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Liang Baozhen, who was exhausted from the whole day, fell asleep in the middle of the night and suddenly had a dream.
The dream was about this year's Chinese New Year. The whole family had a New Year's Eve dinner and went shopping in a department store. Everyone had new clothes. I also went back to my parents' home and ate the food cooked by my mother. No matter how much food I have eaten, the best is still the food cooked by my mother, which has her unique flavor.
She also brought the letter written by Xiaoya to Baoling, who was very happy to receive it and also gave her a letter to take back.
For Liang Baoling, who saved a stamp, it was great that her sister came back.
Xu Shengjie was sleeping soundly, but the habit he acquired from years of military service made him feel immediately that the person in his arms had moved.
"What's wrong?" It was still dark outside, probably the middle of the night.
Liang Baozhen looked at Xu Shengjie. She was no longer tired, but her eyes were bright. "What's the date today?"
Xu Shengjie was puzzled. Why would his wife ask this question in the middle of the night?
"It's the sixth day of the new year."
"It's the Year of the Monkey, right?" Liang Baozhen didn't wait for his answer. She finally remembered something. The Year of the Monkey stamps went on sale on New Year's Eve this year. This set of stamps marked the beginning of China's zodiac stamps. Many years later, a single stamp was sold at a sky-high price.
"Let's go to the post office first today!" Liang Baozhen was a little excited. She would be a fool if she didn't buy a set of stamps!
Early in the morning, the two went out in the wind and snow. Xu Shengjie was wearing a military coat. The large coat did not make him look shorter, but instead made him look tall and handsome. Liang Baozhen was wearing a red cotton jacket, but the style was much better than ordinary cotton jackets. It was the same style as Shanshan's hooded cotton jacket. It had some personalized design and was not as bulky as ordinary cotton jackets.
However, the movie date that Xu Shengjie was looking forward to temporarily turned into a day trip to the post office.
"You're going to buy stamps during New Year's Day?" Xu Shengjie couldn't understand his wife.
It's freezing cold, who would get up early to buy stamps?
At this moment, light snow was falling from the sky. The snowflakes floated onto the branches, flew over the roofs, and fell to the ground, piling up into snowdrifts several inches high, turning the entire capital city into a world covered in silver.
The soft snow left deep or shallow footprints. Liang Baozhen was so excited that she stepped on it one step at a time with quick steps.
"I'm buying a souvenir." She worried that she was too anxious, so she calmed down. "A lot of things happened at home last year, but now things are better. I hope our year of the monkey will be better. You know? This is the first time to get a zodiac stamp."
Nowadays, there are not many people who like to collect stamps. It is a hobby of a small group of people. In a few years, there will be a stamp collecting boom. By then, the prices of many stamps from the 1980s will soar. Among them, the most talked-about one is the Monkey stamp issued this year.
The book once mentioned that someone bought a monkey year stamp in 1980 and sent a letter, but never sent it. This 8-cent stamp, which was not well preserved, was sold for two to three thousand yuan in the 1990s, not to mention the later...
Xu Shengjie saw that his wife was so serious for once, so he didn't have any objections, "Then buy it and put it away when you get it back."
When we arrived at the post office, the green-painted door had just opened and Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengjie were the first two customers.
The stamp clerk was setting up the counter. He didn't expect that someone would come so early in the first month of the year.
"Comrade, are we sending a letter or a telegram?"
"Neither, comrade. I want to buy stamps for the Year of the Monkey." Liang Baozhen took out the money. There was a total of 300 yuan in cash at home, and she took it all.
Year of the Monkey stamps? Stamp collector Xiao Li didn't expect someone to come buy stamps so early in the morning.
He opened the cabinet under the counter and took out a stamp. It had a bright red background and a vivid monkey printed on it. The Year of the Monkey stamp was the first zodiac stamp. There was indeed a market for it. In the past few days, people have come to buy it, but not many. The monkey stamp was printed in great detail, especially the monkey's face and hands and feet, which were all covered with gold powder. The faint golden light made it look lifelike.
"Are you in a hurry to send a letter?" The stamp collector raised his hand and prepared to tear the stamps. There were eighty stamps in a sheet, each worth eight cents. People who came to send letters usually bought one or two stamps, and some bought seven or eight.
"Eight cents a piece, how many do you want?"
Liang Baozhen watched him move and quickly stopped him, "Comrade, stop tearing it, I want it all!"
The stamp collector held up a whole sheet of 80 monkey stamps and asked, "Do you want all of this?"
