On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, on this day, Alili also returned to Xiaorong Town.

She really didn't like to stay with her mother, so she worked at the company and didn't go home until the last day, and she didn't go back until the afternoon.

That night, she talked to Yan Xin until late before going to bed.

When Yan Xin went home, it was already past eight o'clock, he didn't go back to his room to sleep immediately, and watched TV with his father for a while, and also chatted about Feng Chen's homecoming.

During this time, I was chatting with Arily.

While using his mobile phone to pick out words on the keyboard, a foolish smile appeared on his face.

This made Yan's father feel that his son was chatting with his object, otherwise he wouldn't be laughing so strangely.

- That smile is clearly a little lewd.

couldn't help but ask Yan Xin curiously: "Who are you chatting with?" ”

"Well, talk to a friend." Yan Xin replied.

Yan's father thought to himself, "I don't know if you're chatting with a friend?" ”

It's just that the son didn't say it, so he didn't ask about it.

As a father, he is not the kind of father who likes to chatter and ask questions, this may be related to Yan Xin's rebellion a few years ago, and he is very impatient when he asks a word or two.

Later, I developed that habit, my son didn't want to say it, so he didn't ask, so as not to stiffen the relationship.

After watching TV, Yan Xin returned to his bedroom upstairs, still chatting.

I used to chat with Alilie, but I didn't talk so much, and I talked a little more tonight, probably because Alili, who accompanied her mother for the New Year, was too boring.

It was only after about half past ten in the evening that the two of them said goodnight to each other and prepared for bed.

The next day was the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

After eating rice noodles in the morning, the father and son began to paste Spring Festival couplets, and several doors and windows were pasted with Spring Festival couplets, and lanterns were hung at the gate.

There was no such style before, at most, it was to post a couplet at the gate to be finished, and after Yan Xin's mother died, the red Spring Festival couplets became white couplets.

I haven't posted it again.

At that time, the relationship between father and son was very bad, and the New Year was also cold, and no one was in the mood to do this.

Last year, the situation was a little better, so I posted the Spring Festival couplets.

This year, the situation is better, and the house has been built, so it is necessary to make it lively, not only the Spring Festival couplets have to be pasted, but even the lanterns have to be hung.

The lantern is filled with a light bulb, not a candle, and it can be lit by connecting it to a power supply and pressing a switch.

But it's daytime, and I'm not in such a hurry to press the switch.

After that, start preparing for the New Year's dinner.

On the other side of the river is another prefecture-level city, where the customs are different, and the New Year's dinner is finished early, and firecrackers are being set off.

The sound of firecrackers comes and goes, full of New Year's flavor.

There are also firecrackers set off one after another, but most of them are played by children, and they have not yet formed the scale of the other side of the river.

It's not a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner here, it's the noon meal.

This year, the situation is better, and the New Year's dinner is more abundant.

There are ingredients that Yan Xin brought from the south, and they can be eaten with a little processing.

There are also home-grown chickens and fish, meat and ribs bought from the village butcher's shop.

In addition, I went to the town to buy beef, donkey meat and so on.

A leg of venison sent by Xiao Shiyu's family also got half of it and came in to make a bowl.

Seventy-seven-eighty-eight were added together, there were meat and vegetarian dishes, and twelve dishes were made up and a table was filled.

This meal is not easy to make, three pots at the same time, and it is not easy to make all those dishes.

This meal cannot be eaten in the kitchen, it must be eaten in the hall.

By the time the meals were on the table, it was almost twelve o'clock at noon.

First of all, the incense and candles were lit to worship the ancestors, so that the ancestors could enjoy it first.

Then firecrackers were set off, the door was closed, and the father and son began to eat.

This New Year's meal was in the Yan family, and it was unprecedentedly rich.

There are few more abundant ones in the village.

Yan's father was a little relieved that he was finally living a good life.

At the same time, there is some sadness - this kind of rich days, his wife can't see.

After the woman married him, she didn't have a good life, which made him feel guilty when he thought about it.

Now at the reunion dinner, there is such a sumptuous table of dishes in such a beautiful home, but only the father and son are eating.

said it was a reunion year, but it seemed deserted.

When eating, he couldn't help but say to Yan Xin:

"During the Chinese New Year, if only there were a few more people, it would be lively......"

