Obligations of the elderly

The pirate ship swayed lower and lower, and finally landed on the ground again.

Holding the balloon in his hand, Gong Si was squeezed out of the pirate ship by the crowd. Lin, who had regained his composure, saw the balloon in his hand and the red thread tied to the balloon, and his face turned pale again.

Until a little girl in front held her mother's hand and squeezed towards them from the crowd with difficulty.

"Big brother! This is my balloon!" The little girl said to him in a crisp voice.

Gong Si didn't react at first, and then the little girl continued: "The balloon flew up when I was on the pirate ship just now, I saw you help me catch it!"

The little girl looked at him with anticipation in her eyes.

Only then did I know what happened just now, bent down, Gong Si handed out the balloon in his hand, the little girl took the balloon from him, and said thank you loudly to him accompanied by her mother, the mother and daughter immediately chatted and laughed left.

Seeing the back of the little girl leaving with the balloon gradually disappearing into the crowd, they realized that almost all the children present had a balloon in their hands, and the threads tied with the balloons were of any color. It happened to be red.

"I can't do it anymore. I haven't been on a pirate ship for a long time, and I feel a little dizzy." Lin waved to everyone, "Go and play, I'll take a rest here."

Everyone didn't force him, after all, Lin's complexion really didn't look good.

Nilu bought him a cup of hot drink, Malone gave him his own double scarf, and Gongsi found him a place to sit in the open space in front of the carousel.

Holding a hot drink in his hand and his neck tightly wrapped by a scarf, he sat in front of the carousel equipment and waved to everyone, signaling them to go play.

After making sure that he really didn't need company, the others left.

***

Without Lin who was alone, the others naturally separated in pairs.

"I was shocked, I thought that clown really appeared." Gong Si said to Xi Liu.

"You two look weirder than the other. I didn't expect anything, but I was scared by the atmosphere between you two." Xi Liu laughed.

"But it's really what I want. I said before that I have never visited an amusement park. Now I really have a chance. Why don't we go?" Pointing forward, Xiliu diverted the topic.

"Okay, I'll take you there." Pulling himself together again, Gong Si strode forward, leading the stream towards the place with the most crowds.

The two of them then took the Ferris wheel, went to the haunted house, and took the jumping machine!

Don't say it, don't think it's just a part of the celebration held in the small town. The jumping machine is really exciting. Gong Si has always felt that he is not a coward, but when sitting on the chair of the jumping machine, he really Yelled, piercingly yelled!The kind of call that can't be restrained at all, fortunately, everyone around is probably like this, and his cry is completely drowned out.

but--

After getting off the jumping machine, Gong Si turned to look at the calm stream, and suddenly wondered if the stream barked when it was on top.

He really couldn't imagine the stream screaming loudly, but it seemed more terrifying not to smile like this at all...

With messy thoughts in his mind, Gong Si decided to take a break instead of going to those large amusement facilities. He took the stream and turned to attack the surrounding small stalls.

These small stalls are basically set up by various merchants in the town.

Not only the stalls set up by people from Lengshui Town, but all the businesses in the nearby towns are probably mobilized. In addition, there are many other people joining in the fun and setting up their own stalls. The palace also saw Grandma Lin!

Grandma Lin also set up a stall, which was filled with all kinds of knickknacks she usually wove. The old lady didn't shout, but just sat there smiling and continued knitting. Grandma's stall became lively, and Gongsi pulled Xiliu away.

Holding the freshly bought food in their hands, the two walked around while eating. They also saw the source of those balloons: a clown wearing a red wig and a fancy clown costume stood by the roadside. The children passing by were handing out balloons. Besides the balloons, there were also candies. If you look carefully, the words "Mola Candy Shop" were also written on those balloons.

Emotions are advertisements.

Gong Si looked carefully, it was inevitable that he was closer to the clown, and the time was longer, probably because he misunderstood that Gong Si wanted a balloon and was too embarrassed to speak, the clown even took the initiative to come over and gave each of Gong Si and Xi Liu a balloon. They also sent a piece of candy to each of them: "Try it, the candy made by our family is delicious!"

After finishing speaking, he played a circle in front of the two of them playfully, and finally gave a somewhat funny salute.

Hmm... The movements are not very proficient at first glance, so it must not be a professional clown—holding the balloon, Gong Si's mood suddenly relaxed completely.

"It's probably a part of the town's activities, and the clown is played by the candy store." Gong Si said, tied the balloon to the button of his pocket, peeled off the candy wrapper and put the candy in his mouth, gulping two mouthfuls , His heart was also infected with a sweet taste like candy.