You know, one monkey stamp is worth eight cents, and eighty stamps are worth six yuan and forty cents. Now a worker's salary is only about thirty yuan, who can afford to spend so much money on stamps? It might cost seven pounds of meat.
So he asked again and again.
"Yes, I want them all. Also, is this the only edition your post office has? If you have more, I'll take them too."
The stamp collector looked at the young lesbian in surprise. He didn't expect that she loved collecting stamps so much.
It was originally said that 8 million Monkey Stamps would be issued this year, but due to technical problems such as printing, only more than 4 million were issued in total. The post office where Xiao Li works has sold some of them over the past few days, and now there are two complete editions left, totaling 160 stamps.
"Comrade, this is twelve dollars and eighty cents. Did you really buy all of them?"
Liang Baozhen nodded and started to pay.
Xiao Li had never seen anyone so generous before. He couldn't help but look at the female comrade. She was wrapped in a thick cotton jacket, a style he had never seen before. It was better-looking than any cotton jacket he had seen in his life. Behind the female comrade stood a tall and big gay man.
He couldn't help but remind her, "Comrade, your wife spends so much money, don't you do anything about it?"
Xu Shengjie smiled and said, "I'll leave everything to her. Please help us pack it better."
He naturally didn't understand why Baozhen suddenly developed this hobby, but what did it matter? Money was earned to be spent, as long as his wife was happy!
After buying the stamps, Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengjie went back home first and carefully put the two versions of the Year of the Monkey stamps into a drawer. The stamp collector wrapped them in a layer of film for her, but she did not open it at all and just kept them intact.
"I'll give it to Shanshan later." Liang Baozhen thought it through. It would be nice to have it as a family heirloom. Shanshan could use the stamp to buy anything she wanted and sell it for money.
"This is the first time I've heard of stamps being used as heirlooms." Xu Shengjie couldn't help but marvel at what he saw from the sidelines, but seeing that his wife was speaking very seriously, he could only nod his head. "Hurry up and go watch a movie, Comrade Liang Baozhen. If you're late, you'll miss it."
"Ah." Liang Baozhen almost forgot about this matter and hurriedly dragged Xu Shengjie out of the door, "Hurry, hurry, hurry."
After the Chinese New Year, the time passed quickly, and the clothing store run by Xu Shengjie and his two companions was still doing good business. They switched from winter clothes to spring clothes, and from spring clothes to summer clothes.
Liang Baozhen went to school during the day and went home at night to check her passbook. She saw the numbers on it going up. After looking at it, she put the passbook in the middle drawer of her closet and locked it.
Xu Shengya was about to take the college entrance examination, and she became the focus of attention at home.
Every morning she has an egg cooked by her grandmother. Her grandmother feels sorry for her granddaughter because she uses her brain too much and she needs some supplement.
"Look how good life is now. How could we eat eggs every day before?"
Four years ago, the Xu family could eat eggs two or three times a month. Now, Zhou Yun can buy eggs at the market. Nowadays, many rural people go to the city to sell things. They don’t need tickets, as long as they have money, they can buy eggs. It’s very convenient.
"Xiaoya, eat as much as you want. We have plenty of eggs at home."
Xu Shengya nodded. She sat at the table eating boiled eggs, while Shanshan was drinking rice porridge next to her.
My eldest brother and sister-in-law went out early in the morning, one to do business and the other to go to school. My second brother also went to attend training, so there were only three of us left at home.
Shanshan, who is about to turn two, drinks rice porridge with a spoon. There is a peeled egg on the plate in front of her, with worms hooked in the smooth and delicate egg white.
"Shanshan, let me break it open for you?" Xu Shengya was about to feed the egg to Shanshan first.
Shanshan looked at her own plump eggs, then at the egg in front of her aunt, "I want this one."
"You want to eat this of mine?" Xu Shengya pointed at the egg in front of her.
"Yeah!" Shanshan nodded vigorously.
Xu Shengya didn't think too much about it and immediately switched the eggs for both of them. "Then I'll break them for you and we'll eat the egg whites first."
"Xiaoya, let me feed Shanshan." Zhou Yun had already finished breakfast. He took the egg and told Xu Shengya to eat it before going to school so as not to waste time.
"good."
Xu Shengya picked up the egg in front of her and started to eat it. Just as she was about to open her mouth to take a bite, she heard Shanshan speak again.
"I want this one."
Shanshan pointed with her little hand and took a look at the egg in her aunt's hand.
Zhou Yun and Xu Shengya smiled at each other.
"Is Shanshan teasing your aunt?"
