Reborn since 2005

Chapter 410 Warmth
Bai Xiaoling waited on the embankment, pouted with displeasure.

Finally took the opportunity to go out shopping with Yan Xin, but was cut off by Feng Xi.

I thought to myself: "Wait until night, let's see why you still fight with me."

The relationship between Feng Xi and Yan Xin is not clear, and it seems that they have not thought about clarifying the relationship for the time being. Even if there is a reason during the day, there is no way to live in Yan's house at night.

She is different, she is Yan Xin's younger sister, and they lived together.

This is her advantage.

Of course, she also knew that this advantage was not great, and she had no chance of winning against Feng Xi.

What she can count on is that if the relationship between the two of them becomes impasse one day, she will be able to take advantage of the opportunity to strike first.

It didn't take long before I saw Yan Xin driving Feng Xi over.

Seeing it from a distance, a smile appeared on her face.

When they got closer, they waved their hands and greeted enthusiastically: "Brother, sister Xi, you are here!"

This is in the village, and if she accidentally meets someone she knows, she dare not call her sister-in-law.

Feng Xi herself is unwilling to expose this feeling, of course she can't take the initiative to help expose it, it won't do her any good.

Yan Xin didn't stop, and went directly on his bicycle, and shouted to Bai Xiaoling: "Get in the car, let's go!"

Bai Xiaoling got on the bike and chased after her.

When we got to the ferry, we crossed the river.

When crossing the river, Yan Xin also saw a few people he knew, who were returning from the town, and they were all former classmates.

Some are junior high school classmates, some are high school classmates, both male and female.

They greeted each other warmly when they saw each other, but they didn't talk too much, and they staggered after a few words.

That is to say, during Chinese New Year, I can meet classmates in my hometown. At other times, these young people have gone to other places to make a living, and basically none of them are at home.

It's the Chinese New Year, and it's a rare break. These young people can't stay at home, so they will come to the town for a stroll, and enjoy the taste of being rich.

——For farmers, these wage earners can be regarded as rich people, and their spending power is much stronger.

The group of people who belong to the bottom in the big cities are different when they come home.

It's Chinese New Year again, everyone is in a better mood, with smiles on their faces, and they all look like they have made a lot of money.

Yan Xin and Feng Xi, who really made a lot of money, were relatively low-key and didn't speak so loudly.

Across the river is the town, which is much larger than their town, with a total of several streets, unlike their town, which is a straight street.

There are also many more shops.

Walking all the way, there are quite a lot of people.

But now, there are many people around the Chinese New Year, and no one can be seen at other times.

The main force of consumption is still those who go home for the New Year.

It's enough for those shops to be able to keep their capital at ordinary times, and they mainly rely on the Spring Festival to make some money.

Generally speaking, it is not as good as it was ten years ago.

This is also a problem faced by many small towns in the Mainland.

Before going out to work, Bai Xiaoling always felt that this town was very prosperous, and even thought that if she lived in this town, it would be nice to go out to the street, how convenient would life be?
But after staying in the capital for more than a month, when I came back here, I felt that the town was already dilapidated.

On the way, I couldn't help complaining to Yan Xin: "Why is the road here so broken? You can stumble even if you step on a bicycle."

Yan Xin said: "It's normal in the town. It costs a lot of money to build roads. With the current economic situation, it's not worth spending so much money on repairs."

In his memory, it took five or six years for the roads in this town to be rebuilt.

At that time, the roads in their village were all repaired, and they were easier to walk than the roads in this town.

It's the same in their own town.

Those years were mainly about building new roads rather than renovating old ones.

When I got to the street, I didn't ride a bicycle for long, entered the main street, got off the bike, and walked away with the bicycle.

It is inconvenient to ride a bicycle in this place, there are too many people.

They started to buy New Year's goods.

I went to the vegetable market and bought some beef and mutton, as well as soft-shelled turtles and eels.

