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Chapter 10 Lively New Year's Eve

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    ? As the end of the year approaches, every household is busy, cleaning dust, buying new year's goods, and making dumplings.

    Yi Xiaomei is a person who loves cleanliness. As soon as the factory is on holiday, she washes all the tables, chairs, dishes and chopsticks at home.  In the yard of her house, she was seen washing clothes there almost every day. The ground was wet, and the sheets and quilts were cold all over the yard.

    Her mother-in-law was chopping stuffing in the house, preparing to make dumplings.

    Eating dumplings during Chinese New Year is a tradition in Changping County, which symbolizes reunion.  It takes a lot of effort to make dumplings, and everyone doesn't have time on weekdays, so they pack several baskets during the Chinese New Year.

    Yi Xiaomei's mother-in-law prepared three kinds of stuffing and put them in a washbasin.  Two days ago, she went to help the neighbors, and today it was her turn.  At eight or nine in the morning, all the helpers came without her going out to ask for help.  Four people surrounded the round bamboo plaque, rubbing flour in their hands, chatting about homework.

    Almost without accident, everyone mentioned Yan Xi again.

    The cause was a new dress from Zhou Zhou's mother.

    One person said: "Liu Fengxian showed me the clothes. The clothes are really different from the ones in the tailor shop. The front is convex and the back is concave. Even Liu Fengxian's short figure looks a lot taller after wearing them."

    Another person said: "She asked Yan Xi to do it, can it be worse?"

    "If I had known this, I would have waited for Yan Xi to come back and ask her to do it for me."

    "You have a good idea. She is not a tailor, and she doesn't depend on it for a living. She can make it for Liu Fengxian because of Zhou Zhou's face."

    Yi Jingchen was helping to take the dumplings into the steamer one by one, and when they heard about Yan Xi, he couldn't help asking: "You all know Yan Xi?"

    As soon as the words came out, everyone laughed, as if he asked a particularly ridiculous question.

    Granny Yi Xiaomei said: "In Qingquan Town, who doesn't know Yanxi!"

    Yi Jingchen's eyes sparkled, but he still pretended to be indifferent: "Is she famous? Is she a star?"

    At this time, Ma Juyuan, who was playing a fan, said: "In Qingquan Town, Yanxi is a star! Why, do you want to draw her attention?"

    Yi Jingchen immediately denied: "No! I don't even know what she looks like, so why would I pay attention to her? It's just that I've been hearing people talking about her recently, and I'm just curious."

    Ma Juyuan said: "Just those lazy toads in your workshop?"

    Yi Xiaomei glanced at her husband: "How do you talk?"

    Ma Juyuan fanned the freshly baked dumplings to ensure that they would cool down in the shortest possible time, and said, "Of course I'm not talking about Jingchen. But Jingchen, if you really want to, my brother-in-law will also persuade you  Turning back is the right thing. Yanxi's mother knows that her daughter is a rare commodity, and she is waiting for a price! Not to mention a poor boy like you, even the son of our factory manager is not in her eyes."

    Yi Xiaomei said: "Don't talk nonsense, he is a third-year high school student, it's too early to talk about marriage!"

    Immediately someone from the side said: "If you say that you are not young, you are already eighteen. I became a mother when I was eighteen."

    Yi Xiaomei smiled and said, "Aunt Liu, it's not good to get married so early now. The government advocates late marriage and late childbearing."

    "I think it's better to get married as early as possible. Seventeen or eighteen is the best age. Why don't you get married? Like peaches, don't eat them when they are ripe, but wait until they are rotten? Don't you think so?"

    Everyone laughed: "Yes, yes, you are the most experienced old hooligan!"

    "I'm speaking in a matter-of-fact manner, why are you an old hooligan?" She deliberately elbowed Yi Xiaomei as she spoke, "Xiaomei, do you think I'm right?"

    Xiaomei blushed immediately: "I don't understand!"

    "Okay, you're already married, and you're not a big girl anymore, so why be ashamed?"