"Aunt's eggs are delicious!" Shanshan shook her head. No matter how she looked at them, her aunt's eggs tasted better!
Xu Shengya was amused by Shanshan and laughed, and even her nervousness about the college entrance examination dissipated a lot.
In May, Shanshan celebrated her second birthday. On that day, her mother dressed her in a beautiful blouse early in the morning.
Bragi was brought back by her father. She was wearing a white doll collar and a pair of red plastic sandals. Shanshan sat on the stool and waited obediently for her mother to tie her hair into a bun.
"Can your lady's hair withstand your torture?" Xu Shengjie couldn't understand why such a small amount of hair had to be tied into small buns. In his opinion, it would be better to just leave it that way.
Liang Baozhen rolled her eyes at the man, "What do you know? Our Shanshan has great hair. Look at the color, it's shiny black, and it feels soft. When it grows longer, I can braid it for her."
Shanshan likes to tie her hair into small buns. She looks so beautiful with them.
"Dad, I need a mirror."
She couldn't move and could only ask her father to do something.
Xu Shengjie went back to the room and took out a small round mirror that Liang Baozhen usually used. Shanshan couldn't wait to take it.
Her mother had just tied her hair into a small bun. Her hair was not long enough yet, so she could only tie it lightly. The little girl in the mirror looked cute and well-behaved, with a round face, white and tender eyes, and a pair of big and bright eyes. Her smile seemed to be able to melt everything.
"Come here, Shanshan. Dad will take you out to play."
Liang Baozhen looked at the father and daughter and said, "It's time to eat. Where are you going?"
Xu Shengjie turned around and looked at his wife, and said seriously, "My dear daughter, you are dressed so beautifully today, why don't you go out and show off?"
At this time, the entrance of the alley had the most people, so Xu Shengjie carried Shanshan there.
"Mom, are you coming?" Shanshan turned her body and looked back.
"You guys go, mom is cooking."
Xu Shengwei hurried home after training today to attend his niece's birthday party. As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the alley, he saw a group of uncles and aunts surrounding Shanshan.
"Xiao Xu, your daughter is so pretty."
"How did he raise such a handsome boy?"
"Shanshan, this looks just like a New Year picture doll!"
Shanshan was held by her father. She smiled even more brightly as she heard people around her praising her. She put her little hand on her father's chest and said proudly, "Because my father and mother are handsome, I am handsome too."
"Oh, you are such an interesting kid."
Xu Shengwei went home with his eldest brother and niece. Many people came to the house today and everyone gave Shanshan a gift.
Liang Baoying's family bought Shanshan a beautiful hairband, Liang Baojun and Xu Mengping gave her a hairpin, her grandmother made new clothes for Shanshan, Xu Shengwei and Xu Shengya bought Shanshan a pair of sandals, one claimed the left shoe and the other claimed the right shoe. Song Chunhua and Liang Zhigao also rarely went back to the city and made a pair of pants for their granddaughter.
Shanshan smiled sweetly and thanked everyone one by one.
Shanshan was very busy on her two-year-old birthday. She called a lot of people, collected a lot of things, and thanked people many times. In the end, she was so tired that she fell asleep without even taking a shower.
After Shanshan's birthday, the calendars on the wall were torn off faster. Xu Shengya tore the calendars every day, and it was the day before the college entrance examination.
She prepared for a long time, studying hard every day, hoping to be admitted to her favorite school in the college entrance examination.
After familiarizing herself with the examination room in advance, Xu Shengya comforted herself and told herself not to be nervous. Her sister-in-law checked the pens and admission ticket she needed to bring, which put her mind at ease.
"Xiaoya, just perform normally and don't feel stressed."
"Yeah." Xu Shengya agreed, but she still couldn't suppress her nervousness.
Xu Shengjie also came back from the store early that day and bought his sister a portion of her favorite fried tomato and eggs from the state-owned restaurant.
"Xiao Yaduo, ask your sister-in-law. She has experience."
Xu Shengjie is okay as for the rest, but he has never taken the college entrance examination. Baozhen is the only one in this room who has experience, and it was a successful experience.
"Sister-in-law, can I sleep with you tonight?" Xu Shengya suddenly asked Liang Baozhen while eating.
Liang Baozhen didn't expect her sister-in-law to make this request. "Okay, we'll sleep together tonight."
Xu Shengya nodded and looked at his elder brother again, "Brother, do you have any objection?"
Xu Shengjie was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Okay, you guys go to sleep."
His sister is about to take the college entrance examination, so he has to be generous for once.
But he was generous, but his girlfriend was not. "I want to sleep with him too."
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