To be honest, this bag is not bad and quite nice looking. In this day and age, the most important reason is probably because it was given by Jiang Cong!

"I won't do that next time!"

Jiang Cong smiled slightly, which was both healing and beautiful.

In fact, what he was thinking was that he would dare to do it again next time and give his wife surprises that are better and better.

"When I have the ability in the future, I will definitely buy you a brand-name genuine leather handbag!"

"Okay, I'll wait for you to buy me a brand-name bag!"

Maybe if someone else said this to her, she would think they were just pie in the sky, but when Jiang Cong said this, she felt that he could definitely make it happen!

The next day, Qin Man took her new bag to work, put a small comb, change and keys in it, and went to the store. Sister Mengmeng and Xiaoya praised the bag for being beautiful and asked her where she bought it.

At the end of the month, Qin Man received a salary of 80 yuan, of which she received a commission of 35%. She was also praised by Manager Peng, who said that since she came, the sales of the five stores have increased straightly, and her salary will be increased at the end of the year. He hoped that she would continue to work hard next year.

In a blink of an eye, it is the end of November and December is coming soon. The 1st is Jiang Cong's birthday. Tomorrow she will take a day off early to celebrate Jiang Cong's birthday.

Jiang Cong didn't even know that she was resting. In the morning, they went out together as usual. Qin Man went to the department store, but it was the stationery store where she bought a brand new pen for Jiang Cong.

They were Hero brand, ten yuan each, and she also bought Jiang Cong a pair of leather shoes for twenty yuan.

Men's leather shoes are more expensive, and what she bought were the most common ones. Those branded men's leather shoes can cost over a hundred yuan a pair!

The sweater she was knitting for him was already finished. It was a blue-gray turtleneck and came with a black scarf. It took her more than a month to complete it, and it went perfectly with his tweed shirt.

I knit sweaters in the store during the day and come back to knit scarves at night.

There were fifty yuan left, plus the fifty given by Jiang Cong, a total of one hundred yuan. After paying eighteen yuan in rent, there were eighty-two yuan left. Qin Man went to open a passbook and deposited sixty yuan into it.

It is not safe to keep so much cash at home. It is more reassuring to put it in a passbook.

The weather was getting cold, so Qin Man planned to make a hot pot in the evening. Jiang Cong had just received his salary from school, and he had five kilograms of meat coupons and twenty kilograms of grain coupons. He went to the market and exchanged them for two kilograms of pork belly for hot pot, a pork bone for making soup, and bought some vegetables, old tofu, oyster mushrooms, and potatoes for the hot pot.

When Jiang Cong came back from get off work in the afternoon, Qin Man was busy in the kitchen.

"Manman, why are you at home today?" Jiang Cong still didn't understand what had happened.

"Are you back? Go to the supply and marketing cooperative and buy a bottle of Erguotou wine. We'll have hotpot tonight!" Qin Man said to him with a smile.

"Drinking? Eating hot pot? What day is today? Why are you thinking of having a couple of drinks?" Jiang Cong was puzzled, but he put down his things and obediently prepared to go downstairs to buy something.

Qin Man shook her head helplessly. This man, what kind of life is this? He didn't even know it was her birthday today?

"Today is definitely a good day. Someone has grown a tail. Guess who it is!"

Jiang Cong chuckled when he heard this. It turned out that he had forgotten that today was his birthday.

"Look at me, I was so busy that I almost forgot. By the way, how did you know it was my birthday today?"

Jiang Cong can’t remember how many years it has been since he last celebrated his birthday. It seems that he hasn’t celebrated one since he was in high school, because he was usually in school during that time. Now that he has a job, he doesn’t remember it because it has been so long.

Moreover, he had never told Qin Man about it, but she actually remembered it and even took a leave of absence to make delicious food for him at home. Although it was freezing cold outside, he felt extremely warm in his heart.

"It's on your ID card!" Qin Man said as she sprinkled salt in the soup and tasted it.

The saltiness is just right. I cooked the bone soup for an entire afternoon, and then I can make a chili dip. Just thinking about it makes me happy!

"Okay, go buy some wine!" Qin Man urged.

Jiang Cong nodded and was about to leave!

Qin Man suddenly remembered something and called him.

"Wait a minute, come in with me!"

Qin Man wiped the water stains on her hands on her apron and pulled him into the house.

"What's going on? Why are you being so mysterious?"

"You'll know when you see it!" Qin Man pulled him into the inner room, opened the closet, took out the scarf and apron she had knitted, and handed them to him.

"I knitted a sweater and a scarf for you. Try them on to see if they fit you. If not, I'll make some changes!"

Jiang Cong had known for a long time that Qin Man was knitting a scarf, but he didn't expect that she was also knitting a sweater.

"For me?" Jiang Cong asked cautiously.

Qin Man nodded and looked at him expectantly:

"Yeah, you don't like it? Do you think my cooking is bad?"

"No, how could that be? I like it very much. I like everything you give me!" Jiang Cong was afraid that she would misunderstand, so he quickly took off his clothes and started trying them on, revealing his muscular upper body, not treating her as an outsider at all.

However, the opening of the sweater was a little too small. Jiang Cong had to work very hard to put it on. Except for the small collar, the rest of it fit him perfectly.

Qin Man couldn't help laughing and explained embarrassedly:

"Well, this is my first time knitting a sweater, so maybe I didn't pay enough attention to the details. I'll fix it for you. You can take it off now!"

"No, it's fine. It's comfortable to wear like this. It would be too much trouble to change it. Let's leave it like this!"

Jiang Cong couldn't tell you how much he liked it. It was the best because it was woven by his wife herself.

Qin Man knew that he was worried about her and was afraid that she would get into too much trouble.

After Jiang Cong put it on, he was reluctant to take it off. He just put on his coat and prepared to go out to buy wine.

"I'm going to buy some wine, wait for me at home!" He reached out and rubbed her soft hair, then lowered his head and kissed her forehead lightly.

"Thank you, Manman!"

Jiang Cong looked so handsome when he smiled that Qin Man couldn't help but become infatuated with him. Her heart was beating fast and her forehead was still hot where he kissed her.

Just a sweater and a towel made him so happy and satisfied. He didn't know that Qin Man had prepared much more for him.

Although it was windy outside, the house was cozy. The honeycomb coals in the stove were burning red, and the hot pot on the table was bubbling, with the aroma of meat filling the air.

It was a simple meal, with nothing special to eat, but it made the couple very satisfied.

"Ah Cong, happy birthday, cheers!"

Qin Man poured a glass of wine for herself and Jiang Cong, and the two clinked glasses.

These two pots of soup are a bit spicy and a little pungent when they go down the throat. In later times, although people would drink when they went out to discuss business, they would mostly drink foreign liquor, and they would also order some other drinks. The aftereffects of these two pots of soup are really strong.

Qin Man felt a little dizzy after just a few drinks, but Jiang Cong was different. Jiang's father had a good alcohol tolerance, and he could drink quite well too. At home, the father and son would go out for a few drinks every now and then, so these few drinks were nothing to him.