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Luo Tan deeply remembered that the Spring Festival of that year came very late, before the twelfth lunar month passed, the spirit of spring quietly unfolded.

Luo Xiaoyu had just returned to China, only 17 years old, and had a lot of trouble with her family because of her plan to apply for a domestic university.On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the atmosphere in the Luo family was oppressive and embarrassing, like a cage without chains.

"Brother." Luo Tanshen is nine years old and has lived in his grandmother's house since he was a child. He feels uncomfortable with everything in the Luo family.

He tugged at the corner of Luo Xiaoyu's clothes, and said softly: "Let's not stay here, okay? Let's go back to grandma's house."

Compared with children of the same age, Luo Tanshen is more well-behaved and not noisy.Grandmother came from a scholarly family in the old days, she was gentle, knowledgeable and sensible, and he was influenced by his ears and eyes, so he also learned and behaved.

Many years later, the upper circles in Yuancheng dubbed An Yuxin the "little prince". In fact, Luo Tanshen was the real "little prince" when he was young - noble, cute, proud and polite.

"Brother will take you out to get some air." Luo Xiaoyu put on a newly made cashmere coat and a scarf on him, and said with a smile, "By the way, there is a garden party in Xunshan Park today, do you want to go and see it?"

"Think!" He raised his face and smiled.

Ten years ago, people's entertainment activities were far less abundant than they are now.

During the Spring Festival, except for the wealthiest few people, most of the citizens either visit relatives and friends to play mahjong, or come out to participate in garden parties.

Every community in Yuancheng has a garden party, and the largest one is the one in Xunshan Park.

Luo Tanshen had never participated in it before, and it was very novel. As soon as he arrived at the gate of the park, his beautiful eyes opened wide.

Luo Xiaoyu led him to buy tickets, and bought him a crown headdress, a prince's scepter, and a small silver cape at a mobile stall.

——These are the standard equipment for little boys in the garden.

He was so happy that he dragged Luo Xiaoyu through various stalls, hooped, shot arrows, looked at unlit lanterns, danced with other children, and even followed behind a few old men, guessing lantern riddles in style .

After playing until the afternoon, I finally got a little tired.

Luo Xiaoyu bought a lot of food, such as steamed cakes, meatballs, skewers...all of them were "bad foods" that my grandmother wouldn't let me eat.

"Let's eat secretly." Luo Xiaoyu said with a smile.

He tasted a meatball carefully, and was immediately pleasantly surprised as if he had discovered a new world.But even if he wants to gobble it up, his eating style is still impeccable.

"Brother, what are those people looking at?" After eating the last piece of steamed cake, he stretched his neck and pointed to a shop surrounded by many people.

"Sugar Man." Luo Xiaoyu looked at the promotional cardboard next to the shop and said, "It turned out to be a famous veteran craftsman. Come on, let's go buy one too."

Sitting in the shop is a master master and four junior masters.There are many sugar figurines that have been made on the display stand.

Luo Tan squeezed deep inside, looking at the sugar man with great interest.

The children shouted "I want the Monkey King" and "I want a fairy", and the parents willingly paid for it to satisfy their babies' New Year's wishes.

Luo Xiaoyu asked: "Which one does Xiao Shen want?"

"The biggest one!" He waved the scepter, and the star on the scepter pointed to the phoenix in the center of the display stand.

The old master personally took off the Phoenix and handed it to him with a smile.

Luo Xiaoyu told him that the phoenix was made by this old master.

He cherished it very much, and carefully protected the Phoenix all the way, for fear of being crushed by others.

"Don't you want to try it?" Luo Xiaoyu asked.

He shook his head quickly, "It's so beautiful, I can't bear it."

"It will go bad after a long time."

"How can the Phoenix be broken? Brother, let's go back, I'm going to stick it on the window of my room, and I can see it every day when I wake up!"

It's still early, and after nightfall, all the lanterns with different shapes will be lit up.

Luo Xiaoyu asked: "Go back now?"

Luo Tan smiled obediently, "Send Fenghuang back first, it will be bad if it gets crushed."

However, the phoenix failed to be inserted in the window of my grandmother's house in the end.

At the gate of Xunshan Park, Luo Tanshen was attracted by a burst of crying.

The one squatting outside the door crying was a thin and small boy who looked no more than five or six years old, wearing old-fashioned clothes, with red and swollen cheeks and floating palm marks.

Luo Tan squatted in front of the boy, and patted the boy's head, "Brother, what's wrong with you?"

The boy's eyes were red, and he was about to leave after wiping away his tears.

"Don't go!" Luo Tan took his little hand deeply, "You haven't told me, why are you crying?"

The boy was short and weak, unable to break free, and cried even harder.

"You can't cry on the first day of the Lunar New Year." Luo Tan deeply wiped his tears, "I won't be happy after crying for a whole year. Brother, be good, don't cry, is someone bullying you?"

The boy shook his head.

"You..." Luo Tanshen stretched out his fingers, wanting to touch his face, "Have you been beaten?"

The boy still shook his head.

Luo Tanshen asked again, "Where's your family? I'll take you to find them."

The boy cried again.

"Oh, why are you crying again?" Luo Tan was very anxious, "I told you not to cry today. Go to the park and play, there are many interesting things in it. Look at my Phoenix, is it good? I just bought it in the park Oh!"

