◎Second update◎
Today, Liang Baozhen came home late because she went out to buy some pancakes. The family was still cooking and Zhou Yun was peeling sweet potatoes. When he saw his grandson's wife coming back, he asked her to go into the house and have a rest.
"Grandma, please try this." Liang Baozhen used a kitchen knife to cut the pancake into small pieces and put them on a plate, which was just right for eating.
Zhou Yun knew that more and more people were selling things outside, so he reached out and took a bite. "It's delicious. We're going to eat soon, so don't eat it yet."
"I'll leave it for them." Liang Baozhen went back to the house and saw that no one was inside. She shouted outside, "Grandma, where are they?"
"I went to Caili's house."
At this time, Xu Shengjie was holding his daughter Shanshan and talking to Lu Yuan who was holding his daughter Chuchu.
The two fathers were looking at their children in their arms, smiling at each other, while Lu Yuan was asking about Xu Shengjie's business.
Everyone in the hospital knew that the couple was busy with their business outside. Some people thought it was not good, while others were curious.
"What? You also want to quit your job and go into business?" Xu Shengjie teased Lu Yuan.
Many people refer to entering the business world as going into business.
Lu Yuan shook his head, "Forget it, I'm not interested, it's better to have a stable job."
Xu Shengjie was not forcing himself. Everyone had their own opinion. He and Qin Huaihong Saner had rented a store some time ago and started selling clothes in a decent manner.
But he doesn't plan to just do this. There are so many new and interesting things in the outside world, and everything can be sold for money. He needs to broaden his horizons.
"Xiao Xu, your daughter Shanshan is well taken care of. I see her little face is rosy and her fair skin is rosy." Cheng Caili came over to look at her young lady and teased Shanshan.
The two girls were about a year apart in age, both were cute and well-behaved, white and plump. Their families were considered to have raised their children carefully, and you could tell from their looks that they had put a lot of thought into them.
Unlike Luo Hongmei's house.
Although Luo Hongmei's son Yao Haoyu is married, he is still a lazy person and is not seen all day long. He doesn't care about his granddaughter. Luo Hongmei looks down on her granddaughter and is reluctant to give her good food. Fortunately, her mother Wang Xiaocui can discipline her and at least get some allowance for her granddaughter.
"Luo Hongmei's granddaughter is pale and thin. I feel sorry for her when I see her." Cheng Caili is a mother, so she can't help but feel some sympathy. What's more, the girl is a little younger than her own daughter, so the comparison is even more painful.
Liang Baozhen heard this when she reached the door of Cheng Caili's house. She walked over, greeted the couple, and skillfully took the child from Xu Shengjie. "Yes, I saw it when I went out that day. Her granddaughter is a few months older than our Shanshan, but she looks younger."
"Don't you see what Luo Hongmei gives people to eat? She is not even willing to give them a bowl of rice porridge."
As they were talking, Wang Xiaocui just came out holding her daughter in her arms. Liang Baozhen took another look and saw that the child was indeed skinny and small, and it was obvious that she had not been well raised.
After talking for a while, the family of three returned home for dinner. Xu Shengya will be attending high school next year. She has been on high alert recently and wishes she could read while eating.
Xu Shengjie glanced at his sister who was still staring at the book while eating, and reminded her, "Xiaoya, eat well first, and then read after dinner."
"Oh, I see."
Liang Baozhen knew that her sister-in-law was a little nervous, so she just comforted her, "Xiaoya, just study hard. As long as you perform well in the college entrance examination, there will be no problem."
"I know, sister-in-law."
Xu Shengwei was selected for the training team and has not come back for dinner recently. He even took a few days off from school. His family saw that he really had no talent for studying, so they just let him be. If he practiced hard, he might have another chance.
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Before the weather turned cold, Xu Shengjie took Hong Saner to the south again and picked up a batch of winter clothes. Winter clothes are thick and made of good materials, so the price is naturally expensive. He could earn fifty or sixty yuan from a military coat, and forty or fifty yuan from a woolen coat.
