Chapter 19 Returning to My Mother's Home
After eating the dumplings, the children kowtowed to Grandpa Xia and Mrs. Zhou again, knelt down to thank their parents for raising them, and then washed up and went to bed.
Children should not stay up late. Besides, isn’t the New Year’s money for children to put under their pillows on New Year’s Eve?
As for staying up all night to celebrate the New Year, that is the job of adults.
The next morning, Xia Youtian and Jiang took their children to pay New Year's greetings.
The first places we visited were the village head’s house and my great-uncle Xia Pingkang’s house.
Next came the family of Mr. Feng, a wealthy man in the village.
After that, people would visit those with whom they have deep feelings and with whom they interact frequently, such as close neighbors, and finally visit villagers with whom they have ordinary relationships.
The entire first day of the New Year is basically spent with the continuous shouting of "Happy New Year" and "Happy New Year" everywhere.
Xia Daohua followed her family members to pay New Year's greetings. Although she felt her legs had become thinner and her face was stiff from smiling, she still had a good experience.
First of all, she earned dozens of copper coins as New Year's money on this trip.
Secondly, it allows me to get to know the villagers again.
However, what always puzzled her was that she had never met the bearded man.
I don’t know if it was just a coincidence that the guy was out paying New Year’s greetings and the two sides didn’t meet; or maybe that guy was not actually from Beiguan Village at all?
Xia Daohua didn't want to bother her aunt Xia Yujiao with this issue anymore, so she put the matter aside for the time being.
It’s the New Year, and she also has to go to the Space Supermarket to take inventory of the goods!
Everything seemed to be the same in the space supermarket. Apart from herself, there was no one alive.
But there are living things in the supermarket.
There is a stall selling tropical fish and another stall selling green plants on the first floor of the supermarket.
Although the stall owner has disappeared, there is no one to feed the fish or change the water, and no one to water or fertilize the plants, but the fish are still very lively and the plants are still lush.
Xia Daohua checked her account and found more than 100,000 yuan in it. Of course, it has now been automatically converted into "supermarket coins".
Fortunately, there was not much loss when exchanging it for "supermarket coins", and only about one thousandth of the handling fee was deducted.
Xia Daohua suddenly remembered that things outside could be exchanged for supermarket coins at the service desk. She now had dozens of copper coins in her hand. She wondered if they would be considered antiques?
She took the copper coins to the "Exchange Office" at the service desk.
The appearance of the "Exchange Office" looks very much like an unmanned vending machine.
Xia Daohua took a copper coin and placed it on the table of the "Exchange Office". A green light flashed, and the product name and price appeared on the screen: "Da Chu Tong Bao, face value of one cent. Exchange price: 25 yuan."
Xia Daohua counted and found that she had fifty-two copper coins in her hand, but she only exchanged one. The others were carefully stored in the cabinet in the storage area.
Before the family was divided, every penny earned by Xia Youtian and Jiang had to be turned over to the public treasury.
Now that the family has been divided, Xia Youtian and Jiang have become the heads of the fourth room. Will they be able to resist taking the children's New Year's money?
It's fine if it's given by Mr. Xia and Mrs. Zhou. But the New Year's money given by other families is nominally for children, but in fact, isn't it just a favor between adults?
Since other people gave them New Year's money, Xia Youtian and Jiang also had to give other people's children New Year's money.
Xia Daohua was very pessimistic about whether she could keep the fifty-two copper coins.
Sure enough, on the first night of the New Year, Jiang called the children to her side, looked at them lovingly, and said with a smile: "Come, all of you give all your New Year's money to me, and I will take care of it for you."
Routines, all routines!
Lihua happily took out her bag of lucky money and handed it to Jiang. Wulang followed closely. Linghua was reluctant to move, but after hesitating for a long time, she finally crawled to the bottom of the kang cabinet and found her hidden lucky money.
Xia Daohua asked with a smile: "Mom, can I leave a few copper coins?"
Jiang hesitated for a moment, and found that the children were looking at her eagerly. She couldn't bear to refuse, so she bit her lip and said:
"I'll give each of you two copper coins."
Xia Daohua nodded happily, and after searching in her bosom for a long time, she finally pulled out the copper coin bag - it was a patched cotton sock. Xia Daohua handed it to Jiang with a smile:
"I have left two cents, and here are fifty cents."
Jiang looked at Xia Daohua with a bit of surprise. How come this child, after falling down, not only did not become a fool, but instead became wise?
She counted out six copper coins from the bag and gave two each to Lihua, Goro, and Linghua.
The children cheered: "Mom, you are so nice!"
Linghua suddenly threw herself into her arms and gave her a hard kiss on the face.
Jiang collected the children's New Year's money and carefully counted how much had been given out. After counting, she found that there was still a shortfall of thirty-five cents in the New Year's money alone.
Jiang sighed slightly. Fortunately, the old couple were quite kind when they divided the family property. Otherwise, how could they live like this?
The next day is the second day of the Chinese New Year, the day when married girls return home.
Jiang wanted to take Xia Youtian and several children back to her parents' home to visit relatives.
The village where Jiang's parents' home lived was called Liushutuozi, which was not too far from Beiguan Village. There were three mountain ridges between the two villages, and it took about two or three hours to walk there.
The next morning, before the rooster crowed, Jiang got up, cooked cornmeal porridge, steamed a few steamed buns, and cut a pickled cabbage heart and a mustard turnip.
Then he hurriedly woke up the sleepy children, washed them, urged them to eat, and changed them into the most decent clothes.
Xia Youtian looked at Jiang who was busy all the time, and couldn't help but feel distressed. He said, "My wife, don't worry. I have to go out for something. Wait for me to come back!"
Jiang looked at Xia Youtian's back in confusion. What could happen to him so early in the morning?
However, when she thought about going back to her parents' home, Jiang couldn't help but feel nervous.
Everyone in the Jiang family has a hot temper. Whether it's Jiang's parents, or her four brothers and two sisters, they all have very tough and fierce personalities.
Jiang's temperament is like that of a little lamb. She doesn't seem like a biological child of the Jiang family.
The Jiang family also knew that Jiang was a soft-hearted person and they all protected her.
Jiang had always been afraid of going back to her parents' home, fearing that if she said something wrong, her brothers and sisters would get angry and beat Xia Youtian up.
Although in reality, the Jiang family has never really beaten Xia Youtian up.
At most, I would just force him to drink a few bowls of wine.
After Jiang had taken care of the children and tidied the house, she saw Xia Youtian coming back, covered in frost and panting.
Xia Youtian smiled so hard that his teeth were showing and his eyes were not. He handed Jiang two hemp paper bags and a large jar sealed with yellow mud:
"I finally knocked on the door of my fifth sister-in-law's house."
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