Movie Variety Show: Starting from a New World

Chapter 396 New Year's Day

With the little bastard sentenced to prison, the city of Beiping finally settled down, and time also arrived at the Little New Year. The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is the traditional Little New Year in the north, and basically from this day on, the New Year is considered to have begun.

Zhao Cheng's family also began to prepare for the event. Since the elders were not at home, the fourth and fifth children took their younger brothers and sisters to play. Even the twelfth child, who had just learned to walk, followed behind his older brothers and sisters every day.

Zhao Cheng doesn't need to watch over him at this time. He has a complete vacation and doesn't even go to work. He has worked hard for a year, so can't he enjoy himself?

Every day I sleep until I wake up naturally, then prepare a nutritious lunch for Xiuzhi. In the afternoon, I continue to rest and wait for Pingping to come home from get off work to cook.

However, Zhao Cheng had only been living like this for two days before he was arrested by Wang Tiejun and taken back to the police station. There were really too many things to do during the New Year period and he was too busy to handle it all by himself.

In addition, many people are transferred during the day to maintain order in large state-owned shopping malls, so now there are not enough people to patrol every day.

Faced with such a situation, Zhao Cheng could only go on patrol every day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Apart from having more free time, there was no benefit at all.

Could this really stump Zhao Cheng? After all, he spent the entire morning on patrol, came back for lunch, rested for a while, and then went out on patrol again, not coming back until the end of the night!

"Old Zhao, your operation makes me, Wang Tiejun, have to say that you are an expert. How did you do the patrol so well in such a fresh and unconventional way?" Wang Tiejun asked curiously.

"This is a secret, can I tell you?" Zhao Cheng said with a roll of his eyes.

Wang Tiejun was so angry that he laughed. He had never seen such a shameless person.

However, he had no way to deal with Zhao Cheng. Although he was no longer in charge of the matter, he was still his superior and the director of the police station. In the end, Wang Tiejun had no choice but to accept the result.

Actually, there was nothing wrong with them. Although the veterans of the compound were happy about the appearance of the little bastard, many smart people knew that they couldn't go too far. What if another little bastard appeared? Who knew who he would target?

Besides, it was the end of the year and every family was busy preparing for the New Year, so everything became quiet. As long as Zhao Cheng showed up at Lao Mo's every day, he could ensure peace in his jurisdiction. The remaining alley kids, without the little bastard who danced the most cheerfully, were not as daring and adventurous as the little bastard, so they also became quiet.

What bothered Zhao Cheng the most was the black market. Although the mall had everything, many items were impossible to buy without tickets, which required the black market to regulate.

However, this is the end of the year when the crackdown is the most severe, and most of the black market operators are idle people with nothing to do.

Zhao Cheng once raided a black market and caught a bunch of hooligans, all around 13 or 14 years old. He basically gave them a lecture and then let them go. This made Zhao Cheng realize that a strict "sending to the countryside" system would soon be implemented.

During the New Year holidays, Zhao Cheng received a lot of things from Ye Juan, mailed from the border area. The mail was in the same banknotes that Zhao Cheng had left for her.

Looking at the bag full of various local specialties, Zhao Chengdu didn't know what to say.

"Brother Cheng, didn't Ye Juan buy some of everything? That's too much." Pingping looked through the packages on the ground, took out each item one by one and placed them on the table.

Looking at the table full of frontier specialties, Pingping thought Ye Juan was really good. Although there were not many of each item, it was obvious that they were prepared with great care. Even someone like Pingping, who came from a wealthy family, had never seen such a variety of frontier specialties.

"Ye Juan is really something. She could have kept the good stuff for herself and the third child, but she had to mail it to us. Now we won't have a shortage of snacks for the New Year!" Zhao Cheng helplessly called the fourth and fifth children in, took these things to their room, and shared them with his younger brothers and sisters.

"Brother Cheng, what should we mail to Ye Juan? The third sister is there, and she is pregnant after all, so she needs some good things to nourish her body. Didn't you say she is a little thin?" Pingping said sincerely.

Of course Zhao Cheng knew that Pingping was not concerned about Ye Juan, but the baby in Ye Juan's belly. In Pingping's heart, the child always came first.

"Why don't you send some good things to the third brother?" Zhao Cheng said with a roll of his eyes.

"What you said is ridiculous. The third child is already fifteen years old after the Chinese New Year. Doesn't he know how to eat and drink? I have given him a lot of money and notes. If he doesn't know how to eat and drink, he is stupid! He deserves to starve to death!" Pingping's face was full of disgust. The third child was too eccentric. He didn't look like Pingping or Zhao Cheng at all. If he didn't look so much like Pingping, she would probably think he was adopted by mistake!

"You, why don't other children say this?" Zhao Cheng smiled and touched Pingping's head.

Zhao Cheng was also helpless that a man in his thirties still had the same personality as when he first got married.

"When you go to work tomorrow, do you need to take a few days off? Go to the border to see your son? And spend the New Year with your son?" Zhao Cheng asked tentatively.

"Is it okay? Can you handle the housework?" Pingping's true nature was immediately revealed. In fact, she was still thinking about the third brother.

"What? Are you a good boy now?" Zhao Cheng smiled.

"I've always been a good kid!" Pingping argued.

"If you really want to go, I'll keep an eye out for you. I estimate that there will be a lot of things that need to be transported by transport plane at the end of the year, so it should be no problem for you to load one!" Zhao Cheng said.

Pingping thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll take a day off tomorrow. You can stay home with them and take care of the kids this New Year! I'll go to the border to accompany my son and check on your third wife while I'm at it!"

Zhao Cheng smiled but didn't say anything. Instead, he started thinking about who to find. After all, Pingping was not like him who could just hitchhike on the plane. He had to find someone good first.

So the next day, the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, Pingping asked for leave, and Zhao Cheng found a transport plane to Lanzhou to take Pingping there. Once in Lanzhou, they could take the train there as well.

Pingping then embarked on her first long-distance journey, first by plane to Lanzhou, then by train for two days to the provincial capital in the border region, and then by bus to Shizihe.

After searching for a while, Pingping finally found the courtyard that Zhao Cheng described.

He knocked on the door, and the person who opened it was his third son, Zhao Weijun.

"Mom? Why are you here?" Zhao Weijun looked at his mother in surprise.

"What? I can't come to see you? Are you not welcome? Do you not want your own mother anymore now that you have the third mother?" Pingping asked pretending to be angry.

"How could that be, Mom? I miss you so much!" Zhao Weijun immediately turned into a tadpole looking for his mother and said to Pingping excitedly.