CHAPTER XLIV

"Li Li, come and help Dad hold this bag."

Li Li hurriedly walked out of the door, took the things, and the father and daughter went downstairs together and put the big bags and small bags into the car.

Although I was mentally prepared early in the morning, I couldn't help but sigh at the number of mountains when I saw it with my own eyes: "Isn't this too exaggerated...... What's in it? ”

Father Li: "I don't know, the students bought it for me, anyway, it's all New Year's goods." ”

Li Li: "......"

Li's mother, who went downstairs one step later, said: "It's not an exaggeration, you haven't been to the countryside for the New Year for too many years, and the seven aunts and eight aunts plus the neighbors in the neighborhood have to take home if you don't eat enough, I'm afraid that these are not enough." ”

With that, she put the last box in the trunk.

There were actually some complaints between the words, Li Li and Dad Li glanced at each other, and the tacit understanding pretended not to hear. If even verbal complaints are not allowed, then the person must not be suffocated?

Li's father drove, Li Li sat in the co-pilot, and Li's mother slept in the back, and it took about three hours to walk this way. Fortunately, they chose to set off on the afternoon of the Chinese New Year's Eve, which will make their sons go home and return almost the same, and there will be fewer cars on the road, so it will not be too congested.

Li Li felt sorry for Dad Li's car for so long, and the two of them changed on the way, and Dad Li gave her a frightened face.

Li Li muttered: Look down on me.

When I got back to the country, it was not yet dark. The road at the entrance of the town has not been repaired for many years, and there are many potholes, which make people's buttocks hurt. With a sudden jolt, Li Li woke up from his sleep, and opened his eyes in a daze, "Arrived?" ”

Father Li: "Well, wake up your mother." ”

"I'm awake." Mother Li didn't need to be called, she sat up straight. In the blink of an eye, I took out a mirror from my bag, sorted out my hair and clothes that had fallen asleep, and finally touched up my makeup.

Li Li was dumbfounded, "Wow, Dad, you see my mother as if she is going to battle." ”

Li's mother finished applying lipstick: "What children know, that is the battlefield." ”

Lafayette's bad mood couldn't be more obvious, the father and daughter have tacitly reached a front of "no resistance, silence to the end" today, and they glanced at each other again, Li Li turned his head to look out the window.

She is not familiar with this place, but she is not a stranger, when she was a child, she lived here for a week because of her parents' work, but she somehow can't play with here, and she is very afraid of her grandparents, so she cries and shouts and does not want to come to live at her grandparents' house again. There was no way, Li's mother actually felt sorry for her so sadly, and later asked her grandmother to come to the city to take care of her. So during the days when his parents worked outside for a long time and might not see each other for a month, his grandmother accompanied Li Li.

So her relationship with her grandmother is very intimate.

However, within a few years, my grandmother passed away due to illness.

As soon as the car turned into the alley, a large group of children surrounded it. Children in the countryside, especially boys, are used to being wild, not afraid of people, and when people appear, especially those who drive cars, they will be particularly excited and curious. A group of hairy children followed the car, and the gaze that could not wait to get into the car with their eyes made Li Li feel that he was like a monkey in the cage of the zoo, allowing people to watch.

Finally, when he arrived at the door of the innermost single courtyard, Father Li got out of the car and distributed the prepared laisee to each child, and the children finally dispersed in a hurry after receiving it.

A middle-aged man came out of the small courtyard, wrapped in an army green coat, and his appearance was three points of imagination with Li's father, Li's father and Li's mother called "big brother", and Li Li followed and called "uncle".

Uncle looked at Li Li and said in surprise: "This is Xiao Li, right?" Are they all so big? You haven't graduated the last time we met. ”

Now the twenty-five-year-old girl said without a red face and a heartbeat: "Well, I have been working for several years. ”

Uncle Lian said a few words and helped Dad Li carry a cart of things inside, "What are you doing when you bring so many things home, and you are not an outsider." ”

Father Li always said lightly, "Well, it's rare to come back." ”

Li Li and his mother didn't have to do anything, because after a while, a few men came out to help.

