Not a god

Chapter 88 It’s Chinese New Year

Towards evening, my third aunt came to call everyone back for dinner. This year, the Chen family would hold their ancestor worship ceremony here.

But no one knew who leaked the news that the Chen family had been doing well in recent years because Chen Xi had some magical skills and could tell fortunes.

The rumor spread everywhere in the village that someone saw Chen Xi burn his family's ancestral grave with his own eyes, and then smoke began to rise from the grave.

No wonder everyone in the Chen family is so successful. It must be a problem with the ancestral grave. We are from the same village and we are fellow villagers. It cannot be that only your family has smoke coming out of the grave while my family’s grave is only overgrown with weeds.

Late in the night, they all ran to Chen Weimin's house, saying that they wanted to invite Chen Xi to burn their ancestral graves.

Chen Xi's face turned wooden. He was unwilling to do such an immoral thing as burning someone's ancestral grave.

"Chen Xi, you kid, I used to hold your diaper when you were little! Burn it in your uncle's ancestral grave, and I'll give you a big red envelope this year!"

Now, if you don't burn it for others, people will say that you don't care about your relatives in the village and you insist on dragging Chen Xi to burn other people's ancestral graves.

Chen Hongying was cracking a handful of melon seeds while sitting on a bench in the yard, crossing her legs and grinning.

"Chen Hongying knows how to cook. She cooks better than me."

The two siblings almost fought again.

In the evening, inevitably, the uncles and aunts would ask:
"Second brother, second brother, what happened this afternoon?"

Unlike those online novels where the protagonist is a loser and then slaps his relatives in the face after an adventure, in the eyes of these uncles and aunts, Chen Xi has been an awesome kid since he was young, and now he has become even more awesome, so what's the big deal.

Chen Xi picked up a bowl of food for Jiang Wanwan, and said, "It's almost the same as what was said in the news. Haven't you watched the news? Jiangcheng is full of supermen now."

Chen Hongying stood up immediately and pointed at him and said:

"What did you say in the family group? You should be more observant. Oh! You really lied to us! Grandpa, look at your eldest grandson. Everyone in the family is lying!"

The eldest aunt hit her finger with a chopstick: "Don't point your finger at others!"

"I learned it a couple of days ago. It's not anything special. I just put out a fire."

Chen Xi didn't want to keep talking about him, so he changed the subject: "Chen Pao is a freshman this year, right? How was his final exam?"

The little boy who was desperately picking up food in the corner looked up and looked at his second brother with disbelief.

The topic at the dinner table turned to the children's studies, which was something to talk about.

After a while, my uncle and second uncle drank a few glasses of wine and talked endlessly about state affairs.

The old man hadn't drunk any alcohol. After three rounds of drinking, the atmosphere was almost the same. He said calmly, "I'll drink some too."

Then he poured himself a small cup, took a sip, and looked very happy.

In the evening, the adults went out for a walk, and Chen Xi and his friends played mahjong at home. There were him, Chen Hongying, Chen De, and Chen Qinqin. However, after Chen Qinqin played two games, her boyfriend took over.

The four of them are of similar age. Chen Hongying is three years older than Chen Xi, while Chen Qinqin and Chen De are one year younger than him. If Wanwan is included, the five of them are brothers and sisters who have grown up together.

My uncle’s two children, Chen Pao and Chen Xin, are also of the same generation, but they are much younger than them.

Chen De kept asking Chen Xi about Jiang Cheng and "The Destiny of Man". He had so much to say that it was impossible to finish. Actually, it would be okay for Chen Xi to tell them, but now that Chen Xi's boyfriend was there, it would be no big deal to just leave him there.

Chen Qinqin was sitting aside playing with her phone, but in fact she was sending messages frantically in the small group, tagging Chen De and asking him to stop pestering her second brother with questions and to find a topic to talk to his boyfriend.

Chen Xi checked her phone during a break from playing cards, and took the initiative to take over the task, leading the topic to her boyfriend, looking at him and asking, "By the way, Lin Kang seems to be from Yucheng too, right?"

Seeing that the topic suddenly turned to him, the boyfriend, who had always been taciturn, quickly replied, "Yes, we were high school classmates..."

"What about college?"

"Those who didn't go to the same university but lived in the same city all went to Guangzhou."

"Eh? Did you guys date in high school?"

"Well, we started talking about it in the second year of high school..."

Chen Xi asked while playing cards:

"What do you do at home?"

"Are you an only child?"

"Have you decided what to do after graduating from university?"

Faced with Chen Xi's rapid-fire torture, the boyfriend stuttered more and more, and was sweating profusely in the cold weather.

