It's hard to be a stepmother

I leaned against the desk and turned off the record, and Huo Hanchuan also turned on the lights in the room.The sun sets so fast in winter that I didn't notice it.

Huo Hanchuan walked towards me: "You are here alone?"

I nodded: "The two of them just went out." It's possible that Huo Baize didn't come back now because he ran out to play, and Huo Yunlan took care of the children instead of me.

Huo Hanchuan also nodded imperceptibly, and then his eyes were fixed on the huge poster on the wall.

"Ruan Le?"

He was asking me, but his tone was affirmative. I also glanced at Ruan Le on the wall and hummed: "Yes."

He was silent for a while, and I didn't know what to say. I rarely talked to him, let alone Ruan Le's poster, and I couldn't talk about his album.

He glanced at me, this time the light was bright, his gaze was deep, and I remembered his warning, the wedding photo above my head that reminded me day and night.

I have seen his possessive desire, hidden under his calm and handsome face.

Those fragments of the past made me stiffen subconsciously.It's obviously nothing, a poster, and it's in his sister's room, even if I take a second look, even if it's his song, what does it have to do with him?

But my back was still stiff, and my hands and feet were a little cold.

It was his silence that made the atmosphere freeze.

I didn't know what to explain, so I turned my head away, avoiding his sight, put Huo Yunlan's earphones and headsets away and asked, "Do you have anything to do with me?"

He took my hand: "Where's the ring?"

When he came back from that snow mountain, he would often hold my hand to look at it.My hands please him more than I do.

I thought for a while before taking the ring out of my pocket. When Huo Yunlan started the live broadcast, I took the ring off.

Huo Hanchuan took it and put it on for me again: "Try not to take it off in the future."

I looked at the ring and nodded silently.

I didn't take off this ring for a long time, because during the three months of marriage, I spent most of my time in filming, and I felt more comfortable without wearing it, so I didn't think about wearing it for a while.

Huo Hanchuan took one last look at the poster on the wall, and said to me, "Let's go, it's time for dinner."

He took my hand, not too hard, but kept pulling, and his footsteps were not fast, and he was silent on the thick carpet, so I followed him downstairs in silence.

When we got downstairs, it became lively here, with the laughter of children, the voice of the Huo family's second sister-in-law commanding, and the sound of serving dishes filed in, bowls and bowls colliding, the sounds were many and mixed, vivid and vivid, as if Zi entered a world of popularity.It seems that the silent film I just walked through was just pressed the pause button.

The second sister-in-law of the Huo family saw us coming down, and greeted with a smile: "Brother Chen, I was looking for you just now, come quickly, I want to eat. Brother, sit down quickly, I will wait for you."

Huo Hanchuan also laughed: "Sit down."

His voice is also different from the seriousness just now, and he is more popular.

He opened the chair for me, so I sat on it too, just as Huo Yunlan pulled Huo Baize in outside, she smiled as she walked, "Hurry up, Xiaoze, it's time to eat, I want to sit next to Brother Chen! Don't grab me!"

I pulled the side seat away for her.

After we juniors were seated, Grandma Huo and Mrs. Huo, Mr. Huo, also took their seats.

This is the New Year's Eve, and the Huo family's New Year's Eve is very lively, and there are more rules. You have to offer wine to the elders, and you have to offer wine to the peers.

Huo Yunlan told me in the morning that today I caught up with the grand ceremony of worshiping ancestors every five years. In previous years, it was just a minor event, and it was enough to just ask for incense, but today is a grand ceremony, so there are many etiquettes. .

And it was the first time I met my ancestors, so I had to kowtow.

So I followed Huo Hanchuan in the Huo family's ancestral hall, kowtowing from one end to the other, each one kowtowed three times and burned an incense stick.What's Huo Hanchuan's name, I echoed, Huo Hanchuan said: "Grandfather, I brought Xiao Chen to offer incense to you. This is the first time you see him..."

I yelled, "Grandfather."

From his great-grandfather to great-grandfather, grandpa.From Grandma to Grandma, Uncle Grandpa and Uncle Grandpa, none of them were missed. In the end, I also admire Huo Hanchuan's ability to memorize lines. What would happen if he memorized a wrong one?

I glanced at Huo Hanchuan, and he glanced at me too, handed me the incense, and said softly: "This is the last one."

I took the incense and nodded.I didn't mean anything else, just participating in this kind of activity for the first time.

