The festive atmosphere these days has faded. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and today all the shops on the street are still open and doing business as normal. Some restaurants even stay open on New Year's Eve and remain open until the morning of New Year's Day.

I don’t know since when, the importance of making money seems to have surpassed celebrating the New Year.

Liu Muye and Han Juyou followed Chen Menglian to buy New Year's goods. When they came out of the mall, a hawker pushing a cart selling candied haws happened to pass by.

Without waiting for Han Juyou to say that she wanted to eat, Chen Menglian paid for two strings of candied haws for her and Liu Muye out of her own pocket.

In Chen Menglian's eyes, two people in their twenties are still just two children.

"Thank you, Auntie."

Liu Muye took the candied haws and took a bite of the thin and crispy sugar coating. The sweet taste flowed from his mouth into his heart like a warm current. An indescribable sense of happiness filled Liu Muye's heart.

This feeling of happiness is different from the happiness of being in love with Han Juyou. It is a very special feeling. Liu Muye hasn't felt this way for a long time.

A string of candied haws brought back memories of Liu Muye's childhood...

When Liu Muye was a child, his favorite thing was the Chinese New Year. During the Chinese New Year, he would go to the market with his mother and buy a lot of delicious food to take home.

When he was a child, the atmosphere of the New Year was particularly strong. The streets were decorated with lights and there were stalls selling handwritten Spring Festival couplets at the entrance of the market. There were also printed couplets for sale, but they didn't sell well. He remembered that everyone preferred handwritten couplets at that time. There were some masters who wrote beautiful handwriting, and their stalls were always full of people.

Walking into the market, there are candy sellers on both sides. At that time, there were relatively few branded goods. The candies were all made by some messy factories, and the packaging bags were also copied from each other. Liu Muye liked to look for Oh Oh Milk Candy among the pile of unknown brand candies. He thought that milk candy was the most delicious besides the White Rabbit Milk Candy, and it tasted softer than the White Rabbit.

After buying the candies, he would follow his mother to buy other dried fruits, melon seeds and peanuts for display, and then stock up on various dishes for the New Year.

At that time, preparations for the New Year would begin a month in advance. By New Year’s Eve, few shops would be open, and you couldn’t buy anything on the Spring Festival.

After buying all kinds of things, his mother would take him to buy New Year's clothes, but at that time he didn't have much interest in new clothes. Instead of wearing beautiful new clothes, he would rather eat a hamburger and fried chicken.

So after buying clothes, her mother would take her to an unknown small fast food restaurant and buy two cheap hamburgers with fried chicken fillets, and then go to the supermarket to buy a bottle of Coke for three dollars, and eat while walking home.

When the cold wind blew, the outer layer of the hamburger became cold, but the chicken steak inside was still warm. After eating the hamburger, he took a sip of what seemed to be iced cola. Bubbles burst in his mouth. The not-so-warm sunlight shone through the cola bottle onto the little boy's face. A happy smile appeared on his somewhat childish face.

That moment was definitely the happiest moment for Liu Muye, right?

The Chinese New Year at that time lasted only about ten days, and the beauty was fleeting, but it also seemed very long, so long that many years later, when Liu Muye recalled those beautiful moments of his childhood, he still missed them, and tears of happiness would overflow from his eyes uncontrollably.

Later, Liu Muye, who had lost a lot of things, finally understood that, in fact, the Chinese New Year was not long, but the child in his heart was forever trapped in the long memories of his beautiful childhood and could never get out...

In the two years after graduation, he was obsessed with getting rich quickly and making a lot of money.

Making lots of money seemed to have become the whole meaning of his life, so much so that he himself didn't know what he really wanted. The bad experiences in his childhood dominated his emotions, making him always depressed and forgetting the happy times.

The result was that after he suddenly became rich, he himself became uneasy.

He seemed to have no idea how to squander the countless wealth, because his heart was empty, and the sudden wealth was also empty. The huge gap from a pauper to a rich second-generation was so shocking that he didn't know what the meaning of life was.

Now that he thinks about it, the fact that he could do something as stupid as asking the maid to pour the soy milk into the trash can, which seemed wasteful but was actually a bit ridiculous, was actually a concrete manifestation of his inner uneasiness after having just become rich.

Looking at the broken candied haws in his hand, Liu Muye suddenly recalled the words written on the note Luo Ji gave him:

[Liu Muye, please think clearly about what kind of life you want. ]

"Do I really want endless money? Or... something else?"

Liu Muye couldn't help but ask himself this question in his heart.

"Why, you don't like it?"

Han Juyou had eaten most of the candied haws. Seeing Liu Muye holding the candied haws in a daze, she nudged Liu Muye's arm with her elbow and said, "If you don't like it, I'll help you eat it reluctantly."

As Han Juyou said this, he opened his mouth and was about to bite the candied haws in Liu Muye's hand.

Liu Muye certainly wouldn't give it to her. He pressed Han Juyou's forehead with his palm and said, "This is what Auntie bought for me. You can eat your own!"

"Hey, let me have a taste of yours, don't be so stingy!"

"Shut up, no!"

Chen Menglian couldn't stand it anymore, she said to Han Juyou: "Youyou, you are so old, why are you still like a child!"

"Oh, okay, okay." After being scolded by his mother, Han Juyou immediately became obedient.

"Hehe, do you want to eat it? I won't give it to you!" Liu Muye on the side showed a winner's smile and shook the candied haws in his hand in front of her.

How could Han Juyou really want to snatch the candied haws from Liu Muye's hand? She was not a child anymore. She just saw that Liu Muye was worried just now, so she deliberately teased him. Now seeing Liu Muye smiling again, she also laughed in her heart and muttered secretly, "big fool".

Chen Menglian originally planned to buy a pair of handwritten Spring Festival couplets to put up in her new home, but Liu Muye said that he could write them, so she gave up the idea of ​​buying handwritten Spring Festival couplets and instead picked out some paper and pen materials for writing couplets at the stall.

After buying all the New Year’s goods, the three drove back home.

As soon as she entered the house, Chen Menglian took the purchased ingredients to the kitchen to prepare them.

The two "good-for-nothings" Liu Muye and Han Juyou collapsed on the sofa and started to secretly eat the new year's goods they had just bought.

You see, when there are no mice in the house, some people will automatically become mice!

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