"And there's more than one store!" Seeing that Gongsi loves to eat, Xiliu gave him his piece of candy as well, holding his own balloon empty-handed, he looked around, and found that there were more than one person dressed as a clown around him. There is more than one clown handing out balloons.

"Because the clown's appearance is simple, it's not difficult to look at." Gong Si unceremoniously ate the candy from the stream, puffed up his cheeks and looked around, and when he saw all kinds of clowns again, he had returned to normal Yeah, seeing those clowns blowing out balloons or small fireworks, he even went over and asked for some.

"It is estimated that everyone in the town has received the event information. If I hadn't left Lengshui Town, I might have come over to set up a stall! There is a lot of traffic here, and the book sales should be good." Gongsi patrolled with the eyes of the boss I glanced at the crowd around me.

Stream just laughed.

The two continued to walk. This time, they reached the play area, shooting balloons, rings, and smashing dolls... The popularity here is no less than that of the pirate ship over there!Even because the operation is simpler, this side is almost more lively!

As soon as his mood relaxed, Gongsi was a little eager to try. He took the stream to various stalls to join in the fun. His performance was ordinary, and he was like ordinary people. This is not surprising, after all, he hasn't played for a long time. These, but the performance of the stream is a bit surprising——

One shot at a balloon, where the gun pointed, all the balloons burst, not to mention that he was also very accurate in setting the rings!

It didn't take long for the two of them to have a few more large dolls in their arms. How can I describe Gong Si's mood when they hugged these dolls in front of the envious eyes of the children around them... a bit ashamed but also refreshing.

"Go back and play with Dongchun and Aji." Xiliu also hugged a big doll, which was a snow-white rabbit doll. Not to mention, although it was a prize at a small stall, this doll was quite delicate, and the fur felt very soft. It looks very good, and the workmanship is quite good. The big warm red eyes, pink nose, um...it looks quite good with the gentle stream.

Gong Si couldn't help snickering for a while, and after a while, seeing the stream tilting his head to look at him, he coughed lightly and said seriously: "Your shooting skills are very good! Have you practiced?"

He originally meant to tease Xiliu that he secretly practiced shooting balloons and making dolls in private, but he didn't want Xiliu to really nod.

Holding the huge rabbit doll, Xiliu nodded: "There is a shooting range at home, haven't you been there? Besides, there is also a pot throwing room. I quite like traditional games..."

Gong Si: ...Your traditional game is definitely not the same as other people's traditional games.

After playing profusely, the atmosphere between the two became more relaxed. They even joined in the fun and participated in some manpower cooperation events, such as two-person three-legged competitions, among a group of small town residents. The two of them played a little crazy, and they even ran into old classmates!

"Is the squad leader in good health?" The girls almost screamed and ran over.

In Lengshui Town, there are very few opportunities to make girls so crazy - Gong Si complained in his heart.

"Oh! The deputy squad leader is here too? I heard that you have transferred to another school. Where did you transfer to?" The girls also cared about Gong Si by the way.

"It was transferred to me." Without waiting for Gongsi to reply, Xiliu answered for him.

"Wow! We're in the same school again? I'm so envious of the vice monitor!" The girls looked surprised.

"We're still in the same class." Xiliu proudly added, "Not only that, we're also the monitor and vice monitor!"

The girls blinked: "What kind of fairy fate is this..."

Xiliu pursed his lips happily.

Under the kind invitation of the girls, they finally followed them to sing karaoke, but it was not a hall, but an open-air ←The karaoke hall in the center of the town also moved out a set of luxury equipment for the town residents We use it in the open air, although it is open air, although it is a bit cold, but there are audiences under the snow shed, people you know and people you don’t know, all standing there, laughing and making noise, so lively!

The song Xiliu sang was highly praised by the girls: "Is this the latest single by Morafo? We just sold it here, the class leader is so fashionable!"

Then when I got to the palace, I turned to complain——

"The song you sang, deputy squad leader, was only popular ten years ago. If we hadn't grown up together, we would have thought you were an old man."

Glancing at the smiling stream next to him, Gong Si felt MMP in his heart.

It was obviously a heavy snow day, and even the sky began to snow again, but everyone's enthusiasm beat the cold, and Gongsi's forehead even broke out in sweat.

As soon as the microphone was put down, it was taken over by an old man. Not long after, an older song was amplified, and the old man's loud and high-pitched voice immediately ruled the entire open-air karaoke hall!

Saying goodbye to the girls, Gongsi and Xiliu continued to wander in other directions. At a corner, they also came across a goldfish fishing stall.

