After blowing up the whip, a group of people entered the house.
Like an old child, Grandpa Fang helped Grandma Fang and Lin Mai put the dishes on the dining table, shouting: "New Year's Eve dinner!"
Doudou also clapped her little hands and followed them and shouted happily: "It's time to have New Year's dinner!"
The atmosphere was very warm, and everyone had a smile on their face.
After all the dishes were served, Lin Mai carried Doudou, who had been standing on tiptoes at the dining table to overlook the whole world, to a chair.
Seeing a table of delicacies, Doudou applauded like everyone else, pointed at the braised chicken nuggets and shouted excitedly: "Mom, give it to me!"
"Look how anxious you are!" Lin Mai smiled and gave her a few pieces of chicken with more bones.
Doudou was neither picky nor greedy, she sat on the chair and ate happily.
Grandma Fang said dissatisfied: "Why do you just give bones to your children?"
Putting both chicken legs in Doudou's small bowl, the little guy's gums laughed so happily that he kept having fun with Grandma Fang.
Lin Mai's cooking skills were very good, and Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang were full of praise for all the food they ate.
Even Fang Zhuoran, who had a toxic diet and only ate seven percent full, rarely had a round belly.
This New Year's Eve dinner lasted for two hours, and everyone ate happily.
Putting down his chopsticks, Grandpa Fang also said that he had not enjoyed the New Year's Eve dinner as much as he did this year in several years.
After the New Year's Eve dinner, Lin Mai wanted to clear away the dishes, but Fang Zhuoran took him aside domineeringly and started to clean up the dishes himself.
Then, boil water and everyone takes turns to take a bath.
Doudou finally put on the new clothes Lin Mai bought for her, an orange corduroy blouse on the upper body, a pair of blue trousers on the lower body, new socks and new cotton shoes.
The little one jumped up and down happily and asked Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang if she looked good. Everyone laughed and said she looked good.
Lin Mai looked at the whole house happily and went to the backyard to wash clothes with a smile on his face.
Fang Zhuoran followed her out and washed with her.
The sky may be changing. There are neither stars nor moon in the sky, and only an oil lamp next to them illuminates them.
Lin Mai always felt that it was weird to wash clothes with a grown man, so he was embarrassed to speak.
The clothes were washed and their hands were frozen. They hung the clothes to dry under the eaves. The two of them went into the house and warmed up by the fire with Grandma Fang and the others.
Everyone was listening to the radio and chatting, and Doudou took turns leaning in the arms of the adults.
When it was Fang Zhuoran's turn, she looked at him, walked around him, ran to Grandpa Fang's arms and leaned against him.
Still can't get close to him~
The warm flames in the brazier made people feel comfortable all over. Doudou was the first to fall asleep, and Lin Mai could not open her eyes. She had suffered from severe lack of sleep in the past two days.
Grandma Fang said kindly: "You go to bed, Grandpa and I will stay up late."
He asked Zhuoran to go to bed too, saying that he worked hard and needed more rest.
Lin Mai smiled apologetically, hugged Doudou and went to sleep.
Fang Zhuoran watched her mother and daughter enter the room and close the door.
I used a poker to stir the fire in the brazier and whispered to my grandparents: "From now on, as long as I don't have to work on New Year's Eve or I have a day off during the holidays, I will go back to the countryside to see my grandparents.
Grandparents usually ask Lin Mai to accompany you, but...it's the Chinese New Year, so it's not appropriate to invite her mother and daughter to have New Year's dinner. Her mother and daughter also have to go home to celebrate the New Year..."
Grandma Fang rolled her eyes at him: "Are your grandfather and I so ignorant in your eyes? Because we are lonely and desolate, why do we ask other people's children to spend the New Year with us?
We asked Maizi and Doudou to celebrate the New Year at our house because they had nowhere to go.
Instead of the two of us celebrating the New Year in a deserted way, it would be better to celebrate the New Year with us, where there are so many people and it’s so lively.”
Fang Zhuoran looked surprised.
He always thought that his grandparents liked Lin Mai and his daughter and called them home to celebrate the New Year, but he didn't expect that it was because they had nowhere to go.
He asked in a rare gossip, "Why don't her mother and daughter have anywhere to go? Don't they have any relatives left?"
"Alas! I do have relatives, but it is worse than not having any."
Grandpa Fang sighed and told Fang Zhuoran that Lin Mai was plotted by her mother's family, abused by her husband's family, and tried every means to get clean and leave the house... All these things were told to Fang Zhuoran.
Only then did Fang Zhuoran know what happened to Lin Mai.
I was in awe of Lin Mai in my heart. This little woman had gone through so many ups and downs, but she was still so caring and adopted Doudou.
And he is so energetic and lives so hard.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the mother and daughter were woken up by the sound of whips. The sound of the whips was like cooking porridge.
Lin Mai not only gave Doudou new clothes, but also tied her into two short ponytails, each with a red ribbon tied with a bow. Doudou was very happy.
Lin Mai is also wearing new clothes.
After the mother and daughter had finished dressing up, they paid New Year's greetings to Grandpa Fang and his wife.
The old couple wanted to give Doudou some lucky money, but Lin Mai quickly stopped him: "Don't give me this lucky money. It's useless for children to ask for money."
"It's useless!" Grandma Fang stuffed the red envelope into Doudou's pocket, "The child can use it to buy some snacks."
Doudou said sensibly: "Grandma, I don't want it."
Grandpa Fang pretended to be serious and said: "You must get the red envelope for the New Year, otherwise your great-grandmother and I will be angry."
Doudou didn't dare to hide anymore and looked up at Lin Mai.
Lin Mai smiled and said: "Grandma and grandpa gave it to you, just take it."
Doudou happily took the red envelope from Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang, and then couldn't wait to open it. Each red envelope contained a dollar.
Although it is only one yuan, it is a lot in this day and age.
Fang Zhuoran came back early in the morning carrying the last load of water to the tank and saw Lin Mai in new clothes.
Although they are cheap clothes and the style is not trendy, they are completely different from the patchwork clothes she usually wears.
Buddha relies on gold, and people rely on clothes. But wearing a new suit of clothes, this little woman is much more beautiful.
After pouring the water into the jar, Fang Zhuoran walked over with a smile, took out his wallet, took out a two-yuan bill and handed it to Doudou, and said with a gentle smile: "Happy New Year."
In the eyes of children, two yuan was a huge bill, and Doudou was so frightened that he clung to Lin Mai, not daring to reach out to take it.
Lin Mai smiled and said to Zhuoran: "Can't you just take a smaller piece of money? You'll scare the child."
Fang Zhuoran opened the wallet to show her and said innocently: "This one has the smallest denomination."
In the end, Grandma Fang exchanged the two-yuan bill for two one-yuan ones, and Fang Zhuoran gave Doudou a one-yuan bill as lucky money.
Doudou handed the three dollars to Lin Mai.
Lin Mai didn't answer: "This is the New Year's money given to you by your great-grandfather and great-aunt. You save it yourself. Mom doesn't want it."
Doudou is confused: "I don't have anywhere to put it~"
Grandpa Fang turned around and went to the backyard to get a machete: "I'll go to the mountain and chop some bamboo for you and make a piggy bank so that you can have a place to put your money."
Doudou ran behind with her short legs, shouting: "I want to go too."
Yesterday, the weather changed after early morning. It was windy and snowy, and the sky and the earth were completely white.
The road outside was slippery, and Fang Zhuoran was worried about the old and the young going out in the wind and snow, so he followed.
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