It turned out that when the time came, fireworks were lit in the government office, and the whole city got the letter, and fireworks and firecrackers were burned. Tong hurriedly woke up his children, hurriedly dressed them, arranged their hair, and took them to the front yard to worship their ancestors. First, Zhang Bao took Duan Ning to worship, and then Tong brought Shu Ning to worship. When a set of rules is done, someone is asked to carry out a pot and put it on the table, and the dumplings in the pot are tumbling on the water. It turned out that dumplings were eaten at this time.

Before waiting for the chopsticks, Tong gave Zhang Bao a look, Zhang Bao understood, sat down upright, touched the mustache on his chin, and asked in a loud voice: "Is the little day up?" Duanning Shuning laughed, Tong couldn't help laughing, and replied, "Get up." The couple burst into laughter, and Zhang Bao smiled: "I will also be the master of the family today." After laughing easily, Zhang Bao picked up Duan Ning, put him on the cabinet by the door, and said, "Son, jump a few times." "Duan Ning has done it in the first two years, how can I not know? He jumped three times with a grin, refused to ask his father to hug him, and slipped off the ground by himself. The whole family gathered around the table and waited to eat dumplings.

The family ate hot dumplings, and the harmonious atmosphere even Shuning was infected.

Since she crossed over, she always felt a layer away from her new parents. Although the original parents divorced when she was two or three years old, and later formed a new family to have children, she lived with her grandparents, did not eat less and wore less, and was emotionally estranged, and there were a few words of concern and greetings when they met. After her grandparents passed away a few years ago, she lived alone in an old house, and she only saw her parents less and had a weaker relationship, but she got along well.

And now this pair of cheap parents, Tong's scheming and child-oriented, Zhang Baocai is mediocre, flowery, and soft-eared, she is a little unaccustomed to it. But sitting tonight, she found that Tong had been tired a lot recently, and thought that she was also scheming to maintain her family's happiness, and Zhang Bao really loved herself despite all kinds of shortcomings. The cute little brother also brought Shuning a lot of happy times, and Shuning gradually accepted her new parents and family, and gradually integrated into this new identity.

A family of four was happily eating dumplings, and suddenly, with a "knock", Zhang Bao's whole body stiffened and stopped chopsticks. It turned out that he had eaten the small copper coin wrapped in the dumplings, and Tong Shi hurriedly poured tea for him to cough and said; "Congratulations to your husband, there will be great blessings in the coming year." Zhang Baoyuan was startled, and when he saw that it was a copper coin, he was also very happy, and when he heard this, he hurriedly replied: "Madame is happy." Asked which dumplings had "filling", Tong pointed out a few specially made marks, Zhang Bao coerced, carefully fed his son, asked him to spit out the copper coin, handed it to Tong to help his son put it in his pocket, and then coerced another one to feed his daughter.

After eating enough, Zhang Bao picked up the wine glass and said to Tong: "It's been a hard year, Mrs. Tong Shi also picked up the wine glass and saluted: "The husband has also worked hard, this is what the concubine should do." ”

Zhang Bao shook his head: "I respect you, I have my own reasons." Since we got married, I know that you have suffered a lot of grievances at home, and you have buried all your sad things in your heart for the sake of me. I came to this cold place, and you came with me, and I am actually very grateful in my heart. ”

He suddenly mentioned the old thing, Tong Shi heard it, and replied with a whimper: "Under the big section, what are you talking about." ”

Zhang Bao continued: "Now that I have feelings, you just let me say it. After drinking the wine, he also persuaded Tong to drink, poured another glass for each of them, held the wine and said to Tong: "I have soft ears and are easy to listen to others, and I know it." Cuirui's girl, I looked at her when I was a child, I have always been close to her, but I didn't expect to know people and faces, I didn't know my heart at that time, I somehow took the house in a daze, and she was a good person, so you suffered a lot of losses, but fortunately it didn't cause a big disaster. Now that the rain has finally passed, I know that you must feel very uncomfortable in your heart, this is all mine, this glass of wine should be regarded as my confession to Mrs., and it will never be like that again. ”

Tong's face was a little pale when he heard the first sentence, but he couldn't help but shed tears when he heard it, so he quickly took the cup, turned his face slightly, and took a sip of wine. When she turned around, she had wiped away all the tears, forced herself to show a smile, and said to Zhang Bao: "It's all over, don't mention it in the future." ”

Zhang Bao nodded again and again, drank the wine in his cup, scooped two dumplings from the bowl, added them to Tong's bowl, and persuaded her to eat more. Tong responded with a smile, and saw that Duan Ning was confused when he heard it on the side, so he also scooped two from his bowl and handed them to him, Duan Ning had something to eat, and he no longer thought about what his parents were talking about just now, so he just buried his head in eating.

After eating the dumplings, the family said some more gossip, and the sky began to turn white. Zhang Bao picked up his sleeping son and sent him back to the room, Tong told a few family members who were crooked to pack up their things, and he also carried his daughter back to the room. Shuning drooped her eyelids, and vaguely saw her slowly stopping when she walked through the corridor outside the east wing door with her.

She felt Tong turn her head in the direction of the East Chamber, and looked at it for a long time. When Shuning thought she was going to take root there, she heard her almost inaudible voice: "Slut, do you think you can really steal his heart?" He's mine again now. With that, he turned his head and walked on.

