Bai Xiaoling waited on the embankment, pouting and looking unhappy.

finally seized the opportunity to go out shopping with Yan Xin, but was still cut off by Feng Xi.

I thought to myself, "Wait until night, and see how you still fight with me."

The relationship between Feng Xi and Yan Xin is not clear, and it seems that they have not thought about clarifying the relationship for the time being, even if there is a reason during the day, there is no way to live in Yan's house at night.

She is different, she is Yan Xin's sister, and they originally lived together.

This is her strength.

Of course, she also knew that this advantage was not big, and she had no chance of winning against Feng Xi.

What she can count on is that if the relationship between the two of them is stiff one day, she can take the opportunity to start with the first month.

didn't wait long, and saw Yan Xin coming over with Feng Xi.

From a distance, a smile appeared on her face.

When he got closer, he waved his hand and greeted warmly: "Brother, Sister Xi, you are here!"

This is in the village, and if you are not careful, you may meet someone she knows, and she dare not call her sister-in-law.

Feng Xi herself is unwilling to expose this feeling, of course she can't take the initiative to help expose it, it won't do her any good.

Yan Xin didn't stop, stepped on the bicycle and went straight over, shouting to Bai Xiaoling, "Get in the car, go!"

Bai Xiaoling got on the car and chased after her.

When we got to the ferry, we crossed the river.

When crossing the river, Yan Xin also saw several people he knew, who were returning from the town, all former classmates.

Some are junior high school students, some are high school students, both male and female.

I greeted them very warmly, but I didn't talk much, and I staggered after a few words.

That is, during the Chinese New Year, I was able to meet classmates in my hometown, and at other times, these young people went to other places to make a living, and basically there was no home.

After the Chinese New Year, these young people have a rare rest, and these young people can't stay idle at home, so they will come to the town to take a stroll and enjoy the taste of money.

- For the peasants, they are also considered rich people, and their spending power is much stronger.

The people who belong to the bottom group in the big city are different when they return home.

It's the Chinese New Year again, and everyone is in a better mood, with a smile on their faces, and they all look like they've made a lot of money.

Yan Xin and Feng Xi, who really made a lot of money, were relatively low-key and didn't speak so loudly.

After crossing the river, there was a town, which was much larger than theirs, and there were a few streets, unlike their town, which was straight.

There are also a lot more shops.

Along the way, there are quite a lot of people.

But now there are a lot of people around the Chinese New Year, and I can't see anyone else at any other time.

The main force of consumption is still those who go home for the New Year.

Those shops can usually protect their capital, and they mainly rely on the Spring Festival to make some money.

Overall, it's not as good as it was ten years ago.

This is also a problem faced by many small towns in the mainland.

Before going out to work, Bai Xiaoling always felt that this town was very prosperous, and even thought that it would be good if she lived in this town, and it would be convenient to live on the street when she went out.

But after going to the capital for more than a month, and then returning here, I feel that this town is already very dilapidated.

On the way, he couldn't help but complain to Yan Xin: "Why is the road here so dilapidated? I'm going to stumble on a bicycle."

Yan Xin said: "It's normal in the town, it costs a lot of money to build roads, and now in this economic situation, it's not worth spending so much money to repair."

As far back as he remembered, it would take five or six years for the roads in the town to begin to be rebuilt.

At that time, the roads in their village were repaired, and they were better than the roads in the town.

It's the same in their own town.

In those years, the main focus was on building new roads, not renovating old ones.

When I got to the street,

After riding the bike for a long time, I entered the main block, and then I got off the bike and pushed the bike away.

It's already inconvenient to pedal bicycles in this place, there are too many people.

They started buying New Year's goods.

I went to the vegetable market and bought some beef and mutton, and I also bought soft-shelled turtle and yellow eel or something.

I also bought a lot of various snacks, which were mainly bought by Bai Xiaoling, and I bought them according to her own taste, but the person who paid was Yan Xin.

