Yan Xin slept better this night, went to bed before ten o'clock, and when he woke up the next morning, it was only seven o'clock.

I slept for more than nine hours, and I had enough sleep time to nourish my spirits.

After washing, when I got downstairs, breakfast was ready, and it was made by Wu Xiuhong.

At this time, Bai Xiaoling only got up, but she was still woken up by her mother, and she was a little angry when she got up, washing her face and brushing her teeth by the well.

There is no running water in the village now, and all the food is well water, which is a little better than ten years ago because the wells are closed, not open as before.

In the winter, the water from the well is still steaming, which is warmer than the outside air, and it is not too much of a problem to wash your face and brush your teeth directly.

The breakfast was prepared more perfunctory, and I had to go to the county to register in the morning, so I didn't have so much time to prepare, so it was almost enough.

I ate rice noodles, this rice noodles were not bought, but made by Wu Xiuhong herself, which is more assured to eat than the one I bought, and the taste is better.

Many women in the village make their own rice noodles, which are called rice noodles here, and are usually made in winter.

But Yan's father won't, if you want to eat rice noodles, you can only buy them.

This is the first time Yan Xin has eaten the rice noodles made by Wu Xiuhong, and he praised a few words when he ate it.

Wu Xiuhong said with a smile: "I have made a lot of it at home, if you like to eat it, you can bring some over." ”

"Then you're welcome." Yan Xin said.

It's better to eat this for breakfast.

As a southerner, he is not very accustomed to eating noodles, and prefers to eat rice noodles and rice noodles.

After eating, they cleaned up their bowls and went out.

This reflects the convenience of having a car, they don't have to wait for the bus to go to the county seat at all, just take Yan Xin's car.

A family of four, no problem at all.

The parents sat in the back seat, Yan Xin drove, and Bai Xiaoling sat in the passenger seat.

She was quite excited when she got into the car, although it wasn't the first time she had done this car, but she was still excited.

The last time I rode in this car, it was someone else's car.

This time it's my own car, and it feels completely different.

She also pulled out her phone and took a few selfies.

Before driving, Yan Xin first confirmed that they all fastened their seat belts, and only drove after confirming that they were correct.

On the way to drive, Bai Xiaoling took pictures and videos with her mobile phone, if it weren't for the memory of her mobile phone being too small, she couldn't wait to shoot all the way to the end.

In this way, you can show your superiority in front of your friends - not everyone has ever sat in such a luxury car in this era, and many people have never even sat in a car.

She has such a video to prove herself, so that she can appear to be superior and have a higher level of life.

- At the beginning, she envied her classmates who could ride in a car, and now she also wants to be the envy of others.

They set out before eight o'clock, and they didn't stop on the way.

It is only forty or fifty miles to the county seat, although the road conditions are not very good, and the drive is not fast, but from the departure to the county seat, it took more than half an hour.

Yan Xin was married in his last life, he knew where to go through the formalities, what procedures to go through, and he brought the documents and certificates that he should bring, and he drove the car by himself, so he went directly to the Civil Affairs Bureau.

The whole process was smooth.

By the time they got their papers, it was less than ten o'clock.

After looking at the time, Yan Xin proposed: "It's hard to come out, why don't we go shopping again?" ”

Father Yan and Wu Xiuhong both had some hesitation.

It costs money to go shopping.

And there will be guests at home today, so it doesn't seem good to be out for a long time.

If a guest comes, and there is not even a figure in the house, it is not very likely.

- Even though I told others that I would have dinner, I guess a few of them would come early.

They all said there was nothing to do.

But Bai Xiaoling was very excited to express her approval, and wanted to stay in this county for a while.

The county seat is the most prosperous place she has ever been, and she has been here a few times, but except for the college entrance examination, she has only passed by the rest of the time, and she has not experienced what this prosperous world is like.

I thought it was beautiful, and the shop window was full of beautiful things, but I didn't have a chance to look at it seriously.

