"Aunt! Aunt! Did you miss me?"

"Aunt! Huahua is so beautiful!"

...

After the fat boy came back, the yard was filled with the busy sound of bees buzzing. Chen Jingyi and Xiao Ming successfully reunited. They gathered around Qin Rou's legs and looked at her belly.

"Mom said that aunt is going to have a brother or sister."

"Aunt!"

"It's not that aunt and aunt have a brother or sister, but that you two may have a brother or sister."

It's not known whether it's two little cousins ​​or two little cousins ​​or both.

There are so many children in the family now!

Qin Rou brought the two little guys back to the business of raising leeks. The two babies are quite experienced in raising leeks. Chen Jingyi has already harvested many crops of leeks that he planted at home with his mother Qin Mian.

As for Xiao Ming's.

The third sister of the Lu family: "..." I'm embarrassed to tell my younger brother and sister-in-law.

After having a meal at her younger brother's house, the third sister

of the Lu family looked at the blue sky and white clouds not far away and decided to stay on the island for the New Year. "The vegetables grown by my younger brother and sister-in-law are so delicious!" The heroic third sister of the Lu family burst into tears. Like her father, she grew up eating the vegetables grown by her mother Jiang Ping. She has not inherited her younger brother's ability to knead steamed buns. As a woman, she likes to eat vegetables more.

After eating my mother's food, I found the food in the army so delicious. Even the food in the military academy's cafeteria was delicious.

When Third Sister Lu went to the military academy, there were several girls in one dormitory. Some of them came from good families, and some from bad families. The girls from good families were picky, but Third Sister Lu, after being trained by the Lu family, ate everything with relish and never complained.

When her classmates saw her eating as much as she could in the cafeteria, as if she hadn't eaten for 80 years, they thought she came from a poor family and they took good care of her.

Later...

"Why can my brother find a wife who is so good at cooking and growing vegetables?"

The world is unfair!!!

I am not afraid of eating pig food together, but I am afraid that my pig buddy who eats pig food together will become successful overnight.

We agreed to be pigs together, and we are piglets from the same shed. Why do you enjoy the treatment of a panda now?

Chief of Staff Lu said calmly: "My father asked someone to introduce you."

"I didn't want to meet him, but he forced me to meet him. It's all thanks to my father who forced me to meet him."

"The first time I met my wife, I succeeded and married her in one go."

...

Qin Rou: "..." I just don't want to expose you, a fool. Third

Sister Lu: "..." Envy and jealousy.

"Comrade Lu, why don't you introduce a good son-in-law to your daughter?"

Comrade Lu Zongyi: "...It was all unexpected."

Who could have thought that his youngest son would really marry this hot girl? He had clearly given up urging her to get married. It was really like planting flowers with care but they didn't bloom, but planting willows by accident brought about shade.

On New Year's Eve, Qin Rou still had to go to work at the radio station. Lu Yan had a day off that day and could go home to accompany her. Before night, everyone had already arrived.

My sister and brother-in-law's family, three adults and three children, a total of six people, Lu Yan's parents, third sister and the fat boy, four people here, together there are ten people.

Qin Rou and Lu Yan, a couple, are two people on the surface, but in fact there are four people. Add them all up, the family of fourteen will celebrate the New Year together tonight.

Just for eating dumplings, they have to make hundreds of them.

On New Year's Eve, the sun was shining brightly. Qin Rou got off work earlier than usual. Lu Yan came to pick her up to go home for the New Year. Lu Yan was waiting downstairs, but he saw his wife glance at him, ran back to a room and rummaged around, and took out a huge coconut leaf, saying that she wanted to go home with him holding a coconut leaf umbrella.

Lu Yan: "..."

Qin Rou had long wanted to try the feeling of going home with a leaf to block the sun. She had seen children carrying leaves home like this before, and she was a little envious and thought it was fun. She also thought it looked like the palm leaf fan of Princess Iron Fan.

Palm leaf fans are not that long.

It would be too silly to go home alone with a leaf umbrella, so two people would be just right, and the embarrassment would be doubled.

Finally, she caught the strong man.

Chief of Staff Lu, the decision is made by you!

How could Lu Yan refuse his wife's request? Let's go home together carrying the huge leaf.

One of them was in front and the other was behind. Qin Rou held up a coconut leaf, and the tip of the leaf fell on the head of Comrade Lu Yan, who had a wooden face.

Lu Yan was afraid that she would fall, so he didn't allow her to walk. He held her waist and the two walked side by side with a coconut leaf on their heads.

The island was very quiet in the afternoon, and few people came out for a stroll. Walking on the road, the leisurely sea breeze blew the hair on the face. The coconut leaf on the head had turned yellow, like a beautiful banana leaf. The shadows of the two people fell on the ground and stuck together.

Qin Rou looked at the shadows on the ground and thought that these were not the shadows of two people, but the shadows of four people.

