Although the family is poor, in previous years, the family still tried to prepare everything that should be prepared in accordance with the customs of County C, jujube flower buns must be steamed in several pots, radish balls, lotus root boxes must also be fried in a bun basket, dumplings must be prepared, Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year must be eaten. Now there are only two days left before the year today and tomorrow, and the family has not prepared anything, and tomorrow is thirty, and I have to go to the grave of my ancestors when I have time.

After breakfast, Shi Dayong hurriedly accompanied Wang Ying back to his parents' house, Wang Ying was quite happy at first, but the sooner he got home, the slower he walked, and then he simply cried.

Shi Dayong was carrying something in one hand and An An in the other, the husband and wife were talking while walking, but as he spoke, Shi Dayong felt that there was no movement around him, and when he looked to the side, he didn't find anyone, he paused, turned around to look, and saw Wang Ying wiping his tears, he was fine just now, what are you crying about?

"Yingzi, what's wrong? Why are you still crying? Shi Dayong was puzzled and led An An back.

"Dayong." Wang Ying looked up, it seemed that she had been crying for a while, her eyes were red, and there were tears on the wings of her nose: "If my mother asked, why didn't Coco come back, what would I say?" ”

Afraid that his parents would worry, but he disappeared from this matter, Wang Ying never told his parents, and in the days when Shi Youtian was sent away, Wang Ying's father came to mourn, and no one talked about it, so until now, Wang Ying's parents still don't know that their granddaughter is missing.

There are too many things, Shi Dayong's mind has long been filled with all kinds of things, he has forgotten about the loss of the child for the time being, and when he goes to his father-in-law's house for a while, his mother-in-law will definitely ask, and he can't see his grandmother and grandfather a few times all year round, and it is impossible for Wang Ying to go back to his parents' house without taking Coco.

Shi Dayong was also a little embarrassed, and he pondered for a moment: "Or?" Let's be honest? ”

Wang Ying shook her head and asked Shi Dayong pitifully: "Just say that Coco is at grandma's house, don't you want to go out?" ”

"Okay, let's see if her grandmother believes it or not."

"Yes, what if my mother doesn't believe me?" Coco is the closest to her grandmother, saying that she is unwilling to go to her grandmother's house with her mother, but Wang Ying herself doesn't believe it.

There's no other way, and I can't help but go, my mother, I usually miss it tightly.

Wang Ying wiped the traces on his face, and then raised his face to let Shi Dayong look at it: "Dayong, you can't see that I cried." ”

Shi Dayong took a closer look: "I can't see it, it's just that the eye circles are a little red, if her grandmother asks, you will say that it is cold and windy outside." ”

Wang Youyuan wrote a good hand, as soon as the Chinese New Year, especially after twenty-five, most of the people in the village will send red paper, ask Wang Youyuan to help write a few couplets, Wang Youyuan is popular, usually ask others to help as much as possible, not to mention such a trivial thing as writing pairs, when he doesn't see the medical number, he is cut red paper, and write it out one by one.

"Mother, Dad, I'm back." The courtyard of her mother's house was in front of her, and Wang Ying couldn't hold back her voice and shouted loudly.

Wang Youyuan was writing, Xiuzhi sat aside to help him cut paper, and just now he said to Wang Youyuan: "His father, do you say that our Yingzi will come back for the New Year this year?" ”

Wang Youyuan wrote in one go: The days increase the years and the longevity of the people, after writing his own appreciation for a moment, he nodded with satisfaction, put his hands aside, and prepared to write a couplet: "Then who knows, Yingzi wrote that she had just added the third child, and now the child is less than a hundred days old, if she feels sorry for the child, she is afraid that the child will suffer on the road, and she may not come back." After Wang Youyuan finished speaking, he wrote calmly: Longevity is full of blessings.

"Can't you? Yingzi comes back every year, how can she not come back this year, I haven't seen Sanni yet. Xiuzhi sighed when she said this: "Alas, his father, why are you talking about being a girl again, and I don't know how my in-laws are annoying." ”

"What's annoying?" Wang Youyuan frowned and muttered dissatisfiedly: "My daughter has worked hard to give birth to children for their Lao Shi family, what are they bothered about?" What's wrong with the girl, the girl is not their Lao Shi family? ”

"That being said, didn't you like your daughter Guangxi'er back then."

"Who said I don't like my daughter anymore, when did I not love Yingzi?"

"That's your little girl, of course you're in pain, how many times have you felt distressed in our Dani and Erni?"

The old couple was about to choke when they spoke, Wang Youyuan is not an ordinary patriarch, he always felt that his daughter was raised by someone else's family, and he didn't want the two older daughters to go to school at first, if it wasn't for the eldest son's speech, it must be two rural women who don't know a few big words, but fortunately, Erni has good academic performance, and she is still the first college student in the town, so she won him glory.

"Our girl is back!" Hearing the voice of the little girl, Xiuzhi stopped talking to Wang Youyuan, put the paper in her hand to the side, stood up and went out to greet her.

Wang Youyuan didn't write the pair, put the brush on the edge of the inkstone, and followed Xiuzhi to walk out.

"Grandma!" An An let go of Shi Dayong's hand and rolled to his grandmother's side like a ball.

"Mother!" Wang Ying thought about it, and his pace sped up a little.

This kid is not afraid of knocking when he runs fast: "Oh, my obedient come, you run slower." Xiuzhi hurriedly hugged the little fat ball in her arms.

"Dad, mother." Shi Dayong greeted with a smile while carrying things.

