Chang An handed the flowers in his hand to Grandma Chen, "I bought it for you, I wish you a happy New Year!"

Grandma Chen was obviously very happy today, she took a bouquet of flowers, her toothless mouth was deflated, and she couldn't close it with joy, but she still counted Chang An and said that she spent money indiscriminately.

Chang An didn't say a word, and pushed Grandma over and sat down.

"I'll take a picture of you. ”

thought that Grandma would refuse, but she agreed, and pulled Amei casually, "Together, together, Fengfeng!"

Wu Feng ignored it at first, and Grandma Chen called twice before he reluctantly came over.

"Then take a group photo of your family of three?

"Okay, okay, I'm holding this flower, ouch, this flower is so beautiful!"

Chang An turned his phone into photo mode, looked at the camera and frowned, "Grandma, what about the new clothes I bought for you, why didn't you wear them?"

"Ouch, how can you wear such good clothes when cooking at home. ”

"But now I have to take pictures, it's the New Year, go put it on?"

Grandma Chen sat there and thought about it, and probably felt that it made sense, mainly because she was very happy today.

"Okay, I'll change!"

Amei next to her helped her, "Grandma, I'll accompany you." ”

The two went to the cabinet to get their clothes, and soon the old lady muttered: "... That's it, this padded jacket Zhenzhen bought for me, look at how thick it is, and this sweater..."

"Cashmere, huh?"

"No, it's soft to the touch. ”

"Well, at first glance, it's good material, and it shouldn't be cheap..."

The conversation between the old and the young was intermittent.

Chang An stared at Wu Feng here, the game in his hand hadn't stopped, he just moved from the bed to the chair.

Chang An kicked him lightly again.

"Hey, where did you deceive such a good daughter-in-law?"

Wu Feng sneered, "Do you still need to deceive me on this condition?"

Chang An snorted, "It took a lot of effort to catch up, right?"

"How is it possible, she has been pestering me, and I am annoyed to death, so I reluctantly agree!" After speaking, he clasped his ear with his little thumb.

What a beating!

Chang An kicked him over again, kicked his calf, kicked him quite hard, and Wu Feng grinned in pain.

"What are you kicking me for?"

"You can die if you don't brag?"

"I'm not bragging, it's really her chasing me!"

Chang An looked back at the cabinet again, Ah Mei was changing Grandma Chen's clothes, patient and meticulous, she sighed slightly, and asked Wu Feng: "Is it settled?"

Wu Feng didn't understand at first, he followed her gaze and plucked his ears, but he still answered vaguely: "Hmm." ”

"What do you mean?"

"Eh, why are you so verbose like an old lady?

Wu Feng became irritable again, but Chang An understood him, his mouth was unforgiving, but his heart was not bad.

She patted Wu Feng on the shoulder: "You think I want to take care of you, I just want you to think more about Grandma." ”

Just after barely finishing chatting here, Amei helped the newly dressed grandmother over, the family of three readjusted the position, Chang An raised the mobile phone, and the woman standing next to Wu Feng suddenly shouted in a low voice: "Can you wait?"

"What's wrong?" Chang An asked.

Ah Mei was embarrassed to pull off her hair and said, "I want to make up a lipstick!"

"What to make up, hurry up and finish eating. Wu Feng scolded Ah Mei impatiently, and the grandmother sitting on the chair turned her head and glared at him, "Can you starve to death if you eat two minutes late?"

Ah Mei quickly ran to get the bag, took out a small mirror and a tube of lipstick from it, and took off the sleeves that she had just helped with cooking, straightened her dyed but yellowed hair, and took off her coat, which was a rose-red knitted dress inside, but the size seemed to be on the small side, and the waist was a little tight.

After a few minutes of back and forth, Wu Feng scolded and scolded, Ah Mei seemed to be used to it, and ignored him, so the old lady turned around and slapped her grandson's arm a few times.

Chang An raised his phone again.

"Okay?1,2,3..."

The picture freezes on the screen, the photo is generated, the old lady sits on a chair in front of her and holds flowers, and there are two juniors standing behind, Amei is holding Wu Feng with one hand and the old lady's shoulder with the other, and behind her are shabby furniture, beds and walls.

