After nine o'clock, Older Sister Li Yue, along with Pei Wencong, Li Dayong, Hao Jian, Jin Peng, and the others, arrived one after another.
The Li household, which had been fairly quiet, instantly erupted into a chicken-flying, dog-jumping clamor.
There was no helping it. There were simply too many children.
Other than Older Sister and Wang Jianqiang, they all had two-child families, and their kids were at that age when even dogs found them annoying. Rarely getting together like this, how could they not make Li Ye's Big Yellow and husky suffer?
"Older Sister Dou'er, can you give me another husky this year? The one I took home last year has grown up and isn't fun anymore."
"I want one too, but I don't think the old one isn't fun. I want to pair it up with another one and have a whole litter of little huskies."
A group of children chirped and chattered in the courtyard, saying childish things and tormenting Li Ye's cats and dogs terribly. Yet Li Ye and the others, standing beneath the eaves, watched the children with great interest.
This sort of scene was actually very common during the New Year celebrations. A bunch of grown men could watch a group of silly little brats fooling around for half the day without getting tired of it.
Because what they were really looking at was not the children, but their own youth that would never return.
Pei Wencong sighed and said, "When I was their age, my father did hard labor for others, while my mother worked at a food stall.
"Though both my parents worked very hard, our family was still poor. My father calculated accounts every night, and my mother's back hurt every night. Sometimes I went to help mom, hoping she would not