Su Yan didn't expect that they had all moved into the courtyard house and that someone would come to their house to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the new year.
In the afternoon, Lu Fenghua and Lu Fengyu brought their children to the courtyard to wish Lu Fengnian a happy new year.
The year after Grandpa Lu Ting passed away, they fought tooth and nail for this yard. Now that the two old men are gone, they know they can't win and have given up.
When it comes to interests, they are brothers and settle accounts clearly. When there is no conflict of interests, they break bones but keep tendons.
The brothers were reconciled, and Lu Fenghua and Lu Fengyu both came to wish their elder brother a happy new year. Lu Fengnian seemed quite happy, but Su Yan's reaction was indifferent. If her father-in-law didn't mind, why should she mind?
It was just a simple matter of accepting candies and cookies from both families and treating them to a meal.
On the second day of the New Year, Su Yan got up early in the morning to prepare breakfast. After breakfast, she changed Lu Yiming into new clothes. The family of three rode bicycles to the Su family to pay New Year's greetings with New Year gifts.
Lu Fengnian drove to the countryside with Lu Jin and Lu Yilan, and Hua Min waited at home for his daughter and her family to come and pay New Year's greetings.
Knowing that Lu Shu would come, Su Yan and her family of three sat for a while after having lunch at Su's house and then came back.
The Chinese New Year is originally about eating, drinking and chatting. In previous years, when they were bored during the Chinese New Year, the family would play cards together.
Because of the big sport this year, no one dares to play cards. If they are reported by someone with ulterior motives, won’t they be banned?
However, Su Ze and Su Lang's children are still young, and Wang Yan is pregnant with another child, so naturally there are more things to do at home. Su Ze is being excluded at work, and Wang Yan can't get her job back. Who has the mood to have fun?
On the way home, Su Yan was in a particularly heavy mood. "Oh, it seems that everyone is not having a good time this New Year."
"Yan Yan, stop sighing. Your eldest brother is a smart man. Look, even though he's being ostracized, isn't he doing fine now? As long as he's not caught doing anything wrong, they won't dare to do anything to him."
"Lu Ting, have you memorized the contents of the Little Red Book?"
"We got the book as soon as it came out. It's been a few years now, and I've memorized it by heart."
"Just memorize it. From now on, you can keep the book with you. It won't do any harm."
Anyway, there is a red book in Su Yan's space, and she can take it out whenever she needs it.
When they arrived at the door, the bicycle slowed down and Su Yan jumped off the bicycle. Lu Ting picked up his son who was sitting on the crossbar and lifted the bicycle over the threshold.
Lu Shu heard the noise outside the house and came out holding her one-year-old son Qin Siming.
"Brother, sister-in-law, you are back, happy new year!"
Su Yan was about to say Happy New Year when Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Aunt, study hard and make progress every day."
Su Yan chuckled. Her son was a smart guy. They were just chatting about quotes on the road when he said this casually.
"It's cold, come inside and sit with your child."
Lu Ting asked, "Where is Siming's father?"
"Roasting by the fire with Frost and Light Snow."
Su Yan also didn't know how the Qin family named their children. The older one was called Qin Shuang and the younger one was Qin Xue. Aren't these names adding insult to injury? And when it came to the third son, it was named Siming. Did Si Lai figure it out?
Moreover, Lu Shu's cousin is named Lu Shuang, and her daughter is named Qin Shuang. The same character is used in the names of different generations. I don't know if Lu Shuang has any objection.
As soon as Lu Ting entered the house, he gave each of Lu Shu's three children five yuan as a red envelope, and explained that there was no red paper at home for the New Year this year.
Lu Shu immediately gave the five yuan in Lu Shuang's hand to Lu Yiming, and Su Yan was stunned.
She didn't mind that her husband gave three red envelopes to her sister's children, while her own son only took back one.
But Lu Shu snatched the money from the eldest daughter. Didn’t she prepare a red envelope in advance?
When they returned to their room, Lu Ting explained, "Yan Yan, the reason my sister did this was because the red envelope she gave was probably only fifty cents. When she saw me giving five yuan to each person, she gave the five yuan in Shuang Shuang's hand to our son."
"I'm not fussy about the size of the red envelope she gave me, but she just snatched Shuangshuang's red envelope like that. What does Shuangshuang think?"
Although the red envelopes children receive during the Chinese New Year will only stay in their pockets for a short while before being taken away by their parents, Shuangshuang's mother snatched the money away before it even went into her pocket. Lu Shu showed no respect for children at all.
The reason why Lu Ting gave five dollars to each person was because his sister had three children and the family's financial situation was not very good.
When they went to the Su family before, because Su Yan was the youngest daughter, Su Ze and Su Lang gave Lu Yiming red envelopes first, giving him two dollars each.
Su Yan gave Su Jingyuan and Su Huilan five yuan each. Because this year was special, she gave them the money directly without wrapping it in red paper.
Su Yan took out four silk hair-tying ribbon flowers from the space. She bought them when she took Lu Yiming and Lu Yilan to the department store on New Year's Eve.
As soon as I went out, I saw Qin Shuang crying with tears in her eyes, hugging her father's legs.
"Dad, Mom snatched the red envelope my uncle gave me. Why did she take it from me? My brother doesn't know how to use money, so why didn't she take his?"
"Shuangshuang, your mother has collected the red envelopes from your sister and brother. You should all collect your red envelopes and give them to her so that she can use them for her studies."
"Dad lied, now I can't even study."
Su Yan walked over and took out two pink silk ribbons and handed them to Qin Shuang, "Don't cry, Xiao Shuang, these are the silk ribbon flowers your aunt bought for you."
Qin Shuang was so happy when she saw the pink silk ribbon in Su Yan's hand that she stopped crying immediately. She took the silk ribbon and thanked her with a smile: "Thank you, auntie. You are even better than my mother. Not only did my mother not buy me new clothes for the New Year, she didn't even buy me silk flowers for my hair."
Lu Shu smiled awkwardly, "It's not that Mommy doesn't want to buy you a flowery ribbon, but you two sisters have short, yellow hair."
Qin Shuang pouted when she heard Lu Shu say that. "If Mom doesn't like it, then I don't like it either. My brother doesn't have much hair on his head, so why did you buy him a nice hat for the New Year?"
"Because my younger brother also has thin hair, I bought him a new hat for the New Year."
Su Yan handed the other two yellow ribbons to Lu Shu and advised, "Okay, don't say that about Shuangshuang. Young girls all love beauty. Aren't you destroying her self-confidence?"
It’s not the child’s fault that he or she has little hair. If she had daughters, she would definitely buy them all kinds of beautiful hair ornaments.
She waved to Qin Shuang and said, "Come here, your aunt will braid your hair."
Although Qin Shuang doesn't have much hair and it's short, it's still okay for her to tie it into two small buns.
Qin Shuang walked up to Su Yan happily. Su Yan asked Lu Yiming to go back to his room and get a comb. Lu Yiming obediently ran back to his room.
Su Yan first helped Qin Shuang tie two small pigtails, then stuffed the folded silk ribbons into the rubber band, and then pulled it open to form a flower.
Three-year-old Qin Shuang walked up to Su Yan and said, "Aunt, I want to wear flowers too."
"Okay, I'll give you the injection."
Lu Yiming grabbed Qin Shuang's hand and said, "Sister Shuangshuang, your silk ribbon is pink, sister Yilan's is red, and sister Xiaoxue's is yellow.
This is what my mom and I picked out for you at the department store. The department store is huge and has all kinds of flowers. Have you ever been to a department store?"
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