Fortunate Life of the Rural Beauty

Chen Afu turned around and saw Dabao standing on the bed, wearing a red jacket, red trousers, and a small red melon-skin hat, which looked like a red bell pepper. He was so beautiful. She went over and held Dabao's face, kissed him twice, and said with a smile, My son has surpassed everyone else.

Chen Dabao was so delicate that he couldn't even hold his tongue straight. He hugged her neck and said, I can't compare to my mother, I can't compare to my mother...

Chen Afu bent down and put on Chen Dabao's little red boots with his own hands, then cleaned his face, and then the mother and son held hands and walked out of the west wing.

There was still heavy snow in the sky, even though the servants had just cleared a path in the yard, it was now covered with snowflakes again. Not only was the courtyard covered with a white layer, but also the roofs, branches outside the courtyard, and lanterns were all covered with a thick layer. At a glance, it is covered in silver.

Fortunately, the house I live in now is a big tile-roofed house. If it were an old thatched house in the old yard, I would have to worry about the heavy snow falling and damaging the house.

The two came to the upper room, where Chen Ming, Wang, and A Lu were already sitting in new clothes.

Chen Afu led Alu and Dabao to kowtow to Chen Ming and Wang who were sitting in the seats to say New Year greetings. The two men smiled and gave each of them a red envelope containing six silver coins. Then, Alu bowed to Chen Afu, and Dabao kowtowed to Chen Afu. Chen Afu smiled and gave each of them a red envelope, which was also six silver coins.

Then, the servants also came in and kowtowed to the master to pay New Year greetings. The master gave the servants red envelopes with two silver coins in them.

These red envelopes were all prepared by Chen Afu in advance. He also prepared several red envelopes containing two silver coins for Chen Ming to give to the younger members of the Chen family who came to pay New Year greetings.

After a happy fuss, they sat down to eat.

After dinner, accompanied by Xue Dagui, Alu led Dabao to pay New Year greetings. They went to Tangyuan first, then to Luo's house, and then to the village.

Chen Afu accompanied Chen Ming and Wang to talk for a while. After discussing Chen Ming's visit to Xianhu Village on the fourth day of the lunar month, they decided to go to Wang's uncle's house in the lobby to inquire about the whereabouts of Wang's younger brother Wang Cheng while paying New Year greetings.

Uncle Datang is more powerful. He was the one who led his men to beat up Wang's biological father and stepmother.

Wang's heart also became excited, and she also wanted to go back. She wanted to know the whereabouts of her brother so much. After thinking about it for more than twenty years, she never dared to go back and ask, but now she finally could. Of course she wanted to know as soon as possible.

Chen Afu then said, Mom really wants to go back, so she took Brother Xue and Aunt Zeng with her. Brother Xue is great, and Aunt Zeng is a good talker. With them, I won't be afraid of being bullied.

Just as he was talking, the New Year greeters came.

The first wave to come were brothers Chen Agui and Chen Ayu. These were serious juniors who had to kowtow. Chen Ming gave them red envelopes and asked them to take back the red envelopes given to other juniors. Then came Luo Yuan, then Hu Wei, and one after another, the servants from Tangyuan, the villagers from Xiangluo Village, and the people from Shangshui Village...

Because Chen Afu was a female relative, he hid in the west chamber. She washed a few tea bowls that she took out from the space, and then poured the basin of water for washing the tea bowls into the backyard. There was a piece of land there that had been circled and would be the future vegetable patch.

She looked at the tea bowls. No matter how clean they were, they could no longer be used. But today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, so it seems like you can’t throw away garbage. So he put the tea bowl under the bed and threw it out after the New Year. It can't be thrown away at home. The thrifty Chen Ming and Wang will definitely pick it up and use it.

Suddenly, I heard old man Zeng’s surprised voice in the yard, “Oh, sister is here.”

Chen Afu came out of the bedroom and saw Chu Hanyan wearing a pomegranate red hooded cloak entering the room. When she saw Chen Afu, she hurriedly came over, hugged the little chubby hands together and blessed her, and said, Auntie... I wish you good luck in the new year and all the best...

Then, he raised his head and looked at her, looking like he was begging for praise.

Mother Song on the side corrected her, Sister, you have to wait until aunt is seated before saying New Year greetings. She had taught her many times when she was in Tangyuan, but she became anxious when she saw Master Chen.

Chen Afu smiled and said, It doesn't matter so much. Then he said to Chu Hanyan, Sister, I am really capable. I am here to wish my aunt a happy new year. My aunt's big red envelope is ready.

He handed her the red envelope containing six silver coins that he had prepared, took off her cloak, and treated her to snacks and candies. Hearing that all the guests who were paying New Year's greetings in the upper room had left, he took the little girl to the upper room to pay New Year's greetings to Chen Ming and Wang.

Chen Ming and Wang were very happy that the noble girl could wish her a happy new year, and they quickly gave her a red envelope.

The little girl smiled happily, clapped her fingers and said, Sister, I have... one, two, three, four, oh, five, five red envelopes.

Miss Chu doesn't have many relatives here, and the servants can't give red envelopes to the master. She got so much this time, which made her extremely happy.

Chen Afu took her to the west wing to play for a while, and then the little girl reluctantly left.

At noon, Alu and Dabao came back. The two boys each received several red envelopes, respectively from Mr. Chu, Chu Lingxuan, Mrs. Chen, Chen Ye and Chen Shi. The grandfathers and grandsons of the Chu family gave six and four champions and gold medals respectively. Chen Shi gave one hundred cash, and everyone else gave fifty cash.

The old Marquis of Chu actually gave Chen Afu a red envelope and asked Dabao to bring her eight golden peanuts.

Dabao said, I kowtow to Grandpa Chu on behalf of my mother and wish him good health and longevity.

Chen Afu praised, Well, my son has done a good job.

It was the first time that Dabao had so much money, and his eyebrows were creasing with a smile. He generously handed it to Chen Afu and said, Give all this money to my mother, and she will use it to buy flowers.

It made everyone happy. Chen Afu smiled and said, Mother has money to buy flowers and clothes. This money is Dabao's private money, and mother keeps it for you. If you have something you like, come to mother to get the money. Still took twenty coins. Putting the money into his wallet, he said, Dabao takes this money to buy candies.

A Lu was much shy. He also gave all the red envelopes to Wang, but was embarrassed to say those sweet words. Mrs. Wang also said that this was his private money and she helped him keep it. In the end, he still gave him twenty coins as pocket money.

On the morning of the second day of the second lunar month, I cooked fermented glutinous rice eggs and steamed steamed buns. Chen Afu made the glutinous rice on the 27th when he suddenly remembered it. Today was just the time, so he asked Aunt Mu to make it.

Chen Afu made one large can and two small cans, and gave one small can to Tangyuan and Steward Luo's families respectively. Southerners like to eat these things, but I don’t know if northerners like them, so I don’t give them as much.

This was the first time for Chen Ming and others to eat it, and they all said it tasted delicious. Chen Afu also felt that it tasted better than in his previous life, perhaps because of the quality of his own water.

Today is the day to go back to my parents’ home. Their family had no daughter to return to her natal family, and Mrs. Wang had no natal family to return to. The whole family was huddled on the kang in the west room of the upper room, talking and laughing. A Lu and Dabao would sometimes run outside to set off firecrackers or run around wildly.

About six o'clock in the morning, the Wei family came.

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