After sitting for about half an hour, Jiang An got up to say goodbye. After all, it was New Year's Eve, and he wanted to go back and spend a proper New Year with his son, not only to keep others from having enough time.
From the time Hong Xiaoduo told him about this incident to the time Wu Qing and Pang Shi were handed over to the government, only a little over ten days had passed. Therefore, he hadn't had time to tell the elders in his family about such an important matter.
Jiang An was truly eager to take his biological son to meet his clansmen. Thinking about how his elders and family members had looked at him with pity and helplessness every time they saw him over the years, he naturally felt uncomfortable.
It turns out that it wasn't because she had failed in raising her son, or because she had spoiled him too much since he was born without a mother, that she had raised him as a bad child. He wasn't even her biological son!
For this reason, his own brothers and relatives rarely visited his home. When he went to visit his parents or attend birthday banquets for elders, he tried to go alone as much as possible.
It's not for any other reason than that I don't want them to worry about me.
Although no one said it outright, he knew that everyone was prepared for his possible miserable old age. Of course, they wouldn't abandon him; they were just extremely disappointed in that imposter.
Now things are better. Even though her biological son wasn't by her side when he was young and was bullied in the Pang family, he didn't turn out badly.
Jiang An has already talked to his son. He said that if his son wants to learn business from him in the future, that's fine, or if he doesn't want to do business, he can do whatever he likes.
But my son said he wanted to learn how to do business. He was interested in business and had even secretly saved money to start as a street vendor.
When Jiang An heard his son say this, his heart ached. His son saved money by chopping and selling firewood, doing odd jobs, and helping people with accounting. He had to save money secretly, afraid that the Pang family would find out.
Jiang An secretly vowed in his heart that he would spend the rest of his life lovingly making up for his son.
Of course, it's not the kind of spoiling. You don't want to spoil your perfectly good son into becoming like Pang Baicheng; that would be a real sin.
He didn't go back empty-handed. Before leaving, Hong Xiaoduo took out several packets of tea from her spatial storage. They were all good teas that Old Man Luo had prepared for her, such as West Lake Longjing, Thousand Island Silver Needle, Jiande White Tea, and Golden Tea.
After seeing off the Jiang family father and son, Hong Xiaoduo went to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner with everyone.
Tianxuan shared some of the fried meatballs and candies with her neighbors, since they had given her things during her stay, such as radishes from the cellar.
Although radishes are no longer a rare delicacy for Tian Shu and his neighbors, this friendly neighborly behavior made them very happy.
The sun hadn't even set yet when firecrackers were already going off in some houses.
"New Year's Eve dinner, New Year's Eve dinner, the sun is still up, isn't it too early?" Hong Xiaoduo looked up at the door and muttered.
"There are lanterns in town, so they probably wanted to eat early and then go out to admire them," Quan Jinghuai said with a smile.
At this moment, Tian Shu and the others had already placed the stir-fried dishes on the table.
"Mom, Third Brother went to get firecrackers. Let's set them off later," Xiao Yaoguang excitedly told her.
Upon hearing this, the other children also looked over at Hong Xiaoduo.
Hong Xiaoduo knew that during the time she was away, Quan Jinghuai had taken them out to buy some firecrackers.
As they were talking, they saw Tianji taking firecrackers and looking for a place to set them off in the yard.
Hong Xiaoduo also went out, looked at the firecrackers in Tianji's hand that probably had several hundred shots, shook her head and said, "Buying such a small string of firecrackers, it's not very exciting to set them off."
Upon hearing this, the children looked at each other and thought to themselves that although this wasn't the biggest string of firecrackers in the shop, it wasn't small either; it was definitely of medium size.
Those large ones are usually bought by wealthy people or rich families when they get married.
"I just remembered, I bought one too. I'll set off a big one on New Year's Eve, it'll be really exciting. Wait here, I'll go get it." After Hong Xiaoduo finished speaking, she walked towards the warehouse, where several wagons were parked.
She didn't let anyone follow her, and the others also had to serve dishes, so they didn't go with her.
When Hong Xiaoduo arrived at the warehouse, even though she knew no one was following her, she still went in as if to make a show of it. Then she went into the fireworks and firecrackers warehouse in her space, looked around, and chose a roll of 10,000-shot "Big Earth Red".
After thinking about it, he simply took some of the fireworks that were going to be set off later, as well as some toys for the children, and put them in the corner of the storeroom.
Then, she returned to the hall with the Earth Red in her hands.
The ten-thousand-shot earth red disc was over a meter in diameter, like a large millstone, and quite heavy. But Hong Xiaoduo was very powerful in this era, so she easily held it without any effort.
Meanwhile, Tianxuan carried the last dish back into the hall.
Nine people of all ages stood outside waiting for her. When they saw what she was holding, they were all stunned. She said she was going to put something big, but no one expected it to be this big!
The biggest fireworks shop isn't even this big; it's only about two-thirds the size of this one.
Under the utterly shocked gazes of everyone, Hong Xiaoduo chose a spot, put down the firecracker in her hand, and took apart the end, asking Tian Shu to help roll it along the road to a distant place.
Good heavens, it actually stretched out for dozens of meters.
"Let me do it." After Tian Shu jogged back, Quan Jinghuai stepped forward and took the tinder from Tian Xuan's hand.
Everyone quickly stepped back, covered their ears, and watched as Quan Jinghuai lit the firecrackers. The crackling sound of the firecrackers was like rhythmic drumbeats, pounding on people's eardrums.
The deafening sound of firecrackers spread far and wide along with the smoke they produced.
The sound was so loud that it completely drowned out the firecrackers from the neighboring houses. It took three or four minutes for the firecrackers to stop, with only occasional sporadic crackling sounds remaining.
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