The next day, Lin Lan went to the old lady's house and gave the children clothes and red envelopes: "Congratulations, uncle!"

The old lady looked at her happily: "We still thought that it was just right for the New Year, who knew that the little guy was in a hurry to come out for the New Year!"

Lin Lan said with a smile: "I heard Xiang Yang say that the baby weighs eight pounds, and he must be a lover when he looks at it for nothing!"

The old lady thought about it and said, "Uncle and grandmother told you that you must not eat too well after seven months, otherwise the child will grow too big and become a mother will suffer."

Lin Lan nodded, "My mother also told me."

The old lady sighed: "Xiaoman's mother, it's not as good as your mother, I think I am reluctant to give her food, and when I am about to give birth, I will give her those things that make up for her body, the child is older, and she suffers."

Lin Lan comforted: "Don't take it to heart, Xiao Man is not small-minded and will understand you."

The old lady nodded: "You are not well, don't go to the hospital, and when Xiaoman comes back from the hospital, you will come to see her again."

"Hmm! I'm going to go to the store again, and if there's something going on, you can go to the department store and look for Xiangyang."

"Okay, I'll take a chicken and send it to Xiao Man."

Lin Lan came out of the old lady's house, went to the pastry shop to take a look, and saw Tong Xinglan and Yueyue making tangyuan cores, and went to the hot pot restaurant after taking a look.

There was a lot of oil residue in the store, and Lin Lan thought that the Chinese New Year was coming, so she tried to make two flavors of glutinous rice ball cores, but she didn't expect them to sell well.

As soon as she walked into the yard, Zhao Xiaohui stopped her: "Xiaolan, let me tell you, the girl who was almost sold last time has run away from our house again."

Zhao Xiaohui also became more foreign, with a purple-black plaid wool fleece suit, a milky white woolen sweater, black straight-leg pants, black shuttle leather shoes, and her hair was cut into shoulder-length short hair, which looked much more energetic than before.

Lin Lan remembered Wu Shufen's words, frowned, and said, "Are you talking about Xu Xuefei?"

Zhao Xiaohui nodded and said, "It's her!" Mom and Dad said they came out of your house, and when they got home, they were just about to wash their feet and go to bed, when they heard someone knocking on the door, and when they opened the door, they were startled to see her like a flower child."

Lin Lan looked at her, "Didn't you say that she had been running away for several days, why did she find our house again last night?"

Zhao Xiaohui sighed and said with a sympathetic expression, "Her mother, the old man, took that man to look for her everywhere, and she hid in the mountains. Such a big girl, hid in the mountains for a few days before secretly coming down the mountain to the East Market. I only have a few cents on me, and I don't get any money when I cross the river by boat, and I walk to the East Market, so pitiful!"

Lin Lan nodded: "It's quite pitiful!" Fortunately, I know how to resist, otherwise I would have come out of this fire pit and jumped into another fire pit.

At this time, Wu Shufen also walked out, and when she saw that she already knew, she said to her, "Your father said, leave her to help in the store first, and then send her back when we are done, and let her come if she wants to continue to come here to help when she is done with the family."

Zhao Xiaohui said worriedly, "Her stepmother is so powerful, will you go to trouble you?" Otherwise, if the matter is not resolved, it will blame our family."

Wu Shufen frowned and said, "What should I do? It's impossible to watch a good girl jump into a fire pit, right?"

Lin Lan thought for a moment: "Mom, now parents are not allowed to arrange it, her stepmother's nephew is like that, she can go to the town to find a female cadre to help!"

Wu Shufen thinks this is also a solution: "After the New Year, we will take her to the town to find the Women's Federation."

Zhao Xiaohui said: "Yes, go to the women's director and see if her stepmother dares to sell her."

Wu Shufen asked Lin Lan, "What are you doing here so early?"

Lin Lan: "Last time you moved over, you left the water heater in the east of the city, and Xiang Yang came back with a batch this time, and I forgot to tell you that the water heater had arrived in the past few days."

Zhao Xiaohui said happily, "Great, it's not convenient to take a shower without a water heater, so I'll call Guodong to pull it over."

Wu Shufen glanced at her with disgust: "Look at it, it's only been a long time, and I just want to use good things, and it's not too old to wipe my body with a basin of hot water before!"

"Hey, hey!" Zhao Xiaohui looked at her flatteringly and smiled, "It's too cold, there is a water heater for your grandson to take a bath."

I'm not afraid of catching a cold."

After they moved here, Lin Jun and a few others also moved here, and Wu Shufen and his wife were reluctant to raise those chickens and ducks that they were happy to raise, and they still lived there.

Wu Shufen waved her hand again and again: "I'm too lazy to listen to you, if you want to pull, hurry up."

Lin Lan looked at her and smiled, "You yourself think that the water heater is convenient to use, and what do you say the second sister-in-law does?"

Wu Shufen pouted: "I don't like her to talk about Xiaogang and them, I'm not a bad mother-in-law, if I like it, I just say that I don't use it!"

"We made a lot of dumplings, if you want to take them, go to the pastry shop to find Xinglan!"

"No, your sister-in-law made brown sugar peanuts and the black sesame seeds in your store."

Waiting for Zhao Xiaohui and Lin Guodong to come out, Lin Lan also followed the two back to Limin Road.

In a blink of an eye, it is the end of January and the beginning of February, and there are still a few days to go before the New Year.

Lin Lan felt that the business in this year was even more popular than the routine of the clearance sale carried out by the merchants thirty or forty years later, and the family was busy at the end of the year.

At the beginning of the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, the street is already crowded with people, children sit on their father's shoulders, holding sugar figures, balloons of various shapes, paper windmills, and happily go to the street to buy New Year's goods.

On both sides of the street, there are candy men, hemp candy beaters, foam cones, and dragon whisker cakes...... All sorts of snacks popped up on the streets.

The bubble tube is to put the rice into the extruder, heat the puffing, and make a hollow "rice tube", which tastes very fragrant and crispy, melts in the mouth, and is more than a foot long, which is the favorite of children.

Lao Li took the little beans to buy a urea bag, tied the bag tightly and ate it slowly.

The dragon whisker cake is made of wheat powder, maltose and other raw materials, and the thin maltose silk is very obedient in the hands of the master.

Lin Lan remembered that she had never seen it on the street again, so she also went to buy some and came back to eat with everyone.

The color of the dragon beard is milky white, the filaments are ten thousand wisps, the entrance is loose, twist a trace and put it in the mouth, and the aftertaste is sweet after eating......

Until the New Year, the streets, whether in front of small stalls or shops, department stores, and supply and marketing cooperatives, were crowded with people.

The twenty-ninth of this year is the Chinese New Year's Eve, and on the afternoon of the twenty-eighth, it was only five o'clock, and the clothing store and insoles of Lin Lan's family were sold out.

At the department store, there are hair dryers, razors, electronic watches, and watches.

Li Xiangyang was worried that the four-speaker cassette recorder and water heater that were not easy to sell had already been sold out, and the rice cooker, wall clock and some small household appliances were also sold out.

The goods are gone, tomorrow is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the store began to close down, Li Xiangyang and Lin Lan respectively gave bonuses and New Year goods to the store manager and employees.