Lu Lu pointed to the person on the phone screen and asked, "Uncle, do you look a lot like you?"
"A little bit." Lu Hongyu replied.
After receiving Lu Hongyu's affirmative answer, Lu Lu looked at Song Heran proudly, "Brother, just say it looks like me."
According to Lu Lu's words, Song Heran echoed with affection: "Yes, yes, Lulu has the best eyes."
Lu Lu smiled playfully at his brother, and said with satisfaction: "It's more or less the same."
After the three of them had dinner, it was getting late. Although it was already a holiday, Lu Lu still slept very regularly. He would go to bed at 8:30, and he had to go to bed at 9 o'clock at the latest.
In addition, today was also the only day Song Heran could go to bed early in the near future, so the two said goodbye to Lu Hongyu and went straight home.
As the end of the new year was approaching, all the foreigners working in the imperial capital had gone home for the new year, and there were far fewer cars and people on the streets.
Lu Lu kept looking out of the window, looking at the street lights that were rapidly receding, and found it very interesting.
Song Heran also looked outside, and a lot of feelings came to his heart for a while, and those things from his childhood also came to his mind.
It's the new year again.
For other Chinese people, Chinese New Year is a joyful day for family reunion, but for Song Heran, it is more difficult than any other day of the year.
Since his grandparents passed away, he has already judged himself as an orphan in his heart.
Even though his parents are still alive, they are respectable figures with high social status, but he doesn't feel their existence at all.
Sometimes he even felt that they were better dead than alive.
After death, he can still feel better in his heart, and he can tell himself that it's not that his parents don't love him, and they didn't ignore him.
But they are alive and well.
When they were young, they regarded him as the least important existence and ignored him, but when they grew up, they wanted to arrange his life. Treat him as a tool to continue his career.
Song Heran didn't understand how there could be such weird parents in this world.
If you want to devote your whole life to your career, then don't have children, why don't you have children.
Recalling the past scenes of his childhood, Song Heran's eyes were a little sour. In order not to let others discover his emotions, he frowned and closed his eyes.
But Song Heran's abnormality was still noticed by Lu Lu.
Lu Lu asked concerned: "Brother, are your eyes uncomfortable?"
Song Heran tried his best to control his emotions, put back the tears that had burst out, opened his eyes and blinked at Lu Lu, "No."
Lu Lu looked carefully at his brother's eyes. There were little teardrops on the thick eyelashes, and the white eyeballs turned pink.
Lu Lu remembered that the children in the kindergarten were like this after crying, their eyes were red, and there were small drops of water on their eyelashes.
She felt that her brother must have been crying just now.
She didn't know why her brother was crying, but she knew that her brother loved face, and she definitely didn't want others to see his unbrave side.
So Lu Lu didn't expose her brother, she leaned closer to her brother, hugged his arm and encouraged: "Brother, Lu Lu thinks you are the best brother in the world, Lu Lu likes you so much."
Song Heran, who was not recognized in front of his parents, felt warm in his heart when he heard this. He looked down at the little girl who was leaning on him and holding his arms tightly.
He felt that Lu Lu must be an angel sent by God to the world.
*****
With the gradual desertion of the imperial capital and the improvement of traffic jams, the people of Huaguo ushered in the biggest festival of the year—the Spring Festival.
Aunt Liu, who took care of Lu Lu, was a native of the Imperial Capital. She took care of Lu Lu dutifully until two days before New Year's Eve before returning home.
Aunt Liu was away, and Li Feifei went home two days early because she wanted to go back to her hometown for the New Year. Song Heran had to devote herself to preparing for the Spring Festival Gala performance, and Joey had to follow him to take care of everything, so Lu Lu could only live in Lu Hongyu went home.
Because of the special circumstances, it was a last resort. Lu Lu was very sensible and did not show any displeasure. She obediently dragged her pink suitcase to the uncle's place.
The uncle's house is very big, with garden rockery and fountains, much more gorgeous than my brother's dilapidated house.
Although Lu Lu was very happy to be able to live in such a luxurious big house, she still felt that her uncle's house was not as good as her and her brother's dilapidated house.
