Seeing Tong Yiya wake up, he waited for her to sober up a little before saying, "Wake up, do you want to sleep a little longer?"
Tong Yiya looked up and found that Fu Shinian had woken up without knowing when. After looking at him, she replied: "Well, what time is it now? You take a look first."
"It's still early, only around nine o'clock," Fu Shinian checked the time and replied.
"It's getting late, get up," Tong Yiya said as he tried to get up, but because of his stomach, he couldn't sit up straight away. In the end, Fu Shinian sat up first, and Tong Yiya helped him sit up.
"Then you wait in the quilt. I'll go get your clothes and warm them up in the quilt before you wear them," Fu Shinian said. He got up from the kang and went to the closet to take out the clothes that Tong Yiya had prepared for her to wear today. He walked to the kang and put the clothes in the quilt to warm them up.
Seeing that he was still standing outside, Tong Yiya said, "You are still standing outside stupidly. Hurry up. You don't know that you are cold wearing so little. Get under the quilt and cover yourself."
"I'm not cold. The kang is heated at home," Fu Shinian said with a smile, but he still obeyed his wife and went back to cover himself with the quilt.
"The kang was heated last night. Now only the kang is still a little warm, and the room is not warm at all," said Tong Yiya
"It's not that cold, it's not as cold as outside," Fu Shinian continued with a smile.
"Okay, okay, if you want me to compare like this, it's never as cold inside as outside," Tong Yiya said, turning her head to look at her son. Seeing that Yuanyuan hadn't woken up yet, she pressed the quilt down on the little guy and put her hand back into the quilt.
It’s too cold today. I don’t know if it’s because of her pregnancy, but she is particularly afraid of the cold this year.
The two of them stayed in bed for a while, and until their clothes were warmer, they put on their clothes and got up.
Fu Shinian knew that his wife was particularly afraid of the cold this year, so he asked her to wait in the house. He went to the kitchen outside to boil some hot water for her to wash up in the house, and also added firewood to the kang in the room.
The two had just finished washing up when Yuanyuan on the kang woke up. Fu Shinian asked Tong Yiya to sit aside for a while while he went to put on Yuanyuan's new cotton-padded clothes made for winter.
In a short while, the little child was dressed up like a New Year's lucky doll, looking very festive.
After packing up, the family of three went out to the next yard. Old Zhang had woken up a long time ago, but he had been staying in the house making medicine. He went out to check when he heard the noise in the yard.
Seeing that they were up, he smiled and said, "You guys are up."
"Well, Grandpa Zhang, you're up too. Happy New Year!" Fu Shinian said to Grandpa Zhang while holding Yuanyuan.
"Okay, okay, let's have fun together. Just wait, I've prepared a red envelope for Yuanyuan." Old Zhang went into the house happily, and came out after a while with a red envelope wrapped in red paper. He walked towards Fu Shinian, asked him to hold the child lower, and stuffed the red envelope into Yuanyuan's little pocket.
Fu Shinian held the child and taught him, "Yuanyuan, thank your great grandfather quickly."
"Thank you...Grandpa," Yuanyuan said obediently, and then smiled broadly.
"Okay, take Yuanyuan with me, and go get food for the mother and son quickly," Old Zhang said to Fu Shinian while looking at Tong Yiya who was waiting on the side.
"Okay, Grandpa Zhang, you haven't eaten yet, I'll cook for you later," said Fu Shinian.
"Okay, cook less for me, I can't eat much," said Mr. Zhang
Fu Shinian already knew he would say this, so he just nodded in agreement, but he would still cook some more and serve it to him later.
Mr. Zhang has been eating with them for such a long time, but he still can't change his mindset of wanting to save money for them.
If he were to tell them, if there was a need to save money in this family, they should start with the two young people, and they would not even think of asking Mr. Zhang and Tong Yiya, mother and son, to save money.
But the old man may have suffered too much hardship when he first came here, so when he came to their side, he was not used to eating three meals a day. Then he thought that the food he got was not enough for him to eat now, and most of it was subsidized by his children, so he started to save.
If they didn't want to eat every morning, he would never go to the kitchen to get food for himself.
They also discovered a few years ago that when they returned to Beijing for the New Year, the old man would split his meal into two meals at home every day and would never touch their food.
What was sent to the shed were the shares they had agreed on in advance and his own savings.
They found out that it was the last year they went back. They came back a day or two earlier and happened to see the food he left in the kitchen. It was just a very watery corn porridge that they were asked to eat, and it wouldn't even keep them full for an hour.
Later they came up with an idea. No matter who was at home, they had to get up every morning to make breakfast and just prepare a portion for Mr. Zhang and send it to him.
The next two years were like this, and it was a good thing they did so that Mr. Zhang gained some weight. Otherwise, in the past few years, he would have been so thin that you could clearly see the blood vessels under his skin.
One time, when Guard Dong was helping him bathe after he fell ill, he saw that he had no flesh on his body. He looked like just skin and bones, so thin that it was heartbreaking.
Later, they also paid attention to the people in the shed and sent more food over there each time, telling them not to be frugal, otherwise they were afraid that they would not survive the next few years.
Fu Shinian handed Yuanyuan to Mr. Zhang and went back to the house, then took Tong Yiya to the kitchen to cook breakfast.
"Wife, what do you want to eat?" Fu Shinian asked Tong Yiya after entering the kitchen.
She looked at the kitchen and saw that there were still a lot of leftovers, so she said, "You can just steam these vegetables, cook some rice soup in the bottom of the pot, and serve with the vegetables and steamed buns."
"Okay, then you sit over there for a while," Fu Shinian said, and he looked around the kitchen to see where it was less cold, ready to help her sit over there. But after looking for a long time, he couldn't find a warm place, unless it was by the stove. But he couldn't bear to have his wife take care of the stove, so he said, "You sit over here first, I'll light a fire for you."
As he was about to help her sit down in a sheltered place, Tong Yiya said unwillingly: "No, I'll just sit by the stove. It'll be warm there, and I can also light a fire for you."
"There's too much smoke over there, I can just burn it myself," said Fu Shinian
"What's the big deal? It just started burning," Tong Yiya said
In the end, Fu Shinian didn't say anything to her and could only agree to let her go to the stove to light the fire.
So the two of them worked together to steam the food, and Fu Shinian also took a small chair and sat by the stove to talk to her.
Soon the food was ready. Fu Shinian took a large bowl, put a bowl of vegetables in it, and then put a large steamed bun on it. He then filled a bowl with rice soup and said to Tong Yiya, "You stay here for a while. I'll go take food to Grandpa Zhang and bring Yuanyuan over for dinner."
"Okay, go ahead, I can do it myself," Tong Yiya said
In fact, she was not that fragile after she became pregnant, but Fu Shinian was extremely nervous. He treated her like a glass vase every day and didn't let her do anything. Tong Yiya was a little annoyed at first.
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