After closing the doors and windows at home, Lin Mai took Doudou to a state-owned snack bar to eat northern dumplings for lunch.
After eating the dumplings, the mother and daughter went straight to the nearest shopping mall to buy New Year's clothes and gifts for Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang and her mother and daughter.
The shopping mall was crowded, and Lin Mai was afraid that Dou Dou would get lost with her, so she repeatedly told her to hold on to her clothes.
There were too many people buying tobacco, alcohol and non-staple food, so Lin Mai took Dou Dou to buy clothes first.
This mall is not large in scale, and the corresponding grade is not high, but the clothes are a little cheaper than those in famous malls, and the price-performance ratio is still good.
He had to do a lot of work every day, so Lin Mai didn't buy himself any good clothes, just a simple red and black plaid foreign cloth top and a pair of black trousers.
Doudou was allowed to choose her own clothes, which made the little guy so happy that she ran around and chose the clothes she liked.
Lin Mai not only bought the little cute baby new clothes, pants, shoes and socks, but also pulled out several feet of red silk to tie her hair.
I bought a woolen dress and a pair of woolen pants for Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang, and the mother and daughter went to buy non-staple food.
Every time I buy a non-staple food, I have to queue up. Two bottles of good wine, two bottles of canned food, two packets of milk powder, two pounds of longan, two pounds of lotus seeds, two pounds of white fungus, one pound of white rabbit toffee... It costs a lot to buy it.
Wheat for more than two hours.
Finally, they bought all the things, and the mother and daughter were so crowded that they were almost out of shape.
Lin Mai took out a few of the White Rabbit toffees from the pound of candy he bought and gave them to Doudou to eat on the way.
Doudou didn't eat it, but put it in his pocket, saying that he was going back to eat with his grandparents.
Lin Mai praised her for being so sensible and took her to catch a long-distance bus by bus.
There were so many people returning to their hometowns during the Chinese New Year that there were so many people on the buses going to the railway station and long-distance buses that the mother and daughter couldn't even fit on them.
If Lin Mai was the only one, it wouldn't be a big problem no matter how big or small the bag was, but carrying Dou Dou was not possible because he was always afraid of being crowded around and the child being secretly taken away.
Lin Mai was helpless, but he still had to rush forward again and again, otherwise he would not be able to return to Grandma Fang's house today.
Another direct long-distance bus was about to enter the station. Lin Mai said to Doudou: "Are you ready? We have to squeeze in no matter what this time!"
Doudou nodded vigorously, staring at the bus with two big black eyes.
Before the bus even pulled into the stop, many people rushed towards it.
Everyone was just running, and the scene was very chaotic. Doudou was knocked to the ground by the crowd rushing to get on the bus.
Lin Mai broke out in a cold sweat and rushed over desperately to block the flow of people behind him with his body.
If you don't block it, no one will notice it, and Doudou will be stepped on and get into trouble.
At this time, a pair of big, sharp-jointed hands stretched out from the diagonal, picked up Doudou from the ground, and held her in his arms.
Lin Mai looked along the big hands and saw the handsome Fang Zhuoran.
She was just about to say thank you when she saw Doudou not caring about anything else, stretched out her little paws and scratched Fang Zhuoran's face several times, and kept kicking him with her two little feet.
He screamed sharply: "Let me go, bad guy, let me go!"
It caused many people to look over inquiringly.
Fang Zhuoran freed up one hand to control the little guy's hands and said softly: "Uncle is not a bad person."
Lin Mai and he said this at the same moment, and as soon as the words fell, both of them laughed.
Lin Mai explained with a smile: "I told Doudou that if a stranger hugs her, she must yell, otherwise others will not know that she has met a bad person."
Fang Zhuoran scratched Doudou's little nose: "Uncle, is he a stranger?"
Doudou lowered his head in embarrassment.
Although they met several times, each meeting was short and she had long forgotten about him.
Lin Mai said gratefully: "Fortunately you showed up in time, otherwise Doudou would have been in danger."
Fang Zhuoran smiled: "Are you guys going home to celebrate the New Year?"
"Uh..." Lin Mai didn't know how to answer for a moment, "Although I'm going home, I'm going back to your grandparents' house."
Fang Zhuoran was a little surprised.
Lin Mai saw that he was also carrying a huge denim backpack and asked, "Where are you going?"
Fang Zhuoran smiled and said: "I'm going the same way as you, and we're also going to my grandparents' house."
Now it was Lin Mai's turn to be a little surprised. Why would he want to go to the countryside instead of reuniting with his parents and family during the Chinese New Year?
Then I thought about it, maybe his parents and family would all rush back to the countryside to spend the New Year with the two old people, and that would be a real family reunion.
Leaving two old people alone in the countryside to celebrate the New Year cannot be a family reunion.
With Fang Zhuoran holding Dou Dou in his arms, Lin Mai and her daughter finally boarded the next bus that went directly to the long-distance bus station smoothly.
The bus was overcrowded and the passengers were packed like sardines.
Fang Zhuoran held Doudou with one hand and grasped the handrail above his head with the other hand, using his body to protect Lin Mai so that she would not be crowded, but behind him he was bearing the pressure of the crowded crowd.
There were too many people, and the smell in the car was unpleasant, but Fang Zhuoran smelled a faint fragrance, which made people feel relaxed and happy.
He smelled it secretly and carefully, and the aroma actually came from Lin Mai~
I didn’t expect that this black girl smells so good~
Next to them were seven or eight young and middle-aged men, who probably had earned some money in the city this year, and all of them were in a good mood.
They talked enthusiastically with a strong dialect accent, and their voices were so loud that it made people's ears buzz.
Fang Zhuoran and Lin Mai both lowered their heads silently, and no one spoke.
Even if he spoke, his voice would be drowned out by those loud voices, and no one could hear clearly what the other said.
Fortunately, after two stops, the group of men got off the bus, and everyone around them breathed a sigh of relief, as a group of noisy guys were gone.
Lin Mai then raised his head and met Fang Zhuoran's lips.
He didn't know how he could lower his head so low without knowing it.
Could it be that he is greedy for her fragrance?
Although he was accidentally kissed by Fang Zhuoran, the kiss was on the hair on the top of his head. Lin Mai was not too embarrassed, but Fang Zhuoran's face turned red.
After about an hour, we finally arrived at the station.
It was crowded again when we got off the bus. Fang Zhuoran was okay, but Lin Mai was so crowded that his hair was disheveled, as if he had just come off the battlefield.
Although the long-distance bus was the starting station, there were too many people returning home. When Lin Mai and his party bought tickets and boarded the bus, there was only one seat left.
The two pushed each other to let each other sit.
Doudou was held in Fang Zhuoran's arms. She looked at this and that, and said resourcefully: "Uncle sits on the chair, and mother sits in uncle's arms. If I sit in mother's arms again, won't everyone sit down?"
She blinked her big watery eyes and looked at the two adults in front of her with confusion, wondering why they couldn't even think of this.
Passengers around heard Doudou's childish words and were amused and laughed.
Lin Mai could no longer be humble and sat down on his seat. He took the little bean curd from Fang Zhuoran's arms and scratched her little nose: "That's nonsense!"