Chapter 53: The Full Year Wine (1)

  Xiao Yu felt that there was no longer any warmth spreading from his body, so he opened his eyes and looked up at the clock on the wall. It was already past 7 o'clock. Xiao Yu suddenly froze - wasn't it just past 7 o'clock when he sat down? Could it be that only a short while had passed, yet an entire night had gone by? Xiao Yu picked up his phone from the table and indeed, it was already morning.

  Xiao Yu stood up and moved his body around, although it still ached somewhat, but overall he was fine, and his complexion had also recovered quite well, at least it wasn't pale, but rather had a hint of rosiness.

  Xiao Yu stretched his body and looked at himself in the mirror, feeling quite surprised. He knew that his body shouldn't have recovered so quickly, but now it seemed like he had almost fully recovered overnight, and his yuan force had also recovered by more than half. What was going on?

  Could it be because of those few slices of ginseng? To achieve such an effect, the ginseng must be at least 300 years old wild mountain ginseng!

  Xiao Yu washed his face and came downstairs, seeing that only his mother was there, he said: "Mom, where's my sister?"

  "Today is your birthday, your brother-in-law has already taken your sister to his home, there are many things to prepare today!" Xiao Jianying saw that her son's complexion had improved a lot and nodded.

  "Go and have your meal quickly, after eating go help out at your sister's place, they must be especially busy today!" Xiao Jianying urged hastily as she saw Xiao Yu standing there without moving.

  Although I knew my son was unwilling to go, there's no way around it. The local custom is that the maternal uncle of a child who has just turned one must come over, representing the child's mother's natal family, and is considered half the host, so he also needs to help with entertaining guests.

  Xiao Yu hastily ate a few mouthfuls of rice, went out and hailed a taxi, sat in the car heading to his sister's house. Suddenly, Xiao Yu saw an Audi 4S store sitting in the car. Xiao Yu was taken aback, he remembered that about half a year ago when he passed by here, it was still a very prosperous supermarket, unexpectedly, just over half a year without returning, everything had changed beyond recognition.

  The car soon arrived at the entrance of my sister Xiao Yu's residential area, where my sister and her husband lived with his parents in a government-provided housing compound. Due to her father-in-law being a powerful vice mayor in the same city, they had an independent villa in the compound, which was actually similar to a two-story small building. Such villas were not allocated to anyone without certain real power in the municipal government.

  As it was a residential area for government officials, the property management was particularly strict and all outsiders had to register. Xiao Yu registered and entered the compound, then went straight to his sister's home.

  After ringing the doorbell for a while, the door was opened from inside. When Liu Jinhua, her sister's mother-in-law, opened the door and saw Xiao Yu, her originally smiling face suddenly sank, and she didn't say anything, turning back into the house.

  Xiao Yu saw Liu Jinhua's face was pulled very long, and indeed it was the same as when he came last time. However, today is his nephew's full moon day, and his sister and brother-in-law have a very good relationship, so Xiao Yu naturally wouldn't mind her and followed to push the door into the house. After entering the house, his sister was in the living room changing clothes for the child, while his brother-in-law Lu Jianfeng was cleaning up some wine.

  "Little brother, you're here! Why didn't you sleep a bit more?" Xiao Yu said as he saw his little brother enter the room.

  "Not sleeping anymore, can't sleep now! Xiao Huan is calling uncle!" Xiao Yu responded and went to tease his nephew.

  "Why don't you go and help your brother-in-law? He's been busy all morning!" Xiao Yu pointed to Lu Jianhong, who was busy.

  "Sister-in-law, I'm here to help you!" Xiao Yu said as he walked up to Lu Jianhong's side.

  "Xiao Yu is here! Come help me move all this wine out!" Lu Jianhong looked up and said as soon as he saw Xiao Yu arrive.

