Since moving to the city last week, Lin Qing hasn't been out again.

Mom was ping pong in the kitchen, informing her that there were guests coming to the house later—this was what Lin Qing knew a few days ago.

"Lin Qing, has your room been cleaned up, it's been a week since you moved over, and your luggage has been packed?"

Lin Qing was lying on the sofa in the living room and pressed the TV remote control boredly, and he pressed all over the stations but didn't find any interesting programs. Glancing to the right, I saw her dear mother poking her head out of the kitchen with a spatula, staring at her with big eyes, as if there was a posture that she rushed over and beat her before she cleaned up.

Sighing, Lin Qing didn't stop pressing the remote control, his head was like a kitchen, but his eyes were still staring at the TV screen, righteous and confident: "Okay, okay, you go cook, leave me alone." ”

In fact, Lin Qing didn't clean up the room, because she didn't even open her suitcase, and she survived by a change of clothes in her backpack this week. Anyway, there is no need to go out, Lin Qing has brought the characteristics of a lazy cancer girl to the extreme.

Needless to say, she knows who the guests are. They only moved in last week, and they don't know anyone else but Uncle Zheng. Lin Qing's parents divorced when she was in the third grade, and she was sentenced to her mother. At first, her biological father gave her 200 yuan a year to symbolize, but since he remarried and had a son in the fifth grade, her daughter has never existed like evaporated water.

This Uncle Zheng was met by his mother later, a middle-aged man, and his appearance was also good-looking, in Lin Qing's memory, his biological father was short-tempered, and he often quarreled with his mother and even sometimes fought hard. Yes, Mother Lin is not a trouble-free master, but also a strong temper. Uncle Zheng is different, he has a very good temper, and he has also seen his kindness to his mother in the past few years. Now that her mom has brought her here, what if .....

Before Lin Qing could think of what to do, the doorbell rang. "Lin Qing, go open the door." Of course, it was my mother's urging that came together.

Putting down the remote control, Lin Qing quietly rolled his eyes. Needless to say, opening a door is something that everyone can do.

"Xiaoqing, are you still used to living in your new home?" The man at the door was wearing a black coat and a dark red scarf that looked very warm. Medium height, a pair of big eyes and a gentle look of a middle-aged man looking at a child.

Lin Qing politely replied, took the fruit basket handed over by the man, and the thin one she wore at home was frozen by the cold air brought by the man, and she couldn't help but pull her sleeves. "Uncle Zheng, you sit down first, and I'll call my mother out." Lin Qingqing Zheng Guofu smiled politely and ran into the kitchen with a fruit basket.

There was still a TV series that Lin Qing had just tuned casually, and the new home was the top floor of the old building rented by his mother next to the new school, the small one was pitiful, but fortunately, he didn't have to live in the school near the new school, so Lin Qing didn't have any complaints. The small kitchen squeezed in Lin Qing instantly became very compact, Lin's mother sighed, and instructed her daughter to bring the finished food out and serve it to the table, and then took off her apron and went to the living room to pick up guests.

"Hmph, see the forgetful woman." Lin Qing pursed his lips and resigned himself to serving rice and vegetables.

At the dinner table, the three of them ate a little awkwardly, Lin Qing didn't eat with Zheng Guofu, but the three of them used to go to the restaurant to eat, and they never met at home, eating the home-cooked meals made by Lin's mother with not outstanding craftsmanship - all this is probably because this family is too small, and this table is really only the size of a palm.

Sure enough, it's still distance that produces beauty. Lin Qing thought to himself.

"Xiaoqing, will Uncle Hui take you to the supermarket to buy some snacks and new stationery?"

The first to break the embarrassment was Zheng Guofu. Lin Qing was grateful, and finally had a topic, and immediately replied aloud: "Great, I haven't been out for a week, and school will start in a few weeks." ”

As soon as the words fell, Lin Qing only felt a pain in her calf, and then looked up at her mother, obviously the irritable middle-aged woman was reminding her not to take too much inch. Sometimes Lin Qing wonders if mothers all over the world kick their daughter's feet under the dining table as a warning. sticking out her tongue, Lin Qing knew that her mother couldn't help her in front of Uncle Zheng.

