Chai Nan's kitchen in the house.

Yang Dong heard Chai Huanan mention of Li Junru's family, pursed his lips and asked, "Sister-in-law's temper has always been so bad?"

"She has a brother who is doing engineering with my father-in-law, you know, in the real estate industry, people with too white backgrounds can't do it, so her brother also walked the rivers and lakes in the early years, because of land requisition, my eldest brother was shot dead at the door of the house, since then, your sister-in-law has been against me living this kind of life, and also disgusted people in society, you may not believe it, my brothers, including Gong Hui, Lei Gang, have never come to my house. ”

Yang Dong heard that Gong Hui, Lei Gang and the others had never been to Chai Huanan's house, so he grinned slightly: "I knew this earlier, I shouldn't have come today, sister-in-law's temper is really not good, I can see a rough idea from the fact that she cleaned up your son." ”

"Yes, the people in our family are all strong women, and I also have a daughter who is in college in the south, and she should come back in the future. Chai Huanan replied softly: "My girl is not a good stubble. ”

"Lao Chai, I asked you to wash the fruit, where did you wash it?" Before Chai Huanan could finish speaking, Li Junru's voice came again.

"Ah, it's almost there!" Chai Huanan responded, standing in place without moving: "Daughter-in-law, how many apples are washed?"

"A plate!"

"How many are there in a plate?"

"Four!"

"Hey!" Chai Huanan reached out and opened the refrigerator.

"Brother Chai, I'll come!" Yang Dong gestured to stretch out his hand.

"No need for you!" Chai Huanan waved his hand to interrupt Yang Dong, and grinned: "Daughter-in-law, before washing apples, do you need to soak them?"

"Bubble!" Li Junru's voice collapsed slightly.

"Which dish soap do you use?" Chai Huanan looked like a broken mouth.

"Blue. ”

"The blue one is gone, can you use the yellow one?"

"Okay!" Li Junru was a little anxious when asked.

"Do you cut apples?"

"Nonsense!"

"Hey, daughter-in-law, where is the apple?" Chai Huanan extinguished the cigarette butt and stretched out his hand to wave the smoke in front of him.

"Stomp, stomp!"

Chai Huanan's voice fell, and Li Junru stepped into the kitchen: "Hurry up, get out of the way!" I really convince you, you are yelling outside all day long, why can't you do anything when you get home, go, go out!"

"Daughter-in-law, that's hard for you. Chai Huanan looked at Li Junru and felt a little distressed: "It's all my fault for being too stupid." ”

"Oh, get out of here!"

"Okay, Xiaodong, let's go, go out for a cup of tea. Chai Huanan's voice fell, dragged Yang Dong out of the kitchen, and walked back to the living room, while lowering his voice and smiling at Yang Dong: "You remember, a man should never quarrel and argue with a woman, and he has to use strategy to deal with women." ”

"Well, I can see it. Yang Dong grinned: "Brother Chai, your head is full of wisdom." ”

"Isn't life like this, don't care what kind of identity you are outside, how big a hand you are, but when you come home, you are nothing more than a husband and a father. As Chai Huanan spoke, he reached out and fiddled with the tea set on the table, and made a gesture to catch his edge.

......

Two hours later, Yang Dong left Chai Huanan's house and took a taxi to Z Shuizi Airport, at about half past eleven in the evening, the wings of the plane rolled up the wind noise, and after a slightly shaky takeoff, it began to climb upward, and finally gradually disappeared into the sky, turned into a flashing light, and flew straight to Hai N.

On the other side, after Li Jingbo drank with Gu Beiming and Huang Zhanwu, he also sent the two to the train station, and when the two boarded the train, Li Jingbo walked out of the train station alone, the time had already passed twelve o'clock.

"Whoosh!"

In the early morning of the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, there were already sporadic firecrackers around, the train station was overcrowded, the passengers who got on the train were in a hurry, they were eager to return home, the passengers who got off the train greeted and hugged the relatives and friends who picked up the station, and the eyebrows were full of joy of going home and reunion.

Reunion, for Li Jingbo, is an emotion in this world that he can no longer touch.

On the street in the distance, in front of a 24-hour supermarket, two children were playing with guns, and the old lady on the side also told them to pay attention to safety from time to time.

Under the willow shed of the childish children, the thin dogs chase butterflies in the narrow alley.

There are many laughs and smiles in the world, but I have two sideburns to spare.

Although this world is prosperous and lively, everything has nothing to do with Li Jingbo.

Perhaps, this is loneliness.

......

A quarter past twelve.

Berlin Hauler Nightclub.