None she knew.

Li's mother whispered: "I don't know either, I guess it's the son and grandson of which family, or a distant relative." ”

"Oh......"

After entering the house, there were at least twenty or thirty people in the house, and "seven aunts and eight aunts" was no longer enough to describe. Men and women, old and young, sitting in the middle, are two old men wearing red cotton jackets, that is, Li Li's grandparents.

When the two old men saw Li Li's mother and daughter, the grandmother looked away without saying anything, and the grandfather beckoned to her.

Li Li walked over, and a red envelope was immediately stuffed in his hand, and he couldn't feel the thickness, but he felt a little hot in his hand.

Grandma still didn't look at her, and grandpa still didn't have much expression, only said: study hard.

Li Li opened his mouth, I can't say the sentence that I have graduated.

Father Li put everything away, and after giving everything that should be sent, the rest was divided among those relatives who were far away from the world. Of course, no one moved the health supplements or anything that the two old people brought alone.

Grandma: "What are you doing when you buy so many things, spending money indiscriminately, is this how you live?" ”

This sound like it means something, but Dad Li doesn't understand it as if he doesn't understand, "It's okay, it's my money that is spent." ”

Li Li: ...... Sure enough, he is a wife protector!

Then there is the chatter of the women. Mama Li is out of place with this atmosphere, preferring to go to the kitchen with her two aunts to help. But Li Li didn't have this excuse to walk away, in her mother's words: The juniors are all outside, and they don't need her help.

Li Li wanted to say very much, twenty-five is not small, begging to take me away......

Woman 1: I heard that your son has finished the college entrance examination this year? Did you get into college?

Woman 2: I've been admitted! There's a lot of interest! What about you, how are the children?

Woman 1: My daughter got married this year, and the man's family has a car and a house, so he gave 100,000 yuan in gifts.

Woman 3: Will Ming'er go out for a walk? I drove my daughter's car, which her husband bought just last month.

Li Li: ......

She was speechless, choking, and felt the sofa beside her go soft, and someone sat down next to her.

Turning her head, it was a young girl who looked like she was at the age of college, and called her "cousin" crisply.

Li Li was stunned, this is ...... Auntie's daughter? Which aunt?

The girl probably saw her doubts and took the initiative to explain, "My mother is your little aunt, my name is Xu Weilu, and I am a sophomore this year." ”

What should she say?

"Hmm...... Hello cousin, my name is Li Li. ”

What a bad conversation.

Xu Weilu wears a ponytail, looks young and beautiful, although her appearance is only average, but she is young and energetic, and her unpainted face is easy to make people feel kind. Li Li's first impression of this cousin she had never met was good, calm and generous, lively and outgoing, however, this good impression was defeated by her next words.

"I heard my mom say you were a paparazzi?" Xu Weilu said with a somewhat innocent feeling, and did not pay attention to Li Li's expression, and continued: "Is that often tracking celebrities?" Can you meet a lot of celebrities*? Can you tell me about it? I like to listen to gossip the most. ”

Li Li felt that his expression at this time must be numb, that is, his face was expressionless. A group of children ran in from the yard, five or six years old, when they were lively and active and not afraid of people, when they saw the adults, they smiled and said Wishing you prosperity is brought here, and Li Li also has it in front of him. Fortunately, she was ready early in the morning, took out one and handed it over, touched the child's face, and left a sentence of "I'll make a call", no matter how Xu Weilu reacted, got up and walked out.

Jiang Huai warmed the milk for Ah Bao and poured himself a glass. As soon as I walked into the study, I saw that the mobile phone on the desk was vibrating. Ah Leopard straightened up, leaned on the edge of the table, gently dialed the mobile phone with one paw, saw him come in, turned his head and stared at him with the dog eyes of Black Beanie.