The college entrance examination time in this county was quite long, but it was busy with the college entrance examination, and there was no time at all, and I was not in the mood to go shopping.

This time it was finally here, Yan Xin put forward such an opinion again, of course she had to echo it.

In this way, it is difficult for Yan's father to say anything - Bai Xiaoling is his stepdaughter, not his biological daughter, he can only obey the opinion of this stepdaughter, but it is not good to object, for fear that it will make Wu Xiuhong unhappy and affect the harmony of the family.

Wu Xiuhong can reprimand Bai Xiaoling - she is her own, no matter how she scolds, it doesn't hurt to beat her.

But in the same way, it is not convenient for her to oppose Yan Xin's opinion.

This was first proposed by Yan Xin, and her daughter echoed her, and she couldn't scold her daughter, because this would be tantamount to scolding Yan Xin, so she could only express her disagreement more tactfully.

But Bai Xiaoling is not afraid of being tactful with her.

The mother and daughter have been together for so many years, and she already has this consciousness - as long as her mother is not fierce enough, it is to agree.

So in the end, I went to the largest supermarket in the county for more than an hour, and I didn't come out until eleven o'clock.

When they came out, everyone had shopping bags in their hands.

Big bags and small bags, bought a lot of things.

There was food and drink, and clothes.

Yan Xin didn't buy clothes himself, but he bought several clothes for the other three in the family.

Of course, I bought the most for Bai Xiaoling.

She was going to work in the capital, where the temperature was even lower, so she had to buy some warm clothes.

Not to mention thermal underwear or anything, I also bought her two down jackets for a few hundred yuan a piece.

In addition to clothes, there are also shoes.

Three or four thousand dollars were spent on clothes and shoes.

This is still the two old ones who don't want him to spend so much money, and vigorously stop it, otherwise he will spend more.

At least when you buy a down jacket, you will choose the kind that is more than a thousand, not hundreds.

This amount of money is really nothing to him, but the two old ones don't think so, and feel that he doesn't have the money to that point, and can't let him spend so much money.

Even Bai Xiaoling was a little embarrassed, and she felt that she didn't deserve to wear such expensive clothes, just about the same.

Now that Yan Xin bought her the clothes and shoes, she already thinks they are very expensive, and she even has an idea in her heart - if she can return these things and exchange them for cash, how good would it be?

As a girl who doesn't have more than 100 pocket money in hand, she thinks it's a huge amount of money, and it can even be called financial freedom.

Of course, his good impression of Yan Xin is even worse.

They are not brothers and sisters, but other people's brothers can't be so good to their sisters.

It made her feel that it was good to have an older brother.

It's a good feeling to be pampered.

When Yan Xin spit out the word "buy" one after another, she felt that this was the most gentle and beautiful voice in the world.

I even wanted to cry a few times - I was so happy!

Coming out of the supermarket checkout, seeing that there were still people buying gold jewelry next to them, Yan Xin took them to the counter again.

Wu Xiuhong's face changed: "You don't have to go here, everything there is expensive, you have already spent so much money today, don't spend any more money." ”

Yan Xin smiled: "Today is a good day for you to get married, you must have a wedding ring when you get married, right?" There is nothing, and if it is spread out, won't it make others laugh at our family? What should be bought is still bought. ”

"But these things are too expensive." Wu Xiuhong said.

"This is the money that should be spent," Yan Xin said, turning his head to look at his father, "Dad, did you say?" ”

Wu Xiuhong signaled Yan's father to refuse, but Yan's father felt that what his son said was reasonable, and if there was no thing that should be there, it would make the woman feel wronged, and it would also make the woman's mother's family feel that her daughter was wronged, and it would make outsiders feel that the old Yan family looked down on people.

So he didn't object, but nodded his head and agreed with his son's opinion: "Yes, there should be something." ”

Wu Xiuhong didn't bring gold jewelry, and the last time she got married, the man's family gave her a silver bracelet for more than ten years, and then she had no money to sell it.

She is already in her 40s, and she has suffered too much, so she really doesn't pay attention to these, and pays more attention to practical things.

