On the same day, Zhou Juan's fiancé Xu Weiguo also came to give a New Year's gift. The Xu family's New Year's gift is two catties of white flour and half a catty of cottonseed oil.

At this time, the people in the city who eat and supply grain only have a ration of three taels of oil per month, and there is not necessarily a guarantee that they can buy it, and it is the norm for grain and oil companies to run out of stock, and everyone has to queue up all night for oil several times a year, and it may not be possible to buy it. Therefore, the gift of half a catty of cottonseed oil from the Xu family is really too valuable.

Xu Weiguo is tall and dark, with a pair of big eyes protruding, and he looks very aggressive from a distance, but he has a purple-black sausage mouth, and when he talks to him, he unconsciously wants to see his big lips that are rolled over and over. Zhou Wanwan remembered that in his previous life, several small members of the Zhou family called this brother-in-law "black toad" behind their backs, and Zhou Jun was once beaten by Wang Fengying because of this incident.

Today, of course, the future "black toad" brother-in-law was received as a guest of honor, but he did not take off his shoes and sit on the kang like other guests, but sat on the edge of the kang for a while, said a few words to Mrs. Zhou and Old Man Zhou, and went to the Xili room.

After a while, Zhou Chunfa's family came out, leaving only Zhou Juan and Xu Weiguo inside.

The expressions on the faces of the Zhou family outside were a little unnatural, but no one interfered with the solitude of these two young people. In this era, young people are engaged, and it is still allowed to pick up and drop off each other when they come to visit the house, but it is very unruly to be alone under the noses of the elders like this, and it is to be scolded and shameless. But the Zhou family has maintained a unanimous silence on this matter, and Zhou Wanwan feels that this has a lot to do with the half catty of cottonseed oil brought by Xu Weiguo and the privilege and wealth represented by this half catty of oil.

Zhou Jun has always been unable to sit still, and he went in and out several times, all to see Xu Weiguo's bicycle. The other children in the family have also been to see it, and they can't go out late every night, so they don't see how majestic they are, but from the envy of the children, you can imagine that in this era, riding a bicycle in the countryside is similar to driving a good car in later generations, right? It is estimated that it can be comparable to Mercedes-Benz in some remote areas.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, there is still one day to be thirty, there is no candy, no firecrackers and red lanterns, and I can't even eat a full meal, but I still have to live this year. With those dozens of catties of flour, the paste of the Zhou family can also be thickened, and the adults and children also have a little strength, and they began to prepare for the New Year, first dismantling and washing the quilt, and then simply cleaning the room. There are no new clothes, and they can't even afford newspapers on the walls, but after all, everyone is alive, and there is even some food at home that can reach the beginning of spring, which is a great blessing in such a catastrophic year, and no one is dissatisfied with this shabby and shabby New Year.

Zhou Wanwan, the three brothers and sisters are also preparing for the New Year. Zhou Chen had already dismantled and washed his quilt, Zhou Yang swept away the dust in the corners of the house a few times, and carefully wiped the window frames and cabinets, and the preparations were completed.

Zhou Chen boiled two large pots of hot water for two more days under the scolding of Mrs. Zhou, and gave the three brothers and sisters a thorough hot bath. Although Zhou Wanwan always found an opportunity to bathe herself with spiritual spring water in the space, conceited at that time, there was no clean child like her in the whole country, but she still had to sit in the big wooden basin, frowning and enduring her eldest brother's clumsy bathing skills. There is no way, her second brother is washing clothes and supervising the work at the same time, if she doesn't wash it well, not only will Zhou Wanwan be taught a lesson, but even Zhou Yang will have to be stared at. For the sake of the poor eldest brother, although Zhou Wanwan's little brows were getting tighter and tighter, she still endured it.

After washing it easily, Zhou Yang hurriedly wiped Zhou Wanwan and covered it in the quilt. Zhou Chen found clean clothes for the three brothers and sisters, although they were all old clothes, they were clean and tidy and fit very well, which was a little different from the style of the fat clothes at that time, and they were not eye-catching, but they looked very comfortable. Especially Zhou Wanwan, a red blouse with small flowers, a goose-yellow duckling embroidered on the collar, and a red carp on a delicate soft-soled small shoe, lined her with pink and tender, as cute as a doll. Zhou Chen couldn't help but snort a few times on her little curly hair, and finally kissed her again, "Why is it so good-looking!" ”

Zhou Wanwan angrily grabbed his little curly hair with his chubby hand, and sulked with a pout. She's a little curly! How could she have forgotten that she was a little curly when she was a child......

Since Zhou Wanwan's body has recovered well, her nutrition has kept up, her hair has changed from the original yellow and sparse to shiny and thick, and then her little curly hair has come out...... Fluffy and soft, with a sweet milky fragrance, it has become the favorite place of Zhou Wanwan's two brothers, and the little faces that were always pinched before were lined up. Zhou Chen had nothing to do and repaired it for her, so that the little curly hair was kept fluffy and fluffy, making people feel soft and want to rub it at a glance.

