Jingteng Fanghua

Chapter 198
Seeing their son and daughter-in-law returning to their room, the old couple was left alone in the room facing Ruili, and the atmosphere became even more embarrassing.

The old couple was full of questions and really wanted to ask Ruili, but thinking of a girl like her, wouldn't it be embarrassing for her to ask with such a straight face?Let's hold back until Xiao Fu comes back and ask again.

Ruili also wanted to tell her grandparents what happened when she got along with Liu Hua in Haidong, but seeing that her grandparents didn't look at her directly, with a disinterested look on her face, she swallowed her words went back.

And after thinking about it, she really didn't know what to say?Except for the story of Liu Hua risking his life to save himself, it seems that there is really nothing to tell.

Chinese New Year is the most important festival of the year for rural people, so every household not only has to prepare New Year's goods, but also is busy cleaning the house.

Cleaning the house is also a major event. Rural people are very particular about it. They must clean out all the dirty things that have accumulated for a year in every corner of the house, from the beams to the bottom of the bed.

Because when the twelfth lunar month celebrates the new year, people will worship the "Stove Lord" and "Stove King Grandma", how can there be dirty things in the house, of course it has to be cleaned.

On that day, every family will paste the portraits of "Stove King Lord" and "Stove King Grandma" on the wall near the stove, and use various prepared food to worship the two gods.

A pair of couplets had to be pasted on both sides of the portrait. The upper couplet read "Heaven plays good deeds", the second couplet read "The lower realms keep you safe", and the banner read "The head of the family".

The ancients said: "Food is the most important thing for the people", so people respectfully regard the Stove Lord as the head of their family.

In addition, this season is the time when candied haws are served. Apart from working during the day, the women have to stay up late at night to make new clothes for the children.

Chen Dongsheng and his wife were no exception, they didn't care about Ruili, they just wrapped their heads in towels and swept the walls and the ground with a long broom, causing dust to rise everywhere.

Ruili sneezed a few times and fled to the courtyard. The mountain wind was blowing in the courtyard, and she couldn't bear the cold for a long time, so she had to run into the house again.

She saw a wooden shelf in the corner behind the door, with an enamel basin on it, and scooped water from a water tank next to it with a ladle floating on it, trying to help grandma and grandma wipe the table or something .

Ruili looked around, not knowing what to use as a rag, so she asked her grandparents, "Grandma and grandma, where do you put the rag?"

Grandma glanced at Ruili, and said gently: "Girl, you can't do this job, you go and sit in his concubine's room first!" Then she just went about her own work and ignored Ruili.

Ruili had nothing to do, so she opened her travel bag and took out a spare towel.

Chen Dongsheng saw it, and quickly said: "Your towel is new, don't waste it! After cleaning, find a rag to use as a rag!"

"It's okay, grandpa, I have too many towels." Ruili said and dumped the towels into the water.

The biting cold water instantly made Ruili's little hands ache, she quickly pulled her hands out of the water and rubbed them against her body.

"The water is too cold, is it freezing? Hurry up and warm up!" Grandma hurriedly called Ruili to the brazier.

"Girl, after cleaning the house in a while, let's boil some hot water, and use only this cold water, so we won't frostbite our fingers?"

"Thank you grandma, I have caused you so much trouble!" Ruili was a little embarrassed.

After Xiaoxian sent Chen Baohong away, he also came to help the two old people clean the house.

In the following time, Ruili always wanted to express herself. She tried her best to get close to her grandparents and help them do something, but as soon as she stretched out her hand, her grandparents would immediately stop her from touching her.

In the end, Ruili could only stand there in embarrassment watching the family busy, but she had nothing to do and nowhere to start.

Before dinner, Chen Baoping's family came back, and no one was surprised when they saw Ruili.Because when they were working, they had already heard from people in the village that Xiaofu's foreign girlfriend had come to the house.

Now the Chen Baoping family has taken over all the work of the candied haws. They found an empty yard in the village, cleaned it up briefly, and led some people in the village to do it. Now is the peak season, and the business is quite good.

