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Xie Xunyang didn't know how he got back. He could vaguely guess who wrote the letter in his hand. He wanted to open it several times, but his heart was full of rejection.

He stood at the entrance of Mo's alley for a long time, and when he calmed down a bit, he turned around and saw a small figure squatting at the gate of the courtyard not far away.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Mo Xian raised his head, his eyes lit up under the off-white hat with a palm-sized face: "You're back!"

Xie Xunyang wanted to smile at him, but his face moved, but he couldn't smile.He came over and asked softly, "Why are you squatting at the door?"

"Wait for you."

Mo Xian covered his cold hand, then frowned, and sniffed it to the tip of his nose: "It stinks!" But he didn't let go, and pulled him to the well.

Following his tone: "Wash your hands." But there was a smug smile on his face.

Xie Xunyang washed his hands obediently.

After being away for half a day, the yard has taken on a new look.The goods piled up in the shed were taken away, cleaned, the ground was swept, and the washed sheets were hung on the drying line.The floor of the house was also mopped, and two pairs of new cotton slippers were placed at the door. Mo Xian took Xie Xunyang to change into a pair before running into the house.

"I've changed all the bedding on the bed. Do you still have any dirty clothes? Take them out for me, and tidy up the tabletop! Don't look like a pig's nest." Mo Yao came out of Xu Xin's bedroom, holding her in her arms. The old bedding that was just replaced, instructed Mo Xian.

"Which pig have you seen clean up by itself? Isn't it all pig breeders..." Mo Xian stuck out his tongue, and rushed into his room before Mo Yao lost his temper.

As soon as Mo Xian entered the room, he took off his coat, threw himself into the newly changed soft quilt, and rolled over.Xie Xunyang stood for a while, and then began to tidy up the various homework books on the table.After cleaning up, I looked back to see that the man was still blatantly lazy.

"Keep watching what I do. Get up and do some work yourself."

"I'm really afraid that you left with that aunt today." Mo Xian turned over and lay down at the end of the bed, getting closer to Xie Xunyang, and suddenly said sullenly, "It's good that she didn't come to pick you up."

Xie Xunyang sat down beside him, was silent for a moment, and laughed at himself: "Don't be afraid, I have nowhere to go."

"Don't be sad."

"..." Xie Xunyang lowered his head and looked into his almond eyes: "Who said I was sad?"

Mo Xiandao: "In the past, every Chinese New Year, my mother and sister always had this expression."

"……why?"

"Eight years ago, my father ran a big truck and passed away in a car accident on the way back from Shangjing." Mo Xian leaned his head on Xie Xunyang's leg, playing with the quilt, "Mom and sister said that the New Year is a day for family reunion. Every household in the village who went out to work outside rushed back, but our family can no longer get together."

Xie Xunyang's breath was stagnant, he didn't expect Mo Xian to easily tell him the deepest pain in his family.

"But now they are much better, our New Year's Eve is as lively as other people's homes!" Mo Xian's tone was the same as usual, "Sister said, Dad is just a step ahead, to prepare for our home in the next life, one day He's going to be our dad again."

"Your mother is also the same. She has to be reincarnated first, grow up first, finish her studies first, build a house and decorate her home first, before she is ready to meet you! There are so many things..." Mo Xianbye Counting seriously with his fingers, "You have to give her more time."

After a long while, there was no reply, Mo Xian raised his head suspiciously, and it was falling into Xie Xunyang's red eyes. Tears rolled down his straight nose, but he smiled.

His head was rubbed heavily, and his voice was hoarse: "Fool."

Xie Xunyang took a deep breath, and said in a gentle voice, "Come here, read a letter with me."

"Whose letter?"

"It should be... the one who gave birth to me with my mother."

"?" Mo Xian was confused.

Xie Xunyang slowly opened the letter, and told Mo Xian the most difficult story he could tell.

Xie Xunyang always thought that his family was happy, his parents had their own careers, busy but harmonious.Until one day when I came home from school, my mother, who had always been strong, sat on the sofa and cried sadly. For the first time, she got angry at her father and accused him of having an unclear relationship with the secretary.

