On Chinese New Year's Eve, after returning from the famous square, everyone began to gather together to play cards and nag, and everyone was in high spirits, as if they were a little sorry for the excitement and jubilation of tonight after sleeping, and they did not disperse until more than four o'clock in the morning.

Yan Yue was ordered by Jiang Feng to go back to sleep as soon as she returned to the community, and after Fang Xiqiao accompanied Jiang Feng and said some words to her father, she also went back to her room to rest.

The latestest were Lin Xiaoli and Yan Meihui, as well as Zhang Ling, but it was they who got up the earliest, this is the status quo of housewives, but it was only six o'clock when there was the sound of pots and pans colliding together, and the fragrance wafting from the kitchen filled the house, waking up people in their sleep.

"Happy New Year, sister-in-law, happy New Year, sister-in-law, I'll help you." Yan Yue wakes up in such a fragrance every year, before she was ten years old, she woke up in the scent of bean porridge made by her mother, and then she woke up in the scent of bean porridge made by her aunt, she just came out of the bathroom, and then walked to the kitchen, reaching out to take the shovel in Yan Meihui's hand.

Zhang Ling looked back, nodded and smiled, "Happy New Year." ”

"Okay, good, everyone wants to be good this year." Yan Meihui happily said three good words in a row, this is probably also a manifestation of her age, as long as she is happy, she can't help but say that word a few more times, she dodged Yan Yue's hand, "What do you help, is it too loud to wake you up?" ”

Yan Yue hurriedly shook her head: "No, I get up at this point when I work, and my body functions have become a habit." ”

"Then go back to sleep again." Yan Meihui immediately frowned, "It's easy to have those little problems if you don't sleep well, it's hard to be good, and it's useless to have money." ”

"Yes, so you have to sleep better, Auntie, you slept later than I did last night." Yan Yue grinned, stretched out her hand and pushed Yan Meihui to the kitchen, "I'm not afraid of young people, and so is my sister-in-law, I slept so late last night, hurry up and go back to sleep, I'm here here." ”

Yan Meihui looked helplessly, stood still and turned to look at Yan Yue, stretched out her hand and patted Yan Yue's arm: "Will you, here you are." ”

Yan Yue took a deep breath, looked at the bean porridge that was already half-completed, and nodded: "It's okay, I've eaten it for so many years, and I haven't eaten pork or seen a pig run." ”

Zhang Ling and Yan Meihui didn't move or speak, the corners of their mouths pursed a meaningful smile, Yan Yue's cooking skills are good, but this kind of special bean porridge eaten on the first day of the first month is cumbersome and very difficult to grasp, and young people who are not married basically don't know, they are some housewives who have been married for several years or the older generation.

"I'm really fine." Yan Yue sighed helplessly, and directly pushed Zhang Ling out.

Yan Meihui smiled helplessly: "The elderly will be in good spirits if they sleep for an hour or two, let your sister-in-law go back and squint for a while, it just so happens that I can also teach you how to do it by the way, otherwise you will not do this when you get married in the future, but you will be embarrassed and laughed at." ”

Yan Yue smiled shyly, and then nodded obediently.

In the end, Zhang Ling went back to make up for sleep, Yan Yue and Yan Meihui were busy in the kitchen, this kind of bean porridge is a local characteristic custom in Huaicheng, it must be eaten on the morning of the first day of the first month of the first month every year, it is a kind of bittersweet memory, most of the ordinary families were very poor in the past, but they couldn't eat it on the first day of the first month It was too shabby, so each family took a little thing out and cooked it together, and then it formed the current custom, and there is now bean porridge.

It's just that now the bean porridge will be filled with salt and some seasonings, and then some fried glutinous rice cakes and some local refreshments, which will take several hours to get ready.

