When Su Jianmin went to Liu Er's house to pay New Year's greetings, his daughter-in-law Zhang Hongmei grabbed two candies and stuffed them into Jinbao's hand.
"Master Su, will you let me be Jinbao's godmother?" Zhang Hongmei said, "I like Jinbao so much! This child looks like a lucky star at first glance. Look at his features, oh! He is a little lucky star.
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Hearing that his daughter was praised as a "little lucky star", Su Jianmin beamed with joy and immediately nodded in agreement: "Okay, haha, with you as Jinbao's godmother, Jinbao will have more people to love him in the future."
"Oh! It's great. I have a goddaughter like Jin Bao!"
Zhang Hongmei was in high spirits, as if she wanted to set off a bunch of firecrackers to celebrate.
"My godmother, although my family is poor, I will hurt Jinbao even if I scrimp on food and clothing!" She said and stuffed a few more candies into the pockets of Jinbao's clothes, and also stuffed a lot of peanuts into them, which made Jinbao's clothes bulging.
Drum.
Su Jianmin thought the candies were too valuable and wanted to return them.
"I won't use this candy. I'll keep it for your children."
"They just need to eat a few less. I am happy to give the candy to Jinbao," Zhang Hongmei said, stuffing the candy back into Jinbao's clothes again, "Jinbao is godmother's little candy heart."
Seeing her smiling brightly at him, Xiao Jinbao also smiled.
In such an era of scarce supplies, her willingness to grab such a large number of candies to give to herself shows that she really likes him and is not just saying it casually.
She recognizes this godmother!
When people in the room were laughing and talking, a female voice sounded outside the door.
"Sister Hongmei, Master Liu, happy New Year. I brought the swallows to wish you a happy New Year! Have good luck and good luck in the New Year."
Recognizing the person as Li Qinghua, Zhang Hongmei smiled and came forward, "It's Qinghua, happy new year, happy new year, happy new year, Swallow."
He Xiaoyan ignored Zhang Hongmei, looked into the room, and said excitedly: "Xiaosi, it's Xiaosi..."
Zhang Hongmei's smile froze, feeling like she was asking for trouble.
This swallow is so rude!
The adults were talking to her, but she actually pretended not to hear.
Tsk! I’m not one-tenth of my goddaughter… No, one-thousandth of her cuteness!
Jinbao was still so young. Whenever she greeted her, Jinbao would shake his head and babbling in response.
Li Qinghua didn't notice the change in Zhang Hongmei's expression and led her daughter into the door.
"Master Su is here too. I just went to your house to pay New Year's greetings."
"Happy New Year, Comrade Li. Why did you come out to pay New Year greetings this year? Where is Dali?" Su Jianmin asked.
"He caught a cold last night and is resting at home. I can only come to pay New Year greetings."
When Li Qinghua was talking, her daughter He Xiaoyan sniffed, wiped her nose with the back of her hand, and then tried to pull out her tightly held hand, "Mom, I want to play with Xiaosi!"
If there were no outsiders, Li Qinghua would definitely get angry, but now she had to maintain a smile and said softly: "Yanzi, you still want to go to New Year's greetings with your mother, can you wait until after the New Year's greetings to have fun?"
"No, no, I just want to play with Xiaosi. Mom, please let me play with Xiaosi, mom..."
Seeing Yanzi shaking her mother's hand and acting coquettishly, Su Xiaosi thought of her annoying appearance yesterday. She frowned and couldn't help but said: "Yanzi, go find someone else to play with in the future, I don't want to play with you anymore."
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"What did you say?" Su Jianmin patted Xiao Si.
"I just don't want to be friends with her anymore. She's so annoying. She's such a nuisance!"
Not afraid of being beaten by her father, Su Xiaosi pursed her lips and looked determined to break off the relationship with He Xiaoyan today.
Seeing that Yanzi was about to cry loudly, and Qinghua's smile froze at the corner of her mouth, Zhang Hongmei smoothed things over and said: "These children just love to be at odds. If they have a fight today, they will make up again tomorrow."
Su Jianmin laughed twice and echoed: "No, Yan Zi was still playing in my house yesterday, and he and Xiaosi played with ants on the balcony for a long time. The two of us are very good."
"No," He Xiaoyan said aggrievedly, "Xiaosi doesn't like me anymore after he has a sister. He used to quarrel with me and never said he didn't want to play with me anymore."
As soon as she finished speaking, her mother pinched her and asked, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
"I'm not talking nonsense, Xiaosi just likes his sister more, wuwuwu...Mom, I also want to wear new clothes, a beautiful red coat like Jinbao, otherwise Xiaosi prefers his sister instead of
I am, woo..."
After listening to her daughter's words, Li Qinghua noticed that the little baby in Su Jianmin's arms was dressed particularly beautifully.
This beautiful bright red color, coupled with her milky white and tender little face, makes people want to pick her up and give her a kiss.
Li Qinghua recalled Yan Zi's appearance as a baby. Her little face was ugly and dark and yellow. Later, when she grew up to three years old, her skin became more beautiful, but due to malnutrition, it always had a waxy yellow color.
Compared with Xiao Jinbao, Yanzi is like a firewood girl!
No wonder Yao Ye sticks to Su Jin's side every day and doesn't play with his daughter...
Li Qinghua got angry thinking about it, and a twinge of jealousy welled up in her heart. She asked angrily: "Jinbao's clothes are newly made, right? Master Su, why did you only make clothes for your daughter and not your sons?"
"What new clothes do these brats want to wear? Just pick up old clothes and sew them up and make do!"
"Ouch, Master Su, your words don't sound right!"
Li Qinghua put on a preaching posture and said: "Now the country is vigorously promoting equality between men and women. It is wrong to favor boys over girls, and it is also wrong to favor girls over boys."
Zhang Hongmei frowned.
Qinghua, what does she mean?
Does she want to put a blame on Master Su?
"Qinghua, you can't say that. Jinbao is still young. Even if Master Su prefers her, it's human nature. This has nothing to do with favoring boys over girls or girls over boys."
Li Qinghua laughed and said, "It doesn't matter? I think it does matter a lot!"
Walking up to Zhang Hongmei, she continued: "Sister Hongmei, how long has it been since our factory issued tickets? Whose child doesn't pick up the clothes of his brothers and sisters to wear? This is the first time I have seen someone make new clothes for babies!
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Zhang Hongmei thought that what she said was true. In addition to the meat shortage in recent years, the most serious problem was the cloth shortage.
Many families in rural areas cannot make trousers without cloth tickets. In order to go out, they must wear the same pair of trousers as their father and brothers.
The family plans a date, and whoever has to go out on that day wears the only pants in the family.
Although it's better in the city, it's not much better...
Zhang Hongmei has not made new clothes for her children for two years.
"This..." She thought for a while and said with a smile, "It is indeed a bit extravagant to make new clothes for a baby, but Jinbao is the only daughter of the Su family for several generations, so it is normal to pamper her a little."
Li Qinghua clicked her tongue twice, "Is this a little pampering? It's obviously too much pampering! Look at how tattered Xiaosi's pants are. There are patches sewn all over the knees and buttocks..."