Reborn since 2005

Chapter 376 A family’s first holiday

Author: Hometown Three Thousand Miles

On August 15th, the four of us had lunch and dinner together.

During lunch, Yan Xin also told Wu Xiuhong that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, a rare reunion night, and it is also the first festival that their new family members have spent together. There is no need for the mother and daughter to go back.

Let’s enjoy the moon together and celebrate this festival together.

Although we haven't officially formed a new family yet, it doesn't make sense for everyone. The only difference is a certificate, and we can still be considered a family. There is no need to be so open-minded.

After he said so, Wu Xiuhong stopped being pretentious and agreed to stay here today.

Of course, she still couldn't worry about the cage of chickens at home. She had to wait until the chickens were put in the cage to close the cage and lock the chicken shed, so that it would be safer.

And she can't let others know that she didn't go back at night, otherwise not only weasels but also thieves will steal the chickens, and it's not necessarily just the chickens that will be stolen, more valuable things in the house may also be stolen.

It’s not that the folk customs here are unsimple, it’s mainly because there are so many people, there will always be some unsimple people.

Just three or five unsophisticated people in a village can make the whole village feel insecure.

This is a very helpless thing.

The majority has to pay for the evil deeds of the minority.

But real life is like this. You can’t change the world, you can only adapt to it.

It's hard for Yan Xin to say that there's nothing valuable over there, so just steal it. Saying this will only make people disgusted.

If you don’t have money for a long time, you can’t have the idea of ​​why not eat minced meat.

He just told Wu Xiuhong that he could do this for him.

The two families are three or four miles apart, so it's not easy to go back and forth.

But he bought a new bicycle and could ride there.

Young people ride bicycles very fast, so it doesn't take long to go there and back.

Bai Xiaoling listened and said with a smile: "Brother, although you have good intentions, my chickens don't know you. When you go over, they are not so obedient and put them in the cage. Those who get put in the cage will run away in fright. I'd better go. I

Just ride your bicycle and go back."

She has a bicycle at home, and she usually sells tofu by pushing the bicycle. It is just an old bicycle, but a little better than the old bicycle that Yan Xin sold as scrap today.

Unless absolutely necessary, she doesn't like riding such a bicycle because it feels too embarrassing.

Yan Xin's new bicycle looks pretty good and she can accept it, so she took the initiative to propose it.

Wu Xiuhong glared at her, feeling that her daughter was too vain, and wanted to scold her, but she swallowed the words as soon as they reached her lips.

——Whether a daughter is vain or not is another matter, but for such a young girl, if she wants to ride a new bicycle, she has to rely on others. She is also a failure as a mother.

Suddenly I feel shameless to talk to others.

Yan Xin originally hoped that Bai Xiaoling would do that, but he was embarrassed to say it. After all, he was a guest, and it was somewhat unreasonable to ask a guest to do something.

Bai Xiaoling was willing to go there by herself, which was of course the best, so she said without pretentiousness: "Then I'll thank you for the trouble."

"What do you mean by hard work when it comes to your own family?" Bai Xiaoling said with a smile.

In the afternoon, it was a big holiday and no one went to work in the fields.

Two elders are preparing dinner at home.

The most important part of the Mid-Autumn Festival is the meal in the evening. Yan Xin also specially brought some ingredients from Yangcheng. Whether they are from the sea or from the mountains, they are all dry food and it takes time to brew.

We also need to kill a chicken at home - after all, in the countryside, there is a big thing, and there is no feast without chickens.

On such an important holiday, if I don’t kill a chicken, I always feel like something is missing.

Bai Xiaoling pestered Yan Xin to tell her how to use her mobile phone, mainly taking photos and recording videos.

This is quite simple, and it is easy for a young person to get started.

Yan Xin also told her that if she wanted to listen to any songs, she could go to an Internet cafe and download them on her computer, or she could use Bluetooth to transfer songs from other people's mobile phones.

——Under the current extremely slow network speed, using Bluetooth to transfer files is a mainstream behavior for mobile phone users.

——When you go to an Internet cafe to download songs, you have to pay an Internet fee. Using Bluetooth only takes a little time.