Although her brother's house only has three colors of black, white and gray, and the decoration is not cute at all, it is the house where she and her brother have lived together for a long time, and it has the smell of her brother inside, which is incomparable to other big houses.
When her brother finishes working, she will move back to live immediately.
Lu Lu thought so in her heart, but she didn't say it.
Because the uncle was very happy that she could live in his house and prepared a pink princess bed for her. If she told him to leave now, he would be very sad.
Lu Lu thought to himself, why can't uncle and brother live in the same place.
My brother's house has extra rooms, and my uncle's house also has a lot of vacant rooms, which can accommodate many people, so why do we have to live separately? It's so inconvenient.
When she makes money in the future, she must buy a big house, a big one, so that everyone she likes can live in.
Brother, Uncle, Brother Enyu, Sister Feifei, Aunt Joey, Aunt Liu, Kiki...
In this way, when she wants to see them, she doesn't have to call, and can just run over and hug them.
But buying a big house should require a lot of money. Brother works so hard, but he still can't afford a big house.
Thinking of the house, Lu Lu turned his head to look at the uncle's house.
The uncle's house is divided into four floors, and there is an elevator in the house. It is so big. When she came here for the first time, she almost got lost.
Lu Lu felt that if she bought a house as big as her uncle's house, she should be able to accommodate all the people she liked.
I don't know how much it will cost to buy my uncle's house.
Lu Lu felt that the money was not spent. She spent all of her money buying candy for her sisters-in-law before, which was not enough.
So Lu Lu decided to ask his uncle first, and then ask Aunt Joey to arrange a job that can earn so much money for him.
People in the imperial capital have the habit of eating dumplings and mutton hot pot on Chinese New Year's Eve. Although Lu Hongyu is not an out-and-out native of the imperial capital, he has lived in the imperial capital for nearly thirty years, and his living habits are no different from those of the imperial capital.
Lu Hongyu usually stays in the laboratory, and his assistant orders takeout for three meals a day. His home is a mansion to others, but to Lu Hongyu it is just a place to sleep.
The family has never hired a nanny, and the cleaning and sanitation is to let the property arrange people to clean the house twice a week.
Originally, because Lu Lu was coming to live at home, he was afraid that Lu Lu would not eat well, so he planned to hire someone to take care of Lu Lu's diet, but at this juncture, no matter how high the price was, it was difficult to find a suitable one.
So for today's New Year's Eve dinner, Lu Hongyu had to copy the knife himself to take office.
Fortunately, Lu Hongyu has cooking skills, and the cooking is not bad, but he hasn't cooked for some years.
However, it is not difficult to roll out dumpling skins with noodles and mix meat fillings.
In addition to dumplings, you can buy ready-made sliced mutton in the supermarket for mutton hot pot, and prepare some vegetarian dishes, and it will be decent.
When Lu Lu appeared in the kitchen, Lu Hongyu was cutting white radish slices.
White radish and mutton are the best partners. Drinking a bowl of radish and mutton soup in winter will warm your whole body.
He looked at Lu Lu, who was a little taller than the marble countertop, staring at the knife in her hand with a pair of big round eyes, thinking that she was hungry, and said: "It will take a while to eat, Lulu, if you are hungry Just eat some fruit first, or drink yogurt."
While Lu Hongyu was talking, he put down the kitchen knife in his hand and went to open the refrigerator door to get yogurt for Lu Lu.
Lu Lu hurriedly said: "Uncle, Lu Lu is not hungry, Lu Lu is very full at noon."
For a large family with a large number of people, the New Year's Eve dinner basically needs to be prepared from the first day, but there are only two of them, so Lu Hongyu only started preparing in the afternoon, and it's only three o'clock now.
"Then Lulu is coming to cook with Uncle?"
Lu Lu nodded, looking at the sharp knife on the chopping board, she warned: "Uncle, be careful, don't get hurt."
"Don't worry, uncle will be careful." Lu Hongyu picked up the kitchen knife again, quickly sliced the remaining half of the radish and put it on the plate next to him, then started to prepare the meat stuffing.
After Lu Lu looked around for a while, she asked, "Uncle, how much does it cost to buy your home?"
