On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Ren Yan was discharged from the hospital.

It was reasonable that she was going to spend the New Year in the hospital, but she couldn't stay idle, and felt that Xiao Nian was unlucky lying in the hospital, so Dr. Yang and Gu Tingwen let her out of the hospital a few days in advance, so that she went back to Fuxue Hutong to recuperate.

Mother Zhao, the head of the family, was busy sticking the boiled sugar melon to the mouth of the stove prince, and asked him to say something good to heaven: "Sugar melon, Ji has arrived; The Lord of the Stove is in the sky, say more! ”

There were a lot of offerings in front of the case, but Ren Yan took advantage of her unpreparedness to secretly twist a stuffed mouth and stuff it, and after eating, she still remembered her sins and sins in her heart.

Mother Zhao's ears are handy, and when she stretched out her hand again, she patted it: "Gluttonous monkey, you just rely on the stove prince to eat, and you are not filial, come and kowtow!" ”

"Hey!"

Ren Yan's legs and feet were wrapped like a meat-filled bun, and her actions became a sturdy and round tumbler, Gu Tingwen took two steps with her, and Zhao's mother became impatient: "Sit down!" ”

She leaned over and groped for the futon and knelt on her head, and babbled a lot of good words, most of which were related to her and Gu Tingwen's New Year's fortune.

The fat pig's head is tied with a red rope, how funny it looks; Mother Zhao solemnly presented the pig's head to the portrait of the king of the stove, and worshiped again; After worshipping the firewood in the stove, he uncovered the portrait and lit it.

"Lord Stove, heaven!"

Ren Yan sat down the corridor and looked down at the offering table of the gods of heaven and earth in the courtyard, and the melons and fruits were stacked into a spire, one by one, the golden top, exquisitely clear.

She was lying in the hospital, unable to make a honey offering, Zhao's mother had to give someone a fixed amount of money for a honey offering, and she brought her family yesterday, but she was not satisfied.

"Gluttonous again?" Gu Tingwen touched her face.

She turned her head and saw that he was holding a box of cannonballs, and on the box was a little boy standing on the edge of the dragon pillar carrying a cannonball, with a black coat and blue pants, and a pair of cotton shoes with big red cloth.

"How loud is that!"

Ren Yan blocked his ears and asked him in a loud voice.

The match was struck, the seedlings jumped fast, and the crackling green smoke rose up, breaking the unsolid snow foam, as if another winter snow had fallen.

He came out of the smoke and sat down beside her to watch with her.

The red paper swirled and fell to the ground, and after a while it was soaked in snow, and the excitement spread like this, going to Chinese New Year's Eve, everywhere was fiery.

"Counted?" Gu Tingwen asked with a smile.

"A hundred rings." Her ears were buzzing, and she spoke loudly, yelling at him.

Gu Tingwen still smiled and rubbed her hair: "I'll put it on you on Chinese New Year's Eve!" ”

Coaxing children like that.

Ren Yan shook his head and squinted at him: "Wait for the first day of the new year, come here to greet me!" ”

Gu Tingwen once intentionally or unintentionally mentioned the matter of keeping the New Year, but Ren Yan refused his invitation, saying that his parents were not alive, and the theory was to celebrate the New Year with the master and his wife, and the senior brothers also went to have a lively time.

He no longer insisted.

She is a transparent girl, all kinds of things are pressed in her heart, and she never mentions things that hurt her feelings, for example, she was injured this time, she knew that it was the meaning of the Gu family.

That day, He Quan took the girl to bring her food, and before she packed up the dishes and chopsticks and was about to leave, she suddenly spoke: "Persuade the seventh master." ”

What is the persuasion, it is nothing more than to persuade him to quarrel with Master Gu less, although everyone understands that the contradiction between the father and son will never be reconciled, and since the fifth master of the Gu family is gone, all the piles have taken revenge.

After Gu Ting heard this, he was speechless for a long time.