In addition, some fireworks were bought.

The family bought fireworks, but they didn't buy much, a total of more than 100 yuan.

This can't satisfy Yan Xin.

This time, he bought more than 1,000 yuan of fireworks in one go.

If it weren't for the fact that the two-person bicycle really couldn't fit on it, he could have bought a little more.

Feng Xi also bought some ingredients, and also bought a bicycle, otherwise he would have to walk back.

- Yan Xin and Bai Xiaoling's bicycles were tied with a few snakeskin bags, but there was no place for her to sit.

I still have to go back to this home in the future, and it's okay to buy a new bicycle.

With her current wealth, she doesn't need to frown when she buys such a bicycle.

- In this town, the most expensive bicycle is a few hundred yuan, not even more than 1,000 yuan, so you don't have to worry about encountering that kind of bicycle assassin with hundreds of thousands.

A fool would buy that kind of extravagant goods to sell in this backward town.

If it's really hundreds of thousands, Feng Xi really can't afford it - she doesn't have that much money with her, and now she can't pay with her mobile phone, and most of the stores here can't even swipe a bank card.

Seeing that Feng Xi said that if he bought a bicycle, he would buy a bicycle, and he would spend hundreds of yuan without blinking his eyes, to be honest, Bai Xiaoling was quite envious.

It's not that she doesn't have that money, and now she has a few thousand dollars in her hands, but if she spends a few hundred dollars at once, she still feels pain.

Two months ago, it was a surprise for her to get ten yuan of pocket money.

I haven't had time to develop the habit of spending lavishly so quickly.

The salary is one or two thousand yuan a month, and she has to take half of it out for her mother to help save it, and now she has a little more money in hand, but that is also because of the Chinese New Year, which also includes the thousands of pocket money that Yan Xin gave her, and the living expenses that her mother gave her when she went out to work, which does not mean that she can earn so much money every month.

She was able to save thousands of dollars, mainly thinking about buying a good mobile phone.

But today Yan Xin said that he wanted to give her a new mobile phone, and now it seems that there is no need to save money.

But she already has a decision in her mind about what to do with the money, such as buying a few beautiful clothes, a beautiful bag, two beautiful jewelry, and having some money to keep there in case of emergency.

In this way, my money is quite tight.

One day, if you can spend money like Feng Xi without frowning and buy things without looking at the price, then you can be regarded as achieving financial freedom, and that is true happiness, right?

She thought to herself.

There is no concealment of envy in his eyes.

However, such envy will not make people feel unhappy, and it will even make the envied person have some small sense of superiority.

When I came, it was three people and two cars, and when I went back, it was three cars.

Cycling home was a little better in town, although the road was already a little potholed, but it was a cement-hardened pavement after all.

After crossing the river and returning to the dirt road in the village, it was really a potholed road and stumbling.

It's not much of a problem just to pedal a bicycle, and now each of them has something in the back of the bicycle, and the weight is not light.

That's a little tiring.

After stepping on a section, Yan Xin couldn't help but say, "It's still too inconvenient to have no car, if there is a car at this time, how good would it be?"

Bai Xiaoling thought so: "Brother, you are not short of money anyway, or you can buy a car and put it at home and drive it when you go home."

How good is it to go for a ride? It's also convenient to buy anything, you can go to the county seat if you want to go to the county, and you can go to the city if you want to go to the city, and you don't have to wait for the bus."

"How many times a year can I go home? When I don't go home, the car is empty, and that's not good, and in the eyes of others, I don't know how much money they think our family has—although we do have a little money." Yan Xin said.

"Then I'll drive home next time." Bai Xiaoling said.

Yan Xin said depressedly, "It's a little farther to drive home by myself, it's very hard."

Driving home from Yangcheng, he felt very hard.

If you drive home from the capital, it will be even harder.

The place of work is too far away from home, and there are so many inconveniences.

