Double sleep

Chapter 64 Reconciliation

In order to reduce conflicts with her parents, Ling Rusi chose to come home on the afternoon of New Year's Eve.When she opened the door with a backpack on her shoulders, her father was coming out with a hanging firecracker. Seeing Ling Rusi nod in a leadership manner, he said with a serious expression, "I'm back."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Ling Rusi's answer, he walked around her to the balcony and hung the firecrackers on the clothes fork, looked at his watch, took out a cigarette and lit it, guessing that it was the auspicious time for dinner after smoking a cigarette.

Ling Rusi took off her backpack and threw it on the sofa in the living room. Just as she was about to pour herself a cup of hot water, her mother came out of the kitchen in a hurry with two dishes. Double bamboo chopsticks.

When her mother saw Ling Rusi, she was taken aback for a moment, and then she reacted and quickly rolled her eyes at her, shouting: "Miss, the bigger you are, the more blind you are, don't you? Look at what's on my hand?"

Before Ling Rusi had time to drink the hot water, he blurted out: "Fried lotus root, sweet and sour fish."

If her mother hadn't been physically restricted, she probably wanted to roll her eyes ten times at this moment, but she still couldn't challenge her limit in the end, she rolled her eyes twice and stretched out her hands to pass the plate in Ling Rusi's hand. Said angrily: "Take it to the table."

Ling Rusi took it instinctively and said "Oh".He trotted into the restaurant with the dishes.I don't know why her mother's hot-tempered look always makes people unconsciously follow the rush, as if she can run away with long legs if she is a second late.

As soon as the dishes were placed on the round glass turntable of the dining table, I heard Ling Rusi's mother's very familiar and penetrating voice from the kitchen: "I want you to serve a dish and you make tweed. Hurry up and iron the tableware and take it .”

Ling Rusi habitually raised two index fingers and rubbed her ears a few times, then ran all the way into the kitchen, and saw her mother holding a spatula in her right hand and pouring a hot water pot on a pile of bowls and chopsticks in the sink with her left hand.

Ling Rusi stepped forward quickly, and took the kettle from her mother's left hand: "Okay, you can concentrate on cooking."

Her mother turned her head and rolled her eyes habitually, or maybe she just glanced at her.

But her mother has been used to rolling her eyes to Ling Rusi for so many years since she was a child, and she would express her eyes to Ling Rusi when she was in a good or bad mood.On the road, classmates rolled their eyes, guests at home rolled their eyes, and grandma’s dinner rolled their eyes.

Finally, when she was brutally beaten by her mother on a certain summer evening, Ling Rusi realized that rolling her eyes all the time was not a good thing, so she should restrain herself.

Therefore, even if she later cultivated this skill to perfection, she would not show it off easily.

Ling Rusi cleaned the bowls, chopsticks and spoons in the sink one by one, and counted them while she was hot. When she counted to the tenth set, she couldn't help but ask, "Are there many people coming to eat at home tonight?"

Her mother danced with spatulas and didn't even bother to turn her head: "This year it's our family's turn to cook the New Year's Eve dinner. Your uncle's family, grandpa and grandma will all come."

Ling Rusi nodded, looking at the bowls and chopsticks, he felt something was wrong: "Uncle is in a relationship?"

Her mother turned off the fire to serve the dishes, her hands kept moving, and the words in her mouth were rolling fast: "There will be a drink on the tenth day of the new year, otherwise why would I ask you to come back? You think we are so busy that we have to beg you."

Ling Rusi took the braised pork with dried bamboo shoots and braised pork that her mother had just cooked, shook her head and said, "You mouth, you don't stop until the Chinese New Year."

Mom: "I want to take a break, can you tell me to stop..."

A burst of rapid crackling exploded in the air, causing the eardrums to vibrate.Ling Rusi's father immediately got into the house and closed the door after lighting the firecrackers.The sound of the firecrackers seemed to be reduced a lot when the door was closed, but it only took a few tens of seconds before louder firecrackers and double-bang sounds began to ring out one after another.

