Transmigrated as the Ex-Wife of the Villain Who Dotes on His Daughter

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As soon as she got up in the morning, Jiang Rou got busy. After washing up, she went to the kitchen to kill the live duck that Wang Yan had sent her a few days ago. She caught the duck's blood in a bowl, not wasting a drop. Then she threw the two ducks into a bucket and scalded them with boiling water, preparing to remove the feathers later.

　Then she chopped the mutton and pork at home into fillings, kneaded the flour into balls, and waited for Li Xiao to come back to make dumplings.

　Li Xiao has to go out for a while. Today is Chinese New Year, and he has to go to the mountain to burn paper for his grandparents and father. Burial is still popular here, and his elders are all buried in the mountains outside the county town.

　It is winter now. The two got up at around seven in the morning. It was still dark outside. Li Xiao swept the floor at home before going out. Before going out, he wrapped himself in his thick black cotton jacket, put on a black knitted hat and a blue scarf, and put on the thick velvet boots that Jiang Rou bought for him.

　He said hello to Jiang Rou and went out with the yellow paper, paper money and firecrackers he had bought in advance.

　Jiang Rou didn't understand this either. Her father's hometown was in another city, so when she was a child, her family didn't have the custom of worshiping their ancestors during the New Year.

　She held the child in her arms and saw him off at the door. The little one was very smart now. When she saw her father wearing a hat and shoes, she knew that he was going out. She immediately ignored Jiang Rou and stretched out her hands to Li Xiao to ask him to hold her, waving her arms and shouting "Ahhh".

　Li Xiao put on her shoes and stood up. Seeing this, she laughed and pulled the tuft of hair on her head. The little girl's hair had grown a little longer. Today was the New Year, and Jiang Rou not only tied two small buns for her, but also tied two small red tassels on the small buns, and pinned two small colorful clips on her forehead, which made her round face even cuter.

　The little girl leaned towards him. Seeing her anxious look, Jiang Rou couldn't help but smile and said, "Why don't you take her with you so that she can show her to your grandparents, too."

　Li Xiao disagreed, "She's still too young, don't scare her."

　Although he didn't believe in those things, when he was a child he heard people say that ghosts would come down the mountain on March 3rd. He took Zhou Jian and others to the mountain to see ghosts on the night of the ghosts coming down the mountain. It was really scary. They couldn't find the way back in the middle of the night. They also saw green ghost lights on the mountain. Wang Tao was even scared to the point of peeing his pants. But after he understood what was going on when he was in junior high school, he felt it was nothing.

　But he still cares more about An An.

　Jiang Rou nodded, patted the little girl's butt in her arms, and told her not to move.

　Li Xiao took the things and left. The little guy looked at his father eagerly as he left the house. Only after he disappeared did he nestle back into Jiang Rou's arms and bury his face in Jiang Rou's neck, looking for comfort.

　Jiang Rou found it funny and carried her to the kitchen.

　It was already past nine in the morning when Li Xiao came back. He first went to see An An who was sleeping in the room, and then went to the kitchen to eat the meal Jiang Rou had left for him. After eating, he washed the dishes, took a small jar, put some glutinous rice and water in it, and put it on the clay stove to boil paste.

　During this time, he fetched a basin of water and wiped the tables and chairs at home.

　Jiang Rou was squatting outside plucking duck feathers. She did not throw away some of the feathers and prepared to save them for making shuttlecocks.