Yan Xin said with a smile: "Dad, you don't have to worry, in a few years, when I marry a wife and have a child, our family will be lively." ”

But I thought of the years when I first came out to work in my previous life, and I never went home.

In those years, every New Year was spent by his father alone, one person made a big table of dishes, one person worshiped the ancestors, completed those rituals, and then ate this table of New Year's dinner alone.

Thinking about it, I felt that I was too ignorant at the beginning.

I think I have to make good compensation in this life.

It's just that something else can compensate, and he wants to have a lively New Year, but now he can't make up for it.

A lot of things can be bought, but loved ones can't buy them.

Even if he gets married and has children as quickly as he reaches the age of marriage, it will take two or three years.

That's all I can say now.

After eating the New Year's dinner, in the afternoon, I went up the mountain to worship Yan Xin's mother, except for the grass in front of the grave, lit incense and candles, put down the tribute, and knelt down to worship like a ritual.

In front of his mother's grave, Yan Xin said to his father: "Next year, I will strive to come back to sweep the grave." ”

Yan's father really wanted his son to come home, but he still said: "It's best to come back, but it also depends on whether you have time, don't delay your work, there is still me here." ”

"Time can still be squeezed out." Yan Xin said.

"That's good." Yan Dad said.

Yan Xin asked again: "When I pay off all the money I owe next year, can I consider building a tomb for my mother and erecting a monument?" ”

Yan's father pondered for a while.

Of course, he also hoped that his wife's tomb would be repaired, so that it could exist for a longer time, reminding the world that there was such a person who was buried here in that place.

The end of a person's life cannot be considered real death, only when all traces of his existence have been erased, it is considered real death, as if it never came.

Tomb repair obviously allowed this pile of loess to exist in the state of a tomb for a longer time.

It's just that he doesn't want the matter of building the tomb to affect his son's real life.

- It still costs a little money to repair the tomb, and it costs thousands of dollars to build a tomb, and it is difficult to say that it is expensive, but it can be more expensive than his family's current house.

Hesitantly said: "It's not necessary for the past two years, wait until you get married and have children, and then come to repair the tomb and erect a monument, and engrave your child's name on it, so that your mother will feel at ease underground." ”

Yan Xin said: "The monument can not be erected first, but we can repair the tomb first." ”

The mounds tend to collapse, and the weeds and vines on the mountain are growing so fast that it takes a lot of time to clean them up every time they come over.

If you build a tomb, it will be much easier to clean up.

You can also set aside a part of the land to plant cypress trees to make the environment better.

——Thinking of the place where his mother was buried was so barren, Yan Xin felt a little unbearable in his heart.

If you don't have money, you can't do anything, and if you have money, you should improve the environment appropriately.

"That's okay," said Yan's father, "and when you pay off your debts, you will build a tomb for your mother." ”

The father and son went down the mountain, and along the way they also met several families who went up the mountain to worship, some of whom they did not know and some of whom they knew.

The acquaintances greeted the father and son warmly, and some people asked Yan Xin if he really drove the car back, but Yan Xin still used the same set of words to fool his father to fool others - the car was not his own, it was the boss's car that he borrowed.

He found that when he went home for the New Year this time, the attitude of the villagers he met became much more enthusiastic.

I don't know if it's because he built a small villa at home, or because he drove home.

Anyway, in the eyes of others, he has become a promising person.

I met a family, and there were young people who were unemployed at home, and asked Yan Xin where he worked, and if the company still wanted employees, hoping that Yan Xin could help introduce a job.

Yan Xin didn't want to get into trouble, so he could only say that the company was not short of people now, and he had no idea of recruiting employees for the time being, and he had no way to help introduce people to jobs.

However, he still recommended Feng Chen's home improvement company, saying that Feng Chen's company needs workers, and it doesn't matter if he has decoration experience or not, as long as he is hard-working and willing to learn, he can go to work there.

He also said that he was a little tired, but he could get a salary of two or three thousand yuan a month.

- In 07, it was already very good to get a salary of two or three thousand yuan a month.

It's just that the person who talked to him heard that he was going to do that kind of work, and immediately lost interest, probably because he felt that the renovation work was too tiring.

In this way, Yan Xin has nothing to say.

When I got home, it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon, and the father and son didn't do anything else, just chatting while watching TV and eating snacks by the way.

