In the tense head-breaking atmosphere, Su Hao and Xu Qiao looked at each other and slowly moved their eyes away.

In order to avoid the two men who were separated by ten years of age, Su Hao and Xu Qiao didn't know how to telepathize, and thought of going together and said in unison: "I want to eat dumplings..."

The strange silence on the dining table was broken, and the contestant Xu Lie stood up and left the battlefield: "I'll go cook."

Su Hao and Xu Qiao nodded on their own, stretched out a thumb from under the table, and quietly stood up to each other.

At this time, praising the other person's wit is equivalent to boasting.

"I'll help him." After Su Hao solved the scene, he followed Xu Lie to the kitchen counter. Seeing that he was placing dumplings meticulously, he rolled up his sweater sleeves and asked, "Tell me how to cook."

"First boiling water in the pot, add some salt, just half of the water is enough, and add cold water a few times later." Xu Lie pointed to the pot in the sink and said.

"But why did I see Aunt Cao cooking dumplings in cold water before?" Su Hao muttered as she recalled.

"That's quick-frozen dumplings. Handmade fresh dumplings will be boiled in cold water."

"Oh, then why add salt? Isn't it a dip?"

"It's not to make the taste good and prevent the dumpling skin from being cooked. Just add half a spoon. I also added some when rolling the dough."

Su hit his arm with his elbow and joked: "Teacher Xu's ability, what else do you don't know about it?"

Xu Lie opened an induction cooker for her and said seriously: "Give birth."

“…”

While following Xu Lie's steps, Su Hao suggested: "Save some dumplings to make fried dumplings, I still want to eat fried ones."

Xu Qiao raised his hands to echo on the sofa in the distance: "I want it too!" After saying that, he turned to sigh with Cheng Lang, "Oh, my brother and sister have known my brother for two years, and they have eaten the dishes he cooked. I have known my brother for nineteen years. This is the first time I have seen him cook with my own eyes."

"It's been nineteen years, and I haven't even seen you cook for a while." Xu Lie glanced at Xu Qiao.

"..." Xu Qiao choked, "You kid are going to go to heaven today!"

Su Haomi listened to the siblings fighting, and thought it was really good.

When he first met Xu Lie, he didn't talk much to anyone.

Later, Xu Lie talked a lot to her alone.

Now Xu Lie is willing to say irrelevant things to those close to her.

Who wants to only say "must say" every day? Being able to say irrelevant words together, chat with meaningless words, and fight without a chance to win or lose is a valuable luck.

Although it seems like a special treatment to talk to her alone, Su Hao does not want to receive such treatment.

She will always be Xu Lie's sun, but if Xu Lie becomes very warm herself, it is something that is more worthy of her happiness.

*

Xu Lie hurt Xu Qiao's mouth, but after hearing the mission between her and Su Hao, he divided the thirty dumplings into half and half, waited for the water to boil, half was put into water on the left stove, and the other half was taken to the right stove to fry.

Su Hao was in charge of the dumplings. When the pan on Xu Lie splashed oil, he heard Xu Qiao greeting her: "Sister-in-law, come back quickly, girls are so oily, don't splash oil, don't worry about my brother who wants to go to heaven, come and help me pick up manicures!"

Cheng Lang stood up with his knees, came to the stove and said to Su Hao: "Go, brother-in-law here."

Su Hao and Cheng Lang changed positions, went to the dining table to discuss the nail art patterns on their phones with Xu Qiao, from nail art design to painting, and then to schoolwork.

Both of them were born in art. Although one developed into pure art and specialized in oil painting, the other entered the jewelry design industry, they were still "in the same roots". When they chatted, they talked about common topics and hobbies.

When they were excited, the two fellow villagers held each other's hand and shouted "I like it too, I like it too." As they said that, they felt a little disgusted with their other half who didn't understand art.

When Xu Lie and Cheng Lang came back with a plate of dumplings, a plate of fried dumplings and four dipping dishes, they found that the two were chatting too much and didn't want to pay attention to them.

Cheng Lang talked about finance with Xu Lie, caring about his recent study progress, and checking the trend of course selection.

Half of a dining table is as stinking as artistic as a copper odor, and the same table is different from the dream.

After the two plates of dumplings were eaten, Xu Qiao and Su Hao had a passionate exchange of screaming and slamming the table. Their mouths calmed down, and the bass of Cheng Lang and Xu Lie opposite seemed too harsh.

"What's wrong with you two? I'll talk about it all, treat us as air?" Xu Qiao looked at the two of them with dissatisfaction.

Xu Lie: “…”

Cheng Lang: "..."

These two marks are also a bit overbearing.

The conversation between the two came to an abrupt end.

Cheng Lang smiled warmly: "Are you full?"

"Eat and drink enough," Xu Qiao touched her stomach and said to Su Hao, "Is it a little gamble that almost makes me happy?"