In the past, the Xiao family also had the rules of worshiping ancestors. The bigger the family, the more ancestors, the more solemn the rules of worshiping ancestors, because they believe in filial piety as the cause of blessing, and they must respect the old and love the young if they want their career to last forever. .

It's just that I haven't participated in the Xiao family's ancestor worship ceremony in the past.Thinking about it now, I saved a lot of things back then.

After all the ancestors worshiped, it was already an hour later, and I was relieved when I got out of the ancestral hall. It was too formal, and it was much more solemn than acting on TV.This kind of solemnity is special compared with the contract marriage between the two of us...

I couldn't find a word, but I just felt uncomfortable, I looked at the dark sky and sighed silently.

There was Huo Baize's loud voice in the yard: "Dad! Come and set off the fireworks with me."

A lot has been placed around him, and he still holds a handful of thin sparks in his hand, waving them towards us.

Children are the happiest during the Chinese New Year.Huo Yunlan is also a big child, she also took a lot in her hand, and when she saw me coming, she called me: "Brother Chen, come quickly, this is for you! You get some!"

Just as I was about to wave my hand, Huo Hanchuan also said to me: "Go, I bought a lot, and I'll finish it tonight."

Huo Baize's happy voice: "Yes, it's all over!"

I took two sticks of incense, and the three children had to see that they couldn't see them correctly, so after they set them up, I gave them some. Huo Yunlan was on the other side, and she put the fireworks next to each other in a row and shouted at me: "Brother Chen, I never Point here! You go from there! The fireworks will look good only if they are set off together!"

I didn't understand what she meant until I put all the fireworks in the air. This row of fireworks formed a zodiac sign of the Year of the Tiger, and the tiger looked like a galloping tiger roaring.

I heard Huo Baize shout loudly: "Daddy's tiger! I want it too! I want it too!"

Oh, this year is Huo Hanchuan's birth year, he is a tiger.

The second brother of the Huo family teased Huo Baize: "Aren't you going to give your father a New Year greeting and ask for a red envelope?"

Huo Baize hugged his father's thigh: "Happy Year of the Tiger, Dad! I want a red envelope!"

Huo Hanchuan picked him up: "You just said this?"

Huo Baize thought for a while: "The tiger gives birth to power! The year of the tiger is auspicious! A fox pretends to be a tiger!"

The second brother of the Huo family laughed: "Don't want the one in the back, just change it."

Huo Baize couldn't think of any more, so he asked back, "Second Uncle, what do you say!"

The second brother of the Huo family coughed: "Tiger...a tiger head?"

The second sister-in-law of the Huo family cut her voice: "Then when it's your birth year, brother, you give him a sentence: Monkey head monkey brain."

The servants of the Huo family also came out to watch the fireworks. They laughed when they heard what the second sister-in-law said, and I laughed too. Big brother, the dragon is fierce and the tiger is fierce, and the dragon sings and the tiger roars!"

Huo Hanchuan glanced at him, and the second brother of the Huo family coughed: "Brother, what I said is correct."

That's right, you want to look at me and say?Because those two idioms are already the same as adult jokes.

I looked away and looked at the tiger that was about to dissipate in the night sky and slightly curled the corner of my mouth. I think the second brother of the Huo family was right to bless him, because with his elder brother's way of doing things, he would sooner or later become a eunuch.

Huo Hanchuan probably understood what he meant, probably because he didn't want to become a eunuch, his voice was very low: "Speak well, shut up if you can't speak."

The second brother of the Huo family yelled a few times, but was photographed by the second sister-in-law of the Huo family: "Brother didn't scold you wrong, just shut up!"

I also don't want to care about the second brother of the Huo family who can't speak anymore. I squatted down and lit the single firework that Huo Yunlan was holding, and Huo Baize also ran over. After I ordered them, I lit a handful myself , The more this kind of fireworks are lit, the better. We put the lit fireworks together, so they are like blooming flowers. Huo Baize can't raise his small hands high, Huo Yunlan and I squatted down, and Huo Baize circled around the two of us. Turning around and shouting: "Dad, how good is it!"

Huo Hanchuan's smiling voice was hidden in the sound of fireworks.

After visiting for a while, he went back to the house. He had other things to do. When he left, he said to me: "Come back after playing for a while, don't catch a cold."

I led Huo Baize and nodded: "Okay."

Huo Baize took my hand: "Let's play for a while!"

Now he thinks that I am a very useful person who can light fireworks for him, so he won't let me go. He greeted me and said, "I'm going to finish all of these! Come with me, okay?"

