As the night deepened, fireworks were already lit in the sky outside the window, and the sound of fireworks crackled non-stop.

Lin Jin actually doesn't like the New Year, every New Year's he always has to go to three or four o'clock at night to sleep, after all, once twelve o'clock, the sound of firecrackers outside will sound deafening, and his family has no reunion for the New Year, Chinese New Year's Eve meal or anything, at most just the usual two meat and one vegetarian become three meat and two vegetarian.

Lying on the bed, looking at the sky outside through the window with the curtains opened, the brilliant fireworks exploded in the sky, turning into beautiful sparks, and under the sound of fireworks, you can faintly hear the noise of children in the community and the chatter of those who set off fireworks on the roof.

"Lin Jin, the Spring Festival Gala has begun."

"I don't look at it, I'm not interested."

Rejecting his father, Lin Jin pulled the bedding to his neck, shrunk in the quilt, and quietly watched the fireworks outside the window.

Dad seems to have gradually accepted the gradual femininization of him, at least a few years ago, on Chinese New Year's Eve, Dad never called him to watch the Spring Festival Gala together.

I vaguely remember that before the age of ten, every Chinese New Year's Eve, my mother would buy a table of good dishes, and my father, who had been busy in business for a whole year, would also come back to rest for a week on this day, when the family gathered around the table, chatting about the things of the past year and the expectations of next year while eating, after dinner, the family would gather on the sofa, the mother served desserts and snacks, and the family watched the Spring Festival Gala together.

At 12 o'clock, my mother would put all the New Year's goods on the table, burn incense and candles to worship the ancestors, and then take the two children to burn paper and set off firecrackers in the corridor, and take them to the roof of the residential building to set off fireworks together.

At that time, the New Year was the real flavor of the year, but now I can only reminisce about the past, and then huddle in bed on the night of the upcoming New Year and watch the fireworks rise out the window.

"Hey."

Lin Jin sighed lightly, although he was eighteen years old, and it had been eight years since his mother left, he still couldn't adapt to this cold and lonely Chinese New Year's Eve.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and Dad got up from the couch and opened the door.

"Uncle, I brought my classmates over to play!"

Shi Yuli took Liu Shengqi, and the two of them stood at the door with two boxes of Wangzi milk in their hands, and said with a smile to their father: "I will give you a New Year's greeting in advance!" ”

"You're here to play with Lin Jin, right?" The frost that Dad had been hanging on his face all this time suddenly melted, and with a kind smile on his face, "Come, come in." ”

Lin Jin heard the sound and walked out of the bedroom, watching the two of them walk in from the door, he was a little sad just now, and he instantly became happy.

"Why did you come to my house on Chinese New Year's Eve?"

Lin Jin stepped forward and put the milk that the two of them were carrying in the corner of the living room, and hurriedly ran to the kitchen to wash the fruit he bought a few days ago and put it on the coffee table in the living room, and then took out all the snacks in the bedroom.

"My house is across the street from yours, okay? It's not bad. Yu Li, who was sitting on the sofa, hooked Liu Shengqi's neck and explained to Lin Jin, "There is no one at his house, so I also brought him over." ”

"You just need to come, what is he doing here?" Lin Jin sat on the sofa on the other side and said, "Wouldn't it be good to let him spend the New Year alone at home?" ”

"Lin Jin!" Dad glared at Lin Jin dissatisfied.

Lin Jin immediately changed his tone: "But it's good to come together, Chinese New Year's Eve is going to be lively." ”

"My family also bought fireworks, and after twelve o'clock, we will go to the rooftop to set off fireworks!" Yu Li unceremoniously took a handful of melon seeds on the table in her hand, and said while sipping melon seeds, "Anyway, we have nothing to do tonight, and I even brought a book to read!" ”

"By the way, Liu Shengqi, why is there no one in your house?" Lin Jin turned his head to Liu Shengqi and asked.

Liu Shengqi shrugged helplessly: "My dad went to the countryside, my mom was called to play mahjong, and I didn't know my mother's group of friends, so I didn't go." ”

"Tsk, Chinese New Year's Eve left his son at home and ran to play mahjong." Lin Jin shook his head and asked him seriously, "Are you really your own?" ”

"I also suspect I picked it up in the trash."

Lin Jin has not experienced this kind of thing when the family went to play mahjong on Chinese New Year's Eve, when he had not moved to the county seat and lived in a small village in the countryside, at that time, seven or eight neighbors set up two tables in the open space of the village, and adults played mahjong and children played everywhere.

At that time, the Chinese New Year was really New Year's flavor, but this year was not bad, so it was a little more lively.

The newly bought large-screen LCD TV showed the Spring Festival Gala, and Dad and Lin Jin sat side by side, happily watching the three of them chatting, glancing at the TV from time to time.

This is Lin Jin's happiest day to see her father this year.

Well, except that Dad won money in the casino.

After chatting a few words, Lin Jin stood up: "I'll go and make you something to eat." ”

"I'm here to help!" Yuli immediately jumped up from the sofa, "When we were children, our uncles and aunts all said that the food we used to cook was very delicious!" ”

"At that time, I was actually about to vomit." Dad casually dismantled the stage and said, "I just don't want to hit you." ”

"You'd better forget it, what else can you do besides make a mess?" Lin Jin also said unceremoniously, "You can't even tell the difference between MSG and salt, don't make trouble." ”

"Then I'll come."

Without waiting for Lin Jin to refuse, Liu Shengqi followed Lin Jin into the kitchen.

But what I didn't expect was that Liu Shengqi's cooking skills were actually not bad, as soon as he entered the kitchen, he squeezed Lin Jin aside, like a professional, cutting vegetables quickly and accurately, and he would turn the spoon or something, obviously either cooking often or having learned to be a chef.

"By the way, do we have a fat, short and neckless classmate in our class?" Lin Jin suddenly remembered the abductor he met when he was shopping for vegetables a few days ago, "That person said that he was a junior high school classmate, and then he wanted to ask me to go to his house to play or something on the street, but I don't remember that junior high school people are so fat." ”

"What's it called?" Liu Shengqi was sweating profusely when he stir-fried vegetables, and took the time to reply, but paused suddenly, "It should be Yu Feifei, right?" I saw him yesterday and he mentioned you to me. ”

Yu extraordinary?

Lin Jin frowned, used his brain to respond carefully, and finally found someone from the corner of his memory who could match this name.

"Isn't he black, skinny, skinny?" Lin Jin asked in surprise.

"That's right, I got fat later, and his family later opened a restaurant, and I got fat when I ate well every day." Liu Shengqi quickly fried the chicken left over from Lin Jin in the evening, and made scrambled eggs with tomatoes on the side, "He was afraid that he was too fat to be told by you at the party before, and then he didn't go." ”

"Uh-oh."

Didn't you run into a trafficker or a fraudster?

All right...... Although the security in this county is indeed not very good, the chance of encountering a bad guy as soon as you go out is indeed quite small.

(End of chapter)