I also bought a lot of various snacks, mainly Bai Xiaoling bought them according to her own taste, but Yan Xin was the one who paid.

In addition, I bought some fireworks and firecrackers.

The family bought fireworks and firecrackers, but they didn't buy many, and the total cost was more than 100 yuan.

This can't satisfy Yan Xin.

This time, he bought more than 1000 yuan worth of fireworks and firecrackers in one go.

If it weren't for the two people's bicycles that couldn't fit on it, he could buy a little more.

Feng Xi also bought some ingredients, and also bought a bicycle, otherwise he would have to walk back.

——Yan Xin and Bai Xiaoling's bicycles are tied with several snakeskin bags, but there is no place for her to sit.

I still have to go back to this home in the future, and it’s okay to buy a new bicycle.

With her current wealth, she didn't even have to frown to buy such a bicycle.

——In this town, the most expensive bicycles cost a few hundred dollars, not even more than 1000 dollars, so don’t worry about meeting those 10,000+ bicycle assassins.

Only a fool would buy that kind of luxury goods and sell them in this backward town.

If it's really 10,000+, Feng Xina really can't afford it—she doesn't have that much money with her, and she can't pay with her mobile phone now, and most shops here don't even accept bank cards.

Bai Xiaoling was quite envious when Feng Xi said that she would buy a bicycle when she bought a bicycle, spending hundreds of dollars without blinking her eyes.

It's not that she doesn't have that money, and now she has saved thousands of dollars, but she still feels pain if she is asked to spend hundreds of dollars to go out.

Two months ago, getting an allowance of ten yuan was a surprise for her.

I haven't had time to develop the habit of spending money lavishly so quickly.

The salary is 2000 yuan a month, and half of it has to be saved by her mother. Now she has a little more money, but it is also because of the Chinese New Year, which also includes the thousands of dollars that Yan Xin gave her. A piece of pocket money, and the living expenses her mother gave her when she went out to work, did not mean that she could earn so much money every month.

She was able to save thousands of dollars, mainly because she wanted to buy a good mobile phone.

But today, Yan Xin said that she was going to give her a new mobile phone, and now it seems that there is no need to save money.

But she has already made a decision on how to use the money, such as buying a few beautiful clothes, a beautiful bag, and two beautiful jewelry, and she needs to save some money there for emergencies.

In this way, my own money is quite tight.

When will one day be able to spend money without frowning like Feng Xi, and buy things without looking at the price, that will be considered as the realization of financial freedom, and that will be true happiness, right?

She thought so.

The envy in his eyes didn't hide anything.

But this kind of envy will not make people feel unhappy, and it will even give the envied a little sense of superiority.

There were three people and two cars when we came, and three cars when we went back.

It was better in the town to go home on a bicycle. Although the road already had some potholes, it was a hardened cement road after all.

After crossing the river and returning to the dirt road in the village, it was really full of bumps and bumps.

It's not a big problem to just ride a bicycle. Now each of them put something on the back of the bicycle, and the weight is not light.

That gets a little tiring.

After stepping for a while, Yan Xin couldn't help but said: "It's too inconvenient to not have a car. If there is a car at this time, how good would it be?"

Bai Xiaoling took it very seriously: "Brother, anyway, you are not short of money, why don't you just buy a car and keep it at home, how about driving in the car when you go home? It's also convenient to buy anything, if you want to go to the county seat, go there In the county seat, if you want to go to the city, you can go to the city without waiting for a bus."

"How many times can I go home a year? When I don't go home, the car is empty. That's not good. In the eyes of others, I don't know how much money our family has - although we do have a little money." " Yan Xin said.

"Then drive home next time." Bai Xiaoling said.

Yan Xin said depressedly: "It's a little bit farther to drive home by myself, it's very hard."

Driving home from Yangcheng, he felt very hard.

If you drive home from the capital, it will be even more difficult.

There are so many inconveniences when the place of work is too far away from home.

