break out of the ice

Chapter 121 Another New Year
Although they couldn't understand it, it didn't affect everyone's happiness. Shi Mu was also encouraged by several people to sing a local opera, which was very lively, and then they dispersed.

This year Liu Qinqin was afraid of getting up late again, so she specially set the alarm clock, but it was still too late. When she woke up, she saw that the snow in the yard had been swept away.

The water in the pot was also boiled dry, just waiting for her to wake up and make dumplings.

The firecrackers were also hung on the tree. Antonio was still dressed as yesterday, and moved a small stool by the fire to wait for the firecrackers to be set off.

Liu Qinqin was a little embarrassed, and complained to Shi Jingqi with a blushing face: "I clearly set the alarm clock for six o'clock, why didn't the alarm clock go off? Is the battery dead? You are so serious, why don't you know to wake me up? I'm so sorry for getting up late again."

Shi Jingqi laughed, mixed hot water in the washbasin for Liu Qinqin to wash her face, and said, "The battery is charged, and the alarm clock is not broken. I turned it off for you. Even if you are fine, at most 07 I can wake up at :30, no need to set an alarm clock."

Liu Qinqin stomped her feet: "But it's 07:30 now."

"Yes, 07:30 is not too late." Shi Jingqi said with a smile, and handed the hot towel to Liu Qinqin.

Liu Qinqin had no choice but to wash up. After washing her face and changing her clothes, she heard Mother Shi already chanting in the yard, inviting all kinds of gods to come and taste the first meal at Shi Jingqi's house.

Liu Qinqin's face turned red when she heard that there was an extra concubine among the gods Mother Shi invited this year.

Firecrackers sounded in the yard, and steaming dumplings were served.

After eating the first meal in the morning of the first day of junior high school, everyone still went out to shovel snow.

Just started a few times, saw Shi Chunhua coming stepping on the snow, greeted everyone from a long distance, but the one who shouted was Antonio's name, she really looked like an infatuated girl who hadn't seen her lover for a day, It caused many villagers who were clearing snow to laugh.

Shi Chunhua walked to the yard of Shi Jingqi's house, stomped the snow on her feet, ran to Antonio and shouted loudly: "Antonio, how are you? Is it cold? Are you hungry? Are you used to it? Do you miss me? ?”

Liu Qinqin and Shi Jingqi looked at each other, and they both covered their mouths and smiled. Whatever Antonio thought about, he only thought about eating delicious food and setting off firecrackers.

But the two of them are "couples" now, and under Shi Chunhua's gaze, Antonio replied loudly: "I think."

Mother Shi knew what was going on between the two of them, so she drove Shi Chunhua into the yard: "Chunhua, ask your sister-in-law to lead you two into the house to talk, the door is cold."

Liu Qinqin hurriedly led the two of them in, and only for a while, Shi Chunhua took Antonio's arm, as if she was afraid that others would not believe that the two were in love.

As soon as they entered the house, the two let go.

Liu Qinqin tapped Shi Chunhua's forehead with her finger: "Stinky girl, why are you here so early in the morning?"

Shi Chunhua sat by the stove, stretched out her hand to warm the fire, and muttered: "It's not my mother. She watched the New Year's Eve yesterday and listened to my mother's nagging all night. She asked me how old Antonio is and what country he is from. People, what does the family do, how many brothers and sisters are there, whether parents are willing to work, whether there is any genetic disease in the family... how can I answer this."

"It's true that I can't answer, but when other girls are looking for a partner, they have to ask these questions. For example, when I'm looking for your brother, I just want to know how old he is, where he is from, and what he does at home." Liu Qinqin brought peanuts and melon seeds. , eating with Shi Chunhua, said with a smile upon hearing this.

"That family is really in love. I'm just pretending. Even if it's not, I can't find out about Antonio's house even if it's far away." Shi Chunhua peeled a peanut and ate it. Put the peanut shells on the burning briquettes, watch the peanut shells burn slowly, and then said: "I just said that I don't know, and my mother is not willing to say that Antonio is a foreign liar."

Antonio, who was standing by the side all the time, happily eating fried peanuts, understood this sentence, and argued, "I'm not a liar."

Shi Chunhua patted Antonio's shoulder: "I know, I know."

Then he turned around and asked Liu Qinqin: "Sister-in-law, you said that if we are really talking about marriage, would Antonio have to visit relatives at my house tomorrow?"

Liu Qinqin asked: "Do you want Antonio to come to your house? Let me tell you, beating someone is against the law. Beating a foreign friend is not only against the law, but also destroys the Sino-Italian friendship."

