Buried in the thick quilt, the air in the room was cold and solemn, and one didn't want to stick anything out but the head.

The firecrackers at the back of the house were about to be lit, and the sound finally disappeared after the two sporadic firecrackers exploded. But before Duane could breathe a sigh of relief, another house not far away lit firecrackers, and the crackling sound was endless.

It was 6:03 a.m., and he was woken up by the sound of firecrackers.

This year is January 22, 2004, the first day of the Lunar New Year, the crew of "Pretty Woman" completed the filming of the Hengdian part as early as half a month ago, and Du An's also gave the crew a holiday as agreed, and the holiday lasted until the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, which can be regarded as generous - Nanyang's interior studios and buildings are under construction, and it can't be filmed if it is pulled back too early, so it will be released for a few more days, and there is no hurry to release it anyway.

Duane rested his head on the pillow, looked at the sky with his eyes, stared at the ceiling blankly for a while, made sure that he really couldn't sleep anymore, stretched out his hand to the cup, quickly took the phone, thought about it, and sent a message to Shu Yu: "Have you gotten up?" ”

Although he said that the mobile phone was useless, after such a period of time, he really slowly got used to the storage of the mobile phone, and the speed of typing with the mobile phone has increased rapidly.

After waiting for a while, the message came back.

"Don't bother me, sleep. ”

Well, it seems that she doesn't want to chat right now.

Duane smuffled and put his phone back on the bedside table.

Shu Yu has no relatives - in fact, there are, but she obviously does not regard those people as her own relatives - so she can only spend the New Year alone. Du An also once thought about whether to invite Shu Yu to celebrate the New Year with him, but this idea was still thrown out of his mind after a turn.

Listening to the busy sound from downstairs, he knew that his brother-in-law's family should have all gotten up, and he couldn't sleep anyway, Du An simply lifted the quilt and got up, quickly got dressed, and then opened the door, went downstairs, and saw his brother-in-law Duan Zhijie sitting in the hall smoking a cigarette, wearing a brand-new blue-black down jacket.

"Happy New Year, brother-in-law, Wishing you prosperity!"

Du An shouted two festive words, Duan Zhijie also stood up with a smile and said, "Happy New Year, I wish you success in your career this year", and then said: "There is breakfast in the stove, go eat two balls." Then he sat down in the hall again, and at his hand was the square table with a missing corner, on which was placed a large number of food such as melon seeds, peanuts, jelly, puffed food, etc., waiting for the children of the village to come up and ask for the goods.

When she turned into the kitchen, she could see her sister Du Ping sitting behind the stove and lighting the fire, and when she saw her brother coming in, she shouted: "Go wash your face and brush your teeth first!"

Du An went to wash up first, and then took a bowl to scoop the balls in the pot.

"The round ones are sweet, and the long ones are vegetable. ”

Du Ping had already come out from behind the stove, and as she spoke, she slapped her body and slapped off the grass stalks that had been stained on her body. After confirming that his body was clean, he put on the new red coat hanging on the side, but his eyes were staring at Duane, and he smiled with satisfaction, "My brother is still very handsome in new clothes." How's this dress, does it look good?"

It's an old custom, no matter how poor people are, they have to wear new clothes once in the New Year, so Du Ping prepared it for her younger brother early, but Du An, who has been busy filming and forgot about this stubble. And even if he remembered it later, he didn't think about buying any new clothes to wear, and from this point of view, he looked more and more like a city man.

"It's pretty good. ”

Du Ping took the bowl and bit the balls, just stood and ate, and answered Du Ping vaguely.

Probably because he had more contact with makeup artist Chen Yuxin in the crew, and was infected by this fashionista, Du An's aesthetics seemed to have improved, so he really couldn't agree with the down jacket on his body, which was also blue-black, and he wore it like a big bear. But this is my sister's heart, so it doesn't matter what the clothes look like.

"It's good to look good, this dress costs 16! If you don't make money this year, you won't be reluctant to buy ......."

In addition to the 7,000 yuan he got from "Chainsaw", Shu Yu also lent him 50,000 yuan in the name of the company, which also made his current life finally start to get better, not only paid off the foreign debts he owed when he was in college, but also had a little surplus, so the family lived an unprecedented comfortable life this year.

"By the way, you're not young, do you have a favorite girl?"

Du Ping's mouth was shattered, and it suddenly shattered to this question.

Duane didn't swallow the soup well and coughed violently. Finally coughed up the water out of the trachea, and then he said: "No, how old am I, what are you anxious about." ”

Du Ping said: "Am I in a hurry? I just ask, the eldest of the Chu Erzi family in the east of the village is one year younger than you, they all got married last year, and the children have come out this year......

Duane rolled his eyes: Isn't this a hurry?

As the saying goes, the eldest brother is like a father, and the eldest sister is like a mother, which is really not bad at all.

“…… If you don't have a girl you like, then I'll introduce you to a person you also know, just the daughter of the three fat people, who is coming back from the city today, and you can meet and talk ...... then."

Things came too fast like a tornado, and Du An's mind was a little blank for a while as he listened to Du Ping's babbling and non-stop words.

This is...... Blind date?

The first blind date in his life?

……

For the daughter of the three fat people, Du An's impression is still at the age of five, six, seven or eight years old.

He remembered that at that time, the daughter of the three fat men was the most beautiful little girl in the village, and many children liked to play with her, and he was once one of them, and she was the most awkward one. However, since she was in elementary school, her family moved to the county for the sake of their children's education, and worked part-time to provide for their children to go to school in the county. Since then, he has never seen the daughter of the three fat men again.

