The girl didn't care about being shy anymore. She raised her head and took Li Qin's hand: "Sister, I was thinking that the New Year would be coming soon, so I wanted to wait until you all came over, which would add a little joy to the New Year."
"You girl." Li Qin raised his hand and tapped the girl's forehead: "Now you have learned bad things by following that brat. You have hidden such a big thing from me."
"Hehe" Ding Qiunan smiled naively at Li Qin.
"Auntie, do you have a baby here?" Wang Jiayuan interrupted anxiously and pointed at the girl's belly.
Li Qin touched her daughter's hair and said, "Yes, my aunt is pregnant with a baby. Can you let her give you a little brother to play with you?"
"Okay, okay, I want to have a little brother..." Wang Jiayuan clapped her hands happily.
Wang Jiadong pretended to be a grown-up and congratulated Ding Qiunan with fists in his hands.
Here Wang Ziwen said to Li Chu: "Xiao Chu, congratulations, this is a big happy event. You have to drink a few more drinks today. You can't say not to drink."
"Okay, brother-in-law, I'll have a few more drinks with you today." Li Chu took a wine glass and filled himself with wine.
He picked up the cup and said loudly: "Come, today is a double happiness for our family. Sister, brother-in-law, family members, family members, Qiu Nan, let's all pick up the cup and touch it. I wish all of us good luck every year and good health every year.
now."
The lively New Year's Eve dinner ended at around nine o'clock in the evening. Wang Ziwen and his family planned to stay here tonight.
Li Chu turned on the heating pipe in the east wing, and the house would be warm in a while. The beds were also made for them.
After Li Qin and Ding Qiunan cleared the dining table, they brought over the prepared noodles and dumpling fillings and started making dumplings.
Wang Ziwen was drunk and dizzy, leaning on the sofa and listening to the radio. Li Chu led Jiayuan and Jiadong and ran to the alley to set off firecrackers.
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On the first day of the new year, Li Chu was woken up again by the sound of firecrackers outside. The genius outside was bright. He first glanced at Ding Qiunan. When she went to bed last night, Li Chu stuffed some cotton wool into her ears because he was afraid that the girl would be hit by the morning firecrackers.
The sound woke me up.
Quietly walking out of the house, she didn't expect that Li Qin had also gotten up.
"Happy New Year, sister, why don't you sleep a little longer?"
"Happy New Year. I couldn't fall asleep because I was woken up by the sound of gunfire outside. Is Qiunan still asleep? It wasn't noisy, was it?" Li Qin asked with concern.
"Don't worry, sister, I'm still asleep."
"I'm telling you, Xiao Chu, Qiu Nan is pregnant now. From now on, you have to do more housework at home and leave everything to Qiu Nan. Do you hear me?" Li Qin told her brother a little uneasily.
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After hearing what his sister said, Li Chu was a little bit dumbfounded. Even when Ding Qiunan was not pregnant, he basically did all the work at home.
He didn't say this, but nodded in agreement: "That's necessary. From now on, I will take care of all the work at home. My wife will be in pain."
Li Qin smiled happily, this brat has grown up and will soon be a father.
At this time, Wang Ziwen also walked out with his clothes on. When he saw the two siblings standing in the courtyard, he said, "Happy New Year, Xiao Chu. You two siblings are not even out yet, so why are you just standing there chatting."
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"Happy New Year, brother-in-law. My sister is here to tell me to take good care of Qiunan."
Wang Ziwen put on his clothes and lit a cigarette: "Your sister knew that Qiunan was pregnant, and she was still enjoying herself in bed last night."
"As a sister, I will definitely be happy that my sister-in-law is pregnant." Li Qin thought this was a matter of course: "Just like when I was pregnant with Jiadong, you woke up in the middle of the night with joy."
Li Qin's words reminded Wang Ziwen of that year. He had just found out that his wife was pregnant, and he woke up several times in the middle of the night. Time passed so fast. In the blink of an eye, Jiadong was already 16 years old and it was time to go to high school.
After a pause, Wang Ziwen continued: "Xiao Chu, your heater is really good. It's warmer than the heater in our family home. You don't need a thick quilt to sleep at night."
