Year after year

"Niannian, you will answer whatever grandpa says later, you know? If I give you something, you can take it away with peace of mind." Bai Qiu sat on the passenger seat while touching up her makeup, and told Ying Hengnian, "I saw your uncle Aunt remembers to say hello, An An said that he might not be able to catch up with today's meal, your dad is already inside—"

"I know, I know." Ying Hengnian parked the car, suddenly saw the annoying Cayenne in front of him, and immediately knew it, and said sarcastically, "Why does everyone want to get a piece of the pie? This face really grows and grows." big."

"Niannian." Bai Qiu also saw the car parked in front of her, she frowned, and said, "Don't say a few words. They come as soon as they come, just for dinner."

"Hmph." Ying Hengnian snorted coldly, pulled out the car key, and didn't answer.

"Oh, Niannian, you have to change your temper." Bai Qiu put away the makeup bag, and persuaded earnestly, "Don't flirt with embarrassment, put everything on your face, you have to be scheming, okay? Chengfu, does Chengfu understand?"

"I got it, I got it." Ying Hengnianxin said that it's not just the two of us, otherwise I wouldn't even bother to say anything, "Get out of the car, get in quickly, the old man even sent us a WeChat message to urge us."

As soon as Ying Hengnian entered the gate of the courtyard, he smelled the fragrance of gardenias in front of the old house.The sweet and greasy smell floats in the slightly stuffy air, making people a little breathless.A few bayberry trees beside the fence have already hung green fruits, and they can be picked at the end of the month.If you are free then, you can come back and bring some sparkling wine.Ying Hengnian silently put making bayberry wine on his schedule, planning to skip work.

"Niannian, you are finally here! I'm waiting for you! Come in!" Standing at the gate, Guo Wanjun began to greet Bai Qiu and Bai Qiu warmly like a master from a long distance away, and she walked up to them with small steps, "Isn't it? There's a traffic jam again, let's go out earlier! An'an came directly after getting off the plane, and arrived early."

"There's a meeting every year, let's delay it for a while." Bai Qiu went back unhurriedly, "Anyway, I didn't come here to cook, and if I came early, I just waited for someone, right?"

"That's right." Guo Wanjun took Bai Qiu's hand, looking like a good sister, and lowered her voice mysteriously, "Sister, let me say my congratulations first, when the time comes, you can't forget me when you get rich every year?"

Ying Hengnian, who was walking behind, heard this and guessed about the purpose of the meal.He curled his lips in self-deprecating manner, knowing that skipping work at the end of the month has become a vain thing.

"Wan Jun, what are you talking about?" Bai Qiu laughed, "We are all one family, so we can't forget anything."

"Sister, what time is it and you are still pretending to be confused with me! Aze even told me——"

"It's finally here." Ying Yingjie suddenly came out from behind the screen in the living room and interrupted Guo Wanjun, "I thought you two were arguing halfway through again."

"Almost." Ying Hengnian came up from behind, and said to Yingjie, "In the future, you should pick up your own wife yourself. Putting on makeup will take a long time."

"Niannian!" Bai Qiu pretended to be angry, "How did you talk?"

"It was you who spent half an hour picking out lipsticks outside." Ying Hengnian hid behind Ying Yingjie with an innocent face, "You also asked me which color number looks good, and I haven't used it before, how would I know?"

"you?!"

"Sister, don't be angry. I haven't had a girlfriend every year. No one cares about him, of course he would say that." Of course, Guo Wanjun didn't want to be ignored by the family of three, so she consciously interjected, "It's good to have a girlfriend. .”

"Auntie should keep an eye out for elder brother first." Ying Hengnian laughed mischievously, "I'm not in a hurry, I want to play for another two years."

"You arrange me like this when I'm not here?" Ying Heng'an, the eldest son of Ying's family, came down from upstairs, "Niannian, you make me so sad, and I specially brought you a bottle of wine from Feifei. It seems that you don't need it now. gave."

"Why are you targeting me?" Ying Hengnian hurriedly begged for mercy, "Yes, I was wrong, right? Brother, I will definitely say it when you are not around next time, so I promise you won't hear anything."

"Virtue!" Ying Heng'an smiled helplessly, and then explained why he came, "Grandpa told you to go up."

"Okay, bro." Ying Hengnian said, "What about my wine?"

"Jaejing...Come get it with me when I'm done." Ying Heng'an beckoned, "Follow me quickly."

When Ying Hengnian followed Ying Heng'an into Mr. Ying's room, Mr. Ying was trimming pots of orchids on the balcony.

These pots of orchids were left by Ying Hengnian's grandma, Wang Quanmei, and they are not expensive varieties.Ying Hengnian remembered that it was an afternoon in early April, and he had just returned from studying in England.The old lady Ying said that she wanted to go out for an outing, so she took her two grandchildren to the mountains on the outskirts of the city to look for wild vegetables.Tongchuan in April has the gentlest sunshine of the year, and the half-slopes on the outskirts of the city are dotted with bright red azaleas and rhododendrons.Ying Hengnian and Ying Hengan rode bicycles, while Mrs. Ying rode her old tricycle.The three grandparents came to the foot of the unknown mountain in such a leisurely manner, and spent an afternoon digging a basket of young bamboo shoots and cutting a basket of wild vegetables.

"Miao Miaozi will be ready in early May." Mrs. Ying said when she was going down the mountain, "I don't know if you two will be free at that time."

"Miao Miaozi?" Ying Hengnian, who hadn't been in his hometown much, couldn't understand the dialect, and asked, "What is that?"

"Wild raspberries." Ying Heng'an told him, "Sweet and sour, you should like it."

