Grandpa is here!

After sending Jiang Baifan to the high-speed rail, Pei Min returned to the apartment alone.

It was 23 in a blink of an eye. On the eve of the New Year's Eve, there were fireworks outside, a lively and prosperous scene, couples holding hands, smiling sweetly, children wearing big red flowers, holding toys around their parents.

Red lanterns were hung on the trees, couplets were pasted on the houses, and even the street lights that were not usually turned on were fully turned on at the moment, and the New Year flavor of J City became more and more intense.

Pei Min stood by the window and looked at it for a while, his face was cloudy and cloudy. It took him a long time to turn around and use his mobile phone to book a plane ticket, and pulled out his suitcase to pack his clothes.

In the second, they flew back to City A and left the airport, but Pei Min was still undecided.

Should I go to Dad's house?Or go to mother's house?

Pei Min took out a paper crane from his pocket and threw it into the sky, thinking silently in his heart, head to the left to go to father's house, head to the right to go to mother's house.

The Thousand Paper Crane slowly landed in his palm, the paper pointed beak just facing to the left.

Pei Min closed his palms, stuffed the thousand paper cranes back into his pockets, and then took the suitcase and boarded the taxi outside the airport.

The taxi drove towards the prosperous city, Pei Min sat in the back of the car, looking at the increasingly familiar street scene, without the slightest excitement that one should have when going home.

After getting out of the car and at the door of the house, Pei Min even heard the sound of adults and children playing inside. He didn't go in without carrying the suitcase, but silently took out his mobile phone and pressed a number.

After a long time, the phone was connected.

"Hello...who is it?" A middle-aged man's slightly magnetic voice came from the phone.

Pei Min said expressionlessly to the phone: "It's me."

"Oh, Minmin! What's the matter?"

"I'm home."

"Go home?"

"Well, come back for the New Year."

"Chinese New Year?" The voice of the person opposite was a little surprised. After a pause, he said, "It's fine. Where are you? I'll ask the driver to pick you up."

Pei Mingang was about to say that he was at the door of the house.

But the middle-aged male voice on the phone continued: "Pick you up to your mother's house. You know your aunt's temper. It's inconvenient for you to come to my place for the New Year. Come back and stay for a few days after the new year..."

Pei Min's face turned pale, and he grabbed the phone tightly with his fingers, his fingertips were so pale that there was no blood.

The phone is still talking: "By the way, do you still have enough money?"

Pei Min didn't call him back, but hung up the phone indifferently.

A man's exasperated voice came from the room: "This kid is getting more and more ignorant..."

Pei Min turned around without hesitation, pulled the suitcase and stopped the taxi on the side of the road, pursed her lips and pressed another number.

The phone was connected, and it was a gentle female voice.

"Minmin! I finally remembered my mother. You haven't called your mother for a long time."

"Mom, I..."

"What's wrong? Don't you have enough money? Wait a minute, mom will transfer some money to you. It's Chinese New Year, buy some new clothes for yourself, and eat some delicious food. Also, mom won't visit you this year , our family is celebrating the New Year in Bali, so you go to your father’s house this year, and wish you a happy new year in advance, mom loves you!”

Pei Min was stunned for a moment until he hung up the phone. He insisted on not saying that I'm back. He pursed his lips, his eyes were a little red, but his face was so white that he couldn't see a drop of blood.

Families going to Bali for Chinese New Year?

It turns out that it can be called a family without him, and it turns out that he is not included in that family.

Pei Min's eyes were red enough to bleed, and his face became paler and paler. He took back his phone, covered his face with his hands, and said to the taxi driver after a long time, "Master, please divert."

Pei Min dragged the suitcase back to the old house, wiped off Grandpa's memorial tablet, lit a stick of incense for him, and sat with him in silence for a while before getting up and going out to buy a box of instant noodles and a few boxes of fireworks.

On the New Year's Eve, the firecrackers and fireworks outside the old house were loud. Pei Min boiled a pot of water, ate instant noodles, sat on the threshold and watched the fireworks, and spent the New Year peacefully.

The New Year's Eve is lively, but the instant noodles are bitter, and the fireworks are also vague.

When everyone in the country is happy, only he is lonely like a wandering soul.

After eating a box of instant noodles, it was already the day before New Year's Eve. Pei Min put another two sticks of incense on the memorial tablet for his grandfather, folded his clothes neatly, and put the box of thousand paper cranes on the bedside into his luggage. Box, then padlocked out the door, and bought a ticket back to J City.

When he got to the boarding gate, Pei Min changed his mind again and directly transferred to the city where Jiang Baifan was located.

He thought to himself, let's go and have a look. Although he can't see anyone, it's good to go to his city.

Under the same city, breathing the same air, blowing the same gust of wind, looking at the same cloud, at such a close distance, it is as if...someone is celebrating the New Year with him.

Where is Jiang Baifan's hometown, Pei Min knew, Jiang Baifan had said it in detail when he returned to his hometown, and Pei Min took it seriously at the time.

After getting off the plane, I changed to a passenger car three times, and changed to a van halfway through, before arriving at my destination.

Baishui Town is a small town outside Jiang Baifan Village. This town is a very beautiful place. It’s the end of the year, and it’s not as dry as J City. The small town located in the mountains is shrouded in drizzle, misty white water vapor Floating in the air, it is light and thin, like a gauze skirt that a fairy has missed.

The beauty makes people mistakenly think that this is in the painting.

There is a clear stream here, so clear that you can see fish and shrimp in the water.There are arch bridges, bridge stones made of blue bricks, and weeping willows beside the bridge, with green buds on the tip, adding a new color to the quaint town.