"You're back, Dayong, when are you going to be home?" Wang Youyuan went to take the things in his son-in-law's hand, Shi Dayong pushed and said, "No, no, it's quite heavy." ”

Wang Youyuan said in his heart, how heavy can that be? After taking the things and going to the house, the set of stoves in the gift were all made of fine iron, and as soon as he started Wang Youyuan, he felt that his hand fell down violently, and he frowned: "Dayong, what are you holding here?" ”

"Dad, there's nothing good, just a stove and a few pots."

Isn't this gift all about food and drink, I haven't seen a pot yet, and it's not a new warm pot, Wang Youyuan thinks it's strange, but his son-in-law gave it to him, it must be a good thing, anyway, there are no outsiders, Wang Youyuan took out all the gifts in front of his son-in-law.

There are also food and drink, this is not unusual, all put aside first, open the packaging of the stove, Wang Youyuan suddenly couldn't put it down, as a senior gourmet, the most unsatisfactory thing is that there is no stove in hand, you see these pots, and the iron pot in the hometown is different, they are not black, but bright, the pot is not big, the fried scoop is only 25 cm, compared with the big iron pot on the stove, it is too small and cute, the porridge pot is not big, and the family of two burns a pot of porridge just to drink twice.

Wang Youyuan is thinking that the cauldron at home is not easy to use, and a little cooking has to be stained with the entire cauldron, and the pot is still fixed on the stove, and it is not easy to brush the pot.

Look at the small stove again, the appearance is a bit like the ancient tripod, the three-legged tripod, the round belly, and the three circles of the stove lid from large to small.

"This is good, this is good!" Wang Youyuan's joy was beyond words, and his gray goatee trembled with his grinning mouth.

Xiuzhi hugged An An and looked behind Wang Ying, but Coco walked really slowly, haven't you caught up with it yet? She hugged An An and looked down at Shi Xiang in swaddling clothes, Shi Xiang woke up early, and he didn't say a word, turning his big black eyes to look at everything around him.

"This kid is so good." Xiuzhi praised sincerely, and found Shi Xiang's big nose again: "Oh, this big nose is the same as your father's." She hurriedly called Wang Youyuan to come and see: "Old man, come quickly, Sannier is with you, her nose is exactly the same as yours." ”

"Really? I'll see. Wang Youyuan didn't look at his pot anymore, and an arrow stepped over, and took the stone from Wang Ying's arms and looked at it carefully: "Don't say it, San'er's nose is really similar to mine." Wang Youyuan was overjoyed and showed off to Shi Dayong: "Look, look, it's still my old Wang's genetics strong." ”

Since beating her mother and looking back over and over again, Wang Ying knew what her mother was looking for, she had been absent-minded for a while, thinking, if my mother asked about Coco, how would I answer.

Xiuzhi and the old couple talked for a while, and when they saw that their daughter didn't react, they looked at their daughter's face again, and found that Wang Ying looked like she was not giving up, she patted Wang Ying's head: "You kid, what do you want?" Coco, why didn't you see Coco coming. ”

"Ahh Wang Ying thought about the reason for a long time, but couldn't say it for a while, and then said after a few clicks: "That...... That Coco was at grandma's house, yes, at grandma's house, she had a little cold, she slept, and I didn't wake her up when I came. ”

"You said you, don't you know that your mother wants to have children? It's okay if you come a little late, it's a big deal to stay at home tonight. Xiuzhi is dissatisfied, her granddaughter is the closest to her, if she wakes up and knows that her mother will leave her grandmother's house without her, she won't know how to cry.

"Mother." Wang Ying lowered her eyes and didn't dare to look at her mother.

Xiuzhi thought that Coco was really sleeping at her grandmother's house, and she didn't think much about it, and pointed her index finger at Shi Xiang's cheeks and teased: "Ah, whose little Nizi is beautiful, do you know who I am?" I'm your grandmother, come, call grandma. ”

Shi Xiang seemed to be able to feel who was really good to her, the grandmother in front of her exuded kindness, her eyes were full of love, and she opened her toothless little mouth and giggled very cooperatively.

"Xiuzhi, look at the pot and stove that Dayong bought for me, okay?" Wang Youyuan got a good thing, and pointed it out to his wife the same: "In the future, when the two of us eat, we will use this to make it, and we will burn the cauldron when there are more people." ”

"Let me see? It's not bad. Xiuzhi hugged the big meat ball, tilted her body and looked: "It's okay now, and you won't have to be inconvenient to cook in the future." ”

The lunch is made by the old couple together, Xiuzhi burns a cauldron and is responsible for cooking porridge and steamed buns, Wang Youyuan wants to give his new home Shi He Xin, he is responsible for stir-frying, Shi Dayong brought a chicken to kill one, stew a fish, heat a bowl of steamed meat, stew a pot of small crispy pork ......, seeing that a table of dishes came out, the old man has no intention of stopping, Shi Dayong hurriedly stepped forward to stop: "Enough is enough, Dad, a lot, we can't eat too much." ”

"Make two more, in case you don't have enough to eat." Wang Youyuan was addicted to this time, and he didn't want to stop, Shi Dayong hurriedly took out all the wood in the hearth, and carried the stove aside with his handle: "Dad, we're all hungry, let's eat, we can't eat any of these, we can't do it anymore." ”

During the Chinese New Year, the son-in-law came to the door, and he couldn't eat, so there had to be wine, Wang Youyuan took out the good wine that he was reluctant to drink, Shi Dayong poured a full cup for his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and then poured the wine glass in front of him, raised the wine glass with both hands, and saluted the two old people: "Dad, mother, I wish the second old man a long and healthy life." ”