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When opening the door, Guan Yan saw the flowers in Sinan's hand and was still a little confused: "Old Chen, you did a good job in acting? But aren't these roses for girls?"

Chen Sen rolled his eyes at him, and Sinan handed the flowers forward: "For you."

"Hey!" Guan Yan rubbed his hands excitedly, "I still have this treatment! It's not in vain for me to eat snowflakes for you."

"Eat snowflakes?"

Xu Xu stood in the living room laughing: "Just as the wind blew back, Guan Yan opened his mouth too wide, and it was full of snowflakes."

"Is it delicious?" Sinan suppressed a smile.

Guan Yan smashed it and said, "It's not bad, but it's a little salty."

"Hahahahaha..."

Hei Pi came out within 10 minutes of entering the manager's office, and then walked out of the factory with a sullen face under the gaze of colleagues around him.

He's been unlucky lately.

In one week, he was wrapped in a sack three times, and the person who beat him didn't say a word of nonsense, and left after each beating.

Heipi went to work all day long with a bruised nose and swollen eyes. After a long time, his job would naturally be lost.

"Fuck|Your mother!" After all, he couldn't hold back his anger and slammed the envelope in his hand to the ground.

Heipi's mind was spinning rapidly.

The opponent's posture didn't look like someone from the school.

Heipi bent down to pick up the envelope, opened it and counted it. The manager gave half a month's salary extra.

He took out his cell phone and rummaged for a long time before making a call.

Not long after Christmas, the final exam came as scheduled. Xu Xu and Chen Sen happened to be assigned to the same exam room, and they naturally took on the heavy responsibility of transporting the injured.

As soon as the three-day exam time passed, the winter vacation of No. [-] Middle School officially came.

"How do you plan to spend your winter vacation?" Guan Yan asked.

Xu Xu shook his head: "I don't have winter vacation anymore. I have to go back to the countryside to help my parents. Business is good during the Chinese New Year."

"Where's Simon?"

"Stay at home."

"Cut, it's boring." Guan Yan packed his things and buckled the suitcase heavily, "Shall we find a place to play a year ago?"

Chen Sen patted his leg: "I'm recuperating."

Guan Yan's shoulders drooped: "There is no one to play with me anymore."

Xu Xu rolled up the quilt and put it in the cabinet, and took out something: "There is still half a bottle of plum wine left, which one of you wants to drink?"

"Come, come." Guan Yan closed the bedroom door.

The three of you took a sip, and the aroma of the wine overflowed. Chen Sen looked greedy, and stretched his neck: "Give me a drink."

"What kind of wine are you drinking while recuperating?" Si Nan lifted the bottle and drank it up.

"..."

"Then I'll leave first. If you have nothing to do during the winter vacation, you can come to my house to play." Xu Xu said.

Guan Yan patted him on the shoulder: "Let Uncle wait for me, I'll come and drink with him."

"to make."

Xu Xu left.

Si Nan looked at the two of them and asked Guan Yan, "Are you sending him back?"

"My dad will drive over to pick us up later, how about you? Do you want to give you a ride?"

"I—" Si Nan just opened his mouth, and someone knocked on the bedroom door.

The three of them turned their heads together.

Si Zhen stood at the door with her bag.

Sinan pulled up the suitcase: "Then I'll go first."

"No, who is this?" Guan Yan pulled him back and asked in a low voice.

"my mother."

"Your mother is so beautiful! She looks like a girl in her 20s!" Guan Yan couldn't help admiring, "What a good figure."

Then I ate a muffled crutch.

All the way to the parking lot in silence.

Si Nan was startled when he saw Chang Jian sitting in the cab: "Uncle Chang?"

"Yeah." Chang Jian nodded, "How was the exam?"

"It's okay." Sinan closed the car door.

Si Zhen got on the co-pilot.

The car drove for a while, but it was not in the direction of home.

Simon was puzzled.

Chang Jian glanced at him in the mirror, and explained with a smile: "Grandma has been arguing to see you, and she insists on taking you there today, so we won't go home today."

Simon didn't speak.

Chang Jian laughed again: "Are you nervous?"

"No." Sinan turned his head a little awkwardly.

It didn't take long for him to take a nap, when he heard Chang Jian say "here we are".

Simon followed and got out of the car.

The pattern of a courtyard.

The number plate of "Chang Zhai" is hung on the gate.

Chang Jian opened the trunk, and Sinan took out the trunk.

"Let's go." Chang Jian said.

As soon as he entered the door, a figure greeted him.

"Did Nan Nan come?"

Si Nan stopped walking.

"Mom." Chang Jian called out.

Si Zhen followed closely behind.

"Nannan, come here quickly, grandma."

Si Nan walked slowly from behind, lowered his head, and called out "Grandma" with some difficulty.

The gray-haired old woman was stunned by the "grandma" and stood in the yard wiping her tears for a long time.

"Okay, okay, the child has just finished the exam, let's go into the room." Chang Jian said.

"Hey." Grandma stretched out her hand to pull him.

Sinan struggled for a moment, but finally endured and did not withdraw his hand.

When walking into the house, Si Nan glanced sideways.

The old man was full of gorgeous hair, and his head only reached his shoulders. Unlike the old ladies he had seen in the past who were full of street atmosphere, he had a noble and elegant temperament, a straight body, and a calm demeanor. He held his hand warmly. ,very tight.

The old man may have noticed it, and suddenly turned his head to take a look, with a gentle and kind smile: "Have you worked hard at studying?"

"It's not hard."

"Grandma made you a lot of delicious food, eat more later to replenish your vitality."

Si Nan blankly agreed.

In the cold winter season, the business of hot pot restaurants is particularly good.

