On the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, Luo Qiao held a fruit basket in one hand and a mobile phone in the other, walking through the crowded market.

Luo Qiao frowned to avoid a child running amok, and muttered into the phone: "Aunt Xiang, didn't you say you would definitely come today? Why can't you come again?"

Ke Yuexiang's apologetic voice came from the phone: "My grandma is in poor health and wanted me to spend the New Year with her. It was really hard to refuse, so I agreed."

Luo Qiao glanced at Ke Yuexiang's favorite grapes in the fruit basket, and pursed his lips: "Then when will you be back at the latest?"

Ke Yuexiang: "...It's hard to say."

Luo Qiao: "I want to take my parents to Beijing on the third day of the new year. By the way, I will take my parents to a major hospital in Beijing for a full body check-up. They rarely do physical check-ups. I am afraid that they will become seriously ill if they fall ill.

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Ke Yuexiang: "Okay, the good thing is to check carefully. If you are feeling unwell, it is best to detect and treat it early."

Luo Qiao: "Aunt Xiang, if you come back after the third day of the Lunar New Year, and I take my parents to play in Beijing, you can fly directly to Beijing, and I will pick you up at the airport."

Ke Yuexiang was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Okay, I'll call you when I arrive. Xiaoqiao, why didn't Aunt Xiang realize that you are so clingy before?"

Luo Qiao walked into the seafood market carrying a fruit basket. Hearing this, he laughed in a low voice: "After all, you are my first love. I miss you very much, girlfriend."

Luo Qiao's words made Ke Yuexiang's breathing on the phone become heavier: "...I miss you too, girlfriend."

"Xiao Qiao, come here quickly and help mom carry the fish!" Mother Luo's voice came from far away. Luo Qiao turned his head and saw Mother Luo standing on a fish stall waving to Luo Qiao.

"Mom, I'll be right away!" Luo Qiao shouted back.

Ke Yuexiang: "Sister Yulan calls you if I have something to do, so I won't talk to you anymore. It's time for me to get up and go to Chinatown to buy new year's goods."

There is a time difference. It is afternoon here in Luoqiao, but Ke Yuexiang has just woken up.

Luo Qiao: "Okay, then you should pay more attention to your own safety."

Ke Yuexiang: "Yes, I can."

Then the two hung up the phone, Luo Qiao sighed, smiled again, and walked towards Mother Luo.

Mother Luo bought two fish, one to be steamed and one to be braised. Mother Luo handed the fish bag to Lu Qiao: "Who was I calling just now? I called you so many times but you didn't answer."

Luo Qiao put his cell phone into his trouser pocket, took the fish bag, and said helplessly: "Aunt Xiang's call. Aunt Xiang said that she may be celebrating the New Year abroad and won't be able to come back in time."

Mother Luo said "Ah": "What's the point of celebrating the New Year abroad? The New Year is all about the atmosphere. How can there be such an atmosphere and New Year flavor in our country abroad?"

Luo Qiao shrugged: "There is no way, forget it, we just have to live our New Year well, just like before."

Mother Luo nodded; "Hey, that's all we can do... I didn't tell you earlier. I heard she would come today, and the two of us even went out to buy so many good vegetables. It seems that we don't have to go out to buy vegetables this year."

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Luo Qiao and Mother Luo looked at each other and smiled. Luo Qiao bumped Mother Luo with his shoulder: "Mom, why, you will buy good food when Aunt Xiang comes. If Aunt Xiang doesn't come, don't you plan to buy it? It's me or you.

Where is my daughter? Wouldn’t you like to feed it to me?”

Mother Luo smiled and glanced at Luo Qiao: "Look at the sourness in your words, you don't know yet. What I love most about your mother is you and your father. There is no need to eat something that is not enough.

Are you jealous?"

Luo Qiao bumped Luo's mother with his arm, deliberately making her angry: "No, I want to hear you say that you love me the most. Mom, am I the person you love the most?"

Mother Luo shook her head: "No, the person I love most is your dad. Your dad is my hero and my idol."

