Solstice Secrets

It is a little-known remote town located deep in the mountains, with a permanent population of less than [-]. There are no farmlands, no mines, no large state-owned enterprises, no tourist attractions, and not even a decent department store.Such an unsurprisingly remote town has shown abnormal prosperity because of the huge market supported by some businesses that cannot be seen on the bright side.

Ling Dongzhi stared blankly at the colorful neon lights outside the window, wondering where his mind had gone.

After making the bed, Zhuang Zhou walked to him and put his arms around his shoulders and shook him, "It all happened more than 20 years ago. Winter Solstice, don't be foolish. These things can't be changed by your will."

"I know." Ling Dongzhi leaned on his shoulder and sighed softly, "But I feel uncomfortable."

Zhuang Zhou hesitated, "Don't be fooled by this old monkey. I think he is lying to you, and he still has a lot of things to hide from you."

Ling Dongzhi turned around in surprise, "Why do you say that?"

Zhuang Zhou pinched his chin and said with a smile: "He has nothing to do with this clan, why is he so concerned about the affairs of this clan? He has that pendant like yours, and he collects that kind of stone material everywhere." Stuff. Don't you think it's weird? Just because they bandaged his wounds and gave him a bottle of brandy?"

Ling Dongzhi lowered his eyes and remained silent.

"It's also possible that he doesn't believe you at all." Zhuang Zhou patted him on the shoulder, "After all, it's the first time we meet, maybe he will tell you more when he has the opportunity in the future."

Ling Dongzhi pursed his lips and smiled, "How do you know that I want to come again?"

Zhuang Zhou leaned over and kissed his lips, and said in a low voice, "Intuition. Or because of what I know about you."

Ling Dongzhi tilted his head and bit his lips lightly. Just as he was about to penetrate deeper, he heard the little boy beside him meow, "Your daddy hates it to death. He always eats the winter solstice as a snack. I remember the winter solstice." His mouth used to be chubby, but it became thinner after being bitten by him!"

Ling Dongzhi burst out laughing.

Zhuang Zhou, "..."

Zhuang Zhou looked at him sadly, wondering if his skills were really that bad?

Ling Dongzhi smiled and waved his hands, signaling him to listen to the cats and dogs arguing over there.

The servant jumped on the edge of the bed and shouted, "That's right, that's right, I've seen it several times! He bit so hard that Dong Zhi's mouth was swollen!"

Xiaohui is also a little confused, but it is old after all, and it respects science more when thinking about problems, "I think there must be a reason for him to do this. Could it be because Dongzhi's mouth smells like fish? He came back from the market At that time, I saw that they bought a big package of dried fish."

Xiao Mian'er sharpened his paws on the table, "Why doesn't your daddy eat dried fish by himself?! It's too much to insist on snatching what's in other people's mouths!"

Brown Sugar looked at this pitifully, then at that, trying to maintain the image of his daddy, "My daddy actually meant well. Really. That...that...you see I lick my own mouth after eating , you are too, right? My daddy is actually helping the winter solstice. Otherwise he would have to lick it himself."

Ling Dongzhi leaned on Zhuang Zhou's shoulder and couldn't straighten up laughing.Zhuang Zhou looked at the meow, meow, and woof over there, and then at Ling Dongzhi, whose smile softened in his arms, and he suddenly understood something.

"What are they talking about?"

"Say you eat me as a snack and bite my mouth, I hate it to death!"

Zhuang Zhou, "..."

"Brown Tang said you were doing me a favor, and that it licked its own mouth after eating."

Zhuang Zhou turned his head and saw the pets in the room looking at the two of them together with embarrassing faces—probably because he didn't expect Ling Dongzhi to betray them all of a sudden, all of them stared round with disbelief.Zhuang Zhou and these little things stared at each other for a moment, and the strange feeling in his heart almost rose to the top, "You actually speak ill of me in front of me?! This is too arrogant. I don't understand bullying Foreign language? No yogurt and beef jerky this week!"

"Meow meow meow!"

"Wang Wang Wang!"

The cats, cats and dogs quit, and jumped up and down together to make a fuss.

