Different people have different fates, and each family has different New Year’s Eve dinner.

In Guiyun Province, which is even more remote than Nanzhou Province, there is a remote mountain village in a low valley. Two tiled houses stand on the walls, like two patients struggling to rely on each other in the wind and rain. It seems that if one is missing, the other will collapse instantly.

Spring Festival couplets are attached to the doors of the two rooms, and wrinkled lanterns that seem to have been used for many years. Apart from this, there is no festive celebration of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new.

Both rooms were on lights, the bigger house was empty, and the smaller one was the kitchen. The family of four sat quietly, on the table covered with oil stains, and shot cucumbers in a total of six dishes.

"Mom, didn't you say that you would eat braised pork during the Chinese New Year today?" At the dinner table, a 10-year-old girl glanced at the table with a very disappointed look.

Hearing her shout, the woman with a bitter face unbuttoned her apron and turned around, her face no longer looked good.

"Eat and eat, you know how to eat. Isn't this meat?"

"Is this chicken or the one left over the day before yesterday!" The little girl was dissatisfied!

The woman said "tsk" and her eyebrows frowned, and she angrily said: "Why are you so disobedient? This table of dishes is not enough for you! Why don't you eat magic meat when you eat braised pork?"

"But you clearly agreed to..."

"What do you say? Don't think that I won't hit you during the Chinese New Year!"

The woman said, and indeed raised her hand. Before the slap fell, the little girl was already crying.

Next to the girl, a handsome boy sat, looking out of place with the broken, deserted, depressed and dissatisfied room.

Hearing the girl crying, he frowned unhappily, hugged his sister in his arms, and shouted: "Mom, what are you doing!"

The woman glared at the girl in anger and said nothing.

Wang Qin comforted his sister a few words and said, "Didn't I give you more than 10,000 yuan? Can't you afford a braised pork meal? I'm not eating it every day for the Chinese New Year!"

The Queen Mother looked at her promising son and her face looked a little better, but she still couldn't hide her bitterness.

She sighed: "Dabao, your father has not earned much money this year, and he has taken several thousand yuan for medicine. His family still owes your second uncle's money. If you hadn't received more than 10,000 yuan, you wouldn't know how to spend this year, and you would have eaten braised pork. It would be nice to have food!"

She said this and glanced at her husband sitting on the main seat, with resentment hidden deep in her eyes.

Wang Qin also glanced at his father, feeling that he was obviously much older and thinner than a year ago, and a feeling of powerlessness suddenly arose in his heart.

My father was in poor health and could not go out to work. He could only plant a few acres of thin fields at home and earn some change from a nearby village as a bamboo worker.

My mother didn't know a single word, so naturally she had no way out. The two of them were busy all year round, and it was just enough for the family to spend, so it was difficult to have enough surplus.

Wang Qin went all the way to high school and borrowed the tuition and living expenses here. He paid them back at the end of the year and then borrowed them again after school.

When I graduated from high school, the joy brought by the admission letter from a prestigious university could not last for two minutes. The tuition fee of more than 10,000 yuan and living expenses were pressing against this difficult rural family like a mountain.

This astronomical figure really scared the king's father and mother. If it weren't for the bonus from the school and county government, Wang Qin would have been unable to get to school, but I'm afraid it would be an unknown number!

Thinking of this, Wang Qin could only sigh.

After so many years, he thought he had become accustomed to it, but after spending a year and a half in Haicheng, he saw many classmates from urban families spending money without any scruples. His originally firm thoughts and beliefs gradually began to shake.

Money is really a good thing.

Unfortunately, he didn't!

The New Year’s Eve dinner was deserted. After a simple cleaning, the dim yellow lights of the two cottages were dark. After a family of four washed up, they sat around the TV with blurry pictures, waiting for a festive Spring Festival Gala.

The whole family didn't say anything. The Queen Mother took a few sweet potatoes and roasted them by the brazier. The sweet fragrance finally made the girl laugh, but Wang Qin couldn't be happy.

"bite--"

The phone rang.

He took out the brick machine that had been used for a year and a half from his pocket, and held 15,000 yuan in his hand at the end of the year. He wanted to change it several times but was reluctant to change it in the end.

It’s a text message: Senior Wang Qin, I wish you a happy New Year!

This text message came from an unfamiliar girl. After several months of contact, the two of them could only say a few words, and Wang Qin had no particular impression of her.

But now, when he thought of her lively smiling face, he also laughed.

...

In Chenjia Village, hundreds of kilometers away, Chen Yu's family had just finished their New Year's Eve dinner.