"Buy my house? Does Lulu want to buy Uncle's house?"
Lu Lu nodded, "Yes."
"Uncle's Lulu can live there if he wants, and he doesn't need to spend money to buy it."
"But I want my brother, Aunt Joey, brother Enyu and my good friends to live here too?"
Hearing this, Lu Hongyu didn't rush to refuse, but asked, "Can Lu Lu tell Uncle why you want them to live in?"
"Because Lulu likes everyone and doesn't want to be separated from you." After Lu Lu finished speaking, he gave another example: "Uncle likes Lulu and wants to keep Lulu at uncle's house. My brother also likes Lulu and doesn't want Lulu to leave. But Lu Lu doesn't have sex skills, so he can't appear in two homes at the same time."
Lu Lu was very helpless. It would be great if she had a magic spell as powerful as Monkey King, so that she could use her hair to make many deer come out.
One to accompany my brother, one to accompany my uncle, one to play with Kiki, one to play with Enyu, and another to work with Aunt Joey to make money.
Lu Lu had his own wishful thinking in his heart.
The more I thought about it, the more I felt that she should have such a spell.
I don't know if she can have such spells after becoming a dragon, but dragons don't seem to have hair and hair, so what can she change
Lu Lu was struggling in his heart, Lu Hongyu looked at Lu Lu with tenderness in his eyes.
It turned out that the little girl was thinking about this. He touched Lu Lu's little head and said softly, "Lu Lu doesn't have to worry about it. You can live wherever you want, as long as you are happy. And if your brother is willing Come to live at Uncle's house, and Uncle has no objection."
"Really? Uncle, are you really willing to let your brother live in your house?"
"You and your brother are both good children. Uncle is of course willing to take the good child to live at home, but only if you ask your brother if he agrees."
Speaking of elder brother, Lu Lu thought for a while and finally sighed, waved his hands like a little adult, and said, "Brother will definitely not agree."
"That's okay, we're all in the imperial capital, so it's not like we can't meet each other anymore, Lu Lu didn't live at Uncle's house before, so Uncle can often play with Lu Lu."
"That's right."
"That's right, so our Xiaolulu doesn't need to think so much. As long as you are happy every day, uncle and brother will be very happy, and they won't mind so much at all."
"Uncle, you are so kind, mua~ blow uncle a kiss." Lu Lu smiled sweetly, his eyes bent into crescent moons.
After Lu Hongyu prepared the ingredients for the mutton hot pot, he began to roll out the dumpling wrappers to make dumplings.
Lu Lu saw that the dumpling skin in uncle's hands was like plasticine, and when he pinched it with both hands, it became a curved dumpling shape. She thought it was very fun, so she clamored to make dumplings too.
Now that Lu Lu has become Lu Hongyu's weakness, he really has nothing to do with Lu Lu, as long as Lu Lu cries, makes noise and acts like a baby, his heart becomes so soft that he is willing to promise Lu Lu anything.
So Lu Lu, who is called helping but actually making trouble, started her first dumpling-making trip in her life.
"Lulu, like Uncle, put the meat stuffing in the middle of the dough, then fold the two sides in and pinch it tightly with the tiger's mouth. Look, a dumpling is formed."
Lu Lu looked at the dumpling that was born from the hands of her uncle, she felt that it was amazing, and immediately imitated the uncle's way of folding, pinching and exerting force.
She thought that a beautiful little dumpling would be born from her hands, but she didn't expect that the dumpling turned into a lump of lumps.
"Ah, how could this be?" Seeing the huge gap between what she made and what her uncle made, she immediately became frowning.
Lu Hongyu saw the works made by Lu Lu, and patiently taught them twice, but found that Lu Lu hadn't improved at all.
Only then did he realize that it is completely impossible to teach a three-year-old child how to make dumplings.
Lu Hongyu simply didn't care about Lu Lu, he took a few pieces of dough that had been crushed, and handed them to Lu Lu, letting Lu Lu play by himself.
Lu Lu couldn't knead the same dumplings as her uncle, she wasn't unhappy at all, but was happy because she got some dough that she could knead casually.