Take a deep breath, and the fresh water vapor blows over your face.

Pei Min was sitting under the bamboo shed by the bridge drinking tea, with an unusually peaceful mind.

He looked up at the green mountains and green waters, and thought: Sure enough, only this kind of place can raise people like Jiang Baifan.

After a cup of tea bottomed out and the sky was getting dark, Pei Min took out his phone slowly and sent a message to Jiang Baifan.

[Happy New Year's Eve. 】

Jiang Baifan, who was preparing the New Year's Eve dinner with Seventh Brother's family, heard the jingle of his mobile phone, took it out casually and glanced at it, his eyes lit up immediately.

He wiped his hands clean, did not reply to Pei Min's message, but climbed upstairs, and immediately sent him a video call.

Video is on.

Jiang Baifan looked excitedly at the familiar person on the opposite side, with a smile on his face.

"Pei Min, Happy New Year's Eve!..."

Pei Min didn't speak, just looked at the longing person in the video, without blinking his eyes, even across the remote network, he felt that his lonely soul had been redeemed.

"Why don't you talk?" Jiang Baifan stretched out his hand and shook in front of the phone, keenly aware that the cheeks of the person on the opposite side were slightly thinner, and frowned: "What's going on? Why do I feel that you are thinner?"

"Have you?" Pei Min smiled casually. Anyone who eats instant noodles for half a month will lose weight.

"Have!"

"I don't know if I'm thin or not, but you must be fat." Across the Internet, Pei Min could stare at the opposite person with impunity.

"Hey ∽ are you fat? I think so too." Jiang Baifan touched the back of his head in embarrassment.

After Jiang Min came back, Seventh Sister-in-Law stewed delicious food for him every day, and then she was forced to eat an extra bowl of stewed soup every day. After half the winter vacation, it's no wonder that she wasn't fat.

He stretched out his hand to rub his collagen-filled face, and asked embarrassedly, "Is it ugly?"

"Not ugly, but pretty."

The two chatted for a long time, and when it was time to hang up the video, Jiang Baifan said casually: "Where are you?"

"I'm in City J." Pei Min came back to his senses, and lied slowly.

"J City?" Jiang Baifan looked at the scenery behind Pei Min and found it familiar. He froze for a moment, then his eyes lit up.

Jiang Baifan has lived in the place behind Pei Min for 17 years. Even though he doesn't come to the town often, Jiang Baifan still saw the small stone bridge behind Pei Min so familiar that he could walk across it with his eyes closed.

"Is this the Jiangmen Bridge behind you?"

"What?" Pei Min was stunned for a moment, then turned around and saw the word "Jiangmen" clearly written in official script on the front of the blue stone bridge.

Pei Min immediately changed the direction of the phone and lied.

"No, you read it wrong."

Jiang Baifan's voice was a little excited, "This stone bridge is our iconic thing, and you still want to lie to me, you are at Jiangmen Bridge."

Pei Min stopped talking, he suddenly regretted accepting this video.

If he came here but didn't tell others, and if they recognized him and lied, how would he explain his abnormalities later?

Jiang Baifan didn't notice his strangeness, he just said: "Did you come to see me?"

"No."

Jiang Baifan was taken aback for a moment, flattened his mouth, and said, "Then are you here to travel?"

Pei Min nodded absently: "Yeah."

"You don't come to me when you come here for a trip. You are too mean. Wait, I'll pick you up."

Holding the phone, Pei Min told him in his mind that he must refuse, but he said "OK" to the phone.

"Then it's settled, you go and pack your things, I'll be right there."

After hanging up the phone, Pei Min stood there feeling extremely entangled in his heart, but also had inexplicable anticipation, mixed with tension that came from nowhere.

It was getting dark, Jiang Baifan came down from downstairs, and said to Liu Xiuzhi who was about to chop vegetables: "Sister-in-law Qi, do you have any extra guest rooms at home?"

Liu Xiuzhi wiped her hands, then shook her head: "It's gone."

Jiang Baifan just remembered him, it was unnecessary to ask, after Jiang Min came back, the guest room was given to him.

Forget it, when Pei Min comes, let him sleep with me.

Seeing that he suddenly stopped talking, Liu Xiuzhi asked in confusion, "What happened? Why did you suddenly ask if there is any room available?"

"My classmate is coming."

Liu Xiuzhi narrowed her eyes and asked vigilantly, "Male or female?"

"male."

The woman breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and continued to chop vegetables and said, "It's not easy for the man. Either Min'er will sleep with you, or your classmate will sleep with you. The bed in your room is 1.8" Rice, big enough."

"I thought so too, so I'll go first."

Jiang Baifan went out and thought for a while before coming in again, "Sister-in-law Qi, please change my quilt later, it has been raining a lot these days, and the quilt smells musty."

"Okay, I'll change the vegetables for you after cutting." Liu Xiuzhi took the key of the electric tricycle and handed it to Jiang Baifan, watched him leave, and said: "Youngest, it's raining and the road is slippery, please ride slowly."

"it is good."

After he was gone, Liu Xiuzhi went upstairs. In the past few days, it has been raining day and night, and the quilt cover is not dry.

Because grandson Jiang Min was there, he slept in the guest room, and changed the quilt for him, so there will be no extra quilt cover for a while.

Yes, there are still a few old sets, but the youngest's classmate came, it would be too embarrassing to change the old quilt cover, it would embarrass the youngest.

Liu Xiuzhi hesitated for a while, rummaged through the closet for a long time, and finally fell on the bright red quilt in the cage that she had when she got married.