A bowl of sweet soup

Years ago was busy.

The children who went out of Xiaoheqiao Street all went home for the New Year.

Everyone gets together, enjoys themselves, and visits relatives and friends.

At Tang Yuan's age, someone else's family is either still preparing for the college entrance examination, or has just entered college, while he is already studying for graduate school.

no doubt.

Tang Yuan is the eternal "other people's child" on this street.

Even if the eldest brother never takes him out to brag to others, he will be frequently mentioned repeatedly in the educational speeches of all the parents around him.Crazy to pull hatred for him.

Do you think Tang Yuan can still make friends with his peers?

impossible.

Anyway, he didn't want to communicate with others. He didn't even go out to this street during the whole winter vacation. Every day he either helped in the store or talked to Meng Tianyou.

He is calm now, he can even accept that his eldest brother went to stay at Ji Wei's house for the night, and calmly said: "Okay, it's okay, you don't have to worry about things in the store."

Even when Tang Xuen asked Shang Jiwei to go to the supermarket with the whole family to buy new year's goods, he was calm and composed, and he would no longer be worried because he saw the interaction between the gay and the young couple in these two gays.

Uncle Meng is right, you will get used to it after watching too much.

Wait until the night of New Year's Eve.

The eldest brother even had a New Year's Eve dinner with Ji Wei after having a New Year's Eve dinner with them.

Tang Yuan stood at the door, waving goodbye to him.

Ask: "Brother, are you coming back tonight?"

Tang Xuen said with a smile, "Come back."

The light at this moment was particularly good, the smile on the eldest brother's face was brimming with happiness, and his eyes were as gentle and warm as the sunshine in mid-spring.Tang Yuan was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly thought, since Ji Wei came back, the eldest brother has become so much happier, isn't that enough?

Tang Yuan said in a low voice, "It doesn't matter if you don't come back."

It happened that the firecrackers from the neighbor's house sounded.

Tang Xuen: "Huh?"

Tang Yuan smiled and said, "It's nothing."

It was also the big brother's smile that made him think again——

What do you like?what is love?

He has never been moved by anyone.

Looks stupid, will he become like that one day?Scientifically speaking, it's just a phenomenon of dopamine being secreted to a specific person.

Terrible.

Big Brother went out.

The second brother was watching the Spring Festival Gala, laughed out loud at being teased, and was still on voice connection with his classmate Xiao Lu, talking some jokes that he couldn't get at all, and the two of them chatted in full swing.

Tang Yuan turned around.

Maybe it was New Year's Eve, and he actually felt a little lonely.

Tang Yuan climbed to the roof platform, moved a small bamboo stool and sat down, looking up at the New Year's fireworks in the distance.

He is a little lonely.

When they were young, the three brothers watched it together, and the eldest brother would hold him in his arms.

Not long after he was born, his mother died of illness, and there was only a vague warm impression, but as long as he could remember, he remembered being held in his arms by his elder brother.

Before he went to school, he was not a little genius at all, on the contrary, he was a well-known stupid kid.

Because he hardly speaks until he is 3 years old, he is very afraid of meeting strangers, no matter whether it is active or passive, every time he meets someone other than his family, he hugs his elder brother's neck tightly and buries his face in his arms Here, don't talk to people even if you die.

Before he knew it, he had also grown up.

The eldest brother basically doesn't hug Tang Zheng very much, just hugs him, hugs him like a father, like a mother, making him feel that he is the most favored child in the family, which makes him secretly proud.

Although he has turned 18, he feels that he is not yet mature.

I also want my eldest brother to hang around him for two years.

He is anxious about his eldest brother's love affair. Is it because he is a little jealous that another person will occupy the most important position in his heart in the future?

Tang Yuan couldn't figure it out.

Vaguely, Tang Yuan felt that he was more fond of older men.

He thought of Meng Tianyou.

Meng Tianyou is 3 years older than Tang Xuen, not too much difference, and it is not impossible to call him "brother", but he somehow feels that Meng Tianyou is much older!

Whoever wants to come.

The mobile phone received a new message, but no one was looking for him except Meng Tianyou.

Meng Tianyou: [What are you doing?Have you had New Year's Eve dinner yet? 】

Tang Yuan sent a photo of the fireworks: [[Picture] I have eaten and I am watching the fireworks. 】

【And you? 】

Meng Tianyou: [Watching TV at home. 】

Tang Yuan: [What kind of New Year's Eve dinner did you have with your family at night? 】

Meng Tianyou: [I have no family members, they are all dead. 】

[I am the only person listed in my household registration book. 】

Tang Yuan was dumbfounded.

He doesn't know that.

Tang Yuan: 【Sorry, sorry. 】

Meng Tianyou: [Don't you know? 】

[Just check it online and you will know. 】

Tang Yuan: [I haven't checked. 】

There was a long silence.

"Crack, crack."

Fireworks bloom one after another in the dark night.

