Wuzhou.
The Yan Family home.
It was New Year's Eve, and night had fallen.
Beside the kitchen stove, Lian Youming, who had already arrived, wore an apron and wielded a spatula, preparing the New Year's Eve dinner.
In the living room, twenty or thirty members of the two families, young and old alike, gathered around a black-and-white television to watch a movie.
The house was lively, and outside, firecrackers crackled one after another. The festive spirit was everywhere.
Lian Youming did the cooking while his three sisters-in-law helped out.
But ever since they had stood beside him and taken a look, the three women had not stopped exclaiming.
Having achieved Three Energies Unification, Lian Youming's control over his body was exquisitely precise. His knife work might not have reached divine perfection, but it was still astonishing. The cleaver moved with incredible lightness, as though he were embroidering. The strips of meat and vegetables he cut looked as if each had been measured, and he could even slice tofu into strands as fine as hair.
His three sisters-in-law exclaimed over his skills while teasing Yan Lingyun.
Who knew what they said, but after just a few words, Yan Lingyun's face turned as red as a monkey's bottom.
Oil sizzled over roaring flames. As the aroma of food drifted out, the children in the house crowded over too, hanging by the doorway and staring longingly inside, calling him "Uncle" and "Brother-in-law" nonstop.
As the evening deepened, steaming dishes came out of the wok one after another.
"Dear viewers, the Spring Festival Gala now officially begins..."
As luck would have it, the television announcement came from the living room just then.
The food was served, and everyone took their seats. Under the dim yellow light, they ate, drank, chatted, and laughed, bringing the