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Chapter 6 - Family Holidays

Christmas

23rd December 2019. The local supermarket

Lan WangJi, Wei WuXian, YiLan and SiZhui went shopping. Christmas was just around the corner. Lan WangJi got his well-earned vacation so he decided to stay home, in Gusu. Not any fancy places he used to go in the previous years.

So he and part of his family were at the supermarket. He decided to separate so they can bring the stuff faster. Lan WangJi was in charge of the essentials items and foods. Wei WuXian was responsible to choose the drinks. SiZhui was taking the meat and spices. And XiuLan was in charge of the fresh veggie and fruits.

As Lan WangJi expected finished groceries shopping less than an hour. Mostly they stand at the queue. I was a long-ass one, which pissed them off.

Once finished, they loaded the groceries into the car and continued shopping. They needed more decorations.

After that, they went straight home. They decided to celebrate the holidays with the whole family and with their closest friends. So in the meantime, they were at shopping, back in their home, everyone was doing something, like baking gingerbread or putting some of the decorations. Or just slacking off drinking hot cocoa with marshmallows.

24th December 2019. Cloud Recesses residential neighbourhood

There were noises from 6 o'clock in the morning. The smell of Christmas filled the home of the Lans. Lan WangJi is cooking alongside YiLan and YanLi. Lan WangJi is the "executive chief" so he tells them "what to do"

"Miss Jiang, if you don't mind, you will yo the main course. I'll help on that too. A-Yi, you will do the sweets. I will help Miss Jiang do the main course and also I'm making the first course"

"Yes dad" YiLan responded.

"O," YanLi responded as she picked some lotus roots

As they worked, YiLan looked at her aunt and asked:

"Aunty...Why isn't uncle Yao coming?" She asked her

"I think he said he goes in Thailand with NieMingJue, something like a second honeymoon or something." She said while she was cutting the pork meat.

"I still can't believe they got married. They used to hate each other and compete for XiChen's attention" she said as she remembered how once how he saw him GuangYao try to choke NieMingJue to death.

"That's true. But, in their case, their aggression toward each other was their way to express their love" she said giggling.

"I think so" she said giggling as well

They continued cooking and baking, with the additional bowl lickers, first comes Wei WuXian, the  JingYi, then Jin Ling and Jin ZiXuan, then Mo XuanYu and others. Approximately all of them licked the bowls.

Soon the evening came, and they started decorating the Christmas tree.

Wei WuXian and Lan WangJi, long time ago, when the twins were just around 15 months old, made a new tradition, the youngest puts the star on top of the tree. Every year, the star yes switched between XiuLan and YiJun, who were the youngest.

This year, the Lan family has a new youngest member, Lan Xun. But because he is small, YiJun puts the star for him.

Dinner then starts. Everyone eats and talks about the memories if the past. Then Wei WuXian remembers the first Christmas of the twins

Flashback, 24th December 1997. Cloud Recesses residential neighbourhood

The house of Lan WangJi was a total mess. Diapers, napkins, baby clothes everywhere. But the two new parents didn't mind the mess right now. They try to make the two few days old babies fall asleep, so they could start cleaning the mess.