Seeing their business growing, Liang Baozhen would occasionally look through the bankbook at home. Seeing that the numbers on it had exceeded four digits, she felt that making money was indeed much easier now.
Both of them registered their stores, becoming two of the more than 400 individual business operators approved by the Beijing Municipal Government.
Justifiably.
After winter came, Xu Shengjie picked out winter clothes for his own family and gave one to each of his wife's family members. Liang Baozhen put a beautiful red jacket on Shanshan, who was almost two years old.
The jacket is made in the style of a hoodie, a product from Hong Kong that Xu Shengjie bought. It is said that someone wore it like this on TV there. The button is tied with a bow, and there are two white balls hanging under the bow. The red color best matches Shanshan's skin tone. The little girl smiled sweetly, and she was even more beautiful than a flower.
Today, my eldest sister's family, my second brother, and Xu Shuping are coming to our house for dinner. Xu Shengjie went to the state-owned hotel and bought four meat dishes. The family stewed chicken soup and fried four vegetarian dishes, and the portions were more than enough.
As soon as Xu Shuping and Liang Baojun entered the house, they were teased by everyone. The two of them sneaked together and met everyone at the Liang family's side, except that Liang Baojun had not yet visited the Xu family.
Xu Shengjie took a sip of wine and teased Liang Baojun, "You haven't been promoted yet?"
He already has a wife and children, but his second brother is still having an underground love affair.
This underground party-like love is not pleasant.
"I'll go during the Chinese New Year this year and try to get a permanent job before the New Year." Liang Baojun also took advantage of the opportunity of reform and opening up to make some money. He specialized in reselling cloth and could make eight or nine yuan for a piece of cloth. Later, his business gradually developed and he also rented a store.
"Then you'd better hurry up. Look, your sisters all have children, but you're not married yet." Zhou Yun has grown old, and he likes to see a big family having fun.
Liang Baojun obeyed and turned to look at Xu Shuping, "Did you hear that? Grandma told us to hold on tight."
Xu Shuping blushed and pinched Liang Baojun under the table, "I haven't graduated yet."
Xu Shuping gave him a vaccination in advance. Even if her parents agreed, she would wait until she graduated before getting married.
What can Liang Baojun do? He can only wait and see. Who allows himself to remain an underground person now?
"Then I'm really at a loss, my classmate has become my sister-in-law." Liang Baozhen said to her second brother, "Second brother, you have to compensate me, buy me some candy."
Everyone started laughing when they heard this, Liang Baoying also joined in the fun, "Baojun bought it for the third sister, so he can't not buy it for your eldest sister, right?"
Liang Baojun was scolded by his sisters and just begged for mercy, "Buy, buy all!"
Liang Baozhen was talking to everyone, and from time to time she would look at her daughter eating. Shanshan now eats her rice with a spoon by herself. Although her technique is not very proficient, she is eager to learn, and it seems that the food she scoops into her mouth by herself is the most delicious.
Xu Shengjie was drinking, and after a sip of the liquor he felt warm. He looked down and saw that his daughter was eating with great relish, chewing the food with her little mouth.
"Is it delicious?" He touched the girl's head.
"Hmm! Delicious!" Shanshan nodded like a little chicken pecking at rice.
Even before the Chinese New Year, the house was already bustling with the atmosphere of the New Year. Liang Baozhen stroked Shanshan's little head and looked at everyone. Everything was fine now, except that the house was a little too crowded.
Her only wish now is to buy a house.
There was a considerable amount of money in the family's bankbook, but these days, there were almost no houses for sale, so the family could only squeeze into a small house in a large courtyard.
Unfortunately, I haven’t heard who wants to sell the house, so I have to wait.
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This year's Chinese New Year is more lively than ever before. The streets are full of stalls selling lanterns, lanterns, firecrackers, Spring Festival couplets, and even opera performances.
Three days before the New Year, on the twenty-seventh day of the lunar year, the Xu family cleaned the house together. Grandma was there, directing everyone to get busy.
