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Chapter 213: Make a Wish

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Although he only slept for a while until the early hours of the morning, Huang Xiaochuan still got up early. Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and according to the Huang family rules, sleeping in is not allowed, so this has become a habit for Huang Xiaochuan.

After getting up, I first wished Lao Huang and my mother Zeng Lijuan a Happy New Year, and then went upstairs to wish Lao Yu and Zheng Aiying a Happy New Year. Of course, I had to give them red envelopes.

Similarly, Yu's three children also went downstairs to wish Lao Huang and Zeng Lijuan a Happy New Year. This is a Chinese custom; although it is complicated, it contains kinship and friendship.

Qingjiang is located between the north and south, so the breakfast on the first day of the Lunar New Year is very regional. Basically, every family's table has a combination of northern dumplings and southern glutinous rice balls.

However, glutinous rice balls are usually solid, and most families will also wrap a five-cent coin inside some of them. The person who finds the coin will be considered to have good fortune and receive blessings from their family this year.

Huang Xiaochuan went between the two families to eat. After eating a few dumplings and glutinous rice balls at home, he went upstairs to the Yu family's house to eat a few more, and he even found a coin in one of the dumplings.

Zheng Aiying laughed and said, "Looks like Xiao Chuan is going to make a fortune this year!"

Yu Wei was not convinced and wanted to eat one too. He ate nine glutinous rice balls in a row, until he was so full that his eyes rolled back, but he still couldn't eat a single coin. He really couldn't eat anymore, but Yu Xiang ate one in front of him.

This really annoyed Yu Wei! He had personally seen Zheng Aiying put two coins in the glutinous rice balls, and now they were all gone. Huang Xiaochuan and his wife had bought them all. Was it just that these two were destined to get rich?

Yu Min's eyes widened in disbelief. My God! What a coincidence!

"It looks like my little Xiang is going to make a fortune this year," Zheng Aiying said happily to Lao Yu.

Although Lao Yu is an atheist, he still expressed his best wishes: "People who aren't family don't enter the same door, that saying really makes sense!"

At that moment, Yu Wei decided to accept his fate.

After breakfast, Huang Xiaochuan and Yu Xiang went to a temple. According to the county annals, the temple has a history of more than 500 years. However, it has been destroyed and rebuilt many times. Once, the temple was so dilapidated that only a few halls remained. Before the reconstruction, it was used as a cement warehouse.

As the economy improved, the once dilapidated temple welcomed monks. With the arrival of the monks, devout men and women came to donate incense, and slowly the temple gradually regained some of its original appearance.

The idea of ​​going to the temple was suggested by Yu Xiang last night. She said that she would burn some incense on the first day of the Lunar New Year to bless the whole family with good health and safety. Huang Xiaochuan even teased her for being a medical worker who was superstitious. As a result of her sharp tongue, she got a blue mark on her arm.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the temples were filled with countless people. Some even carried incense sticks as thick as an adult's arm and prayed everywhere. These were all devout men and women who came to burn incense, hoping to make wishes on this day and that their wishes would come true this year.

Yu Xiang lit incense and made a sincere wish to the Bodhisattva. Inspired by her, Huang Xiaochuan, who was already there, also made a wish.

After offering incense, Yu Xiang asked, "Xiao Chuan, what did you wish for?"

Huang Xiaochuan chuckled and said, "I pray to Buddha to bless us with many children, not too many, three boys and three girls will be fine!"

Yu Xiang was somewhat embarrassed and annoyed: "Do you think I'm a sow? Giving birth to so many? If you want to have children, you have to do it yourself. Besides, there's the one-child policy. It's not like you can have as many as you want!"

Huang Xiaochuan didn't argue with Yu Xiang. There's always a way to solve a problem. Of course, it's impossible to have that many children, but having only one is also impossible.

