Chapter Twenty-Three: The New Year, Transformation Begins 1

In a blink of an eye, it's time for the New Year. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Although Old Man Wu has passed away for many years, Old Lady Wu Lu Shuyun is still alive. Every New Year's Day, the sons and daughters-in-law of the Wu family still have to go back to the old house in Ji County to reunite.

On the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, early in the morning, Wu Jianguo took his wife and daughter and drove to Ji County. A month ago, he was promoted to the post of deputy regiment again, and this time he went home from vacation and drove a red flag car from the regiment headquarters, so naturally he did not have to take the car there early like last year.

The snow had drifted for about a night, and the ground was already half an inch deep, still fluttering like catkins in the wind.

Wu Jianguo was originally a freshman, and with such weather, the car could only be slowly moved to the old house in Ji County.

It was supposed to be an hour's drive, but it doubled several times, and when I arrived at the old house, it was already close to noon.

Wu Yue and his family of three walked into the courtyard gate with a large pile of New Year's goods, and when they saw two familiar children playing in the snow in the courtyard, they knew that the second and third children had arrived. They all live in the county seat of Ji County, not far from the old house of the Wu family.

One of these two children is Wu Run, the son of Wu Yue's second uncle, and the other is Wu Miao, the daughter of Wu Jian'an, the third uncle.

Wu Runmu is honest, doesn't like to talk, he was bullied by Wu Miao and others, and he won't sue, Wu Yue didn't fight for him in his previous life, and the relationship between the sisters and brothers is much closer than that between other children. However, the little girl will occasionally tease and bully him, and this stupid boy will only scratch his head and grin and smirk, never resisting or replying. When Wu Yue and the others were in trouble, only he, a solid-eyed child, was the only one of his brothers and sisters who reached out to help many times like his father.

And Wu Miao inherited the third aunt Zhang Hui's vitriolic and cunning, as well as his father's shrewdness and snobbery. Since childhood, whether eating, drinking, or playing, you have to take the first share, not only will you cry, you will make trouble, you will be coquettish, you will lie and pretend to be pitiful, just to get more things from adults, and naturally you can always get your wish. The candy when I was a child, the money when I grew up, and the old house of the Wu family and Lu Shuyun's inheritance.

When Wu Jianguo was in the limelight, Wu Miao shouted "uncle", "aunt", "uncle" and "aunt" all day long, coaxing the couple to treat her as if she were their own daughter, and sometimes even Wu Yue, who couldn't speak and do things, had to stay behind, and the benefits from Wu Yue's house were really a lot. It's a pity that as soon as there was an accident, he disappeared immediately, and then he met by chance, but he also turned a blind eye and only pretended not to know. When Wu Yue's mother and daughter came to ask for help, they also avoided it in the house, and her parents cried to Xu Ying and them in harmony, and they didn't even leave them a meal to eat.

Wu Yue thought of the past and sighed. Xu Ying is also worried, every New Year in previous years was the most difficult time for her. Especially during the Chinese New Year, she is busy with all the things inside and outside the old house, and the reunion dinner of the whole family is always handled by her alone, and she will be tired every time. Everyone else eats the reunion dinner at the table, only she has been in the kitchen, after cooking all the meals, she has no time to eat anything on the table, she has to start cleaning up for everyone, even if she can sit for a while, there are only leftovers leftovers, and she can only solve her own lunch in the kitchen.

Even with such hard work, Xu Ying still has to endure the criticism and sarcasm of her mother-in-law and concubine.

I remember last year, after Xu Ying brought the last porridge, before she sat down, she began to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, Wu Jianguo just asked Xu Ying with concern, but was interrupted by Wu Jian'an casually, and joked with Xu Ying: "Cough, it is estimated that my sister-in-law has eaten enough in the kitchen just now." Everyone also laughed and joked, ignoring Xu Ying's sadness.

This situation did not improve until they made a fortune in the antique business. Wu Yue couldn't help but secretly regret her ignorance and incompetence in her previous life, and she was also angry at her father's straightforwardness, dullness and coarse nerves.

