If it were during the war years, Hua Tianlong should be the most wealthy arms dealer in Donghai Town. His friends all cast envious looks at him. Hua Tianlong couldn't be more proud. He wiped his nose with his sleeve and said boldly: "I
Dad bought it! I’ll buy it after it’s finished!”
Xie Chong said sourly: "Your dad is not afraid of you getting into trouble? My dad is afraid of catching fire, so he never buys me so much."
"I'm afraid of this, I'm afraid of that, it's so boring! My dad said that during the New Year, you have to have a New Year look! If you don't set off firecrackers during the New Year, when will you do it?"
Compared with Hua Tianlong's father, the father who likes to take him for rides on motorcycles was immediately outclassed. However, Xie Chong will not blame his father. He is waiting hard for the day when his parents come back.
Several children were running around in the yard, feeling very unhappy. Xie Hongxuan came out and warned them several times, telling them to stay away from firewood and to be careful of the wires above their heads. The children replied perfunctorily, "I know," but no one heard them.
Xie Hongxuan laughed at himself: "Why should I lose my temper in the air?"
The children laid out various patterns on the ground, holding "Didi Jiner", drawing circles and dragons in the air, and then...several holes were burned on each person's body.
The Xie brothers and sisters were very distressed and didn't know how to tell their families. It was even more difficult for Wang Haochuan. He had already imagined the scene of his mother's collapse. He had a headache and was frightened. Hua Tianlong had the most holes in his body, but he was the one with the least worries.
. He sniffed and said, "You're going to get scolded anyway, so let's play through it first!"
Xie Ying's physical strength was not as good as that of boys, and soon she could no longer jump. It was not yet nine o'clock, and she had only been jumping for more than half an hour. Hua Tianlong's parents called him twice in the alley, and he couldn't jump every time.
They all responded with a curt "I know", but then turned around and kept jumping. His weapons quickly disappeared. Xie Ying was sitting on the steps at the door of the east wing, laughing one second and then the next.
He tilted his head for a second and fell asleep.
Hua Tianlong stopped jumping. He told everyone to "shush" her and told them not to wake her up. Xie Chong picked up his sister and put her on the kang in the east wing. Hua Tianlong ran into the main room, excited.
He shouted: "Grandpa, grandma, Teacher Xie, Xie Ying is asleep!"
"Hey, did you fall asleep so early?" Feng Yuzhen looked at the time and said, "I still want her to stay up until twelve o'clock and eat taro before going to bed!"
"When she got tired from playing, she fell asleep!"
After Xie Qingyun rolled out the last dumpling wrapper, he smiled and said: "Xie Ying just fell asleep. How come you feel so accomplished as if you had coaxed a baby to sleep?"
Hua Tianlong said proudly: "Why don't you count me as coaxing her to sleep? I just want her to sleep when she is tired from playing!"
"Huh? What does this mean?"
Hua Tianlong smiled and said nothing, ran out quickly, and went home with Wang Haochuan. Xie Chong was also tired from playing and couldn't cheer up, so he went back to his room and fell asleep. After settling down the two little ones, the Xie family
The adults stared at each other, and finally smiled helplessly, they still had to wait until twelve o'clock.
Xie Qingyun felt sorry for his parents and asked them to go to bed early. Xie Hongxuan kept dozing off, but he held on and let his wife sleep first. Feng Yuzhen shook her head and sighed: "I must keep this night."
This family can no longer be reunited, but they are still holding on. Xie Qingyun leaned on the quilt and repeatedly persuaded himself - it's the holidays, be happy and don't think about the sad past.
But she couldn't persuade herself.
Feng Yuzhen, with sleepy eyes, said to her wife: "Lao Xie, I went to see Xue Shenxian a few days ago."
"Ahem! Do you really believe in feudal superstition?"
"But a few years ago, he did let me talk to the boss!"
"You were hypnotized, do you understand? In the hypnotic state, you are led by his nose! You believe whatever he says!"
Feng Yuzhen turned a deaf ear to her wife's words. She said dreamily: "He said that the eldest daughter-in-law is about to remarry. Xiaoying is also very good-looking. His wife and children are well settled, so he won't worry anymore and will be reincarnated."
