Different from the warmth and harmony of the Cheng family, the old Xu family is having a very unpleasant time this year.

  The male owner of Xu Cui's nanny was reported by his mother-in-law's family.

   Said that he was indiscreet in his private life. When his wife was seriously ill, he hooked up with the babysitter at home; just a few days after his wife left, the babysitter took herself as the mistress and insisted on punishing him in the factory.

  The factory leader talked to him a few times about this matter, because there is no conclusive evidence, so he can't do anything to him, but from the leader's tone, I am afraid that there is no hope for promotion in the near future.

  In order not to disappoint the leader, so as to keep the cadre position under his buttocks, after weighing the pros and cons, he let Xu Cui go home.

   "Xiao Cui, look at the current state of the family, it is really inconvenient to keep you working."

  Xu Cui couldn't believe her ears. The man who touched her hand while pouring tea not long ago actually drove her home at this moment?

"I know, you have suffered a lot of grievances recently, and this is also due to me. I am used to you busying around in this house. After Axiang left, I didn't realize that there was something wrong, so that it hurt you. This sum The money will be my compensation."

   "..."

  Xu Cui took the money and returned to Wanxing Village.

   Don't think it's a lot, but compared to the cadre wife she longed for, it's more than a star and a half.

   Xu's mother didn't know what she was thinking. Hearing that she would not go to work at her employer's house after the next year, she thought she planned to stay in the village, so she turned to a matchmaker to find her second marriage partner.

   Now that the triplets are gone, at Xu Cui's age, it is relatively easy to marry a second marriage.

   No, soon the matchmaker came to spread the news with a smile on his face - saying that the pig butcher whose wife died in the next village was willing to marry Xu Cui.

  Xu Cui lost her temper with scarlet eyes after learning about it:

   "Who said I'm going to stay in the village? And let me marry a pig butcher who can't read a word? Mom, are you helping me or hurting me?"

   When it was over, he kicked the matchmaker out of the house: "Get out! I, Xu Cui, will never marry a pig butcher in my life."

"What's wrong with being a pig butcher? Sell the leftover pigs and put them in the water for you to eat until you're full. If I hadn't had a relationship with Ah Rong's mother, you think he would agree so readily... I really don't know good people! Hmph!" The matchmaker Shaking the handkerchief, he left angrily, "Don't come to me again for your old Xu's affairs!"

Xu's mother hurriedly chased after her, comforted the matchmaker, and persuaded her earnestly when she came back: "Tui'er, Ah Rong's conditions are enough for you. At your age, and you have been divorced, you can't imagine looking for a second marriage." It's so easy…”

   "It's all my business, don't worry about it from now on!"

   "You!" Mother Xu threw her head down angrily, "Okay! You can find it yourself if you have the ability! Your father and I don't care anymore!"

   "Find it yourself, find it yourself!"

  That's what I said, but it's so easy to find.

  Go back to the city to find a job. I heard that the young people who went north to reclaim wasteland have come back one after another. Each factory recruits workers and must give priority to these young people.

   Go to the cadres’ family courtyard and find a job as a nanny like before. I don’t know which one who received a thousand dollars intentionally spread rumors about her, saying that the reason why she came out of the previous family was because she deliberately seduced the male owner and was fired.

  Who would hire her then? As a result, her market in the nanny market fell to the bottom, and the end of the year was approaching. With nowhere to go, she had no choice but to return to Wanxing Village.

  How could she be willing to go out to see her relatives because of her face, so she went from the twelfth lunar month to the first lunar month.

  Eating the pickled lumps without taste, Xu Cui complained: "Mother, my little sister won't come back this year? People won't come back, and the money hasn't been sent back? Let you and my dad eat pickles during the Chinese New Year?"

  Bringing up the little girl who didn't know where she was, Mother Xu sighed again and again: "She doesn't want to come back, what can I do?"

   "She is such a happy daughter." Xu Cui curled her lips.

   Xu's mother muttered: "Aren't you happy at home? Besides eating and doing things, what else have you done? Didn't it all be done by me and your father?"

   After saying this, Xu Cui threw away her chopsticks and went back to the house before finishing her meal.

  Mother Xu and his wife looked at each other and sighed at the same time: "Oh..."

   "Old man, you said it's fine if Yin'er doesn't come back, why didn't you write a letter back?"

   After all, I listened to the elder daughter's words in my heart-even if the younger daughter married far away, she would not be able to return to her mother's house during the New Year, so at least she wrote a letter and sent it with some money.

   "Is it the poured water..."

  So the son is still reliable!

  Although the daughter-in-law is not very easy to get along with, and I haven't seen their filial piety during the New Year, at least they are next door, and they can respond to anything.

"According to me, we still have to find another home for Cui'er." Comparing the two, Xu's mother's thoughts became lively again, "How can there be a daughter who lives and eats at her mother's house but refuses to work in the fields? The eldest daughter-in-law sees , I should be unhappy again."

   Xu Cui, who came out to pour water, heard this, and made a fuss again.

  Old Xu’s house this year, let’s say it’s lively, it’s really lively—the noise lasted from years ago to the beginning of spring;

   Let’s say it’s deserted, but it’s really deserted—the grandson of the triplets was given away, the youngest daughter married far away, and the eldest son always accompanied his daughter-in-law back to his natal home. Except for the divorced eldest daughter, they were the only old couple left.

   In short, it is not a taste.

  …

   After the Lantern Festival, the year is over.

   On the day of the Lantern Festival, Xu Yin pounded a small mortar of black sesame seeds, mixed a portion of lard and sesame stuffing, and wrapped a few glutinous rice balls, not many, six for each person, making a six or six Dashun.

Fortunately, the Lantern Festival in Beiguan is still full of ice and snow. Everyone hides in the house, and the cold wind outside blows away the little lard fragrance wafting from Xu Yin's house. Maybe we should be suspicious: what are Xiao Cheng and his wife doing? delicious? The year is almost over, and there is still pork at home?

   "Is it delicious when stewed like this?"

  Xu Yin used the remaining piece of pork belly to stew a pot of dried mushrooms. There were not many pieces of meat, but the stewed pork belly with wild mushrooms tasted really good. Even Xu Yin, who once ate a full feast of Manchurian banquets and delicacies from mountains and seas, is also hungry at this moment.

   "Delicious!" Cheng Shaojin picked up a big piece for her, and then it was his turn to close his eyes in satisfaction while eating, "The head of the village is willing to trade fish and shrimp with you for such delicious meat?"

Xu Yin glanced at him with a smile: "If you don't exchange it with me, his family only has pork for Chinese New Year; if you exchange it with me, there will be not only pork, but also fish and shrimp. I sent a small dustpan with fish and shrimp, and he gave me such a small dustpan. If you want to say that I am reluctant to part with a piece of meat, he is the one who earns it, okay?"

  Speaking of which, any piece of meat in her system warehouse would be bigger than this one, if it wasn't because he was too vigilant, why would he be so picky.

  Through so many small worlds, counting him in this world is the hardest.

  Cheng Shaojin rubbed her head with a smile: "Daughter-in-law, you have worked hard! Our farm will also raise pigs in the future. I will work hard and try to get more pork back during the Chinese New Year. You can eat whatever you want."