Happy New Year (Spring Festival Special, Two-in-One)

Li Yao booked a private room at Hai Hongchang, where his Dad and Uncle Lin's family were also staying.

With Chen Xi and the others joining in, the large group made for quite a lively gathering.

originally,

Li Yao was also thinking of inviting people from the Midnight Bar next door to come over.

However, Xiao Zhao, Xiao Zhao, Wang Meiling, and Old He were all Big Sis Feng Li to the camp for New Year's Eve dinner. It must have been very lively there, after all, there were more than two thousand people together.

And there's Old Man Lu, Boss Zhou Li, and the others...

Li Yao also invited them, but they also had to carry out missions during the Spring Festival, and the missions were quite demanding.

Therefore, I cannot leave my post for the time being.

Li Yao could only send them a congratulatory message via his mobile phone.

Upon receiving the text message, Boss Zhou immediately sent Li Yao a red envelope with the following message:

Boss Li!

He opened the red envelope and saw that there was only 88.88 inside.

Li Yao: "..."

Okay,

He'd finally found someone even stingier than himself! Li Yao immediately forwarded the red envelope that Boss Zhou had sent him in the ""Get Rich" Group: "This is a red envelope from Boss Zhou that I'm sharing with everyone!"

Eighty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents, everyone gets a share!

The group members instantly exploded! The Local Boss of Dragon Tiger Mountain: "Holy crap, this is an ancient, colossal tomb! Lao Zhou just sent me 8.8 yuan!"

I am Yunqi: "Boss Zhou, you're so generous to handsome guys!"

From China With Love: "I smell the scent of homoeroticism."

I'll start by saying, "I heard that Boss Zhou and Boss Li are both quite good-looking?"

The Handsomest in This Group: "@Qi Qi".

Since I have big breasts, I'll say first, "... I'm sorry, I was wrong, I'll get out of here now."

Another round of chatter started in the group, and Li Yao casually sent a 6,600 yuan red envelope, which attracted a wave of fawning.

Then Old Man Lu also sent a big gift in the group, with the message: "Everyone has worked hard. Please stand firm at your posts during the New Year."

Then Qi Qi also sent a big red envelope.

Seeing Feng Li was also very generous, giving out ten large red envelopes in a row... Everyone's hands were sore from grabbing them that they even felt a little numb.

After this wave of red envelopes ended, the group members started tagging Boss Zhou like crazy!

The Local Boss of Dragon Tiger Mountain: "@Boss Zhou, look at yourself!"

I am Yunqi: "@Boss Zhou, look at you!"

Artisan Spirit: "@Boss Zhou, look at yourself!"

I, with my big boobs, will speak first, "@Boss Zhou, look at you!"

From China With Love...

Boss Zhou finally couldn't sit still any longer. "Ha, you bunch of sycophants who are repeating a grade..."

Qi Qi: "The Lemon Beast has no right to speak."

Li Yao laughed. The group chat was as harmonious and happy as ever today.

He switched out of the chat group and sent New Year's greetings to Cao Erha and Chen Tao. One of them lived in the provincial capital, and the other lived in another city, so Li Yao didn't invite them to the New Year's Eve dinner, especially Cao Erha.

They are a large family, and during the Lunar New Year, they will definitely visit each other frequently to maintain their relationships.

For ordinary people, the Lunar New Year might be a holiday, but for a family like Cao Erha's, it's a time for customary socializing.

Li Yao was playing on his phone when his mother, Zhang Yufeng, who had been sitting for a while, became unhappy. "What time is it and you're still playing on your phone! Aren't you going to eat or not?!"

"Eat, eat, eat!"

Li Yao quickly put away his phone, while Lin Xiaoxi sneered from the side, "Playing, playing, playing! All you do all day is play on your phone!"

Li Yao: "..."

Lin Xiaoxi was very pleased, finally getting revenge for the last time! But unexpectedly, Uncle Lin suddenly slapped Lin Xiaoxi on the back of the head. "How dare you talk about others like that!"

Lin Xiaoxi: "(Δ)??"

Who am I? Where am I? Whom am I supposed to do?

Lin Xiaoxi was immediately bewildered. She fell into deep thought, wondering if she was really their biological daughter... or rather, Li Yao's Dad, Old Li Comrade, stood up and gathered everyone together. "Come on, everyone come over and let's have a clinking of glasses!"

