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Lin Jiajia feels that there is an advantage to opening the store near the school, that is, whenever the school holidays are closed, especially on national holidays, she can also give herself a holiday.

So after almost half a year of opening the store and the business gradually stabilized, Lin Jiajia waved his hand: New Year's Day is closed for holidays! And Liu Cancan, as the only employee under her hands, was finally able to rest for a few days in a row, and Lin Jiajia also generously gave a holiday red envelope, making the little girl happy.

In fact, there is another big event during this holiday - the second brother is going to get engaged. Since Chen Xiaofei began to help the store with business, the two have gradually become familiar with each other. Lin Jiajia is also more and more pleasing to the eyes of this occasionally ghostly and occasionally gentle and lovely future brother-in-law, so although Chen Xiaofei has not officially visited the Lin family, she has already been praised within the Lin family.

So for this engagement banquet, everyone in the Lin family who can come back is back. When Lin Jiajia privately told Chen Xiaofei about the general situation of the Lin family, she also introduced the general situation of the Lin family again, after all, she expected Lin Jianjian to introduce the second goods, and her future brother-in-law would definitely be a little confused when she saw a large group of people.

What Lin Jiajia didn't know was that because of her kindness, Chen Xiaofei's family also had a relatively positive impression of her, a divorced person who returned to her parents' home, and it also gave Lin Jiajia a great help in the later "rumors" incident, but it was a good cause and a good result!

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Early in the morning, the small courtyard of the Lin family was busy, from Grandpa Lin, Grandma Lin, Father Lin, and Mother Lin to the sugar buns. Especially Mother Lin, who is about to be upgraded to mother-in-law, is beaming with joy from the inside out, Lin Jiajia smiled at her mother is in good spirits on happy occasions, and she is more than ten years younger all of a sudden. If it was usual, he would definitely get a white eye, but today he was comfortably flattered by his daughter.

The sugar-covered child wore a red retro dress today, which Chen Xiaofei and Lin Jianjian bought when they went shopping in the city a few days ago. Today, Lin Jiajia deliberately changed the sugar packet, which can be regarded as the occasion.

In fact, in towns and villages, divorced women who are divorced on festive occasions such as engagement and marriage generally try to avoid being present, saying that they are afraid of rushing to the joy. But because the two families are not blind people, and the Chen family specifically mentioned that Lin Jiajia must be present, everyone doesn't care about this.

When Lin Jiajia chatted with Lin's father and Lin's mother in private, she also expressed her intentions, if the other party was reasonable, everyone would naturally be happy, but if it was really taboo, she would take a sugar bag to avoid for a day. Fortunately, the result was satisfactory, and it was not in vain that she and Chen Xiaofei had a good relationship. And the old man Lin, who has always remembered this in his heart, also praised the Chen family's good family style after knowing it, and he resolutely disagreed, and he would not wronged his eldest granddaughter because of anyone or anything.

Not to mention these, the Lin family has already packed up and is almost ready to go, Lin Jianjian hurriedly came in and asked his grandparents to get in the car, Lin Jiajia also drove to the hotel with sugar packets and Lin Hao, who had not left here since he came back from school last night.

Along the way, Lin Hao teased the sugar bag and said something, one was just two and a half years old and couldn't finish his words, and the other was about to graduate from junior high school but was still a childish mess, and the uncle and nephew who were a round away actually had a lot of topics. Lin Jiajia laughed when she heard it, and laughed all the way after listening to it.

When they arrived at the hotel, the second uncle's family and the younger uncle had already arrived in a business car. Lin Jiajia hurriedly sent Lin Hao to help them get gifts for the woman and the matchmaker, while she held the sugar bag and went to the private room booked before.

Not long after sitting down, the Chen family and the matchmaker also arrived, and Lin's father and mother took Lin Jianjian to greet him. Because of the previous discussion, the number of people from the Chen family was about the same as that of the Lin family, and it happened to be divided into two seats.

Because Lin Jiajia had talked to Chen Xiaofei, she knew that it should be Chen's father and Chen's mother, Chen Xiaofei's brother and sister-in-law, Chen's second uncle's family and Chen's aunt's family. Sure enough, the matchmaker Aunt Wang got up and introduced the two families to each other, which was a few people who Lin Jiajia guessed. Although it is generally dominated by women, the grandparents of the Chen family are gone, so everyone subconsciously focuses on Mr. Lin's side.