Already."
"That's nonsense! According to what he said, the boss only cares about his wife and children? He doesn't care about us, the old couple. We both look like sixty years old and both have problems. He doesn't worry? The second and third children were raised by the boss.
I'm in my twenties and thirties, but I'm still reckless
The loss does not make people worry, can the boss feel relieved? The third child...the boss is not young anymore, his work is not going well, and he is not married, how can the boss feel relieved?...In this family, the boss has endless things to worry about! A fortune teller
Just a few words of nonsense and you take it seriously?"
Xie Hongxuan was blaming the fortune teller, but he lost his temper at his wife.
He wasn't losing his temper, he just missed his son. On this day of family reunion, his longing turned into countless ants, wandering in the flesh and blood around him, biting his heart. The most painful torture in the world is not
More than this.
Xie Qingyun leaned against his parents and lay on the kang, with two lines of tears slowly falling down.
Since the eldest brother left, every New Year's Eve, their family always had a quarrel. But everyone knew that what broke out was not a quarrel, but yearning.
Missing you becomes a disease, and there is no way to relieve it, you can only lose your temper.
This happens every New Year's Eve, never once.
"Okay, stop arguing!" Xie Qingyun held back his tears and said, "Forget it, if you want to argue, just argue! It's best to let the eldest brother see it in the sky and see how disturbing this family is.
Heart!"
The old couple then stopped talking and each leaned on the side of the kang without saying a word. Xie Qingyun jumped off the kang and turned up the volume of the TV a little louder. This way, when she cried, she would not be easily heard.
Every New Year's Eve, she would suffer from insomnia all night long. By the next day, her eyes would be swollen.
She misses her elder brother so much.
When she was a child, her eldest brother held her and her second brother's hands and walked a long way; when she was a teenager, her eldest brother who left her hometown wrote her letters one after another, making her feel that her eldest brother was never far away. But one day
, the life of her eldest brother came to an abrupt end. He left so suddenly that she was caught off guard; he left so tragically that her heart was cut by a knife. She always felt that her eldest brother was still wandering outside, and she would still receive letters from him.
Letters, those warm, heavy and full of expectations.
But she never received it again.
So, little sister.
She seemed to still be able to hear her elder brother's call. But where was he? In another world that she couldn't see or touch.
Xie Qingyun could not hold back his tears. His deep longing broke out completely on the night when they were supposed to be reunited. Except for the two children, everyone in the Xie family spent a sleepless night.
***
At twelve o'clock, Hua Aiguo was going to set off firecrackers. Hua Tianlong was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes and staggered when he walked, so he insisted on setting off firecrackers with his father.
"Dad, go and let it go on the road!"
"Why? Can't you leave it at your doorstep?"
Hua Tianlong said: "It's too loud. What if Xie Ying is woken up?"
"Wake up if you wake up! It's the Chinese New Year, where is the noise? Don't they all set off firecrackers? We all can't bear to sleep."
"Hey, I finally got her to sleep. Don't wake her up." Hua Tianlong whispered to his father: "Xie Ying told me that every New Year's Eve, her grandparents and aunts would cry all night and make her
It made her very uncomfortable. So, I pulled her hard to play, and when she got tired, she fell asleep. I couldn't control it at other times, but when I was with her, she definitely fell asleep happily."
"Boy, I really belong to you." Hua Aiguo smiled, but couldn't stop laughing. "Yes, we are a good family, we go away and break up, and it is the most difficult during the holidays. Okay,
I'll go to the street corner and set off the whip! Otherwise, they won't be more troubled if they hear it."
Hua Tianlong immediately followed: "Okay! I'll light the fire!"
"Be careful - I really didn't realize how considerate you are, kid!"
"That's right! Otherwise, where would I have so many younger brothers?"
Hua Tianlong followed his father walking in the dark night, and the fireworks illuminated their backs. He lit a stick of incense and lit the core of the firecrackers with the incense. The crackling firecrackers sounded, and Hua Tianlong jumped for joy. He eagerly wanted to grow up.
Big, and that night, he actually grew another year older.