Luo Qiao opened his mouth and pretended to vomit: "It's true that I'm a bitch. After all these years, I should have recognized this fact long ago. I won't say it anymore. I just ate a meal of your and dad's dog food for no reason to support myself."

Luo's mother was teased by Luo Qiao and laughed and scolded: "Damn kid, you only know how to make fun of me and your father."

Luo Qiao shrugged: "No way, I was moved by the true love between you two."

When Father Luo died in his previous life, Mother Luo was the most saddened. She knelt in front of Father Luo's coffin for two days and two nights without eating or drinking. No matter how Luo Qiao tried to pull Mother Luo, persuade her to eat, get up, or

She didn't want to rest...she didn't want to rest until her body couldn't bear it and she passed out. Only then did Luo's mother have the chance to rest.

Father Luo and Mother Luo really love each other. The love between them is sincere and pious, without any filth.

Sitting on the bus home, Luo Qiao stared blankly at the street scene outside the window, recalling the day Lu Hui came to the apartment to find Ke Yuexiang, and the life experience Ke Yuexiang told Luo Qiao. In an instant, Luo Qiao missed Ke Yuexiang very much.

Hold her in your arms and comfort her.

What Lu Hui and Ke Jie did back then brought irreparable psychological trauma to the young Ke Yuexiang at that time. How helpless was Ke Yuexiang back then? Her mother actually got involved with her sister-in-law.

Luo Qiao recalled what Lu Hui said to Ke Yuexiang when she was about to leave, "Abnormality is contagious." His brows suddenly furrowed. Is this what a mother would say to her daughter? Lu Hui really didn't deserve to say this.

I don’t know how Ke Yuexiang is living in Europe these days, whether she is happy or not...

On New Year's Eve, Luo Qiao spent the entire afternoon helping at home. He was as busy as a spinning top and couldn't stop at all.

"Sure enough, it's better for my daughter to come back, otherwise your dad and I will do it, and we don't know when it will be done." Mother Luo looked at Luo Qiao with satisfaction as she dismantled and cleaned the fan.

Luo Qiao was helpless: "Mom, it's been a long time since I came home. Why didn't you let me wash them in advance? How come they were all piled up in one afternoon?"

Mother Luo spread her hands: "It's winter, so I put them all away. I just found out that they haven't been washed when I was sorting things out. Anyway, you wash them quickly. It's okay. They will be washed soon."

Luo Qiao slumped his shoulders: I bet she is a free laborer doing hard work today.

Mother Luo smiled and said: As expected, my daughter is still capable...

Luo Qiao washed things all afternoon, and in the evening he had to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner with Luo's mother, which was to be eaten on time at eight o'clock.

Luo Qiao moved a small wooden stool and squatted next to the kitchen trash can, peeling white radish. Looking at the vegetables on the floor, he couldn't help but raise three fingers and said: "Mom, there are three of us. This year we will spend the day with the three of us.

Don't cook too much and leave it uneaten and wasted."

Luo Qiao's three slender fingers were waving around in front of Mother Luo's eyes, but Mother Luo slapped them down: "I know, then instead of cooking ten dishes, let's just make eight dishes."

Luo Qiao took back his hand, blew on his reddish part, then shook his head and said: "I can't even finish eight dishes. Do you think I can get a 40% discount and cook five dishes or four dishes?"

How about a soup, respond to the country's call, work hard, and continue to carry forward our country's fine traditional virtues of not wasting a grain of rice."

In a word: cook less, I'm tired, I need to rest!!

A long section of Luo Qiao's barrage was completely interrupted by Mother Luo's palm: "Damn kid, don't make any noise. Peel this carrot quickly. Let's stew the soup first. It won't be ready before eight o'clock in the evening.

, you will be dead in the first grade of junior high school."

The custom here is that on New Year's Eve, children are not spanked on the first day of the new year. If they want to be spanked, they start spanking on the first day of the new year.

Luo Qiao was helpless, sighed, and sat down obediently, lowering his head and continuing to peel. There was nothing he could do but obey.

However, Mother Luo seemed to see that Luo Qiao had worked hard. After Luo Qiao peeled all the vegetables and selected the tails, she asked Luo Qiao to go out and asked her to call Father Luo to come in and stop hindering her cooking.

