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Published at 12th of December 2023 08:23:09 AM


Chapter 23

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From far away, a few fireworks sounded from nowhere.

 

Although fireworks are forbidden in the city, it is still possible in many suburbs, but the old house did not purchase fireworks for safety reasons.

 

Like a signal, after the first place started to set off fireworks, other places started responding one after another.

 

There were lush forests near the old house, and they were on the first floor again, their sight was blocked, and they could only hear but not see.

 

Bai Xiaoxi was tickled by the movement, and couldn’t help but ask Yan Xingzhi: “If you run outside on the mountain road, can you see the fireworks?”

 

Seeing her posture, as long as he stops and nods, she will rush out immediately.

 

Yan Xingzhi heard the sound of fireworks one after another, and he was in a trance. Many years ago, as a young man, he ran around in this house to see the fireworks under the mountain, and finally found a secret stronghold.

 

He looked into Bai Xiaoxi’s expectant eyes and said, “Let’s go, I’ll take you.”

 

Bai Xiaoxi followed Yan Xingzhi and went upstairs.

 

The main body of the banquet house is a three-story villa, but there is a small attic on the third floor. Yan Xingzhi thought that no one would come to this place now, and there would be a lot of dust. After opening the door, he found out that although the small attic was closed for a while. It had a clean smell. Obviously, the host family asks people to clean it often.

 

There is only one table in the attic, under the skylight.

 

The table is a few years old, and Bai Xiaoxi saw that there were still a lot of engraved characters on it. The handwriting was a bit familiar, but obviously childish.

 

She thought that it should have been left by Yan Xingzhi when he was young.

 

Yan Xingzhi also seemed a little surprised to see those words.

 

He stopped at the table.

 

Bai Xiaoxi did not pry, for fear that she would invade his privacy, nor did she look at the content of the words carefully, but at the first glance, she found that the table paint around the handwriting was brighter, as if someone often touched it with his fingers.

 

She thought, is it Su Yingru and Yan Hongzhong?

 

Although there are not many human beings she’s been in contact with, Bai Xiaoxi still noticed that Yan Xingzhi’s relationship with his parents was not very close.

 

He cares about his parents’ bodies and responds politely to their concerns. He will play chess with Hongzhong at the feast, and listen to Su Yingru’s chanting of his work. It seems that there is nothing wrong with him, but when doing all this, his expression is gentle and his emotions are calm. There is almost no fluctuation, just like when doing everything else.

 

Bai Xiaoxi sees from the TV series that the parent-child relationship is really not like this, laughing and cursing, full of flavors.

 

In reality, even if the second cousin is so annoying, her daughter will hold her hand to act like a baby. Faced with her nagging, her son nodded perfunctorily, turned his back and rolled his eyes to make a grimace, no matter good or not, at least They are alive and look real.

 

She didn’t know what caused the current situation, and how Yan Xingzhi’s relationship was with his parents shouldn’t be her business.

 

But she looked at Yan Xingzhi and looked down at the back of those words, and felt that he was so similar to him sitting in the living room alone when he came back from a business trip early that morning.

 

The little fox doesn’t know how to describe the feeling of loneliness, she only knows that such a Xingzhi is like a lonely tree on the snow, and it is also like a wild goose she had seen when she was a child.

 

The master said that the wild goose was the last one, and it was destined not to reach the south.

 

“Climb up from here.” Yan Xingzhi said to her then he turned his head and pointed to the skylight.

 

Bai Xiaoxi returned to her senses and said hurriedly, “OK.”

 

When Yan Xingzhi was a child, he needed to use the table foot to climb the skylight. Now he doesn’t need it anymore. He pushes the skylight glass open, supports it with his hands on both sides, and flips it onto the roof cleanly, then pulls Bai Xiaoxi up.

 

The air outside the house was fresh, and the night breeze slowly moved their hair. The prosperous city below the mountain was all displayed in front of you at this time, like an extremely beautiful glass ball, which made people breathless as they admired it.

 

Several clusters of fireworks exploded silently, and gorgeous flowers bloomed in the night sky, as if performing a mime. After more than ten seconds, there were sounds one after another.

 

“Boom-boom boom -”

 

“It’s amazing.” Bai Xiaoxi murmured, knowing that the speed of light and the speed of sound are the same thing, and couldn’t help but admire the scene before her.

 

Yan Xingzhi didn’t speak, but just looked ahead.

 

The time was approaching twelve o’clock, the fireworks became more and more dense, and finally, a bell came from a distance.

 

The old year has passed, and the new year has arrived.

 

Bai Xiaoxi looked at the fireworks on half of the sky, and her thoughts returned to a long time ago.

 

She learned that the wild goose was destined to die on the way, crying and begging Master for help. Master refused at first, but couldn’t stand her rolling and crying, and finally agreed to let the wild goose stay on Mingshan mountain so that it could survive. In the severe winter, gather with its companions when the spring flowers bloom.

 

Happy New Year, Master.

 

“Happy New Year.” She said to Yan Xingzhi.





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