Abandoning my husband and son, I raised my six daughters to live happily

His method of making ice lanterns is very simple.

Fill the bucket with water and place a small iron basin on the water.

Then press the iron basin with a wooden board, and finally insert a corn cob into the small basin filled with water.

Leave the bucket of water outside to freeze overnight.

Early the next morning, I took the children with me to remove the wooden planks.

Grasping the handle made of corn cobs, he pulled out the ice from the small basin.

Then pull out the small basin, and you will see that the place where the small basin is placed in the middle of the frozen ice is sunken. Compared with the surrounding ice, the sunken piece of ice is thinner.

Use a shovel to break open the thin ice and pour out the water in the middle that has not frozen into ice.

Then tip the bucket over and pour hot water on the bucket.

The ice in the bucket melts due to heat, and a gap appears between the ice and the bucket, so that the frozen block of ice can be easily poured out of the bucket.

At this point, an ice lantern with a hollow center and surrounded by ice is ready.

The daughters of Meng Suisui's family have never enjoyed their father's love since they were young, and no one has ever taken them to make ice lanterns.

When Meng Qingwu took them to make ice lanterns, they were all very happy and full of expectations for every process.

Looking at the ice lanterns they made with their own hands, their regretful childhoods were slowly healed.

Gradually, they were not satisfied with the transparent ice lantern, and many novel ideas burst into their minds.

They started adding things to the ice.

Meng Anyu made green spinach ice lanterns and golden corn kernel ice lanterns...

Meng Ruoxi added painting paint to the water and made many colorful ice lanterns, which later evolved again and became colorful ice lanterns.

The sisters were not to be outdone.

We have successively made orange peel ice lanterns, melon seed peel ice lanterns, peanut shell ice lanterns, red brick ice lanterns, chicken feather ice lanterns, egg shell ice lanterns...

There are all kinds of weird ice lanterns.

Some of them have very good results, and some of them look unsatisfactory.

But it doesn’t matter whether it’s good or not, as long as the children are happy.

Without exception, they all received encouragement from their families.

The children who were encouraged were so strong that they actually made a total of 188 ice lanterns.

Now outside the gate of Meng Suisui's house, there are two large rows of ice lanterns placed against the courtyard wall, with twenty ice lanterns on each side of the gate.

After entering the hospital, there were also two rows of ice lanterns placed under the house.

Various ice lanterns can be seen everywhere in the yard.

The placement is also very random, it’s all up to the daughters, and they can place it wherever they want.

Meng Qingwu accompanied Meng Yourong to place candles one by one in the ice lantern.

Place a candle in each refrigerator.

It gets dark early in winter, when it gets dark.

The moment Meng Yourong put the candle in the refrigerator, the flickering light of the fire gave the ice lamp a soul.

"Wow, second grandpa, look at this ice lantern. It's so beautiful."

"Who made this ice lantern?"

"My second sister."

"Your second sister is really outstanding in terms of aesthetics. Everything the second sister makes is very beautiful."

"Second Grandpa, you are partial!"

"Third brother, this is really not my preference."

"Why not?"

"If you insist on asking me to get to the bottom of it, I won't be polite. Why don't you take a look at the brick ice lantern you made? Do you think it looks good? And this cinder block ice lantern was also made by you. You can judge your own conscience. Do you think it looks good?"

Meng Yourong looked down at the ice lantern in her hand.

It's not very pretty.

What's that word called?

It's so ugly that I can't even see it.

"But Grandpa, you didn't say that before!"

"Isn't that because your mother said before that we should focus on encouragement? When you grow up surrounded by love, you will become a very cheerful little girl?"

Did her mother say such things to her second grandpa and the others?

It turned out that it was her mother who asked her second grandfather and the others to encourage them more. Her mother was so kind.

But that's not right.

"Second Grandpa, why do you say that the ice lanterns I made don't look good now? Don't you want me to become a cheerful little girl?"

"No, because I found that you are too cheerful, and I have to give you a blow from time to time, otherwise I'm afraid you will be blindly confident."

"Hahahaha, second grandpa, you are so cute."

"Whatever is cute or not, no big or small."

"Grandpa, why are you blushing?"

"Nonsense, do you believe I'm going to beat you up right now?"

"Great!"

"You kid, you want to practice dancing, are you crazy?"

"Who made me discover that you are much better than my fitness coach? I will definitely pester the best person to teach me. Do you think I am smart?"

"Smart, okay?" Meng Qingwu said perfunctorily, "Okay, there are still so many ice lanterns that need candles, so hurry up and go back to the house for dinner."

……

The old man and the young man were chatting and bickering while working, and the time passed was not boring at all.

After a while, they saw Qiao Mai and Meng Yufan coming out of the house, holding something in their arms and not knowing what they were doing.

Sometimes he climbs the ladder to the room, and sometimes he climbs down.

Repeatedly many times.

Meng Yourong turned his head to look over from time to time.

She was too curious about what they were doing and wanted to join in the fun, but her work was not finished yet.

So she put the candles one by one into the ice lantern as quickly as possible.

After she finished her work, she thought she could finally go back and join in the fun.

When he turned around, he found that his uncle and Uncle Qiao had already entered the house.

She opened the door and rushed in, grabbed Qiao Mai's arm and asked.

"Uncle Qiao, what did you do in the room just now?"

Qiao Mai raised his chin in one direction.

Meng Yourong and Meng Qingwu, who had just walked in behind her, subconsciously looked in the direction Qiao Mai was pointing.

"what is this?"

"This is a TV!" Qiao Mai replied, "Your mother is really big-hearted. After buying such a big thing at home, she actually thought of letting us install it."

Meng Suisui smiled helplessly.

She went to the city to buy the TV herself some time ago.

At that time, it suddenly occurred to her that the first Spring Festival Gala was broadcast on CCTV in 1983.

It's just the New Year, it's already 1991.

So without saying anything, she rushed to the city and bought a TV set to watch the Spring Festival Gala with her daughters on New Year's Eve.

She was a little busy during that time, so she didn't have time to take care of the TV. She kept throwing the TV in the warehouse without taking care of it.

Just now she suddenly remembered about the TV. When Qiao Mai and the others found out, they laughed at her and said she had a bad memory.

No matter what, as long as the TV is installed so that you can watch CCTV.

"The meal is ready! Third brother, set the table!"

Meng Anyu's voice came from the kitchen.

The third child took action immediately.

She usually sets the table when guests come to the house.

There were many people at home today, and her brother, uncle, and Uncle Qiao all helped her set the table.

When there are many people, the work is faster. The table is quickly set and the food is served.

Before eating, Meng Yufan made arrangements to go out and set off firecrackers.

Qiao Mai stood up and followed.

For something as fun as setting off firecrackers, Meng Yourong is naturally indispensable.

As the sound of firecrackers stopped, everyone sat around the table again and had dinner together happily.

Unexpectedly, dinner was even richer than lunch.

There are seafood, hot pot, stir-fries and stews on the table, and even dumplings.

It can be said that you can eat whatever you want.

There is no doubt that this will be the best and happiest year they have ever had.

After dinner, everyone is sitting together eating snacks and chatting.

Qiao Mai suddenly said mysteriously.

"Please move outside, I want to show you something."