The TV in the living room is playing the hottest costume drama at the moment, knocking melon seeds, Xin Xiaoluo is sitting on the sofa and thinking about how to persuade his mother to go to the countryside for the New Year.

"Mom, will we go back to the countryside to celebrate the New Year with our grandparents this year? There is no taste of New Year in the city, and I really want to eat bacon smoked by my grandparents!" Xin Xiaoluo called Xin's mother, who was cleaning the living room.

"There are a lot of things to be busy at home, your uncle and aunt in the countryside will take care of them, the city and the countryside are incomparable, you call them to send some bacon here." Xin's mother stopped the broom and turned to clean up the melon seed shells on the coffee table, "How many times have you told you that the melon seed shells were spit out into the trash?" Make the coffee table look bad. ”

"Melon seed shells, I'll clean them up myself, Mom, let's go back to the countryside for the New Year together! I'm afraid my grandparents may not recognize me! And after so many years, as a daughter-in-law, you have only been to the countryside a handful of times. ”

"Xiaoluo, did your dad tell you to say that?" Xin's mother sat on the edge of the sofa with a rag.

"Of course not, I think they need any particular reason to go back and see? Mom, why don't you just like the countryside? Is it because you hate the countryside or do you hate your grandparents? ”

"It's not that I hate it, I just don't like it, I went there a few times before you were born. I was very happy to marry your father back then, but I didn't expect him to be from the countryside, and my grandfather tried his best to let me separate from your father after he found out. Your grandfather forbade relatives to associate with us, and you will never experience that desolation and loneliness. ”

"Mom, I'm sorry." Xin Xiaoluo realized that she had said the wrong thing and hurt her.

"They were speaking in tongues I didn't understand, and their mouths were laughing non-stop. Occasionally, a few sentences can be heard, that is, your father married a poor boy to a city wife, saying that I put on a stinky face, and I will only cry, which is unlucky! The way of life in the countryside is very different from that in the city, and it is tormenting every day for a few days when the wine is served, and I secretly cry behind your father's back at night. ”

"On the wedding night, I discussed with your father, I can't adapt to life in the countryside, let's work together to buy a small house in the city, and live a comfortable and burden-free life. Your grandparents didn't say anything when they heard your father's request, but they also separated our relationship from then on. At the end of the day, I'm really not a good daughter-in-law. ”

Xin Xiaoluo held Xin's mother's hand, she wanted to say something but couldn't say anything, she couldn't understand this helpless pain, but she could feel her mother's sadness.

"Xiaoluo, grandparents have called and asked you to come and pick them up! Hurry!" Xin Jiangguo walked from the bedroom to the living room and handed over the phone.

Hurriedly took it, "Ah, hey, grandpa, I'm Xiaoluo!"

"Is it Xiaoluo? I'm grandpa! Hey, grandpa can't hear clearly. ”

Xin Xiaoluo amplified his voice, "Yes, I'm Xiaoluo, are you okay grandpa?"

"I heard it, I heard it, grandpa has always had a bad ear. Xiaoluo, grandma is also beside her, ask grandma how is it. ”

"Grandma, grandma, Xiaoluo misses you so much!"

Grandma took the phone that her wife put in her ear, "Hey, Xiaoluo, it's grandma, grandma misses you too, grandpa often talks about you, I hope you go back to your hometown for the New Year, he is embarrassed to ask you." Xiaoluo is okay with us for the New Year this year? Grandparents prepared delicious food and drink, all of which you loved to eat when you were a child! You're all coming!" The old and arguable voice was full of unmistakable joy and anticipation.

With his hand fluttering on the phone, Xin Xiaoluo whispered to Xin's mother on the side, "Mom!" Grandparents let us celebrate the New Year with them, will Mom go? ”

Xin's mother looked embarrassed, hesitated, and did not answer her.

"Hey, Xiaoluo, is it okay?" The person on the other end of the line was expecting a response.

"Grandma, I'm asking Mom!"

"Xiaoluo, be good, give your mother the phone, I haven't talked to your mother on the phone for a long time."

"Good!"

Xin's mother didn't want to take it, so Xiaoluo just stuffed it in her hand, "Hey, Mom!" I'm Meiling. ”

"Hey, daughter-in-law, my mother-in-law hasn't talked to you for a long time, I'm sorry for you, and I rarely call to ask how you're doing for so many years."

"Mother-in-law, don't say that, I'm sorry for you."

"Meiling, is it okay to come back for the New Year? Your father-in-law and I have not been in good health in the past few years, I miss you more and more, I don't know how to speak in the past few years, and now I am afraid that there is not enough time, I want to get together with you, I don't have to live too long!" The old man's voice was choppy, hoarse and weak.

"Mother-in-law, we will clean up the house and it will pass, you must be healthy, we will take care of you together, and we will definitely live a long life."

Xin Xiaoluo and Xin Jiangguo heard her response, looked at each other and smiled, it seems that the bell must be tied to the bell.

"Haha, okay, okay, we're waiting for you at home, come early!

hung up the phone, put down his heart, as he wanted, Xin Xiaoluo hugged his mother's waist from behind, "Mom, you are amazing, my father and I have already bought gifts for returning to the countryside yesterday, you don't have to worry about what to give them!" ”

"You father and daughter, cut first and then play!"

