After a simple rebirth

As usual in the morning, Fu Yu woke up Wang Ruiya to go to the toilet.

For breakfast, we had egg noodles made by Fu's father. He would beat the eggs into soup and put them aside while cooking the noodles again.

To be honest, what Fu Ying admires most about her father's cooking is the egg noodles. The eggs are fluffy and the soup is rich. She thinks it tastes especially good every time she eats it.

She likes to add noodles and soup in small amounts and multiple times so that she can always enjoy the delicious egg soup base.

After breakfast, Fu's father and mother went to the market to buy New Year's goods. Although there would be stalls selling things every day in the week leading up to the New Year, there would still be more people at the market and the goods would be more complete.

The children wanted to join in the fun, and Fu Ying agreed, saying that the whole family should go together. With more adults, there was no need to worry about any accidents, so she agreed.

After some arrangements, Wang Ruixuan would be held by his father all the time, and the other two didn't need to be held, Fu Ying and Fu Yu just had to hold one each.

Father Fu asked the eldest son, but he refused to go out. Fu Ying knew that he didn't want to do hard labor because he bought a lot of things and needed someone to carry them, so he refused.

Finally, Fu's father and mother, Fu Yu and his wife, all four of them carried backpacks, plus Fu Yu's three children, Fu Ying and Fu Zhe, a group of nine people went to the street.

As expected, there were a lot of people during the New Year, and many were selling things. Fu Ying was afraid that the children would be bumped into on the road because they were too short.

She always buys more things now. For vegetables like garlic leaves and bean sprouts, Fu Ma buys them in batches of five kilograms.

We also bought ten kilograms of peanuts and melon seeds, which are essential for the Chinese New Year, five kilograms each of original flavor and salty and fragrant melon seeds. Originally, Fu's mother wanted to buy all original flavors, but Fu Ying thought about the taste of the original flavor and insisted on the salty and fragrant ones.

This is why Fu Ma is stingy. She said the original flavor is not tasty, so people who come to visit will not eat so much. If the salty and fragrant flavor keeps on eating, there won’t be enough for the landlord’s family.

But Fu Ying insisted, it’s not like her family doesn’t eat. Most of the New Year’s goods will definitely be eaten by her family. What’s the point of celebrating the New Year if she buys a bunch of tasteless food?

In the end, Fu's father said that they should each buy five kilograms, ending the argument.

As for peanuts, Fu Ying doesn't care. She likes to eat melon seeds and doesn't like peanuts. Peanuts are basically only available in original flavor, so whoever likes them can eat them.

Then comes candy. Buy a mix of different candies, and just buy the cheaper ones.

Watching Fu's mother buying candies, Fu Ying lamented that express delivery had not yet developed in her hometown, otherwise all the things she bought online would be cheap and delicious.

Although you may not be able to eat much at home.

One year during the Spring Festival, Fu Ying also bought tangerine peel candy, corn candy, fruit candy, and hard candy online and brought them home in advance. She spent more than 100 yuan, and Fu Ying also bought small bags for packaging, thinking that children would like to eat mixed candies. Fearing that they would eat too much at one time, she only packed a portion and placed it on the cabinet.

As a result, when more than a dozen people from Aunt Fu's family came to visit on the second day of the Chinese New Year, Fu's father took some down and shared them with others. After hearing from relatives that the candies were delicious, Fu's father and mother gave them all to them and stuffed their pockets full.

Fu Ying felt heartbroken when she saw this, but she couldn't stop her parents in person. In the end, she only had two or three bags of candy left, and she had to share them with the other kids to satisfy their cravings, so she had no more.

The food that Fu's mother buys now is not that delicious, and there is no way to choose. As long as the child likes it, it's fine. Besides, Fu Ying is no longer at the age of liking sweets and snacks.

Dad Fu selected a few more pairs of couplets. In Yunnan Province, couplets are posted on the front doors, not on the middle doors. Mainly because they didn't have that much money, so Dad Fu selected two large pairs and six small pairs, just to make them look festive.

Because there were so many people, Fu Yu also bought some fried potatoes and yellow cakes on the way, and the family shared them for fun. Fu Zhe also bought some fireworks with his own money, saying that they should set them off together during the New Year. Fu's mother saw it and said he was a spendthrift, but she didn't stop him too much. Fu Zhe only bought 20 or 30 small fireworks, not too expensive ones.

We have bought almost everything we need, and Mother Fu said she will go home after buying the fruits.

Fruit vendors in rural areas use a special truck to go to the orchard and pack the fruit in advance. Each bag is 10 jin and the price is a certain amount. This is cheap because the quantity is large. Fu Ma bought a bag of oranges for 25 yuan, which is quite cheap. There are also vendors selling apples, but apples are not cost-effective and are generally not considered.

Fu Ying wanted to eat sugar oranges, but everyone was buying from nearby, and no one had gone to Guangxi Province yet, so there were no sugar oranges to buy. Otherwise, Fu's mother would buy 10 kilograms, and Fu Ying could show off 5 kilograms by herself.

Wang Changjie carried the extremely heavy fruit, and the family walked back.

When passing by Gumang Middle School, Fu Yu sighed,

"The door to the middle school hasn't changed in all these years, so the inside should still be the same, right?"

"It should have changed a lot. The sand field you had before now has a plastic track. A new teaching building has also been built, and there is a cafeteria where you can eat. And Gumang is going to expand, so it will definitely become more." Fu Ying continued.

"Gumang is going to expand? When did you say that? Didn't you hear it?" Fu Yu was surprised.

Fu's father and mother also looked over.

Fu Ying answered vaguely, "My homeroom teacher is the head of the grade. He mentioned that the high school department is going to be expanded. That means the entire school must be expanded!"

"Expansion is good. If your school is bigger, you will be more comfortable studying in school. When I was studying at Gumang Middle School, Gumang was even smaller than your sister's school!" Fu's father continued.

Fu Ying didn't say anything else. Fu's parents didn't have the sensitivity to catch the information. They would be curious about where the expansion would take place and when it would take place. So if Fu Ying really told them that the expansion would require the acquisition of their own land, it would be useless for the time being.

After returning home and putting down the things, Fu Ying first took an orange and peeled it to eat. When she bought it, Fu's mother tried it and said it was sweet, but Fu Ying didn't believe it. Fu's mother's sweetness was not the same as what others said. Fu Ying had tried a very sour plum before, and Fu's mother always said it was sweet, but Fu Ying's teeth were so sour that they were about to fall out, and Fu Yu also said it was very sour.

Before Fu Ying finished peeling the fruit, a chubby little hand was already waiting. Wang Ruya looked at her eagerly. Fu Ying gave her half and asked her to eat first.

"Xiaoya, are the oranges sour?"

Wang Ruiya's face was about to wrinkle, "Second uncle, it's so sour! This orange is so sour!"

Fu Ying laughed, put the orange in her mouth and tried it herself. It was very sour at first, but not very strong. There was still a little sweetness in the end, not that exaggerated.

Fu Ma peeled one and ate it, and stuffed half of it into Fu Dad's mouth. Fu Dad leaned back and shook his head, refusing to eat the orange. After eating, Fu Ma said to Wang Ruiya,

"I tried the sweet one when I bought it, but I'm just a kid, how could it be that sour? It's just weird!"

Fu Yu also peeled one to try, "It's okay, a little sour, but not that exaggerated."

Wang Ruizhong also came over and said, "Mom, I want to eat too."

Fu Yu stuffed two oranges into his mouth, and he jumped up and down in a funny way, "So sour, oranges are so sour!"

When the adults saw him like this, they all laughed.