Beijing City
Su's mother is also preparing New Year gifts.
Su Muxi looked at the large and small bags and curled her lips: "Mom! How come you treat your daughter-in-law better than me, your own daughter? Am I your daughter or is your daughter-in-law your daughter?"
Mother Su didn't even look at her: "What do you need to eat well and wear well here? Look at Aunt Li's daughter. How long has it been since she went to the countryside as an educated youth? What did she look like when she came back yesterday?
Your brother's place is an island, and the environment there is definitely more difficult than in the countryside. Why don't you go to Lizhou Island too? To take care of your sister-in-law? Then I will prepare something no less for you than this!"
Su Muxi was choked by these words and almost couldn't breathe!
She saw Zhong Qi at the door yesterday. She was so scared by her look that she didn't want to go to the countryside! She had a job and her family didn't have any quotas, so why should she go to the countryside?
Zhong Qi was originally a chubby, fair-skinned, cute girl. She had only been in the countryside for three months, and when she returned, not only was she pale and thin, but she also had the highland red on her face and her skin was as black as coal, and it was peeling! Seeing all this made her heart pound.
Su Muxi is originally a girl who loves beauty. Seeing her like this, how could she dare to go to the countryside?
Hearing her mother asking her to go to Lizhou Island! How could she remain calm? "Mom, I went to the Overseas Chinese Remittance Store yesterday and bought face cream, clothes, and some fabrics. I'll pick them up for you, and you can mail them to my sister-in-law!"
After Su Muxi finished speaking, she didn't wait for her mother's reply and ran upstairs "thump! thump! thump!"
Mother Su watched her daughter hurried upstairs and secretly laughed in her heart, "Little brat! You still want to fight me!"
"Grandma, what are you doing?" A child's voice sounded beside Su's mother.
"Grandma is packing New Year gifts for your aunt." Mother Su said to her eldest grandson with a smile.
"I know who it is. She sent something sweet to Yangyang, right?" said four-year-old Su Qiyang, clapping his hands. He remembered this little aunt whom he had never met.
He drank the sweet water every day. It was so delicious. After drinking the sweet water, he stopped coughing and didn't have to take bitter medicine. He liked this little aunt whom he had never met very much.
"Yes! Our Yangyang is so smart!" Mother Su looked at him, feeling bad. If her eldest daughter-in-law hadn't been pregnant and had run to the Northwest, Yangyang wouldn't have been born prematurely. He would have had such a mother. Alas...
"Then I'll help grandma too." Su Qiyang said happily.
Songjia Village
Song's mother and father were also preparing New Year gifts. Song's father knew that his eldest daughter liked to eat fine grains, so he went to exchange them with the people in the village. After all this exchange, he actually got her a lot of fine grains.
Song's mother and second sister-in-law made many small shoes and hats, and of course there were also many for Dabao and Tiantian.
Song Qiuyue has been very anxious during this period. She has mailed many letters to Song Hanghang, but she has not received any reply. The Chinese New Year is approaching, and she still wants Song Hanghang to mail her two new clothes!
She also went to Song Miaomiao to get some information, but Song Miaomiao actually went to the military area! And got an incredible job there!
Now everyone in the village knows that Song Miaomiao has a job, and many people in the surrounding villages are asking about Song Miaomiao's marriage. She is two years older than Song Miaomiao, but no one is willing to propose marriage. She originally planned to find a big news and then ask Song Hanghang to find a job for her. In this way, she will definitely have more marriage proposals than Song Miaomiao.
But for some reason, Song Hanghang hasn't replied to her letters recently. Even if she wants to find her, she can't find her!
That's Yangshi. She has never even left the town. How could she possibly go find Song Hanghang?
At the end of December, Song Chucheng received New Year gifts from the Su family, the Song family, Grandma Su, and Uncle Su.
However, Uncle Su's New Year gift really made Song Chucheng shake his head.
"Chengzi, Uncle Su is really rich. Look, the baby in your belly hasn't been born yet! The baby should have clothes from birth to four years old!" Xu Ningxue teased.
"Yes! There was a big package last time, and I guess there are quite a few packages from my mother's side as well." Song Chucheng said with a smile.
Xu Ningxue: “…”
Su's mother's packages contain everything. Every time she sends a package, the food, clothes and daily necessities are all neatly arranged.
"You are a really nice mother-in-law!" Xu Ningxue had also seen the packages sent by Su's mother several times, such as sanitary strips and soaps. Su's mother sent a lot every time.
But Song Chucheng had never used the sanitary napkins at that time, so she didn't know whether they were useful or not. She gave them to her elder sister-in-law and younger sister.
After all, it’s not good to keep these things for a long time, and she is pregnant now, so she can’t use them at all.
After the aunt and sister-in-law had finished tidying up, Xu Ningxue told Song Chucheng about the New Year customs in the military region.
During the Spring Festival, there will be movies and cultural performances.
The same is true for the villages below. Usually, after the sisters-in-law in their family compound finish watching a movie in the military area, they will go together to watch a movie in Hongqi Village below. It is very lively during the New Year period.
After the aunt and sister-in-law finished cleaning up, it was time for a nap: "Sister-in-law, we're having hotpot tonight. Didn't Dabao and the others bring back pheasants yesterday? I bought a pig's stomach from the supply and marketing cooperative yesterday. We'll have pig's stomach and chicken tonight."
Xu Ningxue knew about hot pot, but she had never eaten pig's stomach. However, she was quite confident in her sister-in-law's cooking skills, so she didn't worry about it being unpalatable. "Sure! Hot pot is great in this weather. It'll keep you warm!"
Song Chucheng went to take a nap, but Xu Ningxue couldn't sleep yet, so she cleaned the house.
Then he went outside to tidy up the vegetable garden. Seeing Dabao, Damao and the others playing nearby, he gave them a few words of advice and took the chicken to the creek downstream to kill it.
When Dabao saw his mother go to kill chickens, he took Damao and the others to dig earthworms in the vegetable garden. This was something Aunt Orange told him secretly, and it was a little secret between them.
The earthworms in Aunt Orange's vegetable garden are very fat, and the fish in the sea really like them.
Only Da Mao and Er Mao are picky and don't eat the earthworms. Other people's chickens, ducks, and geese all eat them, but Da Mao and the others only like to eat green vegetable leaves, snacks, and the food cooked by Aunt Orange.
He will dig some now, and later he will go to the beach with Da Mao and Er Mao and throw some into the water. This will attract a lot of delicious fish. Da Mao and Er Mao will catch them faster, and the fish will be bigger.
But don't throw too much, as it will attract super big fish, which will eat the big and small fish.
Damao: “…”
Ermao: “…” Thank you!
He couldn't tell anyone about this, otherwise if the children in the family compound knew about it, they would all come to dig up the earthworms from Aunt Orange's house, and then they would have no earthworms left.
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