Chinese New Year's Eve 2006.

As in the past, neighbors who have not returned to their hometown for the New Year will gather in the wonton restaurant to play mahjong. As long as they can hold on, they often fight until two or three o'clock in the morning before they go home to sleep.

Qiao Lin didn't know how to play mahjong, and Sun Ruiyang and Wei Chenglin were not interested, so the three of them slumped in the chair and watched TV. Wei Chenglin was prepared, and when he came out of the house, he brought a game console, and the two boys nested in the corner to play games. Anyway, no one cares about them during the Chinese New Year today.

The sound of firecrackers came one after another outside, and there was laughter and laughter in the wonton restaurant. Qiao Lin was eating snacks alone and watching TV alone, and she remembered Mr. Zhu Ziqing's sentence "The excitement is theirs, and I have nothing". On this peaceful Chinese New Year's Eve, Jolene had her own sorrows.

Although the TV was on, she couldn't watch it, but listened to the CD that Zhao Linlin lent her. The CD is playing Zhang Hanyun's "The Most Missed Season", and every lyric is sung to Qiao Lin's heart.

"These days,

When I'm not with you,

Have you grown taller, or have you lost a little weight?"

......

Jolene wanted to tell her distant brothers and sisters that she had grown taller again. But what about them? Are they getting taller or thinner?

......

"The wind is blowing,

The heart is flying,

Who's shedding tears?

Who are you thinking about the most missed season?"

......

Jolene thought to herself, I was crying, I was thinking about my brother and sister!

......

"The first snow falling from the window,

It's the comfort I give you. ”

It happened to be snowing outside the window, and Jolene was even more upset.

"Qiao Lin, are you uncomfortable?" Sun Ruiyang noticed that her face was not right, and asked with concern.

"No, I tossed for a day today, and I ran around from Hong Kong City to my hometown, and I was a little tired. ”

"If you're tired, go back to sleep, and if you're afraid of the dark, I'll send you back." Sun Ruiyang said thoughtfully.

"No, I watch TV. ”

Jolene laughs out loud when she is happy, and sheds tears when she is unhappy, which is rarely the kind of sullen but unpredictable. Sun Ruiyang couldn't think of a reason, so he didn't bother her, retreated to the corner to play games with Wei Chenglin, and glanced at Qiao Lin when he was free.

In 2006, there was a well-known song called "Auspicious Three Treasures". When the crisp children's voice came out of the TV screen, Wei Chenglin's mother, Aunt Zhao, said: "If the lyrics of this song are changed, it is also suitable for us to sing on the auspicious road." ”

"Yes, aren't the three children of the Qiao family the auspicious Three Treasures?" Chen Yun echoed with a smile.

Li Lanzhi said with a smile: "No, the three treasures of Jixiang Road are obviously Jixiang Road Primary School, No. 2 Middle School and High School! How many people squeeze their heads to buy houses here, isn't it just to get close to these three treasures!"

There was another burst of laughter in the wonton restaurant, and Jolene glared at her mother resentfully—why are you so practical?

Maybe in the eyes of my mother, only my sister and brother can be called the treasures of the auspicious road, but I am not.

The clock was ticking away, and Jolene was so sleepy that she took several naps. Suddenly, there was a lot of noise, the adults put down the mahjong in their hands, she opened her eyes in a daze, and heard her father say: "It's time for Lao Zhao's sketch, I'll play after watching it!"

The old man, dressed as a peasant and speaking the Northeast dialect, has a magical power that can always make people laugh in the most simple language. Sure enough, as soon as Uncle Black Soil and Aunt Baiyun appeared, everyone burst into laughter.

The burden of the sketch was shaken off one by one, and when everyone was brainwashed by that "quite", the atmosphere of the sketch also reached the highest point. Everyone laughed one after another, and Jolene's loneliness was firmly overcome.

When the sketch ended, Sun Ruiyang exclaimed: "Why is Qiao Lin crying?"

The little girl lay on the back of her chair and cried so much that her eyes were red.

Chen Yun was the first to get nervous: "Linlin, if you feel uncomfortable, just say it!"

Jolene's eyes glistened with tears, but she didn't say anything, and she was so anxious that people turned around. Li Lanzhi said impatiently: "This kid is like this, he likes to make trouble when he is happy, and makes others feel bad, but this is more eye-catching!"

"It's not!" Qiao Lin turned her head and said to her mother: "You guys just play mahjong, why don't you care about me!"

Sun Ruiyang leaned over and said, "Qiao Lin is right, you adults can play mahjong, I'll ask her what's going on!"

The adults praised a few words of "really sensible" and continued to sit down and play mahjong.

Sun Ruiyang asked gently: "What's wrong with you? Now there are no outsiders, can you tell me?"

"I miss my brother and sister. ”

Qiao Lin's words were like a needle piercing Sun Ruiyang's heart, and he suddenly felt distressed.

The snow in the port city is coming, and in an instant it has begun to fall with goose feathers, and snowflakes are flying under the street lamps. Qiao Lin was stunned and said: "I'm wondering, will my sister be cold? Will my brother be in pain? In the past, we all fought together during the Chinese New Year, and on the first day of the New Year, we rushed to pay New Year's greetings to my parents, and whoever greeted the New Year first would get the New Year's money first." But now I'm alone...... It's boring to grow up!"

"If you want to be brother or sister, just say it, you see that Teacher Li was angry just now. ”

Jolene said angrily: "Don't say it, as soon as you say it, they will laugh at me!"

"Don't you laugh at you if you don't say it? You're seventeen years old, and you love to cry like a child!"