Another Spring Festival, another New Year, just like this unfolded in a crackle that was louder than louder and echoed with each other.

Relatives and friends at home slowly gathered and sat in a circle around the dining table. After everyone toasted and drank the first glass of wine in the new year, the drama that never changed at the family dinner table began to be staged.

Starting from the juniors, they take turns toasting wine or tea to the elders, toasting a cup, saying a word of congratulations, and receiving a red envelope.After the toasts of the juniors were over, relatives and friends of the same generation began to exchange glasses and brag about each other.The elders sat in the upper seat, drank chicken soup, ate some food that was easy to digest and chew, and looked at the children and grandchildren in front of them with a kind smile.

Ling Rusi buried her head in her food, while the grandmother sitting next to her took out a red envelope from her pocket and stuffed it gently into her palm.She looked down and immediately stuffed it back into her grandma's pocket and said, "Grandma, I'm so old, I can't take the new year's money anymore."

Grandma smiled, took out the red envelope from the pocket of the new padded coat and stuffed it into Ling Rusi's hand again. She patted the back of Ling Rusi's hand and said, "No matter how old you are, you will always be a child in the eyes of me and Grandpa."

Grandma's palms were dry and a little rough, but with an extremely gentle temperature.Ling Rusi no longer evaded, accepted the red envelope and said, "Thank you grandma."

Seeing this, the uncle on the other side of the round table continued, "Sisi, quickly find a husband and give your grandma a great-grandson to hug."

Ling Rusi seemed relaxed and teased: "That's no good, how can I take the lead from my uncle, and be a generation behind."

The uncle heard the words and immediately said: "I don't mind, anyway, we will be very fast." After finishing speaking, he gave his shoulders to the daughter-in-law who was sitting next to him and hadn't formally married yet: "Honey, you say yes."

The other party lowered his head in embarrassment, and pinched his uncle's thigh with his hand under the dining table.Uncle didn't feel the pain, he let out a "hiss" and his face was contorted.He didn't feel embarrassed, he patted his wife and said comfortingly: "Okay, I won't talk anymore." Then he turned to Ling Rusi and said, "Sisi, you can be my bridesmaid when the time comes."

Ling Rusi responded, "Okay." He continued to bury his head in the food.

She quickly finished the New Year's Eve dinner and found an excuse to retreat from the banquet.Put on your coat and shout to the dining room: "I have something to go out."

"It's Chinese New Year, where are you going wild?"

"come back earlier."

"You bring the key yourself."

"No one at home will open the door for you on New Year's Eve."

"Did you hear that, are your ears on?"

I haven't seen him, but I've heard his voice, Ling Rusi's mother said one sentence after another, jumping out without panting, Ling Rusi kept responding, "I got it", "Got it", and "Leave".The door was closed at the speed of light, shutting out the lively voices of the room.

Before she got on the bus back to her hometown, she made an appointment with Chen Yi to meet after dinner. Chen Yi's parents divorced early, and she was brought up by her grandparents. Basically, every New Year's day, she would walk away and set off firecrackers. The three of them simply had a simple meal and ended. up.

When he arrived at the agreed place, Chen Yi had already drank the whole pot of chrysanthemum tea alone in the small box.Ling Rusi raised the curtain and walked in, looked at the bottomless chrysanthemum teapot on the table, and said cheaply: "Oh, you are so angry, have you lost your love again?"

Chen Yi glanced at her, pressed the service bell beside the table to ask the waiter to add water, and replied, "Isn't it waiting for you to get angry?"

Ling Rusi threw the small satchel on the sofa in the private room, and then threw himself on the sofa, his whole body stretched out into a shapeless shape.It may have collapsed at the dinner table for too long, so hurry up and relax your already sore muscles.She lazily replied: "If you are so good at kung fu, you will miss me."

Chen Yi picked up the glass cup on the tray, poured a cup of newly refilled chrysanthemum tea for Ling Rusi, and pushed it in front of her: "You are so poor. Have some?"

