The Chinese New Year's Eve vigil is a very difficult thing to do, especially for these children who are ready to go to bed as soon as it gets dark. It didn't take long for the children's yawns to come one after another.

"When you're tired, go back and rest." Shumin couldn't bear to see the children dozing off, so he had to let them go to rest.

"Mother, tell us a story. We listened to the story and stopped sleeping. Hui'er rubbed in Shumin's arms, raised her head and said to Shumin.

"Auntie, I want to hear stories too." Yang Er is younger than Hui'er, and he hasn't heard Shumin tell fairy tales since he came to Minyuan!

"Alright then, do you want to hear the ugly duckling or do you want to hear the story of the three little pigs?"

"Ugly duckling? Three little pigs? The children were immediately attracted by the title of the story, they had never heard of anyone telling an animal story.

"Uncle Chu, do you know what an ugly duckling is?" Yang Er seemed to like Chu Feng very much, and at this moment, he was in his arms, raised his head and asked him.

"Uh, the story of the ugly duckling is about a duck that looks ugly and then it gets eaten." Chu Feng thought for a moment and said.

"Huh? Is that so? When Hui'er heard this, she felt that it was too cruel to eat other people's ducks because they were ugly.

"Of course not." Shumin touched her little head and began to speak: "Once upon a time, there was a mother duck hatching ducklings, and then when he looked down, he found a beautiful white swan in the water. When he raised his head to the sky and roared, the other swans also cried after him, and he realized that it was no longer the ugly duckling, but a beautiful white swan. ”

Shu Min relied on his memory to tell the stories he had read when he was a child in his own words, and the children listened attentively, even Chu Feng listened to them with relish.

The ugly duckling turned into a white swan?

Thinking of Shu Min's past, and then looking at her present, it is not difficult to imagine that this story is a copy of Shu Min's life.

"No wonder she can tell such a story, but the idea of applying her own experience to a duck is really ingenious!" Chu Feng looked at Shu Min, his heart churning.

Liu Er listened and listened, and unconsciously thought of another person. That brother with a silver mask, is he okay?

She really wants to tell him this story, it doesn't matter if it's ugly, as long as she doesn't give up and lives hard, one day, the big brother can become the swan in the story.

That night, she wrote down the story in jerky words, handed it to Chu Feng, and said, "I heard my aunt say that you are Lord Hou's person, can you help me give this to Brother Yinmian?" ”

Chu Feng wanted to refuse, but when he saw Liu Er's expectant eyes, he had to agree, and when there was no one, he tied the letter to the leg of the carrier pigeon, and wrote "Please hand over the silver face"

After a few days, I received a letter from Chu Feng again, but there were only a few words on the letter: Please ask Hou Ye to hand over the silver face. Chu Yu's face was strange, but he still handed the letter to Yinmian.

In front of the Hou Ye, Yinmian opened the letter, which was about a fairy tale called the ugly duckling, looking at the jerky, but extremely serious words, the corners of his mouth rose on the handsome face under the silver mask, and a warm flame seemed to spring up in his heart, feeling very warm.

I thought it would be a cold and sad year, but I didn't expect that I still felt warm.

"Do you need a reply?" Although he couldn't see his expression, Chu Yu still felt the change in the silver face, and asked a little playfully.

"No need, just your subordinates can handle it themselves." Yinmian stuffed the letter into his arms and saluted Chu Yu to leave.

Ugly duckling? Hehe, Liu'er, you may not understand, I am the white swan who was kicked down from the world! And it's the kind that hits the ground first

However, thank you for your concern and greetings, I really received it in my heart.

Except for Liu'er, the children finally failed to survive the time, and fell asleep one by one in Shumin's fairy tale.

Shumin hugged Hui'er and put her on the bed in the room, and when she came back to hug Feng'an and Yang'er, Chu Feng had already placed the two of them.

"Liu'er, you can go back to your room and sleep." Liu Er nodded, she was not sleepy yet, but seeing that her aunt seemed to have something to say to Chu Feng, she went back to the room sensibly.

"What kind of order did Master Hou give you?" Shumin pushed Liu'er away, sat down again, and asked.

"You have to believe Master Hou, he has no ill will towards you." Chu Feng looked at her and thought to himself that no matter what, she had to leave a good impression on Hou Ye first.

"Since you don't say it, I won't force you, but I hope you promise that you won't do bad things to Minyuan in the future, and you can see that Minyuan is full of children."

Shumin never likes to guess other people's minds, and she is not good at those twists and turns. Although there are some things between her and Hou Ye, it doesn't necessarily mean how good the relationship between the two is, on the contrary, now as long as she thinks of the events of that morning, thinking of Hou Ye's indifferent and disgusted eyes, the grievances in her heart are still difficult to contain.