Qin Rou looked at the man's profile and smiled, "Do you feel like the little animals are commotion before the rain, and two hardworking little ants are carrying unexpected snacks home?"

After having a baby, her mind is full of all kinds of childish thoughts.

Lu Yan smiled. It was really hard for him, a tall man, to curl up under the leaves to shade with her. Lu Yan picked up the woman next to him and let her sit on his arms.

Qin Rou screamed in surprise. She was familiar with this posture. She smiled and hugged Lu Yan's neck: "Don't mess around, Comrade Ant, be careful not to drop your wife."

"Put me down."

Qin Rou was now carrying a child. Although she was a little plumper than before, she was still thin and thin. Lu Yan held her in his arms lightly, and he really didn't dare to drop her. Lu Yan put her down, blocked her with coconut leaves, and secretly kissed his wife on the face.

"So sticky." Qin Rou looked at him with disdain, thinking that if you do this outside, even if they are married, it is still a hooligan behavior, but there are no outsiders anyway, and with the coconut leaves blocking, who can see it?

Qin Rou pulled his arm, obviously intending to give him a kiss. Chief of Staff Lu decisively bent down, and Qin Rou smiled and kissed him.

"Go home for the New Year."

The couple returned to their family compound carrying coconut leaves. As soon as they entered the door, they received strange looks from the gate patrol boys. But Qin Rou thought to herself, who am I? I used to be a kindergarten teacher, so who doesn’t have some social stunt disorder?

The guards are sacred and inviolable.

Qin Rou said New Year’s greetings to the boys, and hurried home with Chief of Staff Lu to avoid embarrassing themselves outside.

Who knew that when they arrived at the door of the house, they found that Zhang Tuan next door was still tidying up his yard during the New Year. He was really persistent.

Qin Rou and Lu Yan: "..."

Zhang Chengbei saw the couple under the leaves: "..."

This couple really...lives a colorful life.

"Leaves that fell from your coconut tree?"

Qin Rou: "..."

Lu Yan said calmly: "I climbed the tree to pick them."

Qin Rou: "???!!"

Zhang Chengbei: "...will you pick one for me next time?"

After returning to their own yard, Qin Rou and her husband hurried to wash their hair and take a bath. On New Year's Eve, they bid farewell to the old and ushered in the new, so they had to wash their whole bodies carefully and put on new clothes for the New Year.

Qin Rou's long hair was not easy to dry after washing, so the couple sat under a thatched umbrella in the yard. Qin Rou had a dry towel wrapped around her shoulders, and Lu Yan took another dry towel to help her wipe her hair.

Lu Yan liked to do this job very much, and Qin Rou followed him. Her long black hair was not cut short, and the soft and fine hair fell on her shoulders.

The black hair was scattered, making the originally small oval face look even whiter and more delicate, like the crystal clear flesh of the newly picked lychees on this island.

Qin Rou half-squinted her eyes and looked at her yard. There were some other things in the yard. She made a few handmade iron flower pots with old coconut shells and planted spider plants and unknown wild flowers on the mountain. Old

coconut shells are really useful things. Qin Rou saved a lot of them. Now that the children of their two sisters came, Qin Rou simply took the two pairs of parents and children to do handicrafts together. She made a coconut shell piggy bank with coconut shells and made several coconut shell carved lamps.

Coconut shells can also be made into the shape of small pumpkin lamps, hollow dots, stars... Coconuts can be carved into many shapes.

Tonight is the New Year, and there are no red lanterns. I plan to put a few coconut lanterns that burn coconut oil in the yard. They are economical and beautiful.

The flowers and vegetables planted in the yard come and go, and the dead ones are replaced in time. Qin Rou planted tree roses and hydrangeas in the corner. After a while, the hydrangeas will also bloom.

Qin Rou yawned and felt a little sleepy. She found a harmonica, and Lu Yan wiped her hair. She played the harmonica to do prenatal education for the little babies in her belly.

From time to time, she said a few words to the father of the babies to deepen the parent-child relationship.

"Are you sleepy?"

"Your hair is dry, why don't you take a nap? I'll call you when I'm ready to make dumplings."

...

Sitting on the second-floor terrace enjoying the breeze, Comrade Lu raised his hand to shield his eyes. He felt that it was not the sun that was too hot today, but something else was piercing his eyes.

He turned around and said to his wife Jiang Ping, "When I asked you to name our daughter Lu Aiping, you didn't want to."

How pretentious this name is when you say it out loud.

Before Jiang Ping could say anything, Lu Xuan, the third sister of Lu, said first: "Thank you, mother."

Jiang Ping: "..."

Lu Zongyi rested his chin on his hand and thought: "I have to call Xiaozai and ask him to come to my brother's place. It would be great to marry a wife. He is the only bachelor in the family."

Lu Xuan: "How about I go and meet some girls?"

