It was agreed that we would celebrate the New Year together, but Gu Tao had an unpleasant encounter with Gu Chaoming as soon as he woke up. Gu Tao couldn't bear the image of a kind and good father. He took off his good mask towards Gu Chaoming and sat in the living room to watch TV for a while, and then he opened the door and went out without waiting for lunch.
Gu Chaoming's home is deserted, but it is more in line with his wishes. When Gu Chaoming walked out of the kitchen with the dishes, he found that the living room was empty, only the TV with the volume turned up was still playing alone.
Gu Chaoming didn't want to treat himself badly during the New Year alone, and he didn't want to make himself seem lonely. He prepared a lot of meals, set up a wooden table that was usually considered troublesome, carefully wiped it, took out the bowl mat that Qu Yingyi bought before and placed it on the wooden table that was not usually used.
The bowl mat is in the shape of a blooming flower, and a colorful flower blooms on a temporary wooden table.
Put the bowl mat and then serve the dishes prepared in the kitchen the same way.
Looking at the table full of sumptuous meals, Gu Chaoming took out the fruit plate that he had cleaned a few days ago, filled it with New Year fruit, and then took out a fruit bowl filled with fruit.
The fruit plate and fruit are served on the table, and the coffee table is full of New Year's taste. After preparing everything, the food on the table was steaming hot and waiting to be tasted. Gu Chaoming put the tableware and chopsticks for one person and pulled a chair to sit down, preparing to start the lunch of this year's Spring Festival.
He held the bamboo chopsticks with his fingers and raised the rice bowl with his left hand. Facing a table full of rich food, Gu Chaoming was busy sitting at the table for a while. He should have been impatient to start, but he suddenly stopped moving, as if someone had pressed the pause button. .
The rice bowl he held in his hand hung down, and the chopsticks suddenly gained weight, making Gu Chaoming unable to lift it and had to put it down.
The drooping wrist rests on the edge of the table, the rice in the rice bowl is cooked just right, and the color is as attractive as the dishes on the table, but Gu Chaoming has no appetite.
The sudden feeling of loneliness made Gu Chaoming, who worked hard to create a New Year's atmosphere, unable to eat in the New Year's atmosphere he created.
Looking at the table full of food that he had worked so hard to prepare, no matter how attractive the color was, Gu Chaoming couldn't lift the heavy bamboo chopsticks.
Is this cheating? Deceive yourself Happy Chinese New Year
The innocence of a full table of meals became Gu Chaoming's evidence of deceiving himself.
The heat of the freshly cooked rice penetrated into Gu Chaoming's palm through the porcelain bowl.
Gu Chaoming always felt that there was something missing.
While he thinks that he is deceiving himself by creating a New Year's atmosphere and highlighting his loneliness, he is still looking for what is missing, which makes his New Year's atmosphere always lack a little flavor.
What is missing
Upstairs, the family was happy, and downstairs, Gu Chaoming faced a table full of meals.
Gu Chaoming turned his head to look in the direction of the coffee table, he knew what the problem was.
Gu Chaoming put down the tableware, pulled out his chair and walked to the TV.
As soon as the TV was turned on, the quiet living room was suddenly filled with human voices. Gu Chaoming returned to the dining table, turned around and watched TV while eating.
A well-prepared meal is successfully redressed, restoring its original aroma.
I used to have dinner with my mother and the TV was always on.
After eating and washing dishes, Gu Chaoming remembered the wound on his finger. The Band-Aid given by the big wounded man was firmly attached to his finger, as if Lin Jianfan was reminding him, "If you have a wound on your finger, don't pass the water."
Gu Chaoming looked at the Band-Aid on his fingers and smiled slightly, picked up the gloves by the pool and put them on.
The phone in my pocket vibrates several times while washing dishes. Gu Chaoming washed the tableware and chopsticks, wiped his hands with a towel after tidying up everything, took out the constantly vibrating mobile phone in his pocket and lay on the sofa to read everyone's replies.