There are only two people, and they can't do anything else - even if they fight the landlord, there is still one person missing.

They all have a thought in their hearts - there are too few people, and there is no atmosphere for the New Year at this big point.

It's nothing else.

But this big New Year, other people's families are in a lively New Year, a family reunion, laughter.

As far as their family is concerned, there are only father and son, and no matter how lively they are, they can't be lively.

There doesn't seem to be any way to make the TV louder than to make it louder.

However, on Chinese New Year's Eve, the TV was quite lively.

The father and son chatted with each other, and Yan Xin chatted with people on QQ again.

chatted with Feng Chen for a few words, and asked each other what they ate for this New Year's dinner.

Feng Chen also told Yan Xin that he and Ruan Mengyao each gave Feng Xi a red envelope of 500 yuan as New Year's money.

Then, his parents each gave Ruan Mengyao 500 yuan for the New Year.

Counting it up, the last beneficiary is Feng Xi.

The two of them are tied.

Yan Xin couldn't help asking: "Then did your parents give your sister New Year's money?" ”

Feng Chen: "Given, ten yuan." ”

Yan Xin was speechless about this.

I feel that the difference between 500 yuan and 10 yuan is too big.

Although the daughter-in-law who has not passed through the door is much more noble than the daughter, there should not be such a big gap in the New Year's money.

However, he also had a sense of schadenfreude - in fact, Feng Xi was already very rich, but her parents didn't know about it, and the worse her parents' attitude towards her now, the less benefits they would get from her in the future.

Feng Xi is not a child again, this kind of differential treatment, she will keep it in mind.

In the previous life, there was no way, without Feng Chen, Feng Xi could only take on the responsibility of providing for his parents alone, but this life is not like that.

I don't know if they'll regret it when they understand.

In addition, I chatted with Chen Li for a while.

Chen Li has already taken Liang Wei back to his hometown, and this time he really returned to his hometown.

At home, he is a disliked person.,I feel that I don't grow up.,I'm also looked down on by relatives and often pulled out as a negative example.。

It's only been a year or two since I went out, and I drove a Mercedes-Benz and came back with a young and beautiful girlfriend, which can be said to have completed a perfect counterattack.

Chen Li arrived at home yesterday, and he hadn't told his parents before that he drove back with his girlfriend.

This time I went back, and my family and neighbors were shocked.

He recounted the sensation he caused when he returned home, and the joy in the words could not be hidden.

He also said that this time he bought more than 10,000 yuan of fireworks and firecrackers, and prepared a good luxury, so that the people around him would know that he Chen Li had mixed up, and let those who once looked down on him see clearly who was the real powerhouse.

When he said these words, Yan Xin seemed to be watching the story of "Breaking the Sky", which was thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi.

I thought to myself, "If he writes this now, it should be even more exciting." ”

Chen Li did not hide his happiness, nor did he hide his disdain for those who looked down on him, including his parents and brother and sister-in-law.

This also made Yan Xin understand that this guy's family relationship is really not good, and it is no wonder that he didn't go home for the Chinese New Year last year.

Chen Li also told Yan Xin that he would not stay at home for long, and when he finished loading everything he needed, he would leave with Liang Wei and continue his trip.

This time should be the last time he will go back to his hometown for the New Year.

As for the contact with the family in the future, it is probably a telephone contact.

However, he also said that he will still fulfill his responsibilities, and he will send some money to his family every month in the future, which can be regarded as repaying his parents' nurturing grace.

As for family affection or something, he said that he didn't feel it himself, so he wouldn't reciprocate.

I don't know how much I was disliked at home, but now between the lines, there is still a resentment that can't be concealed.

Yan Xin didn't persuade him anything.

Everyone has their own experience, and without the suffering of others, do not persuade others to be kind.

Unprincipled persuasion of kindness is actually a kind of evil.

He said to Chen Li half-jokingly and half-seriously: "If you don't go back to your hometown for the New Year next year, you can come to my house for the New Year and feel the atmosphere of the New Year on our side." ”

Usually guests don't go to other people's homes for the New Year, but Chen Li didn't care about this, so he agreed at the time: "No problem, anyway, it's the same everywhere I go." ”

Seeing his reply like this, Yan Xin thought to himself:

"It's all right, next year's Chinese New Year won't be as lonely as this year."

(End of chapter)