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On the first day of the Lunar New Year, when the whole family was supposed to be reunited, Le Yi was called to eat a work meal after spending half a day at his sister's house. However, he was also ready to come to work, so he didn't complain , patted his butt, and walked away with a bag of orange peels that he had eaten.

So when Tang Weiran opened the door and came out, the room returned to the tranquility of only two people getting along.

The "[-]", which is very far away from the central business district, is very deserted during the Chinese New Year, all the shops are closed, and the food that is useless has been sold for a long time.Sure enough, as Le An said, no one who opens a shop here is short of that triple salary.But the two always had to fill their stomachs, so they had to make a simple first-year dinner with some food that Le An had bought in advance and stored in the refrigerator.

Le An deserves to be a person who has lived alone for many years, and his cooking skills are far superior to Tang Weiran. Tang Weiran, who claims to be a kitchen master, is willing to take a back seat after tasting her sweet and sour fish and help her wash vegetables. , with the combination of the two, a table of food will be out of the oven very quickly.

The hot dishes, braving the warm white mist, lingered on the small folding dining table.

The two sat on one side, close to each other because of the small table.Although they have lived together for quite a while, Le An usually eats in the store because he has to guard the store, while Tang Weiran eats irregularly, and is often in the process of drafting or filming for meals, and the chances for the two of them to sit and eat together are actually very rare.

Le An filled the two small bowls with egg drop soup: "Is it really okay not to go back tonight?"

"It's okay." Tang Weiran took a sip of the soup, "Actually, my mother is nagging a little bit. I told her seriously, she can understand."

Le'an chewed his food and nodded.

"What about you?"

Le An: "What me?"

"What about your mother, I don't seem to have heard you say it."

After swallowing, Le An lowered her head and smiled wryly, "She is busy with work, and she is usually not at home during Chinese New Year."

"What about Dad?"

"It's been a long time."

Seeing Tang Weiran's apologetic expression, Le'an shook her head and said she was fine. She lowered her eyes and recalled the days when she was young: "Le Yi and I were at home during the Chinese New Year. Sometimes my aunt would leave early when she wanted to go back to her hometown, and we would order KFC takeaway Sometimes the aunt doesn’t go back to her hometown, she cooks for us before leaving.”

In Le An's memory since he was a child, the New Year and happiness and festivities seem to have never been linked.When I was younger, it was the noisy TV and the younger brother who threw toys all over the room. When I grew up, it was the still noisy TV and the younger brother who finally learned how to cook and cook.

Be it the New Year's Eve or the parents' meeting, she is always absent from the position of being absent, and she has become indifferent from being lost to getting used to it.

Tang Weiran listened, nodded while eating, and finally said, "Then your mother is not easy. She is working hard on her own and has two children, and you have grown up healthy and safe. excellent."

After hearing this, Le An was slightly taken aback, and stared at her blankly for a while, until Tang Weiran gave her a puzzled look, then she regained her senses and continued eating the rice in the bowl.

Growing up so big, she has only heard adults say how pitiful their siblings are, so that she also feels sorry for herself. Tang Weiran's perspective is completely new.

She slowly said to Tang Weiran, "You are really special."

Tang Weiran took a bite of the flesh, and the cheek on the left side of her face was bulging, "Huh? Me?" Of course it is happy to be said to be special. She laughed, but she was very self-aware and said, "I am actually It's very common!"

"Not ordinary." At least in Le An's mind, it was definitely special.

Tang Weiran accepted the compliment with joy, taking a few more mouthfuls than usual.

After the meal, Tang Weiran snatched the dirty bowl quickly, saying that she should wash the dishes after eating the meal cooked by Le An, and before Le An could refuse, she put on gloves and started to work skillfully.

Le An smiled and let her do the laundry, while she sat in the living room and took out her mobile phone to open her friends list after a long absence. After searching for a long time, she selected a WeChat account.

This user's avatar is a photo, and there are three people in it. The young woman crouched down and hugged her and Leyi with both hands, and the three heads leaned close together.

Both she and Le Yi are still young, about the first or second grade.The old saying is true, three-year-old looks old, and seven-year-old looks old. In the photo, Le Yi is grinning at the camera and making weird faces, while she looks at the camera coldly like a calm little adult. .

Le An shrunk down the avatar picture and clicked to open the dialog box.

"Happy New Year."

She typed it word by word.

A special keyword triggers the festive effect of the software. When it is sent, festive red electronic firecrackers and fireworks explode on the screen.

And the other party, who had always been busy for several days before replying, responded to the message in seconds.

"Thank you Ann! Baby, happy new year!"

Le'an thought for a while, then slid to the input box and sent a New Year's greeting red envelope.

The other side also quickly received the red envelope, and replied, "Got it, An'an has grown up."

Without continuing the conversation, turning off the screen, Le'an put away the phone, got up and went to the kitchen to see if there was anything he could do to help. As a result, Tang Weiran had already finished washing all the dishes and cleaning the table in a short time.

She diligently wiped the grease stains on the table that had solidified due to cooling, raised her head and said to Le An, "Get dressed, let's set off the fireworks later."

"Okay." Le'an put on his coat, sat obediently on the sofa, waited for Tang Weiran to tidy up everything and wash his hands again, then put on his shoes together and prepared to go out.

