CHAPTER 410: CHAPTER 310: NIGHT OF CELEBRATION

Birds of a feather flock together, people gather in groups.

The Lin Family banquet hadn’t ended yet, and there were already signal whistles sounding outside.

Zhang Guoqing saw the wine had gone round three times and gave Zhou Jiao a look. The two carried the children and left first, followed closely by a group of cousins, except for Lin Dingsheng and Lin Xuelin.

Lin Xuelin hesitated and glanced at Yang Liqun, eventually stopping and staying behind. She listened with regret to the cheers outside and looked hopefully at Mr. Lin, wishing he would speak up. But unfortunately, Mr. Lin was in high spirits from the wine and hadn’t noticed them.

As soon as Zhang Guoqing stepped out, he saw several friends looking around not far away. He shouted, "Let’s go, we’ll first move things from my place." After saying that, he ignored the group of wolf-howling friends behind him and quickly walked home.

At the Zhou Family, Old Mrs. Cheng and her grandchildren were already waiting in the living room. She took the children and waved everyone to go to the kitchen to move things.

In the kitchen, there was already a bunch of skewered meat and vegetables, and a few girls were putting bowls and chopsticks into baskets.

A few boys came forward and took away the noisy little fellows, carrying bamboo baskets towards the hall.

"Guys, at least carry the heavy stuff first," Zhang Guoqing saw that everyone was starting to move the dishes, and the big pots and charcoal were left for the girls. He quickly shouted.

Liu Yuexue and the others laughed heartily, saying, "There are already three large pots brewing soup in front of the hall, just waiting for your barbecue."

"Xiao Wu, hurry up. Brother Xiao Fei and Brother Feng have already set up the bonfire, just waiting for us. Everyone’s already gathered a lot of things tonight, these should be plenty."

"Hurry over, or you’ll only have soup to drink later."

Zhang Guoqing quickly ran to the warehouse, picked up two jars of wine, and walked out while shouting, "Jiao Jiao, you girls remember to bring the accordion and harmonica. Auntie, Ping’an is in your care."

Old Mrs. Cheng laughed heartily, urging Zhou Jiao to quickly join them in the fun. It was rare to see the children gathering in the Big Courtyard, and she had generously donated quite a few seeds and candies for the children tonight.

Soon, the living room was left with only Old Mrs. Cheng and Ping’an as she held the child, laughing and murmuring, "Our Ping’an, grow up quickly and go play with your little uncles. Oh, Little Ping’an also likes the excitement, right? Your dad is really good at playing, and you’ll surely follow your old man in the future. Our Little Ping’an is a Little Genius too."

In the small square in front of the hall. Night had fallen by this time, and bonfires and large iron pots were set up everywhere. Besides the young people and children, many elders were watching from the side.

Zhang Guoqing came over and placed two large jars of wine on the line outside the row of wine bottles and jars on the middle table. At this moment, seeing the table full of wine, he shouted oddly, "Is everyone planning to drink or take a bath with wine?"

"This isn’t even enough, someone has already gone home to get fruit wine. Xiao Wu, come and help start the fire." Li Qianjin waved after hearing Zhang Guoqing’s shout from afar.

Zhang Guoqing came over and saw that large iron pots were set up in each of the four corners, and he laughed heartily, "Brother Jin, what’s all this? Why are the pots so far apart? We have to run from one end to the other to eat, we’ll all be starved."

Li Qianjin kicked his leg, seeing him dodge, pointed and laughed, "Brother Li, next time you call me Brother Jin again, see how I deal with you."

"Isn’t Brother Li more endearing than Brother Jin? Brother, where are Brother Xiao Fei and the others?"

Li Qianjin pointed towards the service center, "They couldn’t light the fire just now, and all made excuses to buy wine and cigarettes. Let’s quickly add more firewood. Look at those old men laughing their heads off over there."

Zhang Guoqing also laughed heartily upon seeing it, it was too chaotic, and without organizing it wouldn’t be possible to eat anything tonight. He quickly shooed the watching kids to the table to eat the seeds.

A few people went forward and re-set up two large iron pots in the middle, using charcoal to light a few firepans underneath and setting up the iron grills. They kept shouting at the little ones to go home and get lunch boxes and chopsticks.

The pig’s head from the service center had already been reserved by Zhang Guoqing and others yesterday and was now moved from the outside pot to the big pot in the middle to simmer. In the other pot, without much thought, everyone dumped various southern and northern specialties they had gathered together for a stew.

Fang Fei and a few others were carrying things from afar and, seeing that everything looked presentable around the table, cheered loudly. This prompted the kids to follow suit, making a fuss.

A few women who loved playing musical instruments, along with Zhou Jiao and others, came over with their instruments while some mischievous kids set off firecrackers, shouting that it was New Year.

Zhang Guoqing gave Fang Fei and the others a look, and they moved chairs out from the hall to let the elders sit outside. By now, many people had gathered in front of the hall, even Old Mr. Cheng and Old Mr. Fang were seated with the elderly, happily directing the younger ones to start pouring the wine.