nosy on you

childish ghost gu three years old

Not long ago, the whole city experienced a crazy baptism of thousands of firecrackers, everywhere was gray, the road was piled up with a layer of red scraps of paper, and there was still a faint smell of gunpowder smoke in the air.

Most of the people living in this old community are local residents, and many windows are lit. It is much more lively than those commercial-residential apartment buildings dominated by tenants, but there are still few pedestrians on the street.

There is a hint of loneliness behind the bright lights.

Strictly carrying the disappointment of not being able to reunite with his family, although Gu Xi had a special and lively New Year's Eve dinner, it could be seen from his expression that he was not in a good mood at the moment.

Perhaps there is no direct relationship between being warm and down-to-earth and the number of people.

"Go and light the fuse..." Gu Xi put the cardboard box on the sidewalk, lit a cigarette and handed it to him, "That cannon-like thing can shoot out a parachute, I liked it the most when I was a child."

"I know..." Strictly followed his instructions, and dug out a firework tube that was about as thick as a calf from the box, "I think the neighbor's children are let go, but they may not be able to see clearly at night."

"Do you want to save it for the day?" Gu Xi asked.

"Who sets off fireworks during the day, there is no atmosphere." Yan Jing found an open space, made sure that there were no wires or branches above, bent down and squatted down, covered his ears with his left hand, and lit the fuse with his right hand.

boom!Boom!

With a flash of sparks, he immediately ran away, and there were several sounds behind him, and orange light spots rushed into the air, crackling and exploding flowers above his head.

Five or six parachutes the size of a sea bowl dangled in the air, and the night wind blew, two of them landed on the canopy on the fourth floor, and the rest were all caught by wires.

Yan Yan chased after a few steps with a smile, then looked up at the small paper umbrella that couldn't land with a dejected expression: "I still want to pick it up and put it away. I should put it in the square over there."

"What are you picking these up for?" Gu Xi looked at him inexplicably.

"Just for fun..." Yan Yan answered very simply, "In the past, the family didn't buy fireworks for me, so I just watched other people set them off. When they finished setting off, I went to pick up the unburnt ones and took them to the nearby roofs to go down. Throw it, just run upstairs and downstairs to play."

"Don't pick it up..." Gu Xi rubbed her nose, "If you want, I'll buy it for you every day."

"This thing is only available for sale during the Chinese New Year..." Yan Yan shook his head, "I'm already my age, it's quite childish to play with this."

I remember that when he was in high school, he still had a lot of these simple parachutes in his drawer. Whenever he encountered troubles, he would write a note and hang it on the soil block under the rope, and climb to the top floor of his aunt’s house to put one. .

Watching the paper umbrella slowly drifting away into the distance, I feel that my troubles are also blown away by the wind.

"You still pick it up when you're childish..." Gu Xi laughed, "Do you like fireworks very much?"

"Hmm..." Yan Yan said, "When I was young, I was very bored. I would go to the street to find those firecrackers and stuff them into mineral water bottles, then sprinkle the gunpowder on the ground and ignite them, and watch the bottles blow up."

"It's normal, I often do this too, but I use a scraper, the kind that explodes after a while..." Gu Xi echoed, "Don't you have lucky money? You can buy it yourself if you want to play."

"No, Mom and Dad said that you can no longer get New Year's money when you go to elementary school..." Yan Jing shrugged, "But my younger brother has it."

Gu Xi frowned, did not speak, took out her phone and tapped twice.

There is a boxy salute in the cardboard box. It seems that a row will be placed at the door of the new store when it opens. This thing is big and heavy, and it will make a huge bang when it hits the sky.

The halo that dragged its tail rose higher and higher, and two seconds later, a gorgeous spark bloomed in the dark night, and in the blink of an eye, it was like a large number of smashed stars, flashing and disappearing without a trace.

Yan Jing looked a little dazed, stunned for a while, and quickly raised his mobile phone to take a few blurry photos, then raised his head, the dazzling sparks had disappeared, only a few clouds of green smoke floating in the air.

"I don't even bother to complain about your photography skills..." Gu Xi leaned over and glanced at the screen, "It's all blurred. I can take better pictures with a landline than you. Delete it."

Strictly sighed: "I'm too lazy to complain and you still talk so much."

Two little boys ran out of the corridor. They were about the same height and looked very childish. They probably heard the sound of the gun salute just now. They stood aside and looked at the sparkling firework stick in Yan Jing's hand, smiling very happily.

One of them came over timidly and asked, "Brother, can you give us some?"

"Kiss this brother once, and I'll give you this box of fireworks." Gu Xi pointed at her rigorously.

"Why, I'm not a girl." The little boy blushed, turned his head and stared at the cardboard box on the ground, and was reluctant to walk away, rubbing his fingers and hesitating for a long time.

"What's wrong with you..." Yan Jing's eyes widened, and he slapped Gu Xi's arm, "Don't talk nonsense in front of the children."

Gu Xi laughed loudly while rubbing his arms: "Little brother, kiss him quickly."

"Nervous..." Yan Jing clicked his tongue, bent down and dragged the cardboard box to the side of the little boy, "Ignore him, you can play with these, but pay attention to safety, those big ones will ask their family members to help you light the wires. "

The little boy smiled and took the lighter from him, stretched his neck and pecked him lightly on the face: "Thank you brother."

Yan Jing was stunned for a moment, and then heard Gu Xi's wild laughter resounding through the sky.

low taste...