"It's okay, my grandpa is here, I can't let my mother beat him up, you and my brother Jingqi can rest assured, I promise to return you a full-bearded Antonio." Although Shi Chunhua said this, he didn't know what to do, but Seeing that Antonio has rough skin and thick flesh, he should not be damaged.

However, Shi Chunhua's family had to communicate with Antonio. With Antonio's current Chinese level and Liu Qinqin's and Shi Chunhua's English level, the three of them could not communicate with each other.

I had to wait for Shi Jingqi to come back to translate. After the excitement of yesterday and this morning, Antonio was much quieter now, and asked some Chinese New Year customs in unskilled words.

Several people chatted one after another, waiting for Shi Jingqi to come back.

Shi Jingqi came back and helped Shi Chunhua translate, but Antonio agreed immediately.

The reason was exactly the same as when I agreed to be a fake boyfriend, and I thought it was a very interesting thing.

After a few people discussed it, someone came to watch TV again. The curious sister-in-law saw that Shi Chunhua was there, and she was more curious about the relationship between Shi Chunhua and the gringo than she was about the TV.

Ask Shi Chunhua: "Chunhua, is this foreign man really your match?"

"Yeah, I'm going to visit relatives at my house tomorrow." Shi Chunhua said.

A woman with almond eyes in a floral satin padded jacket said, "I don't think this gringo is as rich as my natal cousins ​​I told you. My natal cousins ​​all wear leather jackets. Now rich people They all wear fur jackets, and this foreigner doesn’t even wear a fur jacket.”

Shi Chunhua is not easy to bully, she heard the words and said: "When I came here yesterday, I was wearing a down jacket. It is light, warm and expensive. People in the city like to wear it. Do you know what a down jacket is? It is made of ducks. Take off the softest and thinnest feather on the stomach and stuff it into the clothes like cotton wool, do you think it is warm?"

Immediately someone said: "My dear, how many ducks would it take to fill a jacket? The price is high."

"That's right, old and expensive." Shi Chunhua said while looking at the woman.

The woman pursed her mouth, pretending to be attracted by the TV show, and stopped talking.

Shi Chunhua didn't want to get entangled with these women, knowing that Shi Jingqi and Liu Qinqin had dragged Antonio to the back room to play cards just now, so they also entered the back room.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they came in, a woman followed in. It was Shi Jingqi's sister-in-law who wore Liu Qinqin's wedding dress and took photos when she and Liu Qinqin got married.

It was only later that Liu Qinqin told Shi Jingqi that her sister-in-law, who helped cut the happy characters, wore her own wedding dress to take pictures, and only then did she know that this woman was called Xiulian, and Shi Jingqi called her sister-in-law Xiulian.

Later, Shi Chunhua really edited the photos and sent them back, making Mrs. Xiulian show off in the village for many days.

She was grateful to Shi Chunhua for taking photos of her, and when she saw Shi Chunhua, she wanted to tell Shi Chunhua a few words.

Seeing Chunhua come in, she also came in.

Pulled Shi Chunhua and said: "Chunhua, my sister-in-law would like to say a few words to you."

As he spoke, he glanced at Antonio in the room.

Shi Chunhua thought about what she was going to say about Antonio and worried that Antonio would hear it, so she said, "Sister-in-law, it's okay, he usually doesn't understand what we say."

Aunt Xiulian blushed a little, but still pulled Shi Chunhua, and whispered in her ear: "Sister-in-law is also worried that you will be cheated, there are no good foreigners on TV, you have to watch carefully."

Shi Chunhua knew that she meant well, so she replied with a smile: "Don't worry, sister-in-law, Antonio is a good man. In fact, brother Jingqi and sister-in-law knew him three years ago. When machines are imported from Italy, Antonio comes and installs them every time, he is a technician.”

In the eyes of Shijiawan people, technicians are the most educated people, and they are also technicians who make refrigerators, which is even more powerful.

After hearing this, Aunt Xiulian felt happy for Shi Chunhua, and said, "That's good, that's good, she's capable."

At this time, the song "What a Big Tree" rang out on the TV outside, and Aunt Xiulian hurriedly went outside to watch it.

Shi Chunhua taught Antonio how to fight the Landlord for a while, then she felt bored, looked at her watch and went home when it was eleven o'clock.

When we got home, Chunhua Niang was cooking. Seeing her coming back, she wiped her hands on the apron and asked, "Have you gone to find that foreign liar?"

"Mom, he's a technician, a technician for the machines that produce refrigerators." Shi Chunhua went to the stove to help light the fire, and quarreled with her mother again.

Although Chunhuaniang didn't want Shi Chunhua to find a foreigner, when Antonio arrived at home the next day, she still entertained her well. Antonio was not too polite. Do whatever you want." Get up.

