When Yu Qing and Xiang Yisen came downstairs again, the boss of the Zhou family had already left.

"Grandma, he's gone? Did you say anything?"

"He's hemming and hawing. Who knows what he wants to say? Even if he wants to say something, I won't give him a chance."

Grandma Ruan guessed that it had something to do with money. Her granddaughter had just moved here yesterday, and three days had not passed. She would not allow the boss of the Zhou family to say some inappropriate words, lest her granddaughter get into trouble.

"That's good." Yu Qing sighed.

Everyone knows it very well. We just moved into a new home and we don't want to make things too ugly between relatives.

The boss of the Zhou family didn't know what to say. They had to worry about Zhou Jingfang's face and didn't want to reveal some things.

Han Xue asked: "What does this uncle do?"

"I opened a restaurant at home."

"Is the business of their restaurant not doing well?"

This is what Grandma Ruan couldn't figure out, "I haven't been to their Zhou Family Restaurant since then, but from the few words Jingfang chatted with, I heard that the business of their Zhou Family Restaurant seems to be good."

"A good business does not necessarily mean they have made money. Maybe they don't know how to run it." Although Han Xue doesn't understand business, she knows the words "poor management".

How is the Zhou family's business? As long as they don't bother her, Yu Qing doesn't bother to pay attention.

But Grandma Ruan and Han Xue didn't think so. In the next few days, they were on guard against the Zhou family's boss coming to visit again. Looking at their guarded looks, Yu Qing felt a little bit dumbfounded.

As a result, on the fourth day, the boss of the Zhou family did not come to visit again.

After Laba Festival at the end of the year, the flavor of the New Year becomes more and more intense whether in the city or in the countryside.

The diesel engine factory, diesel vehicle factory and diesel tractor factory all have a lot of things waiting for Xiang Yisen to deal with, so it is impossible for him to stay in the provincial capital all the time.

I moved into my new home and stayed there for three days. On the fourth day, Xiang Yisen bought an evening train ticket to take the train back to Yicheng.

"I'm not at home, you have to take care of yourself, and you have to worry about the children." Xiang Yisen looked at his wife helping to pack the luggage, feeling full of reluctance.

Yu Qing packed her suitcase, raised her head and smiled: "I have my mother-in-law, grandma and family taking care of me here, so don't worry. You, on the other hand, must pay attention to rest and take care of yourself when you are alone in Yicheng."

"good."

Xiang Yisen raised the corners of his lips and placed the packed suitcase in the corner.

Yu Qing walked around the bedroom and didn't find anything missing, so she sighed and said, "Then go down and eat. After dinner, my dad will drive you."

Xiang Yisen worriedly warned: "Okay, when you drive the car at home, you should pay attention to safety and don't drive too fast."

The couple owns two cars in Yicheng. This time they are moving to a new home, and Yu Qing's air-conditioned car was checked in in advance.

Xiang Yisen's car is now in Yicheng, and Yu Qing's car is consigned to the provincial capital. There are cars on both sides, making traveling on both sides convenient.

At the dinner table, Ruan Xiuhua poured a small glass of medicinal wine for Mr. Ruan and Xiang Yisen each, "You have to take the train back tonight, and I don't dare to let you drink too much, so just drink a small glass."

"What about me, brat? I don't want to go out at night!" Mr. Ruan protested, looking at the small glass of wine in front of him.

Grandma Ruan gave him a piece of fish and said angrily: "According to my opinion, for the sake of your health, you should not drink this small cup. It would be better to just eat vegetables."

Mr. Ruan brought the wine glass in front of him and hummed, not daring to say anything anymore.

Ruan Nan raised his hand and asked with a smile: "Grandma, grandpa, brother-in-law and dad are drinking. Can we drink soda?"

Grandma Ruan stared: "Drinking soda at night, do you want to wet the bed at night?"

