Days like New Year's Eve are usually used for family reunions, watching the Spring Festival Gala, grabbing red envelopes, and eating New Year's Eve dinner.

In the morning, I was woken up by the sound of firecrackers outside, from nine o'clock to noon.Only then did I slowly crawl out of the quilt, with the marks of the quilt still on my face, and sat up blankly scratching my head.

"Huh? What are you going to do... Oh, go buy couplets."

It is said that the garbage cannot be taken out on the first day of the new year, so it must be thrown out on New Year's Eve.

With a grim expression, I went downstairs with five garbage bags on my shoulders. I saw the road was deserted and there were no people. Indeed, only the Chinese New Year can have this kind of charm.

There is a fireworks vendor at the entrance of the community, selling all kinds of fireworks and firecrackers on the stall. I bought a box of small goldfish for [-] cents to keep in my pocket, and then bought a pair of handwritten couplets at his house.

[Xu Sui Zhao Feng Qian Hoon is full of blessings in the Year of the Dog for four seasons]

Throwing small goldfish and cannons all the way home to the door, holding the double-sided tape and a small bench to paste the couplets, and then using Meituan to search nearby businesses, I found that several stores were still open on New Year's Eve.

For example, M Ji, such as Longmen Huajia, such as braised chicken and rice.

Considering the distance, single product price, delivery fee and many other factors, I finally ordered a yellow braised chicken without spicy.

Someone in the mobile phone has already started sending out red envelopes, and the price is 8.88 yuan, which is the best luck.

[Xiao Xi, in Room 128 at night]

Glancing at this message, I called my dad directly——

"Hello? Dad? Are you asking me to come to City A for New Year's Eve dinner?"

"Otherwise, the New Year's Eve dinner is for the family to eat together."

"Wait... Are uncle and second aunt also here?"

"Yeah, what's the matter? Could it be that Xiaoxi is still shy at this age?"

"No, how could it be?"

"Just bought for you... Wow baby, let daddy wipe your mouth, why are you eating everywhere, bring a towel... Hey? Xiao Xi?"

"Ah."

"Anyway, I'm waiting for you to come over tonight, that's all."

Only the busy tone remains.

I sighed, hung up the phone, and bought a high-speed rail ticket on 12306 to get to City A in two hours at the fastest. After eating the braised yellow chicken, I hurriedly left the house with my mobile phone and ID card in my pocket.

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A big event happened in [-].

It's not a snowstorm, it's not an earthquake, it's not the Olympics.

On February 2008, 2, ten years ago on New Year's Eve, my father's father died.From the perspective of identity and family ethics, to be precise, I should call him grandpa.

The grandfather who hadn't seen much died on the night of New Year's Eve, to put it harshly——

[very unlucky]

[It happened on New Year's Eve]

[The whole new year will be ruined]

When I was nine years old, I actually heard these words from the adults. When I knelt in front of the memorial tablet and kowtowed, what I thought in my heart was——

Grandpa is so pitiful.

It doesn't seem to matter who is more pitiful than me who can't see my parents.

The impression of this old man is only in countless newspapers and once sitting next to him and watching "Yi Tian Shou Long Ji" ignorantly. In the finale, Zhao Min asked Zhang Wuji to paint her eyebrows for a lifetime, while the old man drank tea with a strange smell, Holding the green hot water bottle, he touched the top of my head with his right hand.

What was said has been forgotten.

By the way, when eating, the second aunt's family is very fast, and I am the slowest, so every time he walks out of the room and laughs: "Xiao Xi is looking at the table again."

In the hometown dialect, look at the table, that is, the person who eats the slowest.

There are only these fragments in memory.

In the end, there were only empty rooms, drawers that had been turned over in a mess, stamp collections stacked high, brand new food stamps and pure gold commemorative coins stuffed into the wallets by aunts and uncles.

Before I went to the hotel, I had recalled all the things about my grandpa. Many details and some small things that I had forgotten a long time ago now appeared in my mind very clearly.

The moment the box was pushed open, the voices inside stagnated for a few seconds, and then a table of people and I looked at each other for a while, and within five seconds they restored their smiling faces and greeted this side one after another.

"Xiao Xi is here."

"I haven't seen you for a long time, come here, get the red envelope."

"happy New Year Happy New Year!"

After all, they have all lived at home, so they can be regarded as acquaintances.The red envelopes given one by one are quite thick, and each pack feels at least 1000 yuan.

The waiter pushed out an extra seat and inserted it into the round table, which happened to be stuck between the aunt and the uncle. I didn’t say anything, and concentrated on eating bitterly. The West Lake vinegar fish, squirrel mandarin fish, Kaiping Wuchang fish, pearl balls and Nanjian meatballs Sixi Meatballs, Cuttlefish Rolls with Minced Vegetables and Garlic Vermicelli, Three Salty Steamed Chickens, Golden Rolls, Baicai Baifu Bag...

How should I put it, anyway, this trip will pay back the travel expenses.

During this period, these relatives kept asking my father about the child, such as how heavy he is, his eyes look like his mother now, good luck this year, when is the physical examination, where is the full moon wine, when is the catch week, etc. of.

After a while while talking, the topic turned to me who was as quiet as a chicken.