"Happy Spring Festival, Mingming."
Seeing the two words Mingming on the screen, Gu Chaoming couldn't help frowning. He heard Liu Yi tell him that he was obviously okay. When he actually saw these two words in writing, Gu Chaoming felt a little ashamed.
"Brother Liu Yi, did you bring your girlfriend home this time?" Gu Chaoming asked gossip.
He even gave a smirk when he asked.
"What do you think?" Liu Yi replied, "You've heard it all, as soon as my mother said it, who doesn't know that I have a girlfriend in the community."
"Hahahaha...I want to see. Are you going to get married? Can I be the best man?" Gu Chaoming asked.
"It's still early, don't think too much, just take it home and have a look." Liu Yi didn't know how many neighbors, neighbors and relatives questioned him when he returned home.
"Didn't you say you wanted to get married last time?"
"It's not in such a hurry to get married. She wants to get married later. I want to ask you to be the best man, but you may have to take the college entrance examination at that time. The third year of high school is very busy. I'm afraid it will delay your study."
Gu Chaoming thought that he would be able to drink Liu Yi's wedding wine soon, but he didn't expect to have to wait until the third year of high school. Gu Chaoming has always held a skeptical attitude towards marriage, but he really doesn't want to doubt Liu Yi, hoping that he can truly be happy.
Liu Yi is a gentle person, the green good mood of Gu Chaoming's childhood. Gu Chaoming believes that he will be a considerate husband and a gentle father in the future.
After chatting with Liu Yi, Gu Chaoming suddenly felt sleepy while lying on the sofa, got up and went to the bedroom to sleep.
He slept a little deeper, and he closed the curtains for a while until the phone on the table rang, and Gu Chaoming woke up from his sleep.
It is not advisable to take an afternoon nap for too long. When he woke up, Gu Chaoming felt that his body was more tired and sore than before he went to sleep.
In a daze, he grabbed the phone and glanced at who was calling, and saw the words "Mom" displayed on the screen. The speed suddenly wakes up.
The word "mom" has the ability to make Gu Chaoming sober in an instant, and it also has the ability to make Gu Chaoming dare not answer the phone in the evening of the Spring Festival.
I don't know when the expected phone call also brought a trace of inexplicable panic.
I don't know why I'm flustered, but the joy of seeing the word "mom" followed by too much.
Hesitantly pressed the answer button again and again, Qu Yingyi's slightly anxious voice came from the other end of the phone.
The lights were not turned on in the room, and the winter night was already lingering outside the window, and he could lead the army to invade as long as he opened the curtains.
In the dim darkness of the room, the light of the mobile phone illuminated Gu Chaoming's cheeks.
Gu Chaoming turned on the speakerphone, and Qu Yingyi's slightly anxious voice spread throughout the room: "Chaoming?"
Gu Chaoming responded softly.
"Why didn't you answer the phone just now?" Qu Yingyi asked.
"I fell asleep, I didn't hear it." Gu Chaoming said.
"Is your father at home?" Qu Yingyi's tone was anxious again. Calling Gu Chaoming, Gu Chaoming didn't answer the first time after the bell rang, Qu Yingyi hurriedly called the second one, most afraid of what she imagined would happen.
She was afraid that Gu Tao was at home, and that Gu Chaoming didn't answer the phone because of Gu Tao.
"He's not at home." Gu Chaoming said.
Every time Qu Yingyi called him, no matter whether Gu Tao was at home or not, Gu Chaoming said to Qu Yingyi that "Gu Tao is not at home", he didn't want to worry Qu Yingyi.
"Gu Tao isn't at home? Then you are at home alone for the New Year?" Qu Yingyi imagined the scene where other people's family was happy and her son was at home alone, and Qu Yingyi felt more distressed and ashamed.
The distress and shame passed along the current to Gu Chaoming's side, and to Gu Chaoming's dark room. Qu Yingyi's heartache and shame could hardly be contained.