Yan Xin has formatted the old mobile phone and restored it to factory settings. Now there is nothing.

Some previously downloaded software is also gone.

He also told Bai Xiaoling what software he wanted to download.

Bai Xiaoling looked at the songs on Yan Xin's phone and selected some songs for him to transfer via Bluetooth.

The first time I got a mobile phone, I was as excited as a child, and everything felt magical.

Her mother felt a little sad when she saw her like this, feeling that she was too incompetent and allowed her daughter to suffer.

At the same time, I am also a little lucky that I have found such a family, so I won’t have to work so hard in the future. I will have a companion who can take care of each other when we get old, so that it won’t put a big burden on my daughter.

In addition, the children of this family are not like the children of other families who object to the stepmother's entry. Instead, they welcome the stepmother and even make efforts to promote it.

Otherwise, even if she enters this family, she will not be a good stepmother.

Especially when the child is so strong.

Yan Xin can treat her daughter well, which is the most gratifying thing for her.

Although they are not biological siblings, they look no different than biological siblings.

There was even a thought in my mind: "How great would it be if they could become a couple?"

Although they are brother and sister, they are not related by blood. She doesn't think there is anything wrong with this.

To put it bluntly, even if the policy did not allow them, a pair of half-brothers and sisters, to obtain a marriage certificate, then she could choose not to obtain a marriage certificate with Yan's father, and then the policy problem would be gone.

For her daughter's happiness, she can make such a sacrifice.

It’s not uncommon for people in rural areas to just serve wine without getting a license, so she didn’t particularly care.

I just don’t know if Yan Xin has a partner.

She asked Yan's father, who didn't know. He only said that his son had said yes before, but then he downplayed it.

In addition, I don’t know what the two little ones are thinking.

It is naturally best to have such an idea. If we do not have such an idea and forcefully promote peace, it may cause great conflicts.

She didn't want to ruin this stable rest of her life.

The two little ones get along quite well, at least they seem to get along quite harmoniously.

They first played with their mobile phones at home for more than half an hour, and then Bai Xiaoling enthusiastically asked Yan Xin to accompany her outside to take photos.

Yan Xin is actually a little reluctant, but it's hard to refuse. We are almost a family now, so refusing is a bit hurtful.

We're not really a family yet, our relationship isn't that deep yet, and there are some things we can't afford to be hurt by.

If you act too repulsive, maybe the whole family won't be able to do it.

I have no choice but to agree.

Then the two of them went outside and took pictures all the way from the fields to the river, taking pictures of landscapes and people.

When I got to the river embankment, I looked to the east of the village and saw Feng Xi's home. I suddenly thought of her and wondered how she was doing in Jincheng now.

I wanted to chat with her on QQ, but Bai Xiaoling was right next to me, so it was a bit inconvenient.

——If he could make his own choice, he hoped to lie on his bed and chat with Ai Lili and Feng Xi this afternoon.

There weren't many opportunities to chat with two of his women at the same time without restraint, and he didn't want to waste it.

But there is no other way. Now that I have to accompany Bai Xiaoling, my future sister, I can only waste such an opportunity.

Bai Xiaoling took a lot of photos along the way, but most of them were deleted.

But there are still more than a hundred left.

This momentum makes Yan Xin quite worried about how long the memory card can last.

It may take a day or two for the memory card to explode.

Some of them are pictures of scenery, and some are pictures of people.

Bai Xiaoling asked Yan Xin to take many photos of her with this old mobile phone, from various angles and postures.

Altogether there may be two to three hundred.

Of course, after taking the photos, I deleted them, and in the end, there were dozens of photos left.

In addition, he took a dozen photos of Yan Xin with his mobile phone.

Yan Xin now uses the more powerful Nokia n95 mobile phone, but he has no interest in taking pictures. During this period, he took dozens of photos with his mobile phone, most of which were of Bai Xiaoling.

This was not taken by him, but by Bai Xiaoling's request:

"Brother, your mobile phone takes clearer pictures. Take a few more pictures for me and then send them to me via Bluetooth."

Yan Xin originally had some hesitation: "But the photos taken by my mobile phone have relatively high pixels. Your mobile phone may not be able to open it, and the effect will not be much better if it is opened."

