Su Zhou's attention was immediately diverted. She ran to the window and saw fireworks scattered across the deep blue night sky. In recent years, fireworks have no longer been banned, and the air quality has improved a lot thanks to environmental protection measures. Especially in the villa area where there are fewer people, quite a few people set off fireworks to celebrate.
She remembered that Su Yunhai had also bought a lot of fireworks, but they hadn't been set off yet.
She instinctively held up her phone to share the scene with Xie Chi.
I always felt that Xie Chi was born into this world with an inescapable loneliness and indifference lingering around him. If he had an underlying color, it must be the darkness of night.
"Xie Chi, I'll show you the fireworks." Su Zhou squinted her almond-shaped eyes, and the high resolution of the lens clearly and faithfully recorded the magnificent fireworks display.
Then she said, "Happy New Year."
Xie Chi looked at the black screen and said, "Happy New Year."
The fireworks faded away in a mere instant, and Su Zhou couldn't help but mutter, "Just for such a short while?"
It's true that I haven't seen enough.
Fireworks are fleeting. Over the years, fireworks manufacturers have twisted fireworks into various shapes and forms, creating a dazzling array of beautiful fireworks. However, such beautiful things only last for a moment. Su Zhou couldn't help but feel regretful. Perhaps it was because her sigh was so obvious that even Xie Chi could hear Su Zhou's soft sigh through the screen.
"Want to see fireworks again?" Xie Chi's voice carried a faint laugh that was almost never heard before. Su Zhou pointed the camera at herself, and Xie Chi's dark eyes stared straight at the screen.
Su Zhou nodded: "I still really want to watch it, but they probably won't air it. The occupancy rate near my house doesn't seem to be very high."
Most of the neighbors own houses all over the country, and during the Spring Festival, many of them are traveling all over the world, so Su Zhou rarely has the chance to meet them. The fireworks are beautiful, but they are too short-lived. Even if she didn't get enough of them, she could only endure it and see if she could ask Old Su to set off some more the next morning.
Of course, the effect is definitely not as good as at night.
In the capital city at night, the music could be heard as fireworks and firecrackers burst into the night sky, but that sound was already very far away. Su Zhou was also a little sleepy at this time, as she usually went to sleep around this time. Xie Chi looked at her, and she looked at Xie Chi, but neither of them hung up the phone.
Just then, Xie Chi suddenly said, "I'll give you a bunch of stars, would you like to take a look?"
Hearing his voice, Su Zhou felt inexplicably at ease, so she said, "I want to see what you mean by fireworks."
Xie Chi turned off the lights in the room, and the room was now completely dark and silent.
A beam of white light scattered throughout the room, like fireflies in the mountains and forests of childhood. Under the moonlight, it was as if I had accidentally stepped into a market of monsters. Back then, I could hear the croaking of frogs, not like the sun and moon in the sky, but a gentle, all-encompassing gentleness, like blue tears blooming on Xie Chi's fingertips.
Su Zhou was stunned for a moment. Her brain, which was slightly sluggish due to the effects of alcohol, was also half a beat slow. She felt that not only her brain but also her heart was slow.
"Thank you, Xie Chi... I don't know how to say it, but thank you."
"Go to sleep."
After Xie Chi finished speaking, he proactively ended the video call.
Su Zhou felt her cheeks were a little hot. She reached out and touched her burning cheeks, blinked, and a layer of soft, physiological tears floated on her wet eyelashes. It was already 12:11. She opened the work group, and the group for all zoo employees was still very active.
We were all very young, and many of us were night owls.
At this point, people were sending each other red envelopes in the group chat for fun, or sharing New Year's greetings that they had somehow stolen from somewhere. The group chat had already exceeded 120 people.
As the owner of the zoo, Su Zhou generously sent out a five-figure lucky draw red envelope in the group chat, encouraging everyone to participate.
After sending out the red envelopes, Su Zhou didn't even have time to see what her employees were saying before she went straight to sleep.
*
The alarm clock rang three times, and Su Zhou didn't wake up until 8:30.
We grabbed a quick breakfast and headed out.
The family dinner is held in rotation, and this time we have to go back there, which will be a long drive. Fortunately, everyone in the family has a driver's license, so we can take turns driving. The Su family isn't a stingy family; they give their drivers, nannies, and others a holiday during the Lunar New Year so they can also enjoy the holiday.
Su Zhou's memories of her hometown are those of happy childhood. Regardless of what outsiders say, the love those elderly people had for her was genuine. So, whether in her childhood or now, Su Zhou has always lived like an emperor.
“Daughter, I don’t quite understand why you still want to go back. Anyway, all those relatives and I are just obsessed with money.” Su Yunhai was still a little indignant. His daughter, whom his whole family cherished, was being eyed by his siblings who had grown up with him, and they were even criticizing him for not having a son.
He knew that his two older brothers had other women and illegitimate children, but judging others by one's own standards is truly shameless and has no bottom line.
Su Zhou was certainly not a kind person. She chuckled twice and leaned closer, saying, "I just want to see what's going on. When we were little, all my brothers and sisters were good-for-nothings. Back then, my uncle and the others always said that boys develop later and achieve great things later. Now I want to go back and see if they have achieved great things yet."
She counted on her fingers, carefully taking in the ages of her relative's children. The oldest was already over thirty and still unmarried, while the youngest was almost thirty.
In the entire family, apart from Su Zhou herself who had exceptionally good grades, the whole clan couldn't even scrape together a bachelor's degree. The best one scored just over 400, while Su Zhou's college entrance exam score was just over 700, a full 300 points off. To put it bluntly, even if Su Zhou hadn't taken the science section of the exam, she would still have scored higher than her best cousin.
Su Zhou just wanted to go back and see what was going on.
Not bothering with clowns doesn't mean Su Zhou is so generous that she can completely ignore repeated provocations. Su Zhou has never been that generous, nor is she a generous person.
“What’s the point of talking to them? Aren’t you afraid they’ll say some more hurtful things during the New Year? I’ve had enough.” Su Yunhai still didn’t quite understand why Su Zhou wanted to go and see the family banquet. His thinking was simple: if his wife and daughter didn’t like someone, there was no need to continue associating with them.
Wang Xingyue disagreed, saying, "Keep hiding, it's not a good idea. If you say something really nasty, what's the point of having me with you?"
Upon hearing this, Su Yunhai realized it made sense and stopped talking.
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