Meng Tianyou: [Can I call you? 】

Tang Yuan: [Go ahead. 】

Meng Tianyou called and Tang Yuan picked it up.

But no one spoke first.

Tang Yuan didn't know what to say, so he thought about it and said, "Happy New Year's Eve, Uncle Meng."

Meng Tianyou replied: "Happy New Year's Eve, Xiao Yuan."

When did Meng Tianyou start calling him "Xiao Yuan"?

Tang Yuan couldn't remember.

There are so many chat records, how can there be time to turn over page by page.

Meng Tianyou: "There seems to be no other voices around you? Aren't you watching fireworks with your brother?"

Tang Yuan: "No, they all have things to do." He said with emotion, "After all, everyone has grown up and will leave home sooner or later."

Tang Yuan looked up at the starry sky, the moon and the fireworks, and the twinkling lights shrouded his still childish face. He said, "Uncle Meng, do you think love is amazing? It can make someone who has no blood relationship with you The relationship between the person and your relationship is above that of your blood relatives."

"The friendship that was born with brothers, sisters, and parents day and night will be far surpassed by a person who was once a stranger."

"Because of love, this person will become your most important person, and people in the future will leave the brothers who once depended on each other and want to spend the rest of their lives with this person."

Meng Tianyou didn't make a sound.

Tang Yuan didn't wait for his answer for a long time, and asked, "Uncle Meng, why don't you talk? Is the signal bad?"

Meng Tianyou said dryly: "I, I still think...Xiao Yuan, at this stage, you should consider your studies."

"You are still a child, just an adult."

"Uncle Meng, why are you talking to me like this?" Tang Yuan wondered, "You never called me a child before."

"And I feel like I'm young, and I feel like I'm more mature than a lot of older people."

At least he is more mature than his stupid second brother.He is also more mature than other peers who are still in the ivory tower in high school.

Tang Yuan thought.

Meng Tianyou laughed when he heard this.

Obviously mocking.

Tang Yuan was not annoyed, and deliberately followed him with a smile: "Hahahaha."

Meng Tianyou: "Hahahaha!"

The laughter is amazing, and I actually feel happy.

Tang Yuan: "Just laugh at me, later on you will know that I am not as naive as you think."

Meng Tianyou said with a smile: "Children love to say that they are mature. When you reach my age, you will feel that you are still very young."

Tang Yuan nodded and said, "You are very young."

Meng Tianyou was surprised: "Then you call me 'Uncle'?"

Tang Yuan shut his mouth, he frowned and thought for a while, then said, "I just want to call you 'Uncle', do you want me to call you something else instead?"

"Hmm..." Meng Tianyou pondered for a moment, then said, "It's still 'Uncle'."

Hi Uncle, Uncle sounds like the age difference is bigger.

It can make the child realize that he is his elder, not someone he can fall in love with.

Tang Yuan even cared about him: "Uncle, don't you feel lonely because no one is with you on New Year's Eve?"

Meng Tianyou sneered: "Why should I be lonely? If I want to find someone to accompany me, I can find someone casually."

Still so rich and powerful.But is it the same as what you can buy with money?

Tang Yuan thought.

Although he doesn't have much money, he doesn't feel that his life is hard at all. Recalling the days when he was a child with his elder brother and second brother, Tang Yuan felt very nostalgic.

The two chatted all night without saying a word.

At 12 o'clock, the fireworks are still going off.

The voice of the host of the Spring Festival Gala reporting the countdown to the new year can be heard from the televisions in every household:

"Ten, nine, eight, seven—"

"Six, five, four—"

"three two--"

"one!"

"Happy New Year!"

Looking at the endless starry sky, Tang Yuan said to Meng Tianyou who hadn't hung up the phone yet, "Happy New Year, Uncle Meng."

"good night."

Meng Tianyou: "Happy New Year."

He asked: "Xiao Yuan, do you have any New Year's wishes? It's a gift for you to chat with me tonight. Whatever you want, uncle will buy it for you."

Tang Yuan said, "No need. I don't need anything."

"I just feel a little lonely right now."

"I hope I won't be so lonely in the coming year."

This problem is easy to solve.It's good to be obsessed with work.

Tang Yuan quickly thought of it.

After talking to Meng Tianyou, Tang Yuan went downstairs and went back to his room to sleep.

He remembered that when he was a child, every household had to set off firecrackers, and he couldn't sleep well at night. Now that fireworks and firecrackers are banned in the urban area, it is not noisy, but there is no sense of the year, and he always feels that something is missing.

The first thing on the first day of the Lunar New Year is to drink the red dates, longan and lotus seed soup cooked by my elder brother.

Sweet and delicious.

Tang Yuan slowly spit out the longan core into the small porcelain spoon, and the phone rang.

Uncle Meng: 【Are you up yet? 】

Tang Yuan: 【Good morning, Uncle Meng. 】

Uncle Meng: [I'm on your street, I'm lost, I can't find where your home is, come and pick me up. 】

Tang Yuan:? ? ?