After seeing the two of them off, she closed the courtyard door and happily returned to the house with five yuan. During this trip, she had enough to buy a lot of snacks for her Yaya, as well as a lot of food.
After putting the five yuan away, he looked at Yaya on the kang and saw that she hadn't woken up yet. Fang Nuo went out and continued to dry the clothes.
Then I went back to the house, took out a book from the space, and read to pass the time.
Time passed slowly like this, Fang Nuo stayed at home every day, and Aunt Dahua came to talk to her from time to time, and the two of them did some needlework together.
Fang Nuo has recently become obsessed with knitting yarn and hooking woolen shoes, or hooking up some woolen toys for Yaya.
Every time Auntie Dahua sees those toys, she always says her hands are so skillful.
Fang Nuo also hooked up some wool vests for himself. They are the kind of clothes that are spliced with patterns. They look good, but there are big gaps.
In the words of Aunt Dahua: "This thing is useless. It doesn't keep you warm at all and it's a waste of wool and time."
Fang Nuo just smiled every time, but next time he would just focus on looking good and not caring about preserving capital and warmth.
She didn't wear these clothes out, she just wore them at home.
Every time I wear a thicker gown underneath and a nice woolen vest, it looks very nice.
She also picked out some good ones for Yaya. Every time she put them on, the little girl would point to the white camellia flowers on them to show her.
Two months have passed like this, and time has entered the twelfth lunar month of the year.
Little Yaya is already eleven months old, and recently she always wants to go to the ground for a walk.
Fang Nuo felt that if it wasn't winter and she didn't dare to put it down for fear of being cold, Yaya would have learned to walk.
That day she got up in the morning, fed Yaya some solid food, and was taking her on the kang, letting her hold on to the wall and play by herself. Fang Nuo was protecting her with his hands to prevent her from falling.
The two mother and daughter had just played in the house for a while when Auntie Dahua's voice came from outside the house: "Xiao Nuo, are you up?"
"Get up, why is Auntie here? Come in quickly," Fang Nuo replied.
After a while, Auntie Dahua opened the door and walked in. She shook the snow off her body at the door before walking to the kang.
Seeing Yaya standing holding on to the wall, Aunt Dahua said: "Yaya can stand on her own now. Time flies so fast."
"Yes, the little girl has been making a fuss about going to the ground to play in the past few days. I think the ground is too cold, so I can only let her stand by herself every day," Fang Nuo said with a smile.
"Your Yaya walks early among the children of the same age in our village. It can be seen from this that your mother has raised her well. The children are stronger and they will walk earlier," said Aunt Dahua.
"I didn't give her very good food. Even if she had it at home, there would be nothing she could do without me," Fang Nuo said.
"Indeed, in our village, you are the only one who raises girls like this. I have never seen anyone in other families be so willing to do so. They even buy milk powder for their children when they have no milk," said Aunt Dahua.
"It's not that I didn't do it myself. I heard the doctor in the hospital say that milk powder is not as good as breast milk. There is nothing you can do about feeding your child milk powder. If you don't give your child good nutrition, you will have to go to the hospital every day for fear of getting sick. If you run away, it won't cost you the milk powder money," Fang Nuo explained.
"Well, I didn't know this before, but now I know it. If I have a daughter-in-law in the future, I will tell her the same thing," said Aunt Dahua.
"Auntie's eldest brother and second brother haven't met my wife yet?" Fang Nuo took this opportunity to change the subject and asked.
"Not yet, the eldest brother hasn't come back since he was in the army for two years. The second eldest brother also spends a whole day at home. He always picks up the nice things we say. Every time we urge him to see a wife, he just calls his eldest brother He hasn’t found it yet, so he’s not in a hurry.” When Aunt Dahua talked about the marriage of her two sons, she also had a sad look on her face.
"Hey, aunt, you don't have to worry, maybe they will both bring back their wives soon," Fang Nuo said.
"If that's true, my children and their father will wake up laughing in our dreams." Aunt Dahua replied with a smile unconsciously when she heard what she said.
"Auntie, you have to prepare the bride price at any time. When you walk in, there will be two of them," Fang Nuo also said with a smile.
"That's for sure. Although my family hasn't saved much money over the years, since the children started making money, they will hand over some to our two elders, saying it is for us to buy things. But what do we two elders have to buy? , I saved it all for them, and it can be regarded as the money saved for them as bride price,” Aunt Dahua said.
She still felt that although her two children did not listen to them very much when it came to marrying a wife, compared with the sons of other families in the village, the two sons were considered filial and sensible.
"That's because Auntie, you and your uncle are good at raising children, so your two children are pretty good," Fang Nuo praised.
"Haha, that's as good as you said," Aunt Dahua replied with a smile.
Looking at the uncontrollable smile on her face, Fang Nuo knew that she had hit the point.
Aunt Dahua smiled for a while, then remembered the business of coming here today, and said to Fang Nuo: "Oh, after chatting with you for such a while, I almost forgot what I came here to tell you today."
"What's the matter, auntie?" Fang Nuo was also curious about what Auntie Dahua was going to say.
"Actually, it's a matter of the village. The pigs are about to be killed in our village. The public grain pigs will be handed over tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Our village can keep two pigs to be killed in the village this year. You must remember to pick up the meat then. Ah," said Aunt Dahua.
"Is that so? Does that mean the pig was killed the day after tomorrow?" Fang Nuo asked.
"Yes, after the pigs are killed, the men in our village will organize a fishing trip to the lake. If you want fish, you can go and exchange some for some," Aunt Dahua said.
"Okay, thank you, aunt, for coming here to tell me, otherwise I really wouldn't know about this," Fang Nuo thanked her.
In Fang Xiaonuo's memory, she did not see pigs being killed or fished in the village, because she had not been out much since she married into the Wang family.
When she came to the countryside, it was also the spring sowing season, and these things didn't happen in the village, so she didn't know about it.
Buying meat in the village was cheaper than in the city, and there was no need for a ticket. If no one told her, she would have missed it.
That's why she thanked Aunt Dahua for coming over to tell her that the family really treated her well. She was thinking of preparing more dishes during the Chinese New Year and sending some over.
"Thank you, I just came here for a visit," Aunt Dahua said.
The two of them played with Yaya for a while. Fang Nuo wanted to keep Aunt Dahua at home for lunch, but she said she wanted to go back and cook for the two men at home and left when the time came.
Fang Nuo knew that he couldn't keep the person, so he sent her to the courtyard gate, watched her go away, then closed the courtyard door and went to the kitchen to prepare lunch.
