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Li Shangshui didn't have many WeChat friends, so after sending New Year's greetings to the restaurant owner, Su Yue, and a few college students he knew, he wanted to turn off his phone and go to the firepit to read.However, Ren Yang sent a voice message. Li Shangshui glanced at grandma and Li Ligui, went into the bedroom to get the earphones, and went into the kitchen.

Click to listen, it is Ren Yang's younger sister Ren Ren's clear and childlike voice: "Brother Ah Shui, Happy Chinese New Year!" The word "Le" seems far away, I think it was forced by Ren Yang to say this sentence.

Li Shangshui smiled and was about to type. Thinking that Ren Yi might not be able to read the words, he had to clear his throat and press the dialogue button hesitantly. After a few seconds of blanking at the beginning, he said, "Thank you Yiyi, and wish Yiyi a happy Chinese New Year!"

After he finished speaking, he listened to himself as if he was masochistic. It’s okay if he didn’t listen to it, but he wanted to cancel it after listening to it——Is my voice like this? !Talk dry and awkward, almost no ears to hear.

Ren Yang quickly sent another voice message, Li Shangshui quickly clicked on it, hoping not to scare the child, but this time it was Ren Yang: "Hahaha Ah Shui, I finally got your voice, I haven't heard it for a long time Your voice is gone!"

Li Shangshui: "!!!"

Ren Yang sent another message: "Ah Shui, Happy Chinese New Year!" This message was not as frivolous as Kamijou's, but his voice was clean and pure, low-pitched, as if whispering in his ear, which made Li Shangshui's ears warm. Pulling off the earphones, the tips of the ears were a little red.

Li Shangshui coughed and switched to typing: "Happy Chinese New Year! But didn't you say it once in the morning? How do you know that I have internet now?"

Ren Yang also sent a text: "You said something in the group, idiot!"

Li Shangshui: "...Okay."

Li Shangshui chatted with him for another hour with his mobile phone in his arms. The chats were all about those topics.Every time Li Shangshui talked about the topic to death, Ren Yang had the ability to start over, and Li Shangshui had to express his admiration.

Before the Spring Festival Gala was over, grandma couldn’t sleep anymore. Li Shangshui also felt that there was no need to watch the year. After writing the diary, he got into bed and sent a message to Ren Yang before going to bed: “I’m going to bed first.”

Ren Yang: "Good night, I miss you."

During this time, Ren Yang greeted each other every morning and evening. Li Shangshui felt awkward when he first saw the three words "I miss you", because it made it seem like two people were in a relationship, but now he was very used to Ren Yang. As long as you don't say this kind of straightforward expression, you should pretend you didn't see it.

New Year's greetings are very embarrassing for Li Shangshui's family, because they have no relatives to visit.The relatives on the mother's side have been out of touch since the mother fled from this house. The father is an only seedling and has no sisters. The grandmother's side is also because of the age. Live in the city and no longer contact.Therefore, during the Lantern Festival, Li Shangshui stayed at home reading books and doing housework, indifferent to other things.

Only grandma was bored, and went to sit and chat with neighbors in the evening, even Li Ligui felt that he had nowhere to go, either watching TV at home or sleeping, extremely decadent.This period should be the most relaxed and saddest time of the year for the family.Their home is obviously surrounded by neighbors, but it's like living on an isolated island.

Li Shangshui really wanted to tell his grandma, don't feel idle, take a good rest now, otherwise it will be spring and you will be busy again.But he couldn't say it out, grandma naturally has her own rules for how to behave and deal with things all her life, no one else can change them, and at her age, there is no need to change them.

He can only think that next year he must earn enough money to take his grandma out on vacation.

Li Shangshui thought that such a dull day would last until the Lantern Festival, and he should start school once the Lantern Festival is over.Unexpectedly, Li Shangying returned home on the evening of the seventh day of the first lunar month.

Li Shangying is very beautiful. When she was still in school, many young boys pursued her. Although her grades were poor, her spirit was high, and no one fell in love with her.

Later, she dropped out of school and went to work. She was crazy and made many friends.Two years later, as expected, he was cheated physically and mentally, and went home with nothing, and was almost beaten to death by Li Ligui.Li Shangshui was still naive and ignorant at that time, but he also vaguely knew from the few words of his father and grandma that his sister seemed to have done something bad.It's just that she didn't expect that she couldn't enjoy the warmth like a safe haven when she went home.

The proud girl was not reconciled, so she didn't stay at home for long, so she went to the city again with a few hundred dollars secretly given by her grandma.Since then, she seldom went home, but for some reason she suddenly came home at such an embarrassing time in the first month.

From Li Shangshui's point of view, Li Shangying's attire does not have the cheap feeling of the urban-rural fringe area, and even makes people look quite comfortable - long hair in half, a beige scarf covering the chin, and an army green down jacket that is knee-length , clean short boots, combined with a quiet feeling, completely different from the crazy girl back then.

Facing Li Shangying like this, Li Shangshui suddenly didn't know what to call her. It was impossible to call her sister. After all, she had never been called her in so many years.He just looked at her, and there seemed to be nostalgia in her eyes.

