New Year's Eve was naturally another sumptuous dinner. After dinner, Lin Chacha and the others ran off like crazy. Many people were setting off firecrackers on the street. Lin Xiazhu didn't like it, so she only set off one string of firecrackers after the New Year's Eve dinner and one string on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, and then she stopped.

She only bought five strings of firecrackers in total, two of which were saved for the Lantern Festival. Now she makes all the decisions at home, and no one has any objections. Her family has long regarded her as the head of the household.

Since none of her relatives lived in town, Lin Xiazhu took her family back to Linjia Village on the first day of the Lunar New Year, mainly to pay New Year's greetings to Grandma Lin and Lin Shanfu.

This is Xiao An's first time back to Linjia Village. He had only heard about it before and knew it was a very mountainous place.

Hearing about it is one thing, seeing it with your own eyes is another. We've been walking for half an hour, and we still have to climb mountains. Even bicycles can't get through. This road is truly unbelievable.

Yan Xin walked at the very back, her legs trembling. She was exhausted. Why did they have to drag her back to Linjia Village? What did Linjia Village have to do with her?

Xiao An was second to last. Lin Xiazhu noticed that his face was a little pale, so she quickly came over and helped him sit down on a rock. "If you're tired, take a rest. It's a long journey, and it will take two or three hours to get there."

"So long?" Xiao An's face turned even paler. He was still weak and couldn't keep going for more than an hour.

"The main road will probably be open next year, but it will be opened from the other side. Tractors will be able to drive in then. You'll have to take a detour to get to the town, but it will still be quite convenient. It takes about an hour to get there by bicycle."

In the previous life, starting in March of the following year, 1991, a main road was built in Linjia Village, and finally tractors could drive in and out.

Once they started their journey again, Lin Xiazhu carried Xiao An on her back. Xiao An initially insisted on walking by himself, but Lin Xiazhu didn't argue with him. She simply put him on her back and quickly carried him away.

Xiao An gradually calmed down, his ears stopped turning red, and he quietly lay on Lin Xiazhu's back, feeling both complicated and sweet.

After paying their respects to Lin Shanfu for the New Year and having "Zhao Xiaolian" give Old Lady Lin a red envelope and have some tea, they went back to their old house to stay for the night and returned to town the next day.

After the New Year, Lin Shanfu's family moved to the town. Their new house was almost finished, and they could move in after the plaster was applied.

However, because Linjia Village is too far away and transportation is inconvenient, they moved out in advance and rented someone else's old house to live in first, moving their belongings out slowly, so that it would be easier to move to their new home later.

Lin Shanfu's rented house was not far from Lin Xiazhu's house, only a ten-minute walk away, so Old Lady Lin often came over.

During the Chinese New Year, Zhao Xiaolian gave her fifty yuan as a lucky money gift. Actually, this was wrapped up by Lin Xiazhu and given to Lin Laotai by Yan Xin. In any case, Lin Laotai was happy and found Zhao Xiaolian much more agreeable.

Grandma Lin didn't have much to do when she came over; she just instructed Zhao Xiaolian on planting vegetables, cleaning the house, and washing all the family's clothes.

“The children have to go to school every day. You are such an unreasonable mother. How can you let them wash their own clothes? It will delay their studies. You can ask Xiaozhu and the others to do chores when they are on vacation, but you can’t do it when they are in school.”

With Grandma Lin supervising her, Yan Xin had no choice but to wash herself. She really wanted to cry, but she couldn't argue with Grandma Lin. Those few short months of good days last year, with no one to control her, were gone so quickly.

No, from now on, let Lin Xiazhu and the others do the laundry at night. She's not their mother, why should she serve them?

"I just asked you to do some housework, and you're so grumpy. You've been spoiled rotten. Back in Linjia Village, you were always restless, dreaming of living in town or the county. Now that you're out here, you want to sit around doing nothing all day. You're such a troublemaker."

"Stop reading! I've done whatever you asked me to do, what more do you want?" Yan Xin stormed off to hang up the laundry.

Why did Lin Shanfu's family move to town to cause her trouble? They've already separated their households, so how can they manage so much?

"Hey, how much can you earn in a day if you sell clothes? Is it enough to cover your expenses? If you earn a lot, save the money and don't spend it recklessly." Old Mrs. Lin's eyes flickered as she probed repeatedly.

"Enough to spend, no money to save." At the end of last year, Yan Xin returned more than a thousand yuan of her principal to Lin Xiazhu. She would only have money to save this year. Right now, she only has three hundred yuan, and she still needs to buy goods. Where would she find spare money to deposit in the bank?

"Second son's wife, you'd better hold onto your money tightly. Don't impulsively give it to that adopted boy. No matter how handsome he is, he's not a member of the Lin family. It will cost a lot of money to send him to school and feed him."

"We can't help him get married anymore. We should stay out of his business and find his family to send him away as soon as possible."

Yan Xin rolled her eyes and said irritably, "If we can't find Xiao An's family, he'll live with us from now on."

“How can that be? That kid has excellent grades. I heard he always gets first place. What if he gets into university? Who will support him?” Old Mrs. Lin was extremely opposed to letting the second wife pay for Xiao An, an outsider, to go to university.

Xiao An is handsome, but his face is too pale and he's too delicate. He can't do heavy work, and in a poor rural family, his physique would just be a burden.

"It's not that I wanted to adopt Xiao An, it's that your granddaughter Xiao Zhu insisted on adopting him. She treats him very well, and I don't have to pay for the expenses anyway, so I have no objection." Yan Xin was fed up with Old Madam Lin and sold Lin Xia Zhu without hesitation.

If you have any problems, go find Lin Xiazhu, don't look for her. She just wants to live out these next few years in peace.

"...What are you saying? You, as a mother, would allow Xiaozhu to do whatever she wants? What right does a child have?" Old Mrs. Lin didn't believe it.

“Ever since your second son passed away, Lin Xiazhu has been the one who has taken care of this family. It has nothing to do with me. I don’t know you.” Yan Xin was so angry that she couldn’t hold back anymore and blurted out everything in one breath.

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