  Two people didn't meet for a long time, and they brought out all the wine. At around 8 o'clock, several young people came to my sister's house in a pickup truck. These people were one by one elegant and polite. After introducing themselves, I found out that they were all from the government office. They knew that Mayor Lu's family was having a full-year-old birthday party and had come to help voluntarily.

  Because Xiao Ye's hometown has a tradition of holding a grand ceremony for boys' coming-of-age, especially when they turn 18. The scale of the celebration is even more grand than their parents' wedding day, which shows how much importance is placed on the continuation of the family line. Although these ideas may seem outdated and feudal, in this remote area of Tongshi, no one thinks it's excessive, especially now that children are becoming increasingly scarce.

  Xiao Ye and Lu Jianhong, along with a few helpers, pulled the wine and water together to the hotel, where they needed to make some necessary arrangements.

  Because my brother-in-law's father holds a very important position in the same city, many people will come to congratulate him on his nephew's full moon celebration this time, so my sister's family has prepared a grand and high-end full moon banquet for her nephew.

  The venue for my brother-in-law's full-year wine party is the best and largest luxury hotel in the same city, with the entire second floor being booked by my brother-in-law's family. My brother-in-law Lu Jianhong's father, Lu Guozhang, has worked in the same city for half his life and has a great influence locally, so many leaders from the municipal government will also attend today.

  After Xiao You and Lu Jianhong's arrangement for an hour, the entire second floor has changed completely. The inside is filled with small flags and balloons. On a large table in the center of the second floor are placed some pens, books, abacus, etc. These things are put on the table to let the one-year-old child pick them up by himself. Different things have different meanings, such as picking up a pen means going to university in the future! Picking up a book means becoming a writer! And so on.

  Later, several people set up a reception desk at the entrance of the second floor hall, where some gifts and gifts would be registered.

  More than ten o'clock, my sister brought the child and Lu Jianhong's parents to the hotel together. Around eleven o'clock, people began to arrive one after another. The young people from the government who came to help were sitting at the reception desk, registering the gifts and gifts for the guests. However, Lu Guozhang ordered them not to accept any gift money exceeding two hundred yuan, so as not to let people say that he was taking advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune.

  However, Xiao Yu's gift was not registered because after the banquet started, the gifts of these close relatives and some close relatives would be taken out one by one, either let the children hold them for a while or hang them on the children's necks for a while, indicating that these relatives cherished and valued the child.

  At this time, there was nothing else for Xiao Yu to do, and his sister, holding the child, was surrounded by a large group of relatives from her husband's family. Xiao Yu tactfully did not go over and instead found a table to sit down at.

  As time passed, more and more people arrived. Of course, the banquet was set for 12 o'clock, so those who came at this time were some relatives and friends with a relatively close relationship. However, Xiao Ye didn't recognize any of his sister's husband's relatives and friends.

  According to the rules, Xiao Yu as the only relative of the bride's side who came to attend, represents the entire bride's side. At home, it's easy to say anything, but outside, she belongs to the object of special reception. Because of her brother-in-law's parents looking down on Xiao Yu and disdaining her ordinary family background, otherwise, with Xiao Yu's arrival, her brother-in-law's parents should have come over to greet her as a courtesy, but now they deliberately ignored her.

  Xiao Yu sat alone at the table, while Xiao Yu was surrounded by a large number of Lu family relatives and couldn't get out. Seeing Xiao Yu sitting alone at the corner table made her anxious, knowing that her brother would be like this when he came, but today was her son's birthday and her brother had to come, so she could only feel anxious seeing him sit alone in the corner.

  As the time slowly approached midnight, more and more people arrived, and the hall was already half full of people chatting in groups of three to five. Only Xiao Yu's table remained empty, with no one from the Lu family coming over, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

  Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Xiao Yu didn't take it to heart. Today, Xiao Yu came just to celebrate his nephew's birthday, and everything else was not important.

  "Xiao Lao Di?"

  A suspicious voice sounded behind Xiao Yu.