Ling Dongzhi laughed and fell on the big bed.

After making a fuss like this several times, Zhuang Zhou finally saw the situation clearly: with these cats and dogs by his side, he would not even think about having any intimate behaviors with Ling Dongzhi.These little things are too messy.A few of them were meowing, meowing, and woofing. He didn't care, and they couldn't understand anyway, but Ling Dongzhi would laugh every time.He can persist once or twice, but if he wants to continue like this, he must leave some psychological shadow.At that time, if it causes any damage to the physiological function, it will be really fatal.

Despite this shortcoming, Zhuang Zhou was still very happy.Before he came, he was always worried about whether Ling Dongzhi would forgive him, and after he came, he was terrified by his disappearance. Compared with the previous period, the return journey was almost like a honeymoon.

The family walked and played all the way, and when they returned to Binhai, there were still two days before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Ling Dongzhi originally wanted Zhuang Zhou to go upstairs to have dinner with him before going back, but Zhuang Zhou said that he had been away for more than half a month, and when he finally came back, he should behave himself in front of his parents, and he would not bother him.Besides, he had already called Dad Zhuang and agreed to go back to the old house for dinner.

Ling Dongzhi was still chattering with Zhuang Zhou downstairs, Ling Lidong had already seen him on the balcony, and hurried downstairs to pick him up without his coat on.Along the way, he was thinking about how to snatch Baizhuangzhou, but when he went downstairs, Zhuangzhou had already left, which made him feel like a disappointment.

Ling Dongzhi bought a lot of things, and the two brothers moved back and forth two or three times before they finished moving. When Ling Dongzhi came in with his backpack on his back, he saw Ling Baoer pestering Ling's father and Ling mother to peel pomegranates to eat. The little grandson was pestering him, and he couldn't spare the energy to scold him for a while, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

In addition to the big pomegranate that Ling Ma likes, Ling Dongzhi also bought a few jade articles, decorations for Ling Pa, jewelry for Ling Ma and Han Min, plus large and small packages of mountain goods brought out from the village, others are nothing, Ling Baoer First of all, he was so excited that he had to look through everything to take a look, even the jade bracelets that Ling Dongzhi bought for the two ladies in his family had to be put on for a while to play with.Fortunately, there was such a little gadget that was making noise all over the house, and Ling's father and Ling's mother really didn't bother to clean up this disobedient son.

Taking advantage of the cheerfulness of the whole room, Ling Dongzhi mentioned the matter of going up the mountain to visit his aunt's family in a roundabout way.While talking, he paid attention to the expressions of Ling's father and Ling's mother. Ling's father's expression changed greatly, but Ling's mother was blindly happy, and repeatedly asked him to show her the photos he took.

Ling Dongzhi had mixed feelings in his heart, so he had to take out his notebook first, and play the video recorded on the mountain for Ling Ma and the others.He also dug out a few rare flower seedlings collected on the road and gave them to Dad Ling, saying that he would accompany him to transplant the flower seedlings into flower pots.He knew that Shiliu Village must be a thorn in Papa Ling's heart, which he would never be able to pull out in his life.He didn't want to hide anything from Papa Ling, but he didn't intend to expose the matter to stab him.They have worked hard to raise him for more than 20 years, and they are all old now.Ling Dongzhi just wanted them to spend the rest of their lives happily, without worrying about anything.

The father and son walked up to the balcony one after the other. Ling's father took out two small benches from the corner and handed them to Ling Dongzhi. He also took an empty flower pot and a few bags of flower soil, and devoted himself to playing with the flower seedlings.

But Ling Dongzhi knew that his father was by no means as calm as he appeared on the surface. Now he was worried that Ling Dongzhi might find out about his own life experience?Are you still sad about the child who died at birth?

Ling Dongzhi felt a little sour in his heart, he sat down beside Ling's father, and said softly: "Dad, don't be angry with me."

Papa Ling didn't make a sound.

Ling Dongzhi rubbed against him again, "When you asked my brother to tell me not to go up the mountain, I was already on the way. Besides, Mom misses the relatives over there, after all, they have been away for so many years. I won't watch for her. It's a pity, too."

