New Year's Eve
January 28th is New Year’s Eve.
Originally, Jiang Zhizhi and Cheng Yuping should have gone back to their hometown for the Spring Festival, but because they bought a house this year, according to custom, the new house cannot be empty during the first Spring Festival, so they stayed in Nanshi.
After breakfast, Jiang Zhizhi and Cheng Yuping began to paste up couplets and blessing characters, filling the entire house with them and making it full of joy.
After putting up the Spring Festival couplets, it was already 11 o'clock in the morning. Cheng Yuping hurried to the kitchen to prepare the filling for dumplings.
While I was busy, the pager phone in the living room rang.
"Mom, someone called you."
Jiang Zhizhi went over to get Cheng Yuping's cell phone and subconsciously glanced at the phone number on it.
In an instant, her face darkened.
She remembered this number clearly; it belonged to Jiang Guozhong.
Cheng Yuping came out of the kitchen at some point and took the phone from Jiang Zhizhi's hand. Seeing that it was Jiang Guozhong calling, she subconsciously glanced at Jiang Zhizhi, but still picked up the phone.
"Hello?"
"Why are you so slow?" As soon as the phone was connected, Jiang Guozhong's disgusted voice was heard.
"I was busy in the kitchen just now. What's the matter?" Facing Jiang Guozhong, Cheng Yuping's tone was still timid.
Jiang Guozhong said, "Bring Zhizhi over for lunch today. It's Chinese New Year, and the whole family should have a reunion dinner together."
The Xiaolingtong phone was ringing loudly, and Jiang Zhizhi, who was standing nearby, also heard Jiang Guozhong's words. She snatched the phone from Cheng Yuping's hand and yelled at Jiang Guozhong, "Who are you saying we're family? You're sick!"
After saying that, without waiting for Cheng Yuping and Jiang Guozhong to react, she immediately hung up the phone and quickly added Jiang Guozhong to the phone blacklist.
"Mom, why are you still contacting this kind of person? If he knew that we bought a house, he would definitely come to our house. Then we won't be able to live in peace!" Jiang Zhizhi said angrily.
Cheng Yuping sighed, "I haven't contacted him much. Don't worry, I won't tell him about the house."
"Don't contact each other anymore. Nothing good will come of getting involved with a jerk like him."
"Hey, Mom knows."
*
In the evening, snow began to fall outside the window.
Jiang Zhizhi and Cheng Yuping began to prepare incense, candles and gold ingots. The room was a little cold, so they simply sat on the bed and covered themselves with a quilt.
Although the house is simple, it is very warm.
At this time, at the entrance of the community.
Lu Xiye sat on the steps of the pond at the entrance of the community with a large backpack on his back, looking eagerly at the intersection ahead.
On his phone, there was a text message from Lu Hengshan sent four hours ago.
"I'll be there in about three hours. Pack your things and go home tonight for the New Year."
Every year they would go back to their hometown to celebrate the New Year, but because Lu Hengshan was busy with work, he almost always rushed back on New Year's Eve, and arrived home on the first day of the new year.
Lu Xiye packed his things early and waited for Lu Hengshan to come and pick him up.
But this time, he was late again.
Lu Xiye was used to Lu Hengshan's lateness, but he felt annoyed.
He could have gone home, but he stubbornly sat in the snow and waited.
He was waiting to see Lu Hengshan appear, wondering if he would show a guilty expression when he saw him covered in snow. At that time, he could mock him and express his dissatisfaction.
But he waited until seven, eight, nine...
More than four hours had passed, Lu Hengshan still hadn't arrived, and there was no message on his phone.
He felt like a fool.
At eleven o'clock in the evening, Lu Xiye felt that he was about to die, and then dim car lights appeared at the distant intersection.
When he saw that it was Lu Hengshan's car, his eyes suddenly became sore and he almost cried.
The car was about to drive into the community, but before entering, Lu Hengshan saw Lu Xiye sitting by the pond. He hurriedly stopped the car and ran over, "Are you stupid? It's so cold, why are you sitting here waiting?"
Lu Xiye was furious and angrily threw his schoolbag at Lu Hengshan. "I've been sitting here waiting for you for eight hours! What the hell are you doing here? You might as well tell me you died on the road!"
"I'm also busy with work..."
"Bullshit! Who's still working during Chinese New Year? Don't think I don't know that you just came back from that wild woman!"
"I don't want to argue with you on New Year's Day. Get in the car."
"I won't get in the car. I don't want to ride in a car that has been ridden by a wild woman. It's disgusting!"
Lu Xiye grabbed a piece of mud from the green pond next to him, angrily threw it at Lu Hengshan, then turned around and ran out.
A surge of anger built up in his chest, and the pain made him want to die.
In Lu Hengshan's heart, he will never be as important as the company, his career, or those wild women outside!
The night sky was covered with dark clouds, and dense snow was falling. There was no light around.
Lu Xiye disappeared into the dark street in the blink of an eye.
Lu Hengshan looked at his back, his eyes dim as he sat down by the pond and silently lit a cigarette.
In the darkness, the sporadic firelight made his eyes look gloomy and deep.
*
It was almost twelve o'clock in the evening and the New Year's Eve vigil was over. Jiang Zhizhi and Cheng Yuping tidied up the things on the bed together.
"By the way, Zhizhi, this is money for you."
This was their first Spring Festival since moving here, and Cheng Yuping gave Jiang Zhizhi a big red envelope.
"Thank you, Mom." Jiang Zhizhi accepted it without hesitation.
