Because it's New Year's Eve tonight, many people in the village are still awake, and they are all sitting around the campfire chatting and waiting to watch the fireworks.

Su Tian saw Zhu Zhou beaming and wanted to greet him, but her expression turned sour when she saw Su Ning behind him.

Wang Meng looked at Su Tian's gloomy face and followed her gaze, only to see Zhu Zhou leading Su Ning and Su An toward them.

It's been a few months since I last saw Su Ning, and she seems to have become even more beautiful, and her temperament has changed too. Is the big city really that great?

She, Su Tian, ​​and Sun Man all work at a textile factory in the county town. Only Su Ning and Qiao Zhen were heard to have gone to X Port. Today, Su Ning's mother also talked about what Qiao Zhen had done.

Wang Meng really wanted to ask Su Ning, but she didn't know how to bring it up because Su Tian was there. As for Zhu Zhou, she only admired him from afar and never coveted him.

Zhu Zhou led Su Ning past Su Tian to the place where fireworks were being prepared. There were several young men from the same village there, all of whom Su Ning knew and had grown up with.

Seeing that she was being ignored by Zhu Zhou, Su Tian was filled with resentment. Wherever Su Ning was, Zhu Zhou never noticed her.

Wang Meng stepped forward to comfort her, "Sweetie, are you alright?"

Su Tian slowly loosened her clenched fists, a bitter smile appearing on her face.

"Let's go! Let's go take a look."

Wang Meng looked around and saw that Sun Man hadn't arrived yet, then she looked at Su Tian.

"Slowly hasn't arrived yet, should we wait a little longer?"

As soon as you speak of the devil, he appears. Sun Man, panting heavily, arrives at the two of them and begins to speak.

"Sorry, I overslept. Have the fireworks started yet?"

Seeing that Su Tian's expression was a bit off, Sun Man turned to look at Wang Meng.

"What's wrong with you! It's just a few minutes late, there's no need to get angry with me, is there?"

Wang Meng winked at Sun Man, "Su Ning is here too."

Sun Man looked in the direction of Zhu Zhou not far away. No wonder Su Tian's face was so sour. Looking at Zhu Zhou's infatuated appearance, it was no wonder Su Tian was happy.

When the sisters were young, they were so close they could share a pair of pants. It was Zhu Zhou who caused Qiao Zhen to leave for distant lands and turned Su Tian and Su Ning against each other.

Su Tian's father is the brigade secretary, while Su Ning's family is dirt poor. In order not to offend Su Tian's family, they can only choose to isolate Su Ning.

If we're talking about choosing to be friends, Su Tian is actually quite good; aside from being a bit arrogant and domineering, she doesn't have any other bad habits.

Unlike Su Tian, ​​Su Ning has always been a gentle and weak person since childhood. She would never speak up even if she was bullied. If it weren't for Su Tian protecting her when she was young, she would have been bullied even more.

Both sisters are doing well. If it weren't for Zhu Zhou, perhaps the five of them wouldn't be in the situation they are in today.

Su Ning really wanted to go find Su Tian and the other two, but the two sisters had long since fallen out, and even if she went, Su Tian wouldn't give her a friendly look.

"Bang bang bang".

With a loud bang, strings of fireworks shot into the sky and then exploded, turning into beautiful flowers blooming in the sky.

Su Ning looked up at the sky, Zhu Zhou looked at Su Ning, Su Tian looked at Zhu Zhou, and Wang Meng and Sun Man looked at the three of them. The two of them exchanged a glance and both had helpless expressions.

As the midnight bells rang, 1998 arrived as scheduled, and He Ci's phone call also reached Su Ning as promised.

Zhuzhou bought countless fireworks, and one after another, they shot into the sky.

Su Ning looked at the incoming call on her phone, wondering who would call her so late.

Zhu Zhou also saw what Su Ning was holding. It was a cell phone that looked very expensive. Cell phones were only commonly used in Hong Kong, while they still mostly used pagers and old-fashioned mobile phones here.

Su Ning pressed the answer button, and He Ci's deep and pleasant voice came from the other end.

"My little darling! Happy New Year!"

Su Ning smiled, her eyes narrowing into crescent moons, almost overflowing with tenderness.

"Brother Ci! Happy New Year!"

Su Ning looked up at the fireworks overhead and happily described the scene before her. Hearing Su Ning's soft voice, He Ci suddenly felt that this New Year wasn't so lonely after all.

Zhu Zhou was very close to Su Ning. He heard Su Ning calling out to Ci Ge, but he didn't hear what they were saying.

Judging from Su Ning's expression, she seemed to really like the man named Ci Ge. Zhu Zhou had never seen Su Ning smile so happily before. It felt like a wound had been cut into his heart, and he couldn't breathe from the pain.