The day before New Year's Eve, it was snowing lightly, and Leng Yu was shopping for New Year's goods at the market, but today's market was full, and every step was difficult. When Leng Yu finished buying the New Year's goods, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.

Back at home, grandma was washing the meat, chicken, pork, and duck were all available. Leng Yu put down the New Year's goods and went to grandma to help.

After everything was busy, Leng Yu went to the kitchen to simply cook a few dishes. Today was too tired, Leng Yu just wanted to hurry up to finish the meal and go to bed, tomorrow will be a busy day.

The next day, Leng Yu got up very early. After getting up, he started to make paste. Then he took out the Spring Festival couplets and brushed them on the back. Leng Yu found a good position and put the paste-painted Spring Festival couplets next to the door frame. .

The Spring Festival couplets are well pasted, and the word "Fu" is naturally indispensable, but the word "Fu" should be pasted upside down, which means that blessings are coming.

After Leng Yu was done, her grandmother got up too. The grandmother and grandson grabbed a little something to fill their stomach and continued to work.

Leng Yu went to the nearby bamboo forest to find a very long bamboo, and the bamboo leaves at the top were to be left in order to clean up the spider webs at home.

Leng Yu used bamboo to clean the spider webs and dust in the high places, while her grandmother cleaned the debris on the ground.

After everything was done, Leng Yu took a bath, put on clean clothes, went to the kitchen to take out the flour, and prepared to fry the crispy meat.

After the crispy meat is fried, it’s time to make chicken, duck and fish. Chicken is used as Kung Pao chicken, duck is boiled in soup, pork is used for braised pork, and fish is used for steaming. Among them, fish is an indispensable food for every household. More than every year.

Since living with his grandma, Leng Yu has learned a lot of cooking methods, so he will naturally cook the New Year's Eve dinner on New Year's Eve.

After the meat is done, it's time to get some cold dishes. Cold pig ears and cold cucumbers are essential, but Leng Yu's favorite food is cold bitter gourd.

After everything was done, it was already around 6 o'clock in the afternoon, and some households in the village were already setting off firecrackers.

Leng Yu put the prepared dishes on the table. There are more than 20 dishes in total, and the table is full. Looking at the table full of New Year's Eve dinner, Leng Yu's heart is very happy.

All the dishes were served, Leng Yu found firecrackers, went to the tree in the middle of the yard and lit the firecrackers, the sound of crackling sounded, Leng Yu returned to the house, filled grandma with rice, poured drinks, New Year's Eve for the two of them And so it started.

Outside the house, the sound of crackling firecrackers came one after another, and some households had already set off fireworks.

Inside the house, Leng Yu and his grandma surrounded a large table, which was full of delicious food, and each bowl seemed to be untouched.

The north wind blew into the room through the gap, Leng Yu felt a little cold, got up and raised the electric oven to grandma's side.

The lights in the house were a little dim, Leng Yu and grandma didn't speak, they just ate food quietly.

The sound of various sounds outside the house, the sound of firecrackers, fireworks, the sound of TV, and the sound of children's laughter, sounded very lively, as if the world was making noise.

Inside the room, under the dim light, the white-haired old man and the taciturn teenager ate around a round table filled with various delicacies. The surroundings were very quiet, and there was no noise at all.

The outside is very lively, and the needles can be heard inside. It seems that there are two worlds inside and outside, two parallel worlds that never intersect.

"Grandma, the Spring Festival Gala has begun. I'll go and turn on the TV to show you." Leng Yu couldn't stand the desertedness.

"Okay, Xiaoyu, go and open it."

When the TV was turned on, the cheerful singing came into my ears, filling the originally lonely house with laughter and laughter. Leng Yu watched the TV with sadness in his heart. It has been ten years, and it has been ten years since Leng Yu and his grandmother spent the New Year's Eve in such a lonely way.

Yesterday, the restaurant was closed and Ye Tong could take seven days off. Tonight is New Year's Eve, Ye Tong was hesitating whether to go to the street to buy some food and come back for the New Year's Eve dinner.

Ten minutes later, Ye Tong wore a down jacket and a scarf from Leng Yu, walking through the lively street.

There were many people in the market, and Ye Tong managed to squeeze in from the crowd. She looked at all kinds of vegetables, but she didn't know what to buy.

Not far away, a couple was buying fish with their daughter. The daughter was about the same age as Ye Tong, and her face was full of smiles. At this moment, the daughter was shaking her mother's clothes and said coquettishly, "Mom, I want to eat this kind of fish, buy it for me."

Ye Tong's eyes showed admiration, and after a while, the envious eyes became sad.

Ye Tong decided not to buy New Year's goods anymore. She thought to herself that she was alone anyway, so she could just pack some food and bring it back to the rental house.

After making up her mind, Ye Tong squeezed out of the vegetable market. She wanted to buy a braised fish to take back. Since she was a child, her favorite food was fish.

Ye Tong came to the restaurant and saw that there were no empty seats. Basically, the whole family sat together to eat together. It was either parents with their children, or grandparents with their grandchildren.

"Guest, what do you want to eat, are you alone?" The waiter came to Ye Tong enthusiastically.

"Do you still have braised fish here? I'm going to pack it and take it away." Ye Tong looked at the lively scene in the store, and her heart filled with infinite sadness. She just wanted to leave here early.

"Yes, you can find a seat and wait for a while, and it will be ready for you in a while." After the waiter finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the kitchen.

"Dad, this shrimp is not delicious, I don't want it, I'll give it to you." In the seat in front of Ye Tong, a girl of her age was talking to her father.

