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The old man of the small supermarket was lying on the counter wrapped in a military coat, squinted his presbyopic eyes and stared at Zhou Ruiyang for a while, and then said: "Young man, are you fat?"

Zhou Ruiyang smiled, the food outside was better than that in prison anyway.

"Master, you really remember me."

The old man gave Zhou Ruiyang a blank look, "You're not too confused yet, my wife still praises you."

"Huh? Compliment me? Compliment me for what?" Zhou Ruiyang asked, rubbing the back of his head.

"Praise you handsome young man. If our son is still alive, he would probably be about the same age as you." The old man said, his expression gradually dimmed, and his tone was a little sad.

Zhou Ruiyang lowered his head, sighed slightly, and then said: "Master, can you add another pair of bowls and chopsticks for the Chinese New Year? I can make dumplings, but no one cooks them."

The old man looked at Zhou Ruiyang and smiled, his eye circles were a little red, and said: "Success, come to the old man's house for the New Year, let your aunt cook, and you are in charge of the bag."

"Oh, then what are you doing? Just watch?" Zhou Ruiyang asked.

"Me, I'm in charge of pounding garlic." The old man smiled.

"I really know how to choose a job, and I'll give you the most leisurely one." Zhou Ruiyang said, pushing the nutritional products on the counter to the old man, "This is protein powder or something, you and the aunt remember to eat it, it's for your health, it's nothing I paid off my debt."

The old man picked up the paper bag and looked inside, "I reluctantly agreed."

"Come on, sir, I'll come to see you another day, and go to work first." Zhou Ruiyang said, tugging at his coat.

"It's almost night and you go to work?"

"Night shift." Zhou Ruiyang said, turned around and waved to the uncle, and walked out of the small supermarket, the wind was not so cold anymore.

Seeing that Christmas is approaching, I don’t know when it started. This festival has become a pre-New Year’s adjustment. All major businesses and stores always use this festival to make some gimmicks, or decorate the shops with lights and Christmas trees. , Looking at it at night, it's shiny and beautiful.

The convenience store where Zhou Ruiyang works is no exception. The owner put a Christmas tree taller than one person at the entrance of the store, which is covered with small lanterns, and decorated the glass windows with snowflakes and Christmas hats. , making the store feel festive.

The clerk who worked the night shift with Zhou Ruiyang was a [-] or [-]-year-old girl who was still in school.

Because Zhou Ruiyang knew that the little girl had to go to class during the day, he usually drove her to the staff lounge to sleep at around ten o'clock, and he was on duty in the second half of the night.

The little girl was stubborn and unwilling at first, but after dozing off a few times, she still chose to sleep for a while.

"Brother Zhou, I'll just sleep for an hour, and you can call me when the time comes." The little girl narrowed her eyes and said to Zhou Ruiyang.

"Got it, go to bed quickly, your upper and lower eyelids are almost growing together." Zhou Ruiyang said behind the counter, leaning on his chin with his hand.

The little girl nodded, walked into the staff lounge by touching the wall.Zhou Ruiyang got up and helped her close the door, and didn't call her all night, letting her go to sleep.

There are very few customers in the convenience store at night, and occasionally some office workers who work overtime until late at night come here to buy some food and drink. Most of the time, Zhou Ruiyang is in a daze, watching the number of small lights on the Christmas tree that are constantly changing and flickering. Count, or flip through some magazines on the counter.

Every morning, the little girl would complain that Zhou Ruiyang didn't wake herself up.

"Can you blame me? You slept like you were dead, I can't even yell." Zhou Ruiyang said, heated up a steamed bun with the microwave in the shop and handed it to the little girl, "Hurry up, take the steamed stuffed bun to school."

"Got it, remember to call me tonight." The little girl took the bun and stuffed it into her schoolbag.

"Yeah." Zhou Ruiyang nodded, "Hurry up and don't be late."

Zhou Ruiyang watched the little girl leave the store, stretched her waist, took off her overalls and put on her coat, handed over the work to the clerk who worked during the day, and then walked to her small attic.

On the way back, Zhou Ruiyang would pass by a kindergarten with Christmas songs playing in the garden, which reminded Zhou Ruiyang that he still owed a promise, the neighborhood next to the small supermarket, the building next to the street, 402, Zhou Ruiyang remembered it.

The next day, which was also Christmas Eve, there was an exquisitely packaged bag at the door of 402, with red Santa Claus and elk printed on the bag, and a set of children's building blocks in the bag.Zhou Ruiyang finally chose such a gift after shopping in the department store for a long time. He hoped that the kid would not dislike it.

Zhou Ruiyang put the bag on the doormat, and he could vaguely hear the voices of voices and TV programs coming from the room, these voices were vague and inaudible.Zhou Ruiyang smiled at the stick figure drawn with chalk on the corner of the door, put away his collar, turned and went downstairs.

In the convenience store, the little girl was already sitting in front of the counter, immersed in her homework.Zhou Ruiyang took out a bag of toffee from his pocket and threw it to her, saying, "For you, Merry Christmas."

The little girl stopped writing, blinked at Zhou Ruiyang, and smiled so that a sweet dimple appeared on the corner of her mouth, "Thank you, Brother Zhou."

"No need." Zhou Ruiyang shook his head, took off his coat and hung it in the staff lounge, "The exam is coming soon."