With the help of Yao Zhenming, Chen Baohong built a small quartz sand factory. Because Xiaoxian was busy with the grocery store at home, Chen Tianliang dropped out of junior high school to help Chen Baohong run the business at home, so their family quit the candied haws project.

Out of politeness, Chen Baoping and Tian Fengmei led Chen Lingrong and Chen Tianming over to say hello to Ruili, which made Ruili very happy.

Ruili opened the travel bag and took out all the gifts prepared for Chen Baoping's family.

When she arrived at noon, she had already given gifts to grandma and Chen Baohong's family. At first, grandma and Xiaojin refused to accept them, but in the end she had to lie and say that Liu Hua asked her to bring them, so grandma and Xiaojin accepted the gifts.

What she prepared for her grandmother was a black velvet hat and a camel scarf worn by an old lady.

She prepared two bottles of Moutai for her grandfather, but she didn't bring them with her in the car. She was afraid that the tricycle would break it.

Chen Baohong's family has a few pieces of high-quality fabric, and they can cut and make their own favorite clothes.

Similarly, Chen Baoping's family also has a few pieces of high-quality fabrics.

Ruili, who had experience, gave Chen Baoping a gift and said, "Uncle, concubine, this is a gift that Liu Hua asked me to bring to you, please accept it!"

Tian Fengmei accepted the gift in surprise, and thanked Liu Hua and Ruili.

Ruili knew that Liu Hua had a cousin, so she prepared a cosmetic made by Shanghai Jiahua and gave it to Chen Lingrong.

In fact, Rui Lite wanted to prepare a lot of things for Liu Hua's family, but she didn't dare.She is afraid that if she has too many things, she will be rejected, and if she can't send anything out, she will be in trouble.

Chen Lingrong held the cosmetics, but she didn't like it very much.

Because they were both girls, Chen Lingrong and Ruili naturally had a lot to talk about with each other, and it was easy for the two of them to sit together and chat.

Chen Lingrong asked Ruili a lot of things outside, and Ruili patiently answered her one by one.

Chen Lingrong thinks that Ruili is very easy-going, and now she also wants to ease the relationship with Xiaofu, so she pays more attention to Ruili.

Ruili's dinner is still stewed meat with cabbage vermicelli, white steamed buns, and millet porridge.Grandpa and grandma went to Xiwu in the north room to have dinner with Chen Baohong and Xiaoxian.Fortunately, Chen Lingrong dined with her, and Ruili was much happier.

Xiaoxian dug out from the bottom of the box the best satin-faced cotton quilt she had packed six catties as a dowry, and carried it to Liu Hua's room, where Ruili slept on Liu Hua's bed at night.

It was already late at night, and the bright moonlight shone into the dim room through the windows covered with white paper.

Ruili lay in bed, listening to the sound of the cold wind blowing the branches outside the window, but her heart felt warm.

The winter in the mountains is very cold, so there is always a charcoal fire in the house. The charcoal brazier in the house is the same as Chen Yongqing's, and it is also an iron brazier in the shape of an overturned straw hat.

But when I went to sleep, I stopped burning the fire, and relied on the temperature of the charcoal fire to keep the house warm, mainly because I was afraid it would be unsafe.

Careful Xiaojin was afraid that she would be cold at night, so she specially put hot water in a glass bottle for her drip and put it under her bed.

At first, she was afraid that the water bottle would burn her if it broke, or that she would not be able to sleep if the bed was wet, so she kept focusing on the hot water bottle, but she didn't feel relieved until the temperature of the water bottle was not so hot and the glass bottle didn't break. .

At this time, Ruili thought that she was lying on Liu Hua's bed, and she was so excited that she couldn't get any more excited!The scene of Liu Hua changing his swimsuit behind his back on the Golden Sands and Silver Beach suddenly flashed in her mind, her heartbeat accelerated uncontrollably, and her face began to feel slightly hot.

(End of this chapter)