Almost all the people got up, this pot of porridge was ready, after it was done, Yan Meihui asked Yan Yue to go to Fang Xiqiao's side to call someone to come over and eat together, which is also very normal, when I was in the countryside, I shouted to my relatives to eat together, but now that I came to the city, my relatives didn't live together, and the neighbors were almost relatives, not to mention that they would become neighbors sooner or later.

When eating porridge, Zhang Ling and Jiang Feng didn't come out for a long time, and Yan Yue, who had already finished eating, asked, "Auntie, where are my brother and sister-in-law?" ”

"Your brother received a task and temporarily dispatched the police when you didn't sleep for long." Yan Meihui also glanced at Jiang Feng's couple's bedroom, "Your sister-in-law may really get up too early, and she won't be able to get up this time to catch up on sleep, just leave some porridge for her." ”

Yan Yue didn't think much about it, turned around and went to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and after cleaning up, she sat on the sofa and watched TV, Fang Xiqiao was chatting with Yan Meihui and them, because it was the first day of the Lunar New Year, there were a lot of things to be busy with, so after chatting for a long time, she walked to the sofa and said goodbye to Yan Yue, and then went back.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Yan Yue looked at the door that was still not moving, and finally realized that something was wrong, and quickly got up to push open Zhang Ling's bedroom door, only to see Zhang Ling lying on the bed with a crimson face, and when she went up to touch it, her forehead and cheeks were hot.

Frightened, Yan Yue hurriedly called Yan Meihui, and then the two helped Zhang Ling to take a taxi to the hospital together, and the first check was a flu-type cold and needed to be hospitalized for infusion, but because there was a child at home, Yan Yue asked Yan Meihui to go back first, and she stayed to guard Zhang Ling.

It was not until the night that Zhang Ling woke up, and then the infusion was carried out until the afternoon of the next day, and then some tests were done, and she was discharged from the hospital and returned home on the morning of the third day of the first lunar month.

Yan Yue was so tired that she missed several phone calls from Fang Xiqiao, and when she called back again, it was already busy, and when she went to his house to look for it, his parents said that he left with Hu Tian early this morning, saying that he went to Ancheng.

"Xiaoyue, hurry back and eat." Yan Meihui opened the door and shouted at Yan Yue at the door of Fang Xiqiao's house, she didn't care whether Yan Yue was in contact with Fang Xiqiao now, she had been in the hospital for two nights in this New Year's month, and it was important to hurry up and make up some good things to get in.

Yan Yue answered, and immediately ran back after saying goodbye to Lin Xiaoli.

As soon as she ran to the dining table, Yan Yue wrinkled her eyebrows: "Auntie, what are you?" ”

Yan Meihui put a bowl on the dining table, and then sat down with Yan Yue with both hands: "Supplement your body, you and your sister-in-law will finish eating, and then use that moxa stick to go to bad luck, I will go to the hospital on the first day of the first month, if you don't go to bad luck, the two of you will definitely be seriously ill and admitted to the hospital again this year." ”

"......" Yan Yue immediately opened her mouth, wanting to refute this superstitious thought, but after seeing Zhang Ling's eyes and shaking her head, she shut up and didn't speak.

It's troublesome, but let the old man feel at ease, why not do it.

"Xiaoyue, it's been really hard for you to take care of me in the past two days." Zhang Ling sandwiched Yan Yue's favorite dish over, "Let you also suffer and suffer." ”

Yan Yue saw that it was a dish she liked to eat, and immediately put it in her mouth, the food in the hospital was really not very delicious, she only drank some porridge with Zhang Ling in the past two days, and when she heard Zhang Ling say that, she also smiled: "Sister-in-law, what are you talking about, my brother is on a mission, and I, as a younger sister, naturally have the obligation to take care of his wife and children for him, not to mention that he is my brother, just because he is the people's police who ensure the safety of the people, I should do this." ”

