Chapter 9: New Year's Eve
The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and the people in the office can't sit still, and when they eat together, they talk about purchasing New Year's goods or whether they should go to the south or the woman's parents' house for the New Year. At this time of year, it seems to them to be a happy tragedy, and their disputes about who to go to for the New Year and what gifts to give are even a little envious to me, an outsider.
At the very least, whether it is a man or a woman, there are always four old people who eagerly look forward to enjoying family fun with them, and no matter what they buy, they will cherish it in the eyes of the old people. Unlike me, after my father's death, the biggest difference between the Chinese New Year and the past for us is that my mother's personality will be more popular in the sound of fiery firecrackers on this day. And I'm more scared than everyday.
Some things are distressing to the parties involved, but to us outsiders, they are untouchable warmth. The word 'Chinese New Year', for me, is not as pleasant as it is on weekdays. The lights outside the house were bright, the sound of firecrackers, and the people in the house were holding instant noodles and watching the Spring Festival Gala crying silently.
According to the custom, on the first day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, after lunch, everyone posted a couplet in the office, cleaned up and then went on vacation. A food supplier of the company will send a car of New Year's gifts at this time every year, in fact, it is just some additive-free flour, rice, vegetables and the like, these gifts are not noble, but compared to those who send cards and coupons, it is a little more pyrotechnic. Since I don't cook by myself, I still follow the old habit of distributing them to my colleagues one by one.
After helping the eldest sisters in the office move these to the garage, they went to the mall with their bare hands to buy a few new clothes for their mother before closing. After getting out of the bus with a shopping bag, I found that there were several missed calls on my mobile phone. After unlocking the phone, a text message from Quan Yu poured in, "New Year's Day in the city?"
I freed my hand and went back and forth: "Hmm." ”
As soon as I sent it, I immediately received a reply on my mobile phone, it was still Quan Yu's, and the content made me cry and laugh: "What a coincidence, so am I." ”
On the morning of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, I got up early in the morning and went to the nursing home with the New Year's goods prepared in advance. Every year on this day, I would go early to help the nursing staff clean up and cook, and secretly felt that as long as my mother was here, I could sit in my own home. Being able to participate in these activities is like going home for the New Year. At first, the nurses shirked it, but then I got used to it.
When I was cleaning my mother's room, I was still a little selfish in my heart, and if I didn't do anything, it would be really embarrassing to sit face to face with my mother, and even if we didn't say anything, I could stay in it for a longer time.
When I got home after lunch, I was almost paralyzed from exhaustion, and I buried my head in the pillow and just wanted to sleep well, but I was awakened by the sound of slamming the door outside.
When I got up and opened the door in hatred, I was startled by a pile of things. Quan Yu's hairy head came out of the big and small things stacked together in his arms and shouted: "Hurry up and take the handle, but I'm going to be tired to death." ”
Puzzled, I took a few bags and put them down, and asked, "Why are you bringing so many things here?"
Quan Yu ignored the discomfort between my words, and said excitedly: "I haven't celebrated the New Year in China for many years, and I heard from my colleagues that there are a lot of things to prepare. ”
I was speechless and said, "Aren't your family ready for the Chinese New Year?
Quan Yu immediately changed his aggrieved face: "My mother is gone, and my father has not been in touch for more than ten years." I usually have a relationship with my grandfather, but he is not in China now, and I only have myself. ”
Oops, how good is this, all of a sudden poked at his sore spot. Unexpectedly, behind his optimism and cheerfulness, his life experience was also very pitiful. I was stunned by my abruptness for a while, and I didn't know what to say. I could only silently take things from him one by one.
The visitor quickly freed himself from the sad atmosphere and said, "I'll go down and get something up." "Ran down in a hurry.
I look at the pile of New Year's goods he left behind, there are auspicious dolls, couplets, window flowers, beer, cola, etc., the most exaggerated thing is that there is a big cooking pot... He really moved a lot of belongings. Before I could straighten it out, he came up with a bunch of things again, and I almost vomited blood when I looked at it, isn't this exactly the flour, rice and vegetables we distributed...
Quan Yu said happily: "Let's celebrate the New Year together! Although there are only two people, don't be too lonely, let's make dumplings together, paste couplets, and celebrate the New Year together!"
I looked at the beads of sweat on his forehead, and a warm feeling welled up in my heart. It's been many years since there was a concept of 'keeping the New Year', so let's keep the New Year together.
By the time I had packed everything out, my kitchen and hallway were full. The sleepiness and fatigue just now were also swept away, and I cheered up and said to Quan Yu, "Then let's start pasting couplets." ”
Quan Yu nodded happily with smiling crescent-shaped eyes. However, I really underestimated Kwon Yu's noisy energy, which was originally a simple couplet, and he was able to turn it into a game of smearing each other's red faces.