"Soon." The little girl tore off the outer packaging of the bag of candy, put one in her mouth, and then grabbed another and handed it to Zhou Ruiyang.

Zhou Ruiyang hesitated for a moment, took the toffee from the little girl's hand, and threw it into his mouth. The sweet smell of milk gradually permeated his mouth. He was a little familiar with this feeling.

"Does this taste delicious?" Zhou Ruiyang asked the little girl.

The little girl turned her pen and nodded.

"Sure, you can do it if you like it." Zhou Ruiyang said, turning his back and swallowing the candy bared.

"By the way, Brother Zhou."

Zhou Ruiyang had just finished swallowing, and before he could get his breath back, the little girl suddenly remembered something and called Zhou Ruiyang.

Zhou Ruiyang coughed, then turned around and said, "Huh?"

"I'm going home on vacation in two days. The store manager is asking you today, do you need to hire another person tonight?" the little girl asked.

"No need." Zhou Ruiyang didn't even think about it. After all, he was like himself every night, and it was nothing. He shook his head and said with a smile: "But you can suggest to the store manager that your share of salary Transition to my head."

The little girl wrinkled her nose and gave Zhou Ruiyang a white look, then pouted and said, "It's a good idea."

A few weeks later, on Lunar New Year's Eve, the convenience store has been closed since the 29th of the Lunar New Year's Eve. On the morning of New Year's Eve, Zhou Ruiyang was woken up by the sound of firecrackers outside the window. He simply cleaned up and took some fish that he bought yesterday. Hecai went to the old man's house.

Zhou Ruiyang was carrying a large bag of things, and his hands hurt so much that he finally moved to the old man's house, put the things at the door, shook his sore hand and rang the doorbell.

The person who opened the door was the aunt. When she saw Zhou Ruiyang, she had a happy smile on her slightly old face.Zhou Ruiyang could tell that the smile was sincere, because even the wrinkles at the corners of the aunt's eyes were dancing.

"Hey, kid, come here as soon as you come, what are you doing with so many things? We have them all at home." The aunt patted Zhou Ruiyang and said.

"Ma'am, we've bought everything, let's keep it for eating." Zhou Ruiyang said while carrying the things at the door into the room.

"That's right, we'll keep it after we buy it." The old man took the things in Zhou Ruiyang's hand and said half-jokingly, causing the aunt to slap him instead.

"That's right." Zhou Ruiyang agreed, and asked the uncle again: "Master, why haven't you posted the Spring Festival couplets yet?"

"Here, here." The uncle slapped his forehead, went to the back room, grabbed the Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters he bought just two days ago, took another roll of tape, and waved to Zhou Ruiyang, "Let's go, my father and I Then put the Spring Festival couplets on it."

"Come on." Zhou Ruiyang unfolded the Spring Festival couplets in the uncle's hand. The red background and golden characters flashed so that Zhou Ruiyang squinted his eyes.

"Oh, this is really festive." Zhou Ruiyang flattened the upper couplet and gesticulated on the door, "Is it crooked?"

The old man squinted his eyes and took a closer look, then took two steps back and took a closer look. His serious expression made Zhou Ruiyang want to laugh.

"It's not crooked, it's good." The old man said, tearing off a piece of tape and handing it to Zhou Ruiyang.

Zhou Ruiyang glued the Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters one by one in this way, and took two steps back to look at the bright red piece on the door with the old man.

"Very good." Zhou Ruiyang rubbed his chin and commented.

"Yeah." The old man nodded, slammed the door and said, "My wife, come out and have a look, this year's Spring Festival couplets have been posted quite successfully."

The aunt let out a "hey" in the back room when she heard the words, and squeezed out of the door without even changing her slippers, holding a soup spoon in her hand.

"It's beautiful, it's so beautiful." The aunt stood in front of the door, nodding her head vigorously, the red radiance reflected by the Spring Festival couplets reflected on the smiling faces of the aunt and uncle, Zhou Ruiyang looked sideways, and for a moment, understood what a lifetime is .

"Hey silly wife, run outside without changing your shoes, you are not afraid of freezing in the cold weather." At this time, the uncle noticed the aunt's feet that were still wearing slippers, and said with a trace of reproach.

"Didn't you call me out in a hurry?" The aunt poked the uncle with her elbow.

"Come on, don't talk to anyone, let's go in quickly, I'm going to freeze to death." Zhou Ruiyang came out to smooth things over.

"Cheng Cheng Cheng Cheng." The aunt hurriedly opened the door, "Everyone come in."

The heavy anti-theft door was closed again, isolating the winter cold, and the corridor was instantly quiet, only the red Spring Festival couplets on the door remembered the joy just now.

In Mingyuan City in the distance, Shen Letong just started to pack his clothes back home.His company has a holiday starting from New Year's Eve, and there are only seven days off in total.Shen Letong originally planned not to go back, but Shen Ma's soft-hearted attitude made Shen Letong soften her heart, and she booked a train ticket to get home on New Year's Eve.

Shen Letong lazily packed clothes and some daily necessities into the suitcase, checked around to see if there was anything left behind, and when he opened the small refrigerator, he saw the white piece of chocolate in the corner.

Shen Letong stared at the piece of chocolate for a while, then reached out and took it out, peeled off the plastic wrap and put it in his mouth.

Oh, sour and sour.