Ling Rusi sat up straight and took a sip of chrysanthemum tea: "Whatever, I drank some white tea at night, and my head hurts a bit."

Chen Yi: "Then let's order some beer to soothe you." After speaking, he rang the service bell and asked the waiter to bring a dozen beers.

Ling Rusi smiled and said something silently, probably a common greeting for people all over the country.

After drinking half a dozen of wine, Ling Rusi found that the pain in her head, which was still bulging before, miraculously disappeared. Immediately, she sat up straight and her voice became louder. As if he was alive, he directly picked up the wine bottle and turned to Chen Yi: "Happy New Year, come on, let's do it."

Chen Yi picked up the wine bottle, looked at Ling Rusi with a smile and said, "Have you drunk it?" Seeing that Ling Rusi was drinking happily with the bottle, he tentatively said, "Let's drink less atmosphere, let's have a drink." No, I'll call Meme out."

Ling Rusi just blows the bottle by himself and doesn't answer the conversation.Chen Yi directly picked up the mobile phone on the table and pressed his thumb on the keyboard quickly.

Then, the two continued to drink, chatted about the past from time to time, had a toast and laughed a few times when they chatted happily.

When a dozen beers were almost finished, the curtain of the box was drawn from the outside.The two of them stopped raising their glasses at the same time, and turned their heads to look outside the door. Han Meimei was wrapped in a beige coat and stood at the door. The six eyes of the three of them looked at each other in silence for a moment without embarrassment.

In the end, Chen Yi broke the silence: "You are hatching chickens at home, and we both drank a dozen. The old rule is to punish yourself with three cups."

Han Meimei responded "OK" and walked towards the box.When she was about to go to sit next to Chen Yi, Chen Yi raised his left hand and put the big backpack that was originally placed inside on the sofa outside: "Didn't you see that I can't sit here?"

Han Meimei glared at Chen Yi silently, and Ling Rusi on the opposite side quietly moved to the side to give Han Meimei more space.Han Meimei threw her satchel heavily beside Chen Yi, continued to stare at her, and then sat down next to Ling Rusi.

The story changed from two people to three people, and the empty bottles on the table were piled up and piled up again.

Just after nine o'clock, Ling Rusi's cell phone began to bombard him with calls and text messages.Her mother shouted loudly for us to play mahjong all night at your grandma's house. Come back early and don't go out.Ling Rusi said yes but did not act.

Chen Yi said: "Let's open a hotel and spend New Year's Eve together."

After receiving the responses from the two, she got up and went to the toilet. When only Ling Rusi and Han Meimei were left in the private room, she suddenly fell silent. Neither of them spoke. There was a moment of silence. Ling Rusi raised his wine glass and gently touched Han Meimei's cup, the two looked at each other and smiled, and drank the wine in the cup in one gulp.

Han Meimei said: "Yes, I blamed you. I blamed you for being a friend and letting me jump into the fire pit without saying a word. After thinking about it, I would believe those pretentious things if it was said, and I would not It's such a trick in the marriage. What's more, the person involved is deliberately trying to hide it."

Ling Rusi didn't say a word, he got up and hugged Han Meimei lightly, picked up Chen Yi and her own bag, put his arms around Han Meimei's shoulders and walked out.

The three of them floated to the entrance of the leisure bar, and the cold and humid wind that is unique to the southern mountain city in winter swept across their faces. Almost at the same time, everyone couldn't help shivering, wrapped their coats tightly, and tightened their scarves tightly.

A silver Volvo parked across the road honked its horn in a double jump.Ling Rusi followed the sound and saw the car window roll down, stretching out an arm and waving at her.

Before Ling Rusi could react, Chen Yi yelled nonchalantly beside him: "No wonder this kid chased his soul all night and called you to ask your location. I was wondering why he suddenly got up because of some stimulus."

Ling Rusi smiled like a flower against the cold wind, as if melting the bone-chilling cold instantly.She opened her arms to embrace Chen Yi and Han Meimei: "Let's go to the New Year."