But grandma happily went up to hold Li Shangying's hand. For a moment, Li Shangshui even felt that grandma was happier than seeing him go home.

"Aying, why are you back at this time? You didn't call in advance when you came back." Grandma said with a slight complaint.

Li Shangying curled her eyelashes and smiled: "I just wanted to come back suddenly, so I came back to have a look."

Li Shangshui noticed that she did only carry one bag with her.

"Oh, so, will you be at home for the fifteenth time this time?" Grandma pulled her into the house, let her warm up, and kept saying that she had lost weight.

Li Shangying didn't answer, just asked: "Grandma, how are you?"

Grandma laughed so hard that she couldn't see her eyes: "Okay, of course, I will be fine when I see that you are all well."

Li Shangshui remained silent all the time, Li Shangying just glanced at him and didn't speak to him, presumably she didn't have the slightest affection for him.

Hearing the movement, Li Ligui hurriedly rolled out of bed, didn't even bother to put on the padded jacket, rushed into the kitchen and scolded: "You bastard, you still know how to go home?"

Li Shangshui turned his head, thinking it's coming again.

Grandma saw her son rushing out, but she was powerless to stop her, so she said in a sobbing voice, "Can you calm down for a while, you are like this when the children come back, so you are not afraid that they will not provide for you when you are old?"

Li Shangshui thought to himself, grandma's focus was on Li Ligui's old age, but she would never think about whether his actions would be good for the child.

Li Shangying looked indifferent: "I just came back to see grandma, and I will leave tomorrow, so I won't hinder your eyes."

Grandma was shocked when she heard this, and finally couldn't help crying: "What did I do in my previous life, huh? Why are you all like this?"

Li Shangshui couldn't bear it, stepped forward to support his grandmother, and looked at Li Ligui coldly: "Have you scolded enough?"

Li Ligui was shocked for a moment, and felt a little apprehensive, and wanted to curse again like a conditioned reflex, but in the end he muttered a few times, turned around and walked away muttering words.

This is the end of a farce.

That night, Li Shangshui moved his bed from his grandma's bedroom to the kitchen, and ate dinner desertedly as usual, only his grandma brought them food from time to time and said something, and everything didn't change because of one more person.

Early the next morning, Li Shangshui continued to read his book after dinner. He didn't want to waste his time talking to someone who was destined not to have too much interaction.But Li Shangying took the initiative to talk to him.

"Li Shangshui," Li Shangying called him, and handed him an envelope: "I know you don't like me, but the money is not for you, you save it for grandma, don't let him know."

Both of them knew who this "he" was.

Li Shangying stood in front of him. He looked up, but he couldn't see her expression against the light.After a long time, he reached out to take it: "I won't say thank you, this is what you should."

Li Shangying nodded, stood and looked at him for a while, facing the silence, the two said almost at the same time: "You..."

Li Shangshui was taken aback, but Li Shangying smiled: "It's nothing, I'm leaving."

She was still in the same attire when she came, and went out with her bag. Li Shangshui thought that she would not come back, but unexpectedly she came back in the afternoon.

When she came back, Li Ligui was not at home. It should be said that Li Ligui hadn't been at home since he had breakfast, as if he deliberately avoided seeing him.She didn't say hello to Li Shangshui when she entered the room, but said a few words to grandma, hugged grandma, then turned around and left again with her bag.

Grandma didn't stay any longer, she just wiped away her tears and told her to be safe on the road and give her a call when she arrived.

It was only later that Li Shangshui found out that Li Shangying took the household registration booklet to the Civil Affairs Bureau in the village to separate her own household registration. Since then, there is no such person in their household registration booklet.

Li Shangying didn't leave much money. Before Li Shangshui started school, after thinking about it, she still gave all the money to her grandma.No matter how bastard Li Ligui is, at this point, he will never take money from grandma again.And he goes to school thousands of miles away, and he can't do it if he wants to give grandma money, so it's better to give all the money to grandma, she is free to spend it how she wants.

Grandma looked at the envelope, her eyes were red again: "Grandma is useless. She can't give you anything in her whole life, but she always asks for things from you. Shang Shui, I don't want this money. You can keep it for your studies. I don't need it." Money." Of course, she is not short of money, and spends her whole life frugally, reluctant to buy anything.

"Grandma, you should put it away first. If you don't need it, you will give it to me in the end." Li Shangshui suddenly felt that these words were cruel, as if he was saying, everything will belong to me when you die. money?

Grandma nodded blankly: "Then I'll ask your dad to save it in my passbook later."

Li Shangshui sighed: "Okay, it's up to you." What to do depends entirely on that person's conscience.

Once the Lantern Festival is over, the taste of the New Year completely dissipates.

The last time Li Shangshui helped grandma go up the mountain to pick up pine wool, the last time he helped her wash the padded jacket, the last time he helped her feed the piglets he just bought, the last time he slept in the same bedroom with grandma, the last time he heard grandma talking in his sleep, and the last time he ate her Homemade breakfast.

The "last time" here is the last time in the literal sense, and his departure is a farewell forever.