Cheng Yuping smiled gently and was about to ask Jiang Zhizhi to go back to her room to rest when she suddenly saw a pale face outside the window, leaning against the glass and looking into the fog.
"who!"
She was frightened for a moment and subconsciously pulled Jiang Zhizhi back.
Jiang Zhizhi followed Cheng Yuping's gaze and was suddenly startled. But when she looked closely, she saw that the pale face was Lu Xiye.
Outside this window is the courtyard on the first floor, which can be accessed from the living room.
But the yard is walled.
It was the middle of the night, and it was New Year's Day, and Lu Xiye actually climbed over their wall to play a prank!
Jiang Zhizhi was so angry that she picked up a broom and went to the yard.
Cheng Yuping also hurried to follow.
As soon as they opened the door, the mother and daughter saw Lu Xiye, who was covered in snow and whose lips were purple from the cold.
His eyes were red, as if he had just cried.
"Oh, Xiaoye, what's wrong with you? Come in!" Cheng Yuping hurriedly pulled him into the house. When she touched his hand, it was icy cold.
Jiang Zhizhi originally thought he was playing a prank, but after seeing him like this, her anger subsided.
Cheng Yuping pulled Lu Xiye into the bedroom and quickly wrapped him in a quilt.
"It's New Year's Day, what happened? Why are you out here alone? Where's your dad?"
Hearing Cheng Yuping mention Lu Hengshan, Lu Xiye's nose felt sore and he said with red eyes: "He doesn't want me, and I don't want to go back."
"Silly boy, how could your father not want you?" Cheng Yuping took a hot water bottle to warm his hands. "Auntie will make you some ginger soup, don't catch a cold."
After Cheng Yuping finished speaking, she turned and went to the kitchen.
Only Jiang Zhizhi and Lu Xiye were left in the room.
She didn't need to guess to know that the father and son must have had another fight.
"Your clothes are all wet. How about I go to your house and get you a new set?" Jiang Zhizhi said.
Lu Xiye's eyes were gloomy. "Don't go. He must be there."
He didn't want to go back because he guessed that Lu Hengshan must have gone into the house upstairs.
But the night was long and cold, and he had nowhere to go.
Seeing that the lights in Jiang Zhizhi's house were still on, he climbed in.
Jiang Zhizhi did not persuade him. Lu Hengshan might be very successful in his career, but he was not a qualified father.
She could understand Lu Xiye's feelings.
That night, Lu Xiye had a high fever and Cheng Yuping took care of him all night.
When he was drowsy, he hugged Cheng Yuping and cried for his mother.
Jiang Zhizhi never thought that she would see Lu Xiye like this. He seemed to care about nothing and had a cynical look on his face on weekdays, but he was actually fragile and sensitive in his heart, and he desperately wanted the love and care of others.
At that moment, Jiang Zhizhi felt that she had let go.
Everything Lu Xiye had done to her in her previous life gradually dissipated like smoke.
Lu Xiye woke up at around ten o'clock in the morning on New Year's Day. He had sweated profusely and his fever had subsided.
After recovering from his illness, Lu Xiye had a great appetite and ate two large bowls of dumplings in one go.
"Xiaoye, if you don't go home for the New Year this year, just spend it at your aunt's house."
The way Lu Xiye hugged her and cried last night made Cheng Yuping heartbroken.
Especially knowing that Lu Xiye's mother had passed away a few years ago, Cheng Yuping felt sad and upset when she saw him.
However, considering Lu Xiye's father, Cheng Yuping still said: "What's your father's phone number? I'll call him and tell him."
"No need to call him. He is the cold-blooded and selfish person. He must have left me behind." Lu Xiye sneered.
Jiang Zhizhi took out her cell phone and said, "Mom, I have his father's phone number."
"Don't call him!" Lu Xiye suddenly got angry and jumped off the bed to grab Jiang Zhizhi's phone.
"Xiaoye, be obedient. Your father must be worried about you since you didn't go home all night." Cheng Yuping stopped him and advised.
Lu Xiye was furious. "Okay, call him. I'm sure he's gone."
Cheng Yuping took Jiang Zhizhi's cell phone and called Lu Xiye's father.
The phone rang only twice before the other party picked up.
"Hello, are you Xiaoye's father?"
Lu Hengshan asked, "You are Zhizhi's mother, right? Is Xiaoye at your house?"
"Yes, he came last night. He had a high fever all night and has just woken up."
"I guessed it. He doesn't want to go back to my hometown with me. I have already put his things in where he lives. Let him stay in Nanshi for the New Year." Lu Hengshan's tone was very calm. Even when he heard that Lu Xiye had a high fever, he didn't seem to be upset.
His reaction was so cold that even outsiders felt indifferent, not to mention Lu Xiye.
Lu Hengshan's cold attitude made Cheng Yuping feel very uncomfortable. "Xiaoye's father, you didn't leave him here alone and go home by yourself, did you?"
"I left him some living expenses for the New Year holiday, and I also arranged for Mother Zhou to come over and cook for him every day. Mother Zhizhi, I'm sorry for bothering you last night. I'll thank you when I get back..."
"No, you don't need to thank me. Since you won't take him back, I'll let him spend the New Year at our house. I'll take good care of him."
After saying that, Cheng Yuping hung up the phone.
She felt very sad. How could there be such a father who would abandon his son and go home alone to celebrate the New Year.
"See, I told you, he must have gone back alone." Lu Xiye sneered and became indifferent again.
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