When I entered the house, everyone was there, and my grandmother and third aunt Zhang Hui also walked out of the kitchen. Wu Yue hurriedly rushed over with her things before her grandmother spoke, and lifted the chicken, duck, fish, meat and vegetables to be eaten in the past few days of the New Year to show her grandmother. With a glutinous voice, he constantly sells cuteness: "Grandma, grandma, grandma, grandma." Her short body looked clumsy and cute with a big bag, and she couldn't close her mouth when she saw that Mrs. Wu was praising Yueyue for growing up and being sensible.

Over there, Wu Jian'an and others also got up to greet Wu's father, greeted the road conditions carefully, and cared about the situation on their road. What is even more different from the past is that several people not only greeted the eldest brother today, but also called the sister-in-law, and the attitude and tone were not as perfunctory as before.

The ancients said: Husband and wife Rong, this is really true.

This year, Wu Jianguo was promoted to major and transferred to a key unit, and he was appreciated and reused by the head of the unit. He also contributed a lot to Wu Jian'an's work transfer a few years ago.

Wu Jian'an and his wife's attitude towards Xu Ying naturally has a lot of respect. If it was in previous years, Xu Ying came so late, causing Zhang Hui to stay in the kitchen for so long and help so much, I don't know how she would be sarcastic and squeezed.

The second Wu Jianmin is extremely kind to his brother and sister-in-law, needless to say.

His wife Xiao Baozhen has always been decent, although she is not magnificent, she is okay with everything in her feelings, and she never has any bad relations with anyone in the family. In previous years, she was the only one who occasionally helped Xu Ying, and she was a woman in the Wu family who was friendly to Xu Ying except for Wu Yue.

She is now pregnant again, just over three months pregnant, her lower abdomen has risen slightly, and she is sitting on the sofa resting, not to mention saying anything.

Only Mrs. Wu was as usual, she knew that it was snowing, the road was not easy to walk, she was worried about her son and granddaughter, and complained to Wu Jianguo: "I said, you should come a day earlier, this is not a place where you live, you have to rush here early in the morning, look, it's snowing, how troublesome." Then he shook his head, hummed a long breath in his nose, glanced at Xu Ying, and complained even more: "I have to move to that town to live, what is there in that place?" A small town, so good, so far from home, I want to see you and Yueyue, but I can't see you. “

Wu Jianguo also felt a little embarrassed, and hurriedly explained: "Mom, it's not that you don't know, I'm usually in the army, and I have so few holidays, especially after the transfer, I'm even busier." The crescent moon also has to go to school, and she doesn't stay at home, where are you going?"

"I heard you took a vacation, why don't you go home? Forgot about me as a person, didn't you?" Lu Shuyun was a little excited, she had never liked others to lie in front of her, and she couldn't tolerate the children at home not taking her to heart. At the beginning, Wu Jianguo insisted on marrying Xu Ying, so she is still unhappy.

Home, now Lanzhen is the home of a family of three.

"No, then, it was our original head of the regiment who went out to run errands, and happened to pass by the town, and when he knew that the crescent moon was discharged from the hospital, he brought me over, let me stay with the child for two days, and said that he would take me back with him after finishing his errands. I just arrived in the regiment at that time, and the head of the regiment Liu was kind, so I couldn't refuse. I can't tell anyone that please send me to Ji County, and I'll go see my mother. This, you have to make people take a detour, how inappropriate. Besides, who knows, people are out to do things, and who knows when it will be done? I could go back at any time, so how could I get there?"

"What happened to the Mid-Autumn Festival? Mid-Autumn Festival, the whole family is reunited, even Xiaoqiu and Yangyang are here, only you are missing. Xu Ying called me and said that you can't come if you don't have a holiday. Doesn't the army have a holiday, and the school doesn't have a holiday?" Mrs. Wu didn't give up, and then asked, and her voice was like a balloon bursting.

Wu Jianguo was so suffocated by this hurried question for a while that his brain didn't have the ability to react so quickly to things other than the army.

In fact, Xu Ying had already explained to her on the phone for a long time. At this moment, the old lady deliberately mentioned it again, to listen to Wu Jianguo's explanation and see if Xu Ying was lying.