Chapter 184 Going to the City to Buy New Year's Goods
After dinner, Rong Mei drove Liu Rong and the mother-in-law to the county town.
It used to take nearly an hour to get there by bike, but with four wheels it’s much faster and we can get there in just ten minutes.
The streets are bustling with people coming and going. There are many stalls selling Spring Festival couplets, candies and snacks on the roadside. The vendors are shouting at the top of their lungs, and the streets and alleys are filled with a strong New Year atmosphere.
On normal days, you can park your car anywhere, but today there are too many people at the market, and it would be troublesome to squeeze the car in, so Rong Mei parked the car near the market, not far from Zhou Yueyi's home.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law got out of the car carrying the things they brought for Zhou Yueyi and went to their youngest daughter Zhou Yueyi's house first.
Zhou Yueyi works in the county food factory, and her husband Song Renqiang works in a machinery factory. They are a dual-income family that many people envy.
In the past, among the four brothers and sisters, Zhou Yueyi had the best life.
The couple has a daughter who is just one and a half years old this year and is currently being taken care of by Zhou Yueyi's mother-in-law. The reason why Liu Rong agreed to this marriage was that she felt that the Song family was not complicated. Although there were four sisters, there was only one son, Song Renqiang, and the other three were sisters.
The more sons you have, the more troubles you will have. Especially when the elders don't treat their children equally, life at home will be in chaos.
Now that the child is being taken care of by her mother-in-law, she has help and Zhou Yueyi can feel a lot more relaxed.
However, although both of them are working, they have not yet owned their own house. They are not yet eligible for separate housing, so they are still living in the alley with their parents-in-law.
Fortunately, the house was built by themselves and has two floors. The parents-in-law live on the first floor, and Zhou Yueyi and her husband live on the second floor. Although it is not spacious, it is at least a relatively private space.
When the two of them went there, only Zhou Yueyi's mother-in-law and daughter were at home. Zhou Yueyi and her husband had gone to work, and the factory had not yet had a holiday.
Seeing her mother-in-law coming, Zhou Yueyi's mother-in-law enthusiastically pulled the two of them in to sit down.
After entering the room, he smiled and said to his granddaughter who was sitting on the floor playing with toys, "Miaomiao, look who's here? It's grandma and my aunt."
Liu Rong put down her things, squatted on the ground, opened her hands and patted Miaomiao, looking at the little Naidin with a loving face, "Miaomiao~"
Attracted by the sound, the little kid put down the toy in his hand and raised his head. His pair of black gemstone-like eyes sparkled with smart light as he looked at Liu Rong.
When I shook it, although there were only a few hairs, two little heads were puckered up, and the red face was wrinkled into a ball, as if it was thinking and searching to remember who it was.
After a moment, his eyes flashed, he grinned, revealing his ungrown teeth, and chuckled loudly and crisply.
He pushed his hands against the ground, quickly got up, and stumbled towards Liu Rong with his short legs. Just as he was about to throw himself into Liu Rong's arms, the little kid unexpectedly turned a corner and hugged Rong Mei's thighs.
He tilted his little head back and rubbed against Rong Mei continuously, babbling "hug~hug" incoherently.
Rong Mei's heart was instantly melted by the little guy. She bent down, reached out her hands, picked up the little guy and hugged him tightly.
Liu Rong was not angry that she didn't get to hold her granddaughter. She withdrew her hand, stood up, touched the little girl's face and said with a smile, "Miao Miao also likes her aunt, just like your brother Dabao."
Miaomiao seemed not to understand what Liu Rong was saying. She just raised her chubby hands to touch Rongmei's face, and then curiously wanted to poke her aunt's eyes.
She babbled and pointed at the things in the pile of toys on the floor.
Liu Rong and Rong Mei didn't understand "baby talk". In the end, it was the nanny who took care of the baby every day who understood. She bent down to pick up the doll on the ground and translated with a smile, "Miao Miao, are you saying that your aunt is the same as this doll?"
Seeing that someone finally understood what he said, the little guy clapped his hands happily.
"What a clever little boy." Rong Mei couldn't help but gently pinch the little guy's nose, her eyes full of love for the little guy.
In addition to Zhou Dabao, we now have Miaomiao, who is so cute and lovable.
This made Rong Mei suddenly want to have a child of her own for fun.
However, the thought was extinguished by Rong Mei as soon as it came to her mind.
Think about the hardship of pregnancy for ten months, the ugliness of having a deformed body, and the spots...
Damn, I calmed down instantly.
She is still young, she hasn't had enough of love, she hasn't had enough of the two-person world...
After staying for a while, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law refused the mother-in-law's invitation to stay for dinner and left Zhou Yueyi's house.
Rong Mei looked at the crowded market and suggested, "Mom, take out the list and divide it up. We can buy separately. This way it will be faster."
There were so many things to buy that Liu Rong made a list last night.
Buying separately would improve efficiency. Liu Rong naturally had no objection and nodded and said "OK."
He then took out the list and the money, counted out twenty big unity bills and gave them to Rong Mei, and said, "Then you go buy some candy, peanuts and melon seeds first, and then see what kind of fruit to buy. I'll go buy some dried goods and vegetables."
Rong Mei was inexplicably stuffed with twenty banknotes. She was stunned for a moment. Just when she was about to return them to Liu Rong, Liu Rong held her hand tightly and refused to move. Her attitude was not one to be refused. "Take it. I am the head of this family. I organized this year. The money should be mine."
Knowing Liu Rong's stubborn character, Rong Mei looked down and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll take it. This year, it was arranged by mother, the head of the family."
then.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law carried things to the car again and again as if they were purchasing goods. Each of them made several trips and marked each thing on the list with a pen.
"Candy, peanuts, melon seeds, Spring Festival couplets, lanterns, dried kelp, mushrooms..."
In order to avoid missing anything, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law checked everything again.
Rong Mei glanced at the words on the paper that had not been crossed out yet, "Mom, all that's missing is incense, candles, paper money, and firecrackers."
Then he added, "Mom, go check out the incense, candles, and paper money. I'll go buy some firecrackers."
Rong Mei didn't know which kind of incense, candles, and paper money to buy, but there were only a few types of firecrackers, and the only difference was how loud they were. She also wanted to see the fireworks.
In later generations, fireworks were banned in cities. Now that she had finally found a time when there was no ban, she wanted to buy as many as she wanted and set them off. She also wanted to buy some small firecrackers for Zhou Dabao that children could set off (well, okay, actually she wanted to play with them too).
Liu Rong nodded, "Okay, then you buy it first and leave it there for me. I'll buy some paper money and then move it over together."
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