Two red lanterns were lit at the entrance of the cottage.

My father held the flashlight and gently pushed open the false door.

Scream-

In the countryside, almost every household's outer door is not locked, and they are not afraid of stealing. Once the door is locked, the guest still needs to go and open it.

trouble.

There were several dogs barking in the yard, and Lin Mo was so scared that she shrank behind Lin Bai. She had been a little afraid of dogs since she was a child. When she was seven or eight years old, she was riding a bicycle in the community and was chased by someone's dog.

There were light yellow lights in the room. Lin Bai held Lin Mo's hand and opened the dark green door.

On the stove opposite the door, a woman wearing a down jacket is making dumplings.

Lin Bo called out "Sister Yu" and pulled Lin Mo behind him forward.

"Mo Mo, isn't this your eight-treasure porridge aunt?"

Lin Mo: “…”

The woman raised her head, and a smile appeared in her beautiful face that could not be concealed by the baptism of time. Her hair, which was already gray, scattered from her forehead, hung in front of her clear eyes.

"Ah, Mo Mo is here?"

Lin Mo shouted "Hello, auntie", looked at Lin Bai, and Lin Bai patted her head and asked her to go into the house to sit.

"When did you arrive?"

"afternoon."

"Go back tonight?"

"I won't go back, I'll stay at home for one night this year."

...

When Lin Mo entered the house, he saw a large table in the house, with an untied New Year's Eve dinner on the table. Several children were sitting on the kang beside the table and eating melon seeds to watch TV.

"This is..." Uncle sitting in a corner of the table pointed at Lin Mo with the two elderly people beside him.

Thinking for a moment,

"The second child of the third master's family..."

"Are you Lin Bo's daughter?"

Lin Mo nodded when asked.

"Oh, the third master's only granddaughter!" Uncle smiled,

“All have grown so big…”

Lin Mo smiled, but felt a little uncomfortable, and still remembered what his father said just now.

The hostess of this house is the woman who is making dumplings outside,

He has a blood relationship with Duan Chen.

This news really surprised her, because she had never heard of it and could not have been illusioned.

It's like the stars that were originally far away in the sky,

Suddenly, he fell into her garden.

The child in the room ran up to ask Lin Mo for candy. Lin Mo had just asked for two bags of candy from the family of the people who were paying New Year's greetings. In fact, this is just a custom passed down from Lin's hometown. Lin Mo himself was not interested in these prawn crisps and soft corn soup.

When the child wanted it, she would divide it one by one. The two old men opposite asked her how old she was in, and she leaned against the kang and answered honestly.

But I was thinking about something else, so I was absent-minded in answering.

Lin Bo opened the door of the inner room.

"Brother, fourth uncle and fourth aunt."

He greeted the elders in the house and greeted him for the happy New Year. The head of the family pointed to the chair and asked Lin Bai to sit down for tea. Lin Bai refused twice, but still pulled the small stool and sat down in a warm manner.

Take the tea cup.

"Your daughter,"

"Um."

“So good-looking!”

"Ha ha."

Karakela—

The door leading to the outer room was pushed open again. Mrs. Yu, who was making dumplings outside, walked in with a large basket of apples, stroked the long hair falling from her forehead, and placed the fruit basket in the center of the table.

“Eat.”

"Mo Mo," Lin Bo took Lin Mo a big one, "You Uncle Xiaohan grows it myself in the orchard, it's so sweet."

Lin Mo took it and said thank you.

I chewed it with crispy bite.

The juice explodes in your mouth, it is indeed sweet.

"What grade is Mo Mo now?" Uncle Xiaohan, who was sitting in the main house, asked.

It's obviously already answered just now.

Lin Mo said in his heart, but he was still smiling and laughing on the surface, and he was obviously asking Lin Bo.

Lin Bo replied,

"In high school, high school second year, and the college entrance examination the next year."

"It's all my senior year..."

Uncle Xiaohan was smoking a pipe,

I talked to Lin Bai about the countryside.

Suddenly, he seemed to think of something,

He looked at Lin Mo, turned his head and shouted to the kitchen outside the door,

"The kid's fuck--"

"Hey?" Mrs. Yu poked her head in.

"Isn't that kid from your cousin also in his second year of high school this year?"

"Ah!" Mrs. Yu tilted her head and thought for a while.

"Yes! Do you think of Xiao Chen?"

Lin Mo's heart clenched tightly, and the apple was chewed halfway and stopped.

Lin Bai put down the teacup, pointed at Lin Mo with his chin, and said with a smile,

"Professor Yu Chang'an's child, Duan Chen, right?"

"Oh!" Mrs. Yu was intrigued.

"Lin Bo, do you know Brother Chang'an?"

"Professor Yu is very famous in thermodynamic physics across the country," Lin Bai replied.

"I was lucky enough to ask someone to introduce me to ask Professor Yu to help Mo Mo with physics."

"That's it..." Mrs. Yu wiped her hands, stood by the door, looked over Lin Mo, and then said,

"Brother Chang'an's son seems to be as old as Xiao Mo, no - he seems to be a year earlier, his birthday in November 1996, but he was also named the first grade he went to school with Xiao Mo."

"This year, it's time for the second year of high school. I haven't contacted Brother Chang'an for a long time."

"The same school as Mo Mo," Lin Bai picked up the teacup again and took a sip.

The elders next to them instantly had their eyes shiny.

"Ah, the same school as your daughter?"

"right,"

"Not only one school, but also one class. There are two people at the same table."

*

Sister Yu insisted on calling her cousin Professor Yu, saying that after so many years, their Yu family has disbanded after Mr. Yu’s death. After ten years of death, they almost forgot what their cousin’s parents are like.

When Lin Mo heard that he wanted to call Duan Chen's house, he was a little nervous immediately. The unfinished apple was placed between his fingers and pressed on his knees, lowering his head. Lin Bo was not in a hurry. Before the Spring Festival Gala started broadcasting, they had already completed every household they should pay homage.

Holding tea, I waited leisurely for Sister Yu to call Professor Yu.

Beep-

The number was dialed.

The waiting sound has been ringing for a long time.
To be continued...