Feng Xi said: "Let's wait until later. After I graduate from university, I will buy a car and keep it at home. Anyway, our two brothers and sisters are already entrepreneurs in the eyes of others, so I don't care about it."

Yan Xin thought for a while and said, "You can buy a van to keep at home, and it doesn't cost much. It won't cause much discussion, and it's quite practical in the countryside."

He can have such an idea because Feng Chen usually likes to drive a van, or a pickup truck, mainly because he likes to pull things well.

He came home in a van.

The current economic level in the village is not very good, and those who go out to work are not very successful. Being able to have a van is already something that can be pretended to be.

In another ten years or so, half of the households will have small cars, and they will even cause traffic jams on the village roads when they go to the graves to worship their ancestors during the Chinese New Year.

At that time, the van was at the bottom of the chain of contempt.

Feng Xi also thought of her brother, and couldn't help laughing: "That's pretty good."

He added: "It's a pity that your dad didn't go to school, so he couldn't get a driver's license. Otherwise, if he got a driver's license and bought him a car, it wouldn't be a waste."

The test for a driver's license does not require a high degree of knowledge, but at least you must be able to recognize some Chinese characters and be able to understand the rules and regulations.

Otherwise, even if the driving skills can pass, the written test will not pass.

There is no problem with age. People who are less than 50 years old can learn to drive in time.

Bai Xiaoling's heart moved, and she said, "My mother has read some books."

Her mother finished elementary school, which was pretty good in the countryside at that time.

Feng Xi said with a smile: "Then you let your mother learn to drive. After learning to drive well, ask Yan Xin to buy her a car, so that it will be convenient to go out."

Bai Xiaoling glanced at Yan Xin: "Brother, what do you think?"

Yan Xin was silent for a while, then said: "It's nothing to buy a car, it's not worth a lot of money, so I'm worried that it's not safe to drive."

"As long as you are cautious, you will be fine," Feng Xi said, "Aunt Wu is not a reckless person."

"Yes, yes," Bai Xiaoling nodded her head, "My mother is very stable. In the past few years, she has been selling tofu on a bicycle, and she has never fallen down once. One word, stable!"

Yan Xin smiled: "Then you will do her ideological work. If you learn to drive and get a driver's license, I will buy a car for her to drive."

Bai Xiaoling became excited: "Don't worry, I will definitely do her ideological work well."

Having a car at home is indeed much more convenient.

Yan Xin didn't say anything more.

Feng Xi didn't stay with Yan Xin all the time, because they didn't live in the same place.

When you get to Group Nine, there is a road that leads directly to the dike, and then you can go east along the road under the dike to Feng Xi's house.

At that fork in the road, they separated.

Yan Xin just said "be careful on the road, don't fall", and then continued to step on the bicycle to go home.

When I got home, it was only four or five o'clock.

The old couple had already started preparing dinner in the kitchen, and when they heard the sound come out again, they were shocked to see so many things tied to the back of their bicycles.

"How much did you pay for this?" Wu Xiuhong asked.

Yan Xin said with a smile: "It's not much, it's only two to three thousand yuan."

If Bai Xiaoling said this, he would inevitably be reprimanded.

It's fine for him.

First, he earns a lot of money.

Second, he was not Wu Xiuhong's own, and Wu Xiuhong couldn't say anything about him.

But Wu Xiuhong still felt distressed: "Actually, there is no need to buy so many..."

"It's okay, it's better to be more lively during the Chinese New Year, and it doesn't cost money during the Chinese New Year, so when will you spend money?" Yan Xin said with a smile.

"That's right." Bai Xiaoling chimed in.

Take those things off.

Bai Xiaoling bought a lot of snacks, but those snacks were not very valuable. They looked like snakeskin bags, but they were actually only two or three hundred yuan.

There are no expensive snacks in this small place.

The expensive ones are fireworks and firecrackers, as well as ingredients such as beef and mutton.

That night, two dishes were added to their dining table, one with beef and one with mutton.

These two dishes are still served by Yan Xin himself.

