Splendid peasant girl busy farming

6896 - New Year's greetings from the Li family
The fifth room opposite the Luo family.

After breakfast, Yang Huazhou and Dabao were sweeping the snow in the yard.

It snowed all day yesterday, and it snowed all night last night. The snow in the yard has reached the calves.

On New Year's Eve, the children ran around and played, had snowball fights, set off fireworks, and blasted the snow with firecrackers. The yard was originally a mess, but the snow continued to cover it all in the middle of the night.

So when I got up this morning, the roof, the treetops, and the ground were all white.

The chickens and ducks at home dare not let them out of their cages, for fear that they will be dazzled and wander around in this white world.

Chickens and ducks can be kept in coops and not come out, but people still have to come out for activities, especially this year's New Year's Day. This year, the old lady will celebrate the New Year in the fifth room, so the old Wang's family has to come to pay New Year's greetings in the morning.

Yang Huazhou got up early in the morning to shovel the snow and sweep the yard, but the workload was too heavy, and it was time for breakfast after only a little while.

After breakfast, Yang Huazhou took Dabao and Mianmian to shovel the snow together, and cleared a path in the middle of the yard leading to the gate.

Bao Suyun cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks in the kitchen, preparing meals for the guests at noon in advance.

Jiang Guiling accompanied her children in a warm room in the backyard.

As for Mrs. Tan, holding a small copper stove to warm her hands after breakfast, she frequently came to the yard to look around.

"Father, my grandma is not waiting for the warm bucket in the main room, why is she always looking around in the old yard? Isn't she afraid of the cold?"

Dabao asked Yang Huazhou in a low voice.

Yang Huazhou smiled while shoveling the snow, "Your grandma is waiting for your aunt and her family!"

Dabao came to a sudden, he thought that Nai was out to supervise the work, but it turned out not to be.

Mian Mian was a little puzzled: "My aunt fell into the water a few days ago and was still ill. Can this one come out to pay New Year's greetings?"

She looked at the sky, although Zixue hadn't fallen at this moment, but the sky was gray, and she was holding back her big move when she saw it!
Yang Huazhou shook his head: "I don't know if your aunt can come out to pay New Year's greetings, it's probably not possible."

"If my aunt can't come, wouldn't my grandma be very disappointed?" Mianmian said again.

Yang Huazhong grinned, "There's nothing you can do about disappointment. You can't just visit your relatives before you recover from your illness, right? If you catch a cold, your condition will worsen."

Mianmian nodded, that's true.

After a while, footsteps and voices came from outside.

"Could it be my aunt and the others?"

Dabao put down the shovel in his hand and was about to pick it up at the gate of the courtyard, when Mrs. Tan, who was hovering at the entrance of the main room, rushed out, "Is it Meier and the others?"

Before the words fell, a group of people passed by the door.

The gate of the courtyard was open, and it was brothers Li Jia and Li Yi of Lijia Village, with Li Wei and Li Wei's younger sister
The four of them were carrying things in their hands, and they were going to Yang Yongjin's house next door.

Seeing Yang Huazhou and his son shoveling snow in the yard, brothers Li Jia and Li Yi stopped and raised their hands to say hello to Yang Huazhou.

Yang Huazhou took a few steps forward with a shovel and warmly said 'Happy Chinese New Year' to them, and then politely invited them to come home for tea later.

When the elders of both sides were exchanging greetings, Li Wei's eyes looked towards Mianmian vaguely.

Today's Mianmian is wearing a light pink padded jacket with a ginkgo yellow high-waist skirt underneath, and a belt hooks out her slender waist.

Eyebrow-length bangs, waist-length hair, slim and graceful, like a glistening white magnolia plant in the snow.

Li Wei's heart skipped a beat, and the amazing feeling when he first saw Mianmian came back.

Mianmian also saw Li Wei.

Standing beside his father and uncle, he was tall and straight, with broad shoulders. Although his complexion was still a bit dark as before, his whole body exuded a vigorous aura.

He is obviously not the handsome gentleman with red lips and white teeth like Jiang Xianjun, but he has another kind of masculine beauty.

Especially thinking that when Jiang Xianjun stopped her by the small bridge behind the village, said some stupid things and refused to let her come back, it was Li Wei who appeared in time and beat Jiang Xianjun.

This matter was her secret, and she was very worried that Li Wei would tell it.

Unexpectedly, Li Wei tacitly kept his mouth shut. Li Wei didn't even say a word about Xiuxiu.

Thinking of this, Mianmian couldn't help smiling at him gratefully.

This smile, as if thousands of trees bloomed in an instant, Li Wei was a little overwhelmed by the sight.

It was his younger sister who tugged at him and whispered, "Brother, it's time to go."

Li Wei came back to his senses, and walked along with his father and uncle, but couldn't help but look back again to find Mianmian's figure, who had already turned around and shoveled the snow again.

The previous smile was short-lived, as if it was just an illusion of his.

Li Wei couldn't help feeling a little lost.

"Brother, why are you suddenly downcast?"

The younger sister deliberately lagged behind a few steps and asked him in a low voice.

"No." Li Wei said sullenly.

The younger sister curled her lips, "Brother, we are here to accompany you to pay New Year's greetings to your old man's family. Xiuxiu's sister-in-law is still waiting at home. You'd better cheer up and don't ask everyone to worry about you."

On the words "Xiuxiu sister-in-law", my sister deliberately bit hard.

Li Wei glanced at her sister, he didn't know if he was guilty or something, but he always felt that his sister's eyes were a little different.

And there is more to this sentence.

"I have nothing, don't talk nonsense, let alone worry about it."

Li Wei frowned, muttered something, and strode away from his sister to chase his father and uncle.

The younger sister glanced at the courtyard of the fifth room behind her, and sighed softly.

Brother thinks he is pretending well?None of his eyes escaped his sister's eyes.

The elder brother likes the girl named Mianmian, and Mianmian is the aunt of the future sister-in-law.

Brother likes someone who shouldn't be liked.

Does brother think her sister doesn't know anything?

Wrong, after my brother got engaged to sister-in-law Xiuxiu, he once went to the town to help his aunt's shop. Undoubtedly, he chatted with his aunt about his brother's marriage, and heard his aunt talk about two girls from the old Yang family who came to the shop. While eating, one of them dropped a bundle.

My aunt asked my brother to give the girl a gift, and my brother went there for nearly two hours.

When he came back, he was in a mess and had blood on his head.

No matter how you ask, my brother refuses to say a word.

My aunt guessed that [-]% of it had something to do with the old girl from the Yang family who had left behind her burden. If my brother didn't say anything, it would be hard for my aunt to ask.

But the girl's aunt later found out that she was the fifth daughter of Lao Yang's family, named Mianmian.

When my elder brother got married to Lao Yang's daughter, my aunt thought it was with Mian Mian at first, but unexpectedly it was with Mian Mian's niece.

Originally, this happened just like this, my brother also made an engagement with sister-in-law Xiuxiu, the two of you came and went, my brother sent firewood to sister-in-law Xiuxiu's house, and helped with work.

Xiuxiu's sister-in-law also made new shoes for her parents a few years ago, and her mother praised her future daughter-in-law for her handiness.

(End of this chapter)