The Cultivation of Rebirth

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Gu's house saw people coming in and out all day long.

Different from the attitude of being a guest two years ago, Li Rui accompanied Gu Huaidong almost the whole day to welcome and see him off, just as he promised.

Many people are curious about Li Rui who is the master, after all, they have never heard that the Gu family will have such a large number of people.

There are also some well-informed people who know that this is the ambiguous object of the Gu family.

When Gu Huaidong introduced Li Rui to the outside world, he always said that he was a "friend".

As for who the friends are, some of the guests who came to pay New Year's greetings looked at each other, which is really a matter of opinion.

No matter what you think in your heart, everyone is happy on the surface.

After all, it's the first day of the new year. Since people can stand here aboveboard, they must have the ability behind them or have the approval of Mr. Gu. Outsiders like them care too much and don't have to make others feel bad for themselves.

In addition to receiving people who came to pay New Year's greetings, the Gu family also went out to give New Year's greetings to others.

Relatives, friends, colleagues, neighbors... Uncle Gu's generation was so busy.

In Gu Huaidong's generation, there is still room to sneak in some leisure time.

Taking advantage of the relatively free afternoon of the third day of junior high school, Gu Huaidong took Li Rui to the garden behind the house to build a snowman.

Before leaving the house, Gu Huaidong went to the kitchen and picked two carrots.

It has been snowing intermittently for the past two days, especially the night before, when there was a particularly heavy snowfall.

The snow was shoveled in front of the house to entertain guests, but there was no need to entertain guests in the back of the house, and Gu Huaidong had instructed, so the snow had not been moved much.

Gu Huaidong has been playing with making snowmen since he was a child. With his help, the two quickly rolled out four snowballs, two big and two small. On a larger snowball.

The rudiments of two snowmen with a height of half a person appeared.

Li Rui took out four big and round black buttons from his pocket.

This is what Gu Huaidong cut out from a coat that he only wore once in his closet last night.

Li Rui originally wanted to use stones, but Gu Huaidong thought the stones were ugly, so his coat buttons are better, they are the same size, round and shiny, and the diameter is big enough, they must look good as a snowman's eyes.

Li Rui put the buttons on the snowman's round head, and gestured carefully, trying to keep the two eyes on the same level.

Gu Huaidong took out the radish he had taken from the kitchen and inserted it between the snowman's eyes.

The snowman's mouth was made of thick black cotton thread found at home, and it was specially curved when it was installed.

As for the snowman's hands, Gu Huaidong directly used local materials and broke off a few dead branches in the garden.

After inserting the branches, Gu Huaidong dug into his pocket and took out a button that was smaller than a snowman's eyes.

At a glance, Li Rui recognized which two clothes the buttons in Gu Huaidong's hand were still on last night.

Seeing Li Rui staring at the buttons in his hand, Gu Huaidong immediately explained: "Those two clothes are either too small or old, I'll use them as waste."

Li Rui was silent for a moment, and then said to him: "Actually, what I want to ask is when did you cut the buttons again?"

Seeing that Li Rui didn't mean to blame himself, Gu Huaidong replied directly: "Morning. Let me tell you, these buttons will make the snowman look better."

After Gu Huaidong finished speaking, he inserted the buttons in the middle of the big ball of the snowman's body one by one, with a similar distance between each button and arranged them in a vertical line.

The two took out the black hats they folded with cards the night before and put them on the two snowmen.

Li Rui took two steps back to look, and had to admit that the snowman he built with the idea of ​​taking care of Huaidong was more beautiful than he thought.

The two snowmen are side by side, with a few more buttons on their bodies, as if they were wearing two more small clothes. The corners of their mouths are curved, and their big round black eyes are slightly shining, looking like two little gentlemen who are smiling.Very cute.

Gu Huaidong observed, thought for a while, and felt that something was missing. He took off the long scarf around his neck, first walked around the snowman in front of Li Rui on the left, and then followed closely around the snowman on the right.

The two snowmen were already next to each other, and there was another connected warm gray scarf around their necks, which added a touch of tenderness and cuddling to each other.

Gu Huaidong was done, clapped his hands, walked to Li Rui's side, hugged him, and asked, "How is it, doesn't it look much better?"

Li Rui nodded.

With a proud face, Gu Huaidong approached Li Rui and whispered in a low voice: "One is like you, and the other is like me."

Li Rui shook his head with a straight face: "Not like."

Gu Huaidong caught the flash of cunning in Li Rui's eyes, he let out a "huh" and asked in distress, "What's not like?"

Li Rui didn't answer, but took a step back, put some distance between Gu Huaidong and took off half of the long scarf around his neck that was the same style as the snowman was wearing now, and wrapped it around Gu Huaidong's neck.

Gu Huaidong stood still so that he could surround him.

After finishing the scarf, Li Rui took a step forward and leaned on Gu Huaidong's shoulder, with an uncontrollable smile in his voice: "This is how it looks."

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On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the Gu family held a dinner party for relatives and friends.

According to the meaning of taking care of the old man, the dinner did not use the most popular Western-style buffet, but a traditional Chinese-style banquet.

The old people like the big round table, they think it is a good omen and very festive.Anyway, the banquet living room at home is big enough, and there are quite a few people invited, so it can completely sit down.

