4. Chinese New Year's Eve

The Spring Festival of the second zero year.

Liang Lei still accompanied her grandparents for the New Year with her parents, and her uncle also came back with her aunt and his pair of dragon and phoenix children. Three generations in the same house, so warm. For Grandpa Liang, the eldest son has inherited his career and medical skills, the younger son is also a civil servant, and the two daughters-in-law are gentle and graceful, and the other is shrewd and capable. The eldest granddaughter is quirky and sweet, and the younger granddaughter and grandson are also rare, and many others are so envious that they say: "Lao Liang, you save the life and help the wounded in this life, the doctor is benevolent, and God is watching it." A good person has a good reward, seeing that your family is happy, full of children and grandchildren, enjoying the family, it is really envious of others! ”

In the Chinese New Year's Eve, my mother and aunt accompanied my grandmother in the kitchen, and the smoke and aroma of food were drilling out from the kitchen. Although it is a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, it is also as harmonious as a biological mother and daughter or sisters, sharing interesting things between each other or health, children's education or family, and from time to time happy laughter squeezes out of the glass door of the kitchen and spreads to the living room.

Grandpa, dad and uncle were playing chess in the study, wheel battles, and whoever lost was killed. It is said that 'watching chess is silent and true gentleman', but it doesn't seem to be suitable for this father and son, and from time to time there can be the sound of Mr. Liang scolding his two sons from the door from time to time, as well as the sound of 'dispute' between the two brothers.

Liang Lei, Liang Jie, and Liang Jing were watching TV in the living room, eating snacks, discussing new dramas, and celebrities they were chasing. Liang Jing came out fifteen minutes earlier than Liang Jie, and she is sixteen years old this year, which is the first year of high school, so the three of them are of the same age and can play together. Liang Lei is just a 'little fox', these two sisters and brothers have been tricked by this sister, but the two of them still like to stick to this sister, and Liang Lei can always train them to be obedient.

"I wish my grandparents a happy New Year, as blessed as the East China Sea and Shoubi Nanshan!"

Before the banquet, the three grandchildren still stood in a row to greet the two elders. Grandma was already so happy that she couldn't close her mouth, and grandpa also smiled and took out the red envelope.

The three little eyebrows who took the red envelope danced and said 'thank you', and Liang Lei even took Liang Jing to kiss her grandparents so happily that they leaned forward and leaned back. The two middle-aged couples were also sitting on the side, and the laughter and laughter that flew out of the room could not be closed.

Nine people gathered around a table, steaming meals, carefully prepared delicacies, sincere blessings from the elderly, children teasing each other, and brothers sharing happily, how many people want to wear and ask for happiness......

"Happy New Year, Nono!" After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, call your good friends as usual to greet the New Year.

"Happy New Year! My most beautiful Lei Lei, I wish you even more beautiful next year! ”

"Hahaha...... It's still my family Nono is the most intimate. I also wish you a successful admission to the Normal University and fulfill your dream of becoming a teacher. ”

Then dial the phone of another male girlfriend.

"Happy New Year, Zhang Xiao! I wish you all the best in college next year! ”

"Liang Lei, for the Chinese New Year, can you say something nice, my parents were still nagging about this just now, and you still talk about it."

"What's wrong with me? I bless you! I'm sure you'll be fine, and although it looks a little overhanging right now, there's still a semester to go, and you'll be able to overtake in the corners. I see the university beckoning to you! ”

"Okay! I accept your blessings, I will also cheer, I can't be thrown out of a few streets by you every time, buddy, I am also the most beautiful boy in this community. Liang Lei, I also wish you to get out of the control of your parents as soon as possible and truly find your dreams. ”

"Phew! I'm good, my parents are fine. ”

……

After much struggling, he still dialed Yang Chen's phone, after all, he has been at the same table for half a year, and he is still good to himself.

"Happy New Year, Yang Chen!"

"New New New ...... Happy New Year! ”

"Haha, are you too excited to receive my call, you can't speak clearly!"

"Well, I'm very excited, I didn't expect you to call me tonight."

"Humph! If I don't call you, you won't take the initiative to give me New Year's greetings! ”

"I'm ...... I'm afraid I'll disturb you. ”

"New Year's Eve, what bother, have you had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner?"

“…… Eaten. ”

"Oh, that's okay, I'm going to watch the Spring Festival Gala with my family. Bye-bye and see you next year! ”

"Bye-bye ......"