Lu Hongyu made dumplings very fast, and he finished making dumplings in less than 20 minutes. At the same time he finished making dumplings, Lu Lu's work was also completed.
Lu Hongyu looked at the time, the Spring Festival Gala has already started.
He turned on the TV and asked, "Lulu, can you tell uncle what you pinched?"
"The world under the lake."
"Isn't it the underwater world?"
"No, Lulu didn't live on the bottom of the sea before. Lulu used to live in a big lake, so it's the world under the lake."
Live in a big lake
Lu Hongyu was a little surprised, but he didn't ask Lu Lu to explain, because children's imagination is unlimited, and sometimes asking too many questions can lead to creative thinking.
Lu Hongyu asked cooperatively: "Then what are these?"
"This is Uncle Turtle and Uncle Crab. This is the clown fish and the coral bush. This is the shop opened by Uncle Crab. He always wants to make money from Uncle Turtle and me, but Uncle Turtle and I are poor and have no money to give." Uncle Crab."
Lu Lu spoke vividly, as if everything was true.
Lu Hongyu looked at a thin and long noodle coiled on the "coral bush", and asked, "Then what is it? A wooden stick or branch that fell to the bottom of the lake?"
"That's not true, this is Brother Jiaolong."
After Lu Lu finished speaking, a mysterious expression appeared on her face. She covered her small mouth and leaned into Lu Hongyu's ear and said, "Uncle, let me tell you a secret, my brother is Jiaolong."
"What flood dragon?"
In the human world, there is no such animal as the dragon, it only exists in myths and stories, and as a scientific researcher, Lu Hongyu believes in the non-ghosts and gods of science and technology, so naturally he will not be related to any mythical beasts.
Seeing that Uncle didn't even know about Jiaolong, Lu Lu frowned and said, "Uncle, you are so stupid, you don't even know about this."
"Can Lulu explain to Uncle?"
"Brother Jiaolong is very powerful. He will become a real dragon in the future, but before becoming a real dragon, brother Jiaolong will have to go through a catastrophe. Only by resisting the catastrophe can he become a dragon. But I believe that brother will be able to do it." .”
When he mentioned the content he was familiar with, Lu Lu spoke with radiance. Lu Hongyu looked at Lu Lu's full of imagination, and he replied very cooperatively: "Wow, so amazing!"
"That's right, my brother will definitely be super powerful after he becomes a real dragon."
Lu Hongyu watched the Spring Festival Gala program on TV and said, "You don't have to wait until you become a real dragon, my brother will be super powerful tonight."
"why?"
"Because my brother is going to perform in the Spring Festival Gala, and the Spring Festival Gala can only be performed by very powerful people."
Lu Lu heard that her eyes fell on the TV screen, she nodded half understanding, but her eyes were attracted by the cartoon cow on the screen.
As the annual highlight of the Spring Festival Gala, each program is screened by the chief director round after round before being presented to the public.
Therefore, for most people, it is a great honor to be on the Spring Festival Gala. As for what program to perform, and which time slot the program is ranked on, it doesn't matter.
But even though that is the case, in fact, different time slots correspond to different coffee positions. Among them, the most important ones in a party are the opening show and the finale show.
Over the years, the finale of the Spring Festival Gala has been performed by singing artist Ms. Li singing her masterpiece. As the end of the whole show, this is unshakable, and the only thing that artists compete for is the opening show.
There are a lot of details in it. Who is qualified to be the opening scene is not decided by the chief director alone, and has to be reviewed by multiple parties.
In previous years, Song Heran performed songs and dances or made guest sketches in the middle of the show, but this year, a song praising the motherland with a new actress was selected as the opening scene.
Qiao Yi was very satisfied with the arrangement of the Spring Festival Gala, because she felt that this was everyone's disguised recognition of Song Heran's strength and status, but Song Heran himself didn't care about this at all.
All he could think about was getting the show over early so he could go home for dinner.
Before departure, Lu Hongyu and Lu Lu said that they would wait for him to have a reunion dinner together.
The word "reunion dinner" is too long for Song Heran. Ever since his grandparents passed away and he debuted as an actor, he never went home during the Spring Festival.