Because the time is approaching the end of the year, most of the girls in the store have also gone home for the New Year, so the girls left behind are particularly busy, this night, Zhao Jiatong has turned over three tables in a row, just got off the private room, and before he walked back to the lounge, the foreman came over: "Jiayao, Peony Hall chooses the table!"

"Sister Min, no, I really can't drink anymore!" Zhao Jiatong heard the foreman ask her to choose the stage, and suddenly staggered and waved his hand: "These eight calves in the house just now are too good to drink, you let me rest for a while!"

"Okay, then you can rest quickly, and I'll call you after the next one. The foreman saw Zhao Jiatong's drunken white cheeks, nodded, and waved his hand to the rest: "Girls, hurry up, line up in the Peony Hall!"

"Stomp!"

Zhao Jiatong stepped on high heels, walked back to the lounge, kicked off his shoes at will, and lay on the sofa in the lounge staggeringly, wearing black silk legs slightly folded, lightly pillowing jade arms, ready to rest for a while.

"Bang dang!"

At this time, the door of the lounge was pushed open, and Ke Xin immediately walked into the room, saw Zhao Jiatong lying on the sofa, and walked forward with a smile: "Jiayao, are you okay?"

"Don't make any noise, let me sleep for a while. Zhao Jiatong waved his hand slightly and muttered softly.

"Don't sleep, get up and refresh, I have something good to look for you. After Kexin finished saying a sentence with a smile, she directly pulled Zhao Jiatong's arm and dragged her up from the sofa.

"Oh, I'll go, sister, are you sick, do you know how much I drank just now. Zhao Jiatong glanced at Kexin speechlessly.

"I said don't sleep, come, refresh. Kexin directly handed over a cigarette case: "Sober up." ”

"Oops, it's annoying. After Zhao Jiatong was dragged up by Kexin, he reached out and took the cigarette case, and after opening it, he was stunned.

"How's it going, are you still sleepy?" Kexin asked with a smile.

"Oh my God. Zhao Jiatong looked at the small sealed bag stuffed inside the cigarette case, as well as the crystals inside, and suddenly his eyes widened: "Kexin, where did you get so many things?"

"Look, I'll just say it's a good thing for me to find you!" Ke Xin smiled slyly and flicked the cigarette case with her finger: "It's all for you." ”

"Give it to me?" Zhao Jiatong's eyes widened when he heard this: "Where did you get so many things?"

"Hehe, when I was working in other song halls, I met a little sister, she had a boyfriend, the man was shot a while ago because of selling D, and then my little sister asked me to accompany her to the rental house to move, when I went to the bathroom, I accidentally found these things under the cabinet, it should be hidden by her ex-boyfriend, but she didn't know!" Kexin looked at the door and lowered her voice: "There are two copies in total, let's divide them." ”

"But if we accept these things, we won't get into trouble, right?" Zhao Jiatong asked with a little uneasiness.

"Oh, don't worry, that ex-boyfriend was sentenced to death, who still knows about it. Ke Xin responded nonchalantly.

"Okay, thanks. After listening to Kexin's words, Zhao Jiatong also felt that she was reasonable, so he grinned and put the cigarette case into his bag.

"What are you polite to me, who are the two of us. Kexin jokingly stretched out her hand and touched Zhao Jiatong's leg: "Jiayao, are you going home for the Chinese New Year this year?"

"No, I don't go back. Zhao Jiatong shook his head: "I'll be angry when I go home, why do you go back." ”

"Then you're going to be with your little object?"

"Maybe, it's not decided yet. ”

“......”

......

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, seven o'clock in the morning.

"Buzz!"

The plane flying from Big L to Three Y began to descend slowly with the wind noise, and finally landed with a muffled sound of the plane's tires touching the ground.

After the passengers got off the plane in an orderly manner, Yang Dong dragged his suitcase and walked outside the airport, and the crowd around him who came to pick up the plane were wearing thin half-sleeves, at best, they would add an extra thin shirt, and Yang Dong, who was wearing a down jacket, looked so out of place in the crowd.

"Xiaodong, what's this!" Yang Peng, who came to pick up the airport, stood at the exit, and soon found Yang Dong in dazzling clothes, and shouted with a smile.

"Brother!"

After Yang Dong saw Yang Peng, he let go of the suitcase, stepped forward in a few steps, and gave Yang Peng a big hug.

"Hey!" After Yang Peng was hugged by his younger brother, his face was full of smiles, and he glanced at Yang Dong carefully, and there was some distress between his eyebrows: "It's dark, it's gone!"

