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For the next holiday, I avoided Ling.Of course, he never came to see me, and he didn't say anything except calling me occasionally to argue with me.His father didn't bother me, he probably sent someone to investigate and knew that I was not easy to mess with, and Ling Guo and I really had nothing to do.

It's just that it's not easy to hide from him for a whole holiday, and we still met once in the middle, on the second day after the Chinese New Year, the first day of the new year.

The office is on holiday on the 28th of the year, and will go back to work on the eighth day of the new year.Lin Yadong and Hu Xin returned to their hometowns, but still failed to take a crucial step.I can't say anything more about the two of them. This is their relationship. I am an outsider. Maybe many things seem simple but not easy to do.

Just like when Xu Shihao and I split up, we split up. In Lin Yadong’s eyes, we are not enemies, we can still be friends, at least we are still old classmates. It’s no big deal to talk about the past and life together occasionally, but I can’t accept it .Seeing a man who used to say "I love you" while arguing violently with you on the bed decided to break up in order to get married. Since then, it has nothing to do with your life, and even the mess he made is all by myself Go clean up, but I still have to pretend to be friendly and talk to him about life, how fucking mean is that?Even if I have nothing else, I still have a hard bone.

Therefore, things that others take for granted may often not be so calm and clear.For example, my dad, although he doesn't hold him that much in his heart, but he just can't go home and face him.

During the Chinese New Year, I called home, Yue Yang answered it, chatted happily for a long time, then called my mother, chatted for a while, and it ended here, my father did not come to answer the call .He is at home. My mother said he was watching a TV series, so I won't say it.TV dramas are more important than my son, so important that I don’t have time to say a few words to my son who hasn’t been home for several years on New Year’s Eve.

It may not be hatred, but habit that separates us.Yes, I'm used to it too. If he doesn't come to listen to me, I won't call him, so I hang up the phone silently.In the first few years, I still cried, but now... I don't even have the mood to cry, I'm used to accepting it.

But after all, it was Chinese New Year, amidst the faint sound of firecrackers, I stood at the window and looked at the bright lights outside, and I still felt somewhat lonely and desolate.It's just that this is my own choice. I can't regret it, and I can't resist it. I have to learn to accept and adapt.

On the night of New Year's Eve, I went to a bar, not for drinking, I rarely drink, alcohol can make people crazy, I need reason.So I just went and sat down, ordered a glass of low-proof whiskey, sat in the middle of a noisy crowd, watched everyone celebrate Chinese New Year, and pretended to be happy too.No one you know, but who cares?Who knows who? Aren't they all people who have no home to go home on the night of New Year's Eve?

After the clock struck midnight, my cell phone rang, and it was Ling Guo.

It was too noisy in the bar, so I went out and stood at the door to answer the phone: "Hello, Ling Guo? Happy New Year!"

"Happy New Year. Where are you? It seems quite noisy."

"At the bar, hang out with some friends."

"Which bar?"

"What do you care?"

"Who cares about you? Just asking casually. When are you going back?"

"About one o'clock."

"Don't drive after drinking."

"I didn't drink."

"Go to the bar and don't drink, you take me for a fool?"

"I didn't drink much. One glass is not as strong as a glass of beer. It's okay. I can't even find out if I'm drunk and driving."

"You can do whatever you want, anyway, if you know the law, you will be punished."

"Shut up. What are you doing?"

"At my grandma's house, she just slept."

"Where is your grandma's house?"

"Development zone."

"So far? Just you and your grandma?"

"There is also my aunt's family, but they returned to the city after the New Year's Eve dinner."

"How old is your grandma?"

"72."

"Yo, you're not young, so who is your mother?"

"My mother is the youngest, and I have three aunts. But my second and third aunts are away from home, and I won't be back until a few days later."

"Then aren't you lonely these days?"

"Ah...what's the matter? Are you lonely? That's right, you don't go home, and it's very sad to celebrate the New Year here by yourself."

"Who's feeling sad? I'm fine. I had a great time at the bar today!"

"Okay, keep going! I won't bother you anymore."

"Bye?"

