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On the evening of New Year's Eve, the Zhou family had a New Year's Eve dinner together.The old man lectured while eating, recalling the long and turbulent years in the past, and now life is easier, so we can't be arrogant|extravagant|yin|elusive.

There is a large table of juniors, no matter how capable they are on weekdays, they dare not talk too much at this time.

After dinner, some of them had urgent matters to rush to catch the flight. For example, Zhou Si's mother, Wang Nian, packed the lucky money and left in a hurry.The rest either drank tea and chatted, or gathered a few tables of mahjong.

Zhou Si was dragged by several nephews and nieces who had just started elementary school to buy Ertijiao and marlezi and play with them.Fireworks and firecrackers have been banned in city B for the past few years. The old man thinks it is not a New Year, so he has to go back to his ancestral home in Hebei to celebrate the New Year.

The bright and grand fireworks burst into bloom and scatter, making the originally lonely night sky radiant.There was a smell of firecrackers in the air, and it was very lively.

Wrapped in a long down jacket, Zhou Si stood on the stone steps of Xiaoyanglou for a while, then turned back upstairs.

Lying on his small bed, he took out his mobile phone from the pocket of his down jacket, and pressed a series of numbers that he knew by heart.

"I'm Ye Ran, hello."

In the darkness, Zhou Si's nose recalled the familiar breath, and his heart was sour.

"Hello?" Seeing that it was City B's number, Ye Ran asked, "Zhou Si?"

"it's me."

I haven't seen each other for half a month, and the distance between the two seems to be farther than before the holiday.

"I haven't heard your voice for a long time. New Year's Eve, what's the matter?"

Suffering from lovesickness, Zhou Si put all his heart on Ye Ran's voice, the breathing on the other end of the phone became a little quicker, and he had to think about it for a while.

"I don't want to see you if I have nothing to do. What are you doing?"

"Just after the New Year's Eve dinner, I was watching the Spring Festival Gala at grandma's house." Ye Ran thought for a while, and added: "What about you?"

"I miss you." Zhou Si turned over and hugged the pillow to pick it up and down.

"The winter vacation is so long, do you miss me?"

Ye Ran didn't know whether to laugh or cry, since it's not easy to ruin people's family's happiness after Chinese New Year's Eve, so he had to reply: "Yes."

Zhou Si smiled and said: "Oh, it's terrible, I will go to Lama Temple to fulfill my wish tomorrow morning. When will you miss me?"

"When doing physics problems."

"Well, I see you, if you don't say a word, you don't miss me, but you miss me."

"..."

There was no sound on the other end of the phone, so Zhou Si hurriedly made up something: "I'll tell you something funny, my old man has set up a pet dog daily management office, and everyone calls it Dog Day Office, hahahahahaha very funny."

"..."

Zhou Si was a little frustrated: "On New Year's Eve, you won't cheer me up."

Ye Ran said helplessly: "Your jokes are not funny." He was squatting in the corner of the room to answer the phone, and was hit on the head by his little nephew's ball without paying attention, and couldn't help but let out an "ouch".

Zhou Si gloated and said, "Haha, you must have been hit by a brat."

"You do have experience." Ye Ran retorted.

Zhou Si made fun of himself, and changed the subject again: "Is there any change in my hometown?"

"Fuxiao has built a new teaching building, and the playground is paved with turf, which makes it look foreign. A bridge has been built on the riverside, and the ferry is no longer used."

Zhou Si asked: "When are you going back to City N?"

"On the fourth day of junior high school. My father will go to run the project in the second year of junior high school, and my mother will also go back to my grandmother's house in Huzhou, and stay there until the fifteenth day. I will go back to N City by myself on the fourth day of junior high school."

Ye Ran heard his grandma tell him to boil a pot of hot water, he responded, and said to Zhou Si: "Grandma is calling me, hang up first."

"Happy New Year, Ah Ran. Eat well and sleep well."

Ye Ran let out a "hmm" and said, "Happy New Year."

Zhou Si's cousin pushed open the door and said with a smile, "Who are you calling? I'm hiding in the room alone."

Zhou Si said: "Nothing."

The cousin teased: "There is a situation, and you are trying to cover it up."

Zhou Si laughed and said, "It's too noisy outside, you have to shout on the phone."

The cousin hooked Zhou Si's neck: "An explanation is a cover-up, okay, okay, I'm not those old antiques, it's all in the 21st century, love freely."

Zhou Si leaned closer and said, "Cousin, why don't you write novels, this is the winner of the Hugo Award."

The cousin waved his finger: "My little cousin has a high IQ, but he is still too young. Look at your spring breeze, with peach blossoms on your face. If there is no situation, my perpetual motion machine in the Bay Area will go on strike and quit. Yes! Tell the girls to cry!"

Zhou Si didn't answer his words, but just pushed him out of the room, and said with a smile, "Let's go, have a drink with you, and oil this perpetual motion machine."

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Ye Ran still slept until noon, he was woken up by the pain of hunger.

The house at home is empty, and the refrigerator is also empty. There are only a few eggs left, which were bought years ago.

Ye Ran rummaged through the cupboard, and there was still half a tube of noodles left.He took out the pot, filled it with water, heated it on the gas stove, and prepared to serve a bowl of noodles and cover it with a poached egg.

The cell phone on the coffee table in the living room rang.

