When she carried the dishes into the dining room, she discovered a delicate petal-shaped snack tray on the living room table. It had ten compartments in total, with eight around the edge and two in the center, filled with melon seeds, dried plums, candied fruits, peanuts, sunflower seeds, hard candies, soft candies, and lollipops. The two center compartments held rock sugar, winter melon candy, and crispy strips.
All the snacks for the New Year were there!
In her previous life, by the nineties, every household had treats like these during the New Year. The Tanka people were no exception, but her family never had them. The reason was simple: they never had guests, and buying such things would have been a waste. She never imagined that, in this second life, Chen Wenjun would satisfy her wish so early.
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