Reborn before her mother committed suicide, the heroine went crazy

Chapter 218 Giving Gifts

Wan An Ning smiled and agreed, "It's a good thing that Old Auntie Pan can think it through. Since Brother Ermao has already been to the girl's house, I guess their wedding date has been set, right?"

Feng Xiangmei was peeling chestnuts while saying, "Isn't it settled? It's on the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month. As the saying goes, whether you have money or not, it's better to marry a wife to celebrate the New Year."

Wan An Ning nodded and asked, "Did you just go to deliver meat to Auntie Pan's house?"

Feng Xiangmei thought Wan An Ning was not happy to send meat to the old Pan family, so she carefully explained: "Whether before or after the divorce with your father, your old lady Pan was the best person to me in this village. Sometimes I think that after the divorce with your father, if she hadn't come to talk to me often, I might have been so upset that I might even drink poison or hang myself.

Thanks to her, I was able to slowly get over it. The better our family's life became, the more grateful I became to you, Auntie Pan. So, I didn't discuss it with you and took the initiative to give them a piece of meat."

Wan An Ning thought that she was not at home most of the time, and what if Feng Xiangmei ever became depressed... she couldn't imagine it!

Feng Xiangmei was right. It was indeed thanks to old Aunt Pan who often came to accompany her.

"Old Auntie Pan is a good person!"

Wan An Ning said: "We should thank her properly."

"If you think so, I feel relieved."

Feng Xiangmei breathed a sigh of relief, thought for a moment and then said, "When will your furniture factory be completed? Can you arrange for Ermao to work there by then?"

Old Aunt Pan's second son, Ermao, also learned the craft from a carpenter for several years, but he has not been able to take on any work on his own and usually does odd jobs in the surrounding villages. Old Aunt Pan is very worried about this and has probably complained to Feng Xiangmei many times, so Feng Xiangmei asked this question.

Wan An Ning did not refuse to help Ermao get a job at the furniture factory. She thought for a moment before saying, "It will definitely be better in the spring after the New Year. By then, all the formalities will be completed and we can open the business. There will be no problem arranging for Ermao to work at the furniture factory. But don't tell them about this for now, to avoid any accidents. Wait until the furniture factory is built, then we'll tell Aunt Pan."

Feng Xiangmei nodded: "Okay, I'll do as you say."

As she spoke, she couldn't help but sigh: "I feel empty inside when I think about how it will be hard for me to see your old lady Pan again after we move to Z City."

"It can't be helped. Gathering and parting, breaking up and getting back together, are all normal in life. But don't worry, mother. Although you don't have Auntie Pan to accompany you anymore, don't you still have Sister Ximei?"

Although Sister Ximei did not agree on the spot to go to City Z with them, Wan An Ning believed that she would definitely not miss this opportunity.

The mother and daughter chatted while peeling chestnuts. Before long, they had peeled a bowl full of chestnuts.

Feng Xiangmei looked at the chestnuts in the bowl, smiled with satisfaction, and said, "Okay, that's enough. We can eat the rest during the Chinese New Year."

As she said this, she picked up the bowl and went into the house.

Wan An Ning put away the remaining chestnuts and followed him in.

Feng Xiangmei was looking at the meat on the chopping board. When she saw Wan An Ning coming in, she hurriedly said, "There's no salt in the salt jar. Go buy some salt while it's still early. We have to marinate the meat quickly."

Wan An Ning put down the chestnuts, agreed, and went out with the clay jar filled with salt.

When leaving the house, Wan Anping suddenly grabbed the back seat of the bicycle, blinked and said, "Big sister, can you buy me some egg cake?"

Every time Wan An Ning came back from outside, she would buy a lot of snacks for Wan An Ping. Even if she brought a lot of things and didn't buy them back at the time, she would go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy them for her the next day.

However, Wan An Ning didn't go out recently, so naturally she didn't buy any for Wan Anping. After the winter vacation, she consumed snacks much faster than usual, so she was a little out of control. Now that she saw Wan An Ning was about to go to the supply and marketing cooperative, she immediately seized the opportunity and asked her to buy some for her.

Wan An Ning looked at her eager look and immediately softened his heart.

"Okay, just wait at home, I'll buy it for you in a while."

Wan An Ning rode his bicycle to Yongfeng Supply and Marketing Cooperative to buy salt, and also bought two kilograms of white sugar and brown sugar, as well as various snacks that Wan An Jing liked. The handlebars of his bicycle were full of them before he went back.

The salt sold by the supply and marketing cooperatives at this time was still green salt, similar to crystallized rock sugar. After buying it, you needed to crush it yourself before eating it.

After Wan An Ning returned home, he gave the snacks to Wan Anping who was waiting eagerly, and then he took the mortar and started pounding salt little by little.

Feng Xiangmei used the salt crushed by Wan An Ning to rub on the pork...

Time passed quickly as we were preparing for the New Year, and in the blink of an eye it was the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month.

The day when Ermao from Aunt Pan's family gets married.

Feng Xiangmei gave the prepared things to Wan An Ning early and asked her to go over early to help.

Wan An Ning looked at what she had prepared: a pair of mandarin duck pillowcases, bed sheets and quilt covers, and a towel blanket...

There are a lot of things!

Seeing Wan An Ning looking over, Feng Xiangmei smiled a little embarrassedly: "I'm not giving all of this to the new bride. These things are what I left over from my previous sales. I can't take them all to City Z, right? I thought it would be better to give them away as a favor."

Wan An Ning nodded: "If you want to give it to me, just give it to me. What's there to be embarrassed about?"

Feng Xiangmei didn't expect Wan An Ning to agree to her sending so many things. She didn't say anything else, but pushed Wan An Ping and said, "You can take Ping Ping with you later. An Jing needs to study at home, so she should stay at home with me."

After what happened at Feng Zhanpeng's wedding, Feng Xiangmei no longer wanted to appear at other people's weddings. Even if the host family didn't mind, she would feel uncomfortable. She didn't want to embarrass the host family, so she simply avoided it.

Wan An Ning did not persuade her to go, but said: "I will go and deliver the gift, and then come back directly. Today is the 29th, and tomorrow is New Year's Eve. We should prepare everything we need, and we won't have dinner at her house."

Wan An Ning took the things to Aunt Pan's house. It was still early, and except for a few of their particularly close uncles and brothers, the other villagers had not arrived yet.

Seeing Wan An Ning coming, old Aunt Pan happily called her to come in.

Wan'an, you smiled and said, "Congratulations, Auntie, you are really in high spirits because of the good news. Look at you, you are so radiant today."

Old Auntie Pan touched her face, waved her hands at Wan An Ning, and scolded with a smile: "You girl, you have learned to tease me. Where is your mother? Why didn't she come?"

Wan An Ning said, "Isn't it New Year's Day? There are still many things left to do at home. My mother is busy at home, so she asked me to bring over the things she prepared for you."

When Old Lady Pan saw what Wan An Ning was holding, she was stunned: "Isn't this... a bit too much?"

Wan An Ning smiled and said, "My mother prepared these for me, so please accept them with peace of mind. By the way, you don't need to put these on the gift list, just keep them."

Old Aunt Pan declined at first, but seeing Wan An Ning's firm attitude, she did not insist and accepted it with a smile.

She whispered to Wan An Ning: "Your mother said that you are going to move out after the New Year? Is this true?"

Wan An Ning nodded, without explaining, and left, making the excuse that he had to go home to pack up his things for the New Year.