On the other side, under the dim street lamps, above the sky, there is a sound of 'bulging-expanding' everywhere, and the fireworks are fleeting in the sky above the night, like an epiphany, adding a lot of festive flavor to the upcoming New Year's Day.

Mu Jinjin held Xiaohua'er's hand, the two of them walked in front of each other, Gu Yanyang followed behind with a blushing face, and the pace was a lot slower than the two.

Mu Jinjin didn't notice that something was wrong with Gu Yanyang at all, and was still thinking about the fireworks with excitement on his face, walking all the way fast, but it was Xiaohua'er who noticed that Gu Yanyang was wrong with her spare eyes.

She glanced at Gu Yanyang's increasingly pale lips and blushing face, and vaguely felt that she should be unwell.

Xiaohua'er looked up and saw that the careless Mu Jinjin didn't notice anything, and wanted to tell her, but after thinking about it carefully, it was none of her business, so she turned her head back again, pretended not to see it, and continued to chat with Mu Jinjin.

Walking to the stall selling firecrackers, Mu Jinjin waved to Gu Yanyang behind him while picking up fireworks, and shouted:

"Yeonyang! You see, there are a lot of beautiful fireworks over here, and there are even spray flowers on them, I think they were set off at weddings and festivals, right? It's said to be very loud."

Mu Jinjin said as he glanced at the hand-cranked flowers with his eyes, bought those gadgets that had no danger factor one by one, and bought bundles of hanging whips by the way, almost buying what he saw, the only thing to be thankful for was that the fireworks at this time were not expensive, and Mu Jinjin's twenty yuan was after buying the fireworks and there were more than ten yuan left.

Xiao Hua'er looked at the change, and immediately wrapped her arms around Mu Jinjin's coquettish: "Sister Jinjin, Sister Jinjin, you give me the remaining four dollars as pocket money..."

Mu Jinjin was generous, as soon as he heard Xiaohua'er say, he gave her the money at that time, and after giving it, he found that he had no other change in his pocket, only the ten yuan printed with great unity that he wanted to swallow alone.

She looked at Gu Yanyang with apologetic eyes, and said tentatively: "Yanyang, do you want pocket money?" ”

Gu Yanyang didn't pay attention to her, she just wanted to go home and sleep early, and couldn't help but shake her head: "No need, the fireworks are finished, right?" Let's go back quickly."

As she spoke, she turned around and was about to leave, when Mu Jinjin immediately pleaded in a coquettish voice:

"Don't, don't go back yet... Finally, I can come out to play at night, let's go to the river and put a few? Yeonyang, a lot of my classmates have gone..."

"By the river? But I've heard it's cold by the river. ”

Xiaohua'er couldn't help but shrink her neck, and Mu Jinjin played with the lighter she had just stolen from home:

"What are you afraid of? Are you still afraid of the cold when you play? Little flowers, do you want to set off fireworks together? Hand crank flowers are fun, cold flowers are also fun, and they are not hot at all."

"Really"

Little Flower's face showed a curious expression, and her eyes widened.

She had never played with these things, and she only knew that her grandmother would put a whip every time she celebrated the New Year.

The whip was red and long like a centipede, and my grandmother would tie it to a bamboo pole and carry it out of the window, as long as it was a lighter! Immediately it will crackle and crackle.

Little Flower's memory of that thing only knows how to shake her ears.

Mu Jinjin knew that she hadn't played as soon as she saw Xiaohua'er's fresh appearance, so he couldn't help but continue to seduce: "Moreover, let's go to the river to set off fireworks, it's not dangerous, and we can put out fires anytime and anywhere, do you think it's okay?" ”

"Good, good!" Xiaohua Erle clapped her hands, and the two immediately reached a consensus, Gu Yanyang squatted on the ground, frowning slightly: "Can I not go?" ”

She felt like she couldn't breathe, and it was really hard.

Probably sick.

"No, no, no" Because it was dark, Mu Jinjin couldn't see Gu Yanyang's pale face and the cold sweat constantly breaking out from his neck, so he just shook his head and said: "If you go back, your parents will know what we are doing, let's go, why are you so lazy today?"

"That's right, it's not like Sister Yeonyang at all"

Xiaohua'er knew that Gu Yanyang was unwell, but in order to show that she could play with her better than Gu Yanyang in front of Mu Jinjin, she deliberately spoke:

"Sister Yanyang, you don't like to play with me and Sister Jinjin, right? Otherwise, why don't you like to stay at home since you had a good time with your classmates? ”

"Let's go, let's go together" Mu Jinjin couldn't help but put up Gu Yanyang's arm, ignoring Gu Yanyang's resistance: "The river is also close to our house, I promise you, I'll go home when I'm done, isn't this okay?" ”

Gu Yanyang lowered her eyes and begged: "Sister Jinjin, I really don't want to go, I'm uncomfortable"

Mu Jinjin thought that she was dead or alive and unwilling to move, and immediately shook her head: "It's useless to pretend to be sick, I'm taking you to play instead of taking you to school, what are you afraid of?" ”

Gu Yanyang looked at her, opened her mouth and stopped.

