"Why are you two brothers and sisters standing in the courtyard talking, and you are not cold anymore? Come in and wash your hands and eat. Du's mother called the two siblings through the kitchen window.

"Where have you been this morning? I came back before 10 o'clock, and my mother said you were out. ”

"I went up the mountain to see Master Kong, and I told him yesterday. There are more people today, and I hope that there will be fewer people in the morning. Xiao Yi calmly said the words she had prepared in her heart, and she didn't lie to anyone.

"Are there a lot of people?"

"Much, I haven't seen it for years, this feeling, I really miss it. But many people don't know each other anymore, I remember that before I went abroad, I accompanied my mother to the mountain every year almost as acquaintances, and now, I don't know many of them. ”

The brother and sister spoke, washed their hands and sat down at the table. Dad Du also walked out of the study, looking at the brothers and sisters sitting at the table with smiles on their faces.

For his two children, Du's father has almost no dissatisfaction, the brother and sister have had a good relationship since childhood, and the things encountered by the two children in other families are almost absent in the Du family.

"Yunfeng, let's write couplets at home in two days."

"Okay, Dad, but Yiyi is back this year, do you want her to write two strokes too?" Yun Feng is very good to Xiaoyi, and he doesn't forget her in everything he does.

Xiao Yi hatefully stepped on Yunfeng under the table. Yun Feng's face did not change, and he smiled happily.

"It's okay, then it's good for you to write the blessing words on the door of the house, I'll write the door and the main hall, and Yunfeng will write the pair." While speaking, Dad Du arranged the task.

The blessing character of the room does not need to be too big, so Xiaoyi's delicate European body is very suitable. Plus the spare, ten blessing words, think about it, it's not too much.

Mother Du smiled and brought the meal to the table, the steaming meal, the family of four gathered around the table, the Du family's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is not too particular, as long as the family gets together. So Yun Feng came back at noon, and the family had a New Year's dinner.

Xiao Yi thought, what a rare sight this is. In the four years I have been abroad, how many times have I dreamed of such a scene.

"Oh, Mom, I want to kill my Dongpo elbow. You know my heart. Yunfeng likes to eat meat, and Dongpo's elbow is one of his favorites, so the first chopsticks are sandwiched to Du's mother's specialty dish.

"If you come back half an hour later, I'll prepare other dishes, I thought I'd make them for you tonight."

"Hey, I know that Mom loves me the most." Yun Feng said, pasted his face and pasted it to Du's mother's face.

"Stinky boy, eat honestly." Father Du, who was sitting next to Du's mother, was not happy, how old is this son, and he is still like his mother. Yun Feng is a very elegant and humble person in the eyes of outsiders, but I am afraid that no one would think that he is an authentic stinky boy at home, he likes to challenge the authority of Du's father, and he also likes to tease Xiaoyi.

"Dad, you can also eat your son's vinegar." said that he wanted to get close to Du's mother again.

"Stinky boy." Dad Du was even more unhappy now, picked up the chopsticks and went to the Dongpo meat on Yunfeng's chopsticks, Yunfeng's kung fu was taught by Du's mother and Du's father, so it was much better than Xiaoyi, plus he was young and vigorous, and he didn't lose to the experienced Du Dad after a few rounds.

Looking at the chopsticks that kept flying up and down, just to earn that piece of Dongpo meat, Mother Du

and Xiaoyi were a little crying and laughing.

In the end, Jiang was still old and spicy, and the Dongpo meat on Yunfeng's chopsticks ended up in Dad Du's mouth.

"Stinky boy, you're still a little tender. Let's practice for a few years. Quite satisfied with eating that piece of meat, Dad Du did not forget to damage his son.

"Okay, you two can't have a meal anymore." Mother Du saw the two of them stop, and persuaded with a smile.

"Yun Feng, what was the name of the friend you said you were doing business with last time?" When the two of them stopped making trouble, Du's mother was eating and asked unintentionally.

"It's called Gu Wenhao." Yun Feng heard his mother ask and quickly answered. Xiao Yi couldn't help but prick up her ears.

"Surname Gu? Are you from the ancient family in the capital? Mother Du continued to hold the dishes, feeling a little careless, but Yun Feng and Xiaoyi never dared to underestimate their mother, who did not leave the door.

After all, Du's mother's identity is there, and her knowledge since childhood has laid the vision of this life, which is not comparable to ordinary people. Many times, especially for things in the big family, Du's father does not understand Du's mother.

Yun Feng nodded, "Ah, it's from the Gu family." ”

"How old is the Gu family?"

"It should be the second child, generally called him the second young, I only know that he has an eldest sister above, but it's not a kiss, to say that they are boys of this generation, he is the boss, and there is a younger brother, I don't know about the one below. But listening to his words, there is something ...... in his family Complex. Yun Feng thought about it before picking out a word to describe Gu Wenhao's family. Yun Feng answered in detail, Xiao Yi listened carefully, this is the first time I have heard someone talk about Gu Wenhao's family.

