Ding Hongxing wanted to take his parents to the commercial street several times to buy two sets of clothes, but Ding Yuejin and his wife were willing to let their son take him to buy things, if his son worked to earn money, he was still a student.

Ding Hongxing simply bought two sets of clothes for each of them, bought Ding Yuejin a cotton jacket and a leather jacket, two woolen sweaters, two trousers, two pairs of leather shoes, and bought Shen Shuzhen a medium-length down jacket, a cotton jacket, two sweaters, two pants, and two pairs of leather boots, anyway, he also knew the size of his parents' clothes.

When he took these home, Ding Yuejin and his wife were surprised and delighted, and Shen Shuzhen complained: "You kid, what are you spending so much money for? Where did you get so much money? ”

Ding Hongxing said: "The business in the store is good this month, I received some annual fees, and these clothes are not expensive, so it only cost two or three hundred yuan." ”

When they heard that it cost two or three hundred, Ding Yuejin and his wife were shocked, this is a month's salary income for the two of them, so it was spent? However, when they thought of the profit of the philatelic store last month, they didn't say anything, they didn't worry about the opening of the philatelic store, it was completely handled by their son, so they would not bother in these matters.

In fact, they didn't know that Ding Hongxing spent more than a thousand yuan to buy these things for them, and if they knew this number, they would definitely ask Ding Hongxing to return them immediately.

Shen Shuzhen took a closer look at the things her son bought for herself, these beautiful clothes made her diligent, it is the nature of every woman to like beautiful clothes, no matter how old she is, not to mention that Shen Shuzhen is only about forty years old.

Shen Shuzhen said: "Parents buy clothes for their children during the Chinese New Year, but our family is good, and my son buys clothes for us." ”

Ding Hongxing said with a smile: "Isn't it natural for a son to honor his parents? ”

Shen Shuzhen looked at those clothes again and said, "These clothes are beautiful, but I don't know if I can wear them at my age?" ”

Ding Hongxing said: "Mom, you are not very old, only forty years old, what can't you wear?" If you wear these clothes, people will say that you are ten years younger, like a movie star! ”

Shen Shuzhen said angrily: "You are a poor mouth!" ”

But looking at Shen Shuzhen's smiling eyebrows, where does she look like she is angry?

Ding Yuejin was also smiling beside him, yes, now that life at home is getting better and better, how can they not be happy.

Shen Shuzhen asked Ding Hongxing again: "You didn't buy yourself two clothes?" ”

Ding Hongxing said: "Of course I bought it." ”

He took out a few bags and took out the clothes he bought for himself from them, which were almost the same as Ding Yuejin's, except that the trousers were replaced by jeans, the leather shoes were replaced by sneakers, and the style of the clothes was more suitable for young people.

Shen Shuzhen said happily: "Okay, then our family of three will wear new clothes for the New Year!" ”

Ding Hongxing said again: "Mom, the business of our store this month is better than last month, now you should rest assured that you will leave your job without pay, right?" ”

Shen Shuzhen couldn't help but hesitate when she heard her son mention this matter again, and after hesitating for a long time, she nodded and said, "Okay, I'll report to the factory after the New Year!" ”

Ding Hongxing is really happy now, his mother has been overworked all these years, and his health has not been very good, which makes him very worried, now he has the ability to let his mother live a better life, he naturally doesn't want her to go to work again, he wants his mother to recuperate at home and recuperate.

If Ding Yuejin is willing, he even wants Ding Yuejin to leave his job without pay, but he also knows that it is impossible, Ding Yuejin's feelings for the factory are too deep, and he is a man in his early forties, and he also needs to have his own career, let him stay at home every day and do nothing, he will be bored.

January 22 is a traditional Chinese Chinese New Year's Eve, this day at noon is to have a New Year's dinner, this year Ding Yuejin and Ding Yuanchao brothers agreed, the two families, including Ding Chang, are in Ding Yuejin's house to have New Year's dinner.

On the evening of January 21, Shen Shuzhen began to prepare for the next day's New Year's dinner overnight.

The annual 30 reunion dinner is the most important meal of the year for every family, and each family has to put the delicacies that are usually reluctant to eat on this meal, according to the customs of Guicheng, the dishes of the reunion dinner are at least eight, and they must be even, so some families have ten dishes for the reunion dinner, and some are twelve, fourteen, sixteen, eighteen, or even more.

This year, Ding Yuejin's family's economic conditions are better, Ding Hongxing bought a lot of various fish, meat and vegetables in advance, and Ding Yuanchao's family is also coming here for the New Year, so they are going to cook sixteen dishes this year, so many dishes, and there is no refrigerator at home, Shen Shuzhen can only come to prepare dishes overnight.

Guicheng New Year's traditional dishes have raw croquettes, meat cakes, tofu balls, pearl balls, etc., on the table of the New Year's dinner, these dishes are almost every household has, in addition, a whole fish is also definitely there, which means that there is more than every year, the rest of the dishes depend on the economic conditions of each family, some family conditions are slightly worse, just get a few green vegetables to make up the number, if the conditions are good, just get more meat dishes, eat more hearty.

These meatballs, meat cakes and so on, you need to chop the fish and meat into a puree, then mix, force, put the ingredients, make shape, and then fry them, or steam them in the pot, so many processes have to be completed tonight, plus other dishes must be prepared, so tonight is busy.

The work of chopping stuffing and stuffing is an individual job, and it was naturally handed over to Ding Yuejin, Ding Hongxing originally wanted to take over, but Ding Yuejin didn't let it, these are his jobs every year, he can't just wait to eat, and he thinks that he has experience, and the stuffing chopped out is better, Ding Hongxing can only go by him, so he helps his parents.

In this way, Ding Yuejin chopped the stuffing, Shen Shuzhen prepared other dishes, Ding Hongxing started, and the family got busy.

The sound of chopping stuffing "dong dong" sounded, resounding through the tube building, making people unable to sleep peacefully, but tonight, every household has to chop stuffing, so it doesn't matter.

Listening to such a voice, Ding Hongxing felt that this was the New Year!

That night, there were one or twenty catties of stuffing to be chopped, and Rao was Ding Yuejin's long-term dry work, but he kept chopping for more than an hour, and there was a layer of sweat on his forehead, at this time, Ding Hongxing proposed to let him take over, and Ding Yuejin handed over the two knives to him, but he didn't expect that Ding Hongxing's double knives were flying, chopping fast and good, and playing the drum beat rhythmically, which made Ding Yuejin very surprised, and he simply handed over the rest of the meat filling to Ding Hongxing to chop.