In her eyes, gold jewelry is flashy things, and it's not worth spending money on these things.

Seeing that Yan's father did not object, knowing that this consumption was inevitable, he was a little moved, and felt very uneasy, sighed and said:

"But this one is too expensive......

"Gold retains value, and it's not a waste to buy this." Yan Xin said.

When he said this, Wu Xiuhong felt better.

The gold jewelry is sold here by a nationally renowned chain of gold stores, not the pheasant brand.

They chose several pieces of jewelry here, all of which were pure gold.

Rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets cost a total of eight or nine thousand dollars.

Among them, two necklaces were bought, and one was given to Bai Xiaoling - because Bai Xiaoling was quite greedy when she saw the gold necklace, Yan Xin simply bought one more.

Before Wu Xiuhong could refuse, Bai Xiaoling had already begun to thank her.

just went to the supermarket like this, and spent more than 10,000 yuan before and after, which made the two old ones frightened, and they both felt that Yan Xin spent too much money, and he was a loser.

It also made Bai Xiaoling's eyes look at Yan Xin differently, thinking that this brother was simply too handsome, so handsome that he was boundless!

Especially when paying, the whole person exudes a bright light.

On the way home, Yan Xin once again instilled in them the concept of consumption.

If you have money, you should spend it, and you should enjoy it.

It's too picky, there's no need.

They have all suffered, and they have suffered so much, and it is time to enjoy it.

Of course, he also said that there must still be a certain sense of risk, so you must save money.

But there's no need to save all the money you earn.

Enjoy it when you can, so as not to regret it when you can't enjoy it.

In the past, I was worried about building a house and owed so much money that I didn't dare to spend it indiscriminately, but now that all the arrears have been paid off, and I can still earn money, so why be stingy?

And I am reluctant to spend money on such an important day as marriage, so what is the use of keeping the money?

Yan's father asked him tremblingly if he still had any money in his hand and how much money he had.

Yan Xin said casually: "The money in the card has been almost spent, but the salary will be paid in two days, and there are more than 10,000 yuan." And there will be a year-end bonus at the end of the year, the company's efficiency is very good this year, the boss is very satisfied with me, he said that the year-end bonus may be a big tens of thousands, so you don't have to worry at all, by the time of the New Year, my deposit may reach 100,000. ”

100,000, for the countryside in this era, is also a huge number.

The two old ones were shocked by this number, and then felt that Yan Xin's spending more than 10,000 yuan today was not so unacceptable.

Yan's father still told him: "You have to save that money, you will marry a daughter-in-law in the future, now you need a lot of money to marry a daughter-in-law, 100,000 yuan may not be enough, you don't spend it indiscriminately." ”

Yan Xin smiled: "Dad, don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who likes to spend money indiscriminately." Isn't this your marriage? These are the flowers. I don't spend much money outside on my own, and I spend less than a tenth of my income in a month. ”

In a sense, he didn't spend more than a tenth of his income in a single month.

For more than two years, his average monthly income is tens of millions, and one-tenth is also millions, and it is impossible for him to spend so much.

Yan's father didn't know his actual situation, so he could only calculate it from his salary of more than 10,000 yuan a month, if it was one-tenth, it would be more than 1,000 yuan a month.

Not to mention less than a tenth.

Not too high, not too low.

Now many people who go out to work do not have a salary of more than 1,000 yuan a month, and he consumes more than 1,000 yuan a month, which is of course not low, and lives better than most migrant workers.

But Yan Xin's monthly salary is more than 10,000 yuan, and he spends more than 1,000 yuan, and there is still a lot of money left every month.

In this way, he is also more at ease - he is a person who lives too poorly, he has no financial security, and he doesn't want his son to spend all the money he earns, but he also doesn't want his son to treat himself too badly outside.

Wu Xiuhong took the opportunity to say to Bai Xiaoling: "You also have to learn from your brother, don't spend all the money you earn when you go out, you have to stay." You promised me that half of my salary would be sent to me every month, and you should not forget, I have to help you save it. ”

Bai Xiaoling whispered: "I didn't say I wouldn't send it to you......"