    The topic immediately turned to Yi Xiaomei.

    "Next year, I will add a big fat grandson to Lao Ma's family!"

    Yi Xiaomei blushed: "I am not the only one who has the final say on this matter."

    Everyone turned their attention to Ma Juyuan again: "Juyuan, did you hear that, you have to work harder. Don't run out all day and leave such a beautiful daughter-in-law at home. My son, how many bottles of soda can't be replaced  Come on, you can tell the difference!"

    Ma Juyuan was taking a dumpling and putting it in his mouth: "It's clear, I will rush home whenever I have time, and plow the land to open up wasteland as soon as I come back."

    Everyone burst into laughter.

    Yi Xiaomei's face turned red, and she freed a hand to hit Ma Juyuan: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

    "What are you ashamed of? It's a serious matter to spread branches and leaves. What's there to be ashamed of?"

    Aunt Liu said to Xiaomei's mother-in-law again: "On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, I took Xiaomei to worship Guanyin., bless the man in one fell swoop.  Now family planning, if the first child is a woman, it will be difficult to handle.  "

    Granny Xiaomei said: "I heard that there is a machine in the hospital now, which can tell whether it is a man or a woman by taking a photo on the stomach. If you are really pregnant, take her to take the photo. If it is a girl, just abort it."

    When Xiaomei heard this, she immediately said: "If I'm really pregnant, I won't hit girls, I just like girls."

    Granny Xiaomei was not very happy when she heard this: "Why do you want a girl? You worked so hard to raise them, but you ended up giving it to someone else. The Ma family has been passed down for three generations, so you can't cut off the incense in your generation!"

    Xiaomei muttered in a low voice: "It's not a big family, and there is no family business to pass on, so you are afraid of losing the incense?"

    When Grandma Xiaomei heard this, her face turned green, and she threw the flour dumpling in her hand, looking like she was going to have a big fight.

    Yi Jingchen saw that the situation was not right, and immediately said to his sister: "Sister, help me see if the cage on the pot is ready, I am a little confused."

    Yi Xiaomei was dragged into the kitchen by her younger brother.  When she came out again, the seven aunts and eight aunts were all trying to persuade Granny Xiaomei.

    One said: "If you want me to tell you that if you are pregnant and then get rid of it, you will kill your life and harm your morality. I heard that there is a prescription in Ruixing Pharmacy in Qiaotou. After taking it, you can take your baby with you."  Go ahead and ask."

    Another said: "Actually, having a daughter is not bad. If you have someone like Yan Xi, marrying a son of a dignified family, wouldn't it be better than having ten or eight sons?"

    Granny Xiaomei's livid face finally calmed down a bit: "You guys don't feel pain in your back when you stand and talk. A girl like Yan Xi who is one in a hundred can give birth if she wants to? Besides, she doesn't have a partner right now. Will she marry her in the future?  No one can say what kind of family they are. In my opinion, having a daughter is just useless."

    Aunt Liu nodded unprincipled, expressing her agreement: "That's right. If this person is too outstanding, he will be easily envied by others. Some even envy the heavens. What's the word for it?"

    Ma Juyuan said: "Heaven is jealous of beauty!"

    "Yes, it is the sky blocking the confidante. It is said that God blocked the confidante's road, and the concubine had no way to go, and finally died. How could there be a saying that the concubine is unlucky?"

    Yi Jingchen next to him was stunned, he never thought that a confidante could be explained in this way, it is really vivid!

    Xiaomei complained for Yan Xi: "Yan Xi provoked you, so say that!"

    Ma Juyuan said: "It's not aimed at her, it's just a realistic analysis."

    "I want you to analyze a person who has nothing to do with you?" Xiaomei rolled her eyes at her husband, "You don't have crooked thoughts, do you?"

    "How is this possible! In my heart, neither Yan Xi nor Yan He can compare to my wife!"

    Yi Xiaomei smiled with satisfaction!

    The mother-in-law on the opposite side rolled her eyes in dissatisfaction!  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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