"Little book, little book......" Auntie called softly outside the room, the voice was extremely soft, if the people inside were still asleep, it should not be heard.

"Auntie, I'm awake." Shang Xiaoshu replied, put down his phone, and got up. For people who don't often lie in bed, lying down for too long will also cause back pain.

"Happy birthday, big baby!"

Yu Xin pushed the door in, and saw that Shang Xiaoshu had already put on his home clothes, so he walked directly to the window, opened the curtains first, and then opened the glass window and closed the window screen to ventilate. Then I went all the way to make my bed.

"Thank you, Auntie, for the big red envelope, Mengmeng also sent me a red envelope, look, haha......" Shang Xiaoshu opened the conversation page with Zhang Meng and shook it proudly in front of Auntie.

may be because he just had a sense of money, Zhang Meng encountered a series of changes such as the bankruptcy of the family's workshop, the sale of the house to pay off the debt, and the whole growth period saw how his mother and cousin worked hard to make money, even if the family conditions became better later, Zhang Meng has not learned to spend money, and he is extremely frugal to himself, and the standard of living is even lower to just eat and dress warmly.

It's rare to think of sending a red envelope to her sister who has a birthday, and Shang Xiaoshu wants to show off in front of her aunt.

"Oh, then you have to put it away, it's rare to be generous with a small pick", Yu Xin also joked with a smile, saw Shang Xiaoshu stretching his waist and yawning, and asked her, "Didn't you sleep well last night?" ”

Shang Xiaoshu rubbed his temples, "I have to get used to the noise of the city again." ”

My aunt's house is located in the middle of the city, and when I bought a house, Shang Xiaoshu reminded my aunt, "Will it be too noisy here?" ”

As a result, Yu Xin said, "I just like to be lively." ”

It is indeed very lively, the community is sandwiched between two main roads, there are various stores downstairs, next door is a very large vegetable market, there is a large commercial square next to it, commercial streets, supermarkets, cinemas have everything. Life is very convenient and full of the smell of fireworks.

Yu Xin said that she just likes this community called "Happy Home", when she first came to Shenshui City, she occasionally came to the city to go shopping, and after passing by here, she secretly thought, if I can live here one day, it would be good.

Later, he married Zhang Xiaojun in a rental house, and his son Zhang Meng was also born in a rental house. In order for Zhang Meng to have a better kindergarten to study, he bought a small house with his savings for many years, because his savings are limited, and he has to raise his son and study for Shang Xiaoshu, so he can only buy it in a remote location.

Therefore, thanks to the blessing of his niece Shang Xiaoshu, Yu Xin quickly made some money after paying off the arrears and opening his own studio. Yu Xin immediately came to Happy Home to check if there were any second-hand houses for sale.

Knowing his aunt's obsession, Shang Xiaoshu naturally had no objections. Originally, I bought a place to live for my aunt, and my aunt liked it, and it was indeed extremely convenient to live here.

When Shang Xiaoshu was washed, her aunt had already put a bowl of millet porridge, an egg cake, and an egg on the table, "Come and have breakfast, eat whatever you want, we will have a big meal at noon, and I also ordered a small cake."

"We don't like cake, so why buy it?"

"The sense of ritual still has to be dropped, you were too busy on your lunar birthday, and you didn't come back to eat, today is your official birthday, and it's the weekend, it's rare", Yu Xin talked to Shang Xiaoshu while getting busy in the kitchen.

It's a pity that there are no fritters, and every time Secretary Shang Xiaoshu had to have a birthday when she was a child, her grandmother would let her eat one fritter and two boiled eggs, which meant 100 points. However, I have eaten fried dough sticks and eggs so many times, and I have never seen her score a few percent, sometimes I think about it, I really disappointed my grandmother too much.

Yu Xin boiled the pork ribs and corn horseshoe soup that her niece has always liked to drink, washed the dishes to be fried at noon one by one, looked at the time, it was almost half past ten, quickly wiped her wet hands clean, and went to the locker in the corner of the living room to find a bunch of things she went to buy yesterday.

Then, in Shang Xiaoshu's puzzled gaze, Yu Xin first set out two candlesticks on the coffee table in the living room, inserted two brand-new white candles, and brought two plates of fruits from under the coffee table, including apples, oranges, bananas, as well as lotus mist, mangosteen, and cherries, which should have been prepared yesterday or early this morning.

Shang Xiaoshu drank porridge and watched her aunt bring out dishes from the kitchen, including grains such as millet and beans, as well as roasted whole chicken, whole fish and a small bowl of braised pork, a few small plates of daily vegetables, as well as vegetable oil, soy sauce, vinegar and so on in small wine glasses. He took out several stacks of dark money from a black plastic bag on the ground...... A large coffee table was filled. Finally, she took out two small picture frames from her bedroom, opened the bracket behind the picture frames, and placed them side by side between the two candles.

Then, he urged Shang Xiaoshu, who was still drinking porridge slowly, "Hurry up and eat, come and pay tribute to your grandma and your mother after eating, you were born at 11:18 in the morning, and the time will be ...... soon."

He muttered again, "It was supposed to be the seventh day of July, but you don't have time, so you can only do it today." I didn't know what sacrifices to prepare, but then I thought, "I'd better prepare them according to what your grandmother and mother liked to eat when they were alive."

