The morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve was foggy.

The proprietress of the restaurant originally wanted to work for another day, but she was worried about Zhou Chunyan, and after getting up in the morning, she rushed to the door of the house where Zhou Chunyan's mother and daughter lived across the street, only to find that the mother and daughter had not returned.

After some investigation with neighbors, I found out that Zhou Chunyan was sent to the hospital last night.

The neighbor is a middle-aged woman in her forties, who likes to inquire about all kinds of gossip news on weekdays, and then spreads it everywhere, and when she heard the proprietress ask her about Zhou Chunyan's whereabouts, she added fuel and vinegar to Zhou Chunyan and the man to the hotel, and was sent to the hospital by the police.

For the middle-aged woman's chewing tongue, the proprietress doesn't believe a word, compared to what others say, she believes in what she sees with her eyes and experiences firsthand.

She knows what kind of person Zhou Chunyan is.

Zhou Chunyan works neatly and diligently in her own shop, in addition to washing dishes, she takes the initiative to help herself do chores every time she has free time, sweeping the floor and mopping the floor to clean up the table, and even sometimes she is too busy to prepare vegetables, she also follows to help, and the cutting technique is crisp and neat.

A few guys are on top of one person, and adult men are not capable of her.

There is also Xie Pujia, a little girl, when she finished her homework when she was fine, she helped her stand at the door and shout business, and when she was too busy, she also took a pen and paper to help her order food for the guests.

At a young age, the handwriting is beautiful and upright.

Both mother and daughter worked for her, and she felt that she was giving less than 800 wages.

The proprietress stood at the gate of the market, and calculated in her heart, today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, every family is eating at home, the restaurant is estimated to have no business, the ingredients are bought more and wasted, and if you buy less, there is no need to open.

With her years of experience in opening a store, people have leftovers for a few days during the New Year, and the family has to eat until the fourth day of the first lunar month.

She simply took a break from the Chinese New Year's Eve to the fourth year of junior high school, and she was busy all year long, and she also gave herself a holiday.

This year, the old man is gone, and she has no children, so I heard that Zhou Chunyan's mother and daughter are not treated by her mother's family. It's okay, the Zhou family is blind and illiterate, she has good eyes, she celebrates the New Year with the mother and daughter!

The proprietress rode the electric tricycle that her husband bought at a great price before his death, and quickly drove to the hospital, looking for a long time, and was told by the nurse that Zhou Chunyan was picked up by the police in the morning, so she drove the tricycle to the police station, intending to take Zhou Chunyan back.

Before anyone entered the police station, as soon as the tricycle was parked on the side of the road, a group of uncles and aunts were seen from afar pulling their heads together, discussing Zhou Chunyan's affairs.

There are all kinds of unpleasant things, and foul language is coming out.

The proprietress felt bad, if Zhou Chunyan came out of the police station later, she would not have to die of sadness when she heard that she was scolded like this.

When she was young, she was scolded a lot because she couldn't give birth to children, and her mother-in-law had it.

The mother-in-law forced her to go to the clinic for an examination, and found that it was indeed her physical reason, it was not easy to get pregnant, and she was directly charged by her mother-in-law with cutting off her children and grandchildren.

Thinking of this, the proprietress turned around directly, planning to go to the nearest market to buy a hat, and when Zhou Chunyan came out of the police station, the hat could cover her face so that she would not be pointed out of the discussion.

As soon as the proprietress turned around, she saw a familiar woman across the street, sitting in the driver's seat of a magnificent black car, and the woman's head was also looking in the direction of the police station.

The proprietress recognized this woman, she often came to find Xie Pujia, and she was also very familiar with Zhou Chunyan, so she should have specially driven over to wait for Zhou Chunyan's mother and daughter at the door.

The proprietress looked at the black Volkswagen with the film, and then at her all-round unobstructed tricycle, and gave up the plan to take Zhou Chunyan's mother and daughter back on a tricycle.

She drove a tricycle home, went to the largest market near her home, bought some fresh meat and vegetables, prepared to cook a hearty Chinese New Year's Eve meal for the mother and daughter in the evening, and bought a large brazier and some dried wicker branches, waiting for Zhou Chunyan to come back, to get rid of the bad luck of being contaminated by rotten people.

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The evening is Chinese New Year's Eve, and at this time, every household is noisy and busy.

In the afternoon, Zhou Chunyan and Xie Pujia worked together to help the proprietress clean the restaurant and the house, and the three of them were exhausted from cleaning, and they forgot all the bad things for the time being.

After cleaning, it is necessary to prepare the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the evening, Zhou Chunyan helps the proprietress to lay hands in the kitchen, and Xie Yuyu sticks the couplet with rice paste, standing on the small bench door by door, from the room to the living room to the door, and finally the back kitchen and door of the restaurant, all pasted square, without a trace of skew, the proprietress praised Xie Yuyu.

Until it was getting dark, several children gathered together to chase after me, and one of them took out a "weapon" and threw it at each other.

With the sound of "pop", all kinds of firecrackers seemed to have received an order and began to sound invariably, and the whole town crackled endlessly, so lively.

Many people who have taken up a place in the open space in advance have begun the traditional ritual of burning paper to invite their ancestors.

Xie Pujia helped her mother serve food in the house, all the lights in the house were turned on, and the sound of the wired color TV was turned up to the maximum by the proprietress, but it still couldn't cover the sound of firecrackers outside.

Before the proprietress went out to burn paper and set off firecrackers, she poured three small glasses of liquor, and placed them in the left, center, and right places of the dining table, and then scooped three bowls of rice from the side of the rice cooker, and placed them in front of the three glasses of liquor after serving.

After all this, the proprietress also went out to burn paper and set off firecrackers to welcome the ancestors, just like everyone else.

When she came back from burning the paper outside, the corners of the proprietress were faintly red, and she pretended to chat with Zhou Chunyan casually.

Xie Pujia guessed that she should miss her late husband, and she didn't know how to comfort people, so she groped out a peanut candy from her pocket that was rewarded by the proprietress because of the good couplet, she opened the candy paper and handed it to the proprietress mouth.

"Grandma, eat sugar."

This grandma, the proprietress who called her was overjoyed, opened her mouth and ate the peanut candy given by Xie Pujia, and then grabbed two handfuls from the table with both hands and stuffed them all into Xie Pujia's clothes pocket.

The love is beyond words.

For the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for three people, the hostess made eight dishes.

Steamed sea bass, braised chicken, roasted pork with mountain noodles, sweet and sour pork ribs, fried rice balls, stir-fried cabbage, stir-fried potato sprouts, and tofu broth.

The color and flavor are complete, and the people who see it are watery.

The proprietress poured all the three small glasses of liquor back into the wine bottle, put the three bowls of rice upside down into the rice cooker, picked up the rice spoon, and served a bowl of rice to Xie Pujia from the other side where there was no movement.

"Come on, let's have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner!"