Anyway, even in the happy family reunion days like the Spring Festival, that family is cold and devoid of human touch.
What's the point of returning or not returning.
But this year is different, this year someone is looking forward to his return at home.
After singing the three songs together, Song Heran went to the host and finished his New Year greetings according to the schedule, then hurried to the backstage, changed his clothes, and ran towards the house.
After watching his brother's performance in front of the TV, Lu Lu immediately called his brother.
"Brother, are you finished?"
"it's over."
"Brother, when will you come back? Lulu and uncle made dumplings together and wait for brother to eat together."
"It's on the way here, Lulu, you and uncle, eat first if you are hungry, don't wait for me."
Lu Lu called Song Heran with the phone watch of Xiaotiancai, so the phone was turned on speakerphone, and Song Heran's words fell into Lu Hongyu's ears.
Lu Hongyu said: "Silly boy, there's no reason for us to eat the reunion dinner first. We must wait for you to come back and eat together."
Song Heran didn't tell Lu Hongyu about his family conflicts, but after so many months of getting along, Lu Hongyu more or less guessed some of it, and it could be seen that Song Heran was a child who lacked love.
This is also one of the reasons why Song Heran treats Lu Lu so well, because he regards Lu Lu as the sustenance of his family affection.
When Song Heran on the other end of the phone heard this, his throat suddenly choked, and he was so moved that he couldn't speak. Lu Hongyu's voice continued to come from the phone.
"Xiao Song, don't worry about driving, safety comes first."
"Yes, brother, be careful on the road, Lulu is waiting for you to come back."
Song Heran's eyes were moist when he heard this, and it took him a while to answer "Yes".
In the past few years, Song Heran spent the Spring Festival alone at home. It’s not that he didn’t have friends calling him to join him, but for him, no matter how enthusiastic others are, they still belong to other people’s homes. But the heart is cold.
The more lively other people's homes are, the happier they are. For Song Heran, the more envious, the more jealous, the more tormented.
It’s better to stay alone quietly, sleep if you can sleep, and drink a bottle of wine if you can’t sleep, anyway, when you wake up, his time will be filled with a full schedule, leaving no time for him to feel lonely .
But this year is different. For the first time, Song Heran feels that Chinese New Year is very happy.
For the first time, he asked Joey for a few days of vacation. He decided to take Lu Lu and then call Lu Hongyu to go to a coastal city to bask in the sun and relax.
Joey knew that every new year was a sensitive period for Song Heran. He used to work hard until this time, so tired that she couldn't help feeling distressed, but this year he was willing to go to rest and relax. Good thing, how could she disagree.
Joey postponed Song Heran's planned work and gave him five days to go on vacation.
Song Heran enthusiastically invited Lu Hongyu to go with him. Lu Hongyu originally planned to agree, but someone in the team had a problem and he had to stay and deal with it, so Song Heran had to take Lu Lu with him.
Lu Lu was very happy to be able to go out to play with her brother, and to go to the beach like in summer, because she could wear flowery skirts again.
This time, she will wear a floral dress and take many photos, make a thick photo album, and put it in a frame to hang on the wall.
The last time she went to Qiqi's house to play, she found that there were a lot of photos of Qiqi hanging on the wall of Qiqi's house.
Lu Lu was extremely envious, because she didn't have a single photo.
So this time she went to the beach to take a lot of photos, and hung all the bare walls of her brother's house and uncle's house.
Lu Lu imagined what his home would look like after hanging all his lovely photos. The dusty walls would definitely look much better, and then they wouldn't look as dilapidated as they are now.
If it doesn't become dilapidated, my brother won't have to work so hard to earn money to buy a new house!
Thinking of this, Lu Lu excitedly ran to his brother's room, wanting to tell his brother this good idea.
But just as she opened a small gap, she heard her brother yelling at the phone, and she was terrified.
Lu Lu trembled all over, and stood outside the door, not daring to move, for fear that making any noise would make his brother even more angry.
Lu Lu looked at the movement in the room. She thought her brother would be even more angry, but she didn't expect her brother who threw away the phone to sit by the bed, covering his face and crying, as fragile as a poor kitten.