"Then don't spend the remaining half, keep some, for fear that there will be any urgent use one day." Wu Xiuhong said again.

Bai Xiaoling cried and said, "Got it." ”

When I got home, it was only twelve o'clock.

When I passed by my neighbor's house, I saw a relative sitting in front of my neighbor's house chatting with my neighbor.

Sure enough, there are still relatives who came early.

But Yan Xin stopped the car, and the relative also came over.

Didn't come empty-handed, brought gifts.

They don't set up banquets, and they won't accept red envelopes, but people are embarrassed to come empty-handed, so they still have to bring some gifts.

In Yan Xin's heart, there are few relatives in this world.

He remembered very well what those people were like in his previous life.

But he didn't treat everyone as an enemy.

Because he knows that those relatives are indeed not very wealthy, they are all living a tight life, and they have no ability to help others.

Not much family affection is true, but if you want to say how bad it is, you really can't say.

There is no need to hold grudges.

In the past two years, he also followed his father to those relatives' houses to pay New Year's greetings, and he didn't have much emotion, but he still had to do what he had to do in terms of face.

Now when I see people coming, I haven't gotten out of the car yet, and my face is full of smiles.

opened the car door and greeted him affectionately, and then introduced Bai Xiaoling to Bai Xiaoling beside him which relatives it was.

It's already this time, and after getting off the bus, they exchanged a few words, and the old couple went to prepare lunch.

The relatives were accompanied by Yan Xin, mainly because the relatives were most interested in Yan Xin, so they pestered him to ask this and that.

Bai Xiaoling stayed by Yan Xin's side for a while, feeling quite uncomfortable, and went to the kitchen to help.

When they came home late, they made a few dishes for lunch, three meat and one vegetable, and ate one meal.

After eating, I didn't have a long rest and started preparing my evening meal.

I caught a chicken and slaughtered it, and I also fished up the big grass carp that I put into the pool yesterday.

In addition, soft-shelled turtles, yellow eels, beef, and mutton have also been wholeed.

In the afternoon, relatives came over one after another.

By three or four o'clock, everyone who should have come had arrived.

There are more than a dozen of the guests, old and young, and they are all very close.

Including the matchmaker's house, there were two more.

Yan Xin didn't help to make dinner, so he chatted with the guests.

Bai Xiaoling also stayed with him a lot of the time, mainly to get to know these new relatives.

Dinner was hearty, with a total of 12 dishes, not so many bells and whistles, most of them were hard dishes.

After eating, a few left, and a few remained.

The few who left brought the gifts that Yan Xin had prepared for them when they left, and the gifts they brought were much more valuable.

The few who stayed were far away, not in this village, not even in this town, and it was obviously impossible to go back so late, so they could only stay here for one night.

Fortunately, there are enough rooms in this small villa to be arranged.

After this tumultuous day, a new family was officially formed.

After breakfast the next day, the few relatives who stayed there also took their leave, taking away the gifts prepared for them.

The leftovers from yesterday were eaten at noon, and at this time, only their family of four was left.

Well, now they are a family that is recognized by the laws of the country.

It's just that tomorrow Yan Xin will take Bai Xiaoling out to work.

The picture of this family of four enjoying themselves will soon be gone.

hasn't set off yet, and Wu Xiuhong is already reluctant.

But she also knows that her daughter will eventually leave when she is older, and it is not a good thing to leave her at home.

So she didn't object either.

It's just that all afternoon, I was talking to Bai Xiaoling, and after I went out, I couldn't do anything, I should do what I should do.

As he spoke, his eyes turned red.

Bai Xiaoling was a little impatient and wanted to get angry several times, but when she saw her mother like that, she couldn't get angry, so she could only say perfunctorily:

"Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes."

said to Yan Xin in private: "My mother is menopausal, it's so scary, I repeat a sentence again and again, I don't know how many times." ”