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Chapter 113 Happy New Year to Xia He

In the evening, my second uncle and his family of three would also come over. The families would have a lively New Year's Eve dinner together. After the meal, they would chat for a while and then go back home to watch the Spring Festival Gala. This was the case every year.

As soon as night falls, there are more and more New Year greetings calls. WeChat had not appeared in those days, so people basically said New Year greetings over the phone. If they had a good relationship, they would call directly, and if they had an average relationship, they would just send a text message.

After Fang Qingye finished his New Year's Eve dinner, his phone and text messages kept ringing. They were from classmates, friends, and many of them were bosses he knew at work. Even Shi Guangrong in Shanghai sent a New Year's greeting text message. Of course, Fang Qingye had to reply.

"Happy New Year, good health and prosperity."

It's very vulgar, but it's vulgar that makes it look festive.

On QQ, a girl from Dongguan also sent me a New Year's greeting message, which naturally contained a long and full-on middle school feeling:
"I will love the fireworks exploding in the night sky until I die, and our blood is pounding under the fireworks. Under the passionate fireworks, the New Year's bell rings, and dreams and passions burn together!"

Fang Qingye got goosebumps after seeing this, but still replied with a text message: "Happy New Year, all the best."

The Chinese New Year was the same as usual, with people visiting relatives and paying New Year's greetings. Now Fang Qingye was not married yet, so as a child, he had to follow his parents. Fortunately, he had a car this year, and driving to visit relatives and friends helped him drink less.

What was different from usual was that the number of people wishing Fang Qingye a happy new year suddenly increased.

Good friends like Song Dahai and Liu Dong, and childhood friends like Bai Ou, naturally wouldn't go for this kind of thing, at most they'd find a chance to get together after the Lunar New Year. Some of those who came to pay New Year's greetings were new friends from the company, and some were colleagues from work.

If you don’t have the chance to celebrate the New Year normally, you can’t miss it.

Just as Zhang Rong left, Yang Yue came back with gifts.

Fang Qingye had secretly told the girl during a party before New Year's Day that the bank was going to recruit a group of contract workers.

It has now been officially announced that the exam will be held in mid-February, which means it will start after the Chinese New Year.

"How's your review going?" Fang Qingye asked with concern.

"That's about right." The girl looked very confident.

"Then study hard and strive to become a regular employee!" Fang Qingye encouraged.

"Thank you, President Fang. You told me in advance this time so that I could prepare. Several other temporary workers in the unit complained about the tight schedule." Yang Yue looked grateful.

"You're not talking nonsense, are you?" Fang Qingye asked.

"How could that be? We are all competitors." The girl smiled playfully.

That's pretty good. Don't be like some people who are stupid and say whatever they want in the workplace.

It was the sixth day of the first lunar month, and there were no plans for the afternoon. My parents were excited to go to the real estate agency to look at new houses, but Fang Qingye was too lazy to go. When they found one, she would go over and help negotiate the price.

It's past four in the afternoon now. Fang Qingye is a little bored and is wondering whether he should go and wish Xia He a happy new year.

If she was in Huijing, it would be fine. But since she was in Nanxin now, I should go over there and visit her. So I picked up my phone and sent a message on QQ.

"Senior, are you in Nanxin?"

The other party replied immediately: "Yes, I am in charge of the class. I am in the office."

"When will you come home? I want to wish you a happy new year."

"If someone else wants to visit my house for New Year's greetings, I will definitely refuse, but you are welcome, my junior. I will go back now."

Ah?
"Okay then, I'll be there in half an hour."

Since he definitely couldn't go to pay New Year's greetings empty-handed, Fang Qingye chose two gifts from others at home. The other party was a woman, so cigarettes and alcohol were naturally inappropriate. So he picked a box of beautifully packaged bird's nest and the golden partner health product that has been very popular in the past two years, and drove his car straight to the Northern Pearl Community.

I went upstairs and rang the doorbell. Xia He opened the door in her home clothes with a smile on her face.

"Senior, Happy Chinese New Year!"

"Happy Chinese New Year! Why don't you just come? Come on in now."

They are all polite words.

Fang Qingye walked into the living room carrying a gift. The room was still a little cold, and it seemed that the air conditioner had not been turned on for long.

The room was clean, but a little deserted, lacking any New Year's atmosphere. "Xiao Fang, please sit down," Xia He greeted warmly. "I'll make you some tea. Do you like Da Hong Pao? I brought some from Huijing for you to try."

"Thank you, senior sister, when did you come here?" Fang Qingye asked casually.

"yesterday afternoon."

"You come so early?" Fang Qingye was surprised.

"I feel a little late to leave this morning. I can't delay my shift, right?" Xia He said as she made a cup of tea for Fang Qingye.

I took a sip and it tasted pretty good.

"Xiao Fang, I was originally alone, so I just had to make do with dinner. Now that you're here, I have to prepare something."

"Senior sister, I won't bother you. I'll just sit for a while and then leave." Fang Qingye said.

"How can that be? It's Chinese New Year! How can I let you go back with an empty stomach? Just stay here and watch TV or go to my study to surf the internet, just like last time!"

Since that was the case, Fang Qingye no longer insisted and turned on the TV to entertain himself.

I have to say that Xia He is quite good at cooking. An hour later, she served several dishes and took out a bottle of Great Wall red wine from the wine cabinet.

"I'm driving and I don't drink." Fang Qingye said hurriedly.

"Normally I wouldn't advise you, but it's Chinese New Year, how can you not drink a little?"

Xia He smiled brightly: "It's just this one bottle, I won't drink much. As for the car, you can park it downstairs and come pick it up tomorrow. I'll tell the security guard then, or I can drive it back for you tomorrow."

Since that was the case, Fang Qingye no longer refused, and the two of them ate and chatted.

We started talking about work, plans for next year, and things to pay attention to, but then we ended up talking about personal life.

"Hey, Xiao Fang, why haven't I heard about you going on a blind date recently?" Xia He asked with a smile.

Fang Qingye recalled his first blind date a few months ago, when he ran into Xia He in a coffee shop. He said, "I've been so busy with work lately, how can I have the time? Besides, I'm not that old, am I? Why rush?"

Xia He nodded after hearing this: "There's really no rush. Take your time and look for someone you like. Only then will you be happy in the future."

"Senior, are you happy?"

"Me? What do you think?"

"I feel very happy." Fang Qingye replied.

"Haha, you are still young and you say you are happy. Who would spend the New Year alone in loneliness?" Xia He sighed softly.

"You said it was for the purpose of leading the class." Fang Qingye said deliberately.

"Ha! I'm in charge of the class!" Xia He laughed: "Work comes first, everything else comes second! Come, let's touch!"

The two of them raised their glasses and clinked them together. Fang Qingye took a sip and said, "Senior, I've never heard you talk about your family."

"What's there to say? It's just like that."

"Do you have a kid?"

"No Xiaofang yet, do you like children?"

"It's okay." Fang Qingye replied.

Before his rebirth, he also had a daughter. The relationship between him and his wife was very ordinary, but they both loved their daughter very much.

If it weren't for the children, they would have divorced long ago.

In fact, this is the case for many families in China.

(End of this chapter)