Mu Jinjin didn't give her a chance to speak at all, and directly greeted Xiaohua'er, and the two of them grabbed one of her arms one by one, and didn't allow Gu Yanyang to resist and 'escorted' her all the way to the riverbank.

………

Sure enough, there are a lot of fireworks gathered together by the river, the stars are shining on the riverbank, and the children are holding cold flowers in groups of two, shaking and chasing and fighting, so lively, and the fireworks around are ping-pong.

When Mu Jinjin saw the scene in front of him, he immediately became excited.

She squatted on the ground and took out a few hand-cranked flowers and other gadgets, threw her pocket and coat to the ground, handed the hand-cranked flowers to Gu Yanyang and Xiaohua'er, turned around and took Gu Yanyang and Xiaohua'er and went down to the riverbank to set off fireworks.

Mu Jinjin stood on the gravel path, holding the hand-cranked flower and the little flower in his hand against each other, and the two of them were writing in the air with the hand-cranked flower, having a lot of fun.

Gu Yanyang held the hand and shook the flower to the side and squatted down near the root of the tree, just holding her chin and looking at them, her head was so heavy that she couldn't lift any strength, and the whole person was lazy, and she didn't even move.

Mu Jinjin and Xiaohua'er were playing, and when they turned around and saw Gu Yanyang sitting there with dull eyes, they noticed that Gu Yanyang's expression today was not quite right, and it seemed that he was too quiet.

She stood there and shouted at Gu Yanyang, Gu Yanyang looked at her, frowned slightly, and shrugged at her, indicating that she couldn't hear anything clearly.

"Huh!" Mu Jinjin frowned, simply stuffed the hand-cranked flower into Xiaohua'er's hand, stood in front of Gu Yanyang, and shouted at her, "Are you okay?" ”

"Huh?" Gu Yanyang raised her head in confusion, pointed to the ceremonial flowers on the side, and shouted at Mu Jinjin with a slight squint:

"Sister Jinjin, the sound of the salute is so loud that it hurts my ears, I can't hear what you're talking about."

Seeing this, Mu Jinjin wanted to simply lean into Gu Yanyang's ear to speak, but his hand accidentally touched Gu Yanyang's forehead, and he suddenly stood up violently, and said a little anxiously:

"Yeonyang, why is your forehead so hot? Damn, Gu Yanyang, you don't really have a fever, right? ”

Gu Yanyang looked at Mu Jinjin's closed mouth, couldn't hear what she was talking about, simply stood up with her hands on her ears, stepped on the gravel under her feet and moved a little to Mu Jinjin, wondering what she was talking about.

Mu Jinjin stretched out his hand towards her forehead, covering the entire palm, and was immediately frightened by the astonishing temperature, and hurriedly shouted in Gu Yanyang's ear: "You have a fever, no, I have to take you to the hospital"

After that, he wanted to drag Gu Yanyang to the shore.

Gu Yanyang frowned, feeling that this kind of small disaster and illness was inevitable, not to mention that her physical foundation in her previous life was not bad, and she didn't see any major illnesses, so she didn't pay attention to it, she only patted Mu Jinjin's shoulder, tiptoed to her ear, and said weakly:

"Don't panic first, we don't have enough money in our hands, what hospital do you go to, you, cough cough, you go to the shore first to get all the clothes and things, put on your coat, don't catch a cold again, and then let's take a shortcut home along the path in front of me, I'm not a serious illness, it's just a cold, take a medicine after I go back, cover my sweat and sleep."

Hearing this, Mu Jinjin nodded, turned around and patted Xiao Hua'er's shoulder, pointed to Gu Yanyang not far away, and said:

"Your sister Yanyang is not feeling well, help me watch her, I'll go get something, come back immediately, and then we'll go."

With that, he turned and staggered a little further ashore, lit a lighter, and followed the light of the fire to find the coat and things he had just thrown on it.

Xiaohua'er looked at Gu Yanyang, although she heard what Mu Jinjin was telling herself, she didn't bother to move, she just sat on the slope and stared at the fireworks in her hand in a daze.

When Gu Yanyang saw Mu Jinjin leaving, she also wanted to stand up with the trunk of the tree.

But at this time, a group of children next to him were holding cold flowers in their hands and running towards this side in a hurry.