Li Lanzhi teased mercilessly, causing another burst of laughter. Jolene was ashamed and fell back on the back of her chair, tears falling to the ground.

In a trance, the sliding door was suddenly opened, and a tall figure blocked the door.

Just like a few years ago, when fans gathered at the wonton hall to watch a football game, the TV signal was kicked off by Carlos, and everyone complained, a teenager came like a savior.

A long time has passed in a flash, but the boy is still the same boy.

"Qiao, Brother Qiao Nan?" Wei Chenglin suspected that he was hallucinating, and rubbed his eyes vigorously to confirm that it was indeed Qiao Nan who had returned.

Everyone looked at Qiao Nan, and everyone was stunned.

Qiao Nan was wearing a black down jacket and carrying a big schoolbag. The hair was still so short, and the eyes were as bright as the stars. Unlike before, he limped into the store with a cane and was not very easy to move. As he walked, he shook off the snowflakes all over his body.

Li Lanzhi stepped forward, stroked the faint scar on the corner of her son's mouth, couldn't hold back any longer, hugged him and cried.

"Mom, I'm not good, why are you crying!" Qiao Nan said very softly, and gently patted his mother's back.

"What's the matter with the corners of your mouth? Why are your hands hurting? Why are you still on crutches?" Li Lanzhi became more distressed the more she looked at it, and asked like a cannon.

Chen Yun leaned over and said, "Don't get excited, let Qiao Nan put down the luggage first! After a long way to come, you must be tired—Qiao Nan, what do you want to eat? There are still a lot of delicious foods in the kitchen, Auntie will help you heat it up first, okay?"

"Aunt Chen, just give me a hot plate of dumplings, thank you!" Qiao Nan finally sat down and put his backpack on the ground.

Qiao Jianjun was pleasantly surprised, but he didn't lose his mind: "Didn't you say that you were going to be hospitalized? Why did you just run back like this? Did you tell the school that you were okay? Don't be punished again at that time!"

Qiao Nan said: "Don't worry, the school has taken care of it, otherwise I will become a deserter! But I won't live for a few days, and I will have to leave in the sixth year of junior high school." ”

Li Lanzhi is already very satisfied: "No matter how many times you leave, it's good to come back for the New Year, and it's the same to rest at home." ”

"Hmm. At this time, Qiao Nan is as well-behaved as he wants.

Jolene's tears were still hanging on her face, but when she saw her brother, she cowered to the side, twisting and refusing to step forward. Qiao Nan keenly saw the tears on her face, like calling a puppy: "Your brother is home, you can't come over?"

"That's it, when my brother didn't come back, I thought my brother wanted to cry, and now that my brother is back, why don't you speak?" Chen Yun joked with a smile.

Jolene tried to find a crack in the ground to get into, but she was filled with great joy, and she picked at her fingers and didn't know what to do. The dumplings were hot, and it was past twelve o'clock, Chen Yun and the others praised Qiao Nan, and then prepared to go home. Qiao Nan said that he would go to them tomorrow morning to greet the New Year. They all smiled and said that they should come to pay New Year's greetings to the big hero.

When everyone was gone, Jolene sat down across from her brother. She looked at her brother curiously, this "big hero" in the mouth of everyone, is it really her brother?

Li Lanzhi heated up a few more dishes and asked, "How did you come back?"

"I had a lot of luxury, I bought a plane ticket and came back, I want to surprise you. Fortunately, it snowed after landing, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to come back tonight. Thinking that months of allowances had been spent, Qiao Nan's heart was dripping blood.

"Oh, where is the price? Go home for the New Year, this is something that can't be bought back with no amount of money!"

Jolene was very upset - her mother was too double standard! She spent an extra pocket money, and her mother would nag her for days; her brother spent thousands of dollars on plane tickets, and she even said "how expensive can it be"?

Unexpectedly, Qiao Jianjun also said: "Come back well, your senior year of school will not have a holiday, right? After graduation, it will be even more difficult to go home when you go to the army." So, this time when I go home, it's hard to buy a thousand dollars!"

Not to mention Qiao Lin, even Qiao Nan was stunned - he was obviously ready to be scolded by his parents, but he didn't expect that they didn't object? For a while, he was really a little flattered.

Of course, Xue Dongmei's air ticket money was also paid by him, so he couldn't tell his parents about it.

"Dad, have you gone back to your hometown to go to the grave?"

"I'm going back today, with your sister. Your sister is not easy, she helped me carry such heavy things, and walked a lot of mountain roads, and she was tired from this day. Qiao Jianjun said.

"Yo, I didn't see it, I'm sensible!" Qiao Nan reached out and touched her sister's hair, and then shouted in surprise: "You, when did you cut your hair?"

Qiao Lin looked depressed: "You haven't found out for so long when you came in, I thought I was air!"

Li Lanzhi reprimanded: "Don't talk about your brother, your brother has been on the road for so long, and he still has injuries on his body, so it's good to be able to make it home." ”

Qiao Jianjun pondered for a while and asked, "You were not lightly injured this time, it stands to reason that the doctor will not let you come out! Did you play some tricks again?"

The dumplings stuffed with mackerel were so delicious that they were invincible, and Qiao Nan was feasting on them, and when his father asked him this, he paused. Qiao Jianjun suspected that there was a ghost in it, and his originally pleasant face became serious again.

Qiao Nan calmed down for a moment and said with a wry smile: "What other reason can there be, move with affection, know with reason, the doctor will let me out! I almost didn't kneel down for him in the office, can he not let me go?"

Qiao Jianjun always felt that something was wrong, but Qiao Nan didn't let go. He had already thought about it, even if his father tortured him to extract a confession, he couldn't confess his accomplice Xue Dongmei!