Then they ran to the bedside and looked at Zhang Huilan eagerly, "Aunt, can my brother and I stay here and play with my little sister?"
"Of course you can, just don't scare your sister anymore!"
Yu Xiaowei nodded hurriedly, "Okay, let's just watch by the bed, it won't scare her."
Hearing her mother's promise, Li Mingxi silently lit a candle for herself in her heart. She always felt that this cousin named Yu Xiaowei was a little unexpectedly lively.
As expected, he kept pulling at her hand, trying to hold her hand.
Li Mingxi ignored his action at all, so when Yu Xiaowei saw that the little sister ignored him, he changed his way of playing.
He was seen mumbling something, imitating the kindergarten teacher, and holding out his hands, "Xiao Xi, look, this is my brother's hand, look carefully!"
Then he put his left hand behind his back and said, "Hey, why is my left hand gone? Where is it? Can you find it?"
In order not to make his little cousin sad, Li Mingxi had no choice but to cooperate and let out a few "ah ah" sounds.
Seeing Li Mingxi's reaction, Yu Xiaowei reached out and scratched his head, "Oh, I forgot you can't talk! Forget it, I won't play anymore!"
Seeing his brother's silly look, Yu Dawei held his forehead with his hand. It was really unbelievable that his silly brother would play this kind of game with a child who couldn't speak!
Seeing her younger cousin's silly look, Li Mingxi looked up at the sky in silence. If she knew what her older cousin was thinking, she would definitely agree with him. Zhang Huilan, leaning on the bed, watched the interaction between the childish Yu Xiaowei and Li Mingxi with a look of satisfaction.
Suddenly, Yu Xiaowei had no good ideas. He blinked his eyes and looked at his brother beside him. "I can't think of a fun game. What should I do? Brother, what do you think we should play?"
Yu Dawei was already used to his brother playing innocent. "I don't know. Xiaoxi is too young. The game you want to play is not suitable for her at all."
Upon hearing this, Yu Xiaowei immediately hung his head, "Ah, what should I do?"
"Let's stop playing. It's almost time for dinner anyway!"
But Yu Xiaowei still didn't give up and insisted on playing games. Yu Dawei had no choice but to agree to play with him. Before they started, they heard Li Guiying calling them to go to the main room for dinner.
Helplessly, Yu Xiaowei could only leave the west room. Before leaving, he was reluctant to leave, "Sister Xiaoxi, I will come to see you after dinner."
In response to this, Li Mingxi just wanted to say, I really don’t need it, please don’t come again, I’m really exhausted, I want to sleep more!
Thinking of this, Li Mingxi's eyelids couldn't stop drooping, and he fell asleep in a short while.
When she woke up, it was already mid-afternoon. Li Aiguo, who had gone to visit relatives, had already returned and was now whispering with Zhang Huilan in the room.
"This morning my mother-in-law said she missed you and wanted to come see you, but I didn't let her come."
Zhang Huilan held Li Mingxi in her arms and fed her while replying, "It's okay. I'll go back to see her after I'm out of confinement. Besides, it's not worth it to freeze in the freezing weather now."
"That's right. This is the New Year's money that mom and brother-in-law gave to Xiaoxi," Li Aiguo said as he took out a few bills from his pocket and put them on the bedside table.
"Ah! Why did mom and big brother give so much?"
"I don't know either. I didn't want it at first, but Mom insisted that I take it. So now I'm giving it all to you! It's okay. I'll go out and drive a car later and buy some more goodies for my mother-in-law and the others."
Zhang Huilan nodded. "That's fine. After all, we still have our sister-in-law. If we keep taking advantage of her, she'll probably feel uncomfortable after a while."
Seeing that his daughter had finished eating, Li Aiguo reached out and hugged Li Mingxi, "I know everything, don't worry, I won't let my mother-in-law get angry because of this."
"It's enough for you to know..."
Looking at the New Year's money given by grandma, although Li Mingxi didn't know the specific value, but from what his mother said, it seemed to be quite a lot at this time. Therefore, Li Mingxi was particularly curious about grandma's family. After all, not every family was willing to give so much.
Unlike the quietness in the west room, Liu Zhaodi was arguing with Li Aimin in the room at this moment.
"I told you to come back as soon as you finish your meal, but you didn't even mention coming back."
Li Aimin retorted, "How can you blame me? It's you who's been showing off at your parents' house. What does it have to do with me? Besides, why are you back so early?"
Liu Zhaodi yelled, "What are you talking about? Your sister came today, and I didn't give the child any New Year's money. How much money did I lose? It's all your mother's fault. She said she would come tomorrow. I think she did it on purpose to save money for her daughter!"
Seeing that she was still talking nonsense, Li Aiguo couldn't listen any longer, "How can you blame my mom? Didn't Mom say that my younger sister didn't arrive until almost noon, and she didn't know. Besides, you didn't give her child any New Year's money, so how can you say you lost out?"
Liu Zhaodi complained: "How can I not lose out? In previous years, your younger sister gave ten cents per child, but this year I didn't get a cent, so I lost out!"
"You're just short of a few cents, right? I've never seen you give money to my little sister's child in previous years. So what if you don't have any this year?"
Hearing her husband say this, Liu Zhaodi immediately quit, "Yes, I just need these few cents. I thought I could enjoy a good life by marrying you, but now, I haven't seen any money in my hands all year round."
Niu Cuihua, who was originally in the east room, heard the two people arguing more and more outrageously, so she hurriedly spoke out to stop them and ran all the way to their room.
"Stop arguing, what are you doing? After all this arguing, I finally understand. Isn't it just about the New Year's money? Your sister gave it to me and it's here! Do you think I'm giving it to you?"
Niu Cuihua took out a few one-cent bills from her pocket and said, "It's the same as last year, one cent per person. If there's any extra, don't accuse me of pocketing it. I was thinking of giving it to everyone at dinner later. I didn't expect this to happen. In that case, I'll give it to you now, but don't ask me for it again!"
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