That is to say, the water from Lengshui Town is used here, and the water from other places is replaced. At this time, it must be frozen. Looking at the children with blushing faces and fishing spoons for goldfish in the cold weather, Gongsi sucked nose.

"Do you still want to try?" Xiliu asked him.

Gong Si immediately shook his head: "No, it's enough to have a big head. That guy looked silly, but he was actually very jealous. Later, I was afraid that he would be lonely and bought a few fish to accompany him. In the end—"

"It's all eaten by it." Gong Si sniffed again.

Xiliu looked at Gongsi with a smile on his face, just looked at it like this, kept looking at it, until he saw a chill in Gongsi.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Gong Si asked vigilantly.

"It's nothing, I see you keep sniffing your nose, come on, blow it." With the same smile, Xiliu took out a handkerchief from his pocket and pasted it on Gongsi's nose.

"Hey! Don't be like this, I'm not a child anymore—" Gong Si was still struggling, but suddenly——

The huge muffled sound above his head attracted his attention, he looked up to the sky, and when he saw the scene above, Gong Si couldn't help but widen his eyes.

A huge circular firework bloomed above their heads.

It was colorful at first, and later turned into a golden color. The firework bloomed in the sky to its peak, and finally disappeared slowly.

Then before people feel the poignancy of the fireworks dying, the second firework rises again.

This time, there are three "flowers" blooming at the same time, red flowers with green pistils, and three small round clusters, hanging in the air like plum blossoms, beautiful and auspicious;

Then there is the third firework, like a flowering tree, the third firework is also blooming lively...

Everyone raised their heads, attracted by the grand scene above their heads.

"Blooming like flowers and fire trees, come to announce the third watch of spring..." Standing quietly beside the palace and enjoying the fireworks, Xiliu slowly recited a poem.

Gong Si listened, but did not speak.

As the fireworks continued to stir up and bloom, people gradually woke up from the dazed state, lowered their voices, and began to comment on the highlights of each fireworks.

Until the last firework rises to the sky.

When the fireworks were fully bloomed, it was a huge red fish with golden eyes, golden scales, and a huge tail with silver in the red... It looked like a red fish lantern, but it was bigger than a red fish lantern. Much more, this is also the biggest firework that has bloomed so far. When it blooms, the sky is completely occupied by a huge fish shape, and then, before it dissipates, the red fish lanterns that were originally decorated everywhere in the town rise up In the sky, I can't count how many red fish lights rose into the sky, just like real small fish, they flew towards the huge "red fish" in the sky...

At this moment, everyone including Xi Liu was shocked.

Then, the bustle of the sky gradually dissipated, and with the sound of gongs, drums and suona, a fish dancing team appeared in the street ahead, wearing red and gold-rimmed clothes, and the people in the team were dancing and dancing happily. Xi sprang out towards the direction where the crowd gathered, and the interaction was extremely high. From time to time, they jumped to the surrounding townspeople, held the hands of the grandpa and aunt for a circle, and occasionally rubbed against the children. The crowd soon heard again Laughter.

"Probably the feeling of returning to the human world." Xiliu commented, and joined in the fun with Gongsi for a while, and they ran into Marlon Emin who was also joining in the fun, and later met Xingyun and Nilu, in the end, they met Lin, who had been fishing for goldfish for a long time at the goldfish stall...

Compared with the empty-handed children next to him, Lin's harvest was a bit spectacular. He put the spoon over with a serious face, dipped the fork lightly into the water, and then retracted it with a slight tilt. caught a small fish.

When his companion found him fishing for goldfish, Lin froze for a moment, and after a while he patted his knees and stood up.

"It's just that it's a bit boring to be idle..." He also explained.

In the end, he distributed all the goldfish he caught to the children next to him.

The children happily accepted the goldfish, and scattered away in a hurry, but they didn't want her goldfish in vain, and gave back the small gifts they got at the garden party one after another. There are a lot of gadgets: candies, dolls, rattles, fish lights... the most are balloons.

The colorful balloons tied with colorful ropes, glanced at the friends, Lin put the received things into the coat pocket, and then walked towards the crowd recklessly.

"I'm a little happy today..."

"Well, we are also very happy!" Marlon's loud voice broke the last bit of embarrassment, and enthusiastically showed the photos he took to everyone, and Marlon made everyone laugh again.

The garden party started lively and lively, and then ended lively.

They went back on the town's sleigh carts, and each shop sent out their own sleigh carts. Right in front of the bus stop signs, the townspeople waited at different platforms according to their locations. Everyone lined up, orderly. Waiting to get on the sled in an orderly manner, there is no chaos at all, and people jump in line from time to time.