Papa Ling shook his head and sighed, "Is everything going well?"

Ling Dongzhi began to pretend to be pitiful, "I met poachers on the mountain, and I was arrested by them as a hostage for two days."

Father Ling was taken aback, "What's going on? Why didn't I hear you?"

"Didn't I come back safely?" Ling Dongzhi rubbed his nose. He didn't want to tell his family about this bad thing, but he couldn't bear Father Ling's preoccupied look, and he could use this thing to break out the bad things in him. Ling Dongzhi felt that it was a good deal for the hard shell of silence, "I sprained my foot and lay down at my aunt's house for a few days."

Father Ling looked his son up and down, and asked him worriedly, "Is there any other problem? I will take you for a comprehensive examination tomorrow. Don't care about everything at a young age. If there is any sequelae, it will last a lifetime. Trouble……"

Ling Dongzhi put his head on his shoulder and said softly, "Dad, don't worry. It's fine."

Papa Ling seemed a little uncomfortable with his grown son suddenly being so clingy to him.But he didn't dodge, just patted the back of his hand lightly, "It's fine. You are not young anymore, don't be reckless, something really happened, what will your mother and I do?"

Ling Dongzhi's eyes turned slightly hot, "Dad, I won't go out during the winter vacation. I will spend the New Year with you and Mom."

Father Ling was helpless, "You have said this many times."

"This time the most serious."

Father Ling still didn't believe him, "Talk to me when you do it next year." He raised his hand and pushed him, "Help me with my work, don't rely on me to hide."

Ling Dongzhi didn't get up, but the stickiness became tighter, "Dad, I missed you when I was locked up in the dilapidated cave. My feet hurt too, so I didn't warm up to the fire. I know what it means to be hungry and cold."

Father Ling also felt sad when he heard what he said, but he was used to putting on a show in front of his son, and he couldn't learn Ling Ma's soft words to comfort him, so he just continued to scold him with a straight face, "I told you before, don't always Running to a desolate place. You never listened, and now that you have learned a lesson, you don’t know if you can improve your memory.”

"Yes, yes, I can." Ling Dongzhi rubbed his shoulders, Ling's father and Ling Lidong's frame were similar, they were both tall and tall with broad shoulders and long legs, Ling Dongzhi always felt that Ling's father was a very strong man people.But leaning on his shoulder at this moment, he realized that at some point, this body that once made him feel like a mountain had become shriveled.

When Ling Dongzhi raised his head, his eyes were red, "Dad, I will be filial to you from now on."

Father Ling was tortured by him, and he pulled him off his body dumbfoundingly, "You've suffered a lot outside, and it's better to think about your parents? Stop acting good in front of me and work!"

Ling Dongzhi nodded with tears in his eyes.

Father Ling glanced anxiously at the few people in the living room who were watching videos around their laptops, and lowered his voice to tell Ling Dongzhi, "Don't tell your mother what you just told me."

Ling Dongzhi hurriedly said: "I know. Didn't I just tell you quietly to avoid them."

Father Ling looked at Ling Dongzhi, and felt that this son became more attached to his lover after going out for a trip, and seemed to be getting younger the longer he lived.How many years has he been acting like a spoiled child on himself?It seems that he was still frightened by the bad things he encountered outside.Papa Ling felt a little soft-hearted when he thought about it.I feel that the child has suffered so much grievance outside, it is better for the family to say less.There was no doubt about anything else.As for the past incident that he has been worrying about recently, Papa Ling thought, it should just be that he is old and has nothing to do to be suspicious.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, it happened to be midnight when you picked him up.The night was quiet, and the snow was falling so heavily, not to mention people, not even a mouse or a sparrow. The aunt's family who lived in the same yard didn't notice it at all. There was no reason why Ling Dongzhi could know anything just by going back.

Father Ling glanced at Ling Dongzhi, who was obediently helping him dig the soil, and then at his wife who was beaming in the living room, feeling both sad and strangely relieved.

He has kept this matter from Ling Ma all his life, but he has no other choice but to continue to hide it.

I kept it a secret until I died.