Lin Yue slapped the thing into her hand: "Here, this is the new year's money from dad."
Jiang Xiaoguo turned her head mechanically, looking at the big red envelope in her hand and the stack of RMB with its seal exposed. She stayed where she was, and the fire in her heart seemed to be poured out by a basin of ice water.
"I'm leaving. I'm going back to my hometown on New Year's Eve. My beloved daughter, see you next year."
Click~
The door opens.
Click~
The door is closed.
Only then did Jiang Xiaoguo wake up, threw the red envelope on the table, ran to the entrance and pushed the door open, following the footsteps in the corridor and shouted: "You bastard teases me every day, will you die if you don't tease me?" ?”
Pa da ~
Pa da ~
Pa da ~
The only answer she received was the sound of footsteps gradually becoming less audible.
Jiang Xiaoguo stamped her feet, closed the door and went back to the restaurant to sit down. She looked at the unfinished food on the table and felt a little blocked.
After almost ten minutes, she pinched herself hard, then she lay forward and buried her face in her arms. She felt so ashamed because she had a feeling just now that it would be great if he didn't leave.
It has been almost ten years since mother and daughter have spent the Spring Festival together, relying on each other. Only today I hope that one more person can be there.
"You keep calling me your daughter, but you are a competent father. What does this mean?"
Jiang Xiaoguo pushed the red envelope aside: "Who wants your dirty money?"
But after a few seconds, he changed his attitude and took out the money and counted it. 2,500 yuan was quite a lot.
No, ten two hundred and fifty?
…
Around the same time.
Huancui District, Weihai.
Liang Shuang looked at the clean night sky and felt a little deserted. When he was a child, he could still hear the sound of firecrackers during the New Year, and occasionally there would be fireworks shows. However, in recent years, the flavor of the Spring Festival has faded a lot. Perhaps only TV programs are still trying to exaggerate the holiday. Atmosphere.
"Grandma, how do you distinguish between loving someone and liking someone?"
The old woman wearing reading glasses and holding a mobile phone was thinking about what her granddaughter had just taught. She looked up at her and didn't understand why she asked this.
"It's cool. Did you see the person you liked before at the class reunion?"
Liang Shuang shook his head.
"Grandma doesn't know what she likes and loves. In the era when grandma lived, the elders of two families thought that each other's children were good, so they pulled a few pieces of cloth, built two brick houses, and bought some daily necessities. This marriage was just a matter of time. Done."
"Then...do you like grandpa?"
The old lady put the phone aside, as if she didn't know how to answer her granddaughter's question: "I only know that whenever there is a festival, if he is not around, I always feel that something is missing."
"That's it..."
"It's great. I see that you haven't thought about food or food these days. You didn't even smile when you came back from the class reunion. What's wrong? You have a boyfriend? Do you miss him?"
"No way, grandma, don't you know me? I don't want to be like those classmates who keep their mouths open and shut up, get married, get married and have children."
"Really?"
Liang Shuang felt guilty, but his expression did not change.
"It's great. If you want to find him, just go there after the New Year. I'll go talk to your father and mother."
"Grandma, what are you talking about?"
"It's been about half a month since I came back. You've asked me no less than seven times about whether it's cold in the Northeast or what the minimum temperature will be during the Chinese New Year. It's okay to lie to your parents about some things, but you want to lie to me?"
The old lady shook her head, with a hint of evil smile in her kindness.
Liang Shuang has always been tough-talking. Even the dearest grandma will not give in on this issue: "I feel sorry for my dad who always goes on business trips to such cold places."
"Really? It's cool. You didn't treat your dad like this before."
"I...haven't I grown up?"
The old lady knew that she would get impatient if he talked about it any more, so she smiled slightly and did not continue to dwell on this issue.
…
New Year's Eve.
Huanhua Creek, Chengdu.
Duan Jiabao and Duan Zhenyu sat on one side, and Duan's father and Duan's mother sat on the other side. The dining table in the middle was filled with dishes, such as Australian dragon, pig's trotters, chicken feet, king crab, sauce duck, cured pork ribs... everything. It's hard stuff.
"Come on, baby, look at you, you are so hungry and thin." Mother Duan broke off a leg of the king crab and put it on her daughter's plate: "Come on, eat more and replenish your body. It doesn't matter if you are young. When you get older, Once you know it, you will know that if your vitality is really damaged, it cannot be repaired in a day or two."
"Thank you, Mom."
Gu Duan Jiabao glanced at Duan Zhenyu, took out a bank card from his pocket and handed it over.
Duan’s mother said, “What is this?”
"Oh, this is the salary I paid a year ago, and now I'm giving it to you as a New Year's gift, although... it's only a few thousand yuan." At this point, she smiled sheepishly: "Dad, Mom, don't be too little. .”