Mother Du looked at Yun Feng's somewhat nervous expression and couldn't help but smile: "What are you nervous about, I'll just ask, it's nothing." You only said one sentence about doing business with people, and your parents don't know who they are, so you can rest assured when you ask. As he spoke, he sandwiched another piece of Dongpo meat into Yunfeng's bowl, "The second child of the Gu family is a promising person, if you are with him, your parents can rest assured." ”

"Okay, let's eat first, ask after eating, you rarely have such a time, so that the two children dare not speak." Dad Du saw that the two children were no longer eating as much as they had just now, and said to Du's mother with a smile.

"Hey, I'm just going to ask, you see these two kids are nervous...... Your grandfather has already allowed Yichen and Yishi University to take the exam in the capital. Mother Du also smiled and added the last sentence, but Xiao Yi and Yun Feng were stunned.

My grandfather never allowed people from the Tang Sect to have dealings with political people in the capital, Yun Feng was able to do business with Gu Wenhao, Xiao Yi always thought that first, because Yun Feng was not a person from the Tang Sect, and second, because his brother really only had business dealings and never had anything to do with politics. Last time, when Yichen asked himself if he wanted to be admitted to the capital, he said that he didn't know if his grandfather would not allow it, but now he agreed.

That brother is doing business with the people of the Gu family, and my grandfather is very clear in his heart when he wants to come, but he didn't stop it, plus listening to his mother's questioning, my grandfather has the heart to let the Tang family come out?

Looking at the faces of her two children, Mother Du was a little relieved, although she didn't grow up in the Tang Sect, she still had sensitivity to some things, which was good.

"I'll tell you, don't think too much, it doesn't have much to do with us."

Xiao Yi and Yun Feng nodded and stopped talking, these things have little to do with them

It was Du's mother who rarely participated in the decision-making of the Tang Sect, after all, the daughter who married out spilled the water.

No longer thinking about these things, the family of four started to eat with laughter and laughter.

In the Chinese New Year's Eve, fireworks have been banned in big cities, but small places like Yunyin Town have not changed much. There are not many types of firecrackers, but this does not prevent the children in Yunyin Town from having a happy mood for the New Year, which family releases a long whip, and a group of children will swarm out and begin to pick up the remaining firecrackers that have not exploded, and then light them with the incense in their hands, and then throw them far away where no one is.

For the small town in his hometown, Xiaoyi always has an inexplicable emotion in it. It's good to watch anything, it's like watching this group of children play, Xiao Yi thought, this group of children is so sensible, they even throw firecrackers to a place where no one is.

Yun Feng and Xiao Yi have grown up, so the Du family only puts a long whip at midnight every year, when they were young, Du's father took Yun Feng to put it, Xiao Yi and her mother watched in the door, and now, it has been replaced by Yun Feng alone outside, Xiao Yi and her parents are watching in the door.

Xiao Yi looked at the long whip that "crackled" in front of her, and silently muttered in her heart, "Blow up all the filth, and the coming year will be smooth." Blow up all diseases and be healthy for the coming year. "I haven't seen such a lively scene for many years, and I think of my days in the United States, how much I miss this scene.

After putting the whip into the house and eating Chinese New Year's Eve dumplings, Xiaoyi and her mother were a little unable to hold on, so Dad let the two go in to sleep, and he and Yun Feng kept vigil outside.

Xiao Yi nodded, said goodnight to her parents, and brother, and went upstairs into her room.

Xiao Yi's room has a balcony, although it is not high, but it is enough to see a small place in Yunyin Town, and on the balcony Dad hung two big red lanterns, swaying in the wind.

As far as the eye can see, there are lanterns of different styles hanging on the balconies of every house, and some people will hang a pair at the door of their homes, which is prosperous, more than one o'clock in the morning, the lively enough Yunyin Town gradually quiets down, the old neighbors are very particular, and the time to release the whip is generally before midnight, so that it will not affect the rest of others. In addition, most of them are elderly, so the lively atmosphere does not last long.

Lying on the carved solid wood bed, turning on the bedside lamp, listening to the faint laughter from time to time outside, Xiaoyi took her mobile phone to look at the various calls and text messages just now.

There are not many people who know that Xiaoyi is back, so I thought that only a few people would send a text message to greet it, but I never thought about it, put my mobile phone upstairs, and when I came back, there were forty or fifty text messages of all kinds, including classmates in the class, classmates in the department, and some New Year's messages from unknown people, which looked like classmates who didn't know how to find their numbers because of the last New Year's Day party.

It's not a very important person, Xiao Yi sent it in a group, look at the time, it's almost 2 o'clock in the morning, and I want to edit some text messages myself, so let's wait for tomorrow. Thinking about it, he got out of bed and closed the curtains and turned off the lamp.

Lying on the bed, I couldn't sleep for a while, and I couldn't help but think, I don't know what Gu Wenhao is doing now. I remember more than a month ago, standing in front of the window of the music building, he called, at that time he also said that he wanted to make up for himself a Chinese New Year's Eve, he didn't believe it at the time, yes, even if he didn't have a class in the Chinese New Year's Eve, as the eldest grandson, he had to spend the New Year at home with his family.

Thinking, he sighed and rolled over to sleep.