The garden-style open-air café is located in the Yueshan Scenic Area, cold and quiet, the light constantly changes with the height of the sun, the wooden tables and chairs correspond to the landscape, and the coffee utensils are quite agricultural and forestry style. Pavilions, small bridges and flowing water provide people with a real experience of the vivid sense of nature. The coffee was fragrant, and the people sitting there were thoughtful and did not appreciate it.

"Yifeng? Yifeng? He was in a daze at the coffee cup, not even noticing that Luo Yao was sitting opposite, immersed in his own world, and no one could disturb him.

"Yes, have you just arrived?"

"Almost, have you waited a long time?" Luo Yao specially invited Tang Yifeng to come to the café to ask him about financial problems, about this theory, if the research is too deep, it will fall into a bottleneck, and with his guidance, she is not very worried.

"It didn't take long, just arrived."

"Oh, let's talk about your problem."

"Don't want to ask!"

"Can this be? See me and understand? He chuckled.

"It's weird, so to speak, when I see you, I understand." She smiles toothlessly, elegant to the extreme, and matches the temperament of this café.

"That saves me a lot of effort, I'm curious when I will have this kind of function that can solve your problem at a glance?"

"Special secret!"

"Secret? I can't know? Tang Yifeng picked up the coffee cup and took a sip, it was neither sweet nor bitter, he didn't like it or hate it, obviously he didn't add a single sugar.

"Of course!"

"Huh?"

"What happened to you that day? I don't think it's as simple as supervising me to go to bed early, but of course I'm more willing to believe you because of that. She always has an easy insight into all his thoughts, and since he was a child, he can quietly relieve his worries, even if it is useless, he can feel her silent company.

"Family affairs, that day-" The rest of the story didn't go on, and I couldn't go on, every family had a scripture that was difficult to read.

Without asking him again, Luo Yao said to herself, "How do you say it?" Don't want it to be the best, do your own thing. There are too many things that can't be changed, and you and I are the same, we must improve ourselves before we have the ability to deal with other things. ”

"Don't talk about it, it's useless to talk more, is Auntie okay?"

"It's still like that, neither good nor bad. Yifeng, in fact, I envy you very much, at least your father grew up with you, and I have nothing, only my mother, if she didn't have me, she might not have lived. The spoon stirred back and forth in the cup, and the sweetness in the mouth was tinged with bitterness.

"You're not alone!" He grabbed her slender and fair hand, his face full of distress.

"I know, let's work together." Luo Yao shook him back, now she can't think too much, she can only move forward endlessly, she is very selfish, she wants him to accompany him all the way on this road, but she can't respond to his liking, but after all, he will be her alone, and no one can snatch it away.

Xin Xiaoluo's family packed a bunch of New Year's goods, filled the car to the brim, and it was laborious to squeeze out the three of them. Self-driving is characterized by saving money and time and freedom, the disadvantages are eighteen bends in mountain roads, slippery snowy roads, troublesome road exploration, sticky tires on muddy roads, tree branches hanging car covers, and driving is too tiring.

After a day of turbulence, I finally arrived at Shangyang Village safely, and the car drove to the entrance of the village, where a large number of people stood there.

"Meiling, Xiaoluo wake up, grandparents are here."

"Huh? That's it? The car drove for a day and a night, and only lay down in the second half of the night, and Xin Xiaoluo hadn't woken up yet.

The car turned off, and the old man couldn't wait to knock on the door.

"Is it Jiang Guo?"

"Mom, yes! There are also Meiling and Xiaoluo. ”

"Mother-in-law, why do you go out and wait, it's snowing outside, it's too cold, are you wearing enough clothes!"

"Daughter-in-law, we can't stay at home, come out to see you, it's not cold at all! Is this Xiaoluo, they have grown so big, my heart and liver, my grandmother doesn't recognize it. The old man was wearing a big red jacket and gray hair, and he was a little excited when he saw Xin Xiaoluo.

"Hello grandparents, Xiaoluo has come to see you!" Xin Xiaoluo and her grandmother had a big hug, her hands were clenched tightly in her grandmother's hands, and the old man's wrinkled hands were unusually warm.

The tile houses in the countryside are not as beautiful and exquisite as the city, and the infrastructure is quite incomplete, but they are full of fireworks all the time. The frames are all hidden in Xin Xiaoluo's memory, the women on the edge of the pond beat their clothes with mallets, the little children on the muddy side of the mud make snowmen have snowball fights, the houses on the edge of the village are stacked with large bundles of firewood, and while the sun is just rising after the snow, bacon, sausages and peppers are hung on the poles.

At eleven o'clock at noon, Xin Xiaoluo sat on a chair in the lobby of the outhouse, like a guest, and her grandparents told her to sit and eat wherever she went.

"Xiaoluo, wait for your uncle and aunt to come with their children, remember to share the sugar for your younger brothers and sisters, you can't rob them, you are a college student. When the food is served, come and serve the food, don't really think that you are a guest and don't know what to do!" Mother Xin couldn't see her sitting there idle, and the girls had to be virtuous and capable, and no one wanted her after she died.

"Yes, Mom, I know, I know, I know!" She felt embarrassed to not work, and she was uncomfortable sitting all the time.