Chapter 22: Winter Solstice Farewell

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"Winter solstice frost, moon light; Cypress leaf red, balls held. ”

Liao Wanyu sat at the table, rubbing white glutinous rice balls in her hands, remembering the children's rhyme that her grandmother had taught her, and reciting it aloud.

At this time in previous years, everyone would gather in the dining room, rub the balls and pinch the ingots, and then cook a big pot of sweet balls soup, most of the time, all the food is white balls, she still remembers that the second sister and the fourth sister got married, because the family added a new ding, making red balls.

In the boiling water, with ginger and bantang, the chubby meatballs are poured into the pot, and after a while, the sweet meatball soup is ready.

But you can't eat it when it's done, the family worships the ancestors under the leadership of Liao Zhanshan, and only after you have to worship the ancestors can you share and eat it.

Liao Xiyu especially likes to eat this kind of sticky and sweet food, and every winter solstice is the most active one to get up, urging everyone to hurry up, in order to be able to eat sweet balls early. Probably children like sweetness like this, she still remembers that her grandmother said two other nursery rhymes, "I love to eat meatball soup, and I look forward to it."

Liao Wanyu remembered relatively late, and she couldn't remember if she loved to eat this kind of thing when she was a child, anyway, since she had an impression, her teeth were not very good, and she couldn't eat a lot of sweets.

Liao Xi staggered and made trouble as usual, and he couldn't make a single ball for a long time, but the table and the floor were full of flour.

Liao Wanyu didn't care about him, let him play, and what she thought about was whether she would worship her ancestors for a while......

Chen Bingyi came at this time, and on the morning of the winter solstice, I don't know if I really can't wait for the winter festival, or I decided to come today after thinking about it.

Because of the weather, he put a horse coat on the outside of the robe, but the horse coat was not quite like his own, it was an embarrassing size that was not long or short, he crossed his hands in his sleeves, and looked at Liao Wanyu with his eyes like a torch.

At this time, it has been more than half a month since the last unhappy parting, Liao Wanyu has long been angry at his rudeness, seeing him coming, I thought he also wanted to open, all as if they were reconciled with each other, smiled and let him sit in the house, and also gave him a bowl of sweet ball soup.

Chen Bingyi's eyes were a little scrutinized, he seemed to look at Liao Wanyu as if he had seen her for the first time, and then paced into the house, as if she was afraid that she was hiding someone, and walked around each room again, "I'm leaving." ”

"Where are you going?" Liao Wanyu stopped rubbing the ball and turned to look at him.

"I'm going to Beiping, to Jingshi to petition. The plague in Kwantung, the famine in northern Jiangsu, the imperial court can't go on like this! ”

When he said this, Chen Bingyi seemed to have a flame in his eyes, just waiting for him to arrive in Beijing, he would burn all the ministers of the court who kept cutting land and paying compensation, giving the people a happy fire, burning the feudal rule to death, so that everyone can be free and equal.

Liao Wanyu has always felt that it is a good thing for people to have pursuits. With the pursuit and goal, she can continue to discover her own shortcomings, and then make progress in knowledge, so although she is not optimistic about Chen Bingyi's going to Jingshi, from the perspective of a friend, it can be regarded as support.

"Then you have to be safe."

He nodded, his head tilted slightly, and his eyes stared at Liao Wanyu without shying away, "You can't bear me?" ”

Reluctantly, she couldn't talk about it, she just said this out of politeness, thinking of Chen Bingyi's misunderstanding of her last time, she felt that she had to have a long memory, and she couldn't say anything that caused him to misunderstand in the future.

"You have to pay attention to safety, I read the newspaper and arrested a lot of people."

When Chen Bingyi heard her say this, he felt that he had confirmed his thoughts, he stepped forward and leaned over to look at Liao Wanyu, full of a sense of oppression.

"You're paying attention to these things for my sake?" His eyes were blazing, his tone was raised, and there was a smile on his face.

Liao Wanyu felt uncomfortable with his actions and words, so she stood up as naturally as possible, took the kneaded white balls, and walked to the kitchen.

She felt that something was wrong with Chen Bingyi, wanted to stay away from him, and thought about how to let him leave quickly. But Chen Bingyi obviously didn't come to his senses, he followed behind Liao Wanyu and also entered the kitchen. Liao Wanyu stood on the edge of the stove boiling water, and he looked at her with his arms folded two steps away.

The wood crackled in the pit, and the tin chimney pipe bent in the ceiling and reached out of the window, and she crouched down and added two more pieces of wood, hoping that the water would boil quickly.

What she said now is not right, any unintentional words will be interpreted by Chen Bingyi as intentional, so she simply chooses to be silent. But silence doesn't seem to be of any use, after all, Chen Bingyi's inner world is very rich, and at this moment, even if it's just a look, he can interpret a thousand words.

He was less of a revolutionary, more of a poet or a homemaker. Just a yellow leaf will make him feel the autumn of the whole world, and then think of the pale winter and the spring when all things grow.

"I'll leave the day after tomorrow."