Father Duan said, "Did you see that our little princess has really grown up?"
Seeing Duan's mother sitting still, she smiled awkwardly: "Take it, this is the New Year's gift from the child to us."
"Ah, okay, okay." Mother Duan could only take the card in her hand and slowly sit back on the chair.
"Dad will give you lucky money." Father Duan stood up and took out two red envelopes from behind: "Here, ten thousand for each person."
Ten thousand yuan of New Year's money is certainly a lot of money for an ordinary family, but for the Duan family, which has assets of several billion, it is simply a drop in the bucket.
"Haha, thank you dad." Duan Zhenyu took the red envelope with both hands, glanced at Duan Jiabao, and silently mourned for her for three seconds in his heart.
"Baby, what's wrong with you? Hold it."
"Oh, haha, thank you dad." Duan Jiabao also accepted the red envelope, but his smile was a little forced.
She now knew why her mother looked at her with a sad look. It turned out that she didn't do her father's job. Fortunately, the black card was not re-opened. Instead, she paid 3,000 yuan to get in. It was only 10,000 yuan as a new year's gift. , what's the point? Her second-hand luxury goods have already been sold for a fortune. If this continues, it will break her muscles and bones.
"By the way, Dad, I have been working in a brokerage company for a few months. I am very familiar with the affairs inside and have a deep understanding of them. In the next six months, I want to try my hand at it."
Father Duan put down his chopsticks: "What do you mean?"
Duan's mother quickly joined in and said, "Yeah, our baby is going to start a business. He has ambitions and ideas. Zhenyu, do you see? You have to learn from your sister."
"Yes, yes, I will definitely learn from my sister." Duan Zhenyu looked like he was being taught.
"Start a business? Baby, you have to think carefully. Starting a business is very hard."
"Dad, I know this." Duan Jiabao said: "I have experienced the hardships of leading a perverted artist. How can it be more difficult to start a business by yourself? Look at this..."
"What's this?"
"How about my classmate? The conditions are good, she will be the first artist signed by my company."
"It is indeed a good seedling."
Father Duan looked at the girl on the phone screen and nodded slightly: "What's her name?"
Duan Jiabao said: "Liang Shuang."
"Well, you can try it."
"But Dad...I'm not afraid of the hard work of starting a business. The key is..."
"What's the point?"
"Now adding in the living expenses you subsidize, I only have 4,000 yuan a month. How can I spend enough?"
"Well, that's true." Father Duan nodded: "Starting a business does require some start-up capital."
Duan's mother beat the snake and put it on the stick: "Baby, what are you doing standing still? Why don't you thank your dad."
"Hey, thank you dad. When the company makes money, I will definitely pay you back double the amount."
Father Duan didn’t think much about it, thinking that he would give 1,000 yuan and his daughter would earn 3,000 yuan at work, adding up to 4,000 yuan. Facts have proved that she has enough ability to survive independently: "My baby can talk. Dad believes that you can succeed."
An hour later, Duan Jiabao walked into Duan Zhenyu's room carrying a plate of crab meat.
Pa~
Without saying much, the two high-fived each other.
"Sister, you are still awesome. How did you come up with the idea of using this trick to convince dad?"
"What Da Xiong said, Da Xiong said that since my parents built this family business from scratch, they can definitely understand their children's desire to start a business."
"I didn't expect Brother Xiong to have such a clever side."
"Don't think Big Bear is usually dull, but he is actually very smart."
…
Big Year.
While every household was busy visiting relatives and friends, Luo Yan was standing outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, wearing an ear-band microphone and introducing tourist attractions to tourists traveling abroad during the Spring Festival.
“Look, everyone, this is the famous Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is the largest art museum in the United States. It has collections of Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, the Far and Near East, Greece and Rome, Europe, Africa, America’s pre-Columbian period and the New Age. There are more than 3.3 million art treasures from Guinea and other places, including architecture, sculptures, paintings, and sketches from various historical periods in ancient and modern times..."
Half an hour later, after telling everyone that they were free to move around and reminding everyone of the meeting place and time several times, she finally found time to stop for a bite to eat and a drink of water.
Although I have been learning from Wang Hong for a month, it was my first time to lead a group and I was still nervous and anxious. In just a moment, my palms and backs were all sweaty.
In fact, it wasn't just the third year of junior high school. She was in the United States throughout the Spring Festival. Lu Ran once called her on New Year's Eve, but she didn't answer because she was so angry that she almost dropped her phone.
As for the reason... When I was browsing Weibo, I saw Wei Yunjie uploading a set of photos of the Harbin Ice Sculpture Festival, and said that this was the most comfortable Spring Festival in ten years.
When people travel from Shenzhen to Northeast China during the Chinese New Year, you can tell who they are going to spend the Spring Festival with.
