Chapter 67 Second Update: Mutton and Mutton Bones

The Ye family also prepared some snacks.

Since the second half of this year, the Ye family has been living quite well, so they prepared more than in previous years. Wang Lai Di prepared a small amount of fruit candies, biscuits, and dried fruits from the south, and of course, more melon seeds and peanuts.

The children who chose to come to the Ye family to pay New Year's greetings first were very surprised, and they quickly went to inform their good friends that if they came later, they would miss out on the good things like candies, cookies and dried fruits.

Ye Yu did not want to fight with the little kid, so he chose to ignore it and left the room.

In the front yard, a few old men were talking about what happened last night. I hid in the corner of the backyard and eavesdropped, and found out that it was about the "Nian Monster".

How could the news spread so quickly?

Some of them are quite accurate, and Ye Nian Beast Yu’s route is completely clear from where to where; some are very exaggerated, such as the Nian Beast has ten eyes, ten claws, and a pair of flying wings, which has been witnessed by everyone.

“…”

Well, that's quite exaggerated.

Some things cannot be banned, otherwise, by the end of the world, metaphysics would exist in different forms all over the world. No matter how much we try to silence them in public, we cannot stop them in private.

Ye Yu didn't know whether the Nian monster's prank was useful or not. Even if he had to wait for one more Spring Festival next year for the purpose of investigation, it would still be a profit. Who knows, this thing might happen every year.

The second day of the first lunar month is also called Gu Ye Festival, which is the day when a married daughter returns to her parents' home with her son-in-law and children.

Wang Lai Di is a daughter who married far away. She does not plan to return to her parents' home this year. She plans to go back to Wangjiagou again during the Spring Festival at the end of this year, mainly to see Ye Yu's life and living environment, and ask her parents' family to take care of their daughter.

Although the plan has been made, it still depends on the factory's work schedule.

For a daughter like Wang Lai Di who married far away, in an era of inconvenient transportation, she often had to bear all the hardships alone.

Ye Lan can't come back this year either, but luckily Ye Xing got married recently, so she almost never lacks for Auntie Festival.

"Why are you looking at me?" Ye Yu reached out and touched his chin, but didn't feel a single grain of rice.

Wang Lai-di:

"Why am I looking at you?"

Ye Yu is eighteen years old this year. Her two elder sisters basically got married at this age, but Ye Yu is an educated youth who went to the countryside. Wang Lai Di really doesn't want her to get married so early. If she marries a country bumpkin or an educated youth from other provinces, she will get to see her daughter even less in the future.

As the saying goes, "A daughter who is married off is like spilled water." This is not only due to the idea of ​​favoring boys over girls, but more importantly, it is because wealthy women are helpless about their daughters' futures. If their daughters marry closer, at least they can be taken care of a little.

"Mom, why do you think so much!" Ye Yu didn't care at all. She was still stuffing food into her mouth and swallowing it slowly before replying, "In the future, I will either find ten or eight good-looking and handsome sons-in-law, or I will support myself... No, no, no, don't stare at me. It's unlucky on New Year's Day. What? Old-age care? Go and see the forest rangers. They are in good health in their seventies and eighties. When they are really old, won't their unfilial sons and grandsons still protect the country? Maybe they can even go to the state-owned old-age institutions to earn a living."

Ye Weiguo only listened halfway: "My children and grandchildren are very filial. Now I can earn money to support my third sister!"

When his eldest sister Ye Xing got married, he was still young and didn't notice it. His second sister got married for the second time and his third sister went to the countryside in turn. He thought more than once that it would be better if his elder sisters didn't get married.

Ye Baoguo couldn't make money, but he still promised: "I can pay half of my salary in the future."

First, he was reluctant to see his sisters get married; second, his third sister was very capable, and wherever she was, life seemed to be better than before, just like their family now.

Ye Yu: "Wow."

Ye Hongjun Wang Laidi: "..."

Okay, let’s stop talking about this.

No matter what, it makes them feel happy to see that the brothers and sisters have a good relationship.

After breakfast, Wang Lai Di and her husband began to show off themselves, attaching as much importance to it as they did on the first day of the Chinese New Year, and even going one better in terms of face-saving.

Even the three sisters and brothers were not spared.

Around ten o'clock, Ye Xing came to pay New Year's greetings, holding her youngest son who was still unsteady on his feet. Liu Dahai followed behind her, holding her eldest son in his left hand and holding a New Year gift in his right hand.

The Liu family is a family that values ​​social etiquette. Many of the New Year gifts are prepared by Director Liu's wife.

There are differences in what the two sons' in-laws prepare, but they are still better than those of ordinary families.

This year's New Year gifts have increased by 20%, including two kilograms of pork, two kilograms of brown sugar, two kilograms of dried biscuits, and two kilograms of persimmon cakes. These are all good things in pairs. Just the two kilograms of pork, even though it looks like there is little fat and it is all lean meat, cannot be said to be bad.

In addition, Ye Xing personally knitted a pair of woolen gloves and a pair of socks for each of her parents, prepared a box of vanishing cream and two industrial tickets for Ye Lan and Ye Yu, and blue ink and notebooks for Ye Baoguo and Ye Weiguo. They were the only ones in the family who were still studying.

These are her own careful selections.

In front of her son-in-law, Wang Laidie took Liu Dahai's things first, saying that he didn't need so many things. Liu Dahai was not a very good person, and they were so polite to each other that the word "awkward" was written on his hair.

It was not until the eldest grandson called out "Grandma, Grandma" and the youngest grandson said "Grandma" that Ye Hongjun and Wang Laidi showed truly happy smiles and quickly handed over the red envelopes.

Each red envelope is 1 yuan, which is more than Ye Baoguo and Ye Weiguo’s, but not too little either.

