that it's just that my husband is stupid. You can't scold him!"

Chen Xiaohong certainly knew Chen Zhiguo's skills, and also knew how busy Chen Zhiguo was. She was willing to teach her man, which meant that Chen Zhiguo really treated him as a relative! Even if Chen Zhiguo didn't have time to teach her many times, as long as she followed him and showed up in the workshop a few times, no one in the workshop would dare to look down on her man. Who in the steel mill doesn't know Chen Zhiguo's name now?

"How can I do that? No matter what, he is my brother-in-law. How dare I?" Chen Zhiguo said with a smile.

"Then I'll tell him to come find you when you come to work here!"

"Okay! I'll come over after the Chinese New Year. You can ask my brother-in-law to look for me. By the way, will you be back home for the Chinese New Year this year?"

"Go back, go back on the second day of the Chinese New Year!" Chen Xiaohong smiled. She was the oldest girl in the group and the hardest worker. It was Chen Zhiguo who had high hopes for her and promoted her to the guest room supervisor. Chen Xiaohong was grateful to Chen Zhiguo for the rest of her life. If it weren't for him, she would have stayed in the countryside all her life and didn't know who she would marry. Now she has a happy life, with both working parents and eating commercial grain. Every time she goes back to her hometown, her parents always tell her to listen to Chen Dayong and Chen Zhiguo at work! So, although Chen Xiaohong is one or two years older than Chen Zhiguo, she still calls him brother!

Now, Chen Zhiguo cared about her like this again, which made her even more moved. In fact, she also knew why Chen Zhiguo wanted to teach her man skills. First, Chen Zhiguo's level was indeed higher than any master chef in the factory. What others couldn't teach, Chen Zhiguo could teach! Second, it was also a disguised way to support herself and stand up for herself, worried that her family was wronged because they were from the countryside!

"Brother Zhiguo, come to our house for a drink on the second day of the New Year!"

"Okay! If I don't have any plans, I'll go over!" As the two were talking, another shout came, "Brother Zhiguo!" "Brother Zhiguo!"

Chen Erya led a group of girls out of the guesthouse with bags. When they saw Chen Zhiguo, they shouted to him. Chen Zhiguo waved his hand and directed, "Put the luggage in the car first. We'll set off when my dad comes out!" As he was speaking, Chen Dayong came out, also holding an enamel basin in his hand!

"Dad, isn't the guesthouse closed?"

"No, there are on-duty leaders on duty at the factory. They sleep in the guesthouse at night. The guesthouse needs to keep on-duty personnel!"

"Then it won't matter if they all go back, right?" Chen Zhiguo pointed at the girl who was chattering and getting on the bus happily and asked.

Chen Dayong said indifferently, "It doesn't matter. Just leave four or five people, a front desk, a guest room, a chef, and a restaurant waiter!"

"Xiaohong, your family hasn't come to pick you up yet?" Chen Dayong asked when he saw Chen Xiaohong standing aside.

"Director, they haven't arrived yet. I guess we'll have to wait a while. They said last night that they would clean up before leaving get off work, so they should be here soon. It's almost time to leave work now!"

"Okay, you wait here, we'll go back to the village first!" Chen Dayong got on the car, Chen Zhiguo returned the enamel basin he was holding for Chen Xiaohong and got on the car as well. Chen Xiaohong waved to them.

"Goodbye, Director! Goodbye, Brother Zhiguo!"

There were ten people in the car, eight of them sitting in the back row, which was very spacious. However, the car had not been modified and was leaking air everywhere when driving. Although Chen Erya and the others were sitting in the back, they were very happy and did not notice how cold it was at all, Chen Zhiguo still deliberately slowed down the car!

After returning home, Chen Zhiguo started to get busy. He took out the Spring Festival couplets he had written in the morning and started to paste them together with Chen Dayong. One of the father and son applied paste while the other pasted the couplets, with the grandfather giving orders beside them!

"A little bit up, a little bit to the left, ..."

