Road to Rebirth

Chapter 96 New Year's Eve
After breakfast, Li Xuemei didn't ask Gu Xiaoying and Gu Xiaoqing to help clean up. It's not good for the children to do it in the first month, for fear of suffering for the rest of their lives.

Pack it up.

By the way, Li Xuemei also prepared the lunch in advance.

Last night was an example.

It's better to prepare this lunch at home. The children in the province will come back with them, and they can't even eat a warm Chinese New Year meal.

Four bowls of steamed bowls are a must, a braised fish, a large plate of cabbage tofu, and two vegetarian dishes, preserved egg with tofu, and a mung bean sprouts with vermicelli.

They are all ready-made dishes, and Li Xuemei is almost tinkering with them, as soon as she comes back, she can cook them.

And there are leftover dumplings.

Then the whole family went out to the old house of Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu, and along the way, they also saw acquaintances paying New Year's greetings.

People from a village are all going out to pay New Year's greetings at the moment.

Gu Ruhai and Li Xuemei led the children to Grandma Zhang's house first, while Gu Xiaojie was still at her house.

As soon as they entered the door, Grandma Zhang and Aunt Zhang were sitting on the kang at home, while Gu Xiaojie and Zhang Zijie were picking up firecrackers in the yard. Those firecrackers that were not completely ignited were the favorite of the children in the village, especially the boys.

They all wanted to follow the crumbs of the firecrackers in the village in groups, their small eyes were all bright and shiny, their pockets were bulging, and they still held a small piece of incense from the firecrackers in their hands.

Li Xuemei and Gu Ruhai came in as soon as they pushed the door, and the door was closed for the New Year's Eve, so everyone would just push the door and enter when celebrating the New Year.

"Ms. Zhang, Happy Chinese New Year."

"Sister-in-law, happy Chinese New Year, where's Brother Zhang?"

The couple hastened to pay New Year's greetings. During the few months in autumn, the Zhang family helped to take Gu Xiaojie with them. Even though years ago, Li Xuemei bought a knife and three catties of pork, two catties of peach cakes, and two catties of apples. Thank you The Zhang family's care for Gu Xiaojie.

Being Grandma Zhang was a lot of scolding, if Li Xuemei hadn't developed a good eloquence now, she still couldn't put things down.

After all, in the past few months, Gu Xiaojie has eaten a lot at other people's houses, at least there must be a meal at noon, and the children have to give Gu Xiaojie any snacks, so Gu Xiaojie often hangs out with Zhang Zijie Eat other people's things.

These days, no one is rich. The Zhang family has long been separated, but the Zhang family has a large population, and the eldest is living with Mrs. Zhang. There are also two young men who have reached the age of starting a family. There are still small ones underneath, and there are eating mouths everywhere.

So Li Xuemei knew that she really didn't have much, and it was really a wish.

Grandma Zhang has a problem with her legs. She has old cold legs. In winter, she suffers from pain and has trouble walking. This is not sitting on a kang with a shitty mattress on her lap.

Aunt Zhang quickly got off the ground, called Li Xuemei and Gu Ruhai to sit down, brought the sugar balls, melon seeds and peanuts from the table beside her, and placed them in front of Li Xuemei and Gu Ruhai.

"Happy Chinese New Year. Your elder brother went to visit. You guys have a candy ball, sweeten your mouth."

He also enthusiastically grabbed two handfuls and stuffed them into the hands of Li Xuemei and Gu Ruhai.

Li Xuemei took it with a smile, rural people are honest people, if you don't pick up other people's things after Chinese New Year, you will be talked about and looked down upon.

"Sister-in-law, don't be so busy, we're just here to take a look. It's the Chinese New Year, and it's just a celebration all year round."

Sister-in-law Zhang liked Li Xuemei's sharpness very much.

Originally, Li Xuemei was always unable to support her in those years, and she didn't talk much, even if she had some persuasion words in her heart, she couldn't resist being ignored.

But now that the two families are getting closer because of their children, and Li Xuemei is different from before, Mrs. Zhang and Li Xuemei hit it off right away.

"Look at your sweet mouth, is my candy delicious, or have you drank sugar water?"

Li Xuemei smiled.

He shouted at Zhang Zijie who was still squatting on the ground: "Jie Zi, come and pay auntie New Year's greetings."

Zhang Zijie shyly pulled Gu Xiaojie over together, bit his lip shyly, bowed to Gu Ruhai and Li Xuemei, and said, "Uncle, Auntie, Happy Chinese New Year."

Then he smiled shyly and wanted to turn around and walk away.

He was grabbed by Li Xuemei.

"What are you going to do, the New Year's money given by my aunt, I have grown up for another year."

As he spoke, he handed over a dollar and stuffed it into Zhang Zijie's pocket.

Sister-in-law Zhang wanted to pull her wrist anxiously, but Li Xuemei pinned her wrist, "Sister-in-law, you are wrong, every elder of the family gives lucky money to the younger generation during the Chinese New Year. This is for Jiezi, not for me. Yours, you can't block it. This is my heart as an elder."

Mrs. Zhang opened her mouth, and finally slapped Li Xuemei lightly, "Okay, okay, as long as you are the elder, I, the mother, can't take care of me."

Zhang Zijie and Gu Xiaojie ran into the yard.

Gu Ruhai felt shouting from behind: "Gu Xiaojie, don't go, go to your grandma's place later."

Gu Xiaojie agreed, "Dad, I'll just play in the yard and not go far."

Zhang Zijie and Gu Xiaojie smiled and hid in the lee of the corner. Zhang Zijie took out the one dollar that Li Xuemei stuffed in from his pocket just now, because when he pulled it, the brand new money was wrinkled.

But Zhang Zijie smoothed those wrinkles with joy, and said to Gu Xiaojie: "Your parents are really rich, they gave me one yuan. My parents only gave me fifty cents."

Gu Xiaojie said slyly: "That's why my mother sees us as good buddies in two lifetimes, otherwise I won't give you so much."

Zhang Zijie nodded, yes, without looking at the relationship between the two of them.

After a while, Li Xuemei and Gu Ruhai left and took Gu Xiaojie with them.

Gu Xiaoying and Gu Xiaoqing did not go with the couple.

Because these two children have grown up and have their own playmates, this is also a New Year's greeting.

So the two sisters wanted to go to a friend's house to visit with them, and by the way, they paid New Year's greetings.

Just rush to grandma's house to pay New Year's greetings.

When Gu Ruhai and Li Xuemei brought Gu Xiaojie into the gate of the Gu family, Gu Xiaoying and Gu Xiaoqing also arrived.

The family of five solemnly bowed to Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu for New Year greetings.

Sitting on the edge of the kang, Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu, who were wearing neat boards, gave a dime to a child.

Even if Gu Xiaojie didn't know how much it was, holding it in his hand felt different from the ones in his pocket.

Gu Xiaoqing and Gu Xiaoying have been used to it for a long time. This year, they were probably surprised by Gu Ruhai's huge changes during this period of time, and they were willing to give a dime. In previous years, the old lady Gu was nothing.

Gu Xiaoqing glanced at the clothes worn by Mr. and Mrs. Gu, it was the padded jacket that his mother ripped off.

(End of this chapter)