"Well, I just want to ask you something before hanging up."

"Say."

"Are you free tomorrow? Let's meet up and have a meal together. It's Chinese New Year, we have to get together too?"

"...All right." If it was normal, I would definitely refuse, but because of the Chinese New Year, I also want to resolve it.

"Then you will pick me up tomorrow?"

"Go to the development zone?"

"No, I'll take a taxi to the city, and you can pick me up when you come and go."

"What time is it."

"Twelve o'clock."

"Okay, then hang up."

"Well, good night then."

"Good night? I'm still playing. Go to sleep!"

After I hung up the phone, I was suddenly a little excited, and the endless squirming in my heart showed signs of resurgence.But I told myself that I will have dinner when I meet him tomorrow, don't talk nonsense, and don't think about it.It doesn't matter what the child thinks in his heart, the important thing is that I want to keep my body like a jade, ah no, I want to keep myself clean.

When I went back to the bar, I really became happy, chatted with a group of strangers for a while, and even left each other's phone numbers, and then I quit sooner.

When Ling Guo ran out from the past time, a middle-aged woman followed, stuffed a stack of red bills into his pocket, and took a look in my car along the way.Although the woman looks close to fifty years old, she is still very beautiful and fashionable. She should surpass his aunt, right?When she looked at me, I nodded to him, she also smiled at me, and then shouted at Ling Guo who had already run towards me: "Come back early at night, Xiaoxian is going to bring her classmates to dinner !"

"understood."

As soon as he got in the car, I asked, "Xiaoxian is..."

"My nephew."

"How big?"

"Ten years old."

"Your aunt has a ten-year-old grandson? How old is she then?"

"It's 54, doesn't it look like it?"

"It's really not like, it's quite young." I started the car while talking.

"Well, people say that I look like her son, but my cousin is 32, about the same age as you."

"You don't need to remind me how old I am. Let me ask you, why does a ten-year-old kid come to your aunt's house for dinner and still need you to accompany him?"

"No, it's because all the waiters are on holiday during the Chinese New Year, so I'll be on duty temporarily."

I laughed and snorted on his head: "Poor kid."

"You are pitiful, celebrating the new year alone." He gave me a look.

I also glared at him: "You don't need to remind me! I'm happy!"

"Okay, money can't buy you to be happy! You can be regarded as a runaway wild horse. You spent the night in the bar last night. Did you have an affair?"

"Who stayed all night? They only stayed for four hours in total, and they had an affair, and they didn't even watch a sex dance."

"You're not gay, are you?"

"Gays must go to gays, right? Who made the rules? I still want to go to a mixed-sex sauna!"

"Huh? And the sauna where men and women bathe together?" He opened his mouth wide.

I smiled: "Silly boy, I am teasing you."

"Can you be serious?" He glared at me.

"As if you're serious."

"Where am I not serious?"

"Where are you serious again?"

"I'm not serious and you still come out with me?"

"Hey! Since I'm a dishonest person, am I afraid that you will be dishonest?"

Ling Guo also laughed when he heard it: "We are really a perfect match if we are not serious."

"Who is perfect for you? Go away!" I glared at him and ignored him.

"Don't! I finally asked you out, let's have a good talk, where to eat?"

"where do you want to go?"

"Hmm... Water Palace."

"Can't you change one?"

"You always miss the time when you eat recently."

"I didn't go all the time. I went twice this year and you met me both times."

"Then let's go to the Water Palace twice, besides, it's been another year now."

I smiled: "Okay! Water Palace."

After eating nonsense in Shuigonghai for three hours, I sent him back to the past time.Before getting out of the car, he suddenly looked at me affectionately, as if hesitating to speak.

"What are you doing? Let the fart go!" I said, but my body was on guard in case he suddenly pounced on me.

"Then what, Yue Jiao..."

"Don't call me Yue Jiao!"

"Yue Chong..."

"Hiss...go to hell!"

"Okay." He opened the door and was about to get out of the car.

"Hey!" I stopped him: "Why are you going? Don't you have something to say?"