Zhou Wanwan actually doesn't remember what she looked like before she was thirteen years old in her previous life, and she has no photos to keep. She vaguely remembers that at that time, she was thin and small, her hair was dry and scorched, and most of the time it was just attached to her scalp, in order to save the alkaline surface of washing her hair, and also to prevent lice. It wasn't until she was thirteen that she kept her hair shoulder-length, and she finally looked a little girly. Before that, she had never paid attention to her image, and of course, she didn't have any worries about the little curly hair in this life.

The three brothers and sisters who were neat, clean and healthy appeared in front of the Zhou family, which brought a lot of shock to everyone in the Zhou family. They seem to have just discovered that these three children, who had not been paid any attention in the past year, have grown up like bones.

The two boys are like tall trees, although they are still immature, they exude vitality and vitality that cannot be stopped. Zhou Yang, who is already a little teenager, has a rare steadiness and responsibility for young people, and Zhou Chen, who is still a little boy, has deep and smart eyes, and does things in an orderly manner, and they are all children who will be affirmed and favored at first sight.

Looking at Zhou Wanwan again, is this still the half-dead child who was almost thrown up Nanshan not long ago? This little girl with pink and tender skin, big watery eyes, a little mouth like a rose, and almost unreal beauty, how could it be a child raised by someone like the Zhou family.

At this point, all the Zhou family members believed it with certainty, and Zhou Wanwan had indeed eaten the malt milk essence given by Chief Shen. If you look at her appearance, how can there be a little shadow of a rural child, she must have eaten the malt milk essence that only people in the city can eat, and she will grow into what she is now.

Zhou Wanwan was also a little apprehensive when she saw her current appearance, how could she be like this when she was a child? Zhou Wanwan knew that she was very beautiful when she grew up, otherwise Zhao Baosheng would not have started to pursue her when she was fifteen years old in her previous life, and it would take three years for her to take the university entrance examination, and it would take another three years for the two to get married.

But when she was a child, she looked like this, which she never expected. Zhou Wanwan has been looking in the mirror in the space for a long time, and no matter how you look at it, I feel that my current self is a bit of a Chinese version of Xiulan. The taste of Temple. In such a catastrophic year, there are not many children in the country who have raised her to be as white, tender and healthy, right? But if she wants to change, she has to do it slowly and quietly, otherwise she will suddenly change from a white and tender little doll to a black, thin and withered little refugee, and her brothers will not die in a hurry......

Zhou Wanwan didn't know that the three of them stood in front of the Zhou family like this, offending almost everyone in the Zhou family.

First of all, Zhou Fu and Zhou Jun were immediately compared by Zhou Yang and Zhou Chen. Although there is a lot of age difference, Zhou Yang's steady responsibility and Zhou Chen's cleverness and flexibility immediately made Zhou Fu's honesty become clumsy, and Zhou Jun's laziness became a scoundrel. This made Zhou Chunfa's family extremely unhappy, four brothers, Zhou Chunfa has always felt that he is the best among them, he is more flexible than the other three brothers, and has a future, which is recognized in the Zhou family, correspondingly, his children should also be the best and most promising in the Zhou family, but after Zhou Yang and Zhou Chen, Zhou Chunfa's two sons are simply unsightly. This is really too much to take him as a brigade accountant! Wang Fengying was even more angry, a few wild children who had no father to teach and no mother dared to compare her son, Wang Fengying's eyes were almost red when she looked at Zhou Chen's brothers and sisters.

And the contrast between Zhou Wanwan and Zhou Lan is even more disparity, one is healthy, beautiful, smart and lively, the other is half-dead and silent, the same child who eats in the pot, that one doesn't even have a mother, how can he be so much stronger than this one? Li Guizhi felt uncomfortable like a cat scratching. She complained that she was weak, forced by Mrs. Zhou, and frightened by Wang Fengying, so in order to be a virtuous daughter-in-law, she sent her daughter's life-saving food; complained even more about Zhou Yang's brother's ruthlessness, how could he watch Zhou Lan starving, but he refused to reach out to help?

And the ones who almost hated them so much that their eyes were bleeding were Zhou Hongying and Mrs. Zhou. These two have always been talking about each other in the Zhou family, and now they know that these children have hidden things, but they can't find evidence, so they can only watch dryly. The two of them are almost gearing up to prepare, as long as they find an opportunity, they will definitely shoot these little cubs who dare to hide their hearts with them!

Zhou Wanwan didn't pay attention to what these people thought, or she could guess without paying attention to her. She felt that Zhou Xia should be in the most complicated mood at this time.

Zhou Xia didn't put on new clothes, although Zhou Wanwan also prepared them for her, even more delicate than her own, with a collar and placket embroidered with flowers and plants, and the patches were very secret, and she deliberately considered the color matching, and matched it with a cotton handkerchief embroidered with the same pattern. Since she is preparing clothes for several children under the banner of her mother, Zhou Wanwan will not give Zhou Xia a chance to slander her mother's partiality.