"You guys here are so nice." Nilu sighed again.

They also lined up in the line, but because there were many elderly people behind them, a few big boys gave way and let the grandpa and grandma go first. After giving way too many times, they actually came to the end.

"You are such good boys." The sled driver obviously saw their behavior, and when they got on the sled, he even praised them.

Others are fine, but Malone rarely smiles shyly.

Sitting dignifiedly on the sled like a young man for a long time, Malone couldn't help but leaned into the ear of the palace and said: "Emin and I used to jump in line to grab seats, that... there is no way, in the orphanage The dean grew up and got used to grabbing things. If you don’t grab them, you won’t have them! It’s the first time to give up your seat, but..."

"It feels good." He whispered.

Seeing Ma Long like this, Gong Si couldn't hold back, reached out and patted his head.

It feels good in the hand - Gong Si thought.

Sitting on the last sleigh bus with only them alone, they returned to Lengshui Town from the center of the town again. When they were still some distance away from home, they asked the sled driver to go back: they were very close to home, and the group of them The crowd is so lively that you can walk back by yourself, and the driver has to drive the sled back to the sun-drying field by yourself-this driver is not from Lengshui Town, and Gongsi recognized it at a glance.

It was already very dark, and snowflakes fell from the sky. The teenagers walked side by side, chasing and running for a while from time to time. There were door lights from various houses along the way to guide them. Although the road was a bit cold, it was not deserted.

Back home, Qiuxia has already boiled the bath water, and Qiuxia also went to the town center to join in the fun, but he didn't play so late like them, and he came back soon with Aji and Dongchun.

After queuing up to take a shower, they didn't even bother to dry their hair. Malone and the others hurriedly spread the floor, and soon fell asleep.Gongsi was not much better than them, almost fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow.

There was only the rustling sound of snow falling on the roof, and Gong Si's house fell into silence.

Gong Si woke up in the middle of the night.

Probably because he came back to sleep too quickly and didn't have time to drink water, or maybe Qiuxia was afraid that they would be cold when they came back, so he turned the fire a little too hot, and he suddenly became very thirsty.

Glancing at the stream next to him, which was in a beautiful sleeping posture, Gong Si stood up lightly, and gently pushed open the door. He planned to go down to find some water to drink. There was a pot of water warmed on the stove in the living room all year round. Unfortunately, there is also hot water poured in winter and spring in the thermos over there.

Trying to keep the sound of her footsteps down, without turning on the lights, Gongsi went down the stairs familiarly.At the bottom right, he could already see the red light from the stove, and heard Malon's voice talking in his sleep.

Malone even dreamed of eating at the garden party—after hearing the content of Malone's dream, Gongsi wanted to laugh at that time, but——

A gust of cold wind suddenly blew towards his feet.

Cold wind?How can there be cold wind?It's very cold here, they must have closed all the doors and windows when they sleep, could it be that he slept too fast and didn't check well?No, today is Qiu Xia's inspection, and Qiu Xia is a very careful person, she will never make mistakes...

Thinking in his heart, Gong Si looked in the direction of the door, and then, with just one glance, his foot that was about to step up and down a step suddenly stopped in midair.

His originally warm body suddenly turned cold, and goosebumps slowly crawled up from the direction of the tailbone, and he froze.

In the dark corridor, he vaguely saw a figure. That "person" was standing at the bottom of the stairs, as if he could walk to the living room next to him at any time, or he seemed to be preparing to go upstairs.

"Who's standing there?" At this moment, Lin's voice sounded from the direction of the living room.

Holding a red fish lantern, Lin got up at some point, and stood at the door of the living room. He first saw the palace on the stairs.

"It's Gong Si, I was shocked, I always felt as if I heard something coming from outside..." He said, one of them was not held properly, and the red fish lamp in his hand suddenly fell off.

"Be careful." Accompanied by a deep male voice, the figure standing under the stairs and next to the living room suddenly moved.

When he caught the Red Fish Lantern that was about to fall to the ground, Lin, who hadn't noticed him before, noticed his existence, and the Red Fish Lantern in his hand made Gong Si and Lin see his appearance clearly ——

Wearing a rainbow-colored shaggy wig on his head, his face was painted with thick ink and heavy colors on a white background, and a face was painted. The left half of his face was even covered by a huge red heart. He raised his head , The expression on his face is always like a smile.

With a pointed collar and colorful clothes, he is...

clown? !

Lin screamed loudly——