five years later

December 12th of the lunar calendar this year is Anyuan's 11th birthday, and he received caring greetings from his father, uncle and aunt early in the morning.The old people not only got their love, but also got their hearts along with the red envelopes.

An Yuan clicked on his father's red envelope and saw that he was frightened half to death by the zero behind the five.

"Brother, why are you standing here?" An Mi pushed him from behind, "Get out of the way, the road is blocked."

An Yuan ignored An Mi's nonsense, directly hooked his neck and carried him to the bedroom.He put the mobile phone in front of An Mi, pointed at the red envelope and said, "Did you see it? Why did the three of them agree to send me so much money today!"

An Mi didn't pay attention to this point at all, he pursed his mouth after counting zero and one, and was very angry. "Why am I the same as the one I picked up? Since I was a child, I haven't received so many red envelopes on my birthday!"

An Yuan tugged at his mouth, and said with a smile: "It's reasonable to doubt this. During the Chinese New Year, I'll ask your uncle for you to see if you were picked up under the overpass."

"Brother, why are you doing this? Didn't you say that you won't bully me if I study hard?" An Mi felt that she was really wronged.Don't they say that the youngest in the family is the most favored? Why is it the other way around in the old An's family?

An Yuan sat down next to An Bi, stroked his hair as if comforting a pet, and coaxed, "Be good, you didn't say anything to me first."

"Then I don't know the reason. Besides, if you think this money is too much to handle, you might as well give it to me. My life in school was also miserable."

"You have a good idea. Our new home will be renovated soon, so there is no money to help you." An Yuan put away his phone, and pushed An Mi out of the door roughly.

"No wonder everyone dislikes you, your brain is not bright at all, you can't figure out such a trivial matter and want to eat and drink at my house, you are so beautiful."

An Mi held the doorknob and refused to open it. He turned around and looked at his ruthless cousin seriously, and said, "Don't, I'll ask now."

"No need," An Yuan suppressed the other party's dissatisfaction with force, "I'll ask myself, you go out to entertain guests for me."

"Then, if I live on the street in the future, you won't drive me out, will you?"

An Yuan opened the door and pushed An Mi out, and when the door was about to close, he smiled brightly at him, "It depends on my mood." After speaking, he closed the door, leaving An Mi standing at the door with a melancholy expression on his face.

In fact, this is not a big deal, An Yuan has a vague intuition whether he asks about it or not.Maybe it's because he's about to turn [-]; or it's because his partner is a man who not only earns more than him, but also bought a house with all the money; His daughter-in-law Ben sent it all in one breath.

"Oh," An Yuan lay down on the bed and sighed.It's not like he hasn't saved money over the years. It's the self-consciousness of poor people to call them poor, but he really can't come up with a solution to this matter.

This birthday coincided with the weekend, and no one was going to work, so Liu Youxia personally prepared An Yuan's birthday party at home.Although the place is a bit shabby, the posture is not lost at all.

Not many guests were invited, of course there were uninvited guests such as Lu Siqi.I didn't invite him because I was afraid of his embarrassment, after all Liu Yumin brought his partner here.Fortunately, he was not the only one who was embarrassed.After seeing Liu Yumin from entering the door, Chen Jia sat on the sofa with a stinky face and said nothing.

An Yuan came out of the bedroom and saw four people scattered in the living room. He felt that he should not get involved, so he turned and went into the kitchen.

"Aren't you tired?" Liu Youxia was wearing an apron, peeling garlic in her hands, and she tilted her head and smiled without saying a word.She had a warm smile, but she couldn't stop the dark blue eyes.

"I said no, you just want to show off." An Yuan felt sorry for him, and there was a hint of reproach in his tone.

"How can you say so exaggeratedly? It's too delicate to call yourself tired after cooking a meal." Liu Youxia handed two cloves of garlic to An Yuan, "Here, come and help me."

"Have you called Dad and Uncle?"

An Yuan nodded.He didn't have many nails, and it was very painful to peel the garlic, and the layer of skin covering it couldn't be rubbed off.

"Soak them in water for a while, and it will be easy to clean them later." Liu Youxia remembered that An Yuan didn't keep nails, so he hurriedly took a small basin from the side to fill the things, and soaked them in water.

"Is there anything else to wash?" An Yuan caught a glimpse of the small vegetables on the ground, held them in front of Liu Youxia and asked, "Is this for lunch today?"

"Well, there is still a box of quail eggs in the black bag next to it, just peel a dozen or so."

An Yuan took out the quail eggs and put them aside, a little curious. "What are you going to cook, soup?"

"No, tiger skin quail eggs." Liu Youxia held the shredded carrot in her hand and replied intently: "The recipe looks very simple, but it's my first time making it, so I don't know how it will taste."

An Yuan flicked two drops of water onto his face, and said with a smile, "Don't be modest, you can support me even if you change careers and become a cook."

Liu Youxia stopped what he was doing, put the shredded carrots in a bowl, turned his head and kissed An Yuan's face. "I'm going to swell if I go on like this."

"You bloat casually, I'll tell the truth anyway." An Yuan put the washed vegetables on the cutting board, glanced at the people beside him and continued: "But I'm better at drawing than you, and I'm faster at reading than you. There are more movies than you, and the photos are better than you."

"Yes," Liu Youxia bumped him with his shoulder, and said in a calm tone, "Are we a natural match?"