"It's alright, I..."
Gu Chaoming hid Gu Tao's violent words and actions against him, and hid his loneliness. Gu Chaoming wanted to tell Qu Yingyi that it's okay for her to celebrate the New Year alone, it doesn't matter, she doesn't need to worry.
The words were intercepted by Qu Yingyi as soon as they came out: "Are you coming over here? We haven't eaten yet, come over here."
"No." Gu Chaoming was embarrassed to eat in the past.
Qu Yingyi felt sorry for her son, but couldn't find a way to make up for it. Regardless of Gu Chaoming's repeated refusal, he insisted on letting him come over for dinner.
During the New Year's festival, when thousands of homes are brightly lit, Qu Yingyi didn't want her son to sit alone at home.
Gu Chaoming didn't know how he promised Qu Yingyi to go to dinner. Maybe he couldn't stand the guilt of his mother overflowing his mobile phone, and maybe he really didn't want to experience the feeling of eating New Year's Eve alone.
But is it really better to go to my mother's new husband's house for New Year's Eve dinner than to watch the Spring Festival Gala alone at home
Gu Chaoming didn't have an answer before he went out. He also yearned for a lively New Year and a lively home.
The man drove to pick him up, but Gu Chaoming couldn't tell from his face whether he was unhappy or really welcomed him. When my mother got out of the car and saw Gu Chaoming, who had changed his clothes and was waiting at the gate of the community, he almost burst into tears when he thought of him staying at home alone.
Gu Chaoming smiled and showed her, comforting her in a deadpan way: "Did you miss me?"
Seeing Yuanyuan again, the little girl came out to greet her in new Chinese New Year clothes. Knowing that Gu Chaoming was coming, Yuanyuan had been lying by the window since her father went out, waiting for her father's car to return.
Seeing Brother Chaoming, his short, round legs ran from the window to the door to greet Gu Chaoming. As soon as the door opened, he rushed into Gu Chaoming's arms who was about to enter.
"Remember me?" Yuanyuan smiled silly while hugging Gu Chaoming's thigh, Gu Chaoming picked her up and asked.
"Brother Chaoming." Yuanyuan replied immediately.
"By the way, it's awesome!" As soon as Gu Chaoming praised her, the little girl laughed even more.
"Brother, are you going to eat here?" Yuanyuan asked.
"Yes." Gu Chaoming's eyes curled up and answered Yuanyuan, the cute and enthusiastic child resolved his embarrassment in the new environment.
Yuanyuan is very face-saving, hugging his neck and kissing his cheek.
Being kissed on the cheek by Yuanyuan, Gu Chaoming wanted to smile, but when he saw the old man walking down the stairs, his smile instantly changed to "four dissimilarities".
The woman who walked down the stairs made Gu Chaoming feel for the first time what it meant to be crowded out in public.
Silent exclusion.
Yuanyuan was full of laughter in Gu Chaoming's arms, the old man walked downstairs, although the expression on his face was smiling, but the disgust implied in his eyes and the corners of his mouth, the sensitive Gu Chaoming could not ignore.
Gu Chaoming wished that his nerves were a little bigger, and he couldn't see the rejection of the old man, so that his life might be a little easier.
But life doesn't have so many hopes come true.
Gu Chaoming felt it, and Qu Yingyi felt it too. Gu Chaoming held his round arms stiffly.
He was an outsider, an outsider the old man did not welcome.
The old man didn't need Gu Chaoming to guess, she knew Gu Chaoming was the man's mother as soon as she opened her mouth.
Gu Chaoming will never forget the voice.
The old man had a hint of disgust at the corners of his eyes and mouth. He already knew that his son was going to pick up that woman's child for the New Year's Eve dinner, but she still walked down slowly and asked her son, "This is it?"
A question brought Gu Chaoming's self-esteem back to its original shape.
Who is this
How can it be in my house
I am not from this family.
I shouldn't be here.