The meal slowly ended, and the three of them packed up and set off for a walk around the city center.

Lin Qing's mother is a workaholic and started working the day after she moved here, so this is also the first time Lin Qing has seen what this new city looks like. Sitting in the warm car, looking out the window, because it is winter, the trees around are bare, unlike the trees in the south, even in winter, they are softly hanging on the branches. The first feeling that the north gave Lin Qing was cold, cold and hard. Somehow, just looking out the window, you can feel the chill outside.

The new home is a suburb of a second- and third-tier city, and it is also a 20-minute drive to the city center.

Even in the center of the city, there is no bustling appearance, and now that it is the end of the year, the streets are more lively than bustling. Zheng Guofu found a roadside car to park and took the mother and daughter to the street. Northerners seem to pay more attention to the New Year, and the snow on the streets is swept to both sides, unlike the snowy ones that Lin Qing imagined, the swept snow mixed with dirty dust turned into hard gray ice ballast piled together, and it will creak and creak when stepped on.

This is the largest shopping mall in the city center, and basically the surrounding residents will come to buy any major things.

"Xiaoqing, tell your uncle what you want to eat, you're welcome."

Zheng Guofu pointed to the surroundings of the mall, where there were some vendors wearing cotton jackets and shouting with horns. Sugar gourds, dates, fireworks, spring couplets and fruits are all available. Lin Qing smiled and nodded and replied to Zheng Guofu. She remembered her mother's warning before she went out - don't ask for anything casually.

In second- and third-tier cities, there are only two floors in shopping malls, one selling shoes and clothing, and a large supermarket. On the second floor, there is a cinema and a small indoor playground. This afternoon, Lin Qing collected new stationery, and pulled Uncle Zheng and his mother to indulge in the playground and couldn't extricate themselves.

At nine o'clock in the evening, the three of them finally arrived home, and Zheng Guofu sent his mother and daughter upstairs and drove away after sitting for a while. Lin Qing had a lot of harvest today, carrying the ones he was holding in his arms, as well as a few dolls that he had caught in the crane machine. It's good for a mother to have a suitor, bribe her daughter first, and it's easy to say anything. Lin Qingmei thought about it and stuffed the baby into her room.

"Don't be beautiful, clean up well, review what you learned before, and the new school will open in less than a month." Mother Lin leaned against the door frame, crossed her hands and chattered. "Also, your grandma will take care of you after school starts, and your mother is busy with work."

Lin Qing hummed and chirped perfunctorily, the movements of his hands did not stop, this doll was placed at the head of the bed, and he had to hold it when he slew. The new ballpoint pen is tucked into a pencil case and has a small donut pendant on it.

Her grandmother had two children, and her mother had a son with her uncle. Dumiao gave birth to a Dumiao, which is naturally a big baby. Don't think about it, grandma won't stay here for long, after all, she has to go home to take care of her baby grandson, her granddaughter is not expensive. Lin Qing has known since she was a child that girls and boys are probably different, when she was born, she was looking forward to her grandson's grandfather because it was a little girl like her, he fell down in the middle of the night, and his lip was stuck on the stone on the side of the road with five stitches, when she was a child, she felt that the scar on her mouth was very scary, like a bearded grandfather in a gourd baby, it was really scary.

Mother Lin looked unhappy when she saw that she mentioned her grandmother Lin Qing, sighed secretly, and stopped talking, only telling Lin Qing to go to bed early.

The night in the north was colder than the day, but fortunately, although it was an old building, it was still fully heated, Lin Qing lay in the warm quilt, and soon fell asleep. In the dream she turned into a snowflake, fluttering in the cold air of the night sky, but she didn't feel cold—how could a snowflake feel cold. Gently white, I don't know where I will float, there are countless small snowflakes like her, some of them fall on the branches, decorating this snow-white city; Some landed on the road, waiting to be swept aside by the morning cleaners the next day, turning into gray ice ballast and sticking to the ground.