The second aunt said, "Since we have reached a consensus, I will ask your father to buy some things later, and we will go to see her together tomorrow."

Everyone agrees.

……

The second aunt still remembered the old house of Lu Chengcheng's family, but the old house was renovated by Lu Chengcheng and its appearance had changed. She was a little uncertain: "I remember this house..."

My second uncle sighed: "Such a big garden, I wonder how beautiful it will be when it blooms."

The eldest son said, "Is there a vegetable garden next to it? It's such a wide vegetable garden."

The Third Aunt saw someone lingering at the door and hurried out: "Who are you? Who are you looking for?"

The second aunt asked, "Is this Lu Chengcheng's home?"

The third aunt said, "Yes, what's wrong with you?"

The second aunt explained: "I am Lu Chengcheng's second aunt, her grandmother's second sister. Is she at home? Let's go see her."

Today is the eighth day of the first lunar month and the factory has resumed work. Lu Chengcheng went to work early in the morning and did not come back until noon.

The third aunt looked at the second aunt carefully. She had seen the second aunt when she was young. After all, she was grandma's second sister. "Can you recognize who I am?"

The second aunt looked at the third aunt, a woman covered in jewels and gems, who looked very rich. Where had she met such a rich person?

The second aunt apologized, "I'm sorry, I can't recognize it."

The third aunt explained her identity.

The second aunt reacted: "Are you your brother-in-law's third sister? You look so young and beautiful." She felt so ugly. Compared with her, she was like two generations apart.

The third aunt happily chatted with the second aunt for a while, then said, "Wait a moment, I'll call Cheng Cheng."

The second aunt smiled and nodded: "Okay."

The third aunt called Lu Chengcheng and said that the second aunt was here to visit.

After hearing this, Lu Chengcheng rushed back immediately.

The three aunts accepted each other: "Her second aunt, this is Lu Chengcheng, Chengcheng, this is the second aunt."

The other party greeted her with a smile, and Lu Chengcheng also smiled slightly and called out, "Second Aunt."

The second aunt looked at Lu Chengcheng with a smile on her face: "This girl is so beautiful. She looks exactly like my third sister. She is so beautiful."

Lu Chengcheng looked at his second aunt and said, "You look a bit like grandma, but it's been so long that I don't have a very deep impression of you."

The second aunt said, "You and the third sister really look alike. You look alike, very alike. When your grandmother was young, you looked as pretty as you. The third sister is very opinionated. She found her own husband. Now it seems that the third sister married the best."

Lu Chengcheng said regretfully: "It would be better if grandma lived longer."

The second aunt said, "Your grandmother loved your grandfather very much. At that time, your parents disagreed, saying that he was a poor boy who had to go to the army, but your grandmother insisted. In the end, the two of them got together, but they went too far away and directly cut off contact with the family."

Lu Chengcheng said, "Second Aunt, let's go inside and talk. It's quite cold outside. I'll go in and make you a cup of hot tea."

The second aunt continued to tell the old history: "Your grandfather went to the army and suffered from many health problems. Your grandmother had been taking care of him. Later, your grandfather was assigned to work in City A, and we gradually lost contact with your grandmother."

Lu Chengcheng said: "After grandpa and grandma came to City A, grandpa worked in the government and grandma went to do business. Later, grandpa resigned and continued to work with grandma, and the family business grew bigger and bigger..."

The second aunt said, "Your grandpa and grandma are both great people."

Lu Chengcheng quite agreed with this: "That's right."

Entering the living room, Lu Chengcheng asked her second aunt, second uncle, and their three sons to sit wherever they wanted, and she went to make them some hot tea.

After making tea, Lu Chengcheng went to get fruits and snacks for everyone: "You can have lunch at home later."

The second aunt had some inferiority complex and didn’t want people to say that she was here to make friends. These words were not very pleasant to hear: “No, we just came to see you. Now that we see that you are doing well, we are relieved.”

Lu Chengcheng knew how to take advantage of someone's weakness: "If you don't want to eat, then take back the things you brought."

The second aunt smiled and said, "You kid..."

Lu Chengcheng said, "Okay, just listen to me. Let's have dinner at my house. Don't refuse."

The second aunt couldn't refuse: "Then I'll trouble you."

Lu Chengcheng said: "It's no trouble, it's just a small matter." She called Li Yun and asked Li Yun to prepare a table of food for her at noon to entertain the guests.

We have resumed work and there are people working in the cafeteria, so there is no need to stay busy at home.

