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Chapter 9 My Name

The Wei family was completely unaware of Chen Xuan’s worries.

Even the "creditor" Wei Nian, I probably don't know that Chen Xuan was worried about paying back his money.

However, after returning to her parents' home on the second day of the year, my elder sister-in-law Wei Jin said to her mother privately, "Why do I think I have something to do with my second brother and sister?"

"What can she have any worries? Have food and drink? What can she have for the New Year?" Old Mrs. Wei broke a piece of the dim sum brought back by her eldest daughter. She felt that the mouth was soft and it was a little sour. She said, "Why is this a little sour? Is the noodles not ready?"

Wei Jin smiled, "Mom, bread is the taste of this, it's not sour or authentic."

"You said that foreigners are weird in their appearance, and they eat even more strange in their eating. For example, the steamed buns, buns, breads, steamed buns we eat, that is, the noodles that should be made, and the glutinous to be made. If I tell you, these foreigners will not eat them." Old Mrs. Wei commented cross-legged, "These foreign steamed buns are not as delicious as the steamed buns we steamed at home."

"This is called bread, but it's not a foreign steamed bun."

"It's not that much, Xuanteng is quite good. It looks big, but it's not affordable. It's better to steamed buns in our house, which are affordable and full." Old Mrs. Wei said to her eldest daughter, "Don't do these foreign affairs for me in the future. It's better to go to Daoxiangcun to buy me two kilograms of butter date paste cakes for me."

"Oh, if you ask me to say that, I also think the taste is a bit strange. It's your son-in-law. He said that he is eating this in Beijing now. Thinking that you have never eaten foreign snacks, you rushed to buy it early in the morning, but it was still a new one." Wei Jin said of her husband's filial piety.

Wei Yin pointed to a cucumber meal bag and said, "This cucumber bread is okay."

Old Mrs. Wei felt that the foreigners were very eccentric and stopped eating it. She handed the remaining bread to her daughter, "You like to eat it, you can eat this."

"I've eaten cucumber buns." Wei Yin refused to eat it.

Old Mrs. Wei handed it to Sister Yun, who said, "I want to eat the cucumber-yellow bread that my sister-in-law eats."

"I just know how to pick my mouth." Old Mrs. Wei said, and even picked a cucumber bun for her, and gave most of the bread to Li, saying, "I came from Axuan and I must not be used to this strange smell."

Chen Xuan didn't want to eat these dim sums too much, she just smiled and didn't say anything.

Li was kind-hearted. The bread was not small. Old Mrs. Wei just broke a piece and tasted it. Most of the leftover was left. Li just tore half of it, and left the rest to Chen Xuan. Chen Xuan tasted it and felt that she might have the same taste as Old Mrs. Wei. She thought that this kind of bun called bread was not as delicious as the steamed cabbage meat buns at home.

In the year, we cannot use needles and threads, so Chen Xuan and Li’s job were to cook three meals a day for the family. Moreover, since Wei Jin returned to his parents’ home, Mrs. Wei no longer had to serve her daughter-in-law after dinner, and sent them back to their houses.

Chen Xuan knew why, and the most delicious food in the year is the year. For example, the Wei family, the chicken, fish and elbow meat were stewed before the New Year. For example, at night, as long as Wei Jin came to her parents' home, she would have to have a midnight snack. If both daughters-in-law were there, would they ask their daughter-in-law to eat together or not. Old Mrs. Wei was reluctant to give up, so she sent Chen Xuan and Li back to her house.

Chen Xuan was full of worries and went back to the house to think about making money and paying off her debts.

Chen Xuan was worried about how to "pay debt", so Wei Yin came over. Chen Xuan also said, "Why are you here?"

Wei Yin smiled, "Why am I so amazing? My second brother hasn't come back yet."

Chen Xuan heard Wei Yin's joke in her words. Anyway, she and Wei Nian were going to separate sooner or later, so she just pretended not to understand. It was cold outside. Chen Xuan pulled Wei Yin into the room, touched the cotton cheongsam on her body, and said, "It should be worn with a big dress." He also said, "I thought you had to eat stewed meat in the old lady's house." It was not that he didn't want Wei Yin to come over.

"Mom is so stingy. Whenever there is something delicious, she will send out her eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law. Second sister-in-law, do you eat or not? I'll go and serve you half a bowl!"

Chen Xuan shook her head quickly, "I'm so full to eat at night, I'm not hungry at all."

"So too." Wei Yin followed his second sister-in-law to sit on the kang, took the hot water poured by his sister-in-law, held it in her palm, and said, "Look at how fat my elder sister is, I have nothing else to do when I go back to my parents' home all day long, I just eat it all together. Even Afeng and Ayu have all become fat people."

Chen Xuan’s aesthetic taste for children is very popular, “Only fat boys are lucky.”

"As a person gets fat, he looks stupid." Wei Yin told Chen Xuan about his elder sister Wei Jin. "The elder sister also says she is fat all day long. I say she knows she is fat and she still has to eat. Every night, she is either chicken or duck. Who is fat if she doesn't get fat?"

Wei Yin said that, and both Chen Xuan laughed.

