The returnees began to return more than a month earlier, and by the Chinese New Year's Eve, Beicheng had become almost an empty city.

At seven o'clock in the evening, when the family reunion was celebrated, Zhang Rong would drive out of Yu's house. There were few cars on the street, and he had hardly ever driven on such a smooth road.

Stopping the car at the traffic light, he turned his head to stare at the closed store on the side of the street, with red Spring Festival couplets pasted in front of the store and red lanterns hanging everywhere.

Burning and banning are prohibited in the northern city, and at this time, there is a little less fireworks.

With his fingers tapping on the steering wheel, he suddenly felt that his ears were empty, life was boring, and the holidays were boring, and he yawned.

When I returned to Xiqueshan, I was still eating lively. The feast had been held for a long time, but everyone did not eat much in order to wait for him to come.

As soon as he entered the house, Hang Minying, who had already finished eating, rushed over from the other end of the sofa in the living room and stretched out his hand to him happily: "Brother, red envelopes." ”

Zhang Rong would take out a letter from his pocket that he had just received when he was a guest at the Yu family and slapped it in her palm.

"Let's play."

Hang Minying happily picked up the thick red envelope and counted the money, but saw the words written on the red envelope: Happy New Year! Gift of Banyan Club.

Her face fell, and she followed him unrelentingly, accusing: "You perfunctory me! This is something that someone else gave you. ”

She followed all the way to the dining room, and Mrs. Zhang greeted Zhang Ronghui with a smile to sit beside her, and said to Hang Minying: "Your brother doesn't have a job, where did he get the money to give you red envelopes?" ”

Hang Minying looked unconvinced: "He drives such an expensive car, where can he have no money?" He just didn't care! ”

Zhang Rong would be annoyed by her: "Where do I have time to get cash for you?" Will the phone give you the transfer bank in a while? ”

Hang Minying is not really short of money, but she is just trying to be lively and auspicious, seeing that Zhang Rong will sit down to eat, she pouted and said, "Then don't forget." ”

Zhang Rong will easily calm down, eat a mouthful of food, look around and feel a little strange, and ask his father: "It's not a reunion dinner, why aren't those two here?" ”

Zhang Peiming didn't say much: "Yinong's parents are still in the hospital, they left first after eating, and sent some food over." ”

Mrs. Zhang suddenly said: "Those who have never seen the world are childish." ”

"You don't have to say a word," Zhang Peiming reluctantly stopped his chopsticks, "She doesn't like it in you, isn't it good that she's not here?" ”

Mrs. Zhang wanted to say anything more, but Zhang Ronghui was already very concerned and intercepted her words with a wine glass.

"Grandma, the first cup to you, I wish you good health, a happy new year, and all the best."

The old lady immediately smiled, and the wrinkles folded so deeply that they almost drowned out her eyes.

There is no more such a lonely New Year.

Lu Yinong sat in the co-pilot with a large packing box, and Lu Qing turned on the radio and played the Spring Festival Gala.

The Spring Festival Gala when she was a child was very exciting, but in recent years, the quality of the program has declined dramatically, either sensational or preaching, she was so embarrassed that her toes tightened just by listening.

Halfway through the car, the phone of the grandparents dialed in, Lu Qing connected it with a Bluetooth headset, raised his tone, and asked happily: "Have you finished eating?" Are you watching a show? ”

"Me, I took Yinong to the hospital to bring food to my brother and sister-in-law. That's right, the Zhang family is done. ”

"Have all the relatives in the family come to pay New Year's greetings? I see that the weather in Yuancheng has been bad lately, so don't run around, beware of falling. ”

"Yes, it's all good. I remember, I'll bring it to Pei Ming's mother. ”

"Mmmm, hang up first, and we'll talk about it when we get to the hospital later."

After hanging up the phone, the atmosphere in the car was low because of the silence, Lu Qing didn't want to affect her, and tried to raise her emotions and asked, "Have you paid New Year's greetings to my grandmother and uncle today?" ”

"Bye," Lu Yinong said, looking at the street lamps flashing by the side of the road, "They are still the same this year." ”

Lu Yinong's mother was born in Tongnan, an ancient town under the jurisdiction of Yuancheng City. There are many scenic spots in the south of the Yangtze River, including six famous ancient towns and ten water towns in the country, and Tongnan is not among them.

Tongnan is small in scale, small in fame, and few tourists, and there is no subsidy for the construction of the ancient town, so the locals rely on the scarce tourists to do some business, and Li Qing, the uncle of Lu Yinong, is among them.

He opened a small photo shop, rented tourist clothes, his aunt put on makeup, and his uncle took pictures.

Lu Yong remarried Yu Pei three months after his wife's death, and Li Qing came to Yuancheng to make a big fuss at that time, but it was a foregone conclusion, and no matter how much he was wronged for his sister, he couldn't save anything.

They were cold-hearted, except for contacting Yinong, they had no contact with the Lu family.

Lu Qing suddenly teased her: "If you are asked to choose where to spend the New Year now, do you want to choose Beicheng?" Tongnan? Or do you choose the walled castle? ”

Lu Yinong asked hesitantly, "Do you want to tell the truth?" ”

"Say, what's not to tell me the truth."

Lu Yinong's hand was on the lunch box, and his eyebrows were sparse: "I miss Tongnan now." ”

At that time, my uncle wanted to lead the way.

