Chapter 24 New Year's Eve

On New Year's Eve, the cloudy and rainy days finally ushered in the sun. The streets were crowded with people, men and women, young and old, coming in and out to work for the New Year.

At this time, only Lu Ying and Boss Yang were left in the bakery, and the others had already gone home on vacation. There is not enough manpower, and Boss Yang doesn't want to recruit part-time jobs during the New Year. He takes Lu Ying to teach and watch the store every day. The products sold are subject to purchase restrictions. The heads of households grabbed the first batch in less than an hour. Then he made and sold all the time, and Lu Ying learned a lot in a short period of time. The key is that Brother Yang doesn't seem to be busy recently, so he stays in the store every day with apprentices.

"Are the cranberry cookies sold out again?"

"Sorry, the last can has just been sold."

"Ahhh it's late..."

Lu Ying went to Lijian, carrying customers to wrap up a pile of nougat, various nut snacks, seaweed rolls, spicy rice noodles, as well as self-fried cantaloupe seeds, pumpkin seeds, watermelon seeds, pudding and other rich snacks. , this is the New Year's goods specially prepared by the two for the New Year. Usually everyone is busy outside, but on New Year's Eve, they will come back to the mountains one after another. Except for Gou who is special, he rarely comes back for the New Year. The rest of the people will meet again no matter what. Sometimes in their Qixia Mountain, sometimes in the "Songhe Mountain" on the other side of Caifeng City, this year is Qixia Mountain's turn.

At noon, Brother Yang hung up the closing sign in front of the store, and the two closed the door and continued to work.

"Brother Yang is great, this pot of pumpkin seeds is delicious." Lu Ying was amazed when he tasted the milk-sweet pumpkin seeds that had just come out of the pot. Compared with the previous pot of salty melon seeds, he prefers sweets. The sweets handled by Brother Yang are even more unique, no matter how much you eat, you will not feel tired. Unlike the desserts in the cake shops outside, even if he and Cub Zai are never picky eaters, they can eat the food from those cake shops once or twice, but they don't want to eat them at all the third time.

Yang Sigu chewed the nougat in his mouth and said with a smile, "Anything in your mouth is delicious, and you can hear calluses in your ears."

Lu Ying laughed, scratched his head and said, "I'm telling the truth."

"After today, we will officially enter the Year of the Pig, do you have any plans?" Yang Sigu asked.

Lu Ying was stunned for a moment, and answered honestly: "I don't have any plans, it's not like this. Now I've put down other work, and I will concentrate on the store in the future. As long as Brother Yang doesn't chase me away, I'll keep doing it."

"You can master everything I teach very quickly. After the first half of the year, you will be able to start your own business, and you don't want to be your own boss?"

"Ah... open a store by yourself?" Lu Ying never thought about it. He felt that he was still a newcomer and that opening a store would cost a lot. Don't look at Brother Yang's bakery business is very good, but he invested a lot in the early stage. For example, this shop was bought by Brother Yang. Usually, he never chooses cheap parallel products for the ingredients. . The water and electricity bills, labor costs, and other expenses of the store are very large. If it were him, don't even think about buying a storefront, where would it be cheaper to rent one? It's not practical to open a store.

There is also the most important point that cannot be ignored, he has to accompany the cubs at night. If you become a boss, you will be more tiring and busy than working part-time. Brother Yang is now stable, so he is lazy. In the early days, he was still too busy to see anyone.

Lu Ying thought a lot in an instant and shook his head: "It's impossible in a short period of time, as soon as the new year starts, the cub will be six years old. In September, the primary school students are in elementary school. I heard that the current elementary school is very stressful, and many homework needs to be done by parents every day. For tutoring, teachers assign homework directly in the mobile phone WeChat group, and some have to use mobile phone software to complete it. If the grades are not good, they have to find another training class... It's terrible."

Lu Ying shivered with lingering fears. During kindergarten, as long as he saw his child happily going to school, everything would be OK. Anyway, his son is skinny. The biggest problem in kindergarten is that the child is easy to get sick. .

If the kindergarten is the angel mode, the elementary school is the normal mode, the junior high school is the hard mode, and the high school is the hell mode. He is Alexander, worried that his son who is not good at math will read elementary school into difficult mode o(╥﹏╥)o.

Yang Sigu frowned when he heard the words: "Raising children is so troublesome?"

"Otherwise, what do you think..." Lu Ying couldn't help rolling his eyes. Although Brother Yang is quite old, he has always enjoyed life freely and has never had much contact with children at all.

Yang Sigu sighed: "I still think it's trivial if you are short of money, and I will lend you if you are short of money." However, it is indeed a bit difficult to implement the relationship between children's life and growth. Although he has never raised a child, he 100% believes that the child needs the company of the parent. A parent who is busy every day is dereliction of duty, unless there is another guardian at home, but Lu Ying is a single parent.

