The world of Chinese style creates a prosperous era for girl groups

Southerners have New Year's Eve dinner relatively early. Generally speaking, they start eating New Year's Eve dinner at three or four in the afternoon, and the meal ends at Xia's house before 5 o'clock.

Ordinary families would gather together with relatives and friends at this time to play mahjong or poker until midnight or early morning, but the Xia family did not have the habit of playing these games.

The whole family was sitting on the sofa in the living room with the TV on. Xia's mother came out with a big stack of photo albums for Zeng Jingyi to watch and made various comments.

"Now, this is Yu Rong when she was a child. She was the little bully in the community. She was very powerful at that time. Yangyang was bullied by her many times. Her face was scratched with fingernail marks, but Yangyang didn't dare to fight back and could only cry and get angry. It's my fault. Fortunately, she is now my obedient daughter-in-law, who will serve me with tea and water all her life, so please forgive her." Xia's mother smiled.

"Mom, how could I be so powerful?" Kuang Yurong also had a smile on her face.

"Senior Brother Xia was so chubby and cute when he was little. I didn't expect him to be so weak and so prone to crying."

"When Yangyang was a child, he was chubby and looked silly. His grades were not particularly good at that time. His speech, thinking and reaction, including movement, were slower than others. He was worse than the average child. I thought he was a little fool, but I didn't expect that he was very good at music. I have talent, so I cultivated it in music.”

"Well, Senior Brother Xia is indeed very talented in music. We all admire him." Zeng Jingyi said this very naturally without raising her head. She was still looking through various photos of the Xia family, mainly photos of Xia Haoyang when she was a child.

Several other people sitting on the sofa exchanged glances with each other. Sister-in-law Kuang Yurong smiled and nodded to Mother Xia, and Mother Xia also nodded gently.

"By the way, was Senior Brother Xia very talented in music when he was a child? How did you discover that he had musical talent?" Zeng Jingyi asked curiously.

"When I was a child, I enrolled in various classes for Yangyang. When I learned calligraphy, I was a mess; when I learned skating, I often fell down; when I learned Go, I always cried; but when I learned piano, I could practice quietly for an hour or two, and it was better than the average person. It’s so fast, and it shows.”

"Why do I cry when I learn Go? I also learned Go when I was a child."

"Because I can't beat others, so I can only cry."

"Hahaha, that's it."

"I started learning piano. Later, the piano teacher discovered that Yangyang could compose some music by himself, and the music he created was very nice, so he started to develop in this direction." Mother Xia's eyes shone with kindness and happiness.

"Mom, you are biased, why didn't Haogang and Haoqi take so many interest classes when they were young?" Sister-in-law Kuang Yurong was also actively participating in the chat.

"Why didn't you learn? Hao Gang learned to play tripod when he was a child, then played the trumpet, and then learned equestrian. He even participated in equestrian competitions in London and won a prize; Hao Qi learned break dancing when he was a child, and later learned roller skating, and then became obsessed with it. What about go-karts? Anyway, these interests were chosen by themselves and they have given up now. Yangyang has always insisted on playing his own music."

Xia Haoqi, who was sitting on the sofa, made a face and said softly: "I didn't give up on my own. It was obviously forced, forcing me to study business management in college."

"That's not bad, Mom. It was obviously because you crashed continuously in a kart race, failed to get results, and said you would never play again, that Mom asked you to study business management." The eldest Xia Haogang also joined in the chat.

"That was just a momentary remark. You should have persuaded me to keep going."

"The third child never said he would give up on music at any time, and he has persisted until now." Xia's father also said calmly.

""Why" is this a song title?" Zeng Jingyi looked at the photo of a song in the album. "

"Well, this is the first song Yangyang has written, the first complete song." Xia's mother still smiled.

"It's amazing. How old was Senior Brother back then?"

"Probably third or fourth grade, Yangyang, how old were you then?"

Looking at Xia Haoyang's childhood photo album, Xia's mother also took out some of Xia Haoyang's childhood toys, trophies from the children's piano competition, and showed off her baby son in front of Zeng Jingyi throughout the evening.

At around eight o'clock, the Spring Festival Gala started, and Zeng Jingyi got up and planned to leave Xia's house and go back to the hotel.

"Let's just stay at home today. Why don't we go back to a hotel? We have room at home, and we ate early in the evening. You don't have anything to eat when you go back to the hotel now. We'll watch the Spring Festival Gala and we'll have a late night snack later." Mother Xia Don't let Zeng Jingyi leave.

"That's not good. Wouldn't it be too disturbing?" Zeng Jingyi's hands were held by Xia's mother.

"Don't bother me. I usually don't have any friends at home to play with. I'm just happy if you can stay at home and play."

Looking at the kind mother Xia in front of her, Zeng Jingyi thought for a while and agreed.

Although ordinary people complain that the Spring Festival Gala is not as good as every year, artists still take the Spring Festival Gala as their highest honor.

"The songs these people sing are not good. Why can they be on the Spring Festival Gala? Are they so popular?" Xia Haoqi, the second child, watched the program on TV boredly.

"Some singers seem to be born specifically for the Spring Festival Gala. They are rarely seen in the news, but whenever the Spring Festival Gala comes, you can see them singing on the stage." Xia Haoyang replied calmly.

"Lao San, why can't your company's singers participate in the Spring Festival Gala?"

"Actually, in terms of popularity, influence, Tara has been at the top of China in recent years. She is unlucky. Last year, she passed three rounds of reviews for the Spring Festival Gala. Later, scandals broke out in other girl groups, which affected them; this year It's because of Wanqi that the overall image of our studio has been affected." Xia Haoyang said softly.

"Actually, that's all the Spring Festival Gala is. Today's audiences don't like to watch it."

"Yes, the audience doesn't like it, but it doesn't mean that the artists don't want to participate in this stage." Xia Haoyang glanced at Zeng Jingyi, who was sitting next to him with his eyes fixed on the TV.

"This is what Qian Zhongshu said: People outside want to come in, but people inside want to get out?" The sister-in-law also glanced at Zeng Jingyi.

"Probably so."

"Here, let's eat some glutinous rice balls as a late-night snack. It will make you happy." Northerners eat dumplings on New Year's Eve, while southerners eat glutinous rice balls more often.

At about ten o'clock, several people in the Xia family were having supper, and suddenly my sister-in-law Kuang Yurong had a stomachache, which was very uncomfortable.

Xia's mother quickly asked the obstetrician and gynecologist who was temporarily staying near the villa to come and check her 24 hours a day. He came to the conclusion that the amniotic water had broken and she was about to give birth, so she needed to be sent to the hospital as soon as possible.

Then the sister-in-law was sent to the already arranged hospital under the care of the doctor, and the entire Xia family, including Zeng Jingyi, also came to the hospital to wait.

After more than three hours of work, on the first day of the first lunar month in 2026, Xia Yuanxue, the third generation eldest son of the Xia family, was born.