He said: No matter how ordinary the family is, we can't afford to open more mouths.

But Yu Pei was not pregnant at the time, and Lu Yong held the custody of his daughter in his hands and refused to let go, so naturally no one could snatch her away.

Lu Yinong thought in disgust: What's the use of him asking for this custody? It's not that he doesn't care about his daughter, he goes out and enjoys himself.

In the final analysis, it is just to be firmly bound at the legal level, waiting for the old age to have something to support.

Later, there was a new situation in her life, she followed Lu Qing to Beicheng and embarked on a new branch line in life, living a rich life, but not happy.

Birth seems to be the original sin.

When Zhang Rong can say everything they want to say without scruples, they must always be considerate and considerate in their words and deeds.

You can't be frivolous, you can't be indulgent, you can't be ignorant, you can't be arrogant, you can't blindly follow ......

They are full of shackles, and it is difficult to integrate into the circle that they have not been exposed to before, and the difficulty is not to broaden their horizons and learn all kinds of new knowledge, but to rebuild their shattered self-esteem again and again.

Lu Qing is actually very thin-skinned, she is smiling at the moment, and the grievances in her heart are sad, and no one can empathize more than Lu Yinong.

If in Tongnan.

If you are in Tongnan at the moment.

Guarding my grandmother and uncle for the New Year must be happy.

Lu Qing carried the lunch box into the ward, Lu Yinong was reluctant to stay with them, and sat on the bench outside. The hallway was covered with large white tiles, and at the moment there was silence except for her own breathing, and she looked at the moon in the sky through the window.

turned on her mobile phone, she sent Su Shenzhen a message of New Year's greetings earlier, but the other party did not reply for a long time. I don't know if I went back to Hong Kong to re-apply for a mobile phone number, Su Shenzhen has not heard from her for a long time.

The circle of friends was almost swiped by Zhaohui, she posted many photos of Jiugongge, with friends and family, she was wearing a beautiful red sweater, and her makeup was mature and beautiful.

Lu Yinong sighed and put away his phone.

Almost at that moment, a message popped up on her phone, and she was pulled into a new WeChat group by her uncle.

There are probably dozens of people in the group, all of whom are relatives of the Zhang family.

Zhang Ronghui: [Send out red envelopes, grab them yourself, grab as much as you want.] ]

Immediately after the group was instantly swiped by the red envelope, Zhang Rong would send one or twenty in one go, and people from all walks of life also bubbled up to send all kinds of emojis, New Year's greetings, funny, blessings, and thanks.

Lu Yinong subconsciously poked one of them, with a total amount of 1,000 yuan, and opened it for 52.00 yuan.

At the end of the wave, Hang Minying shouted in the group: I haven't grabbed enough 500, my brother will send it again.

Lu Yinong didn't grab it anymore.

The number 52 is good.

It's a sweet enough coincidence.

She double-clicked on the screen to take a screenshot, carefully cutting out the name of the person who sent the red envelope and the top part of the avatar.

Only the figure of $52.00 remained.

She posted this picture to a circle of friends, with the text: The end of the world is at this time.

Yu Pei started her belly in advance on the fifth day of the first lunar month and successfully gave birth to a 7-pound baby boy. When the grandparents hurried to Beicheng by train, Lu Yinong was already in Tongnan, and had a hot home-cooked meal at his uncle's house.

Cousin Li Pei bought a lot of fireworks, and after dinner, Lu Yinong followed him to the square of the empty Tongnan Tourist Distribution Center.

Li Pei smashed the cannon on the ground, Lu Yinong took out a fairy stick from the box, lit it, and the fireworks jumped and exploded.

In the distance, a large fireworks were set off, and with the scream, one or two red and green flowers exploded in the air, which was very ordinary.

"Sister, how many days can you stay here?" Li Pei asked, he has had a cold recently, and he muttered when he spoke.

"I have to go back on the seventh day of junior high school, and school starts on the eighth day of junior high school."

"So do we. Is Beicheng good? He asked curiously.

"Okay."

"What about Tongnan?"

"To each his own good." She was a little absent-minded.

Li Pei's cannon was finished, he squatted down and picked up the paper and put it in a plastic bag, saying: "My dad plans to set up a second-hand van after the New Year, and cooperate with the scenic spot to pick up tourists." ”

"What about the store?" Lu Yinong asked.

"Hey, there are so few people taking pictures, my mom is busy alone."

He said, "Sister, if you can't get used to staying in the north, come back." Now the family is slowly getting better, and the principal owed by my dad for the decoration of the store has been paid off. You study so well, you can go to a good university when you come back to study. ”

Lu Yi's eyes were full of smiles: "Who taught you these words?" How old-fashioned. ”

Li Pei puffed out his mouth: "Before you came back, my parents and grandma had just finished talking. ”

Li Qing's idea of bringing Lu Yinong back is not a day or two, especially now that Yu Pei has given birth to a son, they are afraid that Lu Yinong will be ignored and bullied, and it is estimated that it is the time to talk.

The fairy stick in his hand has been extinguished for a long time, and it is already cold.

Lu Yinong pinched the wire hanging from the hard residue in his hand, and bent his fingers around tightly.

"I'll think again," she thought earnestly, for a moment, "my aunt has been very kind to me and has always taken me with her. If I left her and went back to the walled city by myself, she would be very sad. ”