When the dumplings were cooked, the fried dishes were served on the table. Tang Xing paced around the table several times. Looking at the table full of food, she couldn't help drooling.

This table of food was too tempting for her. She had never eaten so much delicious food in her life.

While Tang Yue and Li Jianning were busy, she couldn't help reaching out to grab dumplings from the table.

Seeing that a bowl of dumplings was almost empty and Tang Xing's face was full of oil, Tian Lanfang got up from the kang bed slowly.

In previous years, no matter how hard the life was, Tian Lanfang would prepare six dishes, which were just fried peanuts, cold cabbages, fatty meat stir-fried celery, and other dishes.

It was New Year's Eve, so they had to eat better.

What's more, this year was different from the past. It was a brand new beginning.

Her life was about to start over again.

Fried sword fish, fried eggs, and meat stir-fried vegetables. They had made six dishes.

Most of them were taken by her from the Carry-on Space, and the quantity was very small. The food could not be too different from the actual situation, and it was easy to cause unnecessary trouble.

If they asked, she would say that she had bought it secretly.

"Why do you get up so early? I haven't slept well yet. It's not easy for the bed to warm up, but I have to get up..."

Tian Lanfang opened her mouth and yawned, grumbling, her face full of reluctance.

Before she could open her eyes, she stretched out her hands and pounded her waist hard.

"The Kangtou is as hard as a stone. It hurts my waist and back after a sleep..."

As if she had suddenly realized something, she opened her eyes and smiled awkwardly at Tang Yue, who was standing near the Kangtou.

"I'm getting old, and my body is not as strong as when I was young..."

After a random explanation, she hurriedly put on her clothes and trotted to the burning stove in the central hall.

When people in the countryside spent the winter, most of them would set up a stove in the central room. The conditional families chose to burn coal. As the coal kept burning day and night, the house would be a little hot; The families without conditions could burn firewood. It was a bit troublesome to burn firewood. People needed to light a fire every day, so the heating effect was a little poor.

The diligent and capable Li Jianning had already burned the stove.

Tang Youde never gave money to Tian Lanfang. She had no money to buy coal at all; If they wanted to survive the winter peacefully, they had to think of a way themselves.

Poor people had their own ways of life. Tian Lanfang was diligent and capable. She cut some firewood and put them neatly in the west wing; Usually, the stove would be filled with firewood, and when it was cold, the Kangtou would be heated. The three of them lay prone on the bed to warm themselves up, so they got through it.

Most of the firewood that Tian Lanfang chopped was pine wood. When the firewood was burned, it would turn red and emit a pleasant smell; When it burned, it made crackling sounds, as if firecrackers were being set off.

The advantage of this kind of heating stove was that while heating, you can also put a kettle on the stove; As long as the stove was on fire, there would be hot water all day.

Tian Lanfang would also roast sweet potatoes and potatoes under the stove. Tang Xing, who was greedy, always ate like a kitten.

That was the happiest time for Tang Xing in her last life.

"Mom, come and wash your face. It's time for the meal!"

Sitting next to the stove, Tian Lanfang frowned and looked at her cracked and dry hands. She heard the crisp cry of Tang Xing.

The sensible Tang Xing took down the kettle from the stove and poured hot water into the basin; She turned around, scooped out a spoonful of cold water from the water jar, and stirred it. After testing the temperature, she shouted at Tian Lanfang.

Tang Xing bounced over and touched the forehead of Tian Lanfang; She called out happily, "It's all right, mom!"

She reached out her hand and pulled Tian Lanfang to the basin intimately.

A sweet and greasy fragrance wafted from her little face.

It was the fragrance of vanishing cream.

Tian Lanfang was excited.

Tang Yue was overbearing and unreasonable. She had skincare products such as vanishing cream and Fragrance, but she was reluctant to give them to Tang Xing and Tian Lanfang; Once, Tang Xing secretly smeared a little, but Tang Yue recognized the smell and scolded her.