The second aunt asked curiously, "Is there a restaurant in the village?"

Lu Chengcheng explained: "It's not a restaurant, it's a canteen, it provides food for the workers, you'll know when you go over and take a look."

The second aunt asked, "Did you drive it?"

Lu Chengcheng said modestly: "I opened it. There aren't many canteens. There are only a few hundred people eating every day. From time to time, there are tourists coming, but no more than 500 people at most."

The second aunt said exaggeratedly: "Cheng Cheng, you are even better than your grandparents."

Lu Chengcheng said: "This is exaggerated. I have no other choice. If grandpa and grandma were to do these things, they would definitely do a better job."

The second aunt said, "Don't say that. It's so hard to make money in this day and age. It's already very good that you can achieve this."

Lu Chengcheng smiled and said, "Actually, I didn't do very well. I just tried my best."

The second aunt praised Lu Chengcheng highly: "Our Chengcheng is much better than most people. If you are not doing well, then we don't even need to mention it."

Lu Chengcheng smiled slightly: "Don't praise me anymore, I'll feel embarrassed if you praise me again..."

Everyone was sitting in the main room chatting, and the atmosphere was quite happy.

At eleven o'clock, Lu Chengcheng took them to the cafeteria.

The second uncle looked around and said, "Your village looks so good, like a well-off village."

After the people in the village became rich, they either rebuilt or renovated their houses, so the whole village looks clean, tidy and very pleasing to the eye.

Lu Chengcheng said: "The people in the village are very diligent and hardworking, and they have made some money."

The second uncle was envious: "Your village is really lucky to have someone like you."

Lu Chengcheng said: "There are limits to how much I can help, they still have to work hard on their own."

The second uncle also understood this truth: "Yes, in the end you still have to rely on yourself."

As they were talking, the group arrived at the cafeteria, and Lu Chengcheng took them to a private room: "Everyone, please sit wherever you want. I'll go get someone to serve the food."

The second aunt said embarrassedly: "Chengcheng, I'm sorry for making you spend money."

"That's too polite. It's not right for my elder to come to see me and not treat you to a meal." After saying that, Lu Chengcheng went to the kitchen.

After a while, someone came to serve the food.

Lu Chengcheng followed behind with the dishes: "I prepared it a little hastily, please forgive me."

The second aunt was already very embarrassed: "It's already very good. If you were polite, we wouldn't know what to do."

Lu Chengcheng smiled and said, "Come, try the pigs we raised ourselves. This is the sauce-flavored pig house, and there are pig hearts. This is the sausage, and there are pig tripes. The chickens are also raised by ourselves. The duck was given to me by someone else, and this goose meat is delicious..."

Soon, the table was filled with dishes.

Looking at the sumptuous meal, my second aunt's family couldn't help but sigh in their hearts that any casual meal there was better than their New Year's Eve dinner.

Lu Chengcheng went to get another bottle of wine and handed it to the second aunt's eldest son: "Uncle, drink, don't be polite, I will drive you back later."

It's rare that relatives come to see her just to see her and not to ask for anything. Such relatives are worth interacting with.

The eldest cousin took the wine with a smile: "Thank you, Chengcheng."

Lu Chengcheng said generously: "You're welcome, drink as much as you want, and I'll get you more when you're done."

The eldest cousin opened the bottle of wine, and then poured a glass for each of the three brothers. The second uncle had high blood pressure and couldn't drink alcohol, so he could only watch the three brothers drink with envy.

The third aunt asked the second aunt: "Have you always lived in your hometown?"

The second aunt nodded and said, "Yes, we still live in our hometown and haven't left. If you don't mind, you can come and visit us."

The second aunt said, "By the way, my eldest granddaughter will be twenty in two days, and my family is going to treat her to a meal. You guys can come and have a drink."

The third aunt smiled and agreed: "Okay, it's the tenth day, right?"

Second Uncle nodded: "Yes, it's the tenth day, you guys should come early then."

The third aunt said, "Okay, we will definitely come to drink when the time comes." After that, she asked tentatively, "Cheng Cheng's great uncle also came to our house before, why didn't you come with him?"

The second aunt said quickly: "We didn't know. If Cheng Cheng's great aunt hadn't told me that Cheng Cheng was back, I still wouldn't know."

The third aunt glanced at Lu Chengcheng and said, "It's not your fault. Chengcheng is keeping a low profile when he returns home and doesn't want too many people to know."

The second aunt blamed herself and said, "If I had known that Cheng Cheng was back, I would have come to see her earlier."