"I said, didn't that father come to see you? It seems that he has an unforgettable old love for you, why hasn't he come for a long time?" Yang Sigu thought to himself, if he is an irresponsible scumbag, see you next time just kicked out.

Lu Ying lowered his head to put things, and muttered angrily: "I don't need..." No one came, but there were many text messages, but he never replied.

Yang Sigu glanced at him, "I don't think you can completely let him go."

"..." Lu Ying didn't dare to speak.

"Okay, it's not urgent anyway. Let me know if you need any ideas in the future."

"Thank you Brother Yang."

Hearing the noise outside, Yang Sigu knew who was coming without looking up. Lu Ying hurriedly opened the door and looked at the companions who came together with a smile on his face.

"Lu Xiaozhu, I haven't seen you for a long time! Haha, it's so cute." Brother Wang, the biggest one, rushed over and grabbed Lu Ying's head with all his strength: "What are you busy doing all day, you can't see your posts in the circle of friends? ."

"Brother Wang, Brother Wang, Brother Hou! Sister Tu! Ah, Xiaotu is here too, are everyone else here?" Lu Ying couldn't stop laughing.

Ji Xiaofeng nodded: "You still have a lot of face. This time, all of them are alive. Some of the others are on the mountain, and some of them go out to the market to buy things. We'll come to pick you up and Brother Yang, is the delicious food ready?"

"Okay, okay, packing." Lu Ying nodded hastily, and asked incredulously, "Brother Gou is back too?"

"I'm back."

"Wow!" Lu Ying was overjoyed. It was not easy for everyone to gather together. I didn't expect that they would be all together this year. The last time they gathered was the day the cub was born.

There were so many people and great strength that everyone quickly packed all the food and loaded them into the car. Before night fell, everyone returned to Qixia Mountain. The cold mountain forest, as the night deepened, was unconsciously covered with thick fog.

Qixia Town.

Every house in the community is brightly lit, and the scent of the reunion dinner permeates everywhere. Smelling the lingering aroma of food, in front of a dark door, a man standing alone was smoking a cigarette, leaning on the closed door and looking at the sky in a trance. After five minutes, the man took out his cell phone and dialed.

'The call you made is out of service area...'

Anxiously extinguished the cigarette, the man continued to call without giving up, over and over again. New Year's Eve with children away from home, where did you go? There was no one in the shop, and the house was locked. The phone is not in the service area...

Suddenly, the man remembered a place, Qixia Mountain.

It must be there!

The man was very pleasantly surprised. He pulled out his legs and prepared to leave. After thinking about it, he stopped. He took out a pen and paper from his briefcase to write a message, and stuffed it through the crack of the door, so that if the owner came back, he would be able to see it and not miss it.

Leaving the community, the man walked straight towards Qixia Mountain. He didn't even realize that he was no stranger to the road leading to Qixia Mountain, as if he was familiar with it.

On New Year's Eve, walking alone on a winding country road, there should be a small village in front of it called Lujia Village. Most of the people are named Lu.

As he walked, he saw the lights, and the village was still there.

The man strode into the village.

In the forest, a group of people are sitting in a spacious room having a New Year's dinner. At first glance, almost all of them are young people, only a little fat kid is in the middle. Red envelope!

As the smallest existence, Lu Zaizai took the lead in collecting the big red envelopes!

"Thank you Uncle Hou, thank you Uncle Gou, thank you Aunt Tu..." Lu Zizai thanked them one by one, and put all the red envelopes in his arms to his father Lu Ying: "Dad, I will give you all my red envelopes~~"

"Haha, the cub is so good and well-behaved." Aunt Tu sat next to Lu cub and chatted with him from time to time.

Lu Ying said politely, took out the prepared red envelope from her arms, stood up and handed it to Sister Tu's only son: "Xiaotu, this is the New Year's money for you. I wish you good luck in the Year of the Pig and your studies go well."

The young man Qin Xiaotu took the red envelope and politely thanked him: "Thank you Uncle Lu for your blessing."

Everyone picked up Lu Ying, continued to send red envelopes to Qin Xiaotu one by one, and made a fuss. Then they got off the table and squeezed out of the room in a swarm. After a while, they all disappeared, and they didn't know where in the forest. .

Only two juniors and Elder Xu were left.

Elder Xu, the housekeeper, took out a bunch of fireworks from the house and greeted the two children: "Come, come, let's blow up the fireworks."

The elder brother Qin Xiaotu took the younger brother Lu Zizai and cheered around.

At the foot of Qixia Mountain, Lujia Village.

The dusty man stood in the village, looking up at Qixia Mountain in the night, in addition to the incredible thick fog, he heard the child's cheerful laughter coming from the mountain.

The person he was looking for must be there.