Wu Xiuhong is capable, but she has never cooked beef and mutton a few times. This stuff is too expensive for her, and she is reluctant to buy it.

Yan Xin has more experience in this area.

When eating his dishes, Bai Xiaoling couldn't help exclaiming:

"Brother, you are amazing! I didn't expect you to earn so much money and cook so well! Where did you learn such a good cooking skill?"

Yan Xin smiled: "Seeing that others have done a lot, they will gradually get better."

When I said this, I couldn't help thinking of Ellie.

He didn't have any cooking skills at first, just like his father, cooking was terrible.

It wasn't until he lived with Ai Lili that he came to help when Ai Lili was cooking, and he slowly learned a little bit of cooking skills.

Thinking of Ellie, there is some melancholy.

That's a good girl too.

It's the kind of unreserved kindness towards him.

However, Feng Xi is also good to him, with the kindness of the previous life and the love of this life.

Neither one should be disappointed, but the result is that both should be failed.

Ai Lili wanted to accompany him home for the New Year so much, but he refused.

Thinking about it, I feel very sorry for others.

Shaking his head, dispelling the feeling of guilt, he put on a smile all over his face.

It's Chinese New Year, so it's better to be more festive.

Wu Xiuhong took this opportunity to teach her daughter another lesson and asked her to learn a little bit.

Yan Xin is a man who can cook so well, but she is a girl who can't cook well, and she will be disgusted by others after she gets married.

Listening to those words, Bai Xiaoling looked at her mother aggrievedly:

"Mom, it's New Year's Eve tomorrow. Don't talk about me when it's the New Year's Eve, okay? I'll come back from thousands of miles to spend the New Year with you. Can you praise me?"

Having said that, Wu Xiuhong felt a little embarrassed.

Yan Xin praised Bai Xiaoling in time:
"Mom, I've heard from Feng Xi that Xiaoling is doing really well in her company. It doesn't matter if she doesn't know how to cook. As long as she can earn money, she won't be underestimated wherever she goes."

As he said that, he patted his chest again: "Besides, she is my younger sister. If others want to bully her, they have to ask me if I agree."

Bai Xiaoling thought to herself: "I don't want to marry—unless I can marry you."

With Yan Xin's standard, other men who can't meet this standard are useless men in her eyes, and she would rather not marry for life than to wrong herself.

——For a girl, it is not a very lucky thing to meet a man who is too good when she is young.

This likely means that it will be difficult to meet a man who interests you in the future.

Bai Xiaoling is like this.

When Wu Xiuhong heard what Yan Xin said, she was moved and her eyes became hot.

For a combined family with their own children, the most troublesome thing is the integration of children.

Many of them separated in the end, mainly because of this reason, they couldn't get along, and they couldn't accept new family members.

As time went on, instead of getting smaller and smaller, the gap became bigger and bigger, until the day it was completely split.

But she was very lucky. The son of the man's family was very sensible and could accept her as a stepmother, as well as Bai Xiaoling, a younger sister who had no blood relationship.

Such acceptance is not just words, but is reflected in actions.

Not to mention a combined family, even if it is really a family, it is rare to have such a sensible son.

She considers herself downright lucky.

Looking at Yan Xin, she didn't know what to say, so she put vegetables in his bowl, which she thought were the best.

It made Yan Xin quite embarrassed.

Bai Xiaoling looked at her own mother serving other people's sons with graciousness, and felt a little depressed. She really wanted to remind her mother:
"Hey, wake up, I am your own!"

Unable to make it through, he picked up some beef with chopsticks for Dad Yan with a smile on his face: "Dad, you eat this, this is delicious."

Father Yan was flattered, and quickly said: "Eat more if you like, I will pick it myself."

Yan Xin is his son, and this son has been quite filial in the past two years, but he has never served him food.

I didn't expect that the first time I experienced such family warmth came from my stepdaughter.

I thought to myself: "It's nice to have a daughter..."

(End of this chapter)