As everyone raised their glasses

The New Year's Eve dinner officially began! Hai Hongchang's seafood feast was quite good and suited everyone's tastes. The two sets of elders frequently raised their glasses, and soon the room was filled with the aroma of alcohol, which warmed up the atmosphere. Around eight o'clock, festive folk music came from the 4K TV in the private room. Everyone looked up and saw a golden and red screen, with girls in colorful dresses opening the Spring Festival Gala! Although the Spring Festival Gala has become increasingly superficial and boring, it seems that no other program can be more appetizing than it when eating New Year's Eve dinner.

Yes, a perfect backdrop.

It seems like something's missing without it, but no one would notice it if it were there.

The New Year's Eve dinner lasted an hour and a half. Old Li Comrade and Uncle Lin both drank a bit too much, so Li Yao called a few cars to take both sets of parents back home.

Anyway, it's very convenient since they're door-to-door.

Before getting on the bus, Zhang Yufeng, Da Yao's mother, asked, "Da Yao, aren't you coming back with us?"

Li Yao: "I still have some friends around me to take care of, it's very important."

The mother looked at her son with some surprise. It seemed that her usually talkative son had grown up without her noticing. The handsome young man had developed a certain quality that was unfamiliar to her.

Sigh! Mom sighed deeply, but smiled broadly, "Alright, don't drink too much. Do you have enough money? If not, Mom has some!"

This means they're truly treating Li Yao as an adult.

Li Yao waved his hand. "That's enough, you guys should go back now!"

He waved goodbye to his mother and the others, and Chen Xi stayed by Li Yao's side the whole time.

Once the car had driven away, the mother in the taxi said softly, "Da Yao seems to have grown up all of a sudden."

Old Li Comrade, quite drunk, slurred, "What? What did you say?!"

Zhang Yufeng: "..."

She glared at him and grabbed Old Li Comrade's ear. "Tell me, what do you even do all day long?! Huh?!"

Old Li: "..."

He felt wronged and confused.

yes,

What have I done to deserve this suffering?

He Yufen took Lin Chengdong back to their new home in the provincial capital. Compared to the lively New Year's Eve dinner, the house was much quieter. After Xiaoxi took Xiao Sang back to the Old Li Family, she went back to her room, which made He Yufen a little strange...

Why is this child so much more well-behaved today? But she didn't pay much attention to it.

Perhaps this is the trouble of teenage years.

The spacious and bright living room was very simple and clean. On one wall hung a photo of Lin Xiaowei, Lin Xiaowei was smiling brightly in the sunlight. Aunt Lin glanced at the photo and was immediately overwhelmed with sorrow. She clenched her chest as if she could suppress the pain in her heart.

Uncle Lin shook his head and took his wife's hand.

"Honey, cheer up! It's the New Year, Xiaowei definitely wants to see us happy."

Aunt Lin wiped her eyes and said with a laugh, "Really, you didn't even tell me you were sober, just so I could laugh at you!"

Uncle Lin, reeking of alcohol, chuckled and said, "After all these years, what's the point of jokes anymore?"

One family

We're all one family!

In Lin Xiaoxi's room, she held her phone, looking at a photo of herself and her sister, with faint tear tracks on her face.

She suddenly wiped her face and said fiercely, "Sis, you've gone too far! That Li Big Hoof bullied me, Dad bullied me too! And Mom didn't even stop him! Sis... I miss you..."

Sadness is not a continuous emotion; it gradually becomes numb over time.

Then, at a certain point in time, it suddenly erupts, fiercely and savagely breaking through all defenses and overwhelming all other emotions.

On their way to the Phoenix Legion camp, Li Yao and Chen Xi were in a taxi.

Li Yao asked, "Chen Xi, aren't you going back to the Chen Family in Tong City after the New Year?"

Chen Xi tilted her head and thought for a moment, "Why go back?"

Besides, isn't home here? Li Yao pursed his lips. "Alright, let's get up early tomorrow to make dumplings and catch gold ingots."

Chen Xi's eyes crinkled into crescent moons as she smiled, "Mmm!"

He took out his phone and sent the video he had taken that night to Lin Xiaowei: "Everything is fine at home!"

Lin Xiaowei: "Yes, thank you for your hard work."

Li Yao put away his phone.

Soon after, Li Yao received another text message from Li Shishi: "I'll be having New Year's Eve dinner with my family. The Original Liquid is currently being planned for release, so I won't have time to visit you at the beginning of the year. Happy New Year, junior!"

Li Yao replied, "Senior, you're too kind!"

Li Shishi: "!"

She said that on purpose! Just because I don't visit you doesn't mean you can't visit me! Do you really expect a delicate, beautiful woman like me to come to your doorstep?