"Don't worry about this, I guarantee that Master Hou will definitely not do anything to hurt Minyuan." Chu Feng said that with his understanding of Hou Ye, he was confident.

"That's good." Shumin suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

"If you're tired, go and rest, I'll keep watch over the night of Minyuan." Seeing that she didn't seem to be able to bear it, Chu Feng took the initiative to take over the vigil.

"I'm sorry for you." Shu Min went upstairs in a hurry, and the reason why he became cowardly was because he thought of Hou Ye, and when he thought of Hou Ye, he naturally thought of Zhao Wenjie. If it hadn't been for that accident, if there hadn't been that misunderstanding, would I have been with him?

Will he come tonight?

Shumin closed the doors and windows and prepared to sleep, but as soon as she lay down, she tossed up again, and pushed aside the window against the backyard.

Perhaps, he will come.

That night, she tossed and turned, but he didn't come.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the sun was shining brightly, and the sun was shining on the snow, and the whole village was shrouded in a layer of white light.

"Xiangrui!" People are smiling.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the happiest thing is the children, early in the morning, Shumin was forcibly pushed to the top of the hall by the children to accept the children's New Year's greetings.

New Year's greetings, red envelopes are naturally indispensable, Shumin watched the children kneel on the ground one by one and kowtow to themselves, and hurriedly took out the red envelopes prepared in advance.

When the children got the red envelopes, they immediately flashed to the side and carefully checked the number of red envelopes.

Shumin is not biased, everyone is twenty dollars.

It's not that she's stingy, it's that the children are still too young, and besides, twenty wen is already a lot in the village.

"Wow, so much money, Sister Liu, let's save it, and they will have money when we go to Beijing to see my brother in the future." Hui'er whispered, for fear that people would listen.

"Well, we've all got it together, so there's a lot of money." Yang Er also learned from Hui'er and whispered.

"One of us has 20 Wen, and together we have 80 Wen, it is not enough to go to Beijing, we will have to save more in the future." Feng An said.

"Why don't we use these eighty wen to do business, and after we earn money, we can go to see our younger brothers." Liu Er proposed.

"Okay, okay, listen to Sister Liu." Hui'er clapped her hands and said yes, but suddenly realized that she was too loud, so she hurriedly lowered her voice and made a "shhh" gesture.

Seeing the children secretly discussing because of dozens of dollars, Shu Min just wanted to laugh when he watched from the sidelines.

These kids are so cute.

"Have you discussed it? After discussing, let's go to your uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings. Shumin shouted at them.

"Grandma's family will definitely give red envelopes!" The children's eyes lit up, and they immediately put away the red envelopes and went to pay New Year's greetings in a hurry.

There are two big surnames in Baili Village, surnamed Zhang and surnamed Li, and the same surname is related to each other. Although Shumin has separated from Zhengyuan, Hui'er is still a child of the Zhang family, so no one has been left behind in the New Year's greetings.

Because of Shumin's relationship, the Zhang family is extremely friendly to the children of Minyuan, and they prepared red envelopes early in the morning, and everyone has a share, but the relationship is close, Hui'er gets the most, followed by Feng'an, and finally Yang'er and Liu'er.

Fortunately, Yang Er and Liu Er are very sensible, and they are not unhappy because of this, and they kowtow to each elder who gives red envelopes very seriously.

In the red envelope, Li Zheng and Uncle Niang gave the most, followed by the old Zhang family, perhaps thinking of getting closer to Hui'er again, the old man gave Hui'er ten cents, and Shumin was a little surprised.

I still remember the previous year, Hui'er's red envelope had a penny in it, and before she could cover her hand, she was asked back by Zhang Li's family.

When the children returned to Minyuan, they ran into the room, locked the door, rattled the copper plates, and collapsed all of them on the bed, counting them one by one excitedly. Together, there are as many as 200 patterns.

"We have to go to Liuxi Village tomorrow, and when the time comes, we can get more red envelopes." Feng An's eyes narrowed with laughter. Although he doesn't like Liuxi Village very much, if he has a red envelope, of course, that's another matter.

Hearing Feng An say that there are still red envelopes to take in Liuxi Village, Hui'er's eyes are shiny and shiny, and those eyes are about to turn into small copper coins.

"Money fans, it's time to eat!" The children were really tired all morning, but they didn't feel hungry at all, because every time they went to a house, they would enthusiastically take out pastries to entertain them, and their bellies were still round!

Therefore, Shumin urged three times in a row, and they reluctantly threw away a lot of copper coins and reluctantly returned to the table one by one.

Shumin also knew that the children were not hungry, and they didn't add food to them, so just let them eat some food, anyway, this meal at noon is nothing, the first day of the new year, the important thing is the meal in the morning and the meal in the evening. (To be continued.) )