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In the darkness, Li Shangshui laughed silently.

On the first night when I went home, I was worried because of trivial matters at home, diluting the joy of returning home, but I became happy again because of this text message.Li Shangshui thought, this feeling is really terrible and wonderful.

He got under the covers, turned the brightness of the phone to the darkest, and began to think about what to reply to Ren Yang. After deliberating for a long time, he just wrote: "Okay." He didn't receive a reply immediately after sending it. He thought that Ren Yang should be there. Spend time with your family, and at worst, have your own private space to do what you want.Li Shangshui was startled when he thought of this, and he ran around all day without even writing in his diary!So he quietly dug out his diary in the dark, got under the covers and turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone, and began to conclude with difficulty that it was not a good day.

At this time, Ren Yang was really busy. After returning home, he was dragged by his high school classmates to attend class reunions and friends gatherings. It can be said that he was very busy.I haven't seen my sister for half a year, and I haven't even had time to get close to her in the past two days.This night, I was dragged out by some buddies from high school to drink and drink. After drinking until past ten o'clock, Ren Yang was really uncomfortable. After all, he hadn't indulged like this for a long time, so he used the excuse that his sister was waiting for him to go back at home, otherwise he would lose his temper. We broke up early, anyway, this group of people have nothing to do this summer vacation, so it's easy to get together.

After saying goodbye to his buddies, Ren Yang was so dizzy from drinking that he didn't want to take the car, so he walked home facing the cold wind. His body didn't feel hot after drinking, but he felt refreshed.He turned on the phone and saw Li Shangshui's reply, which was always concise and to the point, but he didn't know if there was any other meaning behind the word "good".

After only two days of separation, he felt that he missed Li Shangshui very much, especially when Liu Zimo told them about his love story just now. Although it was normal, it was enough to make single dogs like them envious.Ren Yang felt rather discouraged when he thought of his long journey to courtship and his temporarily shady sexuality.

He dialed Li Shangshui's number, wanting to hear the other party's voice.The phone was connected quickly, and the person over there whispered "Hello", and then there was the sound of clothes rubbing against each other, and then the person over there said, "What's the matter?"

Ren Yang suddenly couldn't stand it anymore, it was fine if he didn't listen to the sound, but when he heard the sound, his longing almost overwhelmed him.He took two deep breaths, patted his face against the cold wind, and said with a smile, "It's nothing, I just miss you and want to hear your voice."

The person over there was silent for a while, and then said inaudibly, "Yes."

Ren Yang laughed again, this is really Ah Shui's style, concise and to the point, but it always gives him infinite reverie.He cleared his throat, and said through his gallbladder: "Well, what, don't be so cold, Ah Shui. I'll just take the monosyllabic word you mean that you miss me too."

Li Shangshui: "...pretending to be passionate."

Just now he was engrossed in writing his diary, the phone vibrated startled him, he picked it up almost reflexively, and then thought that grandma had already fallen asleep, so he ran to the corridor before he even had time to put on his coat.It was actually quite cold outside, but when Ren Yang said he missed him, he suddenly felt a little hot.He didn't know how to respond, so he could only use his usual trump card, but he still made a mistake. He admired Ren Yang's thick skin.

Ren Yang laughed heartily on the other end of the phone, and Li Shangshui asked, "Are you outside?"

"That's right, I just finished drinking with them and I'm going home." Ren Yang kicked away a stone on the side of the road, "Where is Ah Shui, did the road go well today, are you tired?"

"Fortunately, you should go home quickly, it's so cold outside." Li Shangshui felt that this was very awkward. He has never been very good at expressing concern for others, and he just felt that it didn't fit him.

Ren Yang smiled and said: "I see, you should go to bed early too. Send me more text messages when you have time. If the network signal is good, remember to send me photos. I want to see you there, and I will also send you me and me. sister's photo."

Li Shangshui: "Yes."

