Once the sixth day of the lunar new year is over, time flies by, and the Lantern Festival will be here soon. The old lady said that this year's Lantern Festival must be grand because it is the first year that the whole family will be reunited, which is of great significance.
Sang Liangjie recovered quickly and looked almost the same as usual, only a little weak. Sun Qiuyun made him different kinds of nourishing soups every day, and Sang Liangjie's face became much rounder.
Lu Mo and Fang Yanming staked out the Guose Tianxiang scenic area for several nights, but did not encounter Ji Wuxin. Later, Fang Yanming had other cases to handle, and Lu Mo's company also started operating, so they had to temporarily stop.
Ye Qingqing also secretly went to the club a few times, but she didn't run into Ji Wuxin. Instead, she saw Wei Yugang a few times. This guy was chatting and laughing among a group of old women, with women on his left and right, and he seemed much happier than when he was with Miao Tianxiang.
Ding Ba didn't see him. In the past, he would usually patrol the club, but Ye Qingqing went there secretly for several days and didn't see him. Wei Yugang said that the boss was sick and resting at home.
Ye Qingqing was worried that Ding Ba was sick and alone and had no one to take care of him, so she went to visit him with Lu Mo and brought him some glutinous rice balls. She figured that he would never buy glutinous rice balls by himself, nor would he celebrate the festival.
Lu Mo said that Ding Ba never celebrates holidays, not even the Spring Festival. In the past, he and He Weishao had called Ding Ba several times during holidays, but he never agreed, saying that he had everything arranged for himself.
But one Spring Festival, when Lu Mo went to deliver vegetables to Ding Ba, he found out that the guy was drinking alone at home. The refrigerator was empty, without even a scallion. He was drinking with a plate of spiced beans, and tears streamed down his face with every sip.
That time, Lu Mo spent New Year's Eve with Ding Ba and drank five catties of Kuaijishan liquor. The two of them were a little tipsy, and Ding Ba even said a lot of his old feelings. Only then did Lu Mo realize how much bitterness was in the heart of this seemingly carefree and easygoing brother.
Ding Ba said he envied He Weishao the most because he had parents who took care of him and would nag him about even the smallest things. He also envied Lu Mo because although his father was gone, he had a mother who was devoted to her son. He, on the other hand, had nothing.
He didn't even know his ancestors' surnames, which meant that whenever he wanted to offer incense to his ancestors during festivals, he could only do so through the God of Wealth.
Moreover, he wasn't as lucky as other orphans. His parents abandoned him at the gate of the welfare home; he was thrown into a garbage dump. He was incredibly lucky not to be carried off by stray dogs. Then, an old bachelor picked him up like raw meat.
After that, he lived with this old bachelor, drinking rice porridge and eating leftovers, and grew up. The old bachelor was an unskilled pickpocket. When he was ten years old, he crashed his car and was beaten until he vomited blood. He died within two months.
Spurred by this, Ding Ba resolved to hone his skills with clamps. Within a year, he had stolen from the entire small county. Feeling that this was no longer challenging, he went to the train station to try his luck and happened to steal a sleeper ticket to Pingjiang.
So, in that instant, Ding Ba didn't know what he was thinking, but instead of selling the ticket, he used it to board the train and arrived in Pingjiang City, one of the top cities in the country. As soon as he saw the bright lights and bustling traffic of the big city, Ding Ba couldn't bear to leave and settled down there.
Although Ding Ba can now be considered 'successful and famous' to some extent, Lu Mo knows that Ding Ba has never truly integrated into this city; there will always be a lingering thought in his heart—
“Ding Ba has always wanted to find his biological parents and ask them why they abandoned him back then,” Lu Mo said, his nose tingling with emotion.
He would always remember that New Year's Eve, when Dingba, drunk, cried like a fool and said, "I don't want to spend the New Year at your house because I don't like your mom being nice to me. She's not my mom. She's nice to me because she pities me, not because she treats me like a son. I don't want that kind of kindness..."
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