Now it was Ruan Nan who was staring blankly, his face turning red from holding back. He wanted to say that he would not wet the bed, but when he fell asleep at night, he could not guarantee that he would not wet the bed. It was so confusing!

Qiao Jun also wanted to drink soda. He asked Yu Qing in a low voice: "Sister-in-law, can I drink it if I don't wet the bed?"

Yu Qing smiled and pinched the flesh on his cheek, "You can drink if you want, but to be on the safe side, we don't drink too much. How about sharing a bottle between the two of us?"

After saying that, she looked at Ruan Nan and Ruan Bei.

Ruan Nan applauded: "Listen to sister."

Yu Qing asked the nanny to open a few bottles of soda and pour it into cups. One bottle was divided between the two of them. Each person had about half a cup of 100 ml. By the time they went to bed at night, they had almost digested it.

Except for those who drink, other adults declined soda, mainly because the weather is too cold, and if they drink ice-cold soda, their stomachs will not be able to bear it.

Fortunately, in the villa, Yu Qing bought two air-conditioning boxes from the overseas mall. She installed one on the first floor and one on the second floor. The heat surged upwards, but she did not install them on the third floor, and the temperature was about the same as the first floor.

After dinner, Xiang Yisen reluctantly said goodbye to his family, and Ruan Xiuhua drove him to the train station.

After Xiang Yisen left, it entered the middle of the twelfth lunar month, and the weather became colder and colder.

This year is the first New Year that the Xiang family has celebrated in the provincial capital. In order to celebrate the New Year well, Yu Qing, Grandma Ruan, and Han Xue discussed preparing some New Year's goods.

In the past, Yu Qing would prepare a pig, smoked bacon, and fried tiger skin at the end of the year. This year, she didn't want to miss the good season of smoking bacon.

"Grandma, mother-in-law, the Chinese New Year is coming in less than twenty days, shall we smoke some bacon this year?"

Han Xue had seen what Yu Qing said about smoking some bacon. She used to think it was a waste of pork, but now she doesn't think so anymore.

After all, smoked bacon can be eaten for a year. When the lean season comes in March and April, when the supply of pork in the market is tight, there is bacon to eat at home.

"Your idea is good, but where can I buy so much meat at once in the provincial capital?"

Grandma Ruan nodded: "The total meat coupons for the whole family are only more than ten kilograms, which is really not enough for you to smoke bacon."

Yu Qing smiled and said: "We can ask my dad to drive around the countryside to see if he can buy a pig. If he is lucky enough to buy a pig, our families will share a share, which is enough to smoke bacon for the New Year."

Grandma Ruan had no objection: "Then let your dad go to the countryside."

The smile on Yu Qing's face became thicker: "Well, when my dad comes back from get off work in the evening, I will tell him to buy some more chickens and ducks. Now the manor we live in is big enough. When I buy it, I will We keep them all over the place, and if you want to eat them during the Chinese New Year, you can kill them and eat them.”

"You have a good idea. You can't raise anything you want by buying such a big manor." Han Xue lived in the manor and often sighed at night. In the past, when the Xiang family was not in decline, the place they lived in was not as big as here.

Yu Qing's eyes lit up when she heard this: "My mother-in-law reminded me that next spring I will let someone put some fry in the lotus pond in the manor. When the fish grow up, we can catch fish anytime we want to eat. How convenient!"

Grandma Ruan was very happy to hear this: "Listen to what you said, we can raise pigs, chickens and ducks."

Yu Qing shook her head: "Forget about the pigs, they are too smelly, and raising pigs is too troublesome. We can raise some chickens and ducks. They usually look for food by themselves, and just feed them in the morning and evening. They won't be too tired."

Pigs eat too much, and it takes too much energy to raise them. Next year, collective households will be dissolved in the province, and fields will be distributed to households. There will definitely be many farmers raising pigs. It will be more convenient and cost-effective to go to the countryside to buy smoked bacon.

Grandma Ruan: "Listening to what you said, I didn't think it through properly. If you raise chickens in the manor next year and you think they are dirty, you can drive the chickens and ducks to our land next door to forage."