The little boy waved a firework stick and chased each other around the flower bed on the roadside. The bright firelight reflected two innocent smiling faces, and his rigorous feeling also lifted his mood.

"Walk with me." Gu Xi grabbed his shoulder and turned into the fork road on the right.

At the end of the fork is a small park. There are a row of fitness facilities on both sides of the entrance. There is a three-meter-high eagle statue in the middle. No one will come here to hang out during the Chinese New Year. It looks empty inside.

"This area is the fund-raising house of the soda factory..." Gu Xi pointed to the third floor of the house facing the back door of the park, "I lived there before."

"Is that your home?" Yan Jing asked in a low voice.

Gu Xi said that after his mother passed away, he has been living with his grandparents, and his father took him back to his home in the second year of junior high school. He didn't expect that the home he was talking about was so close.

The lights are on in the house, are the mother and son Li Wei living there now?

"It can be said that..." Gu Xi's voice was very low, "I was less than one year old at that time. In order to raise enough capital for my father's business, my mother sold the house. I also heard my grandma mention this matter. I just found out."

"Where do you live when the house is gone?" Yan Jing asked again.

"Renting a house..." Gu Xi replied very calmly, "Later, my father made some money and bought a new house in the north of the city, but I don't remember much about what happened before I was six years old."

Yan Jing fell into silence, he didn't know what to say at this moment, Gu Xi suddenly talked to him about the past, probably related to the dispute that happened tonight, but he didn't dare to continue asking.

"Second aunt and little aunt think that grandpa and grandma are too partial, and they must also think that my mother is stupid..." Gu Xi's eyes were a little red, and his voice also took on a nasal tone, "Actually, our family is most indebted to grandpa and grandma, dad He never took care of them when he was rich, Gu Changsheng is just an ungrateful beast."

Yan Jing hugged him, raised his arms and patted him gently on the back: "It's all over. From now on, you should be filial to grandma and be filial to your parents. I can see that grandma loves you very much. She won't blame you." your."

"Yeah." Gu Xi put his chin on his shoulder and nodded.

"It's okay, don't cry, it's okay..." Yan Jing repeated in a low voice.

He didn't know how to comfort people. These words were combined with texts, novels, and TV series lines, and he sacrificed thousands of brain cells to come up with great difficulty. After he finished speaking, he felt that he had no words.

"I didn't cry..." After standing face to face for about 2 minutes, Gu Xi's mood calmed down a lot, he turned his head and kissed his face like a chicken pecking rice, then quickly turned around, "Go back... ..."

"Little brother, it's useless for you to kiss me..." Yan Jin sighed, "Brother doesn't have any fireworks sticks for you."

"You're fucking looking for smoke, right..." Gu Xi pointed at him, "I've never seen you hold grudges so much."

When I got back to the room, my grandma was laughing and staring at the cross talk show on TV. There were two unpacked Want Want gift bags on the tea table. She picked out the snow cakes and piled them together, gnawing on them. with.

"Grandma, this food has a lot of sugar..." Gu Xi walked to her side and sat down, "Eat less."

"It doesn't matter if you eat it once in a while..." Grandma stuffed the remaining half into her mouth, "The fireworks are all set off? If I knew it, I would have bought two more boxes. If I didn't buy it for you when I was a child, you still cried and stayed in the store." Risapo is rolling."

Rigorously turned his face sideways quickly, and laughed uncontrollably.

"Laughing fart..." Gu Xi clicked his tongue, "Grandma, what are you talking about?"

"Now I know I'm shy..." Grandma also laughed, "Are you hungry, I'll make sweet wine and boiled eggs for you."

"I haven't finished digesting dinner yet..." Gu Xi said, "If you want to eat, let's cook it yourself, so you can rest for a while."

"Don't go into the kitchen, I'm afraid you'll burn the house down..." Grandma took out two red envelopes from her pocket and shook them in her hands, "Xiao Jin, this is your lucky money."

Yan Jing was stunned for two seconds, then quickly stood up, put his feet together, bent over and bowed.

"There are no rules..." Gu Xi cleared his throat, "You have to kowtow to receive grandma's red envelope."

Children in the county town really have to kowtow to the elderly to pay New Year's greetings. I didn't expect that the provincial capital also has such a custom. I didn't think too much about it. I bent my knees and knelt on the ground.

"No, no, don't listen to his nonsense..." Grandma quickly supported him, and slapped Gu Xi's back with her backhand, "You accepted my red envelope since you were a child, why didn't you kowtow to thank me?"

"Thank you grandma..." Yan Jin immediately said a few auspicious words, "I wish grandma all the best, longevity and good health."

"Grandma, New Year..." Gu Xi swaggered to the side, his playful smile made people angry, Yan Jing gently pinched his waist hard, and his voice instantly floated, "Okay—"

"Why are you crying and howling!" Grandma twisted his arm again.

Leaning rigorously on the sofa, he leaned forward and backward with a smile.

It was the first time he received such a heavy New Year's money. Although his aunt's income was not high, she would give him a symbolic red note every New Year's Eve. He put all the money in a piggy bank and never touched it.

After the Spring Festival Gala was over, my grandma clicked on the video app and watched a few more episodes of Huanzhugege. After staying up until three o'clock in the morning, my grandma turned off the TV and yawned: "You two have nothing to do these days, why don't you just stay in the house?" Here I am."

Yan Jing opened his mouth, hesitated for a while, and then held back the words in his stomach.

"There will be guests at home tomorrow..." Gu Xi spoke for him, "We have to go back at dawn."