The third aunt comforted her, "It's okay. It's okay that you didn't come here the first time after you found out."

The second aunt looked at Cheng Cheng with concern and said, "I came here mainly to see how Cheng Cheng was doing. I didn't expect that she was doing so well. I feel relieved."

The third aunt said: "Don't worry about Cheng Cheng, I will take care of her."

The second aunt was grateful: "Thanks to you."

The third aunt never takes credit: "It's her due. Cheng Cheng is also my granddaughter."

Everyone chatted and laughed while eating lunch.

After dinner, Lu Chengcheng and the third aunt each drove a car to take them home.

……

After returning home, the third aunt raised her own question: "Cheng Cheng, why did your eldest uncle tell the second aunt that you were back?"

Lu Chengcheng didn't think much about it. All she thought about was the elders coming to visit her: "What does this mean?"

The third aunt analyzed: "If the eldest aunt really wanted to tell the second aunt about your return home, why didn't they come together?"

Lu Chengcheng reacted: "Yes, what did the eldest uncle tell the second aunt to do afterwards?"

The third aunt frowned slightly: "This is what I can't figure out. And have you noticed that your second aunt's face doesn't look right? She's so pale and looks unwell, as if she's trying to hold on."

Lu Chengcheng asked, "Is the second aunt sick?"

The third aunt shook her head and said, "I don't know. I didn't have a chance to ask just now."

Lu Chengcheng said, "Her granddaughter will be ten years old on the tenth day of the first lunar month. Let's go visit her and ask her then."

The third aunt nodded: "Okay."

……

Three days after resuming work, everything was back to normal as it was last year. The workers' conditions gradually improved, and products began to be shipped out of the warehouse and delivered to all parts of the country.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Lu Chengcheng and her third aunt went to attend the twentieth birthday party of her second aunt's granddaughter.

Lu Chengcheng was too busy, so the two of them didn't arrive at their second aunt's house until eleven o'clock.

At this time, my second aunt's house was already full of guests.

When the elder sister-in-law saw Lu Chengcheng, she immediately sneered: "You are such a busy man. You just came when the banquet is almost about to start."

Lu Chengcheng ignored her and handed the gift in her hand to her second aunt: "I was too busy at home, so I came late. This is what I bought for you. I hope you don't mind."

"No, no, come in and sit down." The second aunt called her eldest granddaughter Fan Xinxin over, "Xinxin, this is cousin Chengcheng."

Fan Xinxin is still in college. She works very hard, hoping to find a good job after graduation so as to change her destiny. She is tall and thin, looks pretty, and is a little beauty.

She called out affectionately, "Cousin Cheng Cheng."

Lu Chengcheng took out a thick red envelope from her bag and gave it to Fan Xinxin: "Happy birthday."

Fan Xinxin declined: "No need, cousin, it's enough for you to come."

Lu Chengcheng put the red envelope in Fan Xinxin's hand: "Here, we haven't had time to order the cake yet, take the money and buy something to eat."

Fan Xinxin went to visit her second aunt.

The second aunt said, "Chengcheng, that's not possible. You've already bought a lot of things. You don't need to give me another red envelope."

Lu Chengcheng asked, "Is it too little?"

The second aunt thought without hesitation: "How is that possible? What you said is not too little, but it is too expensive to give."

Lu Chengcheng said: "If I am willing to give it, it is not a waste. Take it and buy something you like."

"Thank you, cousin." Fan Xinxin secretly looked at the red envelope from behind. There was actually six thousand yuan in it. Cousin Cheng Cheng was so generous. It was the first time someone gave her such a big red envelope.

All the relatives saw that Lu Chengcheng gave Fan Xinxin a big red envelope. The thick red envelope made all the relatives' eyes red. Then Lu Chengcheng was surrounded by all the relatives and he went from being a guest to the protagonist of the day.

"Cheng Cheng, do you still remember me? I'm your great aunt from the next room..."

"Cheng Cheng, I am your grandmother's sister. She and I grew up together. Later, your grandmother followed your grandfather to City A, and we never met again."

"Cheng Cheng, how long have you been back? Why haven't you come out for a walk?"

When people heard Lu Chengcheng's name, they didn't know who she was, so even if they heard her name, they wouldn't think she was a relative they knew.

Lu Chengcheng was born in City A and seldom went back to her hometown. She didn't know any of her relatives there. How could she go back and forth again?

After patiently answering everyone's questions, Lu Chengcheng found an excuse and moved away from the crowd.

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