Reborn in the 1980s: Recapture My Devoted Husband-Chapter 94 - 93: Watching Lanterns

Lin Wan could only make oversized coats for her family.

After spending a whole morning at the mall, Liang Hongmei bought a pair of large cotton shoes for both siblings, and the three happily rode back home with the sewing machine on the tricycle.

Once back, Lin Wan and Liang Hongmei started fiddling with the sewing machine. Liang Hongmei, despite working most of her life, was using this thing for the first time, and found it quite novel.

For Lin Wan, it was not unfamiliar; in the past life, she had interacted a lot with sewing machines.

After setting up the sewing machine properly, Lin Wan took a piece of scrap fabric and tried it out herself. As expected, it worked much smoother.

Liang Hongmei was somewhat unfamiliar, attempting several times but her legs and hands couldn’t keep up.

Lin Wan encouraged her to keep practicing while she went to the kitchen to cook.

With the sewing machine, the New Year wasn’t so dull.

Lin Yinghui bought New Year pictures and firecrackers at the morning market.

On New Year’s Eve, the family gathered around the coal stove to eat hot pot.

Lin Wan and Lin Yinghui chatted about this year’s harvest.

Lin Wan took out the savings book to show Liang Hongmei, and in just a few months, the money in their book had grown to over 5,000.

"So much money?" Liang Hongmei couldn’t believe it, looking at the savings book over and over, counting the digits on it and marveling, "In a few more months, we’ll be ten-thousand-yuan rich, right?"

"Yes, mom, I guarantee that by next summer, we’ll definitely be ten-thousand-yuan rich."

"Great, great, our family now doesn’t have to worry about food." Liang Hongmei beamed with joy, "I wonder if the stuff we sent to your uncle’s family has arrived, I also put a hundred yuan in there. Without your uncle’s family supporting us over the years, we probably would have been bullied to death by the villagers. Your big aunt is also good, never once has she been upset with us. I specially gave the clothes Xiao Wan made for me to your big aunt, since we’re about the same size, it’s our little token of appreciation."

"Mom, don’t worry, my little sister and I won’t forget their kindness. Brother Ah Zhi is also quite smart, surely he can make some career."

On New Year’s Eve, the three of them rarely cracked open melon seeds, told jokes, and by the latter part of the night, Lin Wan couldn’t stay awake any longer.

She lay down on the hot kang bed that her brother heated, and fell asleep within a minute.

They had no relatives, so on the first day of New Year, the whole family slept in.

They only got up in the afternoon. The three of them surrounded the leftover hot pot from the night before until evening.

With the weather being cold, nobody wanted to venture out, but if relatives came to visit, there was no choice.

On the eighth, which was the day the market opened, feeling too cooped up at home, Lin Yinghui rode the tricycle and took the mother and daughter to stroll around the city.

In the city center square, some vendors had already started selling lanterns.

The three agreed to come back on the sixteenth of January to see the lanterns.

On the sixteenth, the three ate early and took the bus, not daring to ride the tricycle for fear of losing it due to the crowd.

The city’s buses also finished late, with the last bus at nine in the evening. This made things much more convenient.

The lanterns at this time were mostly handmade, with paper being common, and very few plastic ones.

The most common were cylindrical paper lanterns, many children were carrying them.

Some skillful families made pink rabbit lanterns, red little goldfish shapes, octagonal lantern jars, and vendors sold those cylindrical foldable red lanterns.

Various styles were seen, and upon reaching the square, there was a shimmer of bright lights everywhere, full of atmosphere, with a large arch-shaped lantern corridor in the center of the square.

It looked quite impressive.

Lin Wan browsed around and took a liking to a star-shaped red lantern with a ship printed on it, showing children rowing, looking very beautiful.

"Boss, how much for this?"

"Old man, how much is this?"

Lin Wan didn’t expect such coincidence, to meet Han Yi here, and both liked the same lantern.

"Two young people, this style has only one left, fifty cents each."