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#277 - Celebrate New Year's Eve (2 in 1 order)

"Oh, what is all this?" Lu Yu said, holding his forehead.

"Pfft~"

Gao Xiuli and Liu Mengyuan couldn't help but laugh.

After this little farce, the atmosphere wasn't as awkward anymore.

"Honey, just treat this place like your own home. Come on, come inside for apples and melon seeds."

Mom invited Liu Mengyuan to sit down and casually peeled an orange from the fruit plate, handing it to her.

Just as Liu Mengyuan's mouth was full of orange, Mom picked up a banana from the fruit plate, peeled it, and stuffed it into her hand.

While eating, Gao Xiuli glanced at Lu Youkang and scolded playfully, "Old Lu, what are you standing there like a dummy for? Take Yuan Yuan's suitcase to the back room."

"Oh."

Lu Youkang nodded, ignored Lu Yu, and carried the suitcase towards the back room.

She continued to instruct, "Lu Yu, don't just stand there. Tidy up the table and add any necessary bowls and chopsticks."

Liu Mengyuan sat on the sofa, flattered, stealing glances at Lu Yu and lowering her head to eat small bites.

Lu Yu was dumbfounded.

How did it seem like Yuan Yuan was the biological child, and I was picked up from the street?

Sitting on the sofa, Gao Xiuli chatted with Liu Mengyuan, asking about the girl's specific situation.

When a son is dating, the elders are worried about a few things: whether the two are compatible, what the other person's character and values are like, and whether they will be happy together...

Compatibility covers many aspects, such as personality, work, values, and family.

If they are already living together, they also worry about whether something life-threatening will happen.

Originally, before Lu Yu brought his girlfriend home, Gao Xiuli thought that her daughter-in-law's appearance was secondary, as long as the style wasn't completely mismatched, she wouldn't care too much.

After all, it would be a success if Lu Yu, this silent gourd, could successfully marry a wife.

But unexpectedly, Lu Yu brought back such a beautiful girlfriend, whose looks far exceeded her expectations.

Moreover, this girl seemed gentle and quiet, giving her a good first impression, at least like a child from a decent family.

After chatting for a while,

"You guys sit for a while, I'll go to the kitchen to cook a few more dishes." Gao Xiuli put on her apron again.

"Auntie, there's no need to be so busy, this table has enough food." Liu Mengyuan quickly stood up.

"How can that be? This is your first time at home this year, it has to be more lavish."

The sound of stir-frying came from the kitchen, and a fragrance faintly wafted out.

On the balcony, Lu Youkang also took the opportunity to ask Lu Yu:

"Where is the girl from, and what does she do?"

Lu Yu: "She's from the South, and she works at the same company as me... uh, in management."

"Still in management?!"

Lu Youkang looked at Liu Mengyuan, who was sitting in the living room watching TV obediently.

"It's too unreasonable that you could find this kind of girl. As your dad, even I think it's unreasonable.

If you want to keep her, you have to work harder. With your usual carefree appearance, can you hold onto her?"

Lu Yu retorted unhappily:

"How am I carefree? I was a serious study machine in school, okay? Besides, I'm her boss at the company."

"Keep dreaming," Lu Youkang sneered.

Liu Mengyuan, who had washed her hands, came out of the bathroom, examining the house with a curious gaze. Lu Yu continued to water the flowers on the balcony, Gao Xiuli came out with a large plate of sweet and sour ribs, and Lu Youkang was in the kitchen getting bowls to serve rice.

Liu Mengyuan pursed her lips. She thought she was just coming over for a meal today, but it was a little different from what she imagined.

The fragrant food, the warm living room, the natural conversation, and Lu's parents, the atmosphere with more people,

This was completely different from the atmosphere of celebrating the New Year at her own home in Liu Mengyuan's memory.

The elders at home always had stern faces during the New Year, like a company board meeting.

But here, how should she put it, it really felt like the New Year.

"Eat quickly, try my mom's cooking. My mom's ribs are super fragrant, oh, the braised ribs are even better, today's are sweet and sour... not bad too."

The two elders didn't say anything, looking at the two of them whispering to each other with doting eyes, and then this guy gave his girlfriend food.

Unreal. How did this kid suddenly grow up so much?

The elders ridiculed themselves, they had this problem of treating their son like a child every day.

They used to laugh at Old Sun next door, whose son was already in his twenties, and he was making a fuss like he'd seen a ghost when his son got a girlfriend. But when it came to their own son, it wasn't much better.

"Yuan Yuan, come on, eat more, don't go hungry." She put a few ribs into Liu Mengyuan's bowl.

"Thank you, Auntie."

