Chapter 61: The sound of firecrackers

In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, before the time of application, there were no pedestrians on the streets, and even the vendors who worked day and night all year round closed their stalls early and went home for the New Year's dinner.

Shen Laibao has been here for five years, but he still has a strong interest in the New Year, just because the New Year here has a "New Year's flavor". Daddy Shen asks for a lot of everything, and he also asks for more festive colors for the New Year, and every time he arrives for the New Year, the Shen family's mansion will be dyed red. This is the only acceptable outfit for Shen Laibao in Daddy Shen's so many "bad tastes".

Mrs. Shen is still in good spirits this year, but her legs and feet are not very good, and she doesn't like to go out in winter. She gave her grandchildren New Year's money, looked at the full house, but there was only one male grandson, she was melancholy, and whispered to her daughter-in-law, "If you can give birth, you will have one more, and it is good to be a companion for Noble Treasure." ”

Mrs. Shen's face was flushed, "Lai Bao is fifteen years old, if you conceive another one, no one else will know whether it is my son or my grandson." ”

"Uh-oh." Mrs. Shen sighed, "I forgot that Noble was fifteen years old, when he was stupid before, he always felt that the days were long, but now he feels that it is a snap of his fingers." Oops, it's going to be sixteen after tonight...... Noble? Noble? ”

Shen Laibao, who was in the hall, walked over quickly and said with a smile, "Grandma." ”

Old Mrs. Shen pulled him in front of her and said with a smile, "Treasure, you are sixteen years old tomorrow, it's time to find a granddaughter-in-law for grandma." ”

I can't refuse my grandmother so directly as my father, Shen Laibao said well, "If you have a girl you like, your grandson will definitely show your grandmother and have a bunch of white and tender babies." ”

Old Lady Shen's eyes lit up when she heard the last sentence, she completely forgot the premise of these words, and nodded vigorously. Although Mrs. Shen understood it, she didn't debunk it, and the old lady was happy for the New Year.

After the reunion dinner, Shen Laibao asked his subordinates to move the boxes of fireworks outside, preparing to set off fireworks together as in previous years.

Opposite the Shen family is the Pan family, and the Pan family with the new charm does not look lonely now, but the laughter and laughter of other families can still be heard here, but the Pan family seems to be calm pond water.

After a while, the Hua family next door also opened the door, Hua Lang stepped out, turned around and said, "Sister, hurry up, don't take your flying dragon." ”

Dragon? Shen Laibao took a look and saw Hua Ling walking out cautiously, holding a stick taller than her in her arms. The stick is wrapped in a red cloth, and there is no ornamentation, but the top is a mark unique to artillery battles, which seems to be a flying dragon.

Hua Ling shook her head, "Daddy said that the fireworks released by this flying dragon are very good-looking, Brother Heng at the corner of the street has robbed me of fireworks every year, and he will definitely rob them again this year, if I snatch it away, I will be unhappy." ”

Before she finished speaking, the cannon was suddenly pulled away from above, and in a blink of an eye, her arms were empty. She was suddenly shocked, and when she looked up, she saw Shen Laibao smiling, and she immediately hit him with her head in the heart, "Bullying me again." ”

Shen Laibao didn't hand it back to her, looked at her forehead, and didn't hit the red mark, "I'll help you take it." ”

"It's a bit heavy."

"It's fine."

Hua Lang smiled beside him, "Noble will secretly let it go by himself later, sister, are you afraid?" ”

Hua Ling said, "Brother Noble won't, brother, you will." ”

Although it is a fact, Hua Lang just can't see that she is so partial to Shen Laibao, after all, she is the only sister, she doesn't protect him, but she protects the kid next door, can he be happy. Sigh, sigh.

Shen Laibao saw that Hua Xu didn't come out, and the Hua family had already planned to close the door, so he knew that he wouldn't go with him this year, so he didn't ask. I plan to go to the alley with the Hua brothers and sisters to meet with other children, and then find a good place to live.

The two families carried out the fireworks one after another, and before the carriage came, they waited for the carriage together. After a while, Ah Wu remembered and asked the person next to him, "Did you bring a fire?" ”

The servant slapped the back of the head, "Forget." ”

"Get it in there."

Hua Lang said, "Don't take it, I brought a fire fold." ”

Shen Laibao said with a smile, "Sure enough, he is a person who aspires to join the army, and he puts everything on his body." ”

"Master taught, brought a dagger and a fire fold, and some medicinal powder was also wrapped and sewn into the sleeve." Hua Lang said, confirmed that the fire fold was not there, pulled out the sheath, and blew to see if he could light the fire.

The fire that was dormant inside was slightly blown up, and blue and red flames were ignited.

"Brother Plate."

After a pause, the young man who came from the alley looked unruly, glanced at them, and then withdrew his gaze. Because the Shen Hua family was in the middle of the alley, the plate couldn't be too far away, so they could only pass by them. When he was about to pass through, he couldn't help but say, "Fire, fire." ”

Shen Laibao immediately looked at Hua Lang's hand, the fire of the fire fold was extremely active, and as soon as it was blown by the cold wind, the fire turned around, turned around and turned back to "eat" Hua Lang's hand. Hua Lang suddenly felt a tingling pain, and his hand was released.