The women at home were also busy preparing food for the New Year. Fried meatballs, fried tofu, fried fish! A large pot of pig offal, pig trotters and pig tails were stewed in the pot. The tempting aroma of fried and stewed food filled the whole courtyard, making people salivate! The rhythmic beating of the minced meat was like the festive gongs and drums welcoming the New Year, making the New Year atmosphere at home even stronger!

While everyone was busy, the second uncle and second aunt also rushed over! Like Chen Zhiguo, they first cleaned up the house in the city, then rode back on bicycles, went home to simply clean up the house, and then returned to their hometown!

After Second Aunt arrived, she immediately put on an apron and joined the battle in the kitchen. With her as the main force, Grandma no longer intervened and Wang Meihua became a runner and miscellaneous person!

Grandma strolled back to the room and followed Chen Xiaoli and the others to look at the three children who were still sleeping soundly! Seeing that everyone in the family had arrived, Jiang Xiaohua and the Hu sisters started cooking!

With the help of his second uncle, the speed of pasting the couplets was significantly accelerated. After pasting the couplets, Chen Zhiguo wanted to go to the kitchen to help, but was chased away by Chen Xueru and Wang Meihua. There were enough women in the family, so why would they want him to do it!

Ma Huihui ate her fill in the kitchen before coming out. There was nothing she could do as pregnant women tend to get hungry easily. But today she could fill her stomach with just a little food!

Seeing her coming out, several men put out their cigarettes at the same time, "Zhiguo, these are the names chosen by Sister Xueru and the others!" Ma Huihui handed Chen Zhiguo the book from this morning! Chen Zhiguo opened it and saw that some of the names had been crossed out.

"Chen Kexin, Chen Kunwen, Chen Kunwu! Grandpa, Dad, Second Uncle, what do you think of these three names?"

"Capable of both literature and martial arts, this is a good name!" Grandpa nodded first. Chen Dayong thought for a while and nodded, "Just go with the name! But how do I register this household registration?"

"They will all be registered with their mother. When Xiaohua returns home after the Chinese New Year, I will arrange a job for her. When we go to register her, we can register the children together!"

"Can it be done? Of course it can be done. Xueru is the street clerk. We can just go through the adoption procedures. It's very easy to do these things now!"

"Chen Zhiguo, are you thinking of a few? I want to choose one too," Ma Huihui said.

"Why are you in such a hurry? We don't even know whether the baby is a boy or a girl. It won't be too late for me to think about it after you give birth," Chen Zhiguo felt a headache when he heard that he still wanted the baby. It took him a whole morning to come up with these names!

"No, I want to choose now, a son and a daughter!" Perhaps because of her pregnancy, Ma Huihui did not listen to Chen Zhiguo's words, but pulled Chen Zhiguo's arm, insisting that Chen Zhiguo think for her now!

"Okay! Okay! Okay! How about calling our son Chen Kunjie and our daughter Chen Qianyunzhen?"

"Chen Kunjie, Chen Qianyun!" Ma Huihui kept repeating in her mouth.

At this time, "Chen Qianyun, this name is for my daughter! When you give birth, let Chen Zhiguo think of a better name." Chen Xueru, who was walking out of the kitchen, happened to hear Ma Huihui muttering, so she took over and interrupted her. Chen Xueru felt that Chen Qianyun was a better name than Chen Kexin! !

Ma Huihui was not angry because Chen Xueru had snatched the baby away from her. She didn't know whether the baby in her belly was a boy or a girl. Anyway, with Chen Zhiguo around, he would have time to think about it slowly. He would definitely prepare a cute and nice name for his daughter!

Although lunch was a little late, it was very sumptuous. There was also a big bowl of men's favorite braised food, including pork liver, pork lungs, pork heart, pork large intestine, pig's trotters, and pig's tail, all cut and arranged. With the addition of the soul-stirring dipping sauce, this dish is absolutely the perfect dish to go with wine!

In addition to the special dishes of the north, the Hu sisters also made several special dishes of the south, such as chopped pepper fish head, double-steamed cured meat, and twice-cooked pork. Such excellent taste received unanimous praise!

In fact, what really touched Hu Xiaoyun and Hu Xiaohong was not the compliments they received for the delicious food, but more importantly, the fact that everyone here treated them as family members!

