After the birthday parties of Da Bao and Xiao Bao, the New Year is getting closer and closer, and more and more people are rushing to the supermarket to grab New Year's goods every day. Ruan Ruan originally had no interest in crowds, but she couldn't resist the repeated invitations from her good friends and went twice.

In just two short visits, she had a piece of clothing torn, and after Chaoxi lost a shoe in the crowd, Ruanruan never went again.

Once is enough to have this kind of experience.

After that, whenever the family needed something, Ruanruan would have Huo Haocheng grab it before morning training so that he, a grown man, wouldn't look so out of place in front of a group of aunties and sisters-in-law. He even brought Su Yanqiu, Huo Haoshen, and Zheng Xuyang along. It was only because Gu Jinghe didn't come so early in the morning that he would have brought them along as well.

On Laba Festival, Ruan Ruan and Wang Qun soaked the necessary ingredients in water early in the morning. Since Ruan Shaoke and the others would be coming to their house for dinner that day, they cooked a lot of Laba porridge. In the meantime, Wang Qun also sent a portion to Huo Haoshen, Zheng Xuyang, Huo Haoshi, and Lan Chaoyang's families.

After that, Ruanruan and Wang Qun prepared New Year's goods for their family, many of which were specialties of Yuncheng. There were mushrooms that they picked themselves in the mountains in the summer, some dried fruits that they made themselves, cured meat that they exchanged with villagers, and blood-nourishing pills that Ruanruan made for her grandparents and maternal grandparents to regulate their bodies.

Not long after the New Year's gifts prepared for their families were sent out, the New Year's gifts prepared for them by their families arrived. As usual, they were all large packages. However, unlike previous years, this year they also received New Year's gifts from the Lan family. The gifts were all similar, all local specialties, as well as red envelopes for Ruan Ruan, Huo Haocheng, and the two children.

So when she opened a few packages, Ruan Ruan took out a bunch of red envelopes. Because of this, she even bragged to Huo Haocheng at dinner, "I'm a mother now, and I still get red envelopes!" When she said this, AK couldn't suppress the upturned corners of her mouth.

“Yes, in our eyes, Ruan Ruan will always be a child!” Seeing her happy, Wang Qun and Huo Haocheng echoed.

"Mother"

"Mother"

Da Bao and Xiao Bao were playing with toys in their strollers. Next to them were the red envelopes that the family had prepared for them. Ruan Ruan put the red envelopes in the strollers so that the children could also experience the feeling of being cared for by their family.

When Da Bao and Xiao Bao heard their mother mention red envelopes, they picked up the red envelopes next to them, bent over, and tried to give them to their mother.

The one-year-old babies don't know what red envelopes are, but this afternoon, their mother kept talking about them and gave them a few. So they know that this is what their mother calls red envelopes. Now, seeing how happy their mother is when she talks about red envelopes, they imitated what their father did before and gave their red envelopes to their mother.

"Wow, you really are Mommy's little darlings. Don't worry, Mommy will save all your red envelopes and give them to you when you grow up. They can be used as betrothal gifts and dowries." Ruan Ruan was very happy to see the children giving her red envelopes.

"It's fine as a bride price," Huo Haocheng immediately retorted upon hearing about the dowry. His precious daughter was still so young; how could he possibly start preparing a dowry now? If he found out that some brat dared to try and steal his precious daughter away, he'd break his legs.

Seeing Huo Haocheng like this, Ruan Ruan and Wang Qun just rolled their eyes at him. This doting father was really unbearable to look at.

Actually, you can't blame him. It's because all the children in his family are boys, and he only has one daughter. They all keep saying they want to be in-laws with him and arrange a marriage between their children and Xiao Bao. At first, Huo Haocheng just verbally refused, but after it happened so many times, he got really angry and started to be wary of them. Now, if anyone mentions a marriage or dowry in front of him, he feels like his daughter is leaving him and is no longer his little darling.

"Go ahead and be angry. I'll see how long you can stay angry. They're just saying it for fun. The kids are still young. When they grow up, they might not even like Xiaobao."

"Why don't they like Xiaobao? Our Xiaobao is so cute, she'll definitely be the most beautiful girl in the crowd when she grows up. They still look down on her? Do they all want to be on top of the world?"

Upon hearing that the group of young men looked down on his daughter, Huo Haocheng became anxious again.

"So what do you want? Do you want them to revolve around Xiaobao every day, or do you not want them to revolve around Xiaobao?" Whenever this topic came up, Ruan Ruan felt that Huo Haocheng was sick, and seriously so. He was already worried about things that happened 10 or 20 years ago. Sometimes Ruan Ruan thought he had postpartum depression, but isn't that a disease that women are more prone to?

"...Me." The thought of a bunch of brats doting on his daughter every day flashed through his mind, and then he thought about how they ignored his daughter and wouldn't play with her, and he couldn't stand it.

"Honey, I think I might really be sick." Ruan Ruan had told him before that he was sick, but he didn't believe her. Now that he thinks about it, he really does think he is sick.

"Yes, you're sick, and seriously ill. Call my dad tomorrow and ask him how he felt about you when you married me. Or ask my second brother and the others during morning training tomorrow and see how they are grateful for your marriage. Once they agree, you'll be mostly cured."

Ruan Ruan didn't expect him to say something like that, and then she put herself in his shoes. She remembered when she first returned to the Ruan family and told her family that she had a fiancé, the expressions on her family's faces, and how they even called her uncle to investigate Huo Haocheng. Later, when they went back to the Huo family together, she saw how her parents looked when they met Huo Haocheng.

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