Ren Yan is afraid that after lingering in the huge Gu Mansion for a long time, and then disappearing quietly, no one will notice it at that time; In the end, a mutilated corpse was left behind, which made him sad.

No one has mentioned this since then.

On the thirtieth day, before the wax on the candlestick burned out, Ren Yan was awakened by the sound of cannons outside; I changed into new clothes and staggered back to the kitchen.

The snow was falling thickly, and Mother Zhao brought a bowl of mutton soup in front of her: "Eat, don't burn your mouth." ”

"Hey."

While looking at the snow outside, she thought that she would call her master and mother to greet her; said that she wanted to spend Chinese New Year's Eve with someone, but she had filial piety and couldn't make it lively.

On her floor, the couplet windows in this courtyard are all blue; The three female gentlemen in the neighborhood each returned to their hometowns, but there was no taboo, but she was the only one who spent this year with Zhao's mother.

After midnight, Yu's mother, the housekeeper of the Xu Mansion, sent a car New Year's Eli Lilly, saying that Mr. Xu asked Miss Ren if she wanted to go together for the New Year, but she was alone at home, and Brigade Commander Kang came at night.

Ren Yan declined, and brought back two boxes of pastries and meals prepared in the morning, which was the right to pay New Year's greetings.

sent people out of the alley, and was just about to go back, and the housekeeper of the family also arrived; The two cars were full of gifts and put them in a yard, saying that the eldest young master and the second young lady belonged to them.

I was afraid that she wouldn't accept it, so I didn't have time to say it neatly, so I drove the car and left.

Ren Yan stood stupidly in the courtyard, and Zhao's mother lifted the cotton curtain in the kitchen and called her: "Well, I'm here to make dumplings, and I won't eat it tomorrow!" ”

She swayed inside, watched Zhao's mother rubbing the medicine, stretched the dough stick to roll the skin, and chattered while busy:

"If you don't do anything wrong, you can still follow here with all your tails today? People haven't hurt you, if you always remember that you're not finished with yourself, why bother! ”

In her eyes, it was like two children playing and breaking, and she couldn't pull her face to apologize after relenting, so she was so estranged, and it faded away from each other.

Ren Yan bowed his head and did not answer.

Zhao's mother threw a face at her: "What a big deal, you should throw it away in the New Year." Your heart is so big, and it is full of unpleasant things, where are you staying! ”

Ren Yan looked up.

Mother Zhao realized: "What's the matter, still have a temper?" ”

That's not it, she wants Gu Ting to smell it.

After wrapping a dumpling, she turned around and walked outside, walking faster and faster, Zhao's mother was so anxious that she shouted behind her: "Slow down, and then stretch the wound!" ”

Ren Yan pushed open the cotton curtain and didn't move.

There is a gentleman walking in the courtyard, and he is not holding an umbrella, his head is shaking in the snow, the white tufts on his brain coat, and even the snowflakes are hanging on his glasses.

Ren Yan smiled, raised his hand to brush the snow, but held a hand of tears.

She pounced—

Gu Tingwen hugged her with one hand: "I smell it, I am in such a hurry!" ”

The fire was simmering in the room, and he took off his coat, poured out the chestnuts from his paper pocket and threw them into the charcoal basin, and the remaining packets of dried fruits and honey were all on her knees.

Colorful candies and sweet honey fruits, Ren Yan held a treasure full of treasures: "How can it be so good?" ”

Gu Tingwen laughed: "I'm tired of eating at home, come and see what you're doing, have you eaten lunch?" ”

"Eat."

"What?"

"Clear sauce meat, stewed hangers."

He turned his face to look at her, "yes, I'll see." ”

Holding the little girl's waist, pressing her head into the sofa, biting the corner of her lip to kiss and lick it; Hooking a soft meat, the two hugged and laughed.

"Have you eaten Lantern Festival?"