This is a very ordinary life photo, according to a family of three on the bottom floor of the market, there are no bright clothes, no elegant scenery, but the sun is just right, and the food in the house is fragrant.

The moment Chang An pressed the shutter, he was also laughing.

She later thought, what have she relied on to survive in the past three years? It shouldn't be some kind of will, courage, guts, etc., these are all lacking, and these empty things alone are not enough to support them.

She relied on the warmth of these details, Ding Shouquan, Grandma Chen, Xiaozhi, Wu Feng, and even the aunt who sold flowers at the corner of the street... These are the most ordinary and small beings in the world, but to her they are heroes, at least in some moments, so that she can see some hope in a barren ruin.

It's like if you're wandering alone in the desert, the sand is scorching, you can't walk anymore, you don't want to go, you want to plant yourself and stop it, but the next second you see trees, you see small stalls and ponds, and even grass sprouts emerging from the dry sand.

These things support you to go forward for a while, paragraph after paragraph, you endure those hardships, but you also continue to see hope and surprises, and finally find that life is not as difficult as you think.

"Okay, I'll see!" Ame was the first to run.

Chang An handed over the phone, and by the way, he suppressed the sourness that came out of his eyes.

"How?"

"Okay, I'm so dark, why don't you take a picture with a beauty camera?"

Chang An didn't think about this stubble, she never took selfies, and naturally there was no such software in the mobile phone, not to mention that this mobile phone was bought for thousands of dollars, domestic goods, and small memory.

"I'm sorry, why don't I take another picture of your phone?"

"Won't it be too troublesome?" Ah Mei asked embarrassedly, Chang An was just about to answer, but Wu Feng next to him had already pulled Ah Mei away, "Are you annoyed, a photo is still taken back and forth, and besides, you don't know if you are black or white?"

Maybe it was because the voice was roaring too high, or maybe it was the pull that pulled people apart, Amei's expression was stunned, and her eyes turned red when she brushed it.

Chang An held his breath.

Grandma Chen couldn't get angry, and twisted it on Wu Feng's arm, "How can you talk like a rabbit cub?"

The old lady was full of energy, and her momentum pressed Wu Feng over, and Wu Feng may have felt that she was too much, and her mouth was deflated.

Chang An, an "outsider", was not easy to interject, and the atmosphere became a little stiff for a while, but who knew that Amei, who was originally red-eyed, burst out laughing.

"Forget it, don't shoot, eat first!" she turned into the kitchen, and the sound of holding dishes and chopsticks came over.

Grandma Chen glared at her grandson again, "Turn around and run away and break your dog's legs." ”

Wu Feng touched his nose and said nothing.

Chang An instantly pushed him with his elbow, "Go to the kitchen to help!"

Wu Feng muttered in his mouth, but in the end he still walked over.

Fortunately, Amei's mood came and went quickly, and a few minutes later, the dishes were put on the table, the dishes were all served, and the four of them sat down.

Originally, it was not a Chinese New Year's Eve meal, and the Chinese New Year's Eve meal needed to be eaten on Chinese New Year's Eve, but Grandma Chen still made a table full of dishes, and let Wu Feng go to the vegetable market early in the morning to kill a local chicken, and stewed it on the stove for half a day, stewed until fragrant and golden.

Chang An has a good appetite, and is in a good mood, drank two bowls of soup, and after half a meal, Amei and her are also a little familiar, and they have faded away from the restraint when they met just now, and they also added Chang An's WeChat, and asked her to send her the photo she just took, and taught Chang An to take a few popular APPs, and pulled her to take selfies, all kinds of beautiful pictures and special effects software, one moment is dark, one moment is cute, and one moment is a little antler or a little cat and pig, Chang An has never played these before, but he can't resist Amei's enthusiastic introduction, and he played with her for a while, but he also found it interesting。

After lunch, Wu Feng continued to play games in bed, Amei volunteered to wash the dishes, and Chang An accompanied Grandma for a while.

Most of the content is still about Amei and Wu Feng.

After chatting with Grandma Chang'an, I learned that Amei was not a local, her hometown was in Jinchang, Gansu, which should be a small city, and Chang'an had never heard of it before.