Lu Zongyi: "???!!"

Jiang Ping: "???!!!!"

Are these still the children who didn't want to get married back then? !

In the evening, more than a dozen people crowded together to make dumplings, cook rice and cook. Some made steamed buns, some made dumplings, and some washed vegetables. After all, it was the Chinese New Year, so there had to be a festive atmosphere, and the whole family had to be mobilized.

Old Lu and Little Lu, father and son, also wrote Spring Festival couplets, but neither of them was as good as his brother-in-law Chen Mian. Chen Mian's calligraphy was better, but after his father-in-law Chen Yubai made his move, Old Man Chen's calligraphy was still better.

The children had a lot of fun pasting Spring Festival couplets and cutting window paper-cuts. Before eating the New Year's Eve dinner, Qin Rou took Chen Jinghua and Chen Juanjuan, as well as the two little kids Chen Jingyi and Xia Mingxi, to paste window paper-cuts, and then went to the yard to light coconut lanterns.

The coconut lanterns were placed in the yard, dotted like falling stars. Although there were no fireworks and firecrackers, these dotted lights could add a bit of New Year's atmosphere.

Huang, the neighbor, said that although they would not set off fireworks, they would set off cannons and bombs during the New Year and other festivals. Some things that were about to expire would be used to match the atmosphere so that she would not be scared at night.

Qin Rou also sent two beautiful coconut lanterns to the neighbor.

In the evening, they had a New Year's Eve dinner. The New Year's Eve dinner with more than a dozen people gathered together was particularly rich. I'm afraid that every family had a rare good day on this day. At this time of the New Year, it was probably the achievement that only "Second Brother" was injured.

New Year pigs were killed everywhere.

The troops killed New Year pigs, the farms killed New Year pigs, the major communes also killed New Year pigs, and the schools also killed New Year pigs... The children who were greedy for meat were all waiting for the meat happily.

Nowadays, everyone wants fat instead of lean meat. The fat meat they buy turns into oil, and the remaining oil residue is a favorite snack for children.

Qin Rou never liked oil residue before, thinking it was too greasy. Maybe it’s because she’s short of oil now, and she really wants to eat greasy pork fat.

Mother-in-law Jiang Ping chopped up the oil residue and said she wanted to make oil residue cakes. Qin Rou suggested brushing a layer of bean paste on it and sprinkling it with chopped green onions. The fried cakes finally looked like sauce-flavored cakes. They were delicious and made the children cry.

Qin Rou and her sister Qin Mian rolled various fish balls, crab balls, and shrimp balls and froze them in the freezer before New Year’s Eve. As the saying goes, no child can resist the temptation of meatballs.

The hot pot of broth was filled with various beautiful little meatballs, which tasted particularly delicious. The children even gave up their dumplings and waited for the meatballs with their bowls.

Sister Qin Mian was very skillful and made meatballs in many different shapes, including round, triangular, dumpling-shaped, square, and intestine-shaped. She also added side dishes such as radish and corn when making the meatballs, so the meatballs looked different in shape. When floating in the boiling broth, they kept stirring the gluttony in the children's stomachs.

"Sister, you have so many ideas and can come up with so many different ways."

"So delicious! The soup for cooking the meatballs has become so delicious!"

How could it not smell good? So many seafood meatballs gathered in one place.

Qin Rou picked up meatballs for the kids one by one. Needless to say, the two older friends, Chen Juanjuan and Chen Jinghua, all asked for a big bowl of meatballs, and they didn't feel sick at all.

Xia Mingxi, the little fat boy, was already staring at the meatballs, and Qin Rou also served him a big bowl.

While eating meatballs, he also went to the other end to grab a bowl of dumplings.

Xiao Ming's mother was too lazy to care about him, and she was eating happily by herself. After eating too much, Xiao Ming's mother in the kitchen felt like she was in heaven.

Qin Rou was cooking frozen tofu for herself. She had made a lot of frozen tofu before, and the frozen tofu in the hot pot was super delicious!!! After it was cooked, it was full of juice and tasted extremely tempting and delicious.

Qin Rou took out her frozen tofu, and Lu Yan came to his wife with a bowl of freshly cooked dumplings, picked up a dumpling and fed it to her.

Qin Rou bit it into her mouth, popped her teeth, and found that she had eaten copper coins.

Qin Rou: "???"

Lu Yan looked at her gently with a smile: "Congratulations, the only copper coin, the lucky one."

"Good luck in the coming year."

Qin Rou: "..."

Suspecting that you, Chief of Staff Lu, cheated.

Just picked a copper coin for her.

But no matter, even if her husband helped cheat, she was still the lucky one this year.

Qin Rou smiled and fed him a piece of frozen tofu. Although it was not too cold this winter, it would be more atmospheric to eat a hot pot at this time.

"There are so many people celebrating the New Year today, I love it."

"There will be two more next year."