Although Ye Yu and her two siblings are elders, they have not yet started a family or a career, so they are considered junior elders. Even if they prepare red envelopes, they are only a few cents as a token of their appreciation.

They were told to receive the two nephews, especially the eldest nephew Liu Wenlin, nicknamed Wen Ge'er, who was good at running and jumping.

Ye Baoguo and Ye Weiguo enjoyed being the elders very much. They took out all the toys that the children played with last night, and there was nothing that the children did not like to play with. The three of them soon started playing together. In fact, it was mainly Ye Weiguo who played, and Ye Baoguo was just an extra.

There is no need for Ye Yu's help at all.

Ye Yu didn't want to play with kids of this age either, mainly because he couldn't give him a hug if he cried, and he had to comfort him himself. He couldn't stand the awkward conversation between two grown men, Ye Hongjun and Liu Dahai, so he got up and went to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, the mother and daughter were much closer. Wang Lai Di was whispering to Ye Xing how she was doing recently.

"fine."

"fine."

As soon as Ye Xing finished speaking, she noticed two stressed sounds, and another sound came from behind her.

"Does this count as the roundworm in your stomach, sister?" Ye Yu blinked at her.

"I'm really doing fine," Ye Xing smiled helplessly. "Speaking of which, the wild boar you sent back last time really scared my parents. Can you just hunt wild boars casually? Don't take risks like this in the future and make your parents worry about you again."

The wild boar meat satisfied my father-in-law, mother-in-law and even my sister-in-law. They said that although life in the countryside was a bit harder, there was a rich variety of species. They even asked if they could get some more wild boar meat as a gift. Pork is really hard to come by in the city now.

They said it could be replaced at a high price.

Of course Ye Xing found excuses to refuse. Not to mention that this thing might involve speculation, the danger of hunting wild boars alone made it impossible. She would never say that the wild boar meat was hunted by her third sister. She only said that her third sister exchanged it with someone and it was all up to luck.

When Wang Lai Di offered it to her for the second time, she even refused and pushed it back.

This time when I went back to my mother's house, in addition to telling Ye Yu not to take risks, I also reminded her that everything should be done in moderation.

Elm leaves:

“…”

Wang Lai Di was still worried whether it would be bad for Ye Lan to refuse like this. Ye Lan said no. In fact, since Ye Lan married a military officer and Ye Baoguo was selected for the sports training team, her mother-in-law has treated her better than before, as can be seen from this year's New Year's gift.

As for the man Liu Dahai, she had no requirements for him, as long as he didn't beat his wife after drinking a few cups of yellow soup like some men in the factory. Besides, men are afraid of their parents-in-law, and such things will not happen if they are watching.

Of course, Ye Xing couldn't possibly tell all of this, so she only chose to talk about part of it.

Ye Yu felt tired after listening to this, and couldn't help but sigh that if life was full of tricks, it would be too hard.

Ye Xing smiled softly: "What's so hard about that? I don't have to worry about food or drink, I don't have to work in the fields or forge iron, I just sit in the office every day and it's not busy, and my mother-in-law helps me take care of the kids when I go home, so my life is much easier than most people."

"Okay, as long as you feel happy. If you have any problems, just let me know by telegram or letter. Believe me, your sister is a big devil in their eyes who defends the country." Everyone has their own way of living. Not everyone is like the people in the apocalypse who treat every day as the last day. Ye Yu will not force it.

Ye Xing suddenly smiled and said, "Now there is something I need your help with."

When Ye Xing stuffed her little son Wu Ge'er into Ye Yu's arms, the great devil Ye Yu looked at the fat white caterpillar cub as if he were facing a powerful enemy and almost surrendered.

Eye to eye:

“…”

It's so soft, it doesn't even have bones? Does such a soft creature really exist?

Seeing this, Wang Lai Di and Ye Xing both laughed. Apart from anything else, the aunt and niece look a bit alike, and both are fair and tender. It's really a bit like an older child holding a younger child, which is quite funny.

Seeing Wu Ge'er pouting, Ye Yu quickly stuffed him back into his mother's arms. The guy didn't mean to cry, he just smacked his lips. He also turned his head curiously, looked at Ye Yu, and gave a sweet smile.

From this perspective, she looks quite like Ye Xing.

In the past, Wang Lai Di would definitely use all the pork brought by her son-in-law for lunch on the second day of the Chinese New Year, and would take great pains to cook a table full of delicious dishes to entertain him.

It’s the same today, but there’s no need to think too much, as some of the ingredients have been put away at Ye Xing’s suggestion.

The mutton soup and the bone soup alone were already quite delicious, and they were also cooked with other vegetables such as pumpkin, potato, radish, tofu, etc. There were also the southern specialties sent back by the Ye Lan couple, various seafood and salted fish.

It's a pity that Liu Dahai doesn't seem to like the smell of mutton or seafood. He eats mutton less frequently than vegetables, and he avoids seafood if possible. His food is very average.

But despite this, he couldn't say that this kind of hospitality was not good enough. After all, there were dishes and meat, and the meat was in a big pot.

Ye Yu expressed his joy at the news, but perhaps his schadenfreude was too obvious and Wang Lai Di stepped on his heel.

Ye Xing's taste is similar to that of Wang Lai Di and the others. Everything he eats and drinks is very delicious. So is his son. Even the youngest one jumps vigorously with his little arms and feet when he smells the mutton soup. He even gets a little taste of the milky mutton soup, then drinks half a sip after liking it.

Then smile at everyone you see.

The mutton soup is very effective in dispelling cold and replenishing yang. On the way back in the afternoon, although there was a cold wind blowing in her face from time to time due to the clear weather and melting snow, Ye Xing felt warm all over. Wen Ge'er kept asking when she would come to her grandmother's house again.