Who could it be? Ye Ran put the noodle chopsticks on the bowl, wiped his hands with a rag, and went to the living room to get his mobile phone. The caller ID was Zhou Si.

Ye Ran answered the phone.

"what's up."

"Are you up, big slob?"

"I'm making lunch... Hey, how do you know I'm lying in bed?"

"I have someone deliver something to you, open the door first."

Ye Ran was confused, so he had to listen to him and opened the door.

There are two doors in the house, a wooden door inside and a security door outside.Ye Ran opened the wooden door, and saw Zhou Si outside the anti-theft door. He was wearing a black coat, stomping his feet, breathing into his hands.

Ye Ran had a guess in his mind, he asked Zhou Si: "You... how do you know I'm sleeping late."

"Come and knock on the door after seven o'clock in the morning. No one opened the door. I guess you are still asleep."

At that time, Zhou Si slammed on the door with "bang bang bang", and the old lady opposite Ye Ran came out to buy vegetables in the morning market, her eyes squinted at Zhou Si for a long time.

"Why don't you call me?"

"I'm afraid you're angry about getting up."

"Come in. Have you eaten?"

"not yet."

"Then let's eat together."

This house has almost no sense of design at all, it is the simplest residential decoration.

"You're living on this thing for a few days?" Zhou Si leaned closer to the gas stove, lifted the lid of the pot, saw the clear water noodles inside, and threw the lid of the pot in distaste.

Ye Ran was afraid that the noodles would stick together and become mushy, so he took his chopsticks and was about to stir them in the pot: "I'm alone at home, so I can eat whatever I want."

Zhou Si's expression seemed to swallow a fly: "I came back from a long way, and you treat me like this?"

Ye Ran sighed, his face was a little unreal in the bubbling steam from the pot: "Let's eat lunch first, this pot of noodles can't be completely dumped into the trash can. What do you want to eat at night, we will go to alright."

In the evening, according to Zhou Si's intention, it is natural to have a big meal.During the long Spring Festival holiday, there were not many restaurants open for business on the street, and the son's stomach was extremely difficult to serve, so he didn't want to enter the fly restaurant.

Ye Ran was so tossed that he lost his temper: "What do you like to eat, I'll make it for you, okay?"

Zhou Si smiled and said: "I'm not picky eaters, I'll eat whatever you cook."

Ye Ran knew that Zhou Si couldn't completely disbelieve what came out of Zhou Si's mouth, nor could he completely believe it.Zhou Si is an expert in this skill of true and false and sometimes false.

So at three or four in the afternoon, Ye Ran led Zhou Si to find a Carrefour supermarket near the community.

On weekdays, Zhou Si is a young master who doesn't distinguish between five grains, and has no interest in going to the supermarket. If there is something missing, just talk to Aunt Song.Even if he went into the supermarket once in a while, he still avoided the fresh seafood area, because he thought the smell was fishy.

"Ye Ran, hurry up." Zhou Si covered his nose, whimpering and dodging eight feet away from the water tank.

"I know how to eat." Ye Ran shook his head, picked out a slightly smaller hairtail, and put it into the cart.

Zhou Si was very dissatisfied with Ye Rantiao's variety, so he lay on the cart and poked the hairtail that had been frozen into a popsicle in distaste: "Let's eat this at night."

Ye Ran kicked Zhou Si's calf, and the pain caused him to yell: "25 a catty, I'm sorry for you, I can't afford to serve the king crab next door."

He glanced at his watch and said, "Let's split up, otherwise we won't be able to eat until [-] o'clock. You can go ahead and pick some apples and oranges, and you can also get one grapefruit. Just go straight. I'll go and see the vegetables." He asked Zhou Si pushed the trolley, and told him to pick grapefruits that were heavier by weight and had a lot of water.

Zhou Si: "I will pick the fruit. Don't worry."

Ten minutes later, Ye Ran met Zhou Si with some vegetables.He saw the pile of fruit boxes piled up like a hill in the cart, his eyes went dark and he almost fainted.

"Peruvian avocado, Australian red grapes, Egyptian grapefruit, Vietnamese green mangoes, Chilean cherries..."

"There are so many imported fruits in this supermarket..."

Zhou Si shook the durian fruit box in his hand, with an expression of praising me: "How about it, it looks pretty good, I bought some of them."

Ye Ran snatched the durian fruit box and threw it into the cart: "This, this, this, and this, I don't want any of them." He only kept apples, oranges and a grapefruit, and stuffed the rest into Zhou Si's arms :"put it back."

"Don't you like it, or I'll get some mangosteens."

"This box of cherries," Ye Ran pointed to the steamy purple berries, "is enough for several meals."

Putting the fruit box in his arms back into the trolley, Zhou Si raised his head, frowning: "I'll pay for it."

Ye Ran glanced at the price mentioned by Jealousy again, and quickly calculated in his heart, feeling pain in the flesh.

"It's not necessary...it's not necessary to eat."

Zhou Si's face sank, a little unhappy: "I told you I'll pay the bill."

He thought of something, and suddenly he smiled again, revealing a row of white teeth: "For Chinese New Year, eat something good, and treat Koala himself, it's nothing, right?"

What could Ye Ran say, so he had no choice but to follow him and bought a bunch of imported fruits that were so expensive that he couldn't help himself.