On New Year's Eve, the three girls of the Tang family, Xinxin, Xiaoxiao, and Xuanxuan, were woken up early in the morning by Tang's mother's loud voice. The older generation values ​​traditions, and on New Year's Day, they have to get up before dawn and absolutely cannot be lazy.

She got up sleepily, brushed her teeth and washed her face, tidied herself up, and then changed into a brand new bright red dress at her mother's insistence. Tang Xiaoxiao looked at her sister and niece, who were also dressed in red, and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Although this outfit is really a bit of an eyesore, I still have to wear it to make my mom happy.

Even Tang's father was forced to wear all red.

The whole family was together.

Tang Xinxin took out her digital camera, adjusted the focus, set the time, and the whole family sat on the sofa, all flashing their bright white teeth, to take their first family photo of the new year.

After breakfast, the next thing to do is to put up Spring Festival couplets and hang lanterns. In my hometown, there is a custom of putting up couplets on cars. All three cars of Tang Xiaoxiao's family were covered with festive couplets.

That evening, the family set up a large dining table in the living room that they didn't usually use. Tang's mother rolled out the dough, and Tang Xiaoxiao and her sister made dumplings. Everyone in their family had different tastes, so every year for the New Year's Eve dinner, the dumplings had to have at least three kinds of fillings. This year, there was beef and radish, which Tang Xinxin liked; meat and three delicacies filling, which was Tang Xiaoxiao's; and pork and mushroom filling, which was Xiao Xuanxuan's.

Mr. and Mrs. Tang said they are not picky eaters and like to eat everything.

While making dumplings, we watched the Spring Festival Gala on TV. Every now and then, we could hear people laughing out loud at the skits, which added a touch of warmth to this cold winter night.

After the dumplings were cooked, Tang Xiaoxiao was lucky enough to eat the only one with a coin inside, and she almost broke her tooth.

After finishing their New Year's Eve dinner, the family got dressed and went out to set off firecrackers. At that time, there was no complete ban on setting off fireworks and firecrackers. In their small county town, every household would spend money on this day. The deafening sound of firecrackers rose and fell, continuing until the middle of the night.

Tang's father bought the loudest fuse and circled the Tang family's small building three times. Tang Xinxin tightly covered Xiao Xuanxuan's ears. After the fuse was lit, the entire small building shook violently.

Bathed in the glow of the fireworks, Tang Xiaoxiao's face appeared somewhat ethereal.

The new year has arrived.

She believes that the days to come will get better year by year.

The first day of the Lunar New Year is a day for visiting relatives and friends to exchange New Year's greetings. The Tang family's gate was opened early in the morning, and people came in an endless stream.

Tang Xiaoxiao remembers that when she was very young, her father took her to visit Hou Tang Village for the New Year. On the way, they met an old man with white hair who called her father "great-uncle" and told her to call her "great-aunt".

Therefore, every year during the Lunar New Year, there are always many younger relatives visiting the Tang family to pay their respects.

However, the elderly people in Hou Tang Village have passed away one by one over the years. Now, the only people Tang's father needs to visit are an old lady of a higher generation than him, who is the mother of his distant uncle Tang Yuanshan. Tang's father has to call her his aunt. There are also two other uncles.

Tang Xiaoxiao hadn't gone back with her father for many years, but she didn't refuse this year. She didn't recognize all of her relatives in Hou Tang Village, and her father had to guide her to greet them. She used to hate dealing with these things and refused to go back with her father, but now her attitude had changed.

Not to mention that she plans to live in Hou Tang Village in the future, these villagers all have their own kind of endearing qualities. Tang's father is a sentimental person, and her little bit of compliance can make him happy for days. Why not?

Tang Xiaoxiao accompanied her father to visit several relatives. During the Spring Festival, when a group of grown men had nothing to do, it was common for them to play a small gambling game. Tang's father even joined in and played two rounds, enjoying himself. Tang Xiaoxiao didn't stop him and just quietly stayed by his side, which earned her praise from many people for being sensible and filial.

They left home at nine in the morning and didn't return until after three in the afternoon. Tang's mother and Tang Xinxin had been entertaining one group of guests after another all day.

After Tang Xiaoxiao and her father entered the room, they noticed that her mother and sister's expressions were somewhat off.

After asking carefully, it turned out to be a matter concerning the Chen family.

Whether it was because of what Tang Xiaoxiao said to Chen's mother that time or something else, Chen Yong, who always pretended that Xuanxuan didn't exist every year, came to visit this year.

They only said they wanted to bring their daughter home for a family reunion dinner to make it more lively.

Tang Xinxin was not an unreasonable person. Although the Chen family had done disgusting things over the years, Chen Yong was Xuanxuan's biological father after all. As a father, he wanted to have a meal with his daughter during the Chinese New Year, and she had no reason to stop him.

Perhaps it's a father-daughter bond, but Xiao Xuanxuan also has an instinctive closeness to this unfamiliar father.

So Chen Yong took Xuanxuan home, saying he would bring her back that evening.

After her daughter was taken away, Tang Xinxin's heart was constantly in turmoil, and she couldn't put her mind at ease. Since her divorce, the mother and daughter had relied on each other for survival and had never been separated for a moment. With Xuanxuan gone, Tang Xinxin felt as if she had lost her soul.

Tang's mother was also very worried about her granddaughter. The two of them sat there anxiously waiting all afternoon.

Tang Xiaoxiao was speechless at this situation. Her mother and sister were just too kind. Why should they give those kinds of people any face? If they dared to do the first thing, why couldn't they do the fifteenth?

I haven't asked about my child for years, and now when I come to pick him up, he just takes him away?

Suppressing her anger, Tang Xiaoxiao picked up the phone and dialed the Chen family's number.

After the call connected, Tang Xiaoxiao didn't say a word of politeness and went straight to asking, "Where's Xuanxuan? Let Xuanxuan answer the phone."

There was a two-second pause on the other end. Tang Xiaoxiao vaguely heard some noise on the other end, but after waiting for a while, there was no response. The other party even hung up the phone.

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