On the day of the banquet, Gu Zhiming, who hadn't been able to come back on New Year's Eve, finally came back in the early morning.

Gu Huaidong and Li Rui knew the time of Gu Zhiming's return in advance, and went to the door to meet him.

When they met, Gu Huaidong greeted his father first, and Li Rui followed suit with "Dad".

Li Rui yelled very simply, with a clear and short voice.

Gu Zhiming heard his wife talk about Li Rui's change of mouth two days ago, although he was prepared in his heart, he was also a little embarrassed at this time.

Gu Zhiming said "Hey", and wanted to give Li Rui a red envelope.

He first reached out to feel in the pocket of his suit jacket, and then patted on the pocket of his trousers, only to find that there was no red envelope with him.

Gu Zhiming never expected to meet two juniors as soon as he came back.

He originally planned to go upstairs to wash up, change his clothes, and then come down to meet people after he came back.Unexpectedly, the plan did not catch up with the changes.

Gu Huaidong took Li Rui to congratulate Gu Zhiming.

Gu Zhiming watched Li Rui, who had just changed his words, stand there obediently and waited, with an embarrassing expression gradually appearing on his face.

In fact, Li Rui didn't think about changing the red envelope. He was not waiting for the red envelope while standing still, but waiting for Gu Zhiming to leave first.

Seeing Gu Zhiming looking for something all over, Li Rui wondered if his father had lost something.

Gu Huaidong couldn't bear to see his father in distress now.

Gu Huaidong took a step forward, turned half sideways, put his right hand on his father's right arm, and said, "Dad, let's go in first."

Gu Zhiming quickly stepped down the steps: "Let's go, let's not stand at the door, let's all go in."

Gu Zhiming thought about going upstairs to get the red envelope.

However, Gu Huaidong took out a red envelope from his clothes pocket with his left hand, passed his arm around Papa Gu's back, and poked Papa Gu's left arm.

Gu Zhiming glanced sideways, quickly took the red envelope, and gave his son an appreciative glance.

The three of them walked to the stairs, Gu Huaidong let go of Papa Gu.

Gu's father took out the red envelope provided by his son who had secretly stuffed it into his clothes pocket, and handed it to Li Rui: "I wish you and Huaidong a happy new year, a year of success in your studies and great ambitions."

Li Rui glanced at Gu Huaidong, who nodded encouragingly.

Li Rui took the red envelope and bowed to Gu Zhiming sincerely: "Thank you, Dad."

Gu Zhiming finally sent out the changed lipstick package smoothly, heaved a sigh of relief, said a few more words to the two juniors kindly, and then went upstairs.

It wasn't until Gu Zhiming's figure disappeared on the stairs that Gu Huaidong approached Li Rui and whispered to Li Rui, "Do you know what Dad was looking for just now?"

Li Rui already had a guess in his mind about the distance from the door to the stairs, and Gu Huaidong's question helped him confirm the answer.

Li Rui coughed twice, suppressed his smile, and asked Gu Huaidong, "Dad was just looking for this red envelope, right?"

Gu Huaidong nodded: "Yes, he was looking for a red envelope, and finally he found it from me."

Gu Zhiming must never have imagined that his son, who he thought was extremely caring just now, turned around and sold him out, just to make Li Rui smile.

Sure enough, Li Rui couldn't help laughing: "Did you take me to pick up Dad early in the morning on purpose?"

Gu Huaidong heheed twice: "That's right. Rarity, your guess is really accurate. Now do you think that Dad is not serious at all, not scary?"

Li Rui gave Gu Huaidong a sideways look: "I didn't think Dad was scary."

Li Rui felt that there was a big difference between awe when facing majesty and fear when facing terror.

Gu Huaidong didn't argue with Li Rui, and changed the subject with a smile: "Uncle will come in the afternoon, and we will go to ask for two big red envelopes. Two people are good, earning red envelopes is more profitable than alone .”

Li Rui reminded Gu Huaidong of a cruel fact: "We received two red envelopes, should we also give two red envelopes?"

Gu Huaidong said solemnly: "We are still children, and a portion for two is more than enough."

No matter how thick Li Rui's "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" filter, he couldn't hold it anymore, and looked at such a thick-skinned Gu Huaidong in shock.

No, Gu Huaidong is no longer thick-skinned, but has no shame at all.

"Is there a child your age???" Li Rui's tone perfectly reflected the shock in his heart.

Gu Huaidong laughed loudly: "Ruirui, don't you know that we have a saying?"

"What's the saying? Is the eight-foot-strong man the saying of Chutiao?" Li Rui played classical Chinese with a look of indifference.

Gu Huaidong's forehead lightly touched Li Rui's forehead: "On our side, as long as you are not married, you are still a child in the eyes of the elders, and you can always receive red envelopes instead of giving red envelopes. If you don't want to be a child, Rui Rui, Do you want to marry me first?"

Li Rui listened carefully to Gu Huaidong's explanation, and was caught off guard by Gu Huaidong's sharp turn and his heart pounded.

Li Rui pushed Gu Huaidong's head away forcefully: "How do I remember that this custom is mainly for unmarried women?"

Gu Huaidong's head was pushed away, so he put his hand on Li Rui's shoulder instead: "Ruirui, in the new era, we must pay attention to equality between men and women. And if you are willing to marry, I can actually wait to marry... So, you How long are you going to keep me waiting?"

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