One winter in '07.

Boom!

There was a dull knock on the door.

"Come out, Xu Mowen."

The village chief looked into the house from the window, the moonlight shone into the house, Xu Mowen's impoverished home was empty, the house was surrounded by walls, even the bedding on the bed was swept away, and the garbage scattered all over the place did not look like a place with the smell of fireworks.

Knock knock!

The village secretary's knock on the door gradually became urgent.

"Come out! If you owe money, you hide and don't show up? "He had a severe Sichuan accent.

"Hey, Lao Liu." The village chief bent over and stepped over from the side, pointed to the lock held at the door, and patted his thigh: "Oh, it's late, let this king run!" ”

"I'm X!" The village secretary kicked the wooden door, the rusty hinges creaked, and the couplets on the door crumbled.

Xu Xuanyue, who was hiding in the house, was shocked by this sound, and almost shouted, a calloused hand immediately covered her mouth, Xu Xuanyue felt that her father's palms were full of sweat, and at the same time, her immature cheeks were scraped by these rough hands, so she reached out to hold her mother's hand for comfort, but she shook a pair of hands that trembled more violently than herself.

The village secretary outside the door scolded: "He brewed it, talked about it, and paid back the money during the New Year, and paid it back during the New Year." He looked at the couplet in the door with resentment and spat at it fiercely. When the year comes, you won't be able to see people! Another kick at the door, which swung and kicked up the dust on the floor. (Afraid of 404, deliberately typos)

Xu Mowen felt the two people next to him hugging him tightly and trembling, and kept muttering in fear: You go, you go, I don't have any money.

But as the head of the family, he had to forcibly stabilize his emotions.

"Oh, don't shout, let's chase it, maybe we will be able to catch up with it." The village chief dragged the village secretary to the main road.

The footsteps faded away.

"Let's go...... Let's go? Liu Yuhua asked.

"Ah, let's go." Xu Mowen stretched out his hand to touch his daughter-in-law's face in the dark, but he touched the tears in his hand, and he couldn't stop feeling distressed.

"Yueyue?"

He shook his daughter's thin body, but Xu Xuanyue did not respond.

Oops! Xu Mowen screamed in his heart, he clenched it just now, as if he had covered the child's nose. He was in the dark, and he couldn't see his daughter's face.

"Pinch people! Pinch people! Liu Yuhua shouted anxiously beside him.

Xu Mowen hurriedly stretched out his hand.

"Ahh Xu Xuanyue sat up suddenly, panting for breath, but the dust raised on the ground was inhaled, and she kept coughing.

A well-behaved voice came from his ear: "Ahem, Dad, I held back just now, I didn't scream." ”

Xu Mowen was so distressed under the cover of darkness that he couldn't help himself.

After removing the hinges of the door, Xu Mowen's family took advantage of the night to grope out of the village, basically every family he borrowed money, and the business was lost by the scammer, and he didn't dare to fight at all in the village.

Xu Mowen thought to himself: Call me and call me, you are not allowed to scare my mother-in-law and daughter-in-law (daughter-in-law and daughter).

They crossed the muddy road in the fields to the town, drove away the second-hand trucks hidden in the alleys, lit the fire five times, started but turned off the fire, and hit it three more times before they hit the road, and the tires were smoothed and scraped on the ground and slid and screeched.

There are almost no vehicles on the road, and those who celebrate the New Year should stay at home and eat a reunion dinner.

"What did you bring out?" Liu Yuhua hugged Xu Xuanyue, who was sleeping in her arms, wrapped in a blanket, lying in the back seat, her hands and feet were cold, and the uneven spring pad was against her waist, which was very uncomfortable, but she turned around slightly and was afraid of waking her daughter up, so she simply let her ribs continue to hurt.

"What else to bring?"

"Where are you going?"

"Go to my brother first, ask him to help me buy a few tickets, we will go to Yunhai the next day, Lao Xu said over there that he wants to invest in my partnership, and when we come back, we will find time to sell the car." Xu Mowen habitually reached into his pocket, but took out an empty cigarette case.

The speed of the car gradually slowed down, and finally the fuel ran out and stopped on the side of the road, and Xu Mowen, who got out of the car to check, scolded the warhead selling oil at the entrance of the village for missing two catties.

Xu Xuanyue woke up, stretched her waist, and opened her hazy eyes: "It's here?" ”

"Not yet, are you still sleepy, baby?"