Obviously begging me, but the voice is as loud as ever.

I hummed: "Okay."

Huo Yunlan looked at his watch while setting off the fireworks: "Ruan Le will also appear on the Spring Festival Gala tonight. His show is at 11 o'clock. Let's watch his show before coming out, okay?"

She has already looked at her watch frequently, and she is anxious to wait.Because of this, I lit the fireworks faster, and finally finished all the fireworks before 11 o'clock, and then went back to the house.

I didn't participate in this year's Spring Festival Gala. I couldn't miss the Huo family's dinner. That's why Mrs. Huo went to tell me to spend more time at home that day.

I followed Huo Yunlan and the second sister-in-law of the Huo family accompanied Mrs. Huo to watch TV in the side hall. Mrs. Huo doted on the younger generation very much. After hearing Huo Yunlan say that there was a handsome guy she liked on TV, she also watched it with her. I stopped playing mahjong.

Huo Yunlan held her arm and said, "Grandma, there will be many handsome guys here."

The wrinkles on Mrs. Huo's smiling face became like chrysanthemums, and she said repeatedly: "That's good, good, I'll take a look too, Brother Chen, sit here with me." She waved to me and pulled me to sit on her Next to me, the second sister-in-law of the Huo family winked at me: "Grandma likes handsome guys. After you come, brother Chen, the old lady won't look at his grandson anymore."

Huo Hanchuan's second sister-in-law was eloquent and impeccable. She amused Mrs. Huo and patted her: "You are not serious at all as a younger brother and sister."

Oh, yes, I should actually call her a younger brother and sister. I am a latecomer and I can't change it.

I don't think the second sibling can adapt either, so she smiled and said, "Grandma, although I'm Brother Chen's younger sibling, I'm almost ten years older than him. What do you want me to call you? I think Brother Chen You are too embarrassed to call me, do you think you are Brother Chen?"

She turned the topic to me: "Brother Chen, you can call me Sister Nan from now on."

I smiled at her: "Okay, Sister Nan."

The second sister-in-law of the Huo family is the daughter of the Zhou family, and her name is Zhou Runan. The Zhou family has no sons, so she educates this daughter like a son.If I am older than her in terms of seniority, Huo Hanchuan is the eldest son, but she took advantage of my young age and asked me to call her sister.I don't care about the internal affairs of the Huo family, and I don't care about this name anymore.

Seeing how smooth I was screaming, she glanced at me and said with a smile: "Then it's settled, it's really much better to scream like this."

Solved the title problem, and finally can watch TV.

If the National Drama Festival refers to the most popular stars in TV dramas in a year, then the Spring Festival Gala includes not only this, but also many singers. Ruan Le is the well-deserved finale singer of this year. Just looking at Huo Yunlan's performance, you can tell that the people across the country in front of the TV are like this.

Huo Yunlan screamed: "My husband! My husband is out!"

Her voice startled everyone in the outer hall. Huo Baize was startled by her, and looked at her in a daze: "Husband?"

The second sister-in-law of the Huo family also likes to watch celebrities, but she is already more than ten years older than Huo Yunlan, so she is not that excited. After Huo Yunlan was excited, she teased her: "My husband changed very quickly." She glanced at me: " Brother Chen, you belonged to her husband before."

Ever since the title problem was resolved, the second sister-in-law of the Huo family started talking to me a lot, and I looked at Huo Yunlan with a smile.

Huo Yunlan looked around, probably looking for her elder brother, and seeing that Huo Hanchuan was not here, she patted her chest and coughed: "Second sister-in-law, please keep your voice down, don't let my elder brother hear you, or you will have to Speaking of me, brother Chen is now my sister-in-law, so I can't grab it from my brother."

She looked at me again and said: "Brother Chen, you can believe my words now, you have always been my idol, I have been sad for a while since you married my brother."

Huo Baize said loudly, "I'm sad too!"

I glanced at him, he snorted at me, I didn't speak, I thought I was sad too.I stared at the man on the TV screen with a cold appearance but deep affection in his eyes, and my heart felt a little stuffy.

I haven’t thought about him for a long time, I blocked everything about him, I didn’t listen to his new song, because people are forgetful creatures, sooner or later they will forget when they are not in front of you, when there is a better one When it is in front of you, you will forget faster.

I think the reason why such a powerful person like me is still thinking about him is because no one better than him has appeared.

No one is as true to me as he is, even a little bit, I miss that little bit of truth, haha, I am so hypocritical, how can I expect others to be true to me.