In the evening, the dumplings made by Su Mianmian and others were finally out of the pot, steaming hot and full of fragrance.
The whole family sat together, ate dumplings and then started to stay up all night to celebrate the New Year.
The three children ran around excitedly, while the adults sat around the fire, chatting about family matters and talking about interesting things that happened in their daily lives.
Time passed quietly, and in the blink of an eye, the clock struck twelve in the morning.
The whole family wished each other Happy New Year.
The four old men were already a little tired at this time, so they went back to the house to sleep.
The rest of the people continued to stay up late while chatting. As time passed, everyone's eyelids began to droop, and around two o'clock, they all went to bed.
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The first day of the Lunar New Year
The early morning sun streamed into the house through the window.
Last night, Jiubao slept with Su Mianmian and Shen Yuandao.
I stayed up late last night, but the little girl is very energetic.
Early in the morning, Jiubao opened his eyes as soon as the sound of firecrackers was heard outside.
She looked at her parents who were still sleeping on both sides and got up excitedly.
She shook Su Mianmian first, and then shook Shen Yuandao, but the two just couldn't get up.
Jiubao had no choice but to be slapped by someone.
Finally, Su Mianmian was awakened by Jiubao's slap.
She looked at Jiubao intently, only to see the little girl pointing at the wardrobe with an innocent look on her face, "Well, put on your clothes~"
Su Mianmian listened to her daughter's soft voice and couldn't get angry. She had no choice but to get up and resigned herself to finding clothes for her daughter.
She found a red dress and turned around to call Jiubao over to put on the clothes, but she saw the little girl slap her father.
As expected, Shen Yuandao opened his eyes.
Su Mianmian: ...It’s pretty good.
Shen Yuandao looked at the culprit in front of him, grabbed Chubby Dundun into his arms, patted her little butt gently, and said in a pretended angry tone: "You stinky girl, are you bullying your daddy? I'll beat you."
As he said that, he patted the little butt lightly.
It doesn’t hurt. Jiubao thought her father was playing with her and she giggled immediately. This time, Shen Yuandao couldn’t help laughing.
At this time, Su Mianmian waved to Jiubao and said, "Come here, mom will dress you, and then go to ask grandpa and grandma for the New Year's money!"
"Yeah! Let me tell you something. Congratulations, Hua Chai, give me a red envelope!"
"No, it's Gong Xi Fa Cai, give me the red envelope!"
After hearing this, Jiubao crawled to Su Mianmian and imitated her: "Congratulations on spending money, give me the red envelope~"
Su Mianmian dressed Jiubao in no time. The little girl looked even more adorable in her new clothes.
She looked at Shen Yuandao and said in a baby voice: "Hehe. Daddy~Cuddle, wash your face~"
Shen Yuandao nodded, put on the new clothes that Su Mianmian had just taken out, and carried Jiubao to wash up.
When Su Mianmian finished dressing and came out, Su Qingqing also came out of the house.
Shen Yuandao, Qin Huaichuan and A Yan were having breakfast with Jiubao.
The four old people got up early and had already had breakfast.
Su Mianmian and Su Qingqing smiled at each other, then quickly washed up and ran over to have breakfast.
After dinner, Grandpa Shen spoke first, “Come, give red envelopes to the children living at home first.”
As they said this, the four old men took out the red envelopes they had prepared long ago and were about to hand them to Jiubao when they saw Jiubao pulling A Yan up to the four old men.
She reached out to stop the four elderly people, "Don't give it to me yet! Bao hasn't said anything yet!"
The four old men looked at Su Mianmian in confusion, but Su Mianmian just smiled and said nothing.
At this time, Jiubao clasped his hands together and bowed, saying in a serious manner: "Great-grandfather, great-grandma, great-grandma, great-grandfather, congratulations on your prosperity! Give me the red envelope~"
The four old men were stunned for a moment, then they all burst into laughter.
The four old men were stunned for a moment, then they all burst into laughter.
They thought their children were so adorable that they couldn't stop smiling. They put the red envelopes into Jiubao's little hands while laughing.
Jiubao thought happily: Give it all to me!
Then, she turned to look at Ah Yan and stretched out her little hand, "Uncle, red envelope~"
A Yan touched her head lovingly, took out a red envelope and put it in her hand.
The little girl was satisfied this time, and ran to the other side to ask Qin Huaichuan and Su Qingqing for red envelopes.
The four old men gave red envelopes to the young people and then took Jiubao and Ayan out for a stroll.
Su Mianmian and the other three stayed to prepare lunch.
At noon, everyone had to come here to eat. The four of them were afraid that they would be too busy, so they prepared early.
As soon as the four of them finished washing all the vegetables, the others came to help.
…
When the four old men brought Jiubao and Ayan back, the meal was almost ready.
Su Mianmian and Shen Yuandao went to the house where Zhao Shuxue lived to move a table. She asked, "Sister Qin Rong and her brother-in-law are not going back to her in-laws' house for the New Year. Will her mother-in-law have any objections?"
Shen Yuandao shook his head, "No, my brother-in-law and Ren's parents basically don't interact anymore."
Su Mianmian was a little surprised, no wonder.
"Ren's parents favored their youngest son and kept exploiting my brother-in-law. Finally, something happened and my brother-in-law simply stopped communicating with them." Shen Yuandao said slowly.
Su Mianmian nodded. "That's fine too. I can just live my own life behind closed doors."
Shen Yuan said: "Yeah, that's the truth."
The two of them moved the table back. The food was ready, and the whole family gathered together to eat.
After dinner, it was time to distribute red envelopes.
The three children were so happy today that they received so many red envelopes.
There were so many red envelopes that Jiubao could hardly hold them all. Every time she got a red envelope, she would run excitedly to hand it to Su Mianmian and ask her to help keep it.
After collecting all the red envelopes, she put them into Jiubao's small bag and handed it to her: "Here, keep it for you, baby."
Jiubao pushed the red envelope back and blinked at Su Mianmian, "Well, well, I'll give it all to you."
"real?"
"Yeah, yeah, give it all to Mama."
Su Mianmian nodded when she heard this, and after thinking for a while, she decided to find out her previous New Year's money and save it for her to use in the future after the New Year.
The three families basically celebrated the New Year of 1979 together.
On the third day of junior high school, Yun Sheng and Shen Junhong took the children to the Yun family.
On the fourth day of the New Year, Su Mianmian and Su Qingqing took their spouses and children back to their parents' home and met many relatives.
On the fifth day of the New Year, Grandpa Shen and Grandma Shen took a few people to visit their old friends.
In this way, this New Year was busy.
On the ninth day, everyone went back.
Only four elderly people were left in the courtyard, including Su Mianmian and her two children.
On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Su Mianmian and her friends opened the spicy hot pot restaurant.
The four of them became busy again.
It was not until the Lantern Festival that Su Mianmian and her friends closed the shop and took the elderly and children in their family to watch the lantern festival.
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