"I can save them on my mobile phone first, and then upload these photos to my QQ space when I have the opportunity to go to an Internet cafe." Bai Xiaoling said.

Yan Xin was a little funny: "Then you don't have to be so anxious. In the future, technology will only become more and more advanced, and mobile phones will become cheaper and cheaper. When you earn money from work, buy a mobile phone with clearer pictures, or

Wouldn’t it be clearer to take these photos with a SLR camera?”

Bai Xiaoling suddenly sighed quietly: "But...but by the time I get rich, I will no longer be eighteen years old, my youth has passed."

Yan Xin was stunned for a moment, wondering why this little girl had such emotion.

But when I think about the perishable nature of youth, I also have some emotions.

This is indeed the case.

Youth cannot be retained.

But today's high technology can preserve the shadow of youth, which can also serve as evidence when recalling youth in the future, making the memory clearer.

——After he entered middle age in his previous life, he once wanted to see what he looked like when he was young, and then found that there were no photos of him when he was young.

He didn’t even have a graduation photo, and he disappeared after the house in his hometown collapsed.

This is a very depressing thing.

But he has no such regrets in this life. So far, he has left a lot of photos, some of which were taken while traveling.

Some photos are not suitable for more people to see. They are also stored in the computer's hard drive and are stored in several places.

If you want to know what you were like when you were younger in the future, there will be a lot of evidence.

With such emotion, he agreed to Bai Xiaoling's request and told her: "Feng Xi's company has SLR cameras, hundreds of thousands of them each. The photos are very clear. There are also professional photographers and professional makeup artists.

, if you go to work there, you can ask them to take photos for you, and the photos will be beautiful."

Bai Xiaoling yearned for a while, and then said: "It's too beautiful to be photographed, and it doesn't look like myself anymore, so it's better to buy an obvious picture album."

Yan Xin also smiled: "That's true. But it's okay to take a photo like that, and it's also a souvenir."

Bai Xiaoling said: "When you say that, I almost want to go to work there now."

"Go ahead, Feng Xi is easy to talk to. You are a fellow countryman, and she won't embarrass you." Yan Xin said.

Then he quickly added: "Of course, you still need to work hard and seriously, so that others won't gossip, and you still have the possibility of promotion and salary increase."

Bai Xiaoling stuck out her tongue: "I don't dare think about promotion and salary increase. Earning 2,000 yuan a month is already my limit. If I take more, I will be cheating others."

Yan Xin smiled and shook his head: "You still don't have confidence in yourself. Believe in yourself, and you will be able to create value."

Walking, taking pictures, and chatting, time passed very quickly.

By the time they got home, it was already past six o'clock in the evening.

Bai Xiaoling pushed out the new bicycle Yan Xin bought today and rode it home - to feed the chickens, drive them into the chicken coop, and then lock the chicken coop.

Only then did Yan Xin have time to rest. He returned to his bedroom, took out his cell phone and quickly chatted with Aili and Feng Xi about what he had done today.

When chatting with Feng Xi, he mentioned Bai Xiaoling and said that Bai Xiaoling wanted to go out to work at the end of the year and asked her to leave a customer service position there.

Now the four online stores owned by Jinxi E-commerce Company are operating very well. Their scale is getting bigger and bigger, their sales are getting higher and higher, and they need more and more employees.

We have to recruit a few employees every once in a while, mainly to do customer service work.

There is absolutely no problem in leaving a position for Bai Xiaoling.

He also told Feng Xi that this girl wanted to work with him. If Feng Xi couldn't solve her problem, he could only take her to Yangcheng to work.

Regarding such a request, Feng Xi did not hesitate at all and immediately replied to him:

"Don't worry, I will leave a job for her. No one can be allowed in. My future sister-in-law must let her in."

It seemed that he was quite proud, which made Yan Xin very happy, and then he said to her:

"But don't treat her as your future sister-in-law, treat her as an ordinary employee, otherwise she will rely on your momentum to fish in the company, and even use your name to do some damage.

If it's a matter of company benefit, that's not good."

There are many such things in family businesses.

Many company bosses are reluctant to recruit relatives because after they are recruited, those people feel that they are relatives of the royal family and do some messy things in the name of the boss, making the company a mess.