The boy stared blankly at Phoenix, and slowly stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to touch it lightly.

Luo Tanshen quickly backed away, "It's not something you can touch, it's mine, you can buy it yourself if you want."

The boy lowered his head in embarrassment, remained silent for a while, wiped away his tears, and walked in the opposite direction from the park gate.

Luo Tan was deeply puzzled, and shouted: "Hey, why don't you go in? It's fun inside!"

The boy stopped and didn't turn around, but raised his right hand and said in a trembling voice while wiping away his tears, "I don't have money, so I can't get in."

"Ah?" Luo Tanshen had no concept of "money", looked at Luo Xiaoyu, "Brother?"

Luo Xiaoyu sighed.

The boy had gone far and was about to cross the road.

Once you cross the road, you can't catch up.

Luo Tanshen suddenly ran up, "Brother, brother, wait!"

The boy turned on the side of the road.

Silver cloaks rattled, crystal-encrusted diadems gleamed.Luo Tan took a deep breath, and reluctantly handed the Phoenix to the boy, "It doesn't matter if you can't go in, this is for you!"

The boy's lips moved, but he didn't speak, and he didn't take the Phoenix.

"Hold it!" Luo Tanshen put the bamboo stick in his hand, patted his head again, relying on his height, and smiled with eyebrows bent, "Brother, today is the first day of the New Year, I really can't Crying, even if you are bullied, you can't cry. The Phoenix is ​​yours now, don't cry!"

The boy seemed to be shaking and said "thank you" very softly.

Holding his elder brother's airs, he waved his hands and said, "You're welcome! Brother, happy new year!"

The light shines through the golden feathers of the phoenix and falls on the yellowed memory.

Luo Tan squinted his eyes deeply, as if a small stone had been thrown into the lake water in his heart, dizzying circles of ripples.

He can't remember the boy's appearance for a long time, and the elder brother who accompanied him back then has also passed away.

Everything seemed to have changed, but the phoenix that had never stopped on his window returned to his hands as if it had traveled through more than ten years.

"I like it." His voice was very low, almost talking to himself.

Shan Yufei smiled, "That's good."

The sound of firecrackers sounded not far away, Luo Tan stared deeply at the phoenix, and asked again: "Why do you become a sugar figure?"

While tidying up, Shan Yufei said, "It's not difficult to make sugar, I have learned from others before."

"Why study?"

"You have a lot of questions." Shan Yufei carried the stone slab upstairs, "Learn a craft and gain another way to make money."

Luo Tanshen followed him upstairs, stuck the phoenix by the window, looked at it for a while, finally escaped from his childhood memories, and returned to his cynical look, "You are versatile."

It was past three o'clock in the afternoon, and after a while, Shan Yufei had to leave for Jianshu to work the evening shift.

Luo Tanshen placed the prizes he got on the table, and he tried his best to set the trap in the morning, but this time it was boring, "I'll leave it here for you."

Shan Yufei nodded, "Yes."

Luo Tanshen had nothing to do, picked up the plastic truck to play with, accidentally caught his nails in the gap.

"Nails need trimming," he said to himself as he set the truck down.

Shan Yufei approached and took a look, "You got a pruning tool box."

Luo Tanshen was taken aback for a moment, then raised his eyebrows and smiled: "You cut it?"

"Yes." Shan Yufei said.

Luo Tanshen's hands received regular care and maintenance, and every arc of the nails was carefully polished.

Seeing that Shan Yufei took out the nail clippers from the tool box for disinfection, he took the time to ask, "Can you do it?"

After finishing the preparations, Shan Yufei took his fingertips and glanced at him.

He twitched his eyebrows slightly, feeling that this silent look seemed to contain endless emotions.

The light came in from the window and shone warmly on the two of them. The shadow of the phoenix was reflected on the table, forming a pair of wings.

No one spoke, except for the sound of firecrackers and the shuffling of mahjong from time to time, the only sound left was the sound of nail clippers.

Luo Tan looked deeply at Shan Yufei's drooping eyebrows, his heart was sometimes empty and sometimes full.

The "prey" opened its claws and was scratching his heart carefully.

After a long time, Shan Yufei put down the file, "Okay, go wash your hands."

Luo Tan touched his middle finger deeply, the nails were not cut deep enough, not sticking to the flesh, the shape was not as round and perfect as usual, the left and right sides were asymmetrical, but for some reason, he found it very pleasing to the eye, so he said: " nice."

Shan Yufei smiled, "Really?"

"Cut it for me from now on." He leaned forward, put his hands around Shan Yufei's neck, and acted like a baby, "OK?"

Shan Yufei looked into his eyes, his smile grew stronger, and after a while, he replied, "Okay."

On the first night of the new year, some people are indulged, while others are still busy with their lives.

Luo Tanshen didn't go to Jianshu with Shan Yufei - he has his own life circle, so he won't indulge in it when he falls in love.

In the clubhouse, Xu Muchu smiled and clinked glasses with him, "Finally caught up?"

He sipped the wine, with noise and desire reflected in his eyes, "Is there anything I can't catch up to?"

"Tsk tsk!" Xu Muchu turned out the notepad in the phone, and said drunkenly, "Then I have to record a time for you, to see when you get tired of playing this time."

Luo Tan frowned deeply, feeling an unspeakable unhappiness in his heart.