Chapter 139 It’s New Year
The main reason is that she is afraid that Hua Xiali will change her partner after the New Year, so she comes here to show her presence and keep in touch with them. In fact, as long as they don't make mistakes and don't cause her huge losses, she won't change her partner.
In fact, every household is very busy when the Ramadan begins. For example, they have to dry glutinous rice, make rice candy, prepare rice cakes, rice noodles, and rice dumplings. However, doing these things is too time-consuming and laborious, so Hua Xiali prepares everything.
Rice candy, rice cakes, rice noodles, rice dumplings, tofu, she found two families to help with the processing of each item. She paid them and asked them to deliver as much as they made every day to her new home. Then she could put it directly into her own space and eat it slowly.
Because these things are still the most delicious when they are handmade in this era. In the future, everything will be processed by machines and the taste will no longer be the same as it is now.
Moreover, what she did was a win-win situation for both sides. She got something she wanted to eat but couldn't in her previous life, and others also earned money from their labor.
If someone asked her about it, she would just say that she sold it outside. Who could then ask her for confirmation?
But since they are handmade, the output is not high, so she can only stockpile slowly. If she can't stockpile much this year, she can continue to stockpile next year. As long as she is willing to pay, others will naturally be willing to help her. After all, there is nothing to do in June, and many people are willing to take this opportunity to make money.
But she was worried about doing it for the families with whom she didn’t have a good relationship, fearing that they would tamper with the food or not pay attention to hygiene, so she would ask the families with whom she had a good relationship to do it.
Moreover, someone in their family works under Hua Xiali. In order to keep their job, they will pay special attention to it as if it were their own family.
The end of the year is the time when consumption is the strongest, because many people who work away from home have returned, and everyone has some money in their hands, so they are willing to buy things.
Hua Xiali's warehouse was busy until noon on New Year's Eve when it closed for everyone to have a holiday. Although it was a holiday, everyone still had to take turns to be on duty. Hua Xiali did not force anyone to be assigned, and everyone coordinated their time based on the actual situation.
The same goes for the vegetable fields at my fourth uncle's house and the flower farm. Everyone coordinates on their own and she doesn't get involved. She is just responsible for paying wages.
Because there was always someone monitoring them at Wang Liang's side, Hua Xiali would always know what happened to Wang Liang at the first time. Ever since they met on the minibus that day and Hua Xiali sent him to the Public Security Bureau, Wang Liang never succeeded in getting close to Hua Xiali again, because Hua Xiali had received the news long ago and had people block him at the brigade headquarters.
Everyone had a big broom and a shovel in their hands. If Wang Liang dared to appear on the road to the flower shop, they would beat him to a pulp. In any case, they would never let him get past the team headquarters and reach the flower shop.
They had no relatives in Huazhuang, and if they wanted to find the village cadres, they could just go directly to the brigade headquarters. There was no need for him to go any further.
Wang Liang's wife was at home, but he still wanted to get close to Hua Xiali. Wasn't he trying to make everyone think that Hua Xiali was their mistress? How could Hua Xiali let Wang Liang do what he wanted?
As long as he dared to come, she would beat him. There was no need to be polite to such a shameless person, but he didn't do anything and there was no way to catch him.
Hua Xiali's family used to raise two pigs. When the pig collectors came to the village to collect pigs in June, they did not sell the pigs because the vegetables their pigs ate were grown with spiritual spring water, and the water the pigs drank also contained some spiritual spring water. So they found a butcher to kill the pigs, leaving the meat for their own New Year's meal. Hua Xiali took the remaining meat out to sell, but in fact she sold it to herself because she put the pigs into the space.
I sold the chickens and ducks at home to myself in the same way on Xia’s Eve. It’s better not to sell such good things to others. It’s so comfortable to keep them for myself.
On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, when Hua Xiali and her family were preparing the New Year's Eve dinner in the kitchen, their third and fourth uncles came over and asked them if they wanted to go with them to pay homage to their grandparents.
Hua's mother asked Zhang Yongfeng to go with them, but did not let Hua Xiali and her two sisters go. The two old sisters were extremely partial to them and had never held them in their arms. Why would they go to see them?
My third uncle and fourth uncle both have sons, so they don’t feel that grandpa and grandma are partial to them. After all, their hearts are biased towards the families with sons, so they naturally can’t feel the same way as families without sons.
Hua Xiali didn't want to go either. She originally thought that her mother would be unhappy if she didn't go, but she didn't expect that her mother would directly ask them not to go. It seems that her mother is not the kind of person who cares so much about what others say.
To be honest, she no longer had any impression of her grandparents, even though there was only one house between the two families. From childhood to adulthood, her grandparents had never appeared, and they were the ones who went to visit her grandparents.
When they were young, they had to farm. When Hua Tiefeng was not at home, their mother would take them and their sisters to work. No matter how late they worked or how tired they were, they never came to help, not even to help cook a meal. Such a thing would never happen. But their family did not have much money, so they could not ask others to come and help.
Because she had rarely seen it, Hua Xiali had no awareness of being favored over girls. It was only after she grew up that she realized that she had been favored over girls since she was a child.
But despite this, they often visited grandpa and grandma when they were sick. Now think about it, they disliked them so much, so they must have been unhappy when they went to visit them, right?
Just like Hua Tiefeng, they took care of him so wholeheartedly, but he either turned his face away or scolded them. If he liked them, he wouldn't treat them like that.
Ever since grandpa and grandma passed away, Hua Xiali's family, third uncle's family and fourth uncle's family no longer gathered together for the New Year's Eve dinner. Instead, they just separated and had their own New Year's Eve dinner behind closed doors.
Now that Hua Xiali has a man like Zhang Yongfeng in her family, she no longer has to squeeze into other people's homes to eat New Year's Eve dinner.
The whole family works together to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner, and even prepares the dishes for the next few days and puts them in the cupboard. This way, when relatives come, they don't have to cook slowly, they can just heat it up and eat, and they have more time to drink tea and chat.
And every household here does this, it can be said to be a custom!
In the evening, the family of five sat together to eat the New Year's Eve dinner. Looking at the sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner on the table, Hua Xiali felt a little dazed. In the past few decades in this and past lives, she had not seen such a sumptuous meal in person.
Because in her previous life, after her two sons got married, they stayed in their houses in the city to celebrate the New Year, and no one asked her to go over to celebrate the New Year with them, so she didn't go uninvited and upset anyone. She either celebrated the New Year alone or stuck to her job.