Feng Xi said, "Wait a minute, after I graduate from college, I will buy a car and put it at home." Anyway, our two siblings are already entrepreneurs in the eyes of others, and they don't care about that."

Yan Xin thought for a while and said, "You can buy a van and put it at home, and it doesn't have much money, so it doesn't cause much discussion, and it's quite practical in the countryside."

He can have such an idea, it is because Feng Chen usually likes to drive a van, or a pickup truck, and he mainly likes a good thing to pull.

He came home in a van.

The current economic level of the village is not very good, and now the people who go out to work are not very successful, and it is already a thing that can be forced to have a van.

In another ten years, half of the families will have cars, and when they go to the grave to worship their ancestors during the New Year, they will even cause traffic jams on the village roads.

At that point, the van was at the bottom of the chain of contempt.

Feng Xi also thought of her brother, and couldn't help laughing, "That's good."

He also said, "It's a pity that your father hasn't studied and can't get a driver's license, otherwise it would not be a waste to get a driver's license and buy him a car."

Don't be too knowledgeable to get a driver's license, but at least you need to know some Chinese characters and be able to read those rules and regulations.

Otherwise, even if you can pass the driving skills, you can't pass the written test.

There is no problem in terms of age, and people who are not yet 50 years old can learn to drive.

Bai Xiaoling's heart moved, and she said, "My mother has read some books."

Her mother finished elementary school, which was quite good in the countryside at that time.

Feng Xi said with a smile: "Then you let your mother learn to drive, and let Yan Xin buy her a car after learning to drive, so that it will be convenient to go out."

Bai Xiaoling glanced at Yan Xin: "Brother, what do you think?"

Yan Xin was silent for a while, and said, "It's nothing to buy a car, it's not worth a few dollars, so I'm worried that it's not safe to drive."

"As long as you are cautious, you'll be fine," Feng Xi said, "Aunt Wu is not a person who goes on a rampage."

"Yes, yes," Bai Xiaoling nodded, "My mother is stable, she has stepped on a bicycle to sell tofu in the past few years, and she has never fallen down once, one word, steady!"

Yan Xin smiled: "Then you will do her ideological work, if you learn to drive and get a driver's license, I will buy a car for her to drive."

Bai Xiaoling became excited: "Don't worry, I will definitely do her ideological work."

It is indeed much more convenient to have a car at home.

Yan Xin didn't say anything more.

Feng Xi didn't follow Yan Xin all the time, because they didn't live in the same place.

When you get to the ninth group, there is a road directly to the embankment, and then follow the road under the embankment to the east, and you can reach Feng Xi's house.

At that fork in the road, they parted.

Yan Xin just said, "Be careful on the road, don't fall", and then continued to pedal home.

When I got home, it was only four or five o'clock.

The old couple had already started preparing dinner in the kitchen, and when they heard the sound come out again, they were shocked to see so many things tied to the back of their bicycles.

"How much money did you buy?" Wu Xiuhong asked.

Yan Xin smiled and said, "It's not much, it's only two or three thousand yuan together."

If Bai Xiaoling said this, she would inevitably be reprimanded.

He's fine.

First, he earns a lot of money.

Second, he was not born to Wu Xiuhong, and Wu Xiuhong couldn't talk about him.

But Wu Xiuhong still felt a little distressed: "Actually, there is no need to buy so many ......."

"It's okay, it's better to have a lively New Year, and it doesn't cost money for the New Year, so when will it cost money?" Yan Xin said with a smile.

"That's it." Bai Xiaoling was on the side to help.

Unload all of those things.

Bai Xiaoling bought a lot of snacks, but those snacks were actually not very valuable, they all looked like a snakeskin bag, but in fact they were two or three hundred yuan.

There are no expensive snacks in this small place.

The most expensive are fireworks, as well as beef and mutton.

That night, two dishes were added to their table, a plate of beef and a plate of mutton.

These two dishes are still in charge of Yan Xin himself.

