Chinese people always attach great importance to the New Year.

Pei Ying was very excited about the New Year, and Xia Wenhua and Pei Songbai naturally postponed everything else.

Whether it's dealing with the Yun family or taking the child to see Professor Wang, it's all for the sake of a better life for the family.

With the Lunar New Year just around the corner, they postponed all these matters and focused on helping Pei Ying prepare for the holiday.

Perhaps she has a psychological aversion to taking children out, because this time when Pei Ying went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things, she was unwilling to take Pei Xiangchen and his brother with her no matter what.

They even went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy New Year's goods for several days; the two brothers were practically longing for it.

Every day when Pei Ying went out, the two of them would wait at the door and ask their grandmother if they could take them with them, and without exception, the answer was always no.

On New Year's Eve, Pei Ying discovered that she was short of some seasonings after buying them, so she rushed to the supply and marketing cooperative early in the morning before it opened to restock.

The two brothers approached Pei Ying as usual and asked, but the answer they received was, of course, no.

Strangely, after Pei Ying left, the two brothers did not go straight back to their room. Instead, they stood at the gate of the courtyard and whispered to each other.

Xia Wenhua was busy tidying up the vegetables when she noticed that the two of them hadn't come over for a while. Curiosity drove her to put down what she was doing and take a few steps forward.

"Brother, do you think Grandma doesn't love us anymore?"

"How could that be? Grandma loves us the most."

Compared to Pei Xiangguang, who occasionally gets caught up in internal conflicts with others, Pei Xiangchen is truly a little sun.

He doesn't take anything to heart; he believes that all the mistakes in the world are someone else's fault, and he is never wrong.

He's so perfect, naturally everyone can only like him.

Pei Xiangchen had his own logic of being the center of the universe, which quickly brought Pei Xiangguang, who was feeling a little down, back to normal.

The two children are able to manage their own emotions, and Xia Wenhua has no intention of interfering.

Just as she was about to leave, she suddenly heard Pei Xiangguang say something.

"But Grandma used to take Xiangnan with her when she went out. Now that Xiangnan isn't here, does that mean Grandma won't take us with her anymore?"

"Brother, do you think Grandma went to find Brother Xiangnan?"

"Don't overthink it, it definitely won't happen..."

Pei Xiangchen was still explaining to Pei Xiangguang, but Xia Wenhua stopped listening to the children's conversation.

Pei Xiangnan is the eldest son of the Pei family, and he is already a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy.

Everyone says that the youngest son and eldest grandson are the old lady's lifeblood. Back in Hongshan Village, Pei Ying really liked Pei Xiangnan.

Unfortunately, children are always a reflection of their parents. The eldest son and his wife were unwilling to take care of the elderly. They were able to kick Pei Ying out of the house back then, so Pei Xiangnan was certainly no better off.

The old lady's fondness for Pei Xiangnan back then is still remembered by the two children. I wonder if Pei Xiangnan, who is far away in Hongshan Village, can still remember Pei Ying.

People just can't stand being nagged. Xia Wenhua had only heard Pei Xiangnan's name from the two children that morning, and when Pei Songbai returned at noon, he was holding a letter in his hand.

When he came in, the family was having dinner. He hesitated for a moment and then placed the letter on the cabinet by the door.

If it was written to Pei Songbai, he usually wouldn't bring it home; bringing it home would mean the letter was written to someone else.

Xia Wenhua was the only one in the family still in contact with Sister Huang and others. When she saw the letter Pei Songbai brought back, she assumed it was for her and casually asked about it.

"Who wrote the letter? If you brought it back, just take it. What are you leaving it there for?"

After waiting for a while without getting a reply from Pei Songbai, Xia Wenhua looked up and noticed that Pei Songbai seemed to be in a dilemma. She was stunned for a moment.

Pei Songbai glanced at Xia Wenhua, then at Pei Ying.

Pei Ying was in a hurry to finish her meal and clean up the New Year's Eve dinner. She had arranged with the Yin family to have dinner at the Pei family's house today, and she had already finished eating and was ready to get up.

When she noticed Pei Songbai looking in her direction, she raised an eyebrow.

“What? Someone actually wrote me a letter? I only know a few words, who would think of communicating with me by letter?”

After arriving in Guangxi Province and getting a job, Pei Ying enthusiastically devoted herself to learning to read and write.

Unfortunately, the Yin and Pei families have been dealing with too many things lately, and she's too busy with household matters to have much time for studying.

So far, Pei Ying has only learned a few common characters, which is far from being able to read letters.

She hadn't expected anyone to write to her when a sudden thought flashed through Xia Wenhua's mind, and she couldn't help but turn to look at her two children.

Could it be such a coincidence?

Pei Songbai hadn't decided what to say yet, and planned to put the letter aside and eat first.

Now that the question has been asked, he naturally has no choice but to answer.

"The letter was sent from Hongshan Village."

His words immediately turned Pei Ying's smiling face cold, and she turned and walked into the room.

"This Hongshan Village has nothing to do with us. From now on, don't accept just any letter; throw it away."

Pei Ying walked back to her room as she spoke, leaving Pei Songbai alone to awkwardly pick up the letter again.

"Bang!"

Pei Ying's room door was already closed. Xia Wenhua looked at Pei Ying's back, then glanced at Pei Songbai, and sighed.

She walked over and took the letter from Pei Songbai's hand: "Go eat first, give me the letter, let me take a look."

Pei Songbai was genuinely surprised by Pei Ying's strong reaction. He couldn't help but explain, "I felt that this letter was, after all, written to Mother. It wouldn't be right if Mother didn't know that I had kept it."

The Pei brothers are inhuman; if Pei Songbai doesn't want to acknowledge them, then so be it.

As the eldest brother, he did everything he could for his younger brothers, because ultimately, brothers would each have their own families.

Pei Ying spoke resolutely, but no one knew what she was really thinking.

If he really didn't get the letter back, and Pei Ying was still thinking about his family, wouldn't he be caught in the middle?

Xia Wenhua patted Pei Songbai on the shoulder: "Alright, now that we know Mother doesn't like to read this, we don't need to worry about it next time. Just refuse any mail we receive."

Pei Ying made it clear that she didn't want to read it. Since she had already received the letter, Xia Wenhua was really curious about what it might say.

After she finally opened and read the letter, she wished she could go back to the moment she had chopped off her own hand.

What's so interesting about this thing? Why does she have to open it and take a look?

Xia Wenhua looked at the letter in her hand and really couldn't understand how such cold language could be written on such fine black and white paper.

This letter was written by Pei Xiangnan, whom the two children mentioned, and it wasn't actually looking for Pei Ying.

The reason for writing Pei Ying's name was probably to make her and Pei Songbai read it separately. What was written inside made Xia Wenhua's blood pressure rise.

"What a terrible thing! All those years of food have gone to waste!"