The other end of the phone had hung up, only a blind voice remained, but Yang Chen held the phone but was reluctant to put it down for a long time. After a while, he turned to look at the empty house. The instant noodles on the table were already a little clumped, and the appetite was gone, except for the freshly brewed coffee that was bubbling with a psychedelic mist.

Yes, tonight is the Chinese New Year's Eve, but home, or here cannot be called 'home', just an lifeless house, so quiet that only the sound of its own breathing.

When I was very young, my parents divorced, and my mother has never been known ever since. At that time, my father was an ordinary worker, the salary was not high, but his voice was not low. It is said that my mother has always disliked my father after marriage, and she was vulgar, and after a drunken father accidentally beat her mother, she finally left this man with all her heart. At that time, he wanted to take Yang Chen away, but his father's three generations of single transmission did not agree, so his mother left alone, and there has been no news since.

Also because of Mom's departure, Dad vowed to make a lot of money to prove himself. Since then, he has gone to the sea to do business, but a man with a low education and no special skills can say that he can make money by doing business. In the first few years, even Yang Chen couldn't support him, so he could only stay at his grandmother's house for a long time. But grandma is old and her health is not very good, so she died when Yang Chen was twelve years old. Maybe it's because he has experienced all kinds of 'breaking' in the world at a young age, but he has learned to be quiet, not to cry, not to make trouble, not to talk, but to accompany his father to handle the funeral for his grandmother. But it's strange to say that since then, Dad's business has begun to improve, and it has gradually become prosperous and small-scale.

After high school, his father remarried, Yang Chen didn't want to say anything, that is, he couldn't talk about blessings, and he didn't want to stop him, as if that man didn't seem to have much to do with him except for giving him a body of blood and bones. I chose a boarding high school, but I didn't want to stay with them, and we were embarrassed by each other. It's just that I didn't get admitted to the university of my choice in the third year of high school, so I had to repeat my studies and chose to return to the place where I lived with my grandmother since I was a child, and lived in the old house left by my grandmother.

I heard that my father was still out socializing in his Chinese New Year's Eve today, and his current wife also called him and invited him back to their home for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but Yang Chen refused. He really didn't know why he was going to have a meal with another unfamiliar woman who should have been around the table for the New Year.

Tonight was no different from usual in his eyes, except that when he remembered to go to the vegetable market to buy some vegetables and come back to cook, he found that the door was closed, and everyone went home for the New Year. I had to buy a few buckets of instant noodles and some dry food from the small supermarket on the side of the road, which was not closed, and came back to eat and continue to review my homework.

It's just Liang Lei's New Year's call, but it unintentionally aroused the touch in his heart, after listening to her sweet and soft blessings, the background voice on the other end of the phone in her family's happy front and back echoes, tears somehow, disobeyed the call and fell.

Walked into the room and sat down in front of a worn-out old-fashioned piano, the only thought left by Mom.

At that time, she was a kindergarten teacher, and in her vague memory, she played the piano and sang nursery rhymes. The figure that he had forgotten for a long time appeared in his mind very clearly at this moment. Although the piano with intonation can no longer be found, it slowly sounds along with the songs of childhood......

"The doll and the bear dance,

Jump, jump, one, two, one;

They're dancing in circles.

Jump, jump, one, two, one.

Little Bear nodded,

Nodding, one-two-one;

The little doll laughed,

Laugh and laugh, one, two, one.

Doll and bear dance,

Jump, jump, one, two, one;

How neatly they danced,

How neat, one-two-one.

Let's dance, too.

Jump, jump, one, two, one;

Let's dance, too.

Jump, jump, one, two, one.

Let's dance, too.

Jump, jump, one, two, one.

The boy's hoarse voice merged with the sound of the piano in a different key, from sluggish to low, and finally only crying......

Here, Liang Lei, who was holding a pillow and watching the Spring Festival Gala with her family, fell into a trance unconsciously. Zhang Xiao's sentence: "Get out of the control of your parents as soon as possible and really find your dreams." "It's always lingering in my ears.

Oh, yes! According to the laws of the country, I am already an adult, but, if I think about it, have you ever dreamed in the past 18 years? Is there anything you really want to do and pursue in your life? Although I did have a lot of ambitions when I was a child, I wanted to be a scientist, a musician, an artist, a doctor, a teacher, and so on.

Now, what is the dream?