"Go to hell!" He said solemnly, "I'm going to find a car to bump into."

"Nervous! Come up! Finish your speech."

Ling Guo got into the car again, closed the door, and continued to look at me affectionately.

"Don't confess!" I vaccinated him first.

He just glared at me, and said with a disheartened face, "That's okay, I'm leaving." Then he opened the car door and got out of the car, walking into the past time without looking back.

It seemed that I was really angry. I sighed, but at the same time I was relieved. It was wise to stop him from talking nonsense in time, right?Otherwise, how can I live when I go back tonight?You can't sleep all night because of his words?

The winter vacation passed quickly, and the day when Yue Yang started school soon.

I went to the station to pick him up and take him back to school.As soon as he entered the dormitory, he saw Ling Guo, but he didn't expect him to come back earlier than Yue Yang.

"I miss you so much! Did you bring me something delicious?" Yue Yang put down his luggage and rushed up to give Ling Guo a hug.

"Then, I put it on the window sill for you." Ling Guo said, and glanced at the window sill, there were several packing boxes piled up on it, and the words on the bags were brought out from the past time.

It seems that these two guys made an appointment in advance to come back together.But at the same time, when I saw two sets of prickly prickly pears growing on the windowsill, I was also a little happy. It turned out that Ling Guo took good care of them, and they should be taken home to raise them during the winter vacation.

"I'll also bring you delicious food, including our local specialties and online shopping snacks." Yue Yang said while taking things out of the suitcase, such as pine nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts, baby squid, red sausage, Big twists, glutinous rice sticks, and even fried cakes are all piled up on the bed, which makes my mouth water a little.

"Why did you bring it all the way here for online shopping? It's different when you come back to buy it?" Although Ling Guo said so, his face was full of joyful smiles, and he leaned over to look at them one by one.

Yue Yang said: "That's different. The etiquette is light and the affection is heavy, that's what I said. I will recite it all the way, and you will eat more deliciously."

"That's true." Ling Guo picked up a piece of fried cake from the lunch box, and smiled from ear to ear after taking a bite: "It's so delicious! I've never eaten such a delicious cake!"

"This is not pastry, it's earlier." Yue Yang corrected.

"You really know how to eat, won't you get fat if you eat this every day? It's so oily and sweet."

"How can it be possible to eat this every day? The breakfast in our hometown has a lot of tricks, and we can eat the same thing every day for a month without repeating the same thing."

"Blow it on you." Ling Guo said with a smile on his face.

"What's there to brag about, we're all used to it, just like you must be used to eating the food in this store where you work, right? Surely you don't think it's particularly delicious, right? But I think it's super delicious!" After Yue Yang finished taking the delicious food he brought for Ling Guo, he ran to the window sill and started eating what Ling Guo brought.As if waiting for something to eat, I said to me who had been standing in the foyer: "Brother! Come and eat too!"

I just smiled and shook my head and said, "I thought you forgot about me."

"How can it be? I also brought you special products from my hometown, why don't I bring an extra small box? It's all for you."

"That's fine, I accept it with a smile. You eat, I'll go back." I picked up another small box and was about to leave.

"Brother, why are you in a hurry? Don't you stay longer?" Yue Yang put down his food and walked towards me.

"I still have something to do. You pack up your things and have a good rest. I'll come to see you in two days."

"That's fine, I'll see you off." Yue Yang followed me out of the dormitory.

Although Ling Guo never said a word to me from the beginning to the end, and I ignored him, his eyes never left me, so I also felt very uncomfortable.After leaving the door of the dormitory, even Yue Yang asked me: "Brother, what happened to you and Ling Guo? Why don't you two talk?"

"What can I do with him? We haven't seen each other for a holiday. It's a bit of a breakup. It will be fine in a few days."

"Ah, then come back in a few days and buy us some big mangoes from the fruit shop downstairs in your company. We both like to eat them."

"Why didn't you say it earlier? How good is it that I brought you today?"

"Didn't you just eat too much and be afraid that you won't be able to eat it? You have to let us digest it first."

I smiled: "Okay, you go back, I will go out by myself."