Shi Chunhua watched from the side, really afraid that the foreign mud would not be able to support the wall, so she talked baldly when she was drunk, and said that the two were pretending to be a couple.

Who knew that his worries were completely unnecessary. Antonio started to talk loudly, except for the two sentences "Cheers, buddy" and "I fucked you as you like".

He never spoke a single word of Chinese, and as for the Italian and English he muttered, none of the people in the room could understand them.

So when Shi Jingqi came to pick up Antonio, while listening to the men of Shi Chunhua's family shouting "Chunhua's partner", Antonio said in English: "It's fun to pretend to be Shi Chunhua's boyfriend."

After all, he was already the head of the production department. Shi Jingqi didn't show any expression on his face. He held back his smile and helped Antonio out of Shi Chunhua's house.

Shi Chunhua also chased after him, and together with Shi Jingqi, he supported Antonio from left to right. After passing the sight of Shi Chunhua's house, Shi Jingqi couldn't help laughing.

Shi Chunhua was inexplicably laughed at, and asked, "Brother Jingqi, what's wrong?"

Shi Jingqi managed to stop laughing, and asked, "Do you know why Antonio was yelling in English at your house just now?"

Shi Chunhua shook his head.

Shi Jingqi then translated what he heard to Shi Chunhua, and the two laughed all the way to Shi Jingqi's house.

In the third day of junior high school, after breakfast in the morning, Father Shi and Mother Shi were busy loading things into the van, including native eggs and goose eggs for Xiaodunzi, whole grains for Father and Mother Shi, and sweet potatoes for Liu Qinqin... Fully loaded half a car.

Shi Chunhua also came here with her own little baggage. This year, she has a reason not to live with her parents. All of her partners have returned to Mincheng. Naturally, she has to behave a little bit more virtuous, and come to be a husband and wife.

All four got into the car, Shi Jingqi started the car, and the car drove out of Shijiawan slowly.

Once out of Zhuangzi, Shi Chunhua said: "Brother Jingqi, sister-in-law, have you noticed? Since there is a TV, my uncle and aunt have something to do, so I have less demands on you two."

Liu Qinqin thought of the mother who gave birth to the child that the stone mother worshiped on the first day, smiled wryly, shook her head and said, "I don't think so."

Shi Chunhua then said: "I think if I also buy a TV for my mother, will she stop talking about me every day?"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for a few people to answer, he said: "Sister-in-law, do you know that my mother can accept Antonio as my partner, but now she asks me when I plan to marry Antonio."

"Really?" Liu Qinqin asked, feeling that Chunhua Niang was indeed a bit idle, Chunhua had just turned eighteen.

Antonio asked Shi Jingqi, "Shi, what are they talking about?"

Shi Jingqi drove the car, staring at the road ahead, and answered Antonio: "They are saying, Shi Chunhua's mother asked you when you can marry Shi Chunhua?"

"Married?" Antonio seriously refused: "It's not fun to pretend to be married."

A few people were amused by Antonio's serious look, and they talked and laughed all the way back to Mincheng.

Shi Jingqi invited Shi Chunhua to go to BJ with them, but Shi Chunhua refused because there were two manuscripts to be handed in after the festival, and returned to Zhengzhou with Xiao Li in the afternoon.

Cold Butterfly Refrigerator is the same as in previous years, and it is still the key position. The staff starts to work on the fourth day of the first lunar month.

Shi Jingqi and the others waited until the fourth day of the new year, arranged their work, and took the train to BJ.

Apart from Shi Jingqi, Liu Qinqin and Antonio, Liu Guodong and Lu Hongmei were also there.

Lu Hongmei didn't want to go at first, Xiaodunzi is less than one year old, can't walk or talk, but sitting there wanting something or pointing at what he wants to do, he will not satisfy him, will cry.

He is like a meat dumpling, and he is heavy when he is held. If someone looks at him for a day, he will be tired and have a sore back at night.

Liu's father didn't know how to coax the children to play, Lu Hongmei felt that she and Liu Guodong went to BJ, and the work of watching the prick fell on Liu's mother alone, which was too hard.

It was Liu's mother who persuaded her: "If you have this opportunity, you and Guodong will go out with Qinqin and the others. Don't worry, I will appoint you to look after Dunzi at home."

Liu's father also followed suit: "I will also help your mother, and will not let your mother suffer alone."

　Thank you for the recommendation ticket for wanting to sing me to you, jumping on one foot, and thank you all who have seen this. Tomorrow's Lantern Festival, I wish you all a happy and happy reunion.

　　


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