"Tell me, this stinky boy Lu Yu didn't say a word about having a girlfriend. Last time we saw girls' clothes hanging on the balcony, we thought... never mind, you guys are living together, right?"

"Ah? ... Yeah." Liu Mengyuan thought for a moment and nodded.

"Where is your home? Not from Jianghai City, right?" "Yeah."

Liu Mengyuan nodded, adding: "Right, I'm from Gusu, not Jianghai."

"What are your hobbies usually?"

"Cooking."

Liu Mengyuan wanted to behave well in front of her future mother-in-law, deliberately emphasizing this point.

In fact, she wasn't lying. Thanks to the 'spoiling wife' skill tree, her cooking skills had improved rapidly.

"Especially stewing turtle soup, I stew it every day, Lu Yu loves to drink it."

She added specifically.

The two elders looked at each other with complicated expressions.

They're living together, and she has to stew turtle soup every day to nourish him. Young people are just different, full of energy, like dry wood meeting fire.

...

After dinner, Gao Xiuli poked her head out from the kitchen:

"Lu Yu, we're out of soy sauce, go to the supermarket in the neighborhood and buy a bottle."

Lu Yu nodded and was about to put on his shoes when Liu Mengyuan also picked up her down jacket.

"I'll go with you, I want to take a stroll around the neighborhood."

Not long after the two left,

Lu Yu's uncle and cousin pushed open the door, bringing gifts to visit for the New Year.

The old uncle and cousin sat on the sofa for a while, and the old uncle opened the chatterbox again:

"Oh, sister, brother-in-law, you can't say it, sometimes people are really deceptive,

Take my son Xiao Qiang, for example. His grades weren't good when he was in school. I hated him for not living up to my expectations, and I beat this stinky boy every day, but his grades didn't improve much.

Who would have thought that he would be so promising now!

Didn't I say last time that Xiao Qiang just found a good job in Shenzhen with a monthly salary of 8,000!

It's a big IT company that seems to be doing game outsourcing specifically for Tenghui. The benefits are not bad, and they give out things during festivals.

Xiao Qiang had only been on the job for a few days when the leader praised him for being serious, responsible, and having potential.

Now, half a year has passed, the leader has been promoted, and he has also been promoted to team leader."

Lu Youkang drank tea without looking up and said with a smile:

"Is that so? My great-nephew is really promising. How many people are in his team?"

The old uncle coughed dryly and said with a smile: "Hey, although there's only him in the team right now, it's just a title, but it's still a team in name."

"Oh..." Lu Youkang smiled without saying a word.

"By the way, the girl that Qiangzi's company is interested in is about to be won over. She's very pretty just from the photos, hehe, later, I'll bring the girl back for you to see."

Speaking of his pretty girlfriend, Xiao Qiang's head, which was already raised high, was almost tilted to the sky.

While they were chatting enthusiastically in the room, Lu Yu and Liu Mengyuan pushed open the door and walked in.

The uncle and Xiao Qiang were stunned the moment the two entered.

"This, this is..."

"Oh, this is my new girlfriend. I brought her back for my parents to see. Yuan Yuan, this is my uncle and cousin."

After they greeted each other, the old uncle immediately became low-key, completely silent.

Good heavens, he was just bragging about his son's girlfriend being settled, but Lu Yu directly brought back such a beautiful girlfriend.

What else was there to say? He was directly overshadowed.

The cousin also completely stopped talking, watching TV silently.

After watching for a while, Lu Yu smiled: "Qiangzi, what about the girlfriend you mentioned last time?"

Xiao Qiang said: "...Well, I finally added her on WeChat."

Gao Xiuli was tidying up the kitchen and poked her head out: "Ah? Giving her gifts and treating her to dinner, and it's only been half a year since you added her on WeChat, that's not right. Qiangzi, you haven't been scammed, have you? Old brother, you have to keep an eye on this."

The old uncle waved his hand and said with a smile: "Hey, sister, that's not true. How could Qiangzi be so stupid?"

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While chatting, the old uncle and cousin chatted about a few mundane things and then fell silent.

Qiangzi was so bored that he picked up his phone and started playing games.

Lu Yu took a closer look and saw that he was playing 'Space-Time Moe Girl'.

"Do you like playing this?" he said with a smile.

"Hey, this is popular among young people in Shenzhen recently. The girl I'm chasing in the office is also playing it. She's raised a lot of Moe Girls, so I joined the craze."

Once they started talking about the game, the cousin completely opened the chatterbox:

"In this game, clearing the main storyline and developing Moe Girls is only a small part of the gameplay. The multiplayer social and e-sports leagues are the main focus! Maybe Peach Garden has already made that part, just to whet the players' appetites, deliberately not releasing it."

"I don't think so." Lu Yu started eating melon seeds, "Maybe they're just slacking off and haven't started making it yet."

