Busy days always fly by, unconsciously, time is a blink of an eye to pass ten days, ten days, dim sum like flowing water from the small farmhouse courtyard of the mountain, until Cui'er watched Lian Qingshan they loaded the last batch of snacks into the carriage and sent away, Cui'er can be regarded as a long sigh of relief.

Cui'er returned to the house and added a heavy sum to the ledger, the last batch of 100 boxes of dim sum, which was already the last 100 boxes of the entire order of 1,800 boxes of dim sum. Send this batch of snacks out, and all the orders are completed. Habitually, when the date was written at the end of the ledger, Cui'er found that it was about to be a small year, "Ah, it's already the twenty-second year of the big year, and it's about to be a small year!" ”

"Cui'er, you've forgotten the time you've lived, haven't you?" Aunt Lu looked at Cui'er lovingly, the girl who can read and write is really tight in the backing mountain, and such a dexterous girl turned out to be her goddaughter, Aunt Lu's face had a big smile of pride.

Looking at Cui'er's cheeks flushed with excitement, Aunt Lu said distressedly, "Tomorrow is the New Year, our dim sum shop is almost busy, I'll help you clean up the house and outside the house at the end of the day, you, just prepare for the New Year!" ”

"Mother...... You've been busy with my work lately, and you haven't had a good rest, let's have a good meal at noon, rest in the next morning, and clean up the house, I'll just have Qingshan and you. Cui'er felt Aunt Lu's strong care, Rao is cold winter outside the house, but her heart is as warm as spring.

"Then where is it, you are pregnant, Qingshan is a man again, you can't clean it up, I see, let's come." Aunt Lu took Cui'er's hand, Cui'er's hand was white and tender, and it didn't become rough and yellow at all because of the hard work of the past few days.

"Hmm. Listen to you! Cui'er smiled and felt the warmth from her family, looking at the sky was still early, thinking that the women in the kitchen were all cooked, and the remaining dim sum ingredients would not be wasted. So he pulled Aunt Lu to do it in the house, and made small clothes for the child in Cui'er's belly.

"This kid is a blessed one, look at the money you've earned a lot of money these days, this kid won't worry about food or clothing when he is born!" Aunt Lu sat carefully on the small shoes in her hand, and what she was sewing in her hand was a small tiger head shoe, an inch long little tiger head shoe, made of orange fabric, embroidered with a lively little tiger, which looked very cute.

"Mother. Are these shoes for my brother? Xiaohu finished practicing the task of Lian Qingshan giving him a horse step in the West House, ran over, sat between Cui'er and Aunt Lu, and said when he saw the small shoes in Aunt Lu's hand.

"Xiaohu, how do you know it's for your brother?" When Aunt Lu heard Xiaohu say about her younger brother, her eyes lit up. Children have clean eyes and can see things accurately, if children say that the pregnant woman has a boy in her belly, then there is a chance that it will not be wrong.

For the women in the village, the most important factor in being able to gain a firm foothold in the in-law's family after marrying is not to make money, not to please the husband and get the love of the husband. It's not even about laundry and cooking, it's about giving birth to a big fat son.

In Aunt Lu's eyes, giving birth to a son is a woman's biggest reliance, especially a house-filling like Cui'er, because there is a daughter-in-law in front of Qingshan, if there are no children. Cui'er will never be able to truly integrate into this family, even if there is no mother-in-law, even if the two children in front of her are well-behaved and sensible.

"I just know!" Xiaohu looked at Aunt Lu with a wrinkled smile on her face, couldn't help wrinkling her little nose, and said with her hands on her chest.

"Good, good. Just listen to our little tiger, Cui'er, you have to give birth to a big fat boy! Aunt Lu smiled so much that she couldn't see her teeth, and looked at Cui'er's round belly expectantly.

"Mother...... Whatever you say is what you say! Cui'er was a little embarrassed by what Aunt Lu said, and she lowered her head to sew her clothes, and Aunt Lu saw that she was shy, so she stopped teasing her, and continued to talk to Xiaohu.

After a while, the big girl also came over from Westinghouse, and Yugui came with her. Since the winter, the big girl has less time to go out and go out to play, Cui'er is afraid that she will be bored, so she teaches her to write and read every day, and the girl thinks it is interesting, so she and Yugui write a big word every day, which is also considered to be learning homework.

"Mother, are you sewing clothes for your brother?" The girl reached out and took out a piece of half-used fabric from the sewing basket, which was Cui'er's own old clothes, which were cut after being washed and dried to make clothes for the baby to be born.

"Well, I'm sewing clothes, and I'm done writing the girl's words?" Cui'er raised her head, looked at the pale girl, and reached out to touch her hair that had become black and thick. Suddenly, Cui'er felt that her back was very sore, she straightened her waist while holding her stomach, and then unconsciously slapped her back twice.

"Well, it's done! Mother, I'll do something for you! The big girl looked at Cui'er's very hard look, and said spontaneously.