"Haha." The old lady Ying suddenly laughed, "You're right, Ah Nian always likes things that little girls like."

"Hey, grandma, I don't have one!"

"Okay, okay, you don't have it, our Nian is the best." The old lady Ying was still smiling, "I still want to find two wild flowers to grow back, so keep your eyes open and keep an eye out for me."

Of course, the two young masters of the Ying family, who don't work hard and can't distinguish grains, naturally couldn't recognize the wild flowers that the old lady Ying wanted. In the end, the old lady found three wild orchids and ordered the two brothers to dig them out and take them home.

"When we go back, grandma will fry a pickled bamboo shoot for you, and add some pickled peppers." Mrs. Ying described the dinner on the return trip, "and another fried bean curd Malantou, so that you two can eat three bowls of rice."

"Grandma, I want to pack! Stew porridge tomorrow morning!"

"Okay, okay, I'll make another copy for you when you leave."

In the later years of Ying Heng, I often think of this busy and fulfilling day.Although the company had just started at that time, not only did he have to deal with the piles of old fried dough sticks inside and out every day, but he also had to drive an hour and a half back to the old house every weekend to see his grandma. Ms. Bai Qiu who just recovered from a serious illness.But he never felt tired.Ying Hengnian can't remember the last time he was sitting on the balcony in a daze. After finishing his work in the company every day, he had to go to the nightclub like a stall, calling a group of strangers as brothers and sisters in dim or dazzling lights.It was almost midnight when I got home, and I went to sleep after taking a shower and touching the bed.In fact, Ying Hengnian's company is very small, one is engaged in building materials, the other is engaged in decoration, and there are only a hundred or so employees in total.But Ying Hengnian just enjoys the feeling of building up his own world little by little.

But there is a saying that "things backfire".

"It's Hengnian." Old Master Ying cut flowers with his back to the two brothers, "How is the handover of work going?"

"Almost." At Ying's house, Ying Hengnian never dared to smile in front of Mr. Ying. He replied respectfully, "I've already found a manager. I'll be able to go to the application construction headquarters by the end of this month."

"The efficiency is very high, which is worthy of praise." After pruning one pot, Mr. Ying turned to the next pot, "Young people want to find their own way, but things at home can't be broken. It's also good to exercise outside. Heng An, you have to learn this from your brother, you know?"

"I see, Grandpa." Ying Hengan said.

"Let's play chess first." Mr. Ying nodded with satisfaction, "I still have two pots."

"Your chess move just now was really stinky." After holding back his meal, Ying Hengnian got into the car and finally could laugh at Ying Hengan, "I gave you three moves."

"I'm not a lonely person who can play backgammon on my mobile phone." Ying Heng'an gave the single dog a fatal blow, "After all, I'm not very lonely at night."

"When did you come back?" Ying Hengnian pretended not to understand, "I didn't see you at the only place last night."

"At four or five o'clock?" Ying Heng'an was not sure, he fell asleep as soon as he got into Jingsui's car, "Don't think about such things, you should think about what you just received."

"Can't you just pretend it didn't happen?"

"No."

Mr. Ying just announced at the dinner table that he will transfer 81% of the shares of App Construction to Ying Hengnian when he celebrates his [-]st birthday next month.

"After all, you just come every year, so you have to have confidence." Old Man Ying said, "Otherwise, people wouldn't pay attention to a brat like him, right?"

Ying Heng'an looked at Ying Hengnian who suddenly fell silent, and thought that this kid was under pressure, so he encouraged him: "It's okay, it doesn't matter whether we hold this kind of thing in our hands or not, it's just to scare outsiders. , you don't have to..."

"No." Ying Hengnian propped his chin and explained lazily, "I'm just reminiscing about Guo Ze's expression, it's so wonderful. Haha, he must be thinking indignantly that the incompetent young master just reincarnated well, and the whole family supports him." He's a loser."

Ying Heng'an was expressionless, thinking that I must have not woken up to comfort this guy.

"Brother, don't worry." Ying Hengnian went on to say, "I have already prepared for this - when I started my own company, my dad reminded me that playing tickets can only be playing tickets, and I will go back sooner or later. of."

"It's good that you know." When the green light came on, Ying Heng'an continued to drive forward, "If you join the company, you must tell me if you have anything to do, understand? Don't insist on going your own way, the whole family will count you as the most stubborn."

"I like being lazy the most." Ying Hengnian changed his posture and leaned his head on the car window, "To be honest, I am very grateful to that kid Guo Ze, because he told me by himself that you don't have to be a man, and you must take a shortcut." to go."

"Speak less." Ying Heng'an drove the car into Yehang Road, "Take it easy and find someone to live with."

"Brother." Ying Hengnian looked at the only one behind the plane tree, and asked seriously, "What about you? You and Brother Jingsui—"

"Take care of yourself first." Ying Hengan took out the car keys, and gloated at Ying Hengnian, "There are a bunch of names lying in Guo Wanjun's memo."

Jing Sui was basically the only one during the day.He first served a glass of soda water to each of the Ying family brothers, and then asked, "Ah Nian is a rich man now?"

Ying Heng'an suppressed a smile and nodded: "That's right, Ah Nian is not what he used to be, he is much richer than me."

Jing Sui always remembered what Ying Hengnian said last night, and said with a smile, "Ha, happy to be a dog. Ah Nian, you must invite this dinner tonight."

"It's fine to treat guests, but don't go out and talk nonsense!" Ying Hengnian never knew what Jing Sui was laughing at, so he was very embarrassed, "Where is it?"

"That little Yu from last night, Lin Yu, do you still remember?" Jing Sui replied, "I booked a table for the evening, and he's a good cook, so he won't disappoint you."