"That's definitely impossible!"

The cousin said decisively!

"The corporate culture of Peach Garden is, the pursuit of excellence! How can they allow themselves to have such slacking off behavior..."

"Corporate culture? Where did you see that?" Lu Yu said, dumbfounded. How could he, the company boss, not know that his company had any corporate culture slogans?

"I saw it on the forum. It's a leak from the uncle party. This news is guaranteed!"

Lu Yu said oh, it seems that someone on the forum is making things up again, similar to that youtiao brother.

"Brother, have you heard that the boss of Peach Garden is also a college graduate who just started his business and made such a successful game, it's really awesome!"

"Heh, never heard of it." Lu Yu shook his head with a smile.

It seems that this kid usually only cares about chasing girls and hasn't watched the Heavenly Venerate Cup live broadcast at all, otherwise, how could he not recognize himself and Liu Mengyuan.

The uncle sighed: "Hey, young people can't be compared to each other. Look at others, in their early twenties and already the boss of a company. Qiangzi and Xiaoyu, you are still earning a fixed salary in the unit. This is a pure difference."

Lu Youkang watched TV on the side and said: "I think, don't always compare our own children with others. Being ordinary is true happiness."

Gao Xiuli also poked her head out from the kitchen: "That's the point. Old brother, don't leave, stay for dumplings."

The uncle glanced at Liu Mengyuan, who was silent on the side, and said with a smile: "Never mind, we'll go back first, so as not to delay you from chatting with your future daughter-in-law."

After the two left, the family of four began to make dumplings while watching the Spring Festival Gala.

As a result, the more they watched the gala, the more boring it became.

"Let's all make—dumplings—together—"

The skit on TV was so boring that the old couple were almost falling asleep.

After eating dumplings, Lu Youkang yawned: "Alright, let's all go to bed early and put up the couplets tomorrow morning."

...

As soon as she pushed open the bedroom door, Liu Mengyuan curiously looked around, constantly examining the various items in the room.

Lu Yu: "Good heavens, why are you looking so seriously like you're in a museum?"

"After all, this is where you grew up, it's normal for me to be a little curious."

Lu Yu let her look around as she pleased, and he began to tidy up the bed.

As a result, as soon as he lifted the quilt, he heard a snap,

A bag of compressed balloons under the pillow immediately made the two of them blush.

"Did Uncle and Auntie prepare this?"

"I don't know..."

Lu Yu was quite helpless. If this item was prepared by the two elders, it meant that they had recently watched some chicken soup articles written by marketing accounts.

This was after all the old home, not the house the two rented, it was impossible for the two of them to really do anything here, they just lay down tightly next to each other, looking at the ceiling in a daze.

Flashes of fireworks and the sound of crackling firecrackers kept coming from outside the window. Liu Mengyuan looked at Lu Yu beside her, her expression a little dazed, and gently touched Lu Yu's hand with her small hand, then retracted it.

"I still feel like all of this is like a dream," she said.

Her words actually contained a long wait from her previous life.

"Me too," Lu Yu said with a smile:

"Look, my parents are actually just a very ordinary old couple. Just get along as a family slowly in the future. Tomorrow, the seven aunts and eight aunts in the family will probably come to visit for the New Year. After all, my mom will definitely send a bunch of text messages, bragging about this matter of you coming to our house.

If the elders give you red envelopes, just take them, don't refuse."

"Wouldn't that be too embarrassing?"

"Just treat it as extra pocket money to buy turtles."

"Alright then."

Liu Mengyuan almost agreed in seconds.

Lu Yu was shocked. Good heavens, how much do you like turtles?

He thought of something else: "By the way, aren't you going home for the New Year? What about your mom's side..."

He felt that even if he didn't mention this, Gao Xiuli would have to mention it the next day.

Liu Mengyuan pouted, "Anyway, she's practically spent New Year's alone before. It makes no difference whether I'm there or not."

Lu Yu was silent for a moment, then reminded her:

"Today, didn't our family have Uncle help us take a group photo? Send that photo to your mom. My mom has also prepared a lot of gifts. You can give us an address later, and we'll mail them over.

No matter what she's thinking now, we can't be lacking in etiquette."

"Okay..."

Liu Mengyuan nodded, looking thoughtful.

...

These few days of the New Year were spent visiting relatives and friends.

On the first day back at work.

Lu Yu discovered that the employees of Peach Blossom Village, after returning home for the New Year, were all radiant and full of energy.

Seeing that everyone had gained weight and looked healthy after the year, Lu Yu was also very pleased:

"Very good, very spirited!"

In the new year, continue to generate more Leisure Points for me.

Lu Yu thought, it's time to start developing the new VR project!