"yes." She shrunk her tongue and muttered.

"How many?"

“…… Two ......"

He scoffed: "Coax me? ”

"Three ......"

He didn't believe it at all, and pressed every step of the way.

It wasn't until a few beeps in the charcoal basin that the person was released.

The little girl in her arms ran the fastest, put chestnuts in the fire with the pliers, and put them in the small basket and dangled them twice before pinching them and peeling them; The two fingers squeezed, and the chestnuts burst out with golden and fragrant flesh and a pinch of white mist.

Ren Yan's left and right hands poured back and forth, and finally had to throw it to the masters: "It's so hot, you peel it!" ”

After eating chestnuts and sweet potatoes, the charcoal pot was changed a few times, and the sky was dark.

The two of them slowly dealt with a pot of dumplings, and then gave Zhao's mother a reward, and the lights in the inverted room were quickly extinguished, leaving them warm and bright in the room.

Ren Yan kept two candles, lying on the edge of the windowsill around the mattress to look at the snow, the snow light on the ground through the glass windows, and the fireworks that rose from time to time burst into the air.

She held her face and told Gu Tingwen about her childhood: "When the Ren family was not defeated, my mother and I did not have much money per month, but the artillery battles given every year were not young and old, and they could fill the entire yard and let it be put for people to see all night!" ”

It's all about face.

Ren Yan didn't care about that, he went out of the house with a cannon fight on his back, and sold them to playful children in the streets and alleys for money to buy New Year's goods, and decorated the courtyard with a lively scene.

The mother is an unfavored concubine, and as long as they have breath left, no one cares whether they are hot or cold; That's why she especially likes the Chinese New Year, which is the richest day of the year.

can buy New Year's goods that can't be eaten ordinarily, as well as vegetables and vegetables, my mother's craftsmanship is very good, and she can always eat her stomach round.

Gu Tingwen stroked the tears in the corners of her eyes: "Do you want to set off fireworks?" ”

"Okay."

He Quan, who was guarding outside the door, was upside down in the morning, and when he arrived outside the door, he instructed people to carry fireworks from the car, and placed them in front of and behind the house, and put them here and there, so as not to call Chinese New Year's Eve cold.

When the star bridge is locked, the fire trees and silver flowers, those gorgeous lights seem to grow in the night, and the clusters talk about the winter going to spring, and the seasons change.

Ren Yan was overjoyed to see it, and his heart was itching, so he put on his clothes and ran into the snow with cotton shoes, squatting on the ground and dotting it, and the tip of his nose was frozen to red.

Gu Tingwen stood behind her and watched, and did not stop her, warmed her hands when she got up, and watched the grand scene of the night side by side. The front yard is tossed, and it is necessary to go to the back yard.

Ren Yan ran fast, and didn't listen to He Quantong's reply to Gu Tingwen.

"Seventh master, there is the master's person outside, the fifth dial, call your house."

Gu Tingwen grimaced: "Is this errand good?" ”

"The master said, you are half an hour late, and he will solve a problem until you go back."

"When he sees blood in the New Year, he is not afraid of taboos!"

He Quan gritted his teeth: "Do you want to go back, I'm afraid it will be bad for Miss Ren if you stay up like this." ”

Gu Tingwen raised his hand: "Ask someone to send cameras and lenses, my father killed someone, and I will take a photo, which can be regarded as a gift for him in the March election." ”

He Quan's heart was cold, and he staggered.

Ren Yan squatted in the snow and lit the cannon barrel, the flames were extinguished after a long time, and he muttered impatiently: "It's damp, don't move!" ”

As soon as she finished speaking, a cluster of silver-white light burst into the sky, startling her and turning her into a white-haired old lady in the snow.

Gu Ting couldn't laugh when he heard it, so he got up and hugged him into his arms.

He Quan went and returned: "Mrs. sent a car to pick up the seventh master and Miss Ren's house to keep the New Year!" ”