Gu Yanyang couldn't dodge, stepped on the gravel and didn't stand firm, and directly collided with these children.

Her eyes widened in a little panic, her body suddenly lost her balance, and the position of her forehead near her temple was slammed into the big rock by the bushes, and her body rolled down, and she fell directly into the water with a thud, and she didn't even have time to struggle and call for help, so she was washed away by the turbulent current.

The whole accident happened very quickly, that is, in a few seconds, the children didn't have time to react at that time, and when they came back to their senses and waded into the water to look for it, they found that Gu Yanyang's shadow had long been lost on the river in front of them.

When they found out that they had run into trouble, their faces immediately changed, and several people stood on the shore in a panic and at a loss, and they began to cry on the spot.

One of the children was quite sane, and while crying, he looked around tremblingly, and shouted:

"Oh no, hurry up and come here, just now, a sister just fell in from here!!"

"Who fell in?"

"Something's wrong, there's an accident! Whose child fell in? ”

The surrounding crowd immediately gathered around, and the adults changed their faces after listening to what the group of children said, and several strong adult men took off their clothes on the spot and jumped into the river to find someone.

Not far away, Xiaohua'er stood on the steep slope and watched the scene in front of her, trembling with fright, she clenched her fists tightly, turned around and ran towards the shore.

When he turned around, he bumped into Mu Jinjin, who had just come back.

Mu Jinjin had just come back from taking his things, and when he looked down and saw that all the people by the river were bustling together, he couldn't help frowning and asked:

"Little Hua'er, didn't I ask you to help me watch Yanyang? Where is she? What is the crowd in front of you yelling about? ”

"I, I don't know."

Xiaohuaer was afraid that she would be scolded, so she lied for a while:

"What's that, Sister Jinjin, also, maybe Sister Yanyang walked home first, let's hurry up and chase her"

After Xiaohua'er finished speaking, she dragged Mu Jinjin to the front of the small gravel road, Mu Jinjin saw that she was in a hurry, and she didn't think much about it, so she followed behind and left.

Along the way, Mu Jinjin quickened his pace and walked forward, frowning as he walked: "Xiaohua'er, are you sure Yanyang left first?" ”

Why is it that I have walked most of the way, and I can't even see a figure?

Gu Yanyang is sick, can she walk so fast?

Xiaohua'er lowered her eyes, mumbled, and her hands were shaking: "Yes, yes, I seem to see her go first, just this way"

"But, I didn't see her" Mu Jinjin frowned: "Where did this girl go, Xiaohua'er, are you really sure she left first?" ”

Xiao Hua'er nodded and walked forward silently, Mu Jinjin saw this, his heart became more and more uneasy, he hurried forward all the way, looked up and saw that home was in front of him, and immediately rushed in without thinking about it.

In the Mu family's house, Mu Chen was talking with Mu Yaojun and Chen Rui, and the three of them were chatting happily, only to hear a loud bang at the courtyard door outside, and then Mu Jinjin rushed in panting.

She stood at the door with her knees propped up and panted, obviously running in, and Xiaohua'er, who came in behind, saw Mu Chen sitting at the table at a glance, and immediately opened her eyes wide, and said very happily: "Brother Mu!" ”

Mu Chen looked at her, nodded, waited for a long time and didn't see the person he wanted to see the most, couldn't help frowning, and asked in unison with Mu Jinjin, who had just stood up straight:

"What about Yeon-yeon (Yeon-yang)?"

As soon as the words fell, Mu Chen and Mu Jinjin were stunned, Mu Jinjin raised his head, glanced around the room, and said eagerly:

"What about Gu Yanyang? Why isn't she here? Haven't come back yet? ”

Mu Yaojun glanced at her: "This stupid girl, what nonsense are you talking about, didn't Yanyang go out with you?" ”

Mu Chen also frowned, and replied to Mu Jinjin:

"Yeonyang never came back, I heard my dad and mom say that she went out with you, didn't she? What's wrong? Got stripped outside? ”

Mu Jinjin looked up at Mu Chen, and the joy in his heart because of seeing him come back was instantly replaced by panic:

"Of course it's not that you're separated, brother, dad, mom, are you sure Yeonyang really didn't come back? Are you sure? ”

"Jinjin, what exactly do you want to say?" Chen Rui looked at her puzzled: "If Yanyang comes back, how can we not tell you?" What's wrong? What the hell is going on? ”

Mu Jinjin took a deep breath, didn't have time to explain at all, only turned his head to look at Xiaohua'er beside him, clasped her shoulders with both hands, and asked sharply:

"Little flowers! What about Yeonyang? Didn't you just tell me that Yeonyang came back first? If she comes back first, what about her! You say! ”

"I, I don't know..."

Little Flower cried and shook her head, trembling all over.