After the family discussed the Jinbao first-year banquet, Su Jianmin asked: "Aren't you going to buy firecrackers? Why aren't you going?"
"Dad, I don't want to buy a whip anymore," the second brother took out the red envelope containing one dollar from his pocket, "I'll keep it for you."
When his eldest brother and third brother saw it, they also took out their red envelopes and handed them to their father, "I won't buy them either."
Just when Su Xiaosi was about to imitate his example, his father stuffed the red envelope back into his hand.
"Silly boy, this is your New Year's money, specially used to buy fireworks."
He then added: "Set firecrackers in the New Year to drive away bad luck. If you give me all the money and you don't drive away the bad luck, maybe you will be unlucky for the whole year this year. Do you understand?"
"How come I've never heard of this before?"
"I haven't heard of it either," Su Xiaosi said, "Dad, are you making this up?"
Su Jianmin raised his hand and wanted to hit him on the head, but he held back, "What are you making up? It's just that I didn't tell you before, otherwise you could tell me why every household sets off firecrackers every New Year?"
Lao San said: "The teacher said that setting off firecrackers during the Spring Festival is to express the working people's good wishes to dispel evil, avoid disasters and pray for blessings."
"Listen, to dispel evil and avoid disaster... In short, if you boys don't set off some firecrackers for a year, everything will definitely not go well. You will be unlucky. What will happen if Jinbao is affected?" Su Jianmin said seriously.
It was obviously something he made up, but he almost believed it when he said it.
"Dad," Su Xiaosi blinked, "you can't believe what you said about feudal superstition."
Su Jianmin looked at the brat who always picked on himself and took a deep breath.
He tried his best to be patient and said: "Set off firecrackers is a traditional culture, you understand? It is not superstitious! Anyway, you use the money to buy firecrackers for fun. I just said that you don't need to worry about Jinbao's first birthday banquet."
The children of the Su family looked at each other, and finally nodded, "Okay."
"I want to take Sixth Sister to play downstairs," Su Xiaosi took his mother's arm and said happily, "Let's play with the whip together."
Bai Lu said with a smile: "Jin Bao has already fallen asleep after drinking milk before. You guys can go downstairs and play by yourself."
Su Xiaosi looked disappointed, "Ah? Why did Sixth Sister fall asleep again? This year is the first day of the New Year, I want to take her to play..."
With that said, he walked into the house, "Sixth sister may have woken up. I'll go check on her."
When others heard this, they also walked to the small crib in the room.
The little breasted dumpling slept soundly.
She pursed her pink lips, turned over her soft little body in a daze, and lay on the bed like a fat little frog.
"Na..."
Jinbao vomited out glutinous milky sleep.
Seeing her pouting her little mouth and her chubby little face like a freshly kneaded glutinous rice dumpling, her four brothers had their faces wet with blood.
Su Xiaosi blurted out, "Sixth sister is so cute, so cute!"
"Shh!" Bai Lu drove her sons out, "Okay, don't disturb your sister when she sleeps."
"Let me take another look..." Su Nanbing said, "Mom, I haven't seen enough yet. Let me take another look at my sister..."
Before he could finish speaking, his father had already kicked him out, "Go, go, you guys go out to play, don't disturb your sister at home."
Su Jianmin closed the door, sat on the edge of the bed and looked down at his precious daughter, smiling like a fool.
"Daughter-in-law, why do you think our Jinbao is so lovable?"
"Such a small doll is adorable."
Su Jianmin shook his head in disapproval, "What you said is wrong..."
He gave an example: "The daughter of the old Sun family upstairs is only a month apart from Jinbao. She is much more ugly than our Jinbao, with less hair, short eyelashes, a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks. When she cries, her forehead is covered with wrinkles.
None of them are cute."
Bai Lu wanted to laugh when she heard this, "Have you ever harmed someone else's daughter like you? You're not afraid of being overheard..."
"If we talk quietly in our own home, who can hear us? Besides, the fact is, our Jinbao is pretty! When Zhang Guangmao and his son saw Jinbao today, they all praised her cuteness and said they liked her."
"Zhang Guangmao's son?"
"Yes, I just came to the factory dormitory during the Chinese New Year. I lived in my hometown before. The little boy is quite handsome, but he doesn't speak Mandarin very well. Lao Zhang even asked Xiaosi to teach his son to speak Mandarin. Isn't it funny?"
Bai Lu pursed her lips and smiled: "Not to mention, our fourth child can't teach anything else, but he can still teach Mandarin."
Afraid of waking little Jinbao, the couple laughed and chatted quietly.
Su Jianmin felt that taking care of the children these years had been too hard for his wife, so he pulled Bai Lu and insisted on rubbing her shoulders.
On the first day of the New Year, the atmosphere in the old Su family was harmonious, which was completely opposite to that of the opposite He Xiaoyan family, which was full of crying and noisy situations.
As soon as she returned to her home from Zhang Hongmei's house in the morning, Li Qinghua grabbed her daughter's shoulders and shook her constantly.
"Your mother was scolded, are you happy? Stinky girl! Damn girl! You dare to bite me..." Li Qinghua pinched Yanzi's arm hard after she finished speaking.
"Wow wow wow..." He Xiaoyan cried so hard that she was out of breath, "Wow cough cough... cough..."
He Dali hurriedly ran out of the room and was shocked by the scene in front of him.
"Qinghua, what are you doing? The child is crying so much that he can hardly breathe. Let go!"
Her wrist hurt from being pulled by her husband, so Li Qinghua let go of her hand and explained what happened at Zhang Hongmei's house today, confusing the right and wrong, "Everyone bullies me and looks down on me. It's all your fault. It's useless to blame you!"
After saying that, she sat on the ground and covered her face and cried bitterly.
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault," He Dali kept comforting, "Stop crying. I will work hard in the future so that Director Zhang will no longer look down on me."
Seeing that he was about to help her up, Li Qinghua pushed him away and cried: "You are so stupid, no matter how hard you work, it's useless! Wow, oh, oh, why is my life so miserable?"
She vented her anger at her home all day long, crying, fussing and scolding.
Her husband was afraid of her, so he found an excuse to take his daughter out shopping to watch the lanterns the next day.
Li Qinghua was bored at home and went downstairs alone to sit in the yard and bask in the sun.
There was a sudden "bang", which scared her so much that she held her head and screamed.
Realizing that the explosion just now was the sound of firecrackers, she turned angrily and yelled, "Which bastard set off firecrackers randomly?"
"Aunt Li," Su Xiaosi jumped out from behind a big tree not far away and said with a smile, "my dad said that setting off firecrackers can get rid of bad luck. I think Aunt Li is quite unlucky, so I'm here for you."
A firecracker was set off behind me."
"Su Xiaosi...you unlucky boy, I think you are the only one who has bad luck!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she noticed that Su Xiaosi was accompanied by many boys, all of whom were about five to eight years old.
Su Xiaosi was the leading child among them, "Do you think I am more unlucky or Aunt Li?"
As he spoke, he took out a dismantled small whip from his pocket, "Whoever says Aunt Li is more unlucky first will be the first to share the firecrackers."
Almost instantly, the little boys rushed to shout: "Aunt Li is even more unlucky! Aunt Li is even more unlucky! Aunt Li is even more unlucky!"