Chapter 384 Happy New Year
After the New Year's Eve dinner, the family sat in the pavilion with a burning charcoal basin, pulled aside the cotton curtains, and watched Li Wenfeng, Gu Yasheng and Li Shanhu set off fireworks.
The dazzling light bloomed in the sky, illuminating most of the courtyard.
"Mom, look, is it as beautiful as the iron flowers made by the blacksmith in the next village when I was a child?"
Fan Qingyi stood beside Bo Qihua and looked up at the fireworks.
Bo Qihua only glanced at it, then retracted her gaze and stared at the daughter she had been thinking about for decades.
In her memory, she still hugged her legs and called her mother, but in the blink of an eye, her child has reached the age of marriage.
She really regretted it.
She missed the first half of her child's life.
"Mom..."
Fan Qingyi noticed that the gazes on her side were always on her. She turned her head and saw the sadness in Bo Qihua's eyes. There were tears in her eyes. She felt that staring at her was not enough.
Fan Qingyi felt sad. He took her arm affectionately and gently leaned his head on her shoulder. "Mom, I was ignorant before. Don't be angry with me. In the future, I will bring the three children to visit you often. Don't think I am annoying, okay?"
"...Okay."
Bo Qihua gently patted her hand that was holding her arm. "Mom is not angry with you. Mom just feels that I missed a lot of time with you. In a blink of an eye, you have become a mother..."
"Mom wasn't by your side these years, and you suffered a lot."
Fan Qing smiled, "I lied to you when I said I didn't suffer. I did suffer for a few years. After meeting Brother Wenfeng, life became much better. I didn't have to worry about being sold to an old widow by my stepmother to save money for his younger brother's dowry. I didn't have to work like an animal day and night and still had no food to eat..." Bo
Qihua knew all these things. Fan Jiefang wanted to sell her daughter to an old widow, so she found a widow who was a dozen years older than her son Fan Shouli, who had three children, and let him raise grandchildren for others.
Her daughter's stepmother, Wang Qiuju, had bad intentions and abused her daughter, so she found a powerful daughter-in-law for Wang Qiuju, who tortured her every day and didn't give her food or drink.
But no matter what she did, it couldn't make up for the suffering her daughter had gone through in those years.
She couldn't help but feel distressed and regretful when she heard her daughter mention it again.
"... The older generation said that I am a person with good fortune in the future. I will suffer first and then enjoy the sweetness. After I get through this, I will just wait to enjoy the happiness."
Fan Qingyi smiled with her eyebrows curved, her eyes shining, and she tightened her arms around Bo Qihua. "I didn't believe it before, but now I do. The people I love and the people who love me are by my side, and they are all safe, healthy and happy..."
She said, "Mom, people can't be too greedy. I am very satisfied now."
Bo Qihua nodded and smiled with red eyes.
"You're right. People shouldn't be too greedy. I'm very satisfied with the way things are now."
Although the daughter was not treated well by the man surnamed Fan, she found a good husband for herself. Although she was also wronged in her husband's family, Li Wenfeng stood by his daughter from beginning to end, and even broke up with his family for his daughter.
There are very few men who can do this.
Now, the daughter has a career and love, and the three children are smarter and more capable than the other. It seems that they will achieve great success in the future.
The daughter has someone to rely on for the rest of her life.
She should be content.
In the yard, fireworks are bright;
in the distance, firecrackers are ringing.
Another good year.
"Mom, Uncle Gu, Happy New Year..."
After watching the fireworks and returning to the living room, Li Wenfeng and Fan Qingyi took the lead in wishing a happy new year, and the younger ones lined up behind them, kowtowing and wishing a happy new year, and asking for New Year's money.
This scene also happened in the Bo family, but no one dared to make such a fuss in front of Bo Qihua.
She was not as serious as she was in the Bo family. She distributed the red envelopes prepared in advance along with the gifts one by one. All three children received several boxes of different sizes.
Of course, the one who received the most gifts was Fan Qingyi.
Bo Qihua brought all the birthday gifts that he had collected for her every year since she was six years old.
Fan Qingyi's eyes did not turn red when she received the gifts, but when she saw Bo Qihua and Gu Yasheng off, she could not stop crying.
Bo Qihua's eyes also turned red. She called Li Wenfeng aside and told him, "You are a good child. I... have no right to say these words, but... I only have Yiyi as my child. I didn't do well in the first half of my life. Now that I have you, Yiyi doesn't need me anymore. I have no other requirements. I just hope you can take good care of her. You can do it, right?"
"Yes!"
Li Wenfeng said without hesitation, "Mom, don't worry, Yiyi and the child are my life. I will protect you with my life."
Bo Qihua looked at him and sighed softly.
"Good boy."
She took out a piece of paper from her pearl handbag and handed it to him, "This is my current address. We will wait for you at home on the second day of the Chinese New Year. If Yiyi is willing to visit her relatives from her mother's side, please take her. If... she doesn't mention it, just throw this note away. Just pretend I never said these words, and don't tell Yiyi. Don't make it difficult for her. Do
you understand?" "I understand." Li Wenfeng took the note and nodded solemnly.
Bo Qihua turned around to look at her daughter with tears in her eyes and smiled, "Asheng, let's go."
Gu Yasheng nodded to Li Wenfeng, opened the door of the passenger seat, protected Bo Qihua in, went around to the other side to get in the car, started the car and left.
Fan Qingyi took two steps forward and stopped.
Li Wenfeng put his arm around her shoulders, and Fan Qingyi leaned against him, crying.
The three sisters looked at each other and quietly retreated to the yard, leaving the space for them.
When the two were free, Li Shanhu opened the red envelope sent by Bo Qihua, which contained cash, a card, a key, and a note.
Li Shanhu was curious, so she opened the note and took a look. At one glance, her eyes almost popped out.
"Hiss..."
This breath of cold air successfully made the twins look sideways.
The two sisters saw her expression and went over to ask, "Why...hiss."
Duet of gasps.
"Eldest sister, second sister, take a look at yours, what's inside."
The two sisters hurried to take the red envelopes they received, the same things as Li Shanhu, and the content on the note was almost exactly the same.
The three sisters looked at each other, all dumbfounded.
"Just these things, can we take them?"
Don't say, Li Shanhu was really excited, after all, who would have a problem with money?
That's a dividend of tens of millions every year!
Li Zhenzhu swallowed her saliva and looked at Li Liuli, "Sister, isn't the money grandma gave too much for the New Year's gift?"
Li Liuli was still a little confused. She looked at her younger sister who was obsessed with money, and then looked at her second sister who was full of shock. She opened her mouth and said, "It's too expensive, why don't you ask my parents?"
Just as she was talking, Li Wenfeng and Fan Qingyi came back.
Fan Qingyi had returned to normal and was discussing with Li Wenfeng what gifts to bring on the second day of the Chinese New Year. When he walked into the living room, he saw the three daughters looking at them with strange expressions.
"What's wrong?"
Li Wenfeng noticed the red envelopes and notes in the hands of the three sisters, and frowned slightly, "Did your grandmother give you an overly expensive gift for meeting the three sisters?"
The three sisters nodded frantically.
"It's very expensive, Mom and Dad, take a look at your share..."