Whether it was the kind grandparents, the amiable parents of Chen Zhiguo, or the friendly uncle and aunt, or even the sisters Chen Xueru, Jiang Xiaohua and Liu Lan who they had just met, they all treated Hu Xiaoyun and her sister with great sincerity!

This sincerity made Hu Xiaoyun and her friends deeply feel the harmony and warmth of this big family. Here, there is no discrimination, no prejudice, no indifference, only endless love and respect! Whether working or chatting, it is so natural and harmonious, as if they have already integrated into it and have become an indispensable part of this family! This feeling makes them feel extremely happy and satisfied, and also makes them full of expectations for a better life in the future.

Chapter 415 New Year’s Eve!

There are more people in the family now, and the big round table is full! Adults and children are very lively, grandparents are sitting in the main seat, on the left are Chen Dayong and his wife, on the right are the second uncle and second aunt, and the rest are the younger generation!

Grandpa and grandma were so happy to see the increasing number of people in the family! The Chen family was beginning to prosper, and this was what they wanted to see the most!

In the afternoon, the men basically had nothing to do. In the kitchen, several women were busy. Grandma was in charge, Second Aunt was the main force, Jiang Xiaohua and the Hu sisters were helpers, and the rest were just there to make up the numbers, chatting and laughing while they worked!

The man sat in the room, drinking tea and chatting, and watching the children! Because he was afraid that Chen Xiaoli and the others would disturb the children, Chen Zhiguo specially asked them to go to the east wing. Anyway, the kang in the house is always heated, so it is very warm in any room!

Because he was not allowed to smoke, Chen Zhiguo took out fruits, melon seeds, peanuts, etc., gave some to the women busy in the kitchen, and gave some to his sisters. Then he came back and drank tea and ate snacks with his grandfather. This was the most leisurely time for Chen Zhiguo in the year!

"Are we going back after the New Year?" Chen Dayong was not used to just drinking tea and not smoking, but he was also not used to eating melon seeds!

"No, the experiment is not finished yet, and we have to see the progress! But I must go back and arrange the work, and then I will come back. In early April, before Huihui gives birth, I will definitely come back!"

"Is there no hope of being transferred back for the time being?" Chen Dayong was a little disappointed, and his grandfather next to him also looked a little lost!

"Dad, not yet. I still have a lot of work to do and I really can't leave! But I will come back more often in the future! I will probably have to run back and forth!"

"Okay! You should take care of yourself when you are out there, don't work too hard. My mother heard from Huihui that you fainted several times. How old are you? Why don't you take care of your body?"

"Dad, I get it! I'll be careful next time!"

"I'm not asking you to work overtime, I just want you to know that you are not alone now. You are also a father now. You need to be steady when doing things, think more and pay more attention!"

Chen Zhiguo smiled, this is the taste of home, it seems like he is blaming and scolding, but it actually contains a deep fatherly love!

As the night gradually falls, New Year's Eve, the warmest moment of the year, finally arrives! At this time, the whole country is jubilant, and people are immersed in the joy of the festival. On this special night, every family is full of laughter and joy, and everyone sits together to enjoy this rare reunion time.

Every family is reunited, and everyone's face is filled with happy smiles. Children are running and playing in and out of the house, and adults are busy preparing the New Year's Eve dinner. The aroma wafting from the kitchen makes people salivate. The family sits around the dining table, enjoying the rich food, talking and laughing, warm and harmonious.

At this time, families across the country are toasting to celebrate this day of reunion! They express their deep blessings and gratitude to their families with fine wine and delicious food. In this joyful atmosphere, people forget all their worries and fatigue, leaving only the beautiful expectations for the future.

Only after seeing the three children were held in their mothers' arms with their ears covered did Chen Zhiguo dare to go out to light the firecrackers. He waited until the three little children woke up before his grandmother allowed Chen Zhiguo to go out to set off firecrackers!

Amid the deafening sound of firecrackers, the whole family raised their glasses to celebrate the New Year and wish each other a better life in the coming year!