On a street in Yincheng City, in a tube building, there is a family on the east side of the second floor.

At this time, in the living room, the atmosphere is quite eerie.

Although the lights are on and there is a coal stove in the house, the temperature inside the room is unusually cold.

At the table, an old man was smoking a two-cent pack of paper cigarettes.

On the ground, more than a dozen cigarette butts were concentrated on the edge of the old man's right foot.

Beside the old man stood a man and a woman, and across from them sat an old woman in her sixties.

At the same time, against the back wall, one of the doors leading to the bedroom was only gently closed.

"You two go first! It's so late, go back to your own home! The old man raised his head and glanced at a man and a woman beside him, and said coldly.

"Dad......! Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, so let me and Ziliang accompany your second elder to keep the New Year! When the woman among the two heard this, she immediately became anxious, and she immediately spoke.

"Yes, father-in-law, let's stay with your second elder!" Beside the woman, the man standing couldn't help but echo.

But the old man always shook his head at this, his tone was very cold, and he repeated again: "Go back!" ”

"Dad......!" The woman wanted to say something, but in the end, under the cold eyes of the old man, she couldn't help but stomp her feet, and under the pull of the man on the side, she finally left extremely reluctantly.

After the two left, the old man at the table snorted coldly and said to himself: "Don't think I don't know what you two are thinking, you have nothing to do, and you want to go crooked!" There are no doors! ”

The old man finished speaking, and turned his gaze to the second person in the living room: "Do you really want a divorce?" ”

In the face of the old man's questioning, the old woman did not answer, she remained silent, her face was flat and unwavering, as if her heart was dead.

Seeing that the old woman did not answer, the old man also fell silent.

He took out another cigarette and lit it for himself, and then, after a moment's hesitation, he said again, "All right! Leave it! But I still hope that Yunyan won't know about this for the time being! ”

After saying this, a trace of loneliness flashed in the old man's eyes, as if he had breathed a long sigh of relief and unloaded a huge burden, and relaxed a lot, but at the same time, his back seemed more bent.

"Ahem...... Ahem......! ”

Suddenly, a violent cough sounded.

I don't know if it was because he had just smoked too much, or because his mood was too fluctuating, at this time, the old man couldn't help coughing heavily.

It was this coughing sound that instantly interrupted Gao Yunyan's thoughts, who were listening carefully in the room.

At this moment, there was silence in the room.

Gao Yunyan sat at the table with her back to the door.

The pen in her hand was suddenly pinched tighter, and the tip of the pen couldn't help but stop.

On the side, under the stacked books, there are piles of mimeographed test papers, and on the side of the test papers, there are also two report cards.

On the report card, except for the language subject, the score is near the passing line, and the rest of the subjects have reached more than 85 points.

It can be seen that Gao Yunyan's other subjects are very good.

However, at this time, her heart was not on it at all, her heart was instantly pinched, and as the voice of the old man in the living room outside fell, the cough suddenly sounded, and her hands were clenched into a fist.

But in the end, she resisted the impulse in her heart and sighed softly.

"Alas......!"

She wanted to do something, but in the end, she realized that she couldn't do anything.

She actually knew about the grievances between her father and her mother for a long time.

Sometimes, she even wonders what would have happened if she hadn't had that serious illness when she was a child.

Will my left leg become disabled?

Will my father get stuck in a knot that he will never untie? And mother, will she hate her father?

She doesn't know!

She only knew that she had tried many ways over the years, but in the end, she had not reconciled her father and mother.

The stubbornness of her mother and the knot that her father could never untie made her efforts all come to naught in the end.

She even thought that she would be admitted to college by her own efforts, hoping that her father would be happy and she would be able to untie his knot, but in the end, she still failed.

And now, listening to all this in her ears, she couldn't help but fall into a deep sense of powerlessness.

She understands that she has done so much, but after all, she still has not saved the marriage between her father and mother.

At this moment, she couldn't help but be confused, she didn't know what she should do?

…………

For these, He Yun, who was chatting with his parents at the moment, naturally didn't know.

As the wall clock on the wall "dong dong" rang three times, it was finally twelve o'clock in the morning.

"Mom, Dad! Happy New Year! ”

He Yun heard the bell, but he looked up at the clock on the wall, smiled, and then said to his father He Donglei and his mother Gong Yue.

"Happy New Year!" The two looked at each other and smiled, and also said to He Yundao in unison.

In this way, the Chinese New Year's Eve vigil passed, and it was a new year.

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The Spring Festival, as the most important traditional festival throughout the year, is naturally extremely grand.

And one place and one custom are also common.

According to the current local customs, you must go to your ancestral grave on the first day of the Lunar New Year to worship, and you are not allowed to go out to visit relatives on the first, second and third days of the Lunar New Year.

Only on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year can you go to your relatives' house to pay New Year's greetings, and generally take turns to pay New Year's greetings in this order, that is, you can first go to your uncle's aunt and man's brother's house to pay New Year's greetings, and then you can go to your uncle's aunt's house to pay New Year's greetings.

The He Yun family is naturally the same.

No, as soon as the third day of the Lunar New Year passed, He Yun led the fifth sister He Ying and the sixth sister He Xiaolian to the eldest brother, second brother, and third brother's house in turn.

And in the afternoon of the same day, the eldest brother, the second brother, and the third brother's family also came to the house to pay New Year's greetings to his father He Donglei and mother Gong Yue.

After this New Year's greeting, He Yun has completed the link of "visiting relatives to pay New Year's greetings".

As for the mother's relatives Gong Yue's maiden family, that is, He Yun's grandfather, grandmother and aunt's house, because it is hundreds of miles away in the mountainous area, the transportation is extremely inconvenient, so the mother Gong Yue usually only goes back every two years.

And just last year, my mother went back, so this year, she doesn't plan to go back to pay New Year's greetings.

What else can He Yun say about this!

He could only obey his mother Gong Yue and stay at home obediently.

And at this moment, it suddenly snowed again in the sky, and the snow became heavier and heavier, and soon a thick layer of snow was piled up on the road, and coupled with the overnight freezing, the road naturally became slippery, so that He Yun couldn't get out even if he wanted to.

So, he simply hid in the room, and wrote the manuscript of "Qin Shi Mingyue's Sweeping of the Six Kingdoms" with the charcoal fire in the cage............