Aunt Wang took a set of gold and silver jewelry and a red envelope of 18,000 from Mother Lin and handed it to Mother Chen, and mentioned a few boxes of tobacco, wine and tea placed on the table in the private room. then pushed Chen Xiaofei out to give Grandpa Lin, Grandma Lin, Father Lin, and Mother Lin a cup of sweet tea and changed their words, and then received four more red envelopes.

Lin Jianjian also attended and brought Chen Xiaofei to give tea to the rest of the relatives and friends of the Lin family and changed their mouths to accept red envelopes, and when they arrived at Lin Jiajia, Chen Xiaofei blushed again, and laughed so much that Lin Jiajia couldn't speak, and didn't say anything to tease the prospective brother and daughter-in-law, and drank the tea happily, and also stuffed a big red envelope.

The next thing is that Mother Lin used to put on the gold necklace for Chen Xiaofei, and Lin Jianjian and Chen Xiaofei also helped each other put on the engagement ring.

Although the process was short but full of ritual, Lin Jiajia had always watched it with relish, so she didn't pay attention to the regret that Lin Mu couldn't hide in her eyes when she looked at her.

Next, everyone had a meal peacefully, because there were old and young, and everyone didn't delay much, after the Chen family put the return gift and a suit for Chen Xiaofei for Lin Jianjian in the car, everyone had to go back to their respective homes.

Lin Hao was caught by his uncle and returned to their business car, and the sugar packet was also taken away by Lin Chu, so Lin Jiajia's car was empty. When waiting for the cars in front of her to come out, Lin Jiajia looked at the matchmaker who laughed the most exaggerated in the crowd, remembered the consistent image of the matchmaker in the TV series, and secretly enjoyed herself for a while.

Aunt Wang didn't know that she was secretly seen as a "joke" in her heart, she only knew that she was really happy today, not only because she could take the thank you gift, but also because this gift was very easy. She didn't have much hope for herself, but she just set up a line for the two young people, and then she didn't use her again, thinking that it was over. When the Chen family approached the door, she knew that the two families were already optimistic about the day and were going to get engaged, which made her very proud, and she felt that she was a relatively "spiritual" old man!

However, Lin Jiajia looked at it coldly, this matchmaker is actually not an easy job, unless it is a reasonable job like Lin and Chen, otherwise once there is something dirty, it is the matchmaker who will be complained about the most.

When they got home, several elders still went back to their respective rooms to replenish their strength, and Lin Jianjian, who had just completed a major life event, was still in a state of excitement. Lin Jiajia listened to the laughter of two people and one dog in the yard, and could only shake her head slightly, none of these uncles in the family were "reliable", I hope that my second brother can be a little more mature after getting married.

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When Lin Jiajia woke up the next day, she found that it had rained last night, sleet to be precise, and it was the first snow of the year. tucked the corner of the quilt for the sugar packet that was still sleeping, and told Lin Jianjian, who was washing, to listen to the movement in the house, and wrapped himself tightly and prepared to go out.

The road surface is still a little wet, but there is not a little mud on the road paved with cultural bricks, and there is no longer the "cement road" that Lin Jiajia remembers, although difficult to walk but full of fun. Looking up at the quiet surroundings, Lin Jiajia suddenly lost the good mood and sense of expectation when she went out just now, I don't know if it was because of the sadness of her childhood that never went back, or because she felt sorry for herself who was alone at the moment.

Just when she turned around to go home, Lin Jiajia found a small dirt road that had not been "refined", and she didn't care whether the shoes on her feet were suitable, so she subconsciously walked over. When her feet stepped on the slightly muddy ground, Lin Jiajia found that the inexplicable bad mood just now had disappeared.

Maybe it's because I went to elementary school in the village for a few years when I was a child, or maybe it's because my childhood is extremely rare, Lin Jiajia still likes the kind of small dirt road that is half dry and half muddy for a day or two after the rain. It looks difficult to walk, but in fact, there are already predecessors who have secretly made "marks". As long as you are a little careful, the sense of security of every step is a kind of wonder of "giving birth to lotus step by step" in Lin Jiajia's view.

After walking a few steps, Lin Jiajia actually found a flowering glass emerald in a corner, such a cold weather is really rare. While proud that he was lucky to see beautiful things, he didn't forget to take his phone out of his coat pocket and take several photos from a good angle. I looked around the neighborhood again, and found that there was nothing interesting about it, and I estimated that I was about to wake up when I touched the sugar packet, so I went home full of joy.

On the other side of the wall, behind the slightly open window upstairs, a pair of eyes sparkled as if they had discovered the wonderful treasures of this world.

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