63. Chinese New Year
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"Bang bang bang."
"Huihui, get up, you forgot that you are going to grandpa's house in the morning, get up quickly." Su's mother stood outside the closed door and continued to knock on the door, "Do you hear me, hurry up." With that, she turned and went to another room and knocked on the door to wake up her son, who was still asleep.
Su Hui slept deeply, heard the knock on the door and her mother's voice in a daze, half-opened her eyes, and was stunned in confusion, until the knocking stopped and her mother's footsteps disappeared, and she lowered her head again and continued to sleep.
At this time, the sound of firecrackers outside the window can be described as deafening, and it can be heard from the sound, as if every household in the whole town is setting off firecrackers, and the roaring sound resounded through the sky, one after another, each of which is enough to shock people's eardrums.
Outside presents a fiery red world, the streets are full of explosive flower-like cannon paper, small lanterns are hung on the trees, there are big red apples and white flowers of rice in front of the temple on the side of the road, the big banyan tree behind the temple hangs a steady or crumbling little red cloth bag, a red note full of auspicious words, after the washing of time, the red slowly dims, but at this time the women kneeling in front of the temple are holding a bright red brand new red cloth bag and a note, waiting to be thrown to the tree for peace and auspiciousness.
In the past, the sanitation workers would clean the streets before dawn, without a garbage bag or empty water bottle, but today, on the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the road was unexpectedly piled with piles or scattered cannon paper, and on this festive day, the red fire on the street made people feel festive when they looked at it. The unwritten rule of the town is that firecrackers should be set off every morning from the first day to the fifth day of the new year in the big year, and the eighth day of the new year should be put off three times a day, and the louder it is, the longer it will be the best.
There are already children in new clothes on the street, boys are holding toy pistols, girls are holding Barbie dolls, their faces are full of smiles, each is comparing how good the clothes on their bodies are, innocent and simple smiles ripple on their immature faces, so that people who have lost their childhood look happy and hide a trace of sadness, the long river of time is always passing, in an inadvertent moment, the child in front of the mirror has grown up.
We've all fantasized about always being happy and never growing up, but we've grown up reluctantly, and if there's a pause button, you'll hit stop at that point.
If Su Hui holds the button in her hand, she must choose to fast forward, she wants to see when she and Liao Yanyan reconcile, she wants to see where her twenty-year-old self is, she wants to know if Zhuang Mudong will hold the guitar and play and sing affectionately in the class, and she wants to know what Shen Tyson looks like in the future, and what the expression on his face is when he sees herself.
Su Hui fell asleep again, she had a dream, a long and vague dream, in the dream she walked on a runway without street lights, there was no one around, only herself walked there, walking slowly step by step, Su Hui's eyes were not the road in front of her, but a form of overlooking in the air, watching herself walk on the runway without people and street lights.
I don't know when or how it appeared, Su Hui saw a boy walking beside her, they were one meter apart, and then they got closer and closer, and finally walked together, shoulder to shoulder, just the moment the boy turned his head, the moment Su Hui was about to see his face......
"Bang!"
The door of the room was pushed open with great force, and the wooden door slammed into the wall behind it with a dull thud.
"Get up, hurry up." Su Zhi clasped his hands to his chest, and looked at his sister who was still dreaming on the bed with a cold expression, "Did you hear that, get up quickly." ”
Su Hui was awakened by the heavy muffled sound, and looked at Su Zhi standing by the door with a frightened expression, and her heart palpitated, "What are you doing!" She scolded loudly, "Don't you know that people can't be woken up loudly in their sleep?" The consequences can be severe. She looked angrily at her brother who was leaning against the doorframe.
"I'll wake you up." Su Zhi stood up straight and looked at Su Hui, "Mom said that I was going to my grandfather's house, so I asked you to get up quickly." With that, he turned around and left.
"You close the door!" Before Su Hui finished speaking, Su Zhi's figure had already disappeared outside the door.
Su Hui let out a big breath, lying on her back on the bed, staring at the ceiling, the walls had peeled, this house that was more than twenty years old, Su Hui closed her eyes and let her nervous brain slowly relax.
In the living room, Su's mother was very busy, she had to prepare things to go to Su Hui's grandfather's house, and at the same time she had to prepare things for the evening reunion dinner, and Su's father was also helping.
"Do I need to take this?" Su's father asked his wife with a bag of things.
Su's mother turned her head and replied quickly, "The one that is going to be given to my father, put it up first." She was busy with the work at hand, and she had to take care of the two children, "Su Zhi, is your sister up yet?" Hurry up and wake her up, it's too late to go to grandpa's house later. ”
"It's been called, she's up." Su Zhi sat in the living room eating melon seeds and watching the program on the TV.
"Why didn't you know you were here to help?" Su's mother was so busy that she had three heads and six arms, but her son actually sat there leisurely watching TV and eating melon seeds.
"I really don't understand why you children like the New Year so much, I'm almost too busy." Su's mother complained.
Su Zhi swallowed the melon seeds and said unhurriedly: "Tomorrow I will be eighteen years old, and the child is the Su Hui who is still lying in bed." ”
The door was pulled open from the inside, Su Hui stood at the door with her messy hair, looked at Su Zhi in confusion, and heard her name as soon as she opened the door.
Su Zhi looked at his unkempt sister, swallowed melon seeds, and mocked, "The homeless man on the street." ”
Su Hui glared at Su Zhi, generously not to deal with him, the Chinese New Year's Eve is a good day, she needs a good mood.
Su's mother heard the voice, looked over from the kitchen, and saw Su Hui, "Xiaohui, go wash your face, I'm going to grandpa's house later." Her voice was urgent, and when she turned around to take something, she saw the clothes Su Zhi was wearing, "Why didn't you wear the new clothes I bought for you, go and change into new clothes, these are all last year or the year before last, go and change into a new one, go to grandpa's house to be more energetic, you know." Su's mother hurriedly came out to go to Su Zhi's room to find the new clothes she bought for him.
Su Zhi continued to swallow melon seeds, and said nonchalantly: "It's not a child, what new clothes to wear." He spit out the melon seed shell, "Besides, Mom, you woke us up in the middle of the night, can you have the energy to go to grandpa's house?" ”
Su's father, who had been busy with his work, laughed, and his son said what he wanted. Every year on the morning of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year, Su's mother is nervous for fear of a slight mistake, she gets up before dawn to prepare things, and wakes up him who is asleep.
Su's mother had already come out with the sweatshirt and coat she had picked out for Su Zhi a few days ago, "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and change into it." ”
Su Zhi threw the melon seeds back into the fruit bowl, picked up the damp cloth on the side to wipe his hands, picked up his clothes and walked into the room to change.
After Su Hui washed out, Su's mother had already prepared things, just waiting for Su Hui to change her clothes and go out, she looked at Su Hui, who was still drinking porridge slowly in the kitchen in her pajamas, and urged, "Hurry up, it's nine o'clock." ”
Su Hui hurriedly drank the last mouthful of porridge in the bowl, put down the bowl and ran back to the room.
"Wear the dress I bought that day, the pink one." Su's mother shouted before Su Hui closed the door.
After the family was fully prepared, they put on new clothes and went out refreshed.