Ren Yang: "Then, good night, Ah Shui."

"Good night."

After hanging up the phone, Ren Yang suddenly had the illusion that he was in a relationship, but the other party seemed rather indifferent out of shyness.He called up the photo of Li Shangshui on his phone, smirked for a while, and then walked home whistling.

Li Shangshui felt that the phone was hot on his face, and he wondered if it was because of the heat generated by the phone.Putting down the phone, he stood outside for a while, watching the cold silver moonlight pouring down, everything was silent, only he felt joy in his heart.When I went back to the house, my grandma was alarmed. Grandma asked, "Is Shang Shui still asleep?"

"Well, go to bed right away." After finishing the diary hastily, Li Shangshui lay down and heard grandma's slightly heavy breathing again, and slept soundly all night.

For Ren Yang, the winter vacation is to eat, drink and have fun, and suffer from lovesickness by the way.For Li Shangshui, the winter vacation is the accumulation of all kinds of family chores - Li Ligui is still invisible as usual, and his grandma has a fever and cold at every turn, so he can only bear the responsibility of the head of the family.Daily housework is nothing, he has to follow a group of women and old ladies to grab new year's goods in the store, and prepare various foods under the guidance of his grandma.

What gave him the biggest headache was that grandma fed a pig and planned to kill it on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month.In the past, no matter how unreliable Li Ligui was, he would still do this kind of thing himself, and he cooperated perfectly with the butcher. Li Shangshui only needed to help grandma cook and treat the butcher.But this year, Li Ligui had the intention of abdicating, and after bringing the butcher home, he ran away on the grounds that his friend had something to do.

Li Shangshui had no choice but to bite the bullet, put on ragged clothes, rolled up his sleeves and played a game of catching pigs and killing pigs with the butcher.When a pig was so sweaty that it was tied up and put on the chopping board for slaughter, he watched the butcher blowing up the pig. From the very beginning of the pig's desperate struggle to its final dying, he found it absurd.If a pig knows that he is a pig, was raised by people, and finally killed by people and served on the dining table, would he still be willing to live?

He felt that he was hypocritical. He enjoyed himself while eating pork, but at this moment he felt sorry for the pig. Isn't this two-faced and three-handed?He smiled inwardly, went into the room and took out his mobile phone, took a picture of the pig that was blown into a ball, and sent it to Ren Yang after he went up the mountain in the afternoon.

Since the last time he went to the mountain to collect firewood, he discovered that the signal on the top of the mountain was stronger than that at home. Looking around, he saw a signal tower standing quietly not far away.He happily opened WeChat, sent a message to Ren Yang, and Ren Yang replied in seconds.Since then, Li Shangshui has gone to the mountains to collect firewood every afternoon. First, there are not many stocks at home, and the demand is high during the Chinese New Year; Have a chat, send a few pictures.

The butcher was also surnamed Li. Seeing Li Shangshui going up and down, he didn't feel disgusted at all. He wondered for a long time before asking, "Aren't you going to college in the city? Your father still asks you to do this kind of thing?"

Li Shangshui raised the corner of his mouth and replied, "It's nothing."

Butcher Li sighed: "If my son is like you, I won't worry about it. If I were your father, I will definitely not let you do anything. I will let you study hard. I won't do physical work like us in the future." .”

Li Shangshui smiled and didn't answer, just listen to the sighs from others, there is no need to take them seriously, otherwise he can only be sad.

Going up the mountain in the afternoon, Li Shangshui used a bamboo rake to carry a bamboo basket to pick up loose hair. He sent a photo of the equipment to Ren Yang. Ren Yang said to show it to his sister, who thought it looked like Zhu Bajie's outfit.Li Shangshui smiled, looking back, he really looked alike.

Ren Yang: "Zhu Bajie? Where is your Gao Laozhuang? When are you going to take your wife home?"

Li Shangshui: "I'll show you the photos of your previous life."

