Meet at 98
"Okay, then we'll give out red envelopes next."
Hu Yufeng took out another small package and said, "The money cannot be used easily. This is what I saved up every day. Everyone has been busy for a year, so let's share some good luck..."
"Here, this is your 20, this is Xiu'er's 20, and this is Yu Yu's..." Hu Yufeng pushed a portion of the change she had prepared in front of each person.
The old lady refused to answer: "There are many places to spend money at home, and I don't have any place to spend money. You saved this money with great difficulty, so keep it for your family."
Yang Xiu also said no: "I haven't spent the 200 yuan that the Wang family compensated me last time, so I don't want my mother anymore."
"Grandma, I don't want the New Year's money. Keep it for buying a TV..." Qin Yu didn't want it either.
Qin Shengtian just touched the money and he didn't know how to take it, but he was reluctant to leave it. What is he doing? Why is he so noble that he doesn't care about money? It makes him look like he is greedy for money.
Just when he was struggling, Hu Yufeng spoke:
"Take them all. I told you this is for the good luck. What are you doing? If you really want to do your best for your family, work hard next year."
"That's right, take them all." Qin Shengtian said as he grabbed the money and stuffed it into his pocket, then grabbed the old lady's share and stuffed it into her hand.
"Just take it if your mom gives it to you. It's not just a few dozen dollars..." Qin Wenli also advised.
Yang Xiu had no choice but to put it away.
When Qin Yu saw that the adults had received the money and heard her grandmother say that they would buy a TV in the first month of the year, she quickly picked up her share.
Seeing that her parents were looking at her, she rolled her eyes and said:
"Dad, please keep it for me. I want to buy a notebook." I can't give it to my mom. It will be difficult to ask for it back if she keeps it.
Qin Shu, however, was his mother's good boy, smiling with his little milk teeth showing: "I give mine to mom."
He loved Yang Xiu so much that he hugged her and kissed her several times.
Qin Yu went over and hugged her mother. Yang Xiu muttered, "After the Chinese New Year, she will be seven years old. What will she look like as a grown-up girl?"
But he bent down and kissed her forehead softly.
*
"Okay, it's almost time, let's eat bones and set off fireworks..."
The family talked for a while, and it was already half past nine in the evening. Sporadic sounds of fireworks could be heard outside.
Hu Yufeng asked Yang Xiu to bring the spare ribs, and Qin Wenli to find fireworks.
"Okay, I'll let it go..." Qin Shu cheered and ran out in a hurry.
Inside the room, hot spare ribs were steaming on the kang table. In the yard, the whole family gathered at the door, watching Qin Wenli holding Qin Shu and lighting the fireworks.
“Swish… Snap… Swish… Snap…”
Red fireworks rose into the sky like sharp swords and bloomed in the dark night sky. The whole family stared at the gorgeous fireworks intently, and kept exclaiming: "It's so beautiful..."
Yes, it’s so beautiful. I hope the days in the coming year will be as brilliant as this, Hu Yufeng made a wish quietly.
*
"She has a few bucks and she's showing off everywhere. She's capable of..." Chen Xiulian looked at the fireworks in the sky going out and muttered in a low voice:
"Why do all the good things go to her house? Maybe she asked someone to clean it up..."
Thinking of this, I instantly felt refreshed. I just said that since everything in my family is going wrong, it must be that person named Hu who asked someone to take a look.
When she thought of this, she couldn't stand any longer. She went into the room and nudged Uncle Qin who was snoring again: "Wake up, don't sleep so hard, how about we find someone to check on him?"
Uncle Qin was awakened by her shaking and shaking. He said dissatisfiedly: "What are you looking at? What is there to see? It is obvious that Wenqing and his wife have human problems. What's the point of looking for Yin and Yang..."
Chen Xiulian was so angry that she hit him with a hammer: "It depends on the person. Wenqing was so well-behaved before. He must have been spoiled by someone and his temper has changed! I don't care. Anyway, you can find someone tomorrow..."
"You've been good by yourself before. Besides, if I ask the Yin Yang to come to my house on the first day of the first lunar month, people will think I'm crazy. If you want to go, go ahead..." Uncle Qin turned over impatiently: "I'm going to sleep, don't keep calling me, and don't keep thinking about it. You might as well take care of Wen Qing instead of wasting time!"
"Sleep, sleep, sleep. Everyone else is on guard but you are the only one sleeping. You've ruined our good life because of sleeping!" Chen Xiulian kicked again before lying down angrily.
Do you think she doesn't want to care? Didn't she see Liu Rong's face?
She turned over in anger, and the scene when she entered the door appeared in her mind again.
*
"What are you two doing on New Year's Day? Is there anything you can't talk about after New Year's Day? Isn't it unlucky?"
As soon as Chen Xiulian and the other two entered the door, they heard the howling of wolves and ghosts coming from Wenqing's room. Qin Ling had been hiding at the back ever since she heard something was wrong outside the door. The old couple looked at each other for a moment, and finally Chen Xiu Lian gave in and resigned herself to her fate and went forward.
As soon as the door curtain was lifted, three people were seen facing each other in a triangle in the room. Qin Wenqing sat on the edge of the kang, his face gloomy, the corners of his mouth red and swollen, and there were several scratch marks on his face. Liu Rong stood beside the table with disheveled hair, hands on hips and a menacing look. Wang Qiang huddled beside the closet, his face covered with tears, still sobbing.
Her forehead twitched violently. She was somewhat happy during the first few days when Liu Rong came in, but as his true nature gradually revealed, she became more and more regretful. How come she was so fooled by Liu Rong's big cakes and some gentleness that she helped persuade Wen Qing to let her marry him?
