Dad hadn't spent the New Year in the village for a long time, and at the beginning of the new year, his old friends such as Uncle Niu and Uncle Jiang ...... and they all came to him to gather together his families. Aunt Li took her two sisters and brothers to carry gifts early and shouted at the door of the house: "There are people at home, come to pay New Year's greetings!" Mom greeted her with joy. Although it is a bit cramped to give New Year's money this year, the happiness brought by good friends is far greater than the difficulty caused by this constraint.

Shi Jiaojiao always finished dealing with her parents' guests, so she sat alone in the corner, exposed to the winter sun, and looked at the joy of her parents with cold eyes. Xia Lei still has no news; Chen Li's family went to her grandmother's house in another province for the New Year this year; The sixth child called and said that he was at his aunt's house in the city and would not come back until the fourth year of junior high school...... This is probably the most depressed New Year in the life of the girl Shi Jiaojiao, so far.

As it gets dark, a family of three sits at the table and eats a dinner without guests. Mom and Dad looked very happy as they cooked for each other and discussed the current situation of their friends. "Osmanthus duck legs give us Shi Jiaojiao!" Father Shi shouted and looked at his daughter with a smile. Shi Jiaojiao stared at the duck leg in the bowl, knowing that it was a New Year's gift from her father's friend.

There is a kind of unreasonable time, which is not pleasing to the eye, especially not to see others happy! Shi Jiaojiao's eyes widened, and she was thinking in her heart that she wanted to find a topic that would make everyone unhappy. "Oh, it's the fourth year of junior high school, and none of the girls came, so I miss them a little." Mom "killed herself", she didn't notice anything, and ate a peanut briskly, and "quack" bit out a special aroma.

"They've all gone to their relatives' houses to pay New Year's greetings! Why don't we have to visit relatives at home, and no relatives come to our door? Shi Jiaojiao held the bowl and asked slowly, she saw that the fiery eyes of her parents disappeared almost at the same time as her words, and the atmosphere was as Shi Jiaojiao wished, and it fell to freezing in the shortest time.

I only felt happy the moment I saw the change in my parents' expressions, and soon, regret and guilt filled Shi Jiaojiao's chest. She realized that her move was a typical rebellion, and that the topic had always been a no-go area for the family, and although it was never spoken, no one mentioned it.

Grandpa's family was poor, and grandma died early. Mother Shi married the youngest son of this family at the cost of cutting off all family affection, except for looking chic, nothing else. At that time, Shi's father, who had just been discharged from the militia, took shit luck according to his grandfather and entered the state-run cement factory, which can be regarded as adding glory to the family. Who knew that the new daughter-in-law couldn't stand the cigarette ash stuffing her nose, and she was also worried that her husband would fall into lung disease, so a pillow wind blew him away from the decent iron rice bowl. The whole family was furious, but the young couple left the isolated mountain village happily.

After a few tosses, I don't know how many relationships they can't beat, how much brute force they sell, and how much brute force they sell, they finally settled in this lakeside village. At that time, I came with my father's distant uncle, who said that the land here was good, and he had contracted a large piece of land to plant trees and produce timber. As a result, not a single tree was planted, and my uncle, who had been a widower for many years, found an old lady in the local area and happily went to another town to be a stepfather, leaving behind a thatched house and a pair of nephews who were at a loss.

The new aunt was shrewd and snobbish, and quickly subdued the uncle and asked him to stop interacting with the poor nephew, "They came to pay New Year's greetings, two packs of dates in exchange for a good meal for me, and a small cheat to suppress the New Year's money!" How come I don't have such a good deal to do! This is the new aunt's most incisive summary of the nephew, and she successfully persuaded the hesitant uncle.

But is it only this halfway aunt who is snobbish? No, the poor have no relatives in the first place.

There are also brothers and sisters in my grandmother's family who are worried about those who have run away, and one or two Shi Jiaojiao's uncles and aunts have come to the village. Looking at the dilapidated thatched hut and Xiao Shi's delicate black smiling face, they quickly left with superficial compassion and peace of mind in their hearts, and never appeared again.

Grandpa himself came. He is getting older, and his sons and daughters-in-law, who have been living together in his ancestral house, say, "We have raised you for so long, it's time for your youngest son to do something!" "As soon as the old man thinks that he is also causing trouble to his beloved children in his hometown, the younger son should raise me, so I will go! Later, in Xiaoshijiao's innocent big eyes, he boarded the black bus and returned to his hometown with all his belongings, he missed his beloved children!

My brother and sister miss my brother too! I don't know who said it, my younger brother made a good living, and my younger brother's daughter-in-law also made a big come. They hurriedly released all the thoughts they had stored for more than ten years through a phone call, "It's not easy for you two young people!" We've been looking forward to you, now it's good! Ah, you have to put down roots in a good place, and you can buy a house for a college student...... "They discussed that they would come over to see their brother next Chinese New Year."

This time, I don't know who I listened to, my brother had an accident, and he was injured and lost his livelihood! There is no need to pursue this, the bad news has no legs but runs faster than anyone else! The concern for my brother seems to have been vented in that phone call, and no one misses this brother anymore, let alone the family to visit, but I can't even make a phone call! They feel sorry for their brother, and they can't bear to hear the news of his misfortune......

Why don't we have to visit relatives at home, and no relatives come to our door? The answer is clear. It is obviously accompanied by Shi Jiaojiao's birth, and the various stages of infants, children, and girls have been embedded in all the time of Shi Jiaojiao's nearly twenty years, and they have been revealed little by little!

So this question, if it's not for the sake of finding it unpleasant, why is it still being asked? They are three people who are connected by blood, and even if their hearts and minds are not connected, their emotions are also the same. In the lively New Year, there was a silent dinner at home.

Later, Shi Jiaojiao rushed to clean up the table, rushed to wash the dishes, adjusted her mother's favorite TV channel, and asked her father if she wanted to wash her feet, she had already boiled the water...... But no matter how much she tried to show her affection, they were indifferent, and the most heartfelt thing was that they neither reproached nor grieved, but simply ignored all her ups and downs with a blank face. In the end, Shi Jiaojiao also lost her patience and nested into the quilt early.

The silence kept spreading, and the faint sound of TV from her parents' room was like a spell, making Shi Jiaojiao scratch her ears and cheeks. "I was wrong, I was wrong, can't I!" Shi Jiaojiao kicked off the quilt on her body, sat up suddenly, and ran to her parents' room in her autumn clothes and pants, regardless of the cold of the winter night. She pushed open the door, stood by the TV, and said, "I'm sorry. ”

Dad opened his mouth first, "Go and put on the padded jacket first!" Shi Jiaojiao obediently walked to the pedal of the old-fashioned wooden bed and said "I'm sorry" to her father again. Father Shi reached out and lifted the big cotton jacket he covered the quilt, covered his daughter's body, rubbed her head and said, "Go back to bed quickly, don't catch a cold." ”

Shi Jiaojiao stretched out her head to look at the woman who was sleeping in it, who had been silent, lying on the head of the bed, and called "Mom" pitifully, Shi's mother kicked her husband hard, and said: "If you are not obedient and go back to bed, there is no doctor in the hospital for the New Year!" Shi Jiaojiao breathed a long sigh of relief in her heart, although they did not let go, but their mistakes had been forgiven.

Shi Jiaojiao asked flatteringly: "Do you want to drink water, I'll pour it for you and put it at the head of the bed!" Mom and Dad waved her back to her room at the same time. The daughter could sleep peacefully, but she couldn't see the room behind the lights out, her parents were back to back, one staring at the gap in the curtains, and the other was crying at the mottled wall......