Tang Weiran originally wanted to pick up Robusta, but Robusta gained weight during the Chinese New Year, so she struggled to hold it, so she had to put it down again, "Robusta! Go out and play!" Robusta saw the door open, Sticking out his tongue and breathing hard.

Thinking of playing with fireworks, Tang Weiran was so excited that he jumped all the way.

She led Robusta to run at the forefront, and Robusta was affected by her emotions, his tail wagging as if he was going to take off on the spot, and the barking of one person and one dog set the silent street on fire.

In front of Le An, Tang Weiran always seemed to be doing things against her age. She couldn't help letting out the most fun-loving self. When she finally had enough of jumping, she realized that she was embarrassed, and turned around and ran back to ask Le An. "Am I being too naive?"

Le An pulled up the hood of her coat to cover the back of her head, and looked at her with a smile, "No, I like watching fireworks as a human being. Besides, you never let it go."

Tang Weiran felt relieved, Le'an really wouldn't laugh at her.

Le'an took her on a small path to the back mountain of a certain university. There was a piece of lawn in the middle, which was probably trampled by the students too much, and a small piece of baldness was just right for setting off fireworks sticks. Don't worry. Mars swept the vegetation.

The lighter is in Le'an's pocket, and the power is in Le'an's hands.Before Le An took out the lighter, Tang Weiran was impatient, holding a large number of fireworks sticks in his hand, stomping on the ground with his toes, urging Le An, "Le An, hurry up, hurry up!"

Le An thought it was funny and cute.She mercilessly snatched half of it from Tang Weiran, "It's hard to ignite so many at once, and it's not safe."

Tang Weiran pouted, "Oh!"

She watched helplessly as Le An pulled out three lights, and made a gesture of handing them over.She looked forward to it. After all, it was her first experience, and she was still a little afraid to hold it alone. Le An saw her contradiction, so he took her hand and held it in his palm, wrapping the handle of the firework stick together.

"It's okay, look, it's better to quickly draw a circle."

Tang Weiran grasped the key points of playing with firework sticks under her hands-on teaching, and immediately asked to walk independently.Le An let go of her hand, watching her jumping and jumping on the lawn with three firework sticks, shouting and shouting.

After a while, she jumped back again, "Le An Le An!"

Robusta, who was following her feet, also called out, "Wow!"

Tang Weiran was in a hurry, the joy disappeared from his face just now, and he only dared to twist the small tip at the end of the handle of the firework stick with his fingers, holding the stick far away from his body: "What to do, what to do!? It's almost burning My hand is gone!"

With a burst of laughter, Le An laughed happily at her panicked appearance, "It won't burn!"

Sure enough, as Le'an said, the firework stick only burned the last bit of fuel, and it was a thousand miles away from Tang Weiran's finger, and the sparks were automatically extinguished.

Tang Weiran breathed a sigh of relief, and asked Le An for a few more. After lighting it, he watched the colorful sparks scatter in all directions, which was very beautiful.

Le An took out a small cardboard box from the big red plastic bag, took advantage of Tang Weiran's immersion in the firework sticks, picked one of them up and threw it towards her feet not far away.

"Ah!" Tang Weiran screamed.

The unexpected sound of the explosion frightened Tang Weiran on the spot. She turned her head and found that the person sitting on the floor laughing to and fro was the culprit. She rushed over and cursed angrily, "What! What did you use to kill I!"

The batch of firework sticks in her hand had already been extinguished, so she piled up the remaining sticks and threw them on the plastic bag, and she rushed over to press Le An to tickle her like a hungry tiger, "What! Show me! Le An ! Show me!"

Le'an, who had done evil, hid while laughing, holding the box of things in his hand, and almost couldn't breathe from laughing, "...Don't! Oh, don't! It will explode in my arms later!"

Only then did Tang Weiran let her go, and she stretched out her palm to Le'an, "Hand it in immediately!"

Le'an was still holding back his laughter, but obediently put the crude and rough cardboard box into Tang Weiran's palm.Tang Weiran looked left and right, but couldn't see any clues, so he simply asked, "What's the matter?"

Le An took the box back and taught her carefully.It turns out that the structure of this paper box is like a matchbox. When it is pulled out, it becomes a box of throwing cannons. As the name suggests, if the cannon is thrown hard on the ground, it will explode when it hits the ground. It is not powerful, but it is scary enough.

Tang Weiran became interested, snatched the box domineeringly, and blasted a series of bang bang bang on the ground.When she finished throwing away the whole box of cannonballs, she became more courageous. She was sweating profusely, her face flushed, and she returned the empty cardboard box to Le'an, humming duplicity twice. , "It's still not as fun as my fairy stick!"

Le An gave her some more fairy sticks, and she immediately grabbed them and ran away.She ran to her heart's content in the empty space, and the flames she held in both hands looked like her wings from a distance, drawing traces of light in the air.

Robusta ran happily behind the firelight.

Le An, who was sitting cross-legged on the lawn, was in a turmoil for a moment, and couldn't help but took out his phone and pressed the shutter.

Grass, fireworks, puppies, and people she likes.

There was a smile on her lips, enjoying the joy of this moment.

But after a while, she felt that her ears were too lonely again. She thought that it would be great if she brought the piano out today. With such a beautiful scene, she really wanted to sing a song for this girl who didn't know her mood yet. .