For this reason, my mother became seriously ill and was found to have advanced gastric cancer in the hospital.Xu knew that his time was running out, or wanted to seek spiritual sustenance, or revenge, and finally let Father Xie discover his secret.

The son who has been raised for ten years is not his own son.

Xie's father aged ten years overnight, Xie Xunyang was stunned.

Mother Xie seemed to realize what she had done at this moment.

She took Xie Xunyang's hand and apologized countless times, and cried to her husband that she was wrong and asked for forgiveness, but she didn't hear any answer from either of them until she closed her eyes.

Under Xie's father's control, the matter did not become a big deal, and the only outsider who knew what had happened was Meng Ya.She walked through college time with Xie Mu, and witnessed her love and forced breakup, and her lover went away to Italy; later, her best friend got married and had a child, but she didn't know that her best friend was broken with the former person...

The family was finally broken with Xie's mother's departure.

Xie Xunyang felt that it was a joke that he grew up so big.

He lost his mother and his father.

The world is so big, he asked Mengya to send him to his only blood relative, uncle.

These days, Mengya is busy with his mother's funeral, his affairs, and the Xie family's affairs, and he is grateful in his heart.

Today...brought such a letter again.

Xie Xunyang read it quickly. Mo Xian never thought that Xie Xunyang's family was like this. Seeing that his expression was normal, he asked worriedly: "What... was written in the letter?"

"He didn't have a family, so he asked me if I would like to live with him in Italy." Xie Xunyang briefly concluded.

"Then, do you want to write back to him? Are you going to Italy?"

"I won't go back, I won't go." Xie Xunyang smiled confidently, "I'm not an orphan yet, I still have an uncle."

Xie Xunyang's words made Mo Xian's heart sink in his stomach. He nodded heavily: "Yes! Not only uncle, but also a younger brother!"

***

New Year's Eve, the last day of the year.

Mo Xian put on the red sweater knitted by Xu Xin himself, with hemp pattern and white thread around the neckline, bright and warm.

Xie Xunyang also has one, which is the same style in white, with a black thread on the neckline.

"It's so pretty, and the size fits well." Xu Xin knitted a sweater for Xie Xunyang for the first time, worried that it wouldn't fit.Now seeing the boy dressed upright, like a green pine in the snow, handsome and elegant, I felt relieved.

Mo Yao also dressed up her mother well today.Xu Xin wore a red overcoat, and her hair was pulled back into a bun. She already had a gentle and beautiful appearance, and although she didn't take care of it much, she made people's eyes shine when she picked it up a little.

In the morning, Mo Yao first took the two children to paste the couplets and window grilles.After a simple lunch, the adults began to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner in the evening.

"Yangyang, is your uncle...alone tonight?" Xu Xin asked.

Xie Xunyang: "No. Yesterday he asked me if I had a place to go, and I said yes. He said that he just happened to go to the city to find friends to drink all night, and told me not to go back at night."

Xu Xin sighed lightly.

For tonight's New Year's Eve dinner, Xu Xin started buying and preparing vegetables a few days ago, and wanted to show off her special skills.Because of the early preparations, the operation is now methodical.

When everything that needed to be washed and cut was prepared on the plate, Xu Xin freed his hands, made dough again, then took out a mold in the shape of a small fish, and called Mo Xian and Xie Xunyang to make noodle fish together.

Xie Xunyang participated in the New Year's Eve dinner for the first time, sitting on a stone bench in the yard, watching Xu Xin's movements seriously.

First, knead the noodles into strips the thickness of a child's wrist, and squeeze them into suitable size noodles.Sprinkle flour in the mold to prevent sticking, then press the dough into the mold, and then fill every gap.When the excess noodles are pinched off, it will be a noodle fish with fish scales.

Seeing that the two children were proficient in cooking, Xu Xin asked them to continue to cook, and went in to prepare the steamer by himself, and steamed the cooked noodle fish first.When the first pot was opened, Xie Xunyang stood by the side with Mo Xian, watching the chubby, white and flawless enlarged fish appear on the plate after the heat dissipated, his eyes lit up slightly.