Is this appropriate?

Thinking about this, the senior student felt very wronged... Everyone says it's easy for a woman to pursue a man, so why is it so difficult for me to pursue you? Suddenly,

Brilliant fireworks lit up all over the provincial capital, the booming sound and dazzling fireworks were a sight to behold.

Li Yao asked curiously, "It's not the countdown yet, so why are they setting off fireworks?"

Chen Xi didn't understand either.

Just then, Li Yao's phone vibrated. It was his senior calling, "This is the fireworks display I sent you, isn't it beautiful? Don't those fireworks look like..."

Li Yao interrupted, "It doesn't seem like it!"

Then he hung up the phone.

Li Shishi: "..."

She grabbed the phone and smashed it! Seeing this, A Ke silently took out a new phone and replaced it for her boss...

Soon the taxi reached a dead end.

Li Yao and Chen Xi got off the bus and paid the driver extra for the fare. Then they hiked deeper into the mountains.

The driver was puzzled—this young couple, traveling alone into the mountains on New Year's Eve...wasn't that a rather unusual hobby? He shook his head.

These young people nowadays really know how to have fun!

After passing through a forest, Li Yao and Chen Xi came to the camp on the wasteland. It was Chen Xi's first time at the camp, and seeing the continuous camp, he couldn't help but sigh, "I heard they are all disabled soldiers?"

Li Yao: "It won't be like that for long."

As they approached the Military Camp, soldiers were still on guard at the camp gate, even at this hour. Upon seeing Li Yao approach, the soldiers checked Li Yao's identification before letting him pass.

After receiving the news, Big Sis Feng Li came out to greet Li Yao and Chen Xi: "Welcome, little brother! Oh, and your little sister is here too!"

She changed into a bright red coat and immediately pulled Chen Xi and Li Yao towards the camp. "The soldiers are all on the drill ground!"

The drill ground, originally used for training, is now filled with huge bonfires. Soldiers from various companies sit around the fires, eating meat, drinking, singing, and making a ruckus. Those with mobility issues simply set up small tables for arm wrestling matches!

Soldiers whose limbs had been reattached were wrestling around the campfire.

Here, bonfires burn brightly, and the noise is deafening.

The atmosphere was far more lively than in the city center... no, it was like night and day! Feng Li rubbed his hands together and said to Li Yao, "I've been waiting for you guys to come and drink! Come on, let's drink until we drop!"

One minute later, Big Sis Feng Li collapsed.

Gathered around the campfire, Li Yao asked Xiao Zhao to help Big Sis Feng Li to the side to rest, and then found Old He and asked, "Last time Big Sis Feng Li told me that the Sharp Knife Battalion would be setting off to carry out Bright Sword Operation after the third year of junior high school?"

Old He was drinking with a smile when he heard Li Yao's words and asked in surprise, "Big Sister Head, you even tell me this?"

Meeting Li Yao's questioning gaze, Old He chuckled and said, "Then I'll tell you. Recently, there have been disturbances caused by subspace anomalies in Sierra Leone in Africa. The authorities there have issued a request for support, and all the major peace and stability organizations have dispatched action teams. Naturally, we have to go and take a look. It just so happens that the Phoenix Legion is being formed at this time, so the higher-ups have decided to show off their capabilities to the outside world."

Li Yao asked in confusion, "Then how do we get so many forces to go there?"

This is contrary to the purpose of maintaining stability, isn't it? Old He took a sip of wine and said slowly, "Because... a large part of the bodies of those aliens are made of diamonds, and they are strange diamonds with psionic energy fluctuations."

Li Yao: "..."

Therefore, it is not just about maintaining stability, but also a contest for power.

Li Yao was about to ask something else when the soldiers on the drill ground suddenly shouted in unison, "Ten, nine, eight..."

"Three, two, one!"

"Chirp... Boom!"

Fireworks arranged around the drill ground soared into the sky, illuminating the night sky exceptionally brightly.

Li Yao sniffed and sensed something was wrong. He covered his ears and asked, "This smells wrong. Is it fireworks?"

Old He laughed and said, "Cold smoke fireworks, they don't burn!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the New Year's bells rang, and the soldiers raised their glasses and cheered loudly towards the bonfires:

"Happy New Year!"

Inspired by the new year, Li Yao picked up his phone and sent a message to his best friend who was far away. "Happy New Year! The New Year's bell has rung!"

Lin Xiaowei: "You too, same to you!"

This chapter is 3700 words long. Happy New Year everyone! I hope you enjoy reading it!