"Brother-in-law, although the boiler in your courtyard is bigger than mine, but for how many homes you have to provide, I only have these few rooms here, so they will definitely be warm."
"You're really smart, kid. When you bought the boiler, I thought you were spending your money blindly. Now it seems that the money is well spent, and you can use hot water as much as you want."
"It's worth a damn. The water is free? The coal is free? So many people don't have heating and they can't go through the winter like this. I think they have some money to burn." The words of the brother-in-law and brother-in-law attracted Li Qin's attention.
A quarrel.
"Sister, look, when your nephew is born, will your little nephew be more comfortable if the house is warm?" Li Chu also tried to explain to his sister.
Li Qin squinted at Li Chu and said, "Come on, just do it for yourself, don't blame the children. At that time, whether I was giving birth to a family or a family, there was no heating at home, so I didn't come here anyway. Why?
Isn’t it possible to come to your place?”
Wang Ziwen squatted aside and smoked a cigarette without saying a word. He did not dare to speak when Li Qin was scolding him. He had bloody experience and lessons in this regard.
"Sister, didn't you have no conditions back then? Now that New China is here, what's wrong with enjoying it with these conditions?"
"Hey, I said you are such a brat, you dare to say anything." Li Qin walked over and pinched Li Chu's ears: "It's okay to say what you said in front of me and your brother-in-law, but don't say anything nonsense after you go out.
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Wang Ziwen squatted there and grinned, "Oh, you are still too young. Why are you trying to argue with her? Why don't you ask her to say a few words?"
"It hurts, it hurts, sister, I won't say it anymore, and I won't say it in the future. I was just joking."
Hiss, Li Chu rubbed his ear that was pinched twice by Li Qin. She is such a dear sister. She must have turned red after being pinched.
Next to him, Wang Ziwen burst into laughter. Li Qin turned to look at him: "What, you want to enjoy it too?"
Wang Ziwen hurriedly stood up, took two steps back, shook his hand and said, "No, no, I don't have that idea. Our family's life is good now."
"Humph" Li Qin gave him a roll of his eyes, turned around and entered the room.
"Alas" Wang Ziwen and Li Chu looked at each other and sighed together.
He's such an old man, why would he do anything? This also reminded Li Chu of his fear of being dominated by his sister when he was a child.
The two of them squatted under the eaves, and we recalled the past one by one.
The sky was gradually getting brighter, and the sound of firecrackers outside kept ringing. There were already people walking around in the alley.
Li Chu got up and took out a few strings of firecrackers from the utility room. He connected the strings of firecrackers together to form a long one, and then he and his brother-in-law held it and placed it on the road outside the gate.
After lighting it, the two of them ran back to the courtyard and closed the door. The firecrackers outside went off for a while before they stopped, which probably woke up everyone in the alley.
Two men, who together were seventy years old, stood in the yard and laughed like children.
Li Qin heard the sound of firecrackers at the entrance of the courtyard and walked out of the house.
Looking at the two smiling people standing in the yard, a smile appeared on her face. It was great that the family could spend the New Year together safely and happily!
Jiayuan and Jiadong were also awakened by the sound of firecrackers outside, and walked out sleepily.
Seeing the people standing in the courtyard, the two of them immediately became energetic. They ran to Li Chu with bright eyes and rushed to give him New Year greetings. Then they looked at their uncle eagerly.
Li Chu deliberately pretended not to understand what they meant. After saying hello to them, he turned to his brother-in-law and continued talking.
This made the two little ones scratch their heads and heads anxiously, and Jia Yuan couldn't help shouting: "Uncle, have you forgotten something?"
"Forgot something? No, I didn't forget anything." Li Chu said pretending to be confused.
"Oh uncle, red envelopes, lucky money, red envelopes for my brother and me."
"Oh, it turns out you were talking about red envelopes..." Li Chu suddenly realized, and then he turned out the two pockets of his coat. There was nothing inside: "Did you see that my uncle is already married and has no money in his pockets?"
Jiayuan came closer to take a look and said anxiously: "Uncle, how come you have no money?"
"Hey, you little girl, ask your dad if he has any money in his pocket."