Heipi came to the door of a Chuan Chuan hot pot, looked at it for a while, and sneered.

walk into.

"Brother Zhang."

"Come here? Find a place to sit first." The man named Brother Zhang was wearing an apron and was busy adding dishes to the guests.

Turning around again, he asked, "Have you eaten yet?"

"I came here for dinner." Hei Pi said.

So turned around and continued to work.

When it was almost eleven o'clock, the number of people in the store gradually decreased. Brother Zhang asked the little girl in the store to watch, and walked over to Hei Pi and sat down.

Heipi handed him a cigarette and lit it.

Brother Zhang smiled: "I'm really sorry, brother, the store is short of staff, and it's a bit busy during the peak business season."

Heipi nodded to express his understanding, and asked again, "Where is sister-in-law?"

"I'm pregnant, at home."

"Congratulations."

Brother Zhang waved his hand with a smile, and came over with two bottles of beer and a few dishes of side dishes.

"Where do you work now?" Brother Zhang asked.

Heipi looked depressed: "Don't mention it, I just lost my job."

"Is it because you asked me to inquire about that?"

Heipi nodded, and drank half a bottle of wine annoyed.

Brother Zhang sighed: "I asked you about it, and I said it was Long Qing's subordinate. Long Qing, do you still remember?"

Heipi was silent for a while, then nodded.

"My elder brother went in the year before last, and the people under his command almost dispersed, and many of them followed Long Qing, what a f*cking bunch of scumbags, wherever the wind blows."

Hei Pi didn't answer, but he probably understood what he meant, and he can't control this matter now.

"Brother, why did you provoke Long Qing's subordinates?" Brother Zhang asked.

Hei Pi raised his eyes and glanced at him: "Brother Zhang, I used to hang out with you. Now that you have a family with many children, I don't ask for it anymore. I just want to ask, do you know who is in the lead?"

"Li Xingkui."

Brother Zhang looked at his expression: "You don't know him?"

Hei Pi shook his head: "I don't know."

"But I know you!" Brother Zhang sighed, "I asked someone to inquire, and they said that you offended Li Xingkui's brother, and that's how I found you."

"younger brother?"

Hei Pi's first reaction was Chen Sen, but then he thought it was impossible.

Chen Sen is very arrogant. Even in the past, he never formed a clique, and he never heard that one of his older brothers was with Long Qing.

"I see." Hei Pi drank the wine, got up and prepared to leave, "Brother, please."

"We brothers don't talk about this." Brother Zhang hesitated for a moment, and persuaded, "Hei Pi, when I was messing around, I also thought that this would be the end of my life, but it took a long time to realize that this way, no one can do it. If you keep messing around, the end will be nothing more than those two—either you will enter the game or you will enter the coffin. You are not a person who messes with this way, and your family...you can bear it if you can."

"I see."

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the sun shines through the thick cumulus clouds, casting a little bit of dispensable temperature.

Sinan stood in the yard with his hand drawn, his phone vibrated in his pocket, and when he took it out, it was a text message from Chen Sen.

-"What are you doing?"

— "Look at the old lady watering the flowers."

- "What flower?"

— "Geraniums."

-"looks good?"

Sinan turned on the camera, zoomed in and took a photo, and sent it.

There was no reply for half a day.

Si Nan pulled the screen, hesitated for a moment, and the call had already been dialed.

"Hey?"

"It's freezing, I don't want to type." After Si Nan explained, he wanted to hit a wall to his death.

Chen Sen smiled on the phone.

A shallow laugh came to the end of the phone, tickling his heart like a tickle.

Si Nan vaguely heard Guan Yan's voice, as if he was asking Chen Sen why he was laughing.

"Guan Yan is here?"

"Well, Uncle Guan sent me back to my grandfather's house. He has a thick skin and insisted on coming."

The atmosphere suddenly quieted down.

According to his personality, it is usually time to hang up the phone at this time, but for some reason, today he is very reluctant to hang up the phone, want to say something, but feel that he doesn't want to say anything, just listen to the other person's breathing quietly .

It's a pity that Chen Sen couldn't understand his rare mood.

"Is there anything else to say?"

"Gone."

Si Nan felt a little aggrieved, and was about to hang up the phone, when he heard Chen Sen say, "Hey, do you want to come to my house to play?"

The heart instantly revived with blood.

The dark clouds above the head also seem like a spring breeze.

It's just...Sinan glanced at grandma.

"I can't come."

"Then wait until you have time."

The phone hangs up.

Sinan felt infinitely melancholy.

"What about calling your girlfriend?" Grandma suddenly leaned over to look at his phone.

Si Nan was taken aback, and put away his phone guiltily.

Grandma patted him reproachfully: "Don't worry, grandma will keep it a secret from you, and she will never tell your mother and them."

"Not a girlfriend."

"You're still laughing like that and you're not a girlfriend." Grandma said with a look of understanding.

Si Nan cleared his throat uncomfortably, and began talking about him from left to right.

He stayed at grandma's house for a total of five days. When he left, Sinan repeatedly promised to come back during the Chinese New Year, so the old man let him go.

When I got home, the final report card had just arrived at home.

Si Nan took a look at his grades, he did not do well in the exam, he dropped a few ranks in his grade, and moved up a few ranks in his class.

Si Nan took a photo of the report card and sent it to the group of the four of them. Guan Yan immediately followed and took a photo, and attached a text: My father gave me an extra meal today, fried pork slices with bamboo shoots.

Xu Xu typed a series of hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Chen Sen remained silent.

Si Nan didn't eat dinner at home, so he found an excuse to sneak out of the house, took a taxi and went straight to the address that Li Xingkui had sent him - Unit [-], Building A, Garden District.