"It's a hard life, I was forced to marry by my family when I was a teenager, in the same village, I was much older than her, and I was beaten since I got married, and then I gave birth to a son, but unfortunately my son fell ill and died before he was three years old, and the man became even worse, she couldn't stand it for a few years and ran out, and she hasn't been back all these years. ”

Chang An looked back at the busy figure in the kitchen, she was standing neatly in front of the pool washing dishes, humming a song while washing, happily as if the world was full of happy things, so that it was difficult for Chang An to associate her with the hard-working woman that Grandma Chen said.

"How old is she?" to be honest, Chang An couldn't tell her specific age from the way she dressed.

Grandma Chen didn't hide it, "It's two years older than Fengfeng." ”

"What are Brother Feng's plans?"

"The bunny...... I asked him what he meant the other day, and he was vague, but this morning he told me the truth, because he felt that he was not qualified to talk about marrying a daughter-in-law. ”

"But I don't think Ame minds. ”

"Yes, I also asked this girl behind my back, people don't want any houses or cars, they just want to find a life that can know the cold and the hot. ”

Chang An knew Wu Feng's urine, except for being lazy and cheap, he was quite meticulous to people.

"Has Brother Feng been out playing cards lately?"

Speaking of this old lady, she was happy, "No, after this girl went to live with him, it is said that she has not gone out to gamble for a while." ”

"That's a good thing. ”

"Yes, a man still has to get married and have a daughter-in-law before he can be qualified, I see that this girl is really good, diligent and willing to endure hardships, and not squeamish, if Fengfeng turns back and becomes with her, I also have a heart, and one day I can close my eyes and explain to his parents. ”

Chang An couldn't help but feel sad when he heard this, "Grandma, you want to live a long life!"

"Tut-tut, when I heard this, it coaxed me, I really lived to be a hundred years old and not become an old goblin. ”

"There are a lot of centenarians now, and my grandmother left in a hundred years. ”

"Really, then your grandmother is so blessed......

The two sat on the bench at the door under the sun and chatted for half an hour.

Amei cleaned up and came out, carrying a thermos box in her hand.

"I packed chicken soup for you and took it back to the hospital for the child to drink. ”

Chang An was grateful and moved, and also knew that Grandma Chen had probably told her about Xiaozhi.

Half an hour after coming out of Grandma Chen, Chang An went to take a taxi with a large cup of chicken soup, and walked to the intersection to see that the tricycle was still there, it was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon, although there was sun, but the wind was also very strong.

She used to buy two more bouquets of flowers, a bouquet of roses and a bouquet of lilies.

The aunt who sold flowers was very moved, and when she left, she didn't say Happy New Year, and bowed deeply to Chang An.

She said, "Girl, a good man has a safe life!"

Chang An walked in the cold wind and sun of winter with flowers in his hand, his heart was rippling, and his back was even more upright.

Nowadays, the world's strong women's remarks, women must have careers, ambitions, cars, houses and MONEY, killing all sides left and right, fighting with bosses, fighting with customers, fighting with subordinates, girlfriends, husbands and mothers-in-law and even small three, and they have to fight with themselves when they are over, it seems that only in this way can they show the strength and strength of women, but in the dead of night, they cry silently and tremble, and they have to rely on those chicken soup for the soul in the official account to continue their lives.

With such a contradictory existence, he is a fighter who overcomes obstacles during the day, but at night he loses his armor and is so fragile that he is deadly.

As everyone knows, a lot of power can only come from your own heart, you don't need to fight for it, and you don't need to be too hideous, just treat the world gently, even if it is the suffering that the world has inflicted on you, you should kiss the pain once, it is stronger than any career and economic blessing.

Chang An finally understood this truth, so she willingly became soft in the face of suffering, and softness evolved into kindness, kindness grows from the heart, the strongest and most lush supporting force.

On the car back to the hospital, Chang An took out his mobile phone.

It should be the middle of the night in the United States at this time, and it's only the Lunar New Year over there, but Chang An still wants to share the joy with him at this time, although he doesn't know where this joy comes from, maybe the sun is very good, or the flowers are very delicate, in short, Chang An just wants to tell him something.