Zhou Xia's clothes and two pairs of delicately embroidered shoes were given to Qian Yan by Mrs. Zhou, and they were about the same height. Mrs. Zhou said that Qian Yan will go to school next year, so she is just going to wear it. As for Zhou Xia, a country girl, who has been squatting in front of the stove pit all her life, how can she wear such good clothes.

Yes, Zhou Wanwan did it on purpose. deliberately made Zhou Xia's clothes exquisite, leading Mrs. Zhou to make a move. In her previous life, there was no such thing, Zhou Wanwan hoped that Zhou Xia could wake up from the fact that Mrs. Zhou snatched her clothes, at least she could know who was really good to her.

For Zhou Xia, Zhou Wanwan didn't have any expectations, but she just felt that if she could see something because of this incident, and no longer lean so desperately towards Mrs. Zhou and Zhou Hongying, so as to be less hostile to the three of them, at least the eldest brother would be less sad. After all, Zhou Xia is different from Mrs. Zhou, for this grandmother, Zhou Yang has not had too deep feelings since she was a child, and for Zhou Xia, Zhou Yang has always had a sense of responsibility as an elder brother.

The most normal thing for the whole family to show about the changes in the three brothers and sisters should be Old Man Zhou and Zhou Chunliang, or rather, they didn't notice such a big change in these children at all, or they didn't take it to heart. For the first time, Zhou Wanwan felt that the personalities of these two people were not so annoying......

The dinner of the Zhou family on Chinese New Year's Eve is white noodle soup, unlimited amount, enough tube. Other than that, there is no difference from usual, there are no couplets, no firecrackers, and there is not even a New Year's celebration. Not only the Zhou family, but also the entire three families quietly spent the Chinese New Year's Eve of the Lunar New Year in the dark.

Zhou Yang's three brothers and sisters returned to the West House, Zhou Chen quickly did the trivial chores, closed the curtain, took out a bowl of malt milk essence to feed Zhou Wanwan as if by magic every day, and stuffed a handful of roasted soybeans into Zhou Yang's hand.

Zhou Wanwan has always been curious, where did her second brother hide all his things? Not only secret, but also free, what a talent.

On the first Chinese New Year's Eve since rebirth, Zhou Wanwan was so excited that he couldn't sleep. "Big brother, tomorrow I will be one year older. The eldest brother and second brother are also one year older. Zhou Wanwan began to tease his brothers.

"How old is she now?" Zhou Yang actually didn't expect his sister to understand the meaning of being one year older, but he just thought that her serious appearance was funny.

"One year old, two years old next year." Zhou Wanwan stretched out a little finger, and then another one.

The brothers were amused by her, touching her soft little curly hair, and pinching their faces, which made Zhou Wanwan frown and hide for a long time. "Next year, I want to grow up as a big kid soon." Zhou Wanwan tried to get the brother and sister conversation to the point. She really wants to know her brothers' New Year's resolutions, and she will do her best to help them achieve them. "What do the eldest brother and second brother want most next year?"

"Big brother wants to be full of food." Zhou Wanwan was a little depressed when she heard this, no matter how much the second brother saved feeding her, there was not much left. What the eldest brother is most afraid of is to starve her, right?

"What else?" Zhou Wanwan hopes that the eldest brother can say a wish about himself.

"Don't get sick, grow up well." Zhou Yang thought for a while and added: "The four of us are not sick, we all grow up quickly." ”

"What else?" Zhou Wanwan asked.

"I hope my teeth will grow out soon."

"What else?" Zhou Wanwan still didn't give up.

"I hope it won't dry again."

"I hope my eldest brother can get a first-class job."

……

In the end, Zhou Wanwan finally gave up, the eldest brother said so much, none of them were about himself, and the only one who had to work more......

Zhou Wanwan turned her target to her second brother again, and Zhou Chen's wish was much more specific, "I want to have an iron spoon the most." ”

Zhou Wanwan nodded, this wooden spoon is really not easy to use. In addition to the cauldron and the axe for chopping wood, the only iron tools in the family are several indispensable farm tools, and the other two years have been used to make steel, according to the current situation of the Zhou family, it is really a luxury to buy an iron spoon......

"I can brush my teeth." A few years ago, when Zhou Chen was young, his mother brushed her teeth, but later she couldn't eat, and she was sarcastically ridiculed by Mrs. Zhou and Wang Fengying many times, and Li Xiuhua didn't brush it anymore.

"I can give my baby white noodles."

"In the spring, I can get bird eggs for my baby."

"Milk, stop swearing."

……

Zhou Wanwan kept her second brother's New Year's wishes in her heart, except for the one about Mrs. Zhou, it was not difficult to do. She will help the second brother achieve everything, even if the second brother can't think of it, she will also help him think that she will make her life and that of her brothers better and better......