"Su Jin, her name is Su Jin, I heard her grandmother say that she is now standing at the counter in a department store in Nanyang, I think it's very good, isn't your company also in Nanyang......?

Du Ping was nagging, and with a smile on her face, she took the goods for the children who asked for the goods: a handful of melon seeds, a handful of peanuts, a bag of "shrimp crackers", and two jelly......

"I want instant noodles!"

The little fat man in front of him stared at the packets of Master Kong's braised beef noodles on the left, and Du An's memory that this kid seemed to be the son of Wu's second family in the back two rows - his brother-in-law's family and his original home were in the same village, so he knew all the people in the village, and he didn't know these new generations very well.

"Okay, give you instant noodles!"

Du Ping's hand grabbing the ham sausage paused, grabbed a pack of instant noodles and stuffed it into the big bag that the little fat man carried, and pinched the little fat man's red cheeks.

"The three fat guys are surnamed Su?"

I have known each other for more than ten years, but it is not until today that Du ane knows that the original surname of the three fat men is Su.

There's no way, everyone calls the three fat people, but no one calls the full name.

"Hmm,"

Seeing that no one was here for the time being, Du Ping pulled Du An to sit down, Duan Zhijie was not there - he went to the village to visit the New Year.

"You don't like to talk much since you were a child, but you can't do that today, you have to talk more, don't let people think that you haven't seen the world. By the way, didn't you say that your boss gave you seven million?"

"That's for me to make a movie, not for me. ”

Du Ping rolled her eyes and slapped him, "Don't you say who knows the difference......?" No, I'll tell you...... It's not good, I'd like to see how I can let her know......"

Du An looked at Du Ping as a future mother-in-law, and couldn't help but be a little funny, but after thinking about it, he didn't seem to be much better: just now I heard the news that he was going on a blind date today, and the blind date object was still a girl who had a "crush" when he was a child, and he was also restless, and went to the toilet three times, and every time he passed by the mirror in the bathroom, he couldn't help but stop and look at the person in the mirror, to see if the nose hair ran out, to see if the beard was clean, and to see if there were acne on the face......

Duane thought that he would slowly calm down, but his state lasted for a day, and the more he went to night, the more intense it became, and he wanted to go to the toilet five times an hour, but after all, he still did not usher in the first blind date in his life.

“…… There's something going on over there, and she won't be able to come back in the past two days......"

When Du Ping told Du An the news, she looked very regretful.

Duane was relieved: his feelings were a little complicated at the moment, he seemed to have some regrets, he seemed to be a little happy, and he had mixed feelings.

After staying at his sister's house until the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Duane finally couldn't stand the peaceful and quiet life in the countryside, and found a way to go back to Nanyang - from this point of view, he was indeed becoming more and more accustomed to city life, and more and more like a city person.

"It's okay on the road, call back if there's something wrong......"

Duan Zhijie half-straddled the bicycle and told Du An.

This is the bus stop on the main road, and Duan Zhijie sent Du Ane over on his bicycle.

Du An, carrying a backpack, said with a smile: "Okay, I know, you go back first, otherwise Song Laoqi will lose all your money." Duan Zhijie was originally playing cards in the teahouse, but he was also dragged by Du Ping to send Du An.

Duan Zhijie's words were tight, and he didn't nag anymore, smiled, and said, "Then I'll go first, you can wait by yourself, the car will be available in 15 minutes at most." ”

Watching Duan Zhijie disappear from the intersection on his bicycle and ride far along the road to the depths, Du An's gaze slowly retracted.

It's still cold on the seventh day of the first month, and the bus stop is just a zenith erect, there are no billboards around, and there is no wind, and the cold wind blows Duane shivering, and he can't help but stomp his feet and look sideways to the left.

He really saw a car driving up.

It's a pity that it's not a bus, it's that kind of long-distance bus.

The bus stopped in front of him, and as soon as the door opened, a pair of slender calves appeared in front of him.

The jeans are tightly wrapped, and there seem to be traces of autumn pants underneath, but these calves are still very slender even like this.

Then a man walked down, with a soft off-white coat, a melon seed face, and short hair that was quite broken.

Duane seemed to be standing too far ahead, and the man was almost on the verge of rushing at him when he came down.

"Huh?"

The man took a small step back and backhanded the door. Duane also immediately reacted that there was a problem with his position, and quickly took a step back to get out of the way, and said, "I'm sorry." His eyes glanced at the woman.

Beautiful-looking, quiet person.

The woman pursed her lips and smiled, shook her head, signaled that it was okay, and went to the middle of the coach. The driver also followed, helped her open the bilge door, and shouted loudly to remind the guests in the car to "pay attention to their luggage" and so on, and the guests by the window also put their heads on the windows to see if she would "mistakenly" take their luggage.

The woman pulls out a small bright yellow suitcase from the bilge, places it on the ground, and pulls out the lever. Seeing the woman take her luggage out, the driver closed the bilge door and walked back into the car, and the passengers with their faces against the windows also retracted their heads.

Duane stood on the bus stop, watching the coach re-emerge and watch the quiet woman pull a trolley across the street.

At this time, the bus came, and Duane got on the bus, found a place in the window on the left side of the direction of travel, sat down, and looked out of the bus.

The woman had already walked into the intersection next to the road, which stretched inward, connecting thirteen villages.

The bus started and moved forward, and Duane withdrew his gaze.

Outside the car, at the intersection

The short-haired girl with thin legs suddenly stopped, looked back and saw that there was no one on the bus stop, and then glanced at the bus that was already moving, then withdrew her gaze and continued to pull the trolley case forward.

PS: Today 1. 22, today in the book is also 1. 22, what a coincidence, haha