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The next day was New Year’s Eve.
Waking up early in the morning, the whole family starts to clean the house, put up Spring Festival couplets and window decorations, and get busy preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner.
An Ze's daughter An Tiantian is one year older than Dongdong. The two of them have become close friends, laughing and joking, adding a bit of warmth and liveliness to the home.
Qiu Shushen was busy in the kitchen, while An Hua and Wu Xiaolin were helping her.
Wu Xiaolin pointed at some yellow croakers and said, "Oh, Mom, these yellow croakers are delicious. Where did you get them?"
Qiu Shushen said: "An old classmate of your father sent some Spanish mackerel here. I will prepare them later and make Spanish mackerel stuffed dumplings for you to eat."
An Hua said coquettishly, "Mom, I want to eat fried yellow croaker."
Wu Xiaolin said, "Yellow croaker is best steamed."
Qiu Shushen paused while scooping the soup and said with a smile, "Hey, steam the biggest one and pan-fry the smaller ones."
Wu Xiaolin burst out laughing, "Mom, you're really fair in this bowl of water."
An Hua and Qiu Shushen looked at each other, and they both felt that Wu Xiaolin had something else in mind.
An Hua didn't have a deep impression of Wu Xiaolin, because Wu Xiaolin went overseas with An Ze right after they got married, and came back once a year, and they only spent a few days together. So the only memory the original owner had of Wu Xiaolin was that she was warm and polite.
Now it seems that it is not entirely as it seems.
Wu Xiaolin continued, "It would be great if Mom could be so fair in other aspects as well."
An Hua frowned and said, "Sister-in-law, if you have anything to say, just say it."
Wu Xiaolin waved his hands quickly, "No, no, I have nothing to say, I just said it casually. Mom, please don't think too much about it."
Qiu Shushen said calmly: "You don't have any other intentions, why should I think too much? Don't worry, I won't think too much."
Wu Xiaolin choked and thought, if you don't think more and ask more questions, how can I say anything?
Unexpectedly, Qiu Shushen didn't ask any more questions and just focused on talking to An Hua.
Being left out, Wu Xiaolin threw the vegetables in his hand in frustration and said loudly, "Mom, I'm going back to my parents' home on New Year's Day. Please prepare some gifts for me. I saw some sea cucumbers and dried abalone in the storage room. Please bring them back to my parents' home."
Qiu Shushen looked at Wu Xiaolin in surprise.
When did this daughter-in-law become so rude?
The sea cucumber and dried abalone were both gifts from An Bohuai's old friends. These things are hard to come by now, so she was planning to have An Ze give them to her commander.
As for the New Year gifts for the Wu family, she had prepared them long ago. Just like in previous years, they were practical things like cigarettes, alcohol, sugar and tea.
how? Is the daughter-in-law dissatisfied with the New Year gift she prepared? Even if she was really unhappy, she shouldn't say it out loud. She didn't even think about the fact that every year the Wu family only gave her two cans of yellow peaches as a return gift.
No matter how poor the Wu family's conditions were, they could afford only two cans of canned yellow peaches. They just didn't take the An family seriously.
Wu Xiaolin became a little nervous when she saw that her usually gentle mother-in-law suddenly had a dark face.
But after a moment, he convinced himself to be tough.
If she doesn't take the initiative to fight for it, everything in the house will be emptied out by others sooner or later, and she won't have a share of it!
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