*

It was not until Cheng Lang got a mahjong table like a treasure chest that Su Hao heard about the origin of the Xu family and mahjong for the first time.

Long before Xu Lie was born, the Xu family was originally just a fisherman in a small fishing village in Nancheng. The reason why they became famous in Beicheng was because the young Xu Qiao used mahjong plaques to touch Xu's father a set of numbers, which made Xu's father win the 20 million lottery prize.

Moreover, winning this lottery has not exhausted all Xu Qiao's luck. In her more than ten years of life, whether it is Landlord or Mahjong, she can touch the cards and get one by one, which is a success.

While Su Hao worshipped him, he felt serious about the situation in this mahjong game.

Xu Lie glanced at Su Hao who was thinking deeply, and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid of my sister. She can only touch cards and can't play cards."

Su Hao wanted to say that it was better than not only her not know how to play cards, but also not able to get good cards. Before she could speak, she saw Xu Qiao stomping her feet and looked at Cheng Lang: "If you don't mess with my brother, I'll mess with you tonight!"

When Su Hao heard that he wanted to divide the couple, he was not polite and said to Xu Lie: "If you are fucked by your brother-in-law, you will be the same as you!"

"..." Xu Lie and Cheng Lang looked at each other silently, and both saw from each other's eyes that the meaning of "actually want to turn it over".

*

On a quiet winter night, wars were flying on the square tables in the room.

"One tube."

"Bar."

"Northern Wind."

"Two points."

"Eighty thousand."

“Whiteboard.”

"Bar."

Xu Qiao: "Xu Lie, you have been tying me a few times, are you reincarnated by a gangster?!"

Xu Lie: “…”

Xu Qiao: "Why are my brother always trying to get my cards up? I don't want him to be my next home!"

Cheng Lang: "I will change my seat next round with you, be good."

Xu Lie: "If you don't read cards or remember cards, it will be the same for you who will be your next home."

Xu Qiao: "Sister-in-law, break up with my dog ​​brother immediately. I'll find you a better boyfriend!"

Su Hao laughed dryly: "I'll think about it."

Xu Lie made a four-cylinder.

"Hey," Su Hao's eyes lit up, touched Xu Lie's four tubes, knocked down the card, "It's bad!"

Xu Lie smiled faintly: "Are you still considering it?"

Su Hao happily received the red envelopes from the WeChat group from the three people and said with a smile: "I won't consider it anymore, it's better to be original."

After a few laps of mahjong, the clock on the wall was approaching twelve o'clock, and the first day of the Lunar New Year in New York time was about to arrive.

The last round was given to Xu Qiao. After the battle, Xu Qiao stretched and moved his neck. When he looked at the clock, the stroke wave made a wink.

Cheng Lang brought her handbag from the side.

Xu Qiao stood up, took out four joyful red envelopes from his handbag, and handed them to Xu Lie and Su Hao, one of them: "Here, one is the red envelopes from me and your brother-in-law, and the other is the red envelopes from dad to you, both of which are filled with US dollars, you can use them normally."

Although Su’s father and mother Su did not come to the United States for the New Year, they also sent Alipay red envelopes to Su Hao and Xu Lie in advance yesterday.

So Su Hao took it openly: "Thank you sister and brother-in-law, thank you uncle." As he said that, he turned his eyes and glanced at the clock, "Ah, it's midnight, everyone, happy New Year, today every year!"

"There is a day every year!" Xu Qiao seamlessly connected.

Although there are fewer fireworks and firecrackers in foreign countries, this warm winter night seems to have a sense of comforting excitement.

Xu Lie and Cheng Lang smiled and nodded, repeating: "There is today every year, and the present every year."

*

There is only one bed in the apartment, so Xu Qiao and Cheng Lang can't stay.

After midnight, the two left the apartment and went to a nearby hotel, asking Xu Lie and Su Hao to rest early.

Su Hao had a class for one day and had another noisy night. It was indeed time to be sleepy, but it might be because of the New Year. His excitement overwhelmed his physical fatigue. He was particularly sober because he took a hot bath. While lying on the bed and waiting for Xu Lie, she even turned up the red envelope record in the group and calculated whether Xu Lie was doing Cheng Lang or Cheng Lang was doing Xu Lie.

Xu Lie finished tidying up the tables, chairs, benches, cleaned the room before entering the bathroom to take a shower. He thought that after he came out, he would see Su Hao sleeping, but he didn't expect that she was still sitting against the bed and playing with her mobile phone.

"What are you looking at?" Xu Lie lifted a corner of the quilt, got on the bed, and hugged her into his arms.

Su Hao was mentally calculating the number of red envelopes, and raised his palm to signal him to shut up first. Before she could add or subtract the result, Xu Lie lowered his head first, smiled and said in her ear: "I've calculated it just now."

"Hmm?" Su Hao raised his eyes to look at him.
Chapter completed!