She said in a bad tone: "Why do you have to make such a fuss when you can't celebrate the New Year? Wenqing, do you still want to go out in the first month of the year when you look like that?"
Oh, this is a roundabout way of talking about her. Liu Rong immediately turned his attention to her mother-in-law:
"What's wrong? Do you think I tickled you? How can I tickle him if he sits upright? Why is he going out? Why is he going out if he is so shameless!"
Chen Xiulian was confronted by her and was a little confused for a moment.
To be honest, she had experienced three daughters-in-law, but this was the first time she met one who dared to confront her head-on. She frowned:
"A couple should know when to quarrel. Wenqing is a man, and he has to go out to pay New Year's greetings in the first month of the lunar year. Not to mention other families, you have to go back to your parents' home? You're going to look good when you get into such a fight?"
"Why shouldn't I look bad? The injury is on his face and he is embarrassed. Who knows? Others might say he deserves it after seeing it." Liu Rong said confidently.
Chen Xiulian was so angry that she fell backwards: "Okay, I'm old and can't do anything about it, so you guys can make trouble..."
She turned around and swung the door curtain to leave. Liu Rong curled his lips and said, "What a bunch of cowards. That's all you can do..."
She pulled Wang Qiang over and said, "That's enough, stop howling. If you don't want to eat, go to bed and sleep..."
*
The more she thought about it, the more she couldn't fall asleep. Chen Xiulian got up irritably and pulled Qin Ling up, saying, "Don't sleep anymore. Your grandfather is old and sleeps a lot. Why are you, a little kid, sleeping? Why are you keeping watch with me..."
Qin Ling got up silently and sat in the corner of the kang wrapped in a quilt.
At Qin Wen Zheng's house, Qin Wen Zheng reached out to pull Qin Zhu with a belt.
"Get out of the way. This child is getting more and more outrageous. It's all your fault."
Li Lanhua's lips trembled nervously, but she still protected her son tightly: "You can say whatever you want. Anyway, I may not let you beat the child during the New Year."
Qin Fang also pulled her father's arm: "Dad, please stop hitting Zhu, it's New Year's Day. He just feels sorry for Lingling, he knows he's wrong..."
Qin Wenzheng was further annoyed by the three women's constant chatter, and threw his belt and said:
"Zhu Zi, I've always told you that if you make a mistake you have to bear the consequences. If you're a man, don't hide behind your mother."
Upon hearing this, Qin Zhu clutched his mother's clothes tighter and secretly glanced at his father who had a sullen face. Then he took a deep breath, loosened his clothes, moved to his mother's side and said:
"Dad, I know I was wrong, I will never talk nonsense again..."
Qin Wenzheng's expression eased a little: "Then do you think today's punishment is unfair?"
Qin Zhu shook his head, a trace of fear flashed in his eyes, and said: "It's not unfair..."
"Okay..." Qin Wenzhen pulled Qin Zhu over, picked up the belt and whipped him on the butt. Li Lanhua wanted to stop him, but seeing how clearly her husband was holding on, she did not intervene.
After Qin Wenzheng finished drawing the lottery, he asked the three children to stand in front of him, and then he said earnestly:
"You are all grown up now. Your words and actions outside not only represent yourselves, but also the attitude of our family and the education your mother and I have given you. Just like what happened today, why do you think your third uncle insisted that it was your mother and I who taught you? That's the reason."
He said sadly, "I know you can't bear to see Lingling suffer. But you have to understand that your third uncle is her biological father, and there are also your grandparents behind her. Her biological father didn't say anything, so we have no right to stand up for her."
Seeing the three children thoughtful, he continued:
"You must remember, whoever your Third Uncle marries is your Third Aunt, and it has nothing to do with whether you like it or not. Our two families have already separated, so live our lives well, have less contact, and don't cause trouble. Do you understand?"
The three children nodded in unison: "I understand, Dad."
Qin Wenzheng then showed his first big smile of the New Year and said, "Okay, let's go play..."
The three children who had just completed their education lined up to get on the kang as if they had heard of an amnesty.
*
In Qin Wenli's family, the two children boast that they will stay up until midnight every year, but they start yawning before eleven o'clock every year.
Yang Xiu and Qin Wenli each took one of them to the west room, stripped them of their clothes, and stuffed them into the quilt.
In less than two minutes, they both fell into a deep sleep.
Yang Xiu placed a small broom next to each of them, and then went to the main room with Qin Wenli.
"Are you all asleep?" Hu Yufeng asked when she saw the two people coming in.
"Well, go to sleep. I put a broom next to you..."
"That's good...why don't you two play poker?" Hu Yufeng suddenly suggested.
Qin Wenli was a little surprised, but his reaction speed had improved over the past year, so he immediately replied:
"Okay, Mom, can it be just the three of us?"
"Isn't your father here too? It just so happens..."
Qin Shengtian, who was suddenly called out, was confused: "I, I don't know how to do it..."
"Don't you know how to learn? It's so simple. I don't expect you to do that. You just make up the numbers..." Hu Yufeng decided that he would participate without further ado.
Qin Shengtian hesitated and sat up straight: "Okay, but I want to be in the same team with Wenli..." He was very conscious that if he lost in the same team with her, he would be scolded to death, but Wenli would definitely not scold him.
"Okay!"
Shuffling cards, digging cards...Hu Yufeng and Yang Xiu were very excited.
"Wenli, you are not allowed to tell your father..."
"Wenli, you can't look at your father's cards..."
“Wen Li…”
The big clock on the wall rang, it was exactly twelve o'clock! Wen Li, who felt like he had lost all hope in life, looked at the victorious mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, who were in high spirits, and couldn't help but grin: Hello, 1998!
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