The land bought by the Ruan family next door has been surrounded by a fence. It is very suitable to go there. Yu Qing smiled and nodded.

Ruan Xiuhua received the assignment and drove outside in the cold wind for two days. Finally, he bought a black native pig weighing more than 200 kilograms in the countryside more than a hundred miles away from the provincial capital.

This kind of black soil pig has good meat quality, tender meat, delicious taste, rich red fiber, and meat color close to beef. It is superior in nutrition and taste to the exotic white pigs that were widely raised in later generations.

Grandma Ruan sighed as she rubbed salt on it: "This pork is really beautiful. The fat on the back is as thick as a palm, and the color is snow white."

Looking at the thick fat meat, Yu Qing could not say that the quality of the pork was good, but it was just too fat.

However, it doesn’t matter if it’s used to smoke bacon to make it fattier.

The eldest aunt Shi Huilan nodded in agreement: "I have to thank my second brother for buying such good meat this time. If I didn't have a car, how could I have traveled so far away to buy such good meat."

Otherwise, in the past, their family would not have been nervous about meat every New Year, and later they relied on Yu Qing to support them.

This time it was a pig. Grandma Ruan asked for half of the fan, and Yu Qing and Shi Huilan shared the other half.

There are almost more than sixty kilograms, forty kilograms of smoked bacon, and about twenty kilograms are reserved for daily consumption, which is enough for their family.

Han Xue sat aside and said with a smile: "I have to thank my in-laws."

After more than 200 kilograms of pork is marinated, you still have to wait three or four days before you can start smoking it. If the weather temperature is too low, it may take a week.

By the time the bacon was smoked, it was already the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month.

Tomorrow is the Little New Year in the north. Han Xue is from the north. She has always been used to celebrating the Little New Year on the 23rd.

Yu Qing and Grandma Ruan discussed it and decided that on the 23rd, the whole family would celebrate the Northern New Year together in the manor.

On the twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year in the South, Yu Qing took her family to Ruan's house to celebrate the Lunar New Year. This arrangement allowed each family to take good care of her, which was exactly what Grandma Ruan wanted.

On the 23rd, a small year in the north, the lowest temperature reached minus five degrees Celsius.

It has been raining outside for two consecutive days, and today it unexpectedly started to snow. The air conditioning box was installed in the villa, making it as warm as spring.

In order to meet the occasion, Yu Qing asked the nanny to make a lot of noodles and chop a lot of meat fillings, and everyone sat together in the warm villa to make dumplings.

Even little Zhuzhu, who is over two years old, came to join in the fun and insisted on sitting on a chair and learning how to make dumplings.

"Zhuzhu, are you making dumplings? I think it's more like kneading dough." Yu Qing laughed and picked her up and sat on his lap, teaching her step by step how to make dumplings.

"Children of her age are curious about everything, want to participate in everything, and want to imitate adults in everything." Grandma Ruan shook her head. She was naughty and the adults couldn't bear to beat her up.

Yu Qing thought of the bad things this child had done, and shared with everyone: "It's just like what grandma said. Last time her father was at home, she saw me applying skin care products, so she took my skin care products and helped her father apply them.

, it made her father’s whole face miserable.”

"Ha ha!"

Everyone laughed.

Grandma Ruan asked curiously: "Yisen just let her harm that face and he didn't get angry?"

Yu Qing said with a smile that was hard to explain: "Before I met him, he was a cold-tempered person who seemed to be indifferent to everything. Now when facing his daughter, he seems to be a different person. He is more patient than ever in front of Zhuzhu."

Han Xue was concerned about her son who was far away in Yicheng. "I don't know how he will survive alone in Yicheng today? Did he have a good meal?"

Xiao Zhuzhu sat in Yu Qing's arms, watching her mother holding dumplings and comforting her grandma: "Grandma, let's call daddy in the evening."
To be continued...