"Xiaoxi seems to be in C University, is he still used to the weather there?"

"Well, it's actually about the same as here."

"Your sister went to Jilin when she went to university. It was too cold there. Fortunately, she was determined to be the president of the student union and was recommended to go to Spain as an exchange student. Alas, so sooner or later, language majors will have to go abroad. Don't you see that you are working in Shanghai now?"

"Yes, my sister is very powerful."

"It's not what I said, Xiao Xi, hurry up and stop worrying your dad, don't spend money recklessly, and don't be unhappy because he has other children, you are such an old man, you should be sensible, always making troubles What does your temper look like?"

"Well, Auntie, I know."

"It's okay to fall in love, but don't be fooled by those smooth-tongued boys. They've been together for a few years and then they're going to get married and dump you. There's no place to cry at that time."

"You can rest assured that I will pay attention."

"Pay attention to the bullshit. Look at your dad. Didn't he just marry an irresponsible woman on impulse? Now it's all right. There's an extra procrastination... Cough cough, I'm not saying he's not responsible, but that Women must still account for most of the reasons, don't you think?"

……

Socializing is indeed a very tiring thing.

I took it as if I had received money to do something, and followed a procedure.

From five o'clock in the afternoon to seven o'clock in the afternoon, after the dinner, the seven aunts and eight aunts drove home excitedly to watch the Spring Festival Gala, and my father also took the aunts home, and gave me a red envelope before leaving, saying Some words of encouragement, let me study English well and become a teacher in the future.

...How do I tell him that I'm an art student? ? ?

This is a serious question.

Doing the math, I received a total of several thousand in cash from my relatives tonight, plus the five thousand from my dad, no matter what, he is a rich man.

It was 09:30 in the evening when I returned to City S. The fireworks stand at the gate of the community had not been confiscated, so I bought a bunch of firecrackers. Before I left, I caught a glimpse of gold ingots and paper money on them, and I picked up a few more.

People really start making money as soon as they have money.

Now that I am a rich man, I should also do something that fits my status as a rich man.

"Boss, you can buy the same kind of fireworks, do you want a lighter?"

In the next hour, I squatted in the corner of the community square and lit all the fireworks and firecrackers with a plastic lighter, which successfully increased the PM2.5 concentration in China by a lot.

Fire trees and silver flowers, black spiders, monkeys, gypsophila... as long as they were played by others when they were young, they were all bought and squandered. Gradually, many children surrounded them with excited faces.

After setting off all the fireworks, I squatted on the ground and burned paper money.

First it was a sheet of two, then a handful of two, and finally a small fire scene like a bonfire.

"Baili, what are you doing?"

The sudden sound from behind made me tremble and almost threw the lighter into the fire.

The visitor caught it quickly, looked it over, and then returned it to me blankly: "What about being a civilized five-good citizen?"

"When did I take that oath of justice?"

The boy answered irrelevant questions, squatted down beside me, and stared at the pile of flames with me: "I saw you making burnable garbage in the square with clairvoyance, and then I came here."

"...Burnable garbage? Wait, didn't you say that superpowers are useless to me? By the way, your ability like a second child is a little cruel."

"I found out that both clairvoyance and voice transmission can be used for you, which is very surprising."

I also deliberately skipped the part about complaining.

I casually picked up a stack of paper gold ingots and threw them into the fire. When I heard the crackling sound, I turned my head and found that Mr. Qi Mu was wearing a white down jacket, and immediately pulled him back a little.

"You don't have to get so close to watch the excitement. Do you want it to change color? Maybe I can do a magic trick for you."

"……no need."

The flames reflected in the eyes, turning into long jumping spots of light.

"Have you eaten?"

"Ah."

"takeout?"

"On the table are leftover plates from lunch that haven't been collected in time. I had a good meal at night, and I also received rich material rewards."

"That's really enviable."

"...can you speak more like an exclamation sentence?"

I changed my posture, stomped my numb leg, and threw all the remaining gold ingots into the fire.

"Who is this for?"

"For myself, of course."

"why?"

"Well, I just thought it would be very interesting. I'm bored anyway. Alipay's Wufu only took three yuan. I'm not lucky tonight."

The fire gradually diminished, and finally turned into a pool of white ash whose original shape could not be seen clearly, and a choking smell of smoke permeated the air.

I handed the lighter to Qi Mu, and lazily yawned: "No, I'm so sleepy, it's almost twelve o'clock, I'm going back to sleep."

When I turned around and walked towards the door of the house, Qi Mu stood still and didn't know what he was thinking. Anyway, I was really tired, and I inhaled a lot of harmful gases at night, which affected my health even more.

In "Yi Tian Tu Long Ji", Zhou Zhiruo imitated the Jiuyin White Bone Claw, put Zhao Min on a small bamboo raft overnight, and tricked Zhang Wuji into blaming Zhao Min.

She is a bad woman.

That's what I thought back then.

The old man holding the green hot water bottle just put down his cup and glanced at the other people in the living room outside, then reached out and touched the top of my head, and sighed helplessly in a low voice——

[No one will chat with this old man except you, what a pity...]

What is the next sentence?

what.

[Such a sensible child]

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