After Lin Ziying's family went back, everyone chatted for a few minutes and then went back to their rooms. After Han Chen and Xuemei took the things they received back to their room, they went out to wash up before returning to their room and sitting on the kang to prepare to open the red envelopes.

After Xuemei sorted out the red envelopes, she kicked Han Chen with her toes and said, "Go to the end of the kang and take out the pen and notebook from my schoolbag. I need to take notes later!"

After Han Chen brought over the notebook and pen, Xuemei said, "Han Chen, you take notes! Your handwriting is better than mine!"

Although Xuemei often practices calligraphy, she is not very good at it. Her handwriting is very neat now, but it is nothing compared to Han Chen's. Han Chen writes very well in running script with a fountain pen, and his calligraphy is also very good. This year, Han Chen wrote the Chinese character for "Fu" and couplets for the New Year at home.

Han Chen nodded, opened Xuemei's account book, found a page that had not been started, put it on the kang table, and wrote the title "Wedding gift from the Lin family" on the book.

Xuemei watched Han Chen start writing. She took out the thickest red envelope and said, "Open the one Grandpa gave you first. This one is the thickest!"

Han Chen saw Xuemei's eyes shining, stretched out his finger and tapped her nose, saying, "You little money-grubber!"

Xuemei pushed Han Chen's hand away and said, "Don't you like money?"

"I like you more!" Han Chen retracted his hand and said to Xuemei.

"You're becoming more and more smooth-talking!" Xuemei said a little embarrassedly.

Han Chen asked back: "You don't like it?"

Xuemei thought for a moment and said, "When we're alone together, I really like it when you say a few words occasionally. If you say too much, I'm afraid I'll get goose bumps!"

Han Chen smiled dotingly and nodded. Xuemei looked at Han Chen's gentle look and couldn't help but lean over and kiss Han Chen on the face.

After Xuemei finished kissing him, she felt a little embarrassed when she thought of what she had just said. She pretended to be nonchalant and said, "I'm starting to open the red envelope! No more messing around!"

Han Chen smiled and replied, "Okay, I'll listen to you!"

Xuemei opened the red envelope with Lin Songguo's name on it, took out the money inside, and began to count: "1, 2, 3... 10, one hundred, 5, 6..."

Xuemei couldn't help but shout after she finished counting, "Ah! Han Chen!"

After Xuemei finished shouting, Feng Ru and her family next door heard her voice and quickly covered their mouths. After she calmed down, Xuemei moved to Han Chen's ear and whispered, "Grandpa gave us one hundred and eighteen yuan and eighty cents. That's too much. Should we accept it?"

Han Chen reached out and touched Xuemei's head, saying, "Grandpa must have thought of us giving him a ginseng. Take it! Uncle and aunt will also give us a lot later, and they will also consider the ginseng we gave to Grandpa. We should all accept it well, so that they can feel at ease when they use the ginseng!"

Xuemei nodded and said, "Then you should make a note of it too. We should have a rough idea of ​​it. The tickets for sewing machines and watches they sent us earlier should have been prepared by them as well. You should make a note of them too!"

After Han Chen wrote it down, Xuemei began to open the red envelopes given by Yu Qing and Lin Jianye. After counting them, Xuemei said to Han Chen, "Uncle and aunt, the money you gave us is 66 yuan, 66 cents, and a military coat. Remember to write it down!"

Then, Xuemei opened the remaining red envelopes together. Feng Ru and her husband received 20 yuan and three foreign exchange coupons; Lin Ziying and his wife received 20 yuan and a brand new summer military uniform; Lin Hongzhi and Hu An each received a 10 yuan red envelope.

That night, Han Chen and Xuemei earned 245.55 yuan in cash alone.

After Han Chen wrote down all the gifts, Xuemei nudged Han Chen's arm and said, "Apart from the ginseng for Grandpa, the rest of the items we brought only cost about fifty or sixty yuan. And we only asked for a pair of cotton shoes for Uncle Hu!"

Han Chen thought for a moment and said, "Then let's give the things for my mother to Uncle Hu?"

"Not giving it to your mother anymore?" Xuemei asked.

Han Chen shook his head and said, "Since the relationship is over, let's not contact each other anymore! Besides, she's no longer in Beijing."

Xuemei actually just asked Han Chen if he could give the remaining food to Hu An. Although Uncle Hu ate the food given to the Lin family together, it was still different from giving it to Uncle Hu alone.

But Xuemei was afraid that Han Chen still wanted to give it to his mother, so she didn't dare to ask. Now it seems that Han Chen is still very sober.

Xuemei saw that Han Chen's expression was normal when he mentioned his mother, so she continued, "I also plan to give each of my eldest and second brothers' children a five-yuan New Year's red envelope. They gave too much. As for my third brother and my uncle and aunt, we can only send more gifts after we return home!"

"Okay, I'll listen to you. My brother-in-law's family won't be available tomorrow, so they'll ask Uncle Hu to take them to the train station at 7:30 this morning. We'll go together to see them off and give the red envelopes to Xiaotong and her brother. After they get on the train, I'll take you to the Friendship Store and the department store."

"Okay, then let's take our IDs and other documents with us tomorrow, and go to the train station to buy our train tickets back to the city in advance, shall we? Beijing is bustling with people coming and going every day, and we might not even be able to buy a seat ticket?" Xuemei said.

"Okay, then you put the money away. I'll pack up the other things. Let's go to bed early. We have to get up early tomorrow!" Han Chen said.

"Wait a minute, I'll sew a deeper pocket inside our two cotton-padded jackets. We'll need to take more money with us when we go out to buy things tomorrow. Otherwise, you can go and see if your aunt and the others are asleep now? Ask her for two buttons!" Xuemei said.

After Xuemei finished speaking, Han Chen got off the kang, first went to the end of the kang and put the notebook and pen into Xuemei's schoolbag, then took out the needle and thread ball she brought from home from Xuemei's schoolbag, handed it to Xuemei, and then went out to get the buttons.

After a few minutes, Han Chen came back with four cloth buttons. Xuemei sewed a pocket on each side of their cotton-padded jackets near the chest, and then sewed a button and a cloth bag on each pocket so that they could be buttoned up.

After Xuemei and Han Chen discussed it, they each put fifty yuan in their pockets, for a total of two hundred yuan in cash. In addition, each of them took another fifteen yuan to buy train tickets.

The next morning, after Xuemei and Han Chen woke up, they gave the things for Zhang Lin to Hu An and explained to him, but Hu An didn't seem to mind and looked quite happy.

Before everyone had breakfast, Han Chen and Xuemei gave red envelopes to Lin Jin and his brother, which made the two brothers very happy. Lin Jin said that he didn't expect to get a New Year's red envelope on the seventh day of the New Year. Lin Jin followed Han Chen and Xuemei with his younger brother and said auspicious words for the New Year several times until Feng Ru called them to wash their faces and have dinner.