The New Year comes one week after Little New Year.
The kitchen in the courtyard started to get busy again. This year, there were three more little mouths to feed, so more delicious food was cooked.
Chaochao and Yanyan kept circling the kitchen, their mouths full and their palms greasy, but they still had to stay in the kitchen.
Whenever food comes out of the pot, I always go over to take a look. Even if I can’t eat it, I still want to watch the fun.
"Chao Chao, stay away from the frying pan..."
Fu Xiao looked down at the little ones wandering around. The kitchen was full of frying pans, which was too dangerous. She shouted outside, "Chen Xingzhou, take the children away."
"Chao Chao, be obedient and take your brother out to play,"
Shen Xingzhou also came in at this time, and as usual, he carried Chao Chao's clothes and walked out of the kitchen.
Fu Xiao laughed, picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks and took a look.
Fu Kai, who was in charge of lighting the fire, also became greedy, "Sister, is the meat cooked?"
"Stew it for a while longer, and put some more firewood in it,"
Li Xiufen, who was in charge of frying the fish, looked at her and said, "Xiaoxiao, try to see if the salt is enough."
Fu Xiao picked up a piece of fried fish that had already cooled down. "Hmm... delicious, very flavorful..."
Fu Jingshu smiled and said, "Put this basin of fish fillets into the cabinet in the living room and free up the basin..."
"Not enough basins?"
She was a little surprised because they had quite a few pots at home.
Li Xiufen poured the fried fish pieces into the basin, "I want to fry these fish and then make some radish balls,"
"OK,"
When Fu Xiao walked out of the kitchen carrying the fish, Chao Chao and Yan Yan came over again, "Mom/Aunt, eat..."
"Hey guys, you can't eat this,"
Shen Xingzhou turned his head and looked over, then stepped forward and took the basin from her hand, "Where should I put it?"
"In the steamed bun frame in the living room cabinet,"
Fu Xiao took a piece of fried fish and squatted in front of Chao Chao and Yan Yan, "Come here,"
"You don't know how to eat fish nuggets. You need adults to feed you, okay?"
She carefully picked out the fish bones and fed them the fish meat bit by bit. Mu Mu, who was sitting in Fu Shaoyu's arms, saw this and came over.
Seeing Shen Xingzhou coming out of the living room with a basin, Fu Xiao said, “Put the basin in the kitchen.”
After feeding the children a piece of fish, she stood up and asked, "Third uncle, have you called second uncle and his family? Are they back?"
Fu Weilun looked back at her and said with a smile: "Your second uncle and his family can't come back, but Fu Hong is free and will be home tomorrow."
"oh oh,"
Fu Xiao pulled a small stool and sat opposite him and Fu Shaoyu. "I don't know if Xiaoyu can come back."
"I can't come back..." Fu Yu handed her the melon seeds in his hand and said with a smile: "He said in the letter he sent last time that he would not be able to finish his work until after the New Year."
Fu Shaoyu smiled and asked, "You don't have to go again after you come back this time, right?"
Fu Yu nodded, "It should be stable."
Fu Xiao smiled and said, "It's good as long as it's stable."
She reached out and grabbed the melon seeds that Fu Shaoyu had cracked in his palm. He looked at her helplessly and said, "This is for Mumu."
Fu Xiao, who had already swallowed the melon seeds, waved his hand and said, "Children can't eat too many melon seeds."
When Mumu came back and saw Fu Shaoyu's empty hands, she glanced at her mother. She blinked her eyes, nestled into his arms, and said in a baby voice, "Uncle...I want more..."
Fu Shaoyu pinched her cheek and laughed, "Okay, uncle will give you some..."
Fu Xiao also blinked: "Brother, I want one too."
He raised his eyebrows and looked at her with a half-smile, "Go find your husband."
She looked at Shen Xingzhou, who smiled, sat next to her, grabbed a handful of melon seeds and started eating.
Fu Xiao made a face at Mumu, making the little girl giggle.
......
After Fu Hong was taken home the next day, he hugged Mu Mu as soon as he saw her, and his luggage was filled with children's toys.
One is symbolic for Chaochao and Yanyan, and the others belong to Mumu.
Fu Xiao looked at Mu Mu and said, "Second uncle brought you so many things, what should you say?"
Mumu tilted her head back and said in a milky voice: "Thank you..."
"Twilight is so good,"
Fu Hong lowered his head and caressed her chubby cheek, then held her in his arms and sat on the sofa beside her, touching her little braids and pinching her little hand.
Li Xiufen looked at him like this and asked, "Do you like children?"
He chuckled, and she glared at Fu Hong with disdain: "It's not yours to like her, go get a wife and give birth to your own child..."
"Twilight, let's go, let's stay away from him... He's dirty,"
"Mom, what's wrong with me?"
Li Xiufen walked away holding Mumu, and said without turning her head: "You are covered in dirt, go take a shower and change your clothes."
Fu Xiao smiled and said, "Second brother, aunt is worried about you traveling all the way."
Fu Hong rubbed her hair and said, "Why do you look so much thinner?"
"It's probably because of the training during the military parade... I'm like this now, and I've gained a few pounds."
He felt a little regretful: "I had planned to come during the National Day, but I had something to do at the time and didn't take a leave."
Grandpa Fu over there smiled and said, "We have photos at home. Xiaokai and Xingzhou took a lot of photos that day."
Fu Hong asked: "Where are the photos? Let me see them."
Fu Kai stood up and took a stack of photos. "Second brother, most of these were taken by me."
Fu Hong sat on the sofa and looked at the pictures one by one. When he saw Fu Xiao, he looked up at her and said, "Yeah, you've become much whiter."
Fu Xiao smiled and said, "Did Third Brother's return not come in vain?"
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