"Daughter, give it to dad if you can't eat it. Dad likes to eat shrimp."

"Xiao Li, you are not allowed to be picky eaters. Every time you eat something you don't like, you have to give it to your father. He is about to be fed into a pig by you." The woman who spoke seemed to be the girl's mother.

"Mom, I was wrong, I won't dare next time."

"Wife, Xiaoli is still young, say what she is doing, it's alright, good daughter, if you don't like it, give it to dad."

"Your braised fish is ready." This was the third time the waiter had reminded Ye Tong.

"Oh, I'm sorry, how much is it?" Ye Tong was attracted by the scene of the family of three just now, and didn't react for a while.

Ye Tong carried the packaged braised fish and walked out of the restaurant. It was snowing in the sky. Ye Tong looked ahead and didn't know where to go.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and Ye Tong's black and bright hair was covered with a layer of white snow, and even his eyebrows were frosted.

Ye Tong looked around and finally decided to buy spicy shrimp, perhaps because she saw the girl eating shrimp in the store just now, so she really wanted to eat shrimp.

Ye Tong returned to the restaurant just now. The family of three who ate the shrimp had already left. The waiter saw Ye Tong coming back again and looked at her with a puzzled face: "Guest, do you need anything?"

"I missed one dish just now."

"What do the guests want?"

"Bring me a pound of spicy shrimp, pack it and take it away."

"Okay, you can find a seat and wait for a while, and I'll make it for you in a while."

More than ten minutes later, Ye Tong walked out of the restaurant with braised fish and spicy shrimp. Ye Tong stood at the door of the restaurant, thinking silently in his heart what else he needed.

After thinking about it, Ye Tong decided not to buy it. She wanted to go back to the rental house to sleep, and then she could eat the New Year's Eve dinner.

At six o'clock in the evening, the alarm clock set by Ye Tong rang. She woke up from her deep sleep and looked at the scene outside the window. Ye Tong's heart suddenly became flustered.

A sense of loneliness abandoned by the world instantly spread throughout his body, Ye Tong hugged himself and curled up in the corner, letting his tears flow.

Half an hour later, Ye Tong slowly recovered. She heated the braised fish and spicy shrimp she bought in the microwave oven, and then cooked a bowl of rice in the rice cooker.

There was only one desk in the rental house. Ye Tong cleaned up the books on it and moved the table to the middle of the rental house.

After waiting for about ten minutes, the braised fish and spicy shrimp were ready. Ye Tong placed the two dishes on the table, while he sat quietly on the stool and waited for the rice to be cooked.

The lights were not turned on in the rental house, but I could still see it clearly. Five minutes later, there was a "ding" sound, and the sound of the rice cooker sounded.

Ye Tong found a bowl and put the rice out. Looking at the New Year's Eve dinner on the table, she always felt that something was missing.

"By the way, drinks, how can there be no drinks for the New Year's Eve dinner?" Ye Tong said to himself, walking to the cabinet and opening it, there was half a bottle of drinks left.

Ye Tong took out the drink, poured it into the bowl, and sat down at the table. She looked at the food in front of her, but she didn't have any appetite in her heart.

It was snowing heavily outside the window, and from time to time a few people would pass by Ye Tong's rental house. They laughed and laughed with happy smiles on their faces.

The sky was getting dark, and the inside of the rental house could not be seen clearly. Ye Tong did not turn on the lights, but lit candles.

As soon as Ye Tong lit the candles, the sound of fireworks came from outside the window, and the colorful lights flickered on Ye Tong's face.

Ye Tong sat alone at the table, watching the New Year's Eve dinner on the table, but couldn't eat it.

The candlelight swayed in the breeze, and most of the time, the dim candlelight was completely obscured by the light of fireworks refracting in from outside the window.

Ye Tong looked out the window quietly and suddenly thought of something. She ran to the bathroom and took the mirror off the wall.

Walking to the table, Ye Tong placed the mirror on the opposite side, so that his whole body could be reflected in the mirror.

Ye Tong raised the bowl and said to himself in the mirror, "Ye Tong, Happy New Year's Eve!"

After the New Year's Eve dinner, Ye Tong went for a walk on the street, looking at the brightly lit shops on both sides of the road, watching the adults holding children on the street, watching the fireworks constantly blooming in the sky, Ye Tong felt very uncomfortable.

The heavy snow kept falling in the air, fell on Ye Tong's hair, and slowly dyed her hair white.

Ye Tong walked alone on the cold street, looking at the lively scene on the street, there was an indescribable bitterness in his heart.

Not far away, someone was performing a program. The content of the program was very simple. It mainly said that a rural woman was carrying her sick daughter to the hospital for treatment. His daughter was protected under him, and he let the rolling stones hit his body.

After the disaster, rescuers rushed over. When they rescued the mother and daughter, the mother had died, but the daughter survived. The mother protected her daughter with her own body.

After watching it, the crowd of onlookers did not have much reaction. Perhaps the content of the story was too concise, or the crowd of onlookers had seen a more tragic story than this.

Just as the people were about to disperse, Ye Tong cried, and the cry was like a grievance that had accumulated for a long time, and the audience was collectively silent.

In the snowy weather, Ye Tong stood in the crowd and cried a lot. Occasionally someone couldn't listen and came to comfort her, but it didn't work.

On New Year's Eve, when every family was having a happy New Year's Eve dinner, Ye Tong stood alone in the street and cried. The actors in the show thought that they were so good at acting that they moved Ye Tong to cry, but they didn't You know, on New Year's Eve when the whole family is reunited, Ye Tong is alone.