"Okay, when the girl grows up, she can help her mother do things." What is the craftsmanship of the big girl, Cui'er knows very well in her heart, it is basically impossible for her to make clothes for the child, but it is not a problem to cut two urine rings and lock the edge of the lock or something.

"Come, the big girl will help her mother lock the edge of this urine ring, so as to save the baby from having a small burr." Thinking about it, Cui'er handed the girl two pieces of urine rings she cut out of old clothes, and asked her to sew the two diapers together.

"The girl has really grown up, and she can help your mother work, I think when I first saw the girl, she was still a little crying girl lying in Qingshan's arms!" Aunt Lu looked at the girl who lowered her head and sewed things, and said with relief.

"Grandma, I've grown up too, I'll give my mother a beating on the back!" Xiaohu, who was sitting on the kang and tinkering with the tiger's head shoes, raised his head when he heard this, said as if he was invited, and then ran behind Cui'er and raised his little fist to beat Cui'er's back.

"Oops, our little tiger has grown up too!" Cui'er was served so attentively by Xiaohu, and her heart was warm.

Aunt Lu was amused by Xiaohu's cute demeanor and laughed, "Xiaohu has grown up, don't just hurt your mother, come and give grandma a few beatings!" ”

When Xiaohu heard this, he ran behind Aunt Lu and raised his little fist to beat his back hard, causing laughter in the house.

"Godmother, Cui'er, why are you so happy?" Lian Qingshan walked in from outside, patting the falling snowflakes on his body while walking in from outside.

"Xiaohu gave me and my mother a beating on the back, it's very funny, and tomorrow is the New Year, you have to remove the dust or something." Cui'er replied with a smile, seeing the little wet marks left by the snowflakes on Lian Qingshan's cotton clothes, she asked in some surprise, "It's snowing outside?" ”

"Well, just a little snowflake." Lian Qingshan nodded and said, but did not lean towards Cui'er, but walked to the fire tube on the ground, and dried his clothes next to the fire tube, and then walked to Cui'er's side, looking at Cui'er's white and red face.

"You little couple are here to rest for a while, I'll go to the kitchen to see if they have made the rest of the snacks, big girl Xiaohu, let's see if there are any delicious snacks newly baked." Aunt Lu looked at Lian Qingshan and Cui'er's affectionate appearance, and left with a smile and an excuse, and took away the big girl and Xiaohu.

Lian Qingshan stretched out a slightly cool hand and gently grabbed Cui'er, looked at Cui'er's fair and ruddy face, and said in a low voice, "Cui'er, you have worked hard these days!" ”

"What's not hard, I'm not doing the work, I'm just looking at the side to make seasonings, but you, it's loading and delivery, it's hard." Cui'er smiled and helped Lian Qingshan sort out her clothes, looking at Lian Qingshan with a thick smile on her face, "What's the good thing, seeing you smile so happily?" ”

"Hehe, there's really a good thing!" Lian Qingshan spoke, and took out the big basket that was placed in the corner when he entered the house just now, "When I was delivering goods from the town, I happened to run into a car that came back from the county to pull the candies, and I bought a lot, you can taste it!" ”

"Stove sugar?" After Cui'er heard this term, her first reaction was to feel a weak soreness in her back molars, which was exactly the same as when she ate the sugar sticking to her teeth. When she opened the burden that Lian Qingshan had brought back and saw the stove candy with honeycomb holes wrapped in sesame seeds, she only felt that the sourness was even stronger.

"Here, Cui'er, try it!" Lian Qingshan stretched out his hand and took a piece of stove candy and handed it to Cui'er's mouth, although Cui'er felt that the root of her teeth was very soft, she also knew that this was a reaction left by eating stove candy greedily in her previous life, and she didn't care, she took a bite of the stove candy, and in an instant, the sweetness with a strong sesame fragrance spread all over her mouth.

"Hmm, that's sweet!" Cui'er chewed the crispy stove candy and swallowed it, and found that she didn't have the sticky tooth feeling in her memory, so she couldn't help but bite Lian Qingshan's hand again.

"Cui'er likes the smell?" Lian Qingshan watched Cui'er take a bite and take a bite, knowing that Cui'er liked the taste, and she was overjoyed, so she also took a bite of the stove candy that Cui'er bit off, only to feel full of fragrance and smile even more.

"Why is this stove candy so crispy?"

"This is the county's famous stove candy Zhang old man made, he made the stove candy crispy and fragrant, delicious, I was the most favorite when I was young, every year grinding my mother to buy a few." Lian Qingshan said softly, threw the remaining stove candy that Cui'er bit into his mouth, chewed it and ate it.

"Well, I guess you love it too!" Cui'er watched Lian Qingshan throw the leftover stove candy into her mouth without care, only to feel a slight fever on her face, and couldn't help but smile and say a word, then took the bag of stove candy and went to the kitchen with her head down and a red face.

Cui'er's face was red, and she only felt that if she continued to take it here, something inappropriate for children might happen.