Jiang Huai approached, glanced at the caller ID, and rubbed Ah Bao's head, "You are smart, you know that it is your mother." ”

"Li Li."

When Jiang Huai's voice was transmitted through the headset, Li Li had the urge to cry for a moment. Fortunately, it was only a matter of moments, and it would be humiliating to really cry. Behind her was the lively chat, in front of her was a quiet and deserted alley, and only the voice in her ears was familiar to her.

It turned out that she really missed him.

Jiang Huai called her name again.

Li Li pulled back his thoughts and quickly responded twice, "Mmmm, what are you doing?" Have you started eating Chinese New Year's Eve? ”

Jiang Huai touched the wall of the cup with his fingers and looked out the window, "Well, it's about to start." What about you? ”

"Not yet...... What about a leopard? Today's Chinese New Year's Eve, don't force it to lose weight, right? ”

Glancing at the guy drinking milk at his feet, next to the freshly gnawed bone, Jiang Huai said, "Well, it also eats well." Did you sleep on the way back? Tired? ”

Li Li picked at a piece of wooden thorn in the corner of the wall, "I'm not tired." I was fine, I wanted to help my dad drive here, but he didn't let me. ”

"Well, Professor Li is wise."

"Hey-" Li Li wrinkled his nose, and couldn't help but laugh before he finished speaking.

Jiang Huai didn't laugh. Li Li called on the phone, and said very little about himself, obviously avoiding it, and asking him how he was. Although the voice sounded no different from usual, Jiang Huai couldn't understand what kind of child she was, so he was almost 100% sure...... She's in a terrible mood right now. This kind of bad may have happened something that annoyed her, or maybe it was some people who made her feel depressed, and Jiang Huai felt that the latter was more likely.

Thinking of her unintentional and unintentional expression of her unwillingness to go back to the countryside for the New Year, Jiang Huai roughly imagined it, and could almost guess what was going on.

However, Li Li didn't want to say it, so he didn't break it, but said: "This afternoon, Ah Leopard suddenly went crazy and hid under the bed and didn't come out. ”

Li Li was really curious, "Huh? Why? ”

"I don't know why, if I was stricter, it would be afraid of me, and no matter how naughty it was, it would be obedient. But it doesn't work now, probably spoiled. ”

Li Li heard what he was referring to, and was very embarrassed, "Eh, this, that...... Huskies are like that, well, yes. ”

Jiang Huai: "Lin Ming has shown me a lot of 'Erha' jokes, which are indeed quite similar." But these two days have been more disobedient. ”

She blushed, "And how did you get him out from under the bed in the end?" ”

Jiang Huai: "After the food temptation failed, I dismantled the chewing gum and towel you bought newly, and it came out." ”

Ah, she got it. She had bought a lot of new toys for Ah Bao before, but because there were too many, in order to prevent Ah Bao from making a mess in the house, some of them were not unpacked. So Ah Leopard wants to play with toys?

JAC: "When it came out, I found a lot of secrets under the bed, well, its secrets? ”

Li Li was completely curious, "What secret?" "Ah Leopard has a secret!

"Your slippers, your missing clothes, your bag that you left behind, the toys you handed to it with your own hands."

Li Li was dumbfounded.

"It turns out that it's just because I miss you, just like me."

At the end of the alley, two little boys were firing cannons, throwing them to the ground, the crisp sound exploded, and the children covered their ears and laughed excitedly, noisy, but very happy.

Jingle bell, a cyclist stopped, dialed the bell, one of the children excitedly called out to his brother, ran over, was picked up by the man, put on the bar in front of him, and then walked away in the boy's chatter. The one left behind was a little unhappy, and threw a cannon on the ground as he walked into the alley, and one of them threw it a little close to Li Li, and burst open, and the boy looked at her cautiously a few times, and ran away quickly.

The night in the countryside is cold, but the night of Chinese New Year's Eve is lively.