Ren Yangyang was also among the people burning incense. She came with her family. She recognized Huang Xiaochuan at a glance, after all, they had been classmates for three years and she remembered him well. However, Ren Yangyang's attention was mainly on the woman next to Huang Xiaochuan.

She observed carefully for a long time, and no matter how she looked at it, she didn't think the woman next to Huang Xiaochuan was better than Qin Yu. Ren Yangyang felt it was a waste for her friend Qin Yu to lose to this woman.

She also expressed her disdain for Huang Xiaochuan's taste. Due to her stance, Ren Yangyang did not show up to greet Huang Xiaochuan. She thought that this guy was blind, which caused her best friend to go to study in a foreign country to avoid him. She felt angry whenever she saw him, let alone talk to him.

Back home, Huang Xiaochuan started making phone calls to wish everyone a Happy New Year, from his maternal grandmother, uncles, and aunts to his teacher Wang Deyi, his second senior brother Jiang Qiming, his business partner Huang Boyi, as well as Ge Changli, Tang Yuan'an, and several roommates. Huang Xiaochuan didn't miss a single one.

After lunch on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Mr. and Mrs. Huang and Mr. and Mrs. Yu set up a table and started playing mahjong. This was one of their few shared hobbies. Not long ago, Mr. and Mrs. Huang had become obsessed with qigong. Huang Xiaochuan, thinking that he could see through it but not say anything, did not expose the qigong scam. Anyway, it didn't cost much money and didn't harm the body.

Sometimes it was quite amusing to watch Lao Huang at home, banging and tapping himself with two leather hammers. Lao Yu was also influenced by Lao Huang, and the two practiced the same martial arts. They had been colleagues for half their lives, and now they were even fellow disciples. Huang Xiaochuan found it hilarious to think about it.

Fortunately, the two mothers weren't that unreliable. They usually just liked to play a little mahjong and didn't have time to practice that stupid qigong stuff.

Yu Wei continued playing "The Admiral's Decision" on his game console, while Yu Xiang and Yu Min, the two sisters, chatted and ate fruit on the balcony.

After telling Yu Xiang, Huang Xiaochuan drove to the post office.

My home phone doesn't have international calling enabled, so I need to go to the Post and Telecommunications Building to make international calls.

After the post and telecommunications building was completed, the post office that was originally on Xiheng Street moved here. The service facilities have been greatly improved. There are special telephone booths for making international long-distance calls, and they are even equipped with soundproof walls, which is quite good and avoids interference between callers.

Not many people came to make international calls on the first day of the Lunar New Year. After paying a deposit, Huang Xiaochuan entered the long-distance call booth number 7.

He was calling Charlie Cho.

At this moment, Cao Charlie was offering incense at Wong Tai Sin Temple. He didn't expect to be the first to offer incense, as he was too thin to do so anyway. So he deliberately chose to come after lunch, hoping there would be fewer people. But when he arrived, he found that there were still just as many people, and Cao Charlie was sweating profusely from the crowd. Just then, his mobile phone rang again.

"Damn it!" Cao Charlie couldn't help but complain, but he didn't dare not answer, worried that it was his boss calling.

Charlie Cao had no choice but to squeeze through the crowd again and find a quiet place to answer the phone.

As he guessed, the person making the call was indeed his boss, Huang Xiaochuan.

Huang Xiaochuan made this call to distribute New Year's red envelopes to Cao Charlie, Lin Junfeng, and all the company's employees. Of course, he couldn't give them to them in person right now, so he had Cao Charlie handle it after work.

Last month, as planned, the opening of all twelve "Baijiali" specialty stores in Hong Kong was completed, and Lin Junfeng has already gone to Japan and South Korea to investigate the market.

Cao Charlie gave Huang Xiaochuan a brief report on the current situation of the company over the phone. After listening to Cao Charlie's report and giving a few suggestions, Huang Xiaochuan hung up the phone and left the phone booth.

Qingjiang is really too small; you can run into someone you know just by making a phone call.