Months passed in a flash, and every household started to get busy at the end of the year.
Although everyone is not rich, they all clean the inside and outside of the house.
Several boys from the Su family jumped up and down with rags in order to clean the windows. According to their father, they were reincarnations of monkey spirits. They were not formal and would cause trouble sooner or later.
Yao Hua held little Jinbao in his arms and played with her with the rattle he and his mother bought from the supply and marketing cooperative.
Jin Bao tried his best to grab it a few times, but failed to catch it. He turned around and glared at Yao Hua angrily.
"Don't be angry, don't be angry, let me play with you..." The little boy's eyebrows were curved, and his beautiful, clear eyes were full of smiles.
He put the rattle into Jinbao's little hand in a flattering way, then held her little hand and turned it around.
"Dong dong dong dong..." The crisp and rhythmic drum sound is particularly beautiful.
Bai Lu was sitting on a chair nearby, cutting window grilles.
She looked at the lively and harmonious scene in the room, with a smile on her face, until she suddenly thought of her third son, Wennian, and a touch of melancholy appeared on her expression.
"Abba, Abba..." Jinbao shook the rattle towards his mother.
Her big round eyes were shining and blinking, as if she was comforting her mother.
Yao Hua followed little Jinbao's gaze and soon saw that Aunt Bai seemed to have something on her mind. She guessed and asked, "Aunt Bai, are you thinking about Jinbao's third brother again?"
"Um……"
Bai Lu just nodded, but before she spoke, her second son said angrily: "Why do you miss him? Mom, I advise you, just pretend that you didn't have that son Su Wennian."
"Nan Bing, why are you talking? Wen Nian is your brother..."
"I don't have a brother like that. How many months has it been? Ever since Dad came back from the farm, who in the neighborhood has stopped by to say hello? Well, Su Wennian was so happy at his uncle's house that he never came back even once."
Xiao Jinbao waved his little hand, as if to refute the second brother's words, "Ah ah..."
She saw her third brother! When her mother took her downstairs to play, she saw her third brother hiding in a corner from afar and secretly watching her and her mother several times. She must have wanted to come back.
Thinking of the pitiful and helpless look of his third brother at that time, Xiao Jinbao's eyes turned red, he sniffed and cried uncontrollably, "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."
"Second brother, you made Sixth Sister cry!" Su Xiaosi pushed the second brother.
Seeing the sixth sister looking at him with a pair of big tear-filled eyes, the second child suddenly became at a loss.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," he half-crouched on the ground, admitting his mistake to Jinbao, "It's all my brother's fault. He won't make Sixth Sister angry by talking nonsense anymore. Jinbao, please stop crying, okay?"
"Woo... Wu..."
Little Jinbao whimpered like a kitten.
She was not angry with her second brother, she just missed her third brother too much...
Without the third brother in the family, I always feel that a piece is missing and the whole family becomes incomplete.
After crying like this for a while, Xiao Jinbao felt exhausted and his eyelids slowly closed uncontrollably.
Yao Hua put the sleeping Jin Bao into the cradle and pulled Sun Nanbing aside.
"Let's go get Su Wennian back?" Yao Hua said.
"Whoever wants to go can go," the second child shook off Yao Hua's hand, "I'm not going anyway."
"I heard from Xiaosi that it was you and your third brother who had a fight that day, which made him so angry that he stayed at his uncle's house..."
Su Nanbing was so angry that he yelled, "You are listening to the nonsense of the fourth child. What does the third child's stay have to do with me?"
Having said that, he actually regretted it... In the past few months when his third brother was away from home, he couldn't help but think of him. He even dreamed of his aunt hitting him with a stick several times, but he just refused to say anything.
"New Year should be about family reunion, what do you think?"
Although Yao Hua is young, he always talks about the truth in one way.
"Let's go secretly to find Su Wennian. Your mother will be very happy, and Jinbao... Even though Jinbao is still young and doesn't seem to understand anything, I think she also misses her third brother very much."
After hearing what Yao Hua said, Su Nanbing subconsciously looked at the sixth sister in the cradle with tears in her eyes.
Thinking of the way Jin Bao looked at him while crying just now, he felt guilty, feeling that it was a big mistake for him to be angry with his third brother...
"Okay!" Su Nanbing clenched his fists, "I will tie him back this time even if I have to tie him up!"
"There are too few of us, we need to find more people..." Yao Hua suggested.
Su Nanbing nodded, "I'll go talk to my elder brother."
His eldest brother is the king of children in the machinery factory's courtyard. If he shouts casually, a large group of children will gather around him, "Brother Zhiyuan, what do you want us to do?"
"My third brother was kidnapped by that old witch of my aunt. The brave boys and I will rescue my third brother and take him home for the New Year! But the timid ones should not go." Su Zhiyuan said loudly.
No one wanted to admit that they were timid, so they all raised their hands, "I want to go, I want to go..."
"Okay, everyone follow me!" Su Zhiyuan waved his hand and organized the large army to set off to his uncle's house.
Less than half an hour after they left, many parents couldn't find their children and ran to Su's house.
"Sister-in-law Su, your eldest and second child kidnapped both of my children!"
"And my family, Da Zhuang, was doing homework at home, but when he turned around, there was no one around..."
Bai Lu was thinking about Wen Nian before and was distracted while cutting the window lace. She didn't pay attention to what the children were doing and thought they were all playing in the room.
After listening to the words of the elder sisters next door, she put down the scissors and took a look into the room. She found that her two sons had disappeared, while Xiaosi looked innocent.
"Mom," Su Xiaosi said, "it was Yao Hua's idea..."
"What? Hua Hua also followed? Where did they go?" Bai Lu asked anxiously.
Su Xiaosi rubbed his hands uneasily, "I went to my uncle's house. The second brother said he would kidnap the third brother home for the New Year."
"Hey! These children are really..." Bai Lu's tone sounded like she was complaining, but in fact she was a bit pleased.
The boy Nan Bing said he hated Wen Nian, but in his heart he still cared about his younger brother.
In order to give everyone an explanation, she decided to go and find the children herself.
"Mom, I want to go too!" Su Xiaosi said as she followed.
Bai Lu originally wanted Xiao Si to take care of her sister at home, but she was worried that Jin Bao would be hungry when she woke up, so she had to hold Jin Bao in one hand and hold Xiao Si in the other and rush towards Bai's house.
In the Bai family, Xu Fengjiao and her maid were drying sausages on the roof.
She deliberately placed sheets around her to avoid being seen by her jealous neighbors.
"Look, this is sausage, this is beef jerky, this is salted fish..." After finishing her work, Xu Fengjiao took her nephew Su Wennian to the top floor, "Wennian, as long as you are willing to change your surname to Bai and adopt me as my son, you will be my son every day from now on."
Everyone has meat to eat.”
"Aunt, I have told you many times, my surname is Su, and I am a child of the Su family..."
Before he finished speaking, Xu Fengjiao changed her face like a Sichuan opera acrobatic, and her smile immediately disappeared, "What a child of the Su family! Your parents don't want you anymore, and you still want to be their son. Why are you so mean-spirited?"