Chen Xiaohua was in a good mood and drank an extra bowl of wine. He was so drunk that he went out.

Of course, Dong Xiuying knew where he was going. She jumped up and cursed people early, but today she was in a good mood and it was the New Year again. The sky was so authentic that she wanted to open the internet.

So he only shouted to his back: "Don't lose too much, come back early!"

Chen Xiaohua ignored him and disappeared into the darkness.

Chen Yu actually knew that his father loved playing cards, but he loved to brag about his son's genius at the poker table. This was the case in his previous life, so it was naturally even worse in this life.

Thinking of his father who is always serious in front of him, he always speaks exaggeratedly in front of others, and shouts with a blushing face: "What are my son like, what do you know?"

Chen Yu couldn't help but want to laugh.

My younger brother had been watching the fireworks with my friends. Dong Xiuying was washing dishes, Chen Yu sat in front of the stove to cook the fire, and giggled with his wife while chatting with him.

This smile fell into Dong Xiuying's eyes, which naturally made her smile happy.

"Ayu, mom asks you something!" Dong Xiuying spoke.

"Um!"

"Are you in love?"

"Uh-huh?"

Chen Yu came back to his senses and raised his head seriously: "Mom, why did you suddenly ask this?"

Dong Xiuying smiled: "Just say you're talking about it?"

Fearing that her son would be embarrassed to admit it, she quickly added: "I asked casually, but I didn't say I didn't want you to talk. The mother and son are talking!"

Chen Yu also laughed, remembering his goal of getting married after graduating from college. Once he calculated, he only had two and a half years left.

During this period, I have to meet my girlfriend and have room for understanding each other, so now it is indeed time to say it.

After thinking about it, he nodded.

Dong Xiuying breathed a sigh of relief and laughed. When Chen Yu saw her like that, he knew that there was a big wave of barrage... The problem immediately came.

"How did you know?" Chen Yu asked curiously.

"Yingxiang said! She said that during this period, you have been talking to her questions every day, just holding your phone and smiling foolishly. You must be in love. She really hit it!"

Chen Yu was ashamed: He thought he was hiding without any leakage, but he didn't expect that he would have missed it.

Since Chen Yu has publicly admitted it, what else can Dong Xiuying be polite? He asked the girl from her appearance to her family!

Chen Yu did not hide it and told Ye Jiayan everything. After hearing this, Dong Xiuying slowly disappeared.

"The sea of ​​heaven? So far?"

"It's a little far away, but we will definitely stay in Haicheng to develop in the future, so it's much closer!"

"That's right, but you really get married in the future. Their hometowns are so far apart, so it's so troublesome to run!"

Chen Yu smiled and said nothing.

Dong Xiuying hesitated for a while and said, "And this girl is a single-parent family, this..."

Chen Yu actually guessed his mother's reaction long ago. After all, this was how she experienced it in her previous life, and there were more problems in her previous life.

Chen Yu not only found a wife who was thousands of miles away from home, but also left his hometown and went to the city where Jiayan was located to develop, and he would never return home all year round...

In such an ending, the mother slowly accepted it because she got along well with her wife. Now these stereotypes about distance and single-parent families are naturally no problem.

Chen Yu did not explain, because no matter how many explanations were, they would be futile.

Dong Xiuying did not let gossip, asked some details, and asked Chen Yu for a photo of the girl. Chen Yu took out the photo directly from his phone. Dong Xiuying took a look and his eyes were straight.

"He looks quite elegant!" she laughed.

Chen Yu also laughed - it was exactly the same as in his previous life.

...

At 11 o'clock in the evening, Ye Jiayan finally ended the annual disgusting reunion dinner and returned to the cottage that belonged only to her and her mother. The atmosphere relaxed.

Wang Mowen was busy with work, and Jiayan was hanging on the sofa and chatting with Chen Yu, complaining about his experience at night.

Chen Yu comforted her a few words, and then suddenly said: My mom has seen your photo!

Ye Jiayan took a breath and sat up straight immediately.

After being stunned for five seconds, her consciousness returned to her hands. She entered it several times in the dialog box, deleted it several times, and finally said: Does your mother like me?

"Guess?" Chen Yu deliberately teased her.

“…”

"Chen Yu, tell me quickly!"

"What are you calling me? You have such a arrogant attitude, so I won't say it anymore!"

Ye Jiayan resisted the urge to climb to the opposite side of the Internet and beat her boyfriend up patiently, and entered it patiently: "Brother, what do you say, I want to know!"

Thousands of miles away, Chen Yu looked at the screen and laughed.
To be continued...