Liao Wanyu turned her back to Chen Bingyi and nodded silently.

The plate sugar melted quickly in the boiling water, she stirred it in the pot with an aluminum spoon, and then carefully lowered the white dumplings into the pot, Liao Xi smelled the sweet smell and walked into the kitchen.

This is not a spacious space, from two people to three people, although it is a little cramped, but it makes Liao Wanyu breathe a sigh of relief. Although she didn't look back just now, Chen Bingyi's gaze seemed to penetrate her, which really made her unable to ignore it.

The sweet ball soup was finally ready, and Liao Wanyu first used a large porcelain bowl to make a bowl, and put it on the table together with a bag of biscuits and a bag of candied fruit she bought yesterday, and offered her ancestors a simple sacrifice.

Chen Bingyi also stood behind them and bowed, muttering something in a low voice, and Liao Wanyu didn't hear half a sentence clearly.

Taking advantage of the cold, the three of them divided the sweet ball soup in the big bowl and ate it, and after eating, Liao Wanyu cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, Chen Bingyi still had no intention of leaving, she couldn't help asking: "Doesn't your family worship ancestors today?" ”

"There's no hurry." He ate a bowl of hot sweet ball soup, leaned crookedly on the kitchen door frame, and watched Liao Wanyu brush the dishes, "Will you send me the day after tomorrow?" ”

Liao Wanyu's movements in her hand froze, "I want to go to work." ”

Chen Bingyi didn't think about it, her work was also introduced by Zhen Gu, so there was no change in her attitude, but she talked a lot about her own ideals and construction, and even after the success of the revolution, he wanted to work in the technical room of the Construction Department.

Liao Wanyu didn't know what the technical department was, but if she wanted to come to the Construction Department, she must be doing construction.

Now he is not only planning his own life, but also the life of others.

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Because the shipyard received an assembly order, it was also working overtime during the winter festival, and Liao Wanyu didn't have any need to go, but she thought that when her younger brother went to school, Chen Bingyi still didn't leave, which would be a bit bad. So she excused herself to translate the instructions for the assemblers, and went out with her brother.

Chen Bingyi has some opinions on this matter, he feels that Liao Wanyu is too ruthless, he is leaving, and she doesn't want to spend more time with him.

As everyone knows, Liao Wanyu is about the person in the entire Luzhou, and she wants him to leave soon.

"You don't want to ask me if I've packed my things? Can you travel with you? Chen Bingyi said this with a complaining tone.

Liao Wanyu was locking the door, the door lock clicked twice, and after pulling out the key, she pushed it again, and after making sure it was closed, she took her brother's hand and walked downstairs step by step.

Seeing that she didn't respond, Chen Bingyi supported the staircase railing with his hand, and directly turned to the next floor, standing on the small platform at the turn to block her.

"Are you still mad at me?"

Liao Wanyu lowered her head and carefully watched her brother's footsteps downstairs, for fear that he would not be able to step steadily, "No." ”

Chen Bingyi said "oops", "I'm all good for you, girls still have to love themselves, don't mix with people who don't mess around." Although I understand you and do not dislike you, others may not. ”

Liao Wanyu took her brother's hand and tightened it, Liao Xi seemed to be pinched, and stopped and looked up at her sister.

"I asked myself, I haven't done anything unseemly, and it's fair and honest to deal with anyone. If it had been, I might have cared what others thought of me, but now, it doesn't matter what others think of me. ”

Chen Bingyi didn't hear her displeasure yet, and responded with a few "yeses" in his mouth, and then said: "Of course other people's opinions don't matter, but you always have to listen to my words." Although my father is just a gentleman who teaches painting, our family also depends on our background. Although you used to be rich and glorious, now you are just downcast and become an ordinary person. If you want to enter our house, you must be innocent. ”

His imagination is too rich, and every thought is very self-contained, Liao Wanyu frowned and glanced at him, and then pulled his younger brother past him.

Chen Bingyi didn't jump past her this time, but he felt that he was being ignored, and he was a little unhappy, so he stretched out his hand to pull Liao Wanyu, wanting her to stop and talk to him properly.

It is well known that going down the stairs is an act that requires alternating feet, and at the moment when Chen Bingyi reached out to pull her, Liao Wanyu had not yet landed on one foot, and the whole person suddenly lost his center of gravity because of his pulling.

At the moment when she fell down the stairs, there was only one thought in her mind - let go, she couldn't pull her brother down with her.

Between the second floor and the first floor, there are a total of twenty-five stairs, the small platform at the turn in the middle is divided, and there are thirteen steps left in the lower half, and Liao Wanyu rolled thirteen steps firmly.

She had known the word "whirlwind" for a long time, but it wasn't until just now that she really felt it once.

All the voices in her ears were distorted, Chen Bingyi's face was blurred in her eyes, and her brother's shouts seemed to come from a particularly distant place.

She saw Chen Bingyi squatting beside her, and saw him not knowing what to say, and finally, before everything fell into darkness, she saw his back running away.