"Wow! It worked!!" Mo Xian clapped his hands excitedly, reaching out to take it, but was slapped by Mo Yao.

"Fool, be careful!"

She took the dowel, carefully took out the plate and put it on the dining table.Before the noodle fish is put into the pot, two red beans are placed in the eyes, which is more lifelike at this time.

Xie Xunyang poked Fat Mianyu's head with his hand. Mo Xian stood very close, and Xie Xunyang poked his tender face again.

"Cute, isn't it?" Mo Xian's almond eyes curved.

"Well, it's pretty cute."

The sound of firecrackers bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year.

On the TV, the Spring Festival Gala played the finale skit, and the sound of dumplings gurgling in boiling water came from the kitchen.

"Today, there is only one lucky coin wrapped in a dumpling, whoever gets it will have good luck next year." Mo Yao introduced mysteriously.

While biting the dumplings, Mo Xian watched Xiao Pin and kept having fun.In the past, Xie Xunyang usually attended the gatherings of the whole big family. He followed his parents behind him to toast the elders, or sat on the sidelines and listened to the greetings. The TV was reduced to the background sound, and it was difficult to watch a whole program.

On the TV, the little actor in the red coat was learning how to crow, everyone was laughing, Xie Xunyang was also watching attentively, when suddenly——

Between the teeth!

Lowering his head, he spat out a coin.

Mo Xian's attention was attracted, and he shouted: "Wow, you got it! You are the lucky one!"

"Congratulations, Yangyang!"

Xu Xin and Mo Yao also smiled and applauded for him.

Xie Xunyang stared blankly at the coin lying in his hand, raised his head, turned his eyes from the faces of the three of them, and smiled.

There was continuous sound of firecrackers outside the window.

The host on TV is counting down the clock.

"Ten, nine, eight, seven... three, two, one! New-year-happy-happy!"

"Happy New Year, Mom! Happy New Year, Sister!" Mo Xian jumped up and hugged the two of them.

Xie Xunyang also got up: "Happy New Year."

"Thank you Xian'er, thank you Yangyang." Xu Xin hugged the two children with a smile, and handed each of them a big red envelope, "I wish you all a healthy and happy growth."

Mo Xian was elated, and Xie Xunyang held the red envelope, the corners of his lips slightly raised.

"Good boy." Xu Xin patted his head tenderly, "If I get the coins, next year will definitely be better than this year."

"elder brother!"

Xie Xunyang raised his head, but before he could react, he saw Mo Xian rushing over like a little bear, hugged him tightly, and whispered in his ear, "Happy New Year!"

Xie Xunyang froze for a moment, reached out and hugged him back, his chin rested on the top of his furry hair, softening to the bottom of his heart.

The four of them came to the yard to watch Mo Xian set off two big frog fireworks that had been hidden for a long time.

"You all stand far away. The little frog will jump around when it is lit. This frog is so big! Be careful to jump up and blow you up!" Mo Xian drove everyone to the eaves.

"Xian'er, be careful!" Xu Xin said worriedly.

Mo Xian lit two frogs and ran over quickly. Xie Xunyang reached out to catch him.Mo Xian stood still and turned around excitedly.

——I saw two big frogs squatting motionless in the yard, with flowers sprouting on their backs, and humming nursery rhymes.

"..."

"Look at the flowers, they are colorful and pretty!" Mo Yao comforted with a smile.

"........."

I don’t know which house in the sky set off fireworks, they exploded into the sky, and the night sky was lit up for an instant.Then, more fireworks bloomed in the sky one after another.

Mo Xian raised his head, eyes full of envy.After the fireworks dissipated, I looked at my open space again. The singing had turned into a lingering frog, still standing firm, trying to slap the sparks upward.

"Look, theirs are all gone, only yours is still there." Amidst the cold night, the noise, and the smell of firecrackers, Xie Xunyang's clear voice rang in his ears, with a gentle smile, "How amazing. "