He sent the picture of the dying pig to Ren Yang, and he received a series of exclamations from Ren Yang.

"Is it the same way to kill pigs in pig farms?"

Li Shangshui: "... Then I don't know, but this is our habit here."

Ren Yang: "Okay, Ah Shui, I really want to visit your house."

Li Shangshui sighed, this person is really persistent: "Didn't you see the photos here, it's so broken, why do you want to come?"

Ren Yang: "it's secret!"

Li Shangshui shook his head: "It's better here in summer. If there is a chance next summer, I can bring you here."

Ren Yang sent a cheap emoji over, expressing his great anticipation.

On New Year's Eve, it is routine to get up early and set off a firecracker. Grandma said it was early, although Li Shangshui didn't know why he wanted to be early.After breakfast, Li Shangshui began to prepare lunch. The custom here is to eat dumplings in the evening after offering sacrifices to ancestors at noon.

Li Ligui consciously took on the responsibility of posting couplets to the door gods, even though there were not many doors in their house, and then he took out the set of things for worshiping the ancestors—it was nothing more than incense tripods and small wine glasses, cleaned them up, and put them on the table. He is no longer busy.Only Li Shangshui hurriedly processed a batch of chicken, duck, fish and other food, put them on the altar table, and then filled the ancestors with wine. Two heads, grandma routinely said a few words to ask the ancestors to bless them, and the ancestor worship activities are over.

"No sincerity." Li Shangshui thought to himself.

When the ancestors had enough to eat and drink, he began to prepare human food.There are only three people in the family, and grandma doesn't let it go to waste, so Li Shangshui only made four big dishes, which are just beef vermicelli, winter melon stewed pork bones, braised fish, and a pot of chicken soup. The rest is braised food that has been prepared long ago It has always been a rule that vegetarian dishes do not appear on the New Year's dinner.

For the dining table of rural people, luxury means more meat.Li Shangshui had no interest in eating, so he only ate a few mouthfuls of fish and two chicken feet that were marinated the night before.During the dinner, grandma smacked her mouth with only a few teeth left—Li Shangshui cooked the food badly enough—and inevitably mentioned Li Shangying who was far away in the city.

"Your sister doesn't know how to go home during Chinese New Year. Is money so easy to earn? She doesn't even know when I die."

Li Ligui also seemed very angry: "Why do you care about her? Such a big girl is still outside, and I will marry her when she comes back. If you don't believe me, I can't control her."

Li Shangshui was silent, he knew that Li Ligui's words were not angry words, as long as Li Shangying was at home, he could not escape being married.He pushed the bowl: "Grandma, I'm full, you eat slowly."

Grandma gave a blank "ah", not understanding why Li Shangshui was full when Li Shangying was mentioned: "Just eat this?"

Li Shangshui smiled: "Every day at home, I have a lot of fish and meat, I really can't eat it."

Li Ligui: "Scholars are scholars, and they don't even eat as much as us old men. Go back ten years and let you work in the fields every day to see if you can eat.

Li Shangshui was tired of Li Ligui's talking to himself, so he simply pretended not to hear, and moved a stool to read on the balcony.

He knew it was Chinese New Year, and because he was at home, the food was much better than usual, but he really couldn't eat it.Even if it is Chinese New Year, this is an ordinary day.After dinner in the evening, the kitchen was cleaned up, and it was rare for the family to sit together to watch the Spring Festival Gala.Grandma's old eyes are dim, she can't read, she doesn't know what's smiling, Li Shangshui can understand, but can't laugh.

Bored, he took out his mobile phone, wondering if it was because of the Chinese New Year, the signal was much stronger today, and the message could be sent out if he sent it slowly.On WeChat, I found a message popping up in the dormitory group from time to time, either a joke or a blessing from everyone. Seeing Niu Junzi and Gao Weitao bickering back and forth in the group, Li Shangshui found it interesting, more interesting than the Spring Festival Gala.

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