"Okay." Liang Xueying nodded.

The mother and daughter walked out of the room hand in hand and went to the main hall.

When everyone saw them come out, their eyes were still red and it was obvious that they had been crying.

No one asked them why they were crying, as everyone knew the answer without even asking.

So everyone acted as if nothing had happened and started playing cards and chatting to pass the time.

After chatting for a while until around ten o'clock, Deng Qingling started yawning and went back to her room to sleep.

As for the children, they were very excited and refused to go to bed, saying they wanted to stay up all night with their dad and grandma.

At around eleven o'clock, the children fell asleep while watching over us and did not make it until twelve o'clock.

Deng Qingling was sleeping soundly and didn't even know when they returned to the room.

The sound of firecrackers bids farewell to the old year, and bursts of laughter welcome the new year.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Deng Qingling was awakened by firecrackers at dawn.

Before she got up, Guo Jianping got up to help make breakfast.

She took out a watch from the space in a daze.

Seeing that it was only six o'clock, she couldn't help but mutter, "It really disturbs my sweet sleep."

After waking up, she couldn't fall asleep, so she got up. Seeing that the children were sleeping soundly, she didn't call them. It was a cold day, and it wouldn't be too late to call them during breakfast.

After breakfast was ready, Deng Qingling woke up the children, dressed them one by one, and took them to wash up and have breakfast.

After breakfast, the children followed Guo Jianping and others to the village to pay New Year’s greetings to their elders.

During the Chinese New Year, Deng Qingling taught the children to say a few auspicious words to bring good luck.

As for the fact that they had handed in their red envelopes, Deng Qingling's reason was that you were still young and it would be easy to lose them if you kept them by yourselves, so she gave them to your mother for safekeeping first and would return them to you when you grew up.

But Deng Qingling was still very generous and left them a penny as New Year's money.

They all went to pay New Year's greetings, while Deng Qingling and others stayed at home. When children came to pay New Year's greetings, they would give them some melon seeds, peanuts, candies and the like.

It was not until lunchtime that the children finished their New Year greetings and went back home to visit their mothers.

After Guo Haochen and his friends returned home, they poured the peanut candies they had obtained on the table and wanted to compare who had more. Deng Qingling saw this and teased them, asking them to treat the adults at home to some candy.

Guo Haochen was quite clever. He said there were seven adults in his family and he and his three siblings would each give out two candies, and whoever had the most candies left would get one more.

The final result was that he had one extra candy, and had the same amount left as his younger brother and sister.

Deng Qingling ate the candy given by her little daughter and felt that the candy was particularly sweet, so sweet that it went deep into her heart. She unconsciously revealed a happy smile.

"Aqing, Chunyan, when do you want to go back to your parents' home? Ayu's girlfriend will come to visit on the fourth day of the New Year. Let's have a meal together then." Liang Xueying asked.

"Mom, let's go tomorrow. When Jianping went to deliver the fish before the New Year, my mom said that my eldest sister would also go back to her parents' home on the second day of the New Year, so it would be a good time for us to get together." Deng Qingling said.

"Mom, Jianjun and I have discussed it. My health is not good for traveling back and forth, so I will go back to my parents' home on the sixth day of the New Year and stay at my brother's house for one night." Li Chunyan said.

"Okay, take the things back to your mother's house and pack them up yourselves. There are still a lot of things at home." Liang Xueying meant that they could just take things from home and there was no need to buy more.

"Yeah, we got it."

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On the second day of the New Year, Deng Qingling and her friends got up late, around eight or nine to have breakfast, and didn't go out until around nine or six.

Guo Jianping did not drive the ox cart because the road was downhill all the way, and Deng Qingling was pregnant, so the bumpy road was a bit dangerous, so everyone drove the No. 11 bus.

They went down the slope quickly, and when they reached the turning point, Deng Qingling took them directly back through the back mountain without passing through the commune, so they could avoid a detour.

As soon as she reached the end of the village, she saw an acquaintance and greeted him quickly, "Uncle, Happy New Year!"

"Ah Qing is back with the kids. Come to Uncle's house for a cup of tea."

"No need, uncle. I'm in a hurry to go to my mother's house. Come over for tea another day when I'm free." Deng Qingling said.

"Ah Qing, I haven't seen you for a few years. Your children have grown so big. Oh, your children are so cute, especially the little girl. She looks just like you when you were little, fair and clean, with big, black, watery eyes. She looks especially like you."

"Really? Everyone in my husband's family says that the child looks like his father, and none of them looks like me." Deng Qingling really couldn't believe it.

Few people say that their children look like her.

When meeting acquaintances, it is inevitable to exchange a few words of greeting. Seeing that Deng Qingling became more and more excited as she talked, the children pulled her towards Podai's house.

Seeing the child like this, everyone stopped chatting with Deng Qingling and asked her to take the child back quickly.

When Deng Qingling and the others walked not far away, they saw two children from her third brother's family playing with glass marbles at the gate of the yard.

The Guo Haochen brothers ran over quickly, "Cousin, let's play together!"

When the Deng Xin brothers heard the sound, they looked up and saw them. They quickly stood up and said with a smile: "Cousin, Auntie, you are here!"

"Axin, why are you playing at the door in such a cold weather?" Deng Qingling asked.

"Aunt, we are not cold. We just came out not long ago." Deng Xin shook his head.

"It's not cold yet, but my hands are freezing. Come on, let's go back to the house with aunt." Deng Qingling said as she pulled the Deng Xin brothers into the yard.

As soon as Guo Haochen and his two siblings entered the yard, they started shouting, "Grandma, Grandpa, we're here!"

Hearing the noise in the main room, Liang Haidi and her husband came out.

Seeing Grandma and Grandpa, the children immediately rushed over and said, "Happy New Year, Grandma and Grandpa."

Deng Qingling and his wife: "Mom and Dad, Happy New Year."

"It's all good, it's all good. Come into the house with your mother-in-law to keep warm." Liang Haidi smiled and took Guo Ninghuan's hand and walked into the house.

After entering the house, Liang Haidi and Zhou Yangdi gave red envelopes to the children, and Deng Qingling also gave red envelopes to her nephews. After receiving the red envelopes, the children ran out to play.

"Little sister, Jianping, you guys chat first. Your third brother and I will go to the kitchen to check. There's still some food stewing in the pot. We'll talk later."

"Thank you for your hard work, Third Brother and Sister-in-law."

"Little sister, you are being too polite when you say that."

Guo Jianping talked to his father-in-law about his experiences in Guangzhou, while Deng Qingling went into the room with Liang Haidi.

Deng Qingling stuffed five dollars into Liang Haidi's hand and said that she would be free to come back after giving birth, so she asked her to take the flowers and buy whatever she wanted.

Liang Haidi did not refuse. She thought that when her youngest daughter was born, she would go to the village to buy a few chickens and give them to her daughter as nourishment.

In addition, if I use the family's things to subsidize my younger daughter, I am afraid that my son and daughter-in-law will have opinions if they know about it. After all, my daughter is married after all, and to them she is just a relative, a married daughter.

They already knew that their youngest daughter was filial, so they could say that the money they used to buy things was given by their youngest daughter.