The wedding date has been set and both families have started preparing. Three months is still plenty of time.
The place where they lived after they got married was the courtyard where the Cao family originally lived. When Shen Anning married into the Cao family, there were only four people in total, so there was really no need to live separately.
However, Grandma Cao still found a construction team and asked for Shen Anning's opinion to redecorate the small courtyard, so that there was nothing missing from the study and bathroom.
Knowing that his young apprentice was preparing for her wedding, Old Cheng did not assign too many tasks to Shen An Ning during the summer vacation. He just gave her a few notebooks and sent her away. Summer is hot, and Shen An Ning is lazy. She takes Xixi and Erbao to eat and drink at home every day.
Shen Anning and Xixi were fine, they would always move around after eating. After all, going to the market to buy vegetables, cooking, and doing housework were also ways to consume energy. But Erbao, the lazy guy, would just sit on the mat and play after eating, and even going out to buy popsicles couldn't tempt him.
The three-year-old child is white and chubby. Whenever he goes out, the neighbors, especially the elderly ones, praise him for being lucky and give him candies. As a result of being praised like this, little Shen Erbao becomes more and more unable to control himself.
In just ten days, when Liu Manxue and Shen Anyan completed the project at the research institute and returned home, they saw their son, who had gained weight, sitting on a mat and smiling at them. He came closer without any self-awareness, calling for a hug from his parents.
Chen Anyan picked up his chubby son and shook him up and down. Wow, he had gained at least five or six pounds. "Second baby, what have you eaten at home? Darling, daddy won't be able to hold you anymore."
I saw Shen Erbao pointing his fingers, as if he was counting the treasures on his back, "I ate meat, milk, meatballs, bread, bananas, apples, eggs, noodles, dumplings, cakes and so many more with my aunt and sister. Erbao can't count them all."
Shen Anyan and his wife were overwhelmed by what they heard. "Then Erbao, how come Auntie and Sister haven't gained weight even though they eat too? Huh?"
Before Shen Erbao could answer this question, Shen Zixi began to complain, "Mom, you don't know, my brother is so lazy. My aunt and I went out for a walk to buy groceries and wanted to take him with us, but he refused to walk at all and insisted on being held in my arms..."
"Ahhh, sister is bad, grandma said that Erbao is blessed!" Shen Erbao said that with great pride, not noticing his mother's not-so-good-looking expression at all, and patted his chest hard to cheer himself up!
After hearing this, Liu Manxue took the little one down from her husband's arms and said seriously, "Starting from tomorrow morning, when your aunt and sister go to buy vegetables, you will follow them. Carry your own small schoolbag and help your aunt and sister carry the vegetables, otherwise you will only be allowed to eat half a bowl of rice at noon and in the evening." It's okay to eat more to grow, but you also need to get proper exercise!
Although the little guy wanted to resist, he also knew how to read the expressions. The ones who made the decisions at home were first his mother and then his sister. He sighed and realized that life was not easy. In order to have enough food, he had to move tomorrow.
Shen Anning's dowry was arranged by Grandma Shen alone. Together with her aunt, Aunt Shen's mother, her aunt's mother, her cousin's sister-in-law and cousin, a group of people helped to prepare her dowry, so she had nothing to worry about. Every day when she had nothing to do, she would make some clothes for herself and Cao Jingheng.
She had a book about ancient costumes in her hand, and thought about having Xixi and her cousin's eldest son be her flower girls on her wedding day. During the last month of summer vacation, Shen An Ning almost slept with her sewing machine in her arms every night, revising it again and again, combining and deleting many different elements. Fortunately, she had enough fabric to make it.
Finally, on September 20th, Shen Anning made her favorite finished product. She prepared a red double-breasted long-sleeved short jacket with a black horse-faced skirt and a pair of red short boots for Shen Zixi. Qin Jia Luyao's clothes were a black Zhongshan suit with a little red element, paired with black leather shoes.
When she gave the clothes to Shen Zixi to try on, the little girl simply couldn't let go of them. She was more careful than ever when changing clothes, for fear of scratching the clothes. Liu Manxue looked at the clothes and braided a diagonal braid for her daughter, using a golden pearl hair chain.
Looking at herself in the mirror, Shen Zixi simply couldn't believe it. Although her family often bought her all kinds of clothes and skirts, compared with what she was wearing now, they were nothing.
"Auntie, I like this kind of dress. It's so beautiful. The buttons are so special. And they're slanted. It's so beautiful. I really like it. Can I wear this dress to school?"
Ana Shen touched the little girl’s black braids and said, “Of course you can, but it’s too hot to wear it to school now, and you’re going to be a flower girl for your aunt. After your aunt’s wedding, you can wear it every day.
But Auntie can make you some summer clothes that you can wear now, using thinner fabrics and short sleeves."
"Wow, really? Thanks, Auntie. I love you."
Shen Zixi happily stood in front of the mirror admiring her new clothes, while Shen Erbao stood beside her, pouting and looking a little unhappy.
"Why isn't mine there? Auntie, don't you like Erbao anymore?"
Shen Anning looked at Xiao Xiaopang's accusing eyes and was a little speechless, "Of course there is Erbao's, but the aunt is not ready yet, so she did the sister's first. How about yours in a few days?"
"Well, you have to keep your word. Pinky promise!"
After cooperating with the little guy to do the hook-and-hang gesture, Shen Erbao was satisfied and began to act as a praise monster, saying nice things to Shen Zixi as if they were free.
The summer vacation is over, and those who should go to school go to school, and those who should go to work go to work. Shen Anning, who is already a graduate student, has very few large classes. She spends more time following her master to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department of various hospitals, or following her senior brothers and sisters to do project experiments.
Other people get more nervous as the wedding date approaches, but for some reason, it seems like the opposite is true for her. The closer the wedding date gets, the more she looks forward to it.
The big items in the dowry were moved to the Cao family a few days ago. On the day when the dowry was displayed, residents from several nearby alleys looked at the brand new furniture, quilts, etc. There were six red boxes for the girl's valuables. Many little girls were so envious that they begged their parents for permission to add a few percent to her dowry before they were happy.
The Shen and Qin families were both well-off families. The dowries given by my aunts, uncles, sisters-in-law, and older sisters were more than one another, with gems and gold filling up several jewelry boxes. . . .
The Shen family was no longer willing to let their eldest daughter get married, and the wedding date they had arranged was getting closer and closer with the arrival of autumn.
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