When he was chatting with Chen Qinqin's father this afternoon, he realized that the other party was just an ordinary uncle who ran a fish pond. Although he was very respectful, he couldn't help but relax a little. But for some reason, facing this brother-in-law who was only one year older than him, he felt inexplicable pressure.

She had an easygoing smile on her face, but it seemed as if she could see right through him.

Chen Qinqin sent WeChat messages crazily in the family group.

"Second brother, second brother, please collect your magical powers!" In fact, it was all the boyfriend's hallucination. Chen Xi didn't even look at him. He was looking at Chen Hongying's cards, as if he was looking at them with x-ray eyes.

As soon as Chen Hongying looked up, she could see her brother's 'weird' smile, of course, that was only weird in her eyes.

She held the cards in her hand and chattered.

This doesn't feel right. Why does it feel like I've been losing money all night?

She looked at the two tubes in her hand, then raised her head to look at Chen Xi opposite her, thought for a while, put down the two tubes, and threw out a four of a kind.

Chen Xi pushed his cards and said, "It's a mess. Give me the money."

He just wanted to try out the effect of this peeping window. With a focused gaze, he could see clearly all the cards on the opposite side. It was a bit despicable to use this cheating method to win against the other two teams, but he didn't feel any guilt at all for winning some money from Chen Hongying.

Halfway through the fight, Chen Pao came to Chen Xi to set off the fireworks, "Brother, brother, set off the fireworks. My uncle told me to call you guys out to set off the fireworks."

You can actually hear fireworks outside.

Little Chen Yi also ran in behind him.

She was so excited the whole day after she got off the car, and her chubby little figure could be seen inside and outside the house.

She didn't know what the Chinese New Year was, she just knew it was so lively here, there was so much to see and do, sometimes when the older people saw her they would pick her up and play with her, so there was always someone to play with her.

There are also four big dogs, but they are afraid of her and don't play with her.

The most fun thing was this guy who was older than her. Her father asked her to call him uncle, and he took her running around. Although she didn't know what they were playing, it was fun to just run around.

There was also a little baby who was about the same age as her, but that baby was not as sensible as her and always wanted to be held by an adult.

The adult said to the little kid, "Chen Xin, kiss your auntie and I will hug you."

Chen Yi saw that the little girl put her mouth against the adult's face, and the adult smiled as if he was very happy. Then he picked her up and kissed her on the face again and again.

Little Chen Yi was watching this scene from the side, and suddenly a flash of lightning seemed to flash behind her head.

When the aunt saw Chen Yi, she asked, "Little Yiyi, do you want me to hold you too?"

Chen Yi shook her head, then walked into the house, looking around. Seeing Chen Xi preparing to go out, she ran over and grabbed his trouser legs, "Dad, Dad!"

Chen Xi looked down at her and said, "Let's go, we're going to set off the fireworks."

"Dad, Yiyi, Yiyi..."

"What's wrong?"

Chen Xi looked down at her, and the little girl looked up and pouted, not knowing what she wanted to do.

He looked confused, and little Chen Yi closed her eyes and looked at her with a pout. It could be seen from her facial expression that she was pouting very hard.

Chen Xi thought for a moment, then lowered his body, and little Chen Yi came over and kissed him on the cheek.

He actually guessed it.

Chen Xi felt so happy that he picked her up and asked, "Where did you learn this, Yiyi?"

Little Chen Yi saw that he was smiling so happily, his face became rounder and rounder, and she felt slightly proud.

But she remembered that there was something behind, so she moved her little face closer.

"Dear, dear, dear..."

Jiang Wanwan, who was standing aside, looked at the little baby in Chen Xi's arms with an expressionless face.

Although she knew that this little thing was really just a baby now.

But the image of the woman with a supermodel figure in her previous life would pop up in her mind from time to time.

It's so funny. The Yan Emperor, who had a hot temper and would fight back if he didn't obey, is now a baby who hugs others and asks for kisses. Do you know that your personality has collapsed?
But having no brains is indeed quite similar to what it is now.

"Yiyi, go and kiss your mother too."

Suddenly a face came closer, Jiang Wanwan quickly dodged it, a little disgusted: "I don't want it, it's all her saliva."

Chen Xi put little Chen Yi down and instructed her, "Hurry, Yi Yi, go chase your mother."

Little Chen Yi was like a little locomotive, staggering and running after Jiang Wanwan with a "wuwuwu" sound.

Jiang Wanwan quickly hid behind Chen Xi. She would not be fooled by the appearance of this human cub. Little Chen Yi circled around to chase her.

Chen Xi let the two people circle around him. A firework rose up. Looking up, he saw brilliant fireworks in the sky.

Another year has passed.

(End of this chapter)