Looking at the money in her hand, Xie Yuwei felt warm in her heart.
How could she be so lucky to have such a good mother-in-law!
According to custom, people cannot be woken up on the first day of the Lunar New Year, otherwise they will be urged to wake up for the whole year.
There are also some rules for what to eat in the morning. You have to eat white rice, vegetables and tofu.
It means that you can live a clean life and have enough food to eat every day this year.
Qin Jiandang bought the tofu in town a few days before New Year's Eve. He had kept it in water and changed the water with fresh water every day, so the tofu did not go bad at all.
Under the cooking skills of Old Lady Qin, even simple home-cooked dishes can taste delicious.
After dinner, the three Qin Jiandang brothers took their children out to pay New Year’s greetings.
There are only forty households in this village, but there are many surnames, more than a dozen in total.
Most of them are outsiders who came here during the famine and settled down here.
Because there are so few people, basically every household will visit each other every time they pay New Year’s greetings.
It seems to be an eternal custom that men take their children out to pay New Year's greetings while women stay at home to receive those who come to pay New Year's greetings.
In the past, everyone would go to the Qin family and say happy new year, best wishes for prosperity and so on.
But after Qin Jianjun ruined the Qin family's reputation, everyone just sent a few representatives to pay New Year's greetings in the Qin family's yard out of courtesy, and did not even go into the hall.
This year is the same. Old Mrs. Qin put the peanuts and melon seeds in the tribute fruit plate early. The large iron plate was filled to the brim, waiting to be distributed to people who came to pay New Year's greetings.
As a result, the people who came to pay New Year's greetings refused to go in, as if they were afraid that the Qin family would ask to borrow something.
Old Mrs. Qin could only bring out the fruit plate and stuff a lot of peanuts and melon seeds into their pockets.
Seeing these New Year's goods, everyone was stunned.
The Qin family is recognized as a poor family in Zaojiazhuang. How come the New Year's goods that they cannot even afford are as free as those in the Qin family?
Old Lady Qin didn't care what they thought. She just felt grateful that no one blamed the third son even though he had done so many excessive things in the village before.
This little bit of food is just a token of my appreciation.
After the adults who came to pay New Year's greetings returned, the Qin family suddenly became much quieter.
As a result, within a few minutes, many children outside rushed to their house, wishing a happy new year with a smile on their faces.
Looking at the bustling courtyard, Old Mrs. Qin was in a very good mood. Their Qin family had not been so lively for a long time.
She smiled and gave each child a handful of peanuts and sunflower seeds. She had eaten half of the ten kilograms of sunflower seeds and ten kilograms of peanuts she bought.
Some of the children who benefited from it stayed and waited for the children from Lao Qin's family to come back and play together.
In fact, Qin Qiu and her brothers and sisters have been isolated for a long time.
The children in the village used to avoid them when they saw them, but now when they saw someone actively looking for them to play, they were so excited that they started playing like crazy in the yard.
“Your yard is so big!”
"How did you know I was wearing new clothes?"
"Let's play eagle and chicken!"
"I think my new clothes look great too!"
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In short, no matter what their friends say, they can always talk about their new clothes.
This was the first time they saw envious looks in the eyes of other children.
At this moment, they suddenly felt proud that they were members of the Qin family.
In just one morning, the children of Lao Qin's family had new clothes to wear. Lao Qin's family's New Year's goods were peanuts and melon seeds, and the news quickly spread throughout the village.
Everyone was wondering why the Qin family suddenly became so rich. Could it be that Qin Jianjun made a fortune gambling?
Or, the fourth and fifth children, who had not sent back their allowances for two years, sent back all their allowances at once.
Of these two possibilities, they prefer the latter.
"Grandma, why are you stealing my peanuts and sunflower seeds?" From a certain family, a little girl with pigtails and wearing a worn cotton coat was guarding the things in her pockets tightly.
"You little bastard, you only know how to eat all day long, why don't you eat yourself to death?
Peanuts and melon seeds are so precious, it would be a waste to give them to you.
I'll put it away for your brothers to eat slowly!"
After saying that, the old man forcibly emptied his granddaughter's pockets.
The little girl's tears suddenly fell, and she clutched her trouser legs tightly with both hands, feeling extremely aggrieved.
Fu Qiumei put the things in her room as if she didn't see anything, and even locked the door thoughtfully.
"Mom, it's New Year's Day, you should at least leave some for her, why did you take it all?" said the little girl's mother.
"Shut up, it's not your turn to tell me what to do." Fu Qiumei has high cheekbones, triangular eyes, and a shifty look on her face, with a sarcastic look on her face.
But after seeing her grandson, she immediately smiled kindly, but with her appearance, she looked a little weird no matter how you looked at her.
"I don't know how the Qin family got rich. They actually give peanuts and melon seeds to adults and children who come to pay New Year's greetings. I'll go there and bring back some peanuts and melon seeds." Fu Qiumei showed a greedy look.
She is a person who always takes in and never gives out, and is well-known for her love of taking advantage of small opportunities.
After hearing what her mother-in-law said, Zhou Xia felt helpless: "Mom, the children have taken the peanuts and melon seeds. It's not good for you to go again, right?"
"What's wrong with that? Can she kick me out of the house when I go to pay New Year's greetings?
Besides, in the past, everyone in the Qin family would hide away when they saw her. Today, everyone went to wish her a happy new year, so they should be happy!"
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