Yan Xin didn't want such a thing to happen.

She's just a half-sister, not that big of a deal.

Even if it was his biological sister, he couldn't accept something like that happening. He would rather give the other person some money to support her than bring her into the company and make the company a mess.

So he had to keep an eye on Feng Xi and never give himself face.

Feng Xi: "Don't worry, I'm measured."

After chatting for more than half an hour, it was already dark. Bai Xiaoling had also dealt with matters at home and came over. She was calling him downstairs:

"Brother, come down for dinner."

Yan Xin responded and typed: "I'm going to eat, wife, we'll talk later."

Then he sent this line of text to Ai Lili and Feng Xi respectively, then put away his phone and went to eat.

The dinner was very sumptuous, with a total of ten dishes cooked.

No one drank, but there was juice and cola.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, this time they did not eat in the kitchen, but set the dining table in the main room and had a meal in the main room.

On the shrine in the main room, there is a portrait of Yan's father's deceased wife and Yan Xin's deceased mother.

The portraits of Yan Xin's grandparents were not kept in his home, but in his uncle's home. However, their relationship with his uncle's family was not very good and they had not moved around in the past few years.

During the Qingming Festival, we will visit the graves of our grandparents, and during the Zhongyuan Festival, we will burn paper. During the New Year's Eve dinner, we will set out bowls and chopsticks for our grandparents so that they can enjoy it first.

But the portrait was only for his mother.

Wu Xiuhong felt quite embarrassed when eating in such a place, as if she was a third party, eating under the gaze of the principal.

Dad Yan was also a little embarrassed, feeling as if he had been caught and raped.

The embarrassment of second marriage is really hard to describe.

Even Yan Xin felt a little embarrassed.

We can only try our best to liven up the atmosphere while eating and let them focus on other places.

After finishing the meal, a small table was moved outside with some fruits and snacks placed on it.

Two families of four sat around the table and admired the moon under the moonlight.

This night the sky was clear, cloudless, and the moon was bright.

The two families sat together to admire the moon, chatting while eating, the atmosphere was quite harmonious, and they no longer looked like two families, but one family.

Years later, Yan Xin has forgotten what they were talking about at that time, but he can remember that one night, under the bright moonlight, their family of four spent the Mid-Autumn Festival together.

It was on this night that he truly felt that they were one family, not two families.

It wasn't until after ten o'clock in the evening that they dispersed.

After moving the table and chairs back into the house, Yan Xin went upstairs first, and then Bai Xiaoling followed him, shouting as he walked:

"Brother, wait for me."

There are three bedrooms on the second floor, including one master bedroom, which is Yan Xin's room.

There are also two small bedrooms that can be used as guest rooms.

In addition to the bedroom where Yan's father lives, there is another bedroom on the first floor that is also used as a guest room.

Yan Xin's idea was that the guest room on the first floor could accommodate the mother and daughter.

I don’t know whether Wu Xiuhong wants to live in that guest room with her daughter or with her father, but it’s enough room anyway.

When I saw Bai Xiaoling following him upstairs, I was a little surprised - what do you mean by following him?

But it was difficult to ask in front of Wu Xiuhong.

Waiting until Bai Xiaoling followed him to the second floor, she asked in a low voice: "What are you doing on the second floor?"

"Come here to stay, there are rooms here." Bai Xiaoling also whispered.

"Aren't there rooms on the first floor?" Yan Xin asked.

Bai Xiaoling glanced at him: "There is a room on the first floor, but doesn't our mother want to live there?"

"You two can share a room," Yan Xin said.

"But what if our mother wants to live with our father?" Bai Xiaoling asked.

"Then you can live in a room by yourself, wouldn't it be better?" Yan Xin was even more surprised.

Bai Xiaoling said: "But if I live on the first floor, wouldn't my mother be embarrassed to live with our father? Then wouldn't I become a nuisance?"

After hearing what she said, Yan Xin also nodded:

"This is also true. They are all thin-skinned people. They must be embarrassed in front of their children."

After accepting Bai Xiaoling's reason, he took her into a small bedroom: "Then you can live here."