Gu Chaoming ran wildly on the deserted field.
Yuanyuan said to Gu Chaoming, "He is brother Chaoming."
"Brother Chaoming, the brother you said before?" The old man asked Yuanyuan, reaching out to hug Yuanyuan in Gu Chaoming's hand.
The little nympho is worthy of being a little nympho, and dares to hit her grandma in the face in public. The old man wanted to hug her, Yuanyuan hugged Gu Chaoming's neck without letting go: "I want my brother to hug her."
The old man laughed dryly and looked at Gu Chaoming. Gu Chaoming guessed that he was probably asking what kind of ecstasy he gave her granddaughter to make her stick to you so much.
After taking a look at Gu Chaoming, the old man left, and Gu Chaoming returned to a world that no longer accepted the rejection of eyes.
Before dinner, Yuanyuan sat on him and played, playing with his fingers, playing with his hair, playing with his hair and clothes.
The New Year's Eve dinner at the man's house was plentiful, a large table was full, and all kinds of aromas gathered together, but Gu Chaoming had no taste, and he felt full after eating a little.
Only a small part of the stomach is food, mostly the discomfort of the new environment and the rejection of the elderly.
Gu Chaoming said he was full, and the old man said to him, "How can you be full after eating so little?"
Gu Chaoming also had a share of the red packet distribution after the meal. Gu Chaoming thought that he was just here to eat a meal and would not have any red packets, and he did not want to accept it, but his mother persuaded him to accept it with her eyes, and Gu Chaoming reached out to take it.
"Thank you." Gu Chaoming said after taking the red envelope.
One night was acting, and one night was spent in discomfort and rejection.
Gu Chaoming didn't want to act anymore. Shortly after the New Year's Eve dinner, he told Qu Yingyi that it was too late and he wanted to go home.
Mother knew the eyes of the old man and knew that Gu Chaoming was uncomfortable here. She asked Gu Chaoming to come over and she just wanted to make Gu Chaoming not so lonely to celebrate the New Year alone, but now Qu Yingyi wondered if she did something wrong
The things he has done that he is ashamed of Gu Chaoming cannot make up for.
After Gu Chaoming and Qu Yingyi said they wanted to go home, Qu Yingyi also said that the man would take him home, but Gu Chaoming quickly refused.
"Farewell, it's too much trouble for him, and he also drank wine at the dinner table." Gu Chaoming said.
"Then mother sent you." Qu Yingyi said.
"Then you can take it to the door and tell them when I'm gone."
Gu Chaoming knew that he was leaving, and they would definitely come out to send him off. Gu Chaoming didn't want to see that kind of scene.
He just wanted to say goodbye to Yuanyuan.
"Brother is going back." Gu Chaoming said to Yuanyuan.
Yuanyuan held his fingers and looked up at him reluctantly: "Huh?"
"Brother is going home too, you have to be obedient."
"Okay." Gu Chaoming particularly liked that Yuanyuan was obedient.
After saying that it was delivered to the door, Qu Yingyi wanted to deliver it further when he walked out of the door, but Gu Chaoming pushed her to let her go back.
"Yuanyuan is still waiting for you at home."
His mother was stubborn, and Gu Chaoming asked what he cared about: "Is the man okay with you?"
Almost every time I see Qu Yingyi and Gu Chaoming, I ask this question, wondering if she is doing well.
Qu Yingyi didn't answer, Gu Chaoming looked at Qu Yingyi, he didn't expect to usher in the second time that people around him would cry unknowingly.
The last time was at the soup shop with Lin Jianfan, this time it was his mother.
Hearing Gu Chaoming's question and the fact that he called the place he was leaving her home, Qu Yingyi's tears couldn't help falling.
She has been tormented by guilt and distress, especially when she sees the disgusting eyes of the old man.
I'm sorry for him, for my own happiness, abandoned him.
I am an incompetent mother.
