Fang Lin said it was nothing and continued eating.
After finishing her meal, Fang Lin's stepmother took the dishes to the kitchen to wash them, and Fang Lin stood up and went upstairs to her room to rest.
The next morning, Fang Lin got up and went downstairs. Her stepmother was cooking in the kitchen. After washing up quickly, she went out of the house and stood outside the gate talking to the neighbors.
After breakfast, the stepmother started busying herself with putting on the quilts. A total of eight new quilts were prepared for Fang Hui's wedding.
Her father had prepared her dowry half a month ago.
These days, there aren't as many complications when a girl gets married as in the 21st century, when there are many things to do before the wedding, like taking wedding photos. Weddings are generally very simple these days.
She had already bought all the necessary dowry items, so she was still quite free right before her wedding.
After breakfast, Fang Lin taught her younger sister how to drive.
After a day, Fang Hui was able to practice driving on her own.
Fang Lin said, "Even if you learn to drive, you can't drive on the road. Get a driver's license after the New Year; you can only drive on the road with a driver's license."
These days, it's relatively easy to get a driver's license, but it's not cheap. It costs more than 2,000 yuan to get one, which is unaffordable for most people.
Furthermore, the process takes an exceptionally long time; it takes more than a year to obtain a driver's license. This means that even if Fang Hui owns a car, she cannot drive on the road without a license for a year. If caught, she will be considered driving without a license.
Of course, she didn't have the means to drive around, she didn't have a stable income, and she couldn't even afford the gas for her car.
Although gasoline is cheap these days, money is harder to earn. I'm afraid my sister will have to help me pay for my driver's license next year.
The next afternoon, Fang Lin asked, "Mom, what time is my brother's train?"
The stepmother said, "Your younger brother called the village office a few days ago and said he would arrive at the station at 3:30 this afternoon."
Fang Lin said, "I'm driving to the train station to pick up my younger brother."
Fang Hui said, "I'll go too."
The mother said, "Go!"
Before 3 p.m., Fang Lin drove her younger sister to the county train station.
In this day and age, train delays are commonplace, and during the Spring Festival travel rush, trains are even more prone to delays.
The county train station is a transit station. It's easy to find train delay times in the waiting hall, but there's no exact time. It usually arrives around 5:30.
I didn't see my younger brother, Fang Hao, come out of the station exit until after 5 p.m.
My younger brother is 19 years old this year and has grown into a young man.
Fang Hao saw his two older sisters waiting for him at the exit and asked, "Big sister, when did you get back?"
"I came back yesterday."
After Fang Lin finished speaking, she took her younger brother's travel bag and walked towards the car with her sister.
Today is the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, the day my younger sister is getting married.
The car that was won in the lottery was given as part of my sister's dowry, and we had a lively and joyous wedding.
Time flies, and the seasons have changed. It's now March of the following lunar year, and Fang Lin is due to give birth.
You can give birth at your own home, but not at your parents' home, and you can't even go back to your parents' home until the baby is a month old.
After breakfast that day, the father said, "Linlin, you stay home and look after the two children. Your mother and I will go up the mountain to build you a bamboo house, where you can give birth."
Fang Lin said, "I'm anxious at home, I'll go too."
The father said, "That's fine."
The family drove up the mountain, and Fang Lin parked the car in a relatively flat area next to the wild bamboo forest.
There is a small river in the middle of the wild bamboo forest. The scenery here is very beautiful, and the final site was chosen to build a bamboo house by the bamboo forest and the river.
The people in the mountains are no strangers to building bamboo houses. Fang Lin sat by the river with her two children, while her father and stepmother cut bamboo to build the house.
In my hometown, the highest temperature in April is usually 24℃, while the lowest temperature is usually 14℃. This is the most comfortable time to play outside.
Fang Lin is currently heavily pregnant and it's inconvenient for her to go out, otherwise she would have taken her child to dig bamboo shoots long ago.
The father and stepmother built a temporary home in just one week.
It was a two-story bamboo house. People lived on the second floor, while the first floor had a kitchen and a bathroom.
A week later, Fang Lin gave birth in the bamboo house. The delivery went very smoothly, fulfilling her wish to have a baby boy.
Fang Lin was leaving after her baby was one month old. She didn't breastfeed her son after he was born; instead, she started feeding him formula. Her milk stopped flowing after a week.
The reason for not breastfeeding the baby is simple: after the baby is a month old, I have to go back to work, and it's not practical to go home often to breastfeed the baby. So, the nanny can feed the baby formula at home.
Fang Lin returned home for a week after her one-month celebration, and her husband, Song Yun, took the train to her parents' home to pick her up.
The next day, after breakfast, Fang Lin took her husband to the cemetery to pay respects at their graves during the Qingming Festival.
The couple arrived at the cemetery, burned some paper money, and knelt down with the husband to kowtow several times before his mother's grave.
After they finished kowtowing and stood up, Song Yunfei said, "Let's go home."
Fang Lin nodded after hearing her husband's words and went down the mountain with him to go home.
Three days later, after saying goodbye to her family, Fang Lin and her husband drove back to the north with their children.
After returning home, the couple went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to obtain their marriage certificate, pay the fine for having a second child, and register their three children's household registrations.
(This plot transition is very fast, really. I don't like to padded out my books. It would be really pointless to fill several chapters with scenes like Fang Lin's sister getting married and having a child, including the New Year. I only need to touch on unimportant plots briefly, just enough for everyone to know the process.)
As the season drew to a close in late May, temperatures gradually rose, and it began to feel hot during the day.
The girl took off her spring clothes and put on her favorite skirt. Beneath the beautiful skirt, her legs, which had been encased in trousers all winter and spring, seemed to have broken free from the shackles of winter and were enjoying themselves in the ocean of summer.
Before leaving get off work in the afternoon, Dong Qing and Fang Lin were sitting in the office talking when the internal phone on their desks suddenly rang.
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