Had Tang Yue changed her mind?

Tian Lanfang muttered in her heart.

"Mom, my sister bought us vanishing cream, toothbrush, and toothpaste! Mom, quickly wash your face and apply vanishing cream. The vanishing cream smells good and smells perfumed."

While Tian Lanfang was washing her face, Tang Xing ran out with a pile of colorful things in her arms, looking excited.

"Mom, my sister said that we have to brush our teeth every morning and night! This toothpaste is mint-flavored, and when I brush my teeth, it's like a breeze..."

"And this, my sister said it was used to wipe hands. Your hands are swollen. If you wipe this every day, your hands will be as white and tender as my sister's hands..."

Like a bird, Tang Xing kept chattering excitedly.

Tian Lanfang looked at Tang Xing and found that she was holding a small tube-like thing in her hand. It was covered with a layer of transparent plastic film. It was a special hand-protecting product of that era - coconut oil.

She chuckled and scratched her head in embarrassment.

As a mother, she had to let her child greet her. It was a little awkward.

Did the sun rise from the west?

How did Tang Yue become so generous?

Perhaps it was because her new son-in-law was here.

Tian Lanfang grabbed a towel and wiped her face quickly. She happily took the vanishing cream and other things from Tang Xing and began to dress up.

On weekdays, Tian Lanfang was either busy with her children or farming, so she didn't have time to take care of herself. She was only in her early thirties, but her face had aged ten years.

Tian Lanfang dressed up neatly, took out a floral cotton jacket, and put it on. She was grinning from ear to ear.

There was a hardworking and capable Li Jianning at home, who could do all the work at home alone.

When the rice was cooked and the kang bed was heated, even the two old sows in the pigsty were fed until their bellies were round. They lay comfortably on the newly replaced soft wheat straw and rolled on them.

What a good son-in-law!

If only Li Jianning could stay at home every day. She muttered in her heart.

Today was the first day of the new year. According to the customs of the village, relatives of the same family had to gather together to pay New Year's respects one by one.

The sound of firecrackers rose and fell, louder and louder; From time to time, the laughter of adults and children could be heard from the streets. It was a happy and peaceful scene.

Tang Xing couldn't wait any longer. She took out a floral cotton-padded jacket from the cardboard box at the Kangtou and put it on happily.

Looking at the happy Tang Xing, Tang Yue felt a little upset.

Tian Lanfang had no money, and she even had to ask the money to buy salt from Tang Youde humbly. Naturally, she couldn't afford new clothes for the two sisters.

But she loved her child very much, so she changed her almost new clothes into a cotton-padded jacket for Tang Xing.

In order to wear it for two more years, she specially made the cotton-padded jacket bigger; Wearing the cotton-padded jacket, Tang Xing looked thinner.

Tang Yue had some money, which was borrowed from Li Jianning for the Spring Festival.

He was so considerate that he knew that her family was short of money; He just didn't want to embarrass Tang Yue.

Tang Yue was not embarrassed at all!

In her previous life, she was willful, unruly, and ignorant. Not to mention that Li Jianning had lent her 50 yuan, even if it was for free, she could take it calmly.

She took 50 yuan and dressed up herself from head to toe, hairband, bread suits, new pants, and new shoes. She also bought two pairs of underwear, a maxam face wiping oil, and shampoo for herself.

She didn't care about whether her sister and mother had new clothes to wear or not.

"Wear new clothes and new hats. Get better every year!"

Tang Xing had sparse dry yellow hair, which was tied into two pigtails on the top of her head; It turned out that she had taken off the dirty cotton-padded jacket and put the cotton-padded jacket on which Tian Lanfang had modified.

She was very happy. As she sang, she kept walking around the room.

"We'll definitely get better each year! I'll buy you nice dresses, nice cotton jackets, delicious candies, and make you up every day..."

Tang Yue turned around, quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and held Tang Xing in her arms.

In her previous life, Tang Xing had died miserably.