Xu Shengjie and Xu Shengwei were sweeping the floor, Liang Baozhen took Xiaoya to wipe the furniture, and Shanshan sat on her grandmother's lap and watched the whole family busy.
"Sweep the floor!" She swung her legs and stared at her uncle's movements. "Uncle, sweep... sweep it clean!"
Xu Shengwei took off his cotton padded jacket and worked hard, sweating in the middle of winter. When he saw his niece supervising him, he hurried over and said, "Shanshan, go supervise your aunt."
"No way!" Xu Shengya was cleaning the cupboard and turned around when she heard this. "Shanshan, just watch your uncle and don't let him slack off."
"Lazy!" Shanshan's legs were shaking and her little body was swaying back and forth, which was quite obvious.
"You are not allowed to be lazy." Liang Baozhen corrected her when she saw that the girl had not grasped the point.
"Xu can be lazy!" Shanshan listened to the advice and added another word, which made Zhou Yun laugh.
Xu Shengjie cleaned several bedrooms and came out to hear his daughter's babyish voice. He couldn't help laughing, "Silly baby."
Shanshan understood, and pouted her lips as she looked at her father, "Shanshan is not stupid."
"Yes, Shanshan is not stupid." Liang Baozhen looked at the lady's lips, which were full of greasy talk, and coaxed her.
"Yeah!" Hearing her mother's words, Shanshan was happy again, and she retracted her little mouth so that she could no longer hang the oil pot.
After the family finished their work, they looked at the frozen pork and planned the New Year's Eve dinner. Two days ago, the family bought five pounds of pork, plus the bacon smoked two months ago, so this year's meat is really rich.
"Be careful when you go out, and buy some wide-brimmed hairtail." Zhou Yun was busy preparing the dishes. The New Year's Eve dinner had to be the most sumptuous of the year.
By the time the meat and vegetables were all prepared, it was already New Year's Eve.
Fried hairtail, four-happiness meatballs, braised pork, stir-fried pork with scallions, shabu-shabu mutton, cabbage and pork dumplings...
Shanshan can eat more this year. She ran under the table and looked up before dinner started. Today she was wearing a goose yellow cotton jacket and a tiger-head hat. She looked like a furry milk dumpling, or a runny egg yolk bun.
She had just reached the table leg and couldn't see anything. When she saw her uncle come into the room, she hurried to ask for help.
"Uncle, look at the meat."
Xu Shengwei used to not understand what those one- or two-year-old children said, because their voices were too soft and unclear, but he could understand what Shanshan said. He immediately stood up with his niece in his arms, "Look, there are so many delicious foods!"
“Wow, delicious!”
In Shanshan’s eyes, the New Year’s Eve dinner is red, yellow, white, and green, colorful and looks delicious.
She was anxious and wanted to lean her little body against the table. As she leaned, she stretched out her hand.
Seeing that she couldn't reach it, Xu Shengwei picked up the chopsticks and picked up a little bit of the fat of the braised pork and fed it into her mouth. When Shanshan saw the chopsticks coming, she immediately opened her mouth to welcome the meat.
"Mmmmm~" The meal tasted so delicious that there was even a little bit of sauce-colored soup left at the corners of his mouth.
When Liang Baozhen entered the house, she saw a little cat trying to crawl onto the dining table. "Why is there a little cat stealing food?"
When Shanshan saw her mother coming in, she struggled to get into her mother's arms, with her two little hands open and leaning towards Liang Baozhen.
Liang Baozhen took Shanshan, looked at the evidence of cheating at the corner of her mouth, and smelled a little bit of the aroma of red roasted pork, and asked directly, "Did you cheat?"
Shanshan nodded happily, "Yes!"
Liang Baozhen: "..."
Quite justified.
The author has something to say:
Shanshan: I cheat, I am proud!
Thanks to the cuties who irrigated the nutrient solution: 1 bottle of Qianmo Hongchen; 1 bottle of Zhai A Zhai; 4 bottles of Yuzi;
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