I waited for him to stick the couplet, and he rubbed it along a few times, then applied it all to my face, and then sat on the ground and laughed. After I reacted, I reached out and rubbed it back and forth on the couplet a few times, and when my hands were stained red, I rushed up to apply it to his face. He stretched out his two hands to stop me, and I took advantage of my height to squat, and pressed my body down, and watched my fingers get closer and closer to his face, and when I was about to succeed, I suddenly slipped and fell down on the soles of my feet.
I thought that this nose was down and I was afraid that I was going to fall red, but I didn't want to fall into a solid embrace. The moment I landed, Quan Yu took the first step to lie down on his back, and then stretched out his two hands to take me in his arms and make my meat pad. The two hearts are pressed together, and you can feel each other's hearts beating violently.
I blushed and struggled to get up, and Kwon Yu let me go and sat up. The ambiguous smell in the air burned my already reddened face even more. Quan Yu scratched his head, picked up the couplet and tape and continued to work, I silently went over to hold the two corners of the couplet, and the two of them tacitly finished pasting all the couplets.
I basically didn't help much when making dumplings next, from washing vegetables and cutting meat to chopping dumpling fillings and noodles, Quan Yu completed everything in style. When I was a child, I loved rolling dumpling skins, and every time my mother made dumplings, I went to grab the rolling pin and dough, and I was beaten for this, but when I grew up, my mother asked me to learn to make dumplings, but I didn't want to. I am only willing to do the rolling dumpling skin, and I don't like the wet feeling of the dumpling filling accidentally sticking to my fingers when making dumplings, so I have never learned it.
However, looking at Quan Yu's posture of this bag of dumplings, he is very skilled, I really don't know how he lived in the past, a big man does housework so slippery, and what is even more amazing is that even the appearance of the dumplings pinched out is first-class.
After wrapping the dumplings, Quan Yu insisted on stir-frying a few side dishes, saying that it was a hometown custom, and there must be dishes in the thirtieth year of Chinese New Year's Eve, symbolizing that the coming year can still be full and rich. I lay on the sofa and looked at Quan Yu who was busy in the kitchen, and I had a feeling for a moment: If you can do this every year in the future, it can be called a kind of fulfillment. But soon he denied himself again, and in the future, he will either go back to accompany his family, or sooner or later he will start a family, my extravagant hope will not be realized, and then after the illusion, there is a kind of sadness.
After Kwon Yu's busyness, I ate the most sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve meal in these years, and at the end of the meal, my stomach was too strong to sit down, so I was ready to show that I was rushing to wash the dishes. However, before I could put my hand into the sink, I was picked up by Quan Yu.
I looked up at him suspiciously, and he said mysteriously, "Let's go, go to tonight's finale." ”
Then he dragged me to the door, told me to put on my coat, lifted a bag, and went out, until I came to an open space where no one was around, and then put down the bag in my hand, and said to me, "Cover your eyes." ”
After listening to him busy for a long time, he shouted to me from afar: "Open your eyes!"
Completely conquered by the beauty in front of you, rows of fireworks bloom with dazzling light, and various brilliant colors meet in mid-air, and then bloom the most beautiful flowers. Kwon Yu shuttled back and forth with one ear covered in this fireworks, and a new bouquet was sent into the sky everywhere he went. I used to think that in idol dramas, it seemed too hypocritical to set off fireworks together or something, but when I experienced it myself, I realized what kind of shock it was.
The shimmering and busy shadows of Kwon Yu gradually blurred in a cloud of water vapor, and I shouted in his direction: "Kwon Yu, thank you, it's really beautiful!"
Quan Yu replied: "What are you talking about? It's too loud on my side to hear clearly!"
I shouted, "I said, I like all this!" Tears gushed out like a river, like a wronged child, when no one is paying attention, he can control it very well, but once someone comforts him, he will suddenly cry, and he will cry very much. In the past few years, I have tried my best to suppress myself, implying that I can overcome everything, but when there is really someone who cares about me and works hard for my preferences, all the previous grievances will come out, and I can no longer control it.
I kept wiping the tears in my eyes with both hands, not wanting to miss every detail in front of me, but I wiped more and more, until I finally squatted on the ground and hugged my shoulders and cried.
The body was pulled into a warm embrace in the next second, and he didn't need to look up to know who it was. I buried my head deeper into my knees, not wanting him to see my embarrassment. Kwon Yu stretched out two big hands and grabbed me fiercely, patting me on the shoulder, this soothing gesture made me cry even more. It wasn't until his legs were numb that he gradually calmed down.
Lowering his head, he said sullenly: "I'm really happy, I don't mean anything else." ”
Quan Yu let go of me and responded, "I know." ”
Thank you for knowing, thank you for understanding me, thank you for accompanying me for this Chinese New Year's Eve.
Then, Quan Yu took me home, watched the Spring Festival Gala with me, and then sat on the balcony together to watch the firecrackers and stars lit outside, which made me feel that this Chinese New Year's Eve was very successful.