After the Lantern Festival party, in the countryside, even if the New Year has passed in a real sense, the next thing is to go to school and start work.

In short, the huge annual event, so far, is completely over.

Huang Shouzhen stayed at home tonight and for the last day, because from tomorrow, he had to go to Bailu City to report and start a new semester, half a semester in his freshman year.

In Y County of the Lantern Festival, the streets at night are bustling, brightly lit, and lively.

On the streets, there are traditional items such as dragon lanterns, lion lanterns, and Hakka flower drum lanterns, all of which are staged today.

After Huang Shouzhen's family finished dinner, they also went to the park in the center of the county to watch and play, including Huang Shouzhen himself.

There aren't many opportunities to relax and enjoy the festive season with your parents.

In the past, he didn't understand this, so when he was young, he always played with his classmates and friends, but when he realized that he had too little time to spend with his parents, he was already up and down in the wave of the workplace, and he could no longer find so much leisure time.

Therefore, in a person's life, with the passage of time, the regrets accumulated in each person are actually more and more.

Of course, after the reversal of life, Huang Shouzhen has a lot more opportunities to make up for his regrets than others, especially now.

Although he has been working silently for the future and the rest of his life since last year, the pace is always relatively slow at the beginning stage of his career, and it also takes him a certain amount of time to wait.

Therefore, in this process of waiting and accumulation, he will definitely no longer blindly chase some seemingly chic and romantic, but in fact meaningless prosperity as he did in his youth.

Because he knows very well that only simple companionship is the most difficult thing for modern people to do in their lives.

Indeed, the country's development speed is changing with each passing day, and transportation is booming, and in the next ten years, bullet trains, high-speed railways, airports, and all kinds of convenient transportation will be spread out in this 9.6 million square kilometers of land, thus forming a huge network.

However, no matter how convenient the transportation is, it cannot shorten the distance between people and their hometowns and families when they are in the city.

Because Huang Shouzhen knows that people like him who are struggling in a foreign land essentially lack time, not convenient transportation.

Therefore, while there is still a chance, of course, he has to accompany his parents and share the joy of reunion with them.

Unfortunately, the joy is always short-lived, and the Lantern Festival gradually came to an end after the long dragon of dancing benches faded away from the streets.

After Huang Shouzhen returned home with his parents and brother, he first cooked a bowl of Lantern Festival to eat, and then went to prepare for rest.

But before resting, Ma Xiaoxia quietly came to his room again, and then handed him a stack of money and said, "Son, you take this money, plus the red envelopes you received during the New Year, it should be enough for you for half a year." ”

Huang Shouzhen, who was packing his luggage, couldn't cry or laugh when he saw this, and hurriedly returned the money to Ma Xiaoxia, and replied: "Mom, don't give me money, I still have more money in my card, it's enough, you can keep it yourself."

Usually when my brother and I are not at home, you and Dad don't always think about saving us money, you usually go buy more delicious food.

Dad does hard work in the factory, and he has to go to farming after work, which is very hard, so remember to buy more meat for him to eat.

I don't have classes on weekends now, I can go out and work part-time to earn money, even if you don't give me living expenses, I can support myself, you don't have to worry about me!"

Ma Xiaoxia heard Huang Shouzhen say this, although she has no culture and has seen little of the world, but she is very open-minded in character, so she does not object to Huang Shouzhen going to work part-time or something, but is curious: "Where do you still have a lot of money?"

Since last summer, you haven't had a penny with us, although the government rewarded you with 10,000 yuan before, but your first semester of college expenses should be quite large, and you have already spent about the same, right?

As for this year, the red envelopes given by your uncles and uncles are all small red envelopes, even if you add the 2,000 yuan given by me and your father, it will only cost 3,000 yuan to survive, how can it be enough for your expenses for half a year?"

Huang Shouzhen heard his mother say this, thought about it, and then replied: "No, I don't spend much money in school, at most it's a change of season, and I occasionally go to buy two clothes, and I still have half of the 10,000 yuan last year."

Besides, when I was in college, I didn't have a part-time job on weekends, so I couldn't spend all the money on me.

And if I continue to work part-time in the next six months, not only will I not be able to spend my own money, but I may also have accumulation, and I may even be able to pay the tuition for my sophomore year by myself.

So when it comes to money, mom, you really don't have to worry about me, I don't lack it. ”

Huang Shouzhen is undoubtedly telling the truth when he says these things at the moment, but he earns much more than ordinary part-time jobs, such as being a tutor and distributing leaflets.

Of course, the time he spends working is mainly on weekends and after school.

Therefore, it is not contradictory to say that it is a part-time job.

It's just that the part about skipping class to go to work was omitted by him.

Ma Xiaoxia, who was next to her, heard Huang Shouzhen say this, and she wanted to say a little and stopped, but after thinking for a while, she could only nod, but she couldn't help but sigh softly in her heart.

At this moment, she suddenly felt that her son had grown up, and while she was gratified, she also had a faint sadness.

It feels like the other party was a child who needed to be taken care of by himself yesterday, but today he is completely self-reliant and no longer needs to rely on her.

So much so that she feels that she has become dispensable?

This made her heart suddenly feel an indescribable depression.

"Okay, it's good to know it in your own heart, but don't make yourself too tired, you are a student after all, you still have to focus on your studies and make money, and there will be more opportunities in the future." Ma Xiaoxia thought about it and could only say so.

When Huang Shouzhen heard his mother say this, he had already discovered the faint sadness hidden in the other party's expression, but compared to her in the past, she only had this reaction after she was twenty-five or sixteen years old, but now she is seven or eight years earlier.

But I'm going to grow up...... Huang Shouzhen sighed silently.

Immediately, he thought for a moment before nodding obediently, and said softly and comfortingly: "I know, Mom, you can rest assured, my work content is very easy."

You have to take care of yourself more than me, I'll come back to see you when I'm free, don't think too much!"