"You've gained a lot of weight. Yang Dong grinned, he hadn't seen him for more than a year, Yang Peng had gained a whole circle, and his face was ruddy, and he was obviously much richer.

"Recently, I stopped working on the construction site, and Binzi asked me to take care of the field, drinking and socializing all day long, and my body was fattened by alcohol. Yang Peng took Yang Dong's suitcase and patted him on the back: "Let's go, I bought you clothes, go to the car to change them first, and then take you to breakfast, and after you have rested well and recuperated your spirits, I will take you around the city." ”

"Okay!" Yang Dong nodded slightly, he was beside Yang Peng, well-behaved like a kindergarten child: "Brother, now that your career is stable, you didn't give me a sister-in-law?"

"I was just recently promoted to the middle level, and it was when I was career-oriented, so I didn't care so much for the time being. Yang Peng walked side by side with Yang Dong and explained softly.

"This can't be done, after this year's Spring Festival, you will be thirty-two, and you should really think about starting a family. Yang Dong urged.

"Well, actually, I have a goal too. Yang Peng grinned innocently: "It's the girl from our company." ”

"What kind of person?" Yang Dong asked with interest.

"Hehe, don't ask. Yang Peng's old face turned red.

"The two of us are brothers, what are you embarrassed to say about this kind of thing, or I will be the east at night, you call someone out and let me see it." Yang Dong continued to pout.

"Forget it, we haven't gotten that far yet, call it out, she's embarrassed, and I'm embarrassed. ”

"You have to learn to be thick-skinned about this kind of thing. ”

"Besides, what about me, aren't you single now. ”

"I'm only twenty-five after the New Year, what am I anxious about. ”

“......！”

The two brothers of the Yang family were bickering while walking towards the parking space outside the airport, and against the backdrop of the colorful street scene, the taste of the Yang brothers this New Year seemed to be much stronger.

In the past few years, because of Yang Peng's excessive gambling, every New Year's festival is the most difficult day for the two brothers, especially when the New Year is approaching, those who collect debts have countless ways to make the family restless, so whenever the New Year is approaching, the Yang brothers will run out to avoid debts, when the conditions are good, they live in a black hotel for twenty or thirty yuan a day, and when the conditions are poor, they may find a demolition area or a bridge hole, and they can also settle for a day.

Now Yang Peng's prodigal son has turned back and taken the right path, Yang Dong also has his own business on hand, the Yang family brothers can be described as salted fish turned over, although they are not rich and expensive, but at least they can live a normal life, and they can reunite like this and spend the New Year in peace, but it is a dream that Yang Dong has been pursuing for many years.

......

Yang Dong's wish was fulfilled, but Li Jingbo was extremely painful, this was the second Spring Festival he had spent alone, the year before, because he was in prison, Li Jingbo could still paralyze himself, but now he has regained his freedom, but he is homeless.

Many previous Spring Festivals were spent by Li Jingbo and his grandmother, and the Chinese New Year's Eve rice of the grandparents and grandchildren remained unchanged, cucumber mixed with silver fungus, stewed vermicelli with backbone, fried meat with garlic, and fried shredded meat with yellow cauliflower.

These four dishes are what Li Jingbo likes to eat, and Grandma Li doesn't know how to be flexible, and she has been doing it for more than ten years, for the dilapidated and deserted home, Li Jingbo has never felt too deeply, until he lost it, he suddenly woke up, so many years he has always looked forward to growing up, but for him, growing up is not the slow beginning of a happy life, but the warmth of the past that gradually dissipates.

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month in previous years, Grandma Li would fry two side dishes in advance, let Li Jingbo change into red socks and underwear, to welcome the new year, and would also take out ten yuan to press Li Jingbo's pocket, often seeing the crumpled ten yuan, Li Jingbo was very inferior, because others could take the New Year's money to go to the Internet café and the game hall, and his ten yuan was not enough to even take a bus to the city, let alone play anything.

And on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month this year, no one went to stir-fry Li Jingbo anymore, no one gave him ten yuan to press his pocket, no one asked him to change into red clothes and socks, and no one looked at him with that kind of loving gaze anymore, and muttered with a smile: "My grandson, when will he grow up......

Li Jingbo didn't know if he had grown up now, and when he looked at it, on the table in front of him, there were no longer those meals that didn't look monotonous, but were carefully prepared for him by others, instead there was only a bucket of instant noodles and a curling stone standing on the table.

I dreamed back to the past, but I didn't know that I was a guest in my dream.

After a while, Li Jingbo wiped the corners of his eyes, threw a mouthful of instant noodles into the trash, and reached out to pick up the curling stone.

[PS: This chapter is 4,000 words.] 】