After speaking, she lowered her head and drank a sip of the tonic soup specially boiled by Yan Meihui, looked up and saw Zhang Ling's somewhat sallow face, she still couldn't help but speak, and admonished again, although she said several times that it was useless, but the body was her own: "And sister-in-law, you have really worked too hard in the past two years, you don't have to get up so early to cook, my aunt goes out for morning exercise every morning, and she eats outside, and my brother always eats breakfast outside, and there are washing machines for clothes, and there are smart home appliances for cleaning, Those intelligent things were invented to liberate human time. ”

"Yes, Xiaoling, what do you say you have worked so yourself in the past two years?" Yan Meihui has said Zhang Ling more than once, but Zhang Ling is like a spinning top, she can't stop, every day like an ancient concubine, she will settle her province on time, "I'm not one of those old ladies, my daughter-in-law scolds and beats me if she doesn't work, I have suffered the hardships of being a daughter-in-law, how can I let you eat again." ”

Zhang Ling was speechless, and felt very ashamed, in fact, she listened to her mother's words, her mother told her to get up at six o'clock in the morning every day to make breakfast for the family, and at night to put everything at home in place before going to sleep, she also used Yan Meihui not those mothers-in-law to refute at that time, but her mother said that there is no mother-in-law in the world who does not like her daughter-in-law's work.

"Sister-in-law, have you heard what my aunt said, in the future, you will follow the normal schedule, if my aunt makes you get up early one day, you will use what you just said to bet on her mouth." As soon as Yan Yue's words came out, Zhang Ling and Yan Meihui couldn't help laughing.

Yan Meihui turned off the gas and pretended to be angry: "You really plan to use my own words to make me have no way out in the future." ”

"If you say it yourself, there is no reason to go against it." Yan Yue smiled playfully, saw that the mobile phone on the table rang, quickly picked up the mobile phone, got up and went to the living room to answer the phone, "If you want to tell me a happy New Year, are you a little too much... What the? Madoka is gone? ”

When Zhang Ling and Yan Meihui heard this, they turned their heads to look at the living room, and they could see that Yan Yue's face immediately climbed into an anxious mood, and there was no exception in her pupils and tone.

Then I only heard Yan Yue say "I know" and hung up the phone, then went back to the room, and came out after a while, holding a bag and coat in his hand, and walked directly to the entrance to change his shoes: "Auntie, sister-in-law, I want to go back to Wutong City, I may not be able to come back today, don't cook my rice." ”

"What's wrong?" Yan Meihui immediately walked out of the kitchen, "What are you doing back to Wutong City, what happened at work?" ”

Yan Yue shook her head and sighed: "The child of Li Xin's family ran away from home, and he left a letter before leaving, saying that he was going to Wutong City to find me, I have to hurry over and take a look." ”

"Then we have to hurry." Yan Meihui said, "But that kid usually looks very well-behaved, why did he run away from home during the Chinese New Year?" ”

"I don't know, Li Xin didn't say it on the phone." Yan Yue, who had changed her shoes, got up and put the bag on her back again, "Listening to her tone, I'm very anxious, I'll go and see first..."

Then she turned her head to the kitchen and shouted, "Sister-in-law, take a good rest, don't be tired anymore." ”

Zhang Ling answered, asking Yan Yue to be careful on the road, Yan Meihui also asked at ease, and then immediately went to light the moxa sticks and smoked Yan Yue's whole body.

Yan Yue responded one by one, stayed where she was, opened her arms, smiled helplessly and asked Yan Meihui to smoke herself, and then hurried to the high-speed rail station, but there were no tickets, the high-speed rail tickets for the next ten days were all sold out, and she ran to the airport again, and it was the same, there were no tickets for several days, let alone today.

In the end, I ran to the train station by chance, and all the tickets for the train station were sold out.

There was no way, Yan Yue could only find a private car that specifically ran back and forth between Huaicheng and Wutong, this kind of private car is specially for soliciting customers, but the price will be generally more expensive, so it is generally called "black car", she quickly called a familiar and familiar black car master, and it just so happened that the master would go to Wutong City this afternoon to run.