Wei Yin was idle and could not use needles and threads to make clothes during the Chinese New Year. She was unwilling to watch the four grandparents and grandchildren eat stewed meat in the house of Mrs. Wei, so she came to talk to Chen Xuan and discussed with Chen Xuan about making clothes in spring. Chen Xuan all seemed to be like cheongsams, thinking that Wei Yin was born well, tall and well-proportioned, and wearing cheongsams was the best, so she nodded, "You look good in cheongsams."

Wei Yin urged Chen Xuan, "Second Sister-in-law, you can do it too."

"I won't do it." Chen Xuan said, "I have clothes."

"Sister-in-law, most of your clothes are lab coats, and there is only one cheongsam. Besides, yours is made of big cotton, and it will be warm in spring."

After Wei Yin's words, Chen Xuan thought of another worry. It was winter when she got married, so both clothes were cotton. As for the four seasons of clothes, my aunt said that the family was difficult, and she also said that the Wei family opened a clothing store, so she was not afraid of not having clothes when she got married. Thinking of this, Chen Xuan sighed in her heart, even if the Wei family opened a silver account, it had nothing to do with her.

But she still owe Wei Nian one or five yuan.

However, clothes are not difficult for Chen Xuan.

People always have a way.

Chen Xuan thought that until the weather was warm, she changed her clothes to clamps. When it was hotter, she changed the clamps to single ones.

After getting a solution, Chen Xuan was relaxed. When she thought that she had just worn the two cotton coats in her previous life, she was wearing them until the beginning of the summer. Old Mrs. Wei couldn't stand it, so she gave her a piece of material from the warehouse and asked her to cut clothes. Alas, she was so stupid at that time.

Chen Xuan couldn't help but smile.

"Second sister-in-law, why are you laughing at?" Wei Yin said.

Chen Xuan couldn't tell Wei Yin the truth. Thinking about his cowardly life, Chen Xuan saw that Wei Yin was fine, so she asked first, "A Yin, aren't you busy now, right?"

"What's wrong if you're not busy?"

Chen Xuan asked tentatively, "If you are not busy, can you teach me to write my name?" She quickly distinguished again, "I just thought, look at me, I can't recognize one word. To put it, I can't even write my own name. Second sister, if you have time, can you teach me how many words you recognize?"

"What's wrong with this? But I don't recognize much. However, it's still possible." The first thing Wei Yin taught Chen Xuan was Chen Xuan's name.

Wei Yin said that he didn't recognize much, but in Chen Xuan's eyes, this was already amazing. Wei Yin wanted to go back to the house to get a pen. Chen Xuan waved his hand and took out a pen from a drawer in the tea set cabinet to hand it to Wei Yin, asking, "Can this be used?" This is a fountain pen that Wei Nian would occasionally use. This pen is extremely beautiful, with a black background and gold pattern, and has a noble temperament that Chen Xuan is extremely awe-inspiring.

Wei Yin took off the pen cap and the tip of the pen was gold. Wei Yin appreciated the pen again and said to Chen Xuan that it was a very famous brand, but where did he write it? Although there was a pen in the house, there was no paper. Chen Xuan was very anxious to learn to write a name. She didn't allow Wei Yin to go back to the house to get the notebook, glanced left and right, and finally stretched out one hand and said seriously, "Let's write it in the palm of my hand."

Alas, this writing is even more amazing. It is completely different from the set of village scholars whom Chen Xuan saw before grinding ink and laying paper before writing. The tip of the pen is casually stroked Chen Xuan's calloused palms and can write words. Wei Yin wrote two neat words: Chen Xuan.

He pointed to Chen Xuan and explained, "Chen is the second wife's surname, and Xuan is the second wife's name."

Chen Xuan looked at these two words seriously and seriously, and her heart was happy and pounding. The feeling of joy and tension was even more than when she married the Wei family in her previous life. Chen Xuan couldn't help but murmured, "This is my name."

Wei Yin smiled, "Yes, this is the second sister-in-law's name, Chen Xuan."

"Chen Xuan." Chen Xuan looked at the two words in her palm, and for a moment, she seemed to be fascinated, obsessed, and like the soul's excitement in an instant. Something faintly broke out from the ground in her heart.

She thought, it turns out that my name is written like this.

That night, Chen Xuan dipped her fingertips with water and wrote her name on the small kang table many times, until Wei Nian returned home. Chen Xuan hurriedly wiped the small kang table with a smear. Wei Nian and Chen Xuan said, "Mr. Yangwen has found it."

Chen Xuan asked, "When will I come to class? I will clean up the Xishidian room again."

"Come after fifteen, teach for two hours every night."

Chen Xuan recorded the time, thinking that she had to clean the Ximen Room before 16th. That night, Chen Xuan had a nightmare. In the dream, she couldn't even think about how to write her name? So she thought over and over again, anxious over and over again, how to write my name? How did I forget it? By the way, I wrote my palm! I looked down and saw that there was only a thick cocoon in my palm, where was the name gone! Where is my name?!

Chen Xuan was completely awakening herself. When she sat up from the kang, Wei Nian also turned on the light. Wei Nian rubbed her sleepy eyes and looked at Chen Xuan in a daze, "What's wrong? She's still yelling when she's sleeping."
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