Room 203, Building 6, in a community in the old town of Shazhou County.
Bai Lanlan and her mother-in-law are busy in the kitchen preparing today's New Year's Eve dinner. One is chopping vegetables and the other is cooking. They work together very well.
In the living room outside the kitchen, the sound of the TV kept coming.
An old man in a wheelchair was watching TV alone. This was Bai Lanlan's father-in-law.
As for Bai Lanlan’s husband Mi Li?
At this time, Spring Festival couplets are being pasted on the open door with glue.
After pasting the Spring Festival couplets and entering the door, the old man in the wheelchair asked: "Mi Li! It's getting late, isn't it? I heard that many people in the community have set off firecrackers. They must be pulling food. Shouldn't our family do the same?"
Is it time to eat?”
(Lafan: is a local proverb, meaning to worship ancestors.)
Mili walked into the kitchen and took water from the kitchen faucet to wash his hands. After hearing this, he casually replied: "Well, it's almost done."
Then I asked my mother and wife in the kitchen, "By the way, Mom, Lan Lan, are all the dishes for the rice ready?"
His wife: "Well, I have already prepared it, but Xiaoxiao went out to play. If you want to get food, go and find Xiaoxiao!"
Bai Lanlan interrupted: "Xiaoxiao should be playing with people in the square. You should go there and look for her first."
Bai Lanlan...
Xu Tongdao's cousin is the only daughter of Xu Tongdao's uncle Xu Weidong and Bai Meifeng.
Xiaoxiao is the only daughter of Bai Lanlan and Mili, her name is Bai Xiaoxiao.
When Tongdao Xu first came back from rebirth, Bai Xiaoxiao was only two years old.
After 12 o'clock tonight, he will be 7 years old.
Children of this age can already go out and play by themselves.
"Oh, okay! I'll go look for it right away."
Mili casually wiped the water stains on his hands on the apron cloth around Bai Lanlan's waist, then strode out of the kitchen. When he passed the door, he took off the woolen coat hanging behind the door and put it on himself.
It is still a local custom that when worshiping ancestors, children need to kowtow together.
If you have a son, your son will kowtow; if you don’t have a son, your daughter will kowtow.
For this reason, before Mili prepared to worship his ancestors, he had to go out and find his daughter Xiaoxiao first, otherwise his family's ancestor worship this year would not be in compliance with the rules.
Normally, no one is willing to cut corners when it comes to worshiping their ancestors.
…
There is a small square in this community, not far from the gate of the community.
There is a fountain pool in the square. Of course, like many residential areas, the fountain pool has stopped spraying water for a long time.
But this is still one of the favorite places for children in this community to play.
Especially today is the New Year's Eve, and many children have gotten fireworks and other toys from home.
A child!
When I get a new toy, I want to show it off to my friends.
With fireworks and firecrackers, it's like lighting them in front of your friends to make yourself the most beautiful kid in the whole neighborhood.
Mili came out from home to look for his children. He was wearing a thick woolen coat, took out his cigarette case, lit a cigarette, and walked towards the square with long strides.
I could hear the laughter of children in the distance.
Hearing the children's laughter, a faint smile appeared on Mili's face.
His and Bai Lanlan's daughter, Bai Xiaoxiao, neither looks like him, Mili, nor Bai Lanlan, who looks like a girl to a boy, but he and Bai Lanlan are both satisfied.
Because their daughter Xiaoxiao is very good-looking, with white skin, black hair, big eyes, and a pair of deep dimples. She is so beautiful.
Like his mother-in-law Bai Meifeng.
Although since his mother-in-law Bai Meifeng eloped with Bai Lanlan's second uncle, Mi Li was speechless and resentful towards Bai Meifeng, his mother-in-law.
but……
After all, he still admitted in his heart that Bai Meifeng was very beautiful, at least in appearance and figure, surpassing his wife Bai Lanlan.
Therefore, Mi Li is very happy that his daughter Bai Xiaoxiao looks like her grandmother Bai Meifeng.
Who doesn't like his daughter to be beautiful?
Close...
When he was still twenty or thirty meters away from the small square, Mi Li saw the cheerful figure of his daughter Xiaoxiao chasing and playing with others in the distance.
Xiaoxiao, who will be 7 years old tonight, looks like a little angel from a distance.
Especially today, New Year's Eve, I specially dressed her up.
The fiery red figure looked like a passionate flame from a distance, and the sight of it warmed Mi Li's heart.
He has seen his daughter's happy smile.
So, he also smiled happily.
but……
His happy smile just appeared on his face, and the next second, the smile froze on his face. He stared at the flower bed not far away, with her back to a middle-aged woman sitting there.
's back.
That back view...
He looked so familiar.
Mi Li subconsciously thought that he had seen it wrong, blinked in disbelief, and even raised his hand to rub his eyes, but... the figure of the woman not far away still looked familiar.
The shape of the butt...the curve of the waist...
Looks so familiar!
Although the woman's back was turned to him and she was wearing a wide-brimmed black cloth hat, Mili still recognized her.
Mili took a deep breath, and then took another deep breath from the cigarette in his hand. After exhaling the smoke, he subconsciously threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, lowered his head and raised his foot to crush it, then raised his head and walked slowly towards the woman with a complicated look on his face.
go.
Until he walked slowly to the woman's side, the woman didn't notice him. Her big eyes under the brim of her hat were still staring blankly at the little girl chasing and playing in the small square - Xiaoxiao.
"mom!"
Mili couldn't help shouting.
The woman wearing black jeans, a short black down jacket, and a black wide-brimmed cloth hat heard the sound, and her slightly plump body suddenly trembled as if being touched.
Under Mi Li's gaze, she slowly turned her head and raised her eyes to meet his.
Under the black cloth hat, there is a fair face. Although she is already a woman, she still has charm.
With her big eyes, you can vaguely see a bit of her youthful style.
She smiled, an embarrassed smile, and her face turned slightly red.
She stood up subconsciously, feeling a little at a loss for a moment. She lowered her head slightly, not daring to look at her son-in-law Mili anymore, and said: "Mi, Mili, I, I want Xiaoxiao, I'll come, I'll take a look."
she……"
Mili: "..."
On New Year's Eve, I suddenly see my mother-in-law, whom I have eloped with for five years, appearing in front of me. What should I do?
Or...what should I say?
Waiting online, it’s urgent!
If Mili could speak in this way, he would probably have such thoughts in his mind at this time.
In terms of status, Bai Meifeng is his mother-in-law, and he should respect her.
But judging from the ridiculous things Bai Meifeng did, he was speechless, a little disdainful and resentful towards her.
Growing up, he had only heard of children embarrassing their parents in terms of relationships between men and women.
I have never heard of a mother-in-law who makes her daughter and son-in-law unable to hold their heads high outside in such matters.