Wu Xiuhong is capable and capable, but she really hasn't made beef and mutton a few times, this thing is too expensive for her, and she is reluctant to buy it.

Yan Xin has more experience in this area.

When eating the dishes he cooked, Bai Xiaoling couldn't help but exclaim:

"Brother, you're amazing! I didn't expect you to make so much money and cook so well! Where did you learn to cook so well?"

Yan Xin smiled: "Seeing that others have done more, they will slowly become a little more."

When I said this, I couldn't help but think of Arily.

He had no cooking skills, and like his father, cooking was terrible to death.

It wasn't until he lived with Arily that he started cooking when Ellili was cooking, and he slowly learned a little cooking.

When I think of Arily, I feel a little melancholy.

That's a good girl, too.

It's the kind of good that is dead set on him, and has no reservations.

However, Feng Xi is also good to him, with the kindness of the previous life, and the love of this life.

None of them should be disappointed, but it turns out that both should be disappointed.

Alily wanted to accompany him home for the New Year, but he refused.

When I think about it, I feel sorry for others.

He shook his head, dispelling the guilt, and put on a smile on his face.

This is the New Year, so it's better to be festive.

Wu Xiuhong took this opportunity to teach her daughter another lesson and let her learn a little.

Yan Xin is a man who is so good at cooking, but she is a girl who can't cook well, and she will be disliked if she marries in the future.

Bai Xiaoling listened to those words and looked at her mother aggrievedly:

"Mom, tomorrow will be the Chinese New Year's Eve, this big New Year, don't talk about me, okay?" I've traveled thousands of miles to come back to spend the New Year with you, can you praise me a few words?"

Saying this, Wu Xiuhong was a little embarrassed.

Yan Xin praised Bai Xiaoling in a few words in a timely manner:

"Mom, I heard Feng Xi say that Xiaoling is really good in her company, and it doesn't matter if she can't cook, as long as she can earn money, she won't be looked down upon wherever she goes."

As he spoke, he patted his chest again: "Moreover, she is my sister, and if others want to bully her, they have to ask me if I agree."

Bai Xiaoling thought to herself, "I don't want to marry someone - unless I can marry you."

With such a standard as Yan Xin, others who can't meet this standard are useless men in her opinion, and they would rather never marry than wronged themselves.

- For a girl, it is not a lucky thing to meet a man who is too good at a young age.

This most likely means that it will be difficult to meet a man who interests you in the future.

Bai Xiaoling is like this.

Wu Xiuhong heard Yan

Xin said that, his heart was moved, and his eyes were hot.

The biggest headache for a combined family with their own children is the integration of children.

Many people who end up separating are mainly because of this reason, they can't get along and can't accept new members of the family.

The more time passed, the barrier did not get smaller and smaller, but became bigger and bigger, until the day when it completely cracked.

But she is very lucky, the son of the man's family is very sensible, and can accept her as a stepmother, and can also accept Bai Xiaoling, a sister who is not related by blood.

This kind of acceptance is not just words, but is embodied in action.

Don't say it's a combined family, even if it's really a family, it's rare to have such a sensible son.

She felt so lucky.

looked at Yan Xin, and didn't know what to say, so she put vegetables in his bowl, and the dishes she thought were the best.

It made Yan Xin quite embarrassed.

Bai Xiaoling watched her own mother diligently picking vegetables for other people's sons, and felt a little depressed, and really wanted to remind her mother:

"Hey, wake up, I'm my own!"

couldn't get by, so he gave Yan's father a quick piece of beef with a smile on his face: "Dad, you eat this, this is delicious."

Dad Yan was flattered, and hurriedly said, "If you like it, eat more, and I'll clip it myself."

Yan Xin is his son, and this son has been quite filial in the past two years, but he really hasn't served him food.

I didn't expect that the first time I experienced such family warmth was from my stepdaughter.

I thought to myself, "It's nice to have a daughter......