An Yuan scolded shamelessly in his heart, but smiled "flashingly" on his face.

Liu Youxia got up at four o'clock this morning.He ran to the comprehensive wholesale market to take a look, and it didn't take long for it to open there.The vegetables were picked fresh from the field, with condensed ice still hanging from the leaves.

It's not easy to come here, Liu Youxia bought a lot of things from a dark-skinned but energetic man.Cucumbers, green vegetables, potatoes, radishes, celery, etc. I also bought a few catties, and when I was leaving, I took an extra-large snakeskin bag.

Although wearing a mask, I can't hold back the hot eyes of the aunts.They looked at Liu Youxia's youthful appearance and politeness, and when they bought two catties of chili peppers, they just gave away a handful of green onions.

If you go to the supermarket to buy something, you will definitely choose it quickly.But when Liu Youxia hesitated in front of this stall, the aunt next door would say, "Young man, come and have a look at my purple sweet potato, it's guaranteed to be sweet."

Then the aunt, who didn't care about him at first, raised her eyebrows, wishing to poke her own purple sweet potato on his face. "Young man, look carefully. Which purple potato in our family is not beautiful? All of them are round and exquisite, all of the same size, and the skin is thin. If you buy it back and eat one that is not sweet, I will still sell it here tomorrow. You can come and go!"

Liu Youxia really couldn't refuse his aunt's kindness, so he took the purple sweet potato that was still stained with mud, and bought five or six catties of it back.

Picking left and right, he finally learned how to bargain and arrived home at six o'clock.

An Yuan was still sleeping, while Liu Youxia relaxed and was busy in the kitchen.He washed the purple potatoes, peeled them and began to steam them in a wok.He took out two celery sticks and shrimp, and prepared to eat casserole shrimp porridge for breakfast.

An Mi was the first to arrive, and when Liu Youxia went to open the door, he suspected that he was the first train on the subway.

"Where's my brother?" He put the gift in his hand on the table, and without seeing An Yuan, he walked into the kitchen and asked Liu Youxia.

"Still sleeping." Liu Youxia lifted the lid of the pot and stirred, then put the chopped celery into it.After stirring evenly, he scooped up half a spoonful to taste the taste. It was moderately salty, and then he turned to An Mi and said, "Go and wake him up for breakfast, and all the guests will come over later."

An Mi's eyes were straightened, and seeing Liu Youxia speak, he hurriedly trotted to wake An Yuan up.

Fortunately, the clothes are well worn on the body.After throwing off the quilt, An Mi suddenly thought of this question, and quickly put the quilt back.

"Brother, are you a pig, why are you still sleeping?" An Yuan's cold eyes swept over him, and An Mi hurriedly moved Liu Youxia out. "Your chef asked me to ask you to have breakfast, casserole porridge, it smells delicious. Get up soon, I'm going to starve to death."

So the limp and impatient An Yuan got up from the bed, and before drinking the porridge, he went to the kitchen to express his condolences to Fan Liu Youxia.

"You said, what do you want to do while I am so virtuous on my birthday today?"

Liu Youxia turned off the fire and started serving porridge. He winked at An Yuan, "If you don't do anything, let your colleagues be a witness. If you dare to abandon me in the future, they will drown you in their spittle."

An Yuan was choked by his words for a while and didn't say a word. Finally, he took his bowl of porridge and sighed, "It really is a man's heart, a needle in the sea. Scheming, scheming."

Lu Siqi came with Liu Yumin.An Yuan opened the door and let out a very angry "hum" before entering.

Liu Yumin shrugged his shoulders, signaling him not to care about like a child. "Let me introduce you, this is my beautiful object, Yang Cheng."

An Yuan looked at the woman standing beside her, smiled and held out his hand. "Hi, I'm Anyuan."

"Hello." Yang Cheng grinned back with bared teeth, but the smile froze on his face when he saw An Mi.

"What's wrong?" Liu Yumin bumped her arm, and then glanced at An Mi. "You guys know each other? But this brother looks familiar to me."

Perhaps the word "brother" calmed Yang Cheng down, she just thought of them as two people who looked alike.

"It's okay, this younger brother looks a bit like Manager Shen from our company. When I first came in, I thought it was him coming, and I was shocked."

An Mi greeted the sisters very obediently. "My brother is on the phone, and he won't be free until later. Have all the sisters eaten? There is the casserole porridge in the morning, as well as the fruit and purple potato tart that the chef just made. Can't you drink oat milk? Drink? You can put less sugar."

Liu Yumin exclaimed "tsk tut", "Your family's life is too delicate." She winked at An Mi, "Brother, can I eat something of everything?"

An Mi felt that such a lovely sister was a treasure in the world.He made an "OK" gesture, and then asked Lu Siqi. "Brother, do you put sugar in your oat milk?"

Lu Siqi originally wanted to refute "Who is your brother's", but as soon as the words came out, it became, "Put more, I don't like to eat tasteless things."

An Mi hurriedly nodded, and happily went to the kitchen to fetch food.

Liu Youxia was in the kitchen busying with the dishes for lunch, while An Yuan was nestled in the bedroom on the phone.The person on the phone wished him a happy birthday and asked when he would be home this year.

Chen Jia, who was blocked on the road, waited anxiously.I have long heard that An Yuan's partner is a cook, and he came here deliberately without breakfast, but the result is so miserable, it really makes everyone cry when he hears it.