He was so incompetent that he made his son suffer a lot, but Qu Yingyi still didn't know how to make up for him.
Gu Chaoming couldn't see Qu Yingyi's tears. Qu Yingyi's tears were sharp blades that cut his heart. Gu Chaoming panicked and comforted: "What are you crying for?"
There was no tissue in his pocket, so Gu Chaoming could only wipe the tears of the crying Qu Yingyi with his fingers.
The longer he stayed, the more difficult it would be to leave. Gu Chaoming wiped Qu Yingyi's tears and decided to leave.
After walking a few steps, he turned around and waved, and said to Qu Yingyi, who was still standing there, "I'm leaving, let's go in, it's cold outside."
After leaving the man's house, Gu Chaoming drove for a long time in the winter night.
I didn't do anything for a day but leaned against the car window tiredly and looked out the window.
The phone vibrated, Gu Chaoming turned it on, and a gorgeous fireworks exploded in the dark night sky outside the window. Even the driver couldn't help but drive the car to take a look.
There were fireworks in the night sky one after another. The driver enjoyed the fireworks while driving, but Gu Chaoming in the car did not look at the beautiful scenery outside the window, but stared at the screen of his mobile phone.
The lighter inside the phone ignites the lead, and the light from the fireworks illuminates the entire screen.
Gu Chaoming took out his earphones and put them on. He could hear Lin Jianfan's childlike laughter after the fireworks were lit.
The fireworks were gorgeous, swaying under the waving of Lin Jianfan's arms, and the lit fireworks illuminated Lin Jianfan's cheeks.
The fireworks outside the window were splendid, and in the car, Gu Chaoming watched the small fireworks on the screen intently.
No matter how beautiful the fireworks outside the window are, they can't compare to the "blooming flowers" on the screen of the mobile phone.
In addition to the fireworks video sent by Lin Jianfan, Gu Chaoming also received the fireworks video sent by Cen Xili in the Auspicious Three Treasures Group.
Cen Xili went back to his grandmother's house for the New Year. He hadn't been there for many years. He kept sending them pictures of his grandmother's house and showing them some things they had never seen before.
After the New Year's Eve dinner, the children's activity is to set off fireworks, and the adults sit around the house and chat. Cen Xili brought a few "little soldiers" to the yard to set off fireworks.
The children went to bed early, Cen Xili was industrious, he was in the fireworks team, and he was also in the old-age team of adults.
After watching the Spring Festival Gala without dozing off at all, all the families outside cracked up with firecrackers to welcome the New Year.
Just after zero o'clock in the group, the message was frantic, and it was all about Happy New Year. Cen Xili had no reason, and volunteered to play firecrackers.
"You're brave, here it is." His cousin, who was several years older than him, said and handed him the lighter.
Cen Xili had never lit firecrackers before, and when he walked to the tail of the firecracker, the phone in his pocket suddenly rang.
Someone called him at the beginning of the new year? Who is this
Other people's New Year's firecrackers were almost finished, Cen Xili ignored the phone, first pressed the lighter, lit the lead, and quickly ran to his cousin's side.
The lit firecrackers crackled, and Cen Xili took out his mobile phone.
The first call of the new year is You Xin.
Exactly zero.
Cen Xili took a few glances and wanted to hang up.
The sound of firecrackers is everywhere, announcing that the new year is coming, and the new year is to like a new person.
With this thought in mind, Cen Xili hung up the phone, but You Xin didn't allow him to give up and called again without interruption.
Soft-heartedness is something that cannot be corrected. Cen Xili looked at the phone that rang again.
Before the firecrackers were finished, he picked it up in a crackling sound, silent.
In the sound of firecrackers, he vaguely heard You Xin say to him over there: "Happy New Year, Xili."
Cen Xili stood frozen in place, the sound of the explosion in his ears was isolated from another universe.
He was too heavy to drop and too hasty to pick up.
He gave up less than a minute before picking it up again.
No, he just gave up and didn't decide not to like him anymore.