Xu Xuanyue shook her head, then got up. Xu Mowen walked over and knocked on the window: "Come down first, there's no gas." ”

"How far is it from Big Brother's house?" Liu Yuhua said worriedly.

Xu Mowen turned his head to look at the asphalt road in front of him, so dark that he couldn't see the end or the bend, it was so dark that it was annoying, the surroundings were terrifyingly quiet, the frost gradually climbed up the dry branches on the side, the cold hit, Xu Mowen warmed up with hot air in his hands.

"I don't know."

"Daddy." Xu Xuanyue poked her head out of the window, her hair was unkempt, and she was lying on the door frame and rubbing her eyes with her little hands: "I'm hungry." ”

Xu Mowen looked at the cargo box behind the car, thinking in his heart.

"Come on! Daughter. Xu Mowen gently opened the car door and smiled: "Let's have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner now!" ”

Xu Xuanyue's big eyes suddenly lit up: "There are pork ribs." ”

The so-called "Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner" in Xu Mowen's mouth is to set up a simple stand behind the uncovered cargo box, find dry wood under the roadside field, put a small cooking pot with their own, and cook a few bunches of noodles, but unfortunately, they fled in a hurry without salt.

"What's in the bag? Digging. ”

When Xu Xuanyue heard this, she raised her little hand and kept jumping: "I have it, I have it!" She got into the car, opened her small school bag, and pulled out a bag of instant noodles.

Xu Mowen clapped his hands: "Hey, girl, you are hiding private goods, but you are doing a good job!" ”

"I usually don't let you eat this thing, why do you still buy it secretly." Liu Yuhua blamed.

Xu Xuanyue kept waving her little hands, looking aggrieved: "No, no, no!" It's not bought, it's changed, I took the milk for breakfast two days ago and exchanged it with a friend. ”

"You know the milk is about to expire."

"Well, so I told him to drink it quickly."

Xu Mowen touched his beard: "Then, are you sure that the pack of instant noodles in your hand has not expired?" ”

Xu Xuanyue was shocked, paused for a while, and then hurriedly handed it to her mother.

Liu Yuhua rummaged through and finally found the production date on the edge of the bag. "Ha, it's a coincidence." Liu Yuhua kissed Xu Xuanyue fiercely on the face.

"Today happens to be the last day!"

Under the faint street lamp, the family gathered around this small pot, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, laughing and imagining the future.

"Wait, daughter-in-law! I will definitely do a good job in this investment, it is a matter of time before you become a rich woman, what do you want, hurry up and say. ”

"Pull it down, it's not the first time I've heard you brag about it. But if I had to choose, I would just want to stay at home every day, read magazines with melon seeds, cook and wait for you to come back from work, and wait for Yueyue to come home from school. Liu Yuhua looked up, as if he had fallen into a beautiful fantasy.

Xu Mowen leaned over and kissed Liu Yuhua's cold cheek, causing Xu Xuanyue to laugh.

He waved his hand: "Don't worry, you don't want to cook the food, I'll hire a nanny for the family, and you can lie down and wait for us to go home!" What about you? Daughter. ”

Xu Xuanyue stuck out her tongue and shook her head, pulling her braids with both hands: "I want to wear beautiful clothes and eat pork ribs!" And it's sweet and sour pork ribs, I eat it every day, and I have to eat it to my heart's content. ”

"Eat so much, no wonder my daughter is so sweet! Hahaha......"

"Hey, Dad, look, fireworks! Firework! Xu Xuanyue pointed to the sky.

An inconspicuous small fire flew into the black curtain, the speed gradually slowed down, and when it reached the highest place, it exploded, turning into a large green umbrella blooming in the air, and it was not completely gone, and it was a yellow firework, as if it was driven out of morale, and all kinds of fireworks competed in the air in an instant, one after another. Everyone stared at the illuminated night sky, as if the future they described was hidden. Under the colorful firelight, Liu Yuhua saw a tear slip down from Xu Mowen's side face......

After eating and drinking, everyone returned to the car, and Liu Yuhua fell asleep with Xu Xuanyue in his arms.

Xu Mowen looked at their reassuring sleeping faces, and a happy smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He took out his phone, clicked the button, and sent a message.

"Lao Xu, the company you told me about before, that strange name, what, Alibaba's Taobao? This investment ...... Is it reliable? ”