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Luo Qiao was very happy, but he still pretended to keep it to himself: "Mom, I'm not tired, I'm not working hard, I can continue to help you."

Mother Luo glanced at Luo Qiao with disgust: "Tsk, tsk, tsk, you kid, why have you become so hypocritical? Go out, call your dad to come in, and don't hang around in front of me, it's annoying."

Mother Luo said so, Luo Qiao could only shake his head and walk out of the kitchen slowly. After closing the kitchen door, Luo Qiao changed his expression, raised the corner of his mouth and walked quickly to Father Luo who was sitting behind the cashier of the canteen.

Next to him, a hand patted his shoulder: "Comrade Dashu, Comrade Yulan is calling you from the kitchen."

Father Luo was stunned for a moment, then he couldn't help laughing. He sat in his wheelchair and saluted: "Yes, I will go to support you right now!"

Luo Qiao bent down towards the kitchen and stretched out his hand: "Go slowly and don't see me off."

Father Luo smiled and pushed the wheelchair towards the kitchen. Luo Qiao leaned against the cashier and looked at Father Luo's back, the corners of his mouth never falling.

It's better to live. If you die, there will really be nothing.

Luo Qiao ran back to his room, took a small box from the room, and then sat behind the cashier while receiving customers who came to buy department stores and secretly folding things.

At night, dim street lights illuminated the streets that were now full of closed doors. A cold wind was blowing. Sitting behind the cashier, Luo Qiao zipped up his cotton-padded jacket to protect himself from the wind.

"Xiaoqiao, push the freezer outside and pull the door down. We are going to have a reunion dinner!" Mother Luo's voice came from the kitchen.

"Okay, I get it!" Luo Qiao quickly folded the things in his hands and put them into a big box. It was full of things she had folded for many days. In addition to the box downstairs, there were also

Two large boxes in her bedroom.

Luo Qiao got up and pushed in the freezer placed at the entrance of the canteen. On New Year's Eve, after the reunion dinner, there was no business until the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Luo Qiao unplugged the socket and was about to push the freezer into the canteen when a familiar voice suddenly broke into her ears.

"Little bridge!"

Luo Qiao turned around suddenly and saw Ke Yuexiang, wearing a linen coat, dragging her suitcase and walking towards her against the light of the street lamp.

"Aunt Xiang?!" Luo Qiao instantly let go of his hand that was pushing the freezer, ran towards Ke Yuexiang, stood in front of her and said in surprise, "Didn't you say you won't be back for the New Year this year? Why are you appearing in front of me now?"

Ke Yuexiang tilted her head and glanced at the canteen where there was no one, then reached out and poked Luo Qiao's cotton clothes: "My nineteen-year-old girlfriend keeps urging me to come back, how can I not come back."

Luo Qiao: "Didn't you say that your grandmother wanted you to stay there to spend the New Year with her?"

Ke Yuexiang raised her eyes and looked at Luo Qiao, and chuckled: "I told her that I have a young, beautiful, capable and energetic girlfriend. If she runs away, I will go crazy. After my grandma heard this, she immediately let me go.

When I came back, I asked my assistant to buy the earliest ticket for me."

Ke Yuexiang approached Luo Qiao and whispered in front of her: "I didn't even come back to the city, so I went straight to you. Xiaoqiao, I miss you, very much..."

Luo Qiao looked at Ke Yuexiang, who was looking at her affectionately, and suddenly wanted to kiss her, but they couldn't be impulsive when they were on the street.

Luo Qiao reached out to take Ke Yuexiang's luggage, pushed the suitcase with one hand, and held Ke Yuexiang's hand with the other. He looked at her with a smile and said, "Just in time, everyone is here, we can have the reunion dinner."

Ke Yuexiang's eyes sparkled instantly. She held Luo Qiao's hand, moved closer to her, and looked at her in surprise: "You treat me like a family member."

Luo Qiao chuckled lightly and turned his fingers in Ke Yuexiang's palm: "Aunt Xiang, haven't you always called me mother and sister?"
To be continued...