sinovels Chapter 40 Reunion
Chapter 40 Reunion
Before dawn the next day, Xu Jianxing called.Xu Yue covered her eyes with her arms and hung up the phone.After a few minutes, the bell rang again.
"Uncle, what's the matter?"
"Xiaoyue, I'm aunt. When are you going home today? The whole family is waiting for you to come back. I made you something you like."
"Auntie, I'm busy and I can't leave. I'll go back to see you later."
There was silence on the phone for a while, and the voice on the other end sounded a little sad, "Xiaoyue, I promised your mother to take care of you, but you haven't come back for four years. I sorted things out today and found out that your mother's is still there."
"Okay, I'll be back in the afternoon."
Yunqiao County has changed a lot in recent years, with more and more high-rise buildings.Many people in towns have moved to the county seat, and the countryside is far less lively than before.
Xu Jianxing and his family still celebrate the New Year in Xu's old house.The old house was built by Grandpa Xu Yue's generation, and it is almost a hundred years old now. Xu Jianxing renovated it when he took over, otherwise it would be impossible to live in.After Xu Jiancheng got married, he moved out and built another building. Later, he thought the neighbors were noisy and bought a house in Yunqiao and Yunzhou.
When Xu Yue arrived, Xu Lu was on the phone in the yard, and her mother, Zhang Yan, was fetching sausages that were drying on bamboo poles.Seeing Xu Yue, Zhang Yan hurried up and asked him if he was tired and if he had lunch.Xu Yue smiled at her and said that she had eaten.
"Where's your father?" Xu Yue asked Xu Lu.
Xu Lu said with a dark face, "I went out early this morning and said I'm coming back tonight."
Zhang Yan is a hardworking and capable woman who keeps the family in order.Xu Jiancheng's reputation in Yunqiao is not good, and even Xu Jianxing's family is not welcome, and they often listen to gossip behind their backs.Zhang Yan acted as if he hadn't heard, and was willing to help anyone with a problem. After more than ten years, the relationship between the neighbors was considered harmonious.
So Zhang Yan knew when Xu Jianxing came back and who he brought with him, but she was a traditional woman, so she couldn't say divorce.She could only guard the house silently after her husband and children went out.
At six o'clock in the afternoon, the sky almost completely dimmed, and Xu Jianxing still didn't get home.
Zhang Yan was stir-frying the vegetables, looking up at the sky from time to time.
Xu Lu noticed it several times, and finally couldn't help but said: "Mom, his son is about to be born, why can't you figure it out?" Sleeves let him chime in.
Zhang Yan gave her a reproachful look, "Kids are in a family, what do you know, why do you leave! If you leave our family, you will be separated."
Xu Lu curled her lips and wanted to say more, but her mother stuffed a basket of beans into her arms, and said: "It's Chinese New Year, don't make everyone unhappy, go choose vegetables."
"Take your time, you will figure it out one day." Xu Yue offered to help choose the dishes and comforted Xu Lu.
The host of the Spring Festival Gala announced happily on the TV. Zhang Yan, Xu Lu and Xu Yue each sat in a chair, and the food on the table was steaming continuously.
"The following is the work that cross talk actor XXX brought us..."
There was thunderous applause from the audience, Xu Yue took the remote control to turn off the TV volume, and said to Zhang Yan: "Auntie, we won't wait."
"Hey." Zhang Yan responded, "Eat when you two are hungry, I'll wait, wait... Tonight is Chinese New Year's Eve."
Xu Yue sighed secretly, stopped trying to persuade her, and asked, "What did my mother leave with you?"
"Come with me." Zhang Yan said.
Xu Yue went back to the room with her, and saw her find someone to turn on the flashlight of her mobile phone and go to the utility room. "The light is broken and hasn't been changed until her father comes back..." She thought of something, stopped her voice, and walked silently to the box placed in the corner.
An old-fashioned wooden box with mottled red paint on the surface. In the countryside of the eighties and 90s, such a box is usually given as a dowry.
I brushed off a layer of dust on the lid, and with a creak, the rust on the hinges fell into the box.The topmost layer is a notebook with a plain cover. Xu Yue suddenly remembered that she had seen it when she was rummaging through his mother's drawers when she was a child.
The drawer is usually locked, but that time, the key was stuck in the lock and the young Xu Yue opened the notebook and saw a photo of her mother and a strange man.
Xu Yue was stunned for a moment, her hands were hanging in the air, not daring to touch the notebook, it was the source of the plague.Infected people become insane.
Noticing Xu Yue's abnormality, Zhang Yan took off the waterproof case on the notebook, handed it to him, and said, "Don't worry, no one has read it."
Back at the dining table, Xu Lu was still eating, and she ate half of the table as if venting. Xu Yue went over to pinch the muscles on her shoulders that had softened, and joked: "It's hard to practice, it's almost fat."
Xu Lu rolled his eyes at him, stuffed the roast duck into his mouth and said, "Xu Jianxing just called and said he won't be back tonight, he will be back tomorrow morning."
Zhang Yan frowned, and asked anxiously: "You didn't ask him where he went? Why can't he come back?"
"Maybe in the hospital." Xu Yue directly cut off her aunt's hope, "The last time we met, I heard him call."
Zhang Yan and Xu Lu looked at each other, turned and went back to the room.Xu Lu lost her appetite in an instant, went to sit on the sofa, patted the empty seat beside her, and said, "Xu Yue, come, sit with me for a while." Xu Yue still had a notebook in her hand, and sat down next to her.
Just about to speak, the countdown to the Spring Festival Gala sounded——
10——9——8——7——6——5——4——3——2——1——过年好！
boom--
Thousands of fireworks exploded at the same time, and the sky was colorful.
"Mr. Xiaohan, let's set off firecrackers together!"
The sound of firecrackers made He Yinghan's head buzz, and he shouted loudly: "Go and play, be careful!"
He Yinghan was worried, staring at a group of children surrounding Xiao Yuan from a distance.There was a child who couldn't hear and was staring at the firelight.The kid next to him covered his own with his hand, and covered his own again, with their heads pressed together, creaking and laughing.
The New Year's atmosphere in the village is much stronger than in the city, and the firecrackers and fireworks will be set off all night tonight.He Yinghan was lying on the dormitory bed in the classroom. The upper bunk was Xiao Yuan, the teacher who came to Yijiao.There's nothing going on outside, so I probably won't be able to sleep tonight.The two set up a table and served edamame and peanuts, each with a bottle of Jiang Xiaobai.
There are colorful words printed on the wine bottle, Xiao Yuan glanced over: "I am me, you are you, we will be together when we are drunk."
He Yinghan's WeChat messages were full of New Year's greeting messages, and they were replying one after another. Before he could react, he said, "What?"
"We're together when we're drunk." Xiao Yuan showed the wine bottle to He Yinghan, who smiled and put down his phone.The two of them lightly knocked their wine glasses together and said in unison: "Happy Chinese New Year."
"Ding ding——" He Yinghan's phone rang again.He glanced down, then picked up the glass and took a sip of the wine, frowning so hotly.
"Instead of waiting anxiously, it's better to take the initiative to contact." Xiao Yuan looked at him with his chin in his hands, "I'm tired of looking at your phone every day."