Probably this is the so-called New Year's flavor.

Li Li looked at the two red lanterns at the door of the house in the distance, felt the quiet of the years for a while, and said softly: "Well, I miss you too." ”

During the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the grandparents sat in the main seat, followed by the uncle's family, the Li Li family sat opposite the uncle at the other end, and then the aunts and the two families, and the rest of the people Li Li didn't know each other. Of course, one table can't sit down, and there are three tables. This is the most lively time of the year, and it is rare for Li Li to see the kind eyes of his grandparents. It's just that in the end, I didn't say anything to her, and she didn't care about it anyway.

Li Li's left side happened to be Xu Weilu, and as soon as the two made eye contact when they sat down just now, the sister-in-law turned her head away when she was old. She felt funny in her heart, and even more detached. Who knew that at this moment, the other party found her again.

"Eh, Cousin Li, just tell me, I promise not to say it."

Li Li's expression remained unchanged, "It's in the newspapers I know, and I don't know anything else." So there's nothing more to say. ”

Xu Weilu had a big dissatisfaction written on her face, "I don't believe it." Aren't you paparazzi the best at digging people's homes*? Even if it's not true, you can all fabricate it, there are so many unspoken rules in the entertainment industry, this Bao Xiaosan and that one come out, I don't believe you don't have gossip to tell me. ”

Li Li was so annoyed that she couldn't do it, but she couldn't tear her face, but Xu Weilu's voice was not small, and it soon attracted the attention of others.

Xu Weilu's mother is Li Li's fourth aunt, and it was her third aunt who spoke at this time, "Lulu, what do you say to Xiao Li?" Why are you so excited? ”

As soon as these words came out, the people who didn't pay attention to this side all turned their eyes over, including the two old men.

Li Li was stared at by many pairs of eyes, how uncomfortable and uncomfortable it was.

Xu Weilu didn't care, she really muttered and spoke: "My cousin is not a paparazzi, I just want my cousin to tell me about the gossip in the entertainment industry, but my cousin is unwilling." Between the lines, it is full of grievances.

After hearing this, the third aunt looked at her in surprise, "Paparazzi?!" It's the kind of people who follow the artist's ass all day long? Oak, you're doing this?! ”

As if it had been hit hard.

The fourth aunt spoke at this time: "That's it, I didn't think it was possible to come when I heard about it." I thought that my second sister-in-law was different from us, she was a cultural person, but how could she let her daughter do this kind of work? ”

I don't know whose woman it is: "I heard people say that the paparazzi are full of lies, and those tabloid gossip news are unbelievable." ”

Fourth aunt: "And there are so many temptations in the entertainment industry, and everyone has them, it's easy to learn badly." ”

Third aunt: "Little oak, you must-"

Smack-

The bowl was slammed down on the table with a loud noise.

Everyone was shocked and fell silent.

Father Li got up expressionlessly, "I'm full, go out for a walk." ”

Li's mother got up with her: "I'm also full." ”

Li Li was the only one who hadn't moved, but they had already gone out together.

Everyone looked at each other, and the expressions of the third and fourth aunts were particularly ugly. The grandparents' expressions were not very good.

Unexpectedly, Father Li, who had walked a few steps, came back, his eyes swept over everyone's faces, and finally stopped at the fourth aunt, paused for a few seconds, and said in a loud voice:

"In my life, Li Keyuan, the least thing I love is to talk to people, especially relatives. I only know how to bury myself in research, so I have been misunderstood by many people. I have a daughter in this life, she is my pearl, my baby, I don't ask her to be rich, I don't want her to be rich, I just want her to be healthy and do what she likes. Although I am a little dull, I don't allow anyone to say that my daughter is not. Besides, who is qualified to be a long-tongued woman except her parents? The baby in the palm of her hand was splashed with dust, she can stand the grievances, my father's strength is small, I can't stand it, and I always have the strength to fight with others. ”