The child's little mouth was flat: "Dad, I feel so uncomfortable. My throat hurts, my head hurts, and my nose hurts... I feel so uncomfortable..."
"Come on, open your mouth and let me take a look... um... I guess it's tonsil inflammation. Dad will take you to the hospital right away."
"I want to drink water..."
"Okay, okay, daddy will get you some water right away."
Warm cold water came up, and the child took a sip, but said with a sad face: "I want to drink rock sugar and snow pear water. Every time I cough, Sister Mai stews this for me to drink..."
"Okay, Dad will make soup in a moment."
I brought the clothes up and finally helped the child put them on. The child's eyes were still red: "Dad, the clothes I'm wearing are wrong."
Yi Xiangxi was confused: "Why is it wrong?"
"Today is the Chinese New Year. Every morning when I get up, Sister Mai will put on new clothes for me. I wear this new set every year on the 30th and the first day of the lunar new year. I only change it on the second day of the lunar new year... Sister Mai also said that at the beginning of the thirties
You can't say unlucky words, and you can't go to the hospital... Dad, we can't go to the hospital..."
How did Yi Xiangxi know this habit? He could only say: "Okay, then daddy will get you new clothes. But if you are sick, you need to be treated..."
"Sister Mai never takes me to the hospital during the Chinese New Year..."
"That's because you didn't get sick during the Chinese New Year before. Xiaobai, be good, wait until you get better, then we will have the energy to celebrate the New Year."
When the new clothes were brought, the child's mouth became even wider: "It's not red, Sister Mai buys me new red clothes every Chinese New Year, and they also have red socks... Sister Mai said, children wear red clothes.
Good luck comes only every year..."
Yi Xiangxi was completely speechless. He just wanted new red clothes, but for a while, he really couldn't find new red socks.
"Xiaobai, daddy will take you out to buy some in a while."
The child finally fell silent, but looked around: "Where's Sister Mai? Dad, it's been a long time since Sister Mai came back? Didn't you say she was coming back today? Why hasn't she come back yet?..."
"..."
"Are we the only two celebrating New Year today?"
"Yes, they are all on holiday. Originally, Grandma Zhang said she would stay and take care of us, but someone in her hometown got sick, so I asked her to go back to celebrate the New Year..." Yi Xiangxi couldn't resist, "Otherwise, Xiaobai, I
Ask Uncle Song and the others to accompany you?"
"No! I don't want to celebrate the New Year with Uncle Song. Sister Mai said that we won't be guests at anyone's home on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and we don't welcome others to our home. We only do so on the second day of the Lunar New Year."
The local custom is indeed like this. New Year greetings are not paid on the first day of the Lunar New Year, but only start on the second day of the Lunar New Year. Moreover, the Song Wei Dynasty also had a large family, so there is no reason to spend New Year's Eve with the father and daughter.
The child muttered: "Where is Uncle Chocolate? Did he secretly go out to play with Sister Mai?"
"No, Uncle Chocolate has something to do."
"Why is there something? This is the Chinese New Year... By the way, Dad, aren't Sister Mai and Uncle Chocolate getting married? Why is there no news again? That's not right... I think about it, are they already married?
??Why didn’t you invite us to the wedding?”
Yi Xiangxi's head is as big as a bucket, how can he answer such a question?
Do you want to tell your children that it was I who broke up Sister Mai and Uncle Chocolate?? It is precisely because of this that Sister Mai hates me to the core?? It is precisely because of this that Sister Mai hides and does not go home during the New Year??