The four of them looked at the flame together, and the fire fold fell into the box full of firecrackers, instantly burning the box full of paper-paste fireworks.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and Shen Laibao reacted instantly, "Run!! ”

The danger that was imminent at any moment immediately caused chaos in the scene, and the crowd scattered in astonishment. Shen Laibao grabbed the flower bell that was still stunned and ran home, and the sound of fireworks crackling was already heard behind him. He hurriedly pushed a flower bell and told her to run first, and he followed behind.

Fortunately, he did so, because he was instantly hit with a lot of exploding red paper on his back, and if he didn't get in the way of Hua Ling, then the red paper should have exploded on her.

The two ran into Shen's house, and other subordinates also came in one after another. There was still bombing outside, Shen Laibao took a look, but he didn't see Hua Lang and the plate, and the billowing smoke was almost covering his vision. The two of them are not bad, and they should have already avoided it. He was a little relieved, pulled the flower bell and continued to hide inside.

Father Shen heard the sound outside, and ran out of the room in shock, and when he saw his son turning back and holding the flower bell, he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong son?" ”

"The flames accidentally fell into the box, and now the boxes are full of guns."

The sound outside the door shook the sky, and even what Master Shen said couldn't hear clearly, but he roughly guessed it.

Shen Laibao and Hua Ling's heads were full of red paper scraps, and the two looked at each other, only to feel that the other party was wolf bèi and funny. Shen Laibao dusted off the little red flower on Hua Ling's hair, and said, "Little flower, at least we can put a flying dragon." ”

Hua Ling also grabbed the red paper on his clothes, and said, "Brother Noble was too dangerous just now, why didn't you run as fast as me?" ”

The Hua family's subordinates, who were a step slower, said behind him, "Young Master Noble is protecting you, Miss." ”

Hua Ling suddenly saw that Master Shen and Mrs. Shen's eyes both lit up, and then they saw that their son already had a look of approval. Shen Laibao only saw one sentence, "Son, well done". He hurriedly looked away, this is the friendship from the family next door, there is no friendship at all, Xiaohua is still so young.

The sound of artillery outside was still crackling, and the explosion was heard in several nearby streets.

When the people looked up and saw the direction, they knew that it must be the Shen family setting off fireworks. However, with such a big smoke, the alley is about to explode.

The alley is indeed about to be blown up, and it is still the wall of the Pan family.

Pan Yan stood in front of the lobby door with his hands in his hands, looking at the smoke flying into the sky outside the wall, and the tiles above his head were still falling dust. He watched motionlessly, and suddenly felt quite lively. It's that the high wall of the Zhu family seems to be too fragile, and it was shaken out of the cracks. He turned his head to look to the side, looked at the two frightened teenagers, and then at them grabbed each other's hands, and said nothing.

When the plate was about to pat his heart with his hand, he found that he grabbed Hua Lang and ran away when he ran away just now, but now his hands are still grabbed together, and he hurriedly took it back. Hua Lang hadn't come back to his senses yet, and he pulled hard before he looked down and looked around, "What's wrong, what's wrong?" ”

The plate rolled his eyes, "I can't even hold the fire, and what kind of bow and arrow do I take." ”

Hua Lang is at a loss and does not reason with him. It's just that the increasing cracks on the wall of Pan's house are really eye-catching, but the sound of artillery outside can't be whispered, so he can only say loudly to Pan Yan, "I will send the money for repairing the house!" ”

Pan Yan nodded, even if he accepted it.

Hua Lang once again wondered if this was the big traitor.

The plate covers the ears that are about to be deafened, and it is really disgusting. Pan Yan had already gone in to drink tea, ignoring the two juniors.

Hua Lang and Pan, who couldn't go out and didn't want to go in, stood under the eaves, looking at the fireworks that covered the blue sky overhead, and after a while, Hua Lang said, "When you run, grab me and run here." ”

The plate snorted softly, but did not answer.

Hua Lang hesitated for a moment, straightened his waist, and said loudly, "Thank you." ”

The plate paused slightly, but there was still no sound. I don't know if it's because Hua Lang said thank you, he hesitated for a long time before saying, "What happened last time...... It was me who was wrong. When the words came to his lips, he couldn't say anything, his eyes looked into the distance, and he finally said in a squeezing voice, "I'm sorry." ”

Hua Lang asked, "If it were in the future, would you do this kind of thing again?" ”

"No, it won't."

"You wouldn't do that to anyone else?"

The plate pursed his lips, "It depends on the person, of course...... If that person had been a friend of my friend, a relative of a friend, I wouldn't have done that again. But if it's a wicked person, I still will. ”

Hua Lang suddenly felt that the plate had learned how to distinguish between good and evil, which was exactly what he wanted to see.

The aftermath of the firecrackers has also subsided, and the smoke slowly rises into the sky, dissipated by the cold wind, dispersing the white smoke that lingers over the alley of the south wind, revealing the blue sky again.

Hua Lang walked outside, intending to go home. Pan stood under the eaves and looked at him, and now every time he sees the back of someone else, he feels a sense of loneliness, it must be because the winter is too cold, and people can't help but feel sad.

"Plates." Hua Lang walked to the door, then slowly turned around, looked at him and said, "I still have some artillery battles at home, which were originally reserved for the past few days, if you want to come, our three families, and the people in the alley, can go together." ”

The plate was stunned, but finally turned his head sharply, "Who is rare." ”

Hua Lang said again, "I'll see you tonight." ”

Seeing that he was walking away without looking back, the plate said loudly, "Who is rare! ”

But Hua Lang didn't listen at all, he knew that plates were rare.