Shuning looked at the door that was getting farther and farther away from the east chamber behind her, and snorted.

By the first day of the next day, the whole family got up early.

Xiao Tao Xiaomei had already changed Duanning Shuning's new clothes, combed her hair, and brought them auspicious gold collars, and took them to the hall. Tables, chairs and cushions had already been set up in the hall, and the two siblings kowtowed to their parents according to the instructions of others.

Shuning This is the first time to kowtow to someone after crossing (before being held and kneeling on the tablet is not counted), and found that the previous Qing costume dramas compiled by Qiong Yao were all nonsense, she thought that the Manchu salute really had to throw the handkerchief back, just squat down, it turned out that it was not, fortunately there was a special person to guide, otherwise it would be a fool. But it's normal for such a young child not to know.

Although it makes Shuning very unhappy to kneel for others, and it is even more depressing to think that she will kneel often in the future, it is also a happy thing to be able to get New Year's money from her parents after the ceremony. It's a pity that as soon as the money arrived, the little peach girl accepted it. Shuning looked depressed, and she was a little happier when Tong tied a small silver orange on her wrist. But when she turned around, she was startled in her heart, thinking that it was possible that she had been pretending to be a child for a long time, and she had even become psychologically the same as a child?

Zhang Bao hugged Shuning, took Duan Ning's hand, and brought them to the table for breakfast. There were four or five plates on the table, as well as a few bowls of goat's milk, which looked very hearty. Shuning only recognized one of them as Saqima, the other as rice cakes, and none of the others. Zhang Bao grabbed her the same and asked softly, "What is this?" Without waiting for Shuning to reply, she gave the answer, but let her know several dim sum. Tong took care of his son and kept telling him to eat slowly. Later, she sighed: "I know you have to go out to play today, and I won't stop you, but you eat slowly, don't choke." Duan Ning smirked for a while, and sure enough, he ate slowly. Zhang Baoxiao Tong is "busy": "Boy's family, what are you doing with this?" ”

Sure enough, before Duan Ning finished eating, a child from another family came to ask him to go out. He couldn't sit still, so he took two pieces of snacks and ran, and Tong only told him to walk slower in the back. Shuning wanted to go out and take a look, she had only been out of the door for so long, and she had only met a madman at the door of her home, but she had never seen the scenery in ancient times. But how shrewd is Tong? Seeing that the little daughter's face was also eager to try, she immediately said: "The little girl is too young to go!" "Let Shuning be disappointed.

Tong returned to his seat and continued to eat breakfast, but he was secretly surprised in his heart: "How come it is that in the past few months, my daughter has become smarter, and she can already understand the words of adults?" Thinking like this, she couldn't help but glance at her daughter a few more times, but Shu Ning was scared into a cold sweat, thinking that she was too exaggerated? It's better to keep a low profile.

Tong only stared at her daughter a few times, and then turned her attention back to her husband. Looking at the few plates of snacks on the table, she said with a guilty face: "The concubine is incompetent, and she only has these plates of snacks, which is really shabby." Zhang Bao put down his chopsticks when he heard this, and said with a smile: "How can this be blamed on Mrs.?" My family is not wealthy, and I must have spent a lot of money on the New Year's gift, and I know the difficulties of my family. What's more, this is already very good, how much can we eat as a family of four? Tong still felt uncomfortable: "Even so, but for the New Year, there are only these few dim sums, which are not good-looking, if the family knows, I am afraid that I will be blamed for not being able to run the house." Zhang Bao smiled: "Who cares what they think." ”

He has always paid attention to his family's opinions, and when he said this today, Tong was surprised, but she looked at his words and saw that he didn't seem to want to talk about it anymore, so she turned to talk about inviting Duanning to Xixi after the year.

Duan Ning is 7 years old this year, and he has been reading and reading with his father since he was a child, although it is not too bad, but it is not good. Zhang Bao is busy with business, and he has not had much time to guide him in his homework in the past two years, and the Tong family dotes on his son, so he can't help but indulge, so a few months ago Zhang Bao asked about Duanning's studies, only to find that his son had fallen behind a lot of homework. Recently, after several tribulations, Duan Ning has become more sensible and diligent again. Zhang Bao was worried that no one would supervise him after the New Year, and his son would be loose again, so he talked to his wife and asked an official Xixi to teach him.

Tong was worried that the husband invited was too strict, which would make his son suffer, and wanted to find a good-tempered man. Zhang Bao disagreed: "His temper is too good, how can he be suppressed?" It's better to hire a strict teacher. I asked my colleagues in the yamen to help me find someone. There is a Zhou Fucheng who introduced me to a Mr. Ding, who is a local lifter, who is in his forties, who lives in Fengtian, has good knowledge and good character. After the New Year, I came to visit, and if it was suitable, I invited him to come. ”

Seeing that he had made up his mind, Tong no longer argued, just thinking that when Mr. came to the door, he would ask Mr. to be kind to his son. She remembered another thing: "Although learning is important, but in our family background, we still need to ask a master to teach Duange'er riding and archery kung fu." Otherwise, when we return to Beijing in the future, Ama will definitely say that we value literature and ignore martial arts, and we have a negative family style. ”

Zhang Bao sneered: "Back to Beijing? Who knew it was the Year of the Monkey? These words surprised Tong.