"The money is going to be burned at a crossroads at night. I also specially asked the old man who understood, and they said that the heart is sincere, and the mother and eldest sister should be able to feel our hearts......"

Shang Xiaoshu, who had just cleaned up the dining table briefly, came over and saw that the stacks of banknotes on the table were not the same, there were RMB, US dollars, and British pounds, and the face value was quite large, 1,000 yuan and 10,000 yuan. couldn't help but be a little funny, and asked her aunt, "Auntie, why didn't you buy some loose money?" The denomination of this money is so big, will grandma not be able to change it when they receive it? ”

She was joking, she had never seen her aunt believe this before. Every year, they go back to their hometown during the Qingming Festival to see their grandparents and mothers lying in the town cemetery, and they usually bring flowers or some fruits to worship simply. When my grandmother died, my aunt chose to buy a cemetery and moved my grandfather and monk Xiaoshu and my mother over, instead of burying them in their own fields after most people in my hometown died.

Today's formation is so big, I don't know which aunt learned it from. But the answer soon came.

Yu Xin listened to her words, was really stunned, and said anxiously, "Oh, Lao Ma didn't tell me this, and I didn't think of this problem, so what should I do?" ”

Shang Xiaoshu suddenly couldn't stop joking, and comforted her aunt, "It's okay, it's okay, since the US dollars and pounds can be exchanged over there, we can definitely change it, next time we just remember this thing." ”

She had already seen two black-and-white photos in the frame, one was a group photo of her grandfather, who was still young at that time, especially her grandfather, who was heroic. This photo was taken out by Shang Xiaoshu and his aunt from their grandmother's relics, the original photo was very small, and it was worn out for some years, and then it was taken to the photo studio for restoration, and a few large ones were reprinted.

The other is Shang Xiaoshu's mother who died when he was more than 4 years old. Life stands still forever at the age of 28.

Yu Xin pulled Shang Xiaoshu over, knelt side by side on the carpet in front of the coffee table, and then lit two candles.

Kowtow sincerely, "Today is Xiaoshu's birthday, just me and Xiaoshu." Dad, mother, big sister, I hope you hear the call and come and celebrate with us. Over the past few years, we have been running around for dinner, and we have not paid much attention to paying respects to you, and I hope you will forgive us. Now that we are all living well, you can rest assured! ”

"Eldest sister, Xiaoshu is 28 years old, except for the fact that she has not found a suitable object, everything else is very good, she is very capable, very sensible, you don't have to worry about it anymore. I'm ashamed to say that over the years, not only have I not taken good care of her, but I have also affected the children, eldest sister, I'm sorry......"

Hearing the voice beside him a little choked, Shang Xiaoshu turned his head and saw that his aunt had burst into tears. She stretched out her hand to put her arms around her aunt's shoulders and continued to listen to her aunt's chatter to her grandfather.

When Grandpa died, Shang Xiaoshu had not yet been born, so he naturally had no impression at all. For her mother, Shang Xiaoshu actually doesn't have much memory, she remembers relatively late, and she has been carried by her grandmother since she was a child, and her only memory of her mother is that she brought delicious candy every time she came back, and her mother's face has long been blurred. Looking at the photo at this time, if it weren't for the fact that my mother's facial features and face were very similar to my aunt, for her, she would really be a family member in the photo.

The aunt finally stopped and asked Shang Xiaoshu to talk to her grandparents as well.

Shang Xiaoshu also lay down and kowtowed a few times, "Grandma, I have grown up, my aunt and younger brother, as well as the former little uncle, are very good to me, you don't have to worry about me not being able to support myself anymore, and you don't have to worry about me growing up to be stupid like my mother, I will enjoy life well, take good care of my aunt and younger brother, you and grandpa should also be good over there, live happily and happily......"

"Mom, too, I want you to be happy wherever you are. I'm going to be older than you were alive again, you don't have to worry about me anymore, thank you for bringing me into this world 28 years ago today. ”

Yu Xin next to him cried, and he didn't draw a tissue, but wiped his tears directly with his sleeve.

The two of them were silent for a while, seeing that the candle had dripped a piece of wax oil, before blowing out the candle, and silently helped each other to clean up the things on the coffee table.

The soup is already cooked, the meat dishes are heated, and two more vegetables are fried, and it's almost the same.

Shang Xiaoshu saw that her aunt was still very depressed, and she didn't know how to comfort her for a while. It is said that except for life and death, everything else is a trivial matter, and my aunt has encountered so many lives and deaths.

"Auntie, didn't you say you ordered a cake? Why hasn't it been delivered yet? "Shang Xiaoshu has nothing to say.

"In the refrigerator, your favorite snowy cake, I didn't let them send it, I went to pick it up in the morning", this is the advantage of living in the city, what you want to buy, you can buy it downstairs.

"It's going to take a while to eat, let's drink soup first", Yu Xin motioned for Shang Xiaoshu to take the soup can away, and said to her, "Alas, I couldn't hold back just now, your big birthday...... Shouldn't I listen to the old horse and do this? However, if you don't do it, it's also very uncomfortable to think of your grandpa and your mother...... It didn't affect your mood, did it? ”

Tangled aunt!