But I pinched my phone and brewed for a long time.

What should I say?

Happy New Year?

Have you slept?

Do you miss me?

I hesitated for a while and didn't pay attention, and finally thought about it, just send a photo, and it happened that Amei took a lot of nonsensical photos of her with the camera software during lunch at lunchtime.

Chang An called up the album, rummaged through them one by one, and finally selected a selfie with a rabbit ear effect on his head, which looked quite cute.

She ticked the box and was about to send it out, when the phone screen suddenly froze.

Crashed?

Again, still don't move!

Chang An swiped several times in a row, and the result was a complete black screen.

Running out of power? Broken?

It's not like it's broken, it's just that Amei was "fooled" by Amei in the afternoon and got off a few APPs, that is, there is no power?

Chang An felt that there was a high possibility of running out of power, so he didn't think much about it, and threw the phone directly into his bag.

It was almost four o'clock when he returned to the hospital, Chang An gave a bouquet of lilies to the nurse on duty at the nurse's desk, and did not forget to say Happy New Year, brought the roses back to the ward, and asked the nurse to take them and insert them.

Xiao Zhi had already woken up from a nap, and the chicken soup she brought was still hot, so Chang An poured her a bowl and fed her.

After eating, I played with her for a while, all of which are things that little girls like to play, what doll dress-up, kitchen cooking, among which the doll dress-up set was sent by Chang Jiahui a few days ago, the girl likes it so much, I can't wait to sleep with it at night. ，

Chang An played with him for a while, but he didn't notice the passage of time, and when he looked up, he saw that it was dark outside.

In winter, the days are short, and at about six o'clock in the evening, the nurse bought food and came to feed Xiaozhi, and after eating, Chang An wrapped her tightly and pushed the cart to take her outside for a walk.

I didn't dare to go too far, just across the street from the hospital, after all, the New Year, I can't really spend the whole time in the ward, and I have to let her come out to feel the atmosphere of the New Year.

Xiao Zhi was happy, because he hadn't come out for a long time, and he had a smile on his face the whole time.

Chang An made an exception to buy her a marshmallow, and also bought her a hat, fluffy, with the shape of a rabbit ear on it, and after going to the cashier to pay, the hat was not taken off, and she wore it directly.

It was close to eight o'clock, and after an hour of coming out, Chang An pushed Xiaozhi back.

When the wind was too strong when waiting for the red light, Chang An went around to the front of the cart and folded off the ears on both sides of the hat, just enough to cover Xiaozhi's ears.

"Is it cold or not?"

Xiao Zhi squinted her big eyes and shook her head: "It's not cold." ”

"Are you happy?"

"Happy!"

Chang An was also infected, and got up with a smile, but her sleeve was pulled, and Xiao Zhi gently tugged at her clothes with her hand.

"What's wrong?" Chang An asked.

Xiao Zhi tilted her head, the rabbit ear popped out again, and she stared at Chang An with a grin.

"Would you like to have a word with you?"

Chang An smiled, "What do you want to say?" She squatted next to the cart, and deliberately leaned her ear over, there was a child's hot breath next to her ear, and she waited for about a second or two to hear a few words that were immature but full of emotion.

She said, "Mom, I really like you!"

Chang An froze there at that time, not daring to turn sideways, not daring to look at the child, for fear that his moist eyes would leak his confidence.

She squatted there and waited for a while, the red light turned green, and the crowd on both sides began to shuttle, Chang An took advantage of the scenery of people coming and going, leaned over and gave Xiao Zhi a kiss on the forehead.

"Mom loves you too..."

A firework blooms in the sky, and the flames reflect everyone's faces.

The hardships you have endured and the injuries you have endured will be a gift of fate, and one day you will be given the most satisfactory compensation.

……

pushed Xiaozhi back to the hospital, helped her wash and change her pajamas, and accompanied her to fall asleep on the bed, and it was already past nine o'clock after the toss.

Chang An then remembered that the phone was still in the bag, and he was looking for a charger all over the house.

After so many years, Xu has changed a lot of habits, but the problem of littering still has not improved at all.

After a few laps of looking for Chang An, I remembered that the charger should have fallen on Grandma Chen at noon.

She plans to go back to Changhe tonight, after all, on Chinese New Year's Eve, she doesn't want to live alone in a hotel on this kind of day, but it is not convenient to have a mobile phone, and it is still early to see the time, so she decided to go to Yugang to get the charger first.

"Grandma?"

Chang An pushed open the hidden wooden door, squeaked, and the old man who was sitting on the bench watching TV in a cotton jacket turned around, his somewhat cloudy eyes fixed in the not-so-bright light, and only reacted after a second, and obvious surprise flashed on his face.

"Zhenzhen, why are you here at this time?"

Chang An entered the house and didn't close the door, because he smelled a very strong gas in the house, and something was still stewed on the stove against the wall, steaming white, and finally added a little warmth to the cold room.

"Didn't you tell you a while ago that I was going to accompany you to watch the Spring Festival Gala. ”

The old lady was completely happy, got up on her knees, and hobbled to move a stool for Chang An.

"I thought you just said casually, quick, come and sit. ”

Chang An walked over, the old lady took her hand and took it to the chair, and then went to the cupboard to pick up something.

"Eat, eat and watch ......"

It's nothing more than some melon seeds and peanuts, as well as fruit candy sold in supermarkets.

Chang An sat down to watch the Spring Festival Gala with Grandma Chen.

"Has the show of the three little ones passed?"

"No, I don't know when I'll come out, I'm in a hurry. ”

The old lady looked at the TV, the attitude and posture of chasing stars were very full, Chang An couldn't help laughing, "I checked it for you before, and this year's show was relatively late." ”

"Really?"

"Well, I guess it's about eleven o'clock. ”

"Then you can still accompany me until then?"

"It's okay, I said I'll accompany you. ”

The old lady was so happy that she grabbed a handful of candy and put it in Chang An's hand, "Eat, eat something." ”

Chang An peeled one and put it in his mouth, it seemed to be grape-flavored, the taste was actually average, but it was sweet enough, and it could be sweet to the hearts of people.

In the spare time when I accompanied my grandmother to watch the Spring Festival Gala, the old and the young inevitably chatted, asked about Xiaozhi's situation, and the plans for follow-up adoption and Chang'an.

Chang An didn't hide it from the old man, but it was too late to talk about it, and it was past eleven o'clock.

After TFBOY's song was played, thinking that it was not far from the early morning, Chang An stayed to accompany Grandma to celebrate the New Year.

At twelve o'clock in the morning, there were firecrackers outside.

Grandma went to the stove and served a pot and gave Chang An a bowl of red date and lotus seed soup.

Drinking sweet soup on the first day of the Lunar New Year seems to be Yunling's custom, Chang An used to eat it every year in the Zhou family, but now the bowl in front of him has a different meaning.

"Girl, the bitterness is sweet, the new year, sweet and sweet, everything goes well!"

Chang An looked at the steaming sweet dates and lotus seeds in the bowl, and tears blurred his eyes.

After drinking the sweet soup and going out of the house, Grandma Chen sent her to the door.

Chang An said goodbye, and told her not to burn the stove in the house in the future, because the closed environment is easy to have accidents.

Walking out of the alley alone, there are scattered firecrackers and fireworks around, Chang An took out his mobile phone and wanted to send Zhou Wei a WeChat, but the screen is a little bit, it is bad, I forgot all the business I came here, and the charger didn't do the same as charging!

Chang An scolded herself, so she could only run back again, and when she took the charger and came out, she had already relied on a little.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone stopped work and rested, and the taxis were all carried, and they waited for more than ten minutes before waiting for one.

After more than half an hour, I finally arrived at the Changhe, in the middle of the night, the security guard at the door was loose, and the car was allowed to enter the community, Chang An asked the master to drive the car all the way to the lane in front of the villa.

She got out of the car, and before she reached the door, a car horn sounded behind her.

Chang An turned around, only to see a bright white light coming over, it was a car headlight, which pierced her eyes so much that she couldn't open it